9800gt, ram are dead

[strawberry]

Hello gamers,

So as you may have already gleaned from the topic description, my 9800gt is no longer in the best condition. The ram has become faulty, probably my fault for handling it without taking anti-static precautions, but that's neither here nor there.

The thing I want to know from any tech-gurus in the house (self-proclaimed or otherwise) is: Can I pay an IT technician to replace the ram chips on the graphics card itself? Would it cost more than its worth?

P.S. if you're interested, I used this program to check the video ram: http://majorgeeks.co...est__d5896.html

[frank007]

get a new card! why would you want to spend money on something thats, that old anyway. GTX460 comes to mind. Your computer is trying to tell you its time for a new gfx card. R1999 for the GTX460.

[Sirf]

I agree with Frank. It's way too much effort. New cards will give you Direct X 11 as well.

[GeneralFailure]

If you have extra RAM chips i can always try to replace them for you ... but you must make sure that the RAM IC's you want to replace it with is exactly the same pin outs as the originals

[Dreamsgate]

If you have extra RAM chips i can always try to replace them for you ... but you must make sure that the RAM IC's you want to replace it with is exactly the same pin outs as the originals

Still people that can do this out there , thought only robots can do it now days.

[GeneralFailure]

Yeah ... i can do it ... i work for a company that builds electronic boards ... we must be able to to fix the broken ones ... so YEAH ... we can do it ...

We actually use the same RAM they use on Graphic Card on one of our boards.

[frank007]

But why do you wanna fix such an old card? There is no point. Just go out and buy a new card. The chances are that if you fix it, it will just break again!

http://www.computersonly.co.za/produ...tegoryId=36093

[GeneralFailure]

I totally agree with you ... but i can help ... that is all I said ... most of the time it not just the RAM chips that go anyway ... and success rate on replacing IC's is also low ... machiens can do it alot beter than me :P

[frank007]

You are going to be putting good money after bad money (that still might not work). Much better off buying a new card. Even a GTS250 maybe. Or if you wanna spend a tiny bit more go for this:

http://titan-ice.co.za/catalog/produ...oducts_id=1682

[Murph]

You are going to be putting good money after bad money (that still might not work). Much better off buying a new card. Even a GTS250 maybe. Or if you wanna spend a tiny bit more go for this:

http://titan-ice.co.za/catalog/produ...oducts_id=1682

Yeah for just a fraction more than GTS250