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Dead Bitcoin miners and a university's Pentium 4 keep NorthridgeFix's bench warm

No new uploads went up from the Northridge, California repair shop, so three two-week-old board repairs carried the channel.

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Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

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A usual day on NorthridgeFix brings in around 70,000 views. With no new repair posted over the week, the pace settled at about a third of that, and the channel's subscriber count held at 490,000.

What viewers are watching is the bench work from a fortnight ago. "3 Bitcoin Miners Came In Dead… Then I Found This" has just passed 100,000 views, and it is the one moving fastest. The tags tell the story the title keeps back: three NerdQaxe++ miners, small open-source boards built to mine Bitcoin, with shorted chips, shorted MLCC capacitors and blown fuses to hunt down.

Close behind is the oddest job on the list. "Why This University Still Needs a Pentium 4" brought a twenty-year-old desktop to the shop with a loose serial port, and it is the channel's biggest recent upload, past 200,000 views. Old lab machines often stay in service because some piece of equipment only talks through that port, which may be why the fix was worth the trip.

The third is a warning in GPU form: "Customer Ruined an Expensive A5000 GPU (Water Block Disaster)", a PNY RTX A5000 workstation card with damaged data lines and missing pads after a water-cooling install went wrong.

Among tech channels close in size, Zack Shutt and Andrew Bond had by far the busiest weeks, while most of the group, NorthridgeFix included, ran below their usual pace.

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The videos drawing views on NorthridgeFix right now

Why This University Still Needs a Pentium 4214,569 views Customer Ruined an Expensive A5000 GPU (Water Block Disaster)69,750 views
The facts
Subscribers
490,000
Channel views, last 7 days
330,010
Videos published this week
0

The numbers

Here is how NorthridgeFix's channel and its busiest videos stand this week.

views gained this week, compared with similar channels
Zack Shutt
8,871,149
Andrew Bond
2,862,408
WVFRM Podcast
911,295
cheapaudioman
816,053
NorthridgeFix
330,010
Oliur / UltraLinx
298,919
This Is
295,821
This Does Not Compute
119,154
Giaco Whatever
1,514
subscribers
490,000
no significant change in the last 7 days
total views
101,181,450
views per day
23,832
typical day: 73,487
compared with similar channels (subscribers)
WVFRM Podcast
531,000
cheapaudioman
512,000
This Is
510,000
Giaco Whatever
509,000
Zack Shutt
491,000
NorthridgeFix
490,000
Andrew Bond
483,000
This Does Not Compute
474,000
Oliur / UltraLinx
465,000
As of October 8, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube
Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.
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