Now, today we're taking a look at GTX 7 80 that I found on eBay for just £20 on the account that it was faulty.

Now, from the description, they said, it's said that this card boots into the BIOS just fine as you can see behind me.

But it really won't go much further than that now.

The description didn't go into too much detail.

All I know is that this is a SW far as this card can apparently get.

So today I wanted to see if this is true whether or not we can fix this thing.

But first, let's talk about why this thing may not be working as it should.

As you can see, it's a pretty dusty example of a 7 80 deaths come play a bigger part than you may think in terms of how a component works.

There's also the fact that the seller may not have had a beef enough power supply for one of these GP use on dhe to counterbalance that I've ensured that we're using on 850 what one as you can see in our test system here Now, My personal test Rick has changed a bit since you last saw it, but it basically pictures the same rise in 5 1600 of stock speeds.

Eight gigs of 3000 megahertz memory on dhe, usually a GTX 10 70 though in this case we've got the 7 80 installed.

So the first thing we're gonna do here is clean it up is actually still very dusty as it sits in my system here.

And that's something I regret doing because now the dust is everywhere.

This thing was absolutely caked.

But let's give it clean up and then try and put into windows, see what happens.

All I almost forgot.

Let's talk specs.

This is the palate jet stream three gigs 7 80 They launched back in 2013 and is based on the Kepler Architectural, which means it supports the latest direct takes.

12 a p I.

It has a 902 megahertz clock speed, 954 megahertz boost clock speed and 2304 cuda cause or shading units with a 250 What TDP.

This old beast requires an additional six pin on a pin power connector, and you'd be best off using a power supply with it least 600 watts on offer over the last couple of years, performance of older top tier Kepler cars like this have been known to underwhelm in comparison to their I M D counterparts, maybe because of better driver support from Team Red.

Regardless, this video isn't center too much on performance because we've got to get it working.

First of all, the best thing to do here was Take it apart, assessed the situation and spend an hour or so removing five years worth of grime.

The back of this has never been removed, as far as I can tell, because the original sticker that protected one of the screws was still in place.

I've skipped over the cleaning process because, although it can be quite relaxing or calming, tow watch.

I've shown you many times before a good bowl later, and the card was ready to be reassembled.

Taking apart a graphics card is always relatively simple and consists of just removing screws until the heat sink comes off with.

Also given the thermal was a quick improvement by replacing the now crispy old paste with some Arctic MX two.

After slapping it back into the system and checking that it still worked, we were ready to see what the problem waas.

Evidently it was clear that Windows didn't recognize it straight off the bat.

Usually, when I restart a system with a new GPU installed, Windows 10 will detect it after about 20 seconds on update the device manager.

This simply wasn't the case here.

Refreshing and clicking scan for hardware changes made no difference either, but it was a desperate grab it hope.

With that in mind, I headed on over to Guru three D and decided to try a completely killing installation, removing everything using DD you or display driver uninstaller.

This is an excellent free program that completely removes any lingering old driver components that may be lurking somewhere on your hard drive.

I didn't think this would work to be honest, and while it did succeed in uninstalling the remnants of my old drivers attempting a fresh installation from invidious site of thes 7 80 drivers yielded this result a black screen.

This was the same across five different driver versions are tested after uninstalling, then re installing them one after the other.

So what were the options?

Well, I needed to try and flash the bios off the 7 80 Flashing a bios basically means downloading and reinstalling your graphics cards.

Onboard Software Changing a bios can sometimes mean better over cloaking ability for certain cards, better general stability and maybe even the answer to all of your black screen issues.

So, as I'm sure most of you know, the Rising 5 1600 has no onboard graphics, and this was going to be a problem for the next part.

You see, I needed to get into Windows 10 so that I could download all the appropriate programs in order to flush the 7 80 But the 7 80 still had to be part off the system.

Enter, then this.

This is a mini I T X motherboard combo I picked up on eBay the other day on.

Originally, I had no part to play in this video.

It does, however, feature on I 5 34 50 which, as I'm sure most of you will know, has Intel H D graphics built in.

This then meant that I could connect my system up to my monitor using the intel onboard graphics and still have the 7 80 sitting in the PCR Express lots that it was ready to be flashed.

All I had to do was go into the motherboard.

Bios changed the primary display to the onboard graphics on dhe.

I could then get back into windows and see exactly what I was doing.

Now I know the PC knows that the 7 80 exists because the NVIDIA installer does detected it just black screens.

After installing any drivers by some miracle device manager detected the card this time round.

Could this be it?

What?

It was certainly progress.

The download bar finished and the 7 80 was installed.

But thanks to the Intel HD graphics acting as the primary output, the system didn't crash before doing anything else.

I quickly started looking for a BIOS flashing guide and found this excellent one on over clock dot net.

No, I wish I had documented the entirety of this process, but to be completely honest, I thought I had made a little mistake, and I saw off modeled my way through it, only to realize everything worked out okay.

If you've never done it before.

It can be quite complicated, but as long as you read the guide properly and thoroughly, everything should turn out.

Basically, this process involves creating a bootable dos USB drive containing either 80 I flash for A M D graphics cards or envy flash foreign video cards.

You then put the BIOS for your graphics card, the one that can be downloaded from tech power up on the same US be on in the same folder.

Restarting the PC with the U.

S be plugged in and booting into the USB drive is then the next step and then follow.

The guide from here is basically just boot to the USB drive.

Run envy flash or 80.

I flash depending on your GPU, and then select the buyer's name.

You can then turn the PC off with the power button, reattached the monitor's display cable to the GPU, and with any luck, you should be good to restart.

I'm still very much a first timer.

Well, second time when it comes to flashing graphics cards, so I'm going to do it a few more times before making a proper how to guide, because I don't want to get anything wrong.

This guy here, though, tells you everything you need to know.

But did it work well?

Here we are, back on the rise and five system, and as you can see, the 7 80 is installed just fine.

As our primary adaptor, I wanted to ease it back into the world of the living.

So I tested just a few games and didn't really pay too much attention to performance this time round.

So there are no exact performance metrics on screen.

I'll probably do that for a different video, because I want to talk more in depth about these architecture and how it performs in 2000 and 19.

This time, stability was the focus, and I have to say, a couple of hours of gaming didn't faze our newly revived GTX.

I did keep an eye on temperatures to, though, and with an Idol temp of 31 degrees in a low temp of 63 the card was doing pretty well.

It's a cold, wintry day here in England.

My room's like an ice age cave, and the PC side panel is off, so that may have helped, although not my main focus.

I can't help but touch on performance ever so slightly these days, it'll offer you about 20% on top of a 10 50 t I.

So it's not too bad if you can find one at a decent price.

But an AMG equivalent liken our 9 to 90 for example, or what was equivalent back in the day will now give you better performance.

Thanks the better driver optimization Sze Or so I've heard Bear that in mind as well.

For £20 though or $25 or 23 euros on the day's work.

Repair wise, I'm just happy that this is apparently working again.

The real test is long term, of course, So I'm going to run it in my PC for a week or two and then update you.

I'll be keeping my eye on game performance, power consumption and stability.

So stay tuned for that.

In the meantime, let's finish off with a couple more gains.

My only guess as to what happened with this card is that perhaps someone had tried to flash it beforehand and then encountered this issue all, perhaps tried to install some sort of custom bios on it to try and get better performance from the GPU itself.

I'm not really sure.

All I know is that this apparently worked, so that's good.

But this may not necessarily always be the case.

With every graphics card, each fault will always be different.

So all that's left to say for this video is Thank you for watching.

I'm very surprised in some respects.

This works as always, when we do these sort of broken hardware videos.

It's never a good idea to go out hunting for particular broken components because there isn't always a guarantee you're going to get them fixed.

And even if you do, there's no guarantee as to how long they're going to last.

Basically, what I'm saying is this is always for entertainment purposes.

It was hardly a proper guide, but I hope you've enjoyed it nonetheless, because I certainly have fun picking up these old components and seeing if we can bring life back into them.

I'm not trying to be a total fun sponge.

I'm just saying, You know, if you do want to do this, it's entirely up to you what you do with your money but go into it knowing that there isn't always going to be a successful outcome.

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