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Why do faulty GPUs sell for so much?

sell the faulty 7950 and put the money towards a TX. Make a keyring out of the TX and it'll be a babe magnet, trust :D
 
It's ok guys. As an AMD peasant, I'm perfectly used to not drawing dem dere hot chickz :(
I thought if I had three, then my chances would improve, but alas...
 
I wouldn't go near them personally.

I think it's beyond the average user to re-flash the bios of a bricked card, so there's going to be some out there that are relatively easy to fix.
 
varkanoid said:
I always wondered about the cards that they said produce no output but you could hear windows boot up okay whether these would be okay as the 2nd card in sli/crossfire card ? Surely you only need the output from the 1st one ? Or am I missing it ?
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Yeah me too. Would happily pay 50% of, say, a 290 which has the issue you mentioned if I could use it as the 2nd card in Xfire. Anyone enlighten me?
 
Guy I know once paid £150 for a GTX 590. It had screws missing the lot. Sent it back to Gigabyte and got a brand new one that he then sold for £375.

So a lot of the time people are on the con IMO. I guess if you have one and it's within warranty it ain't too hard sending the broken one in and getting it replaced.

I wouldn't go near one to be honest. Way too much of a risk for a potential brick.
 
I took a risk on a 290 at auction that was advertised as untested. They said they'd sold it to someone else, who returned it complaining that it slowed down after using it a short while.

As it was a reference card, I was fairly confident it was slowing down due to throttling and I took a punt on it. Removing the heat sink, you could clearly see the problem was irregularly applied thermal paste. I cleaned it up and hooked it up to an HG10/H55 and it's perfectly fine.

As a Brucy bonus it also unlocked to a 290X, so I ended up being fairly pleased with the purchase.
 
Bonjour said:
I took a risk on a 290 at auction that was advertised as untested. They said they'd sold it to someone else, who returned it complaining that it slowed down after using it a short while.

As it was a reference card, I was fairly confident it was slowing down due to throttling and I took a punt on it. Removing the heat sink, you could clearly see the problem was irregularly applied thermal paste. I cleaned it up and hooked it up to an HG10/H55 and it's perfectly fine.

As a Brucy bonus it also unlocked to a 290X, so I ended up being fairly pleased with the purchase.
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That is one awesome bargain buy bonjour!
 
Bonjour said:
I took a risk on a 290 at auction that was advertised as untested. They said they'd sold it to someone else, who returned it complaining that it slowed down after using it a short while.

As it was a reference card, I was fairly confident it was slowing down due to throttling and I took a punt on it. Removing the heat sink, you could clearly see the problem was irregularly applied thermal paste. I cleaned it up and hooked it up to an HG10/H55 and it's perfectly fine.

As a Brucy bonus it also unlocked to a 290X, so I ended up being fairly pleased with the purchase.
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Yeah, youve done very well there! How much did you pay for the card?
 
I've got a friend at work who used to buy and fix up gpus during his days at uni for some extra cash. I think most of the time it used to just be a case of re-soldering components. Not sure he'd risk buying one that's had a burnt out processor.
 
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