What’s to like about 10 series cards?
- For me, the Nvidea 10 series was a golden series, power with excellent efficiency for the time!
- They still have plenty to offer, even the low-end ones are capable of some level of gaming and with great power consumption.
- As a card to repair, due to their success, they are often well analysed. This means schematics, guides, forums posts etc. All very helpful.
- The top-end cards are still relatively valuable, so potentially some profit to be had.
Some of the problems?
- Basically lots of great designs, but one problem I seem to find is more potentially abused cards e.g. PCB damage due to shorts and heat-related issues due to overclocking.
GTX 1030
- GT 1030 Gigabyte 2GB GDDR5 (Damaged components)
- GT 1030 Gigabyte (Card B) (SEMI FIXED – Missing PEX reset, some damaged components)
GTX 1050 / TI
- ASUS Expedition GTX 1050 TI 4Gb (Interesting, blank screen on/off, MATS passes, BIOS seemed strange at first, but it could be a power delivery problem, as in GPU-Z the picture goes on/off and VRel shows, as well as a voltage dip when the blackouts occur)
- ASUS GTX 1050 TI 4Gb Cerberus (Interesting in that it loads drivers, can’t run any games/benchmarks, but doesn’t actually crash the PC – Possible power delivery / VRM issues)
- MSI GTX 1050 2Gb
- MSI GTX 1050 TI (crash on driver load)
- GIGABYTE GTX 1050 2GB
- GIGABYTE GTX 1050TI 4GB GDDR5
- Gigabyte GTX 1050 TI 4Gb (Card B)
GTX 1060
- MSI GTX 1060 3Gb (Card B)
- GIGABYTE NVIDIA GTX 1060 3Gb (Card B)
- MSI GTX 1060 3Gb
- GIGABYTE GTX 1060 GDDR5 6GB
- Gigabyte GTX 1060 6Gb OC
- Zotac GTX 1060 6gb (Suspected core reball required)
- EVGA GTX 1060 6Gb SC (suspected dead core)
GTX 1070 / TI
- EVGA GTX 1070
- ASUS ROG STRIX GTX 1070 TI
- Lenovo GTX 1070 8Gb (SCRAP – dead core)
- MSI GTX 1070 Seahawk X (PCB damage, probably not fixable)
GTX 1080 / TI
- Zotac GTX 1080ti (FIXED – missing nv3.3v rail)
- Founders Edition GTX 1080 TI (Suspected INA 3221 issue)