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1050Ti

A quick update; I have the card showing as what it really is in gpu-z now and it's running as a secondary to the mobo onboard VGA.

Got to try it running as the video output now so fingers crossed.

https://ibb.co/dgnCYYQ

Edit, scratch that, got a DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION after using it for 5 mins

Extra edit, it's displaying an image whilst the main output is set to the onboard graphics. Seems flakey when set as the main output on the mobo bios.
 
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thats not good at all, if the picture is flakey then that points to the ram and given it was flashed to run at double its speed its more than likley its had it, the only thing to try is underclock the ram but you may find either its still does the same thing or you clock the ram so low that performace is no better than on board graphics.

do you get any weird lines or flashes on the screen using the 1050ti?

that really sucks, did you use paypal?, if so open a case and explain the situation, paypal may refund your money, BUT be prepared for they to say no
 
It's behaving since, it's ran for 10 mins as a second display no bother, rebooted it and it's currently being set as the main display via windows and trying to find a game to give it a bit of stress with.

No lines, no artefacts and no crashes for a while now. Just monitoring temps now to see if that is causing the problem.

I bought it as a spare and repairs as a project to see if I could make a broken thing work, if it keeps

Edit: random crash after 20 mins, typically, at the moment I had gone to get a drink

running great, if not I can sell it on as broken to make the money back (explicitly stated of course).

Can you recommend software to test the various aspects of a card other than 3D mark?
 
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Looks like its been previously flashed to overspec the ram to dangerous levels for mining.

I tried as such for the fun of it with my 550, could get the card's vram to run at more than double the speed in Windows (6000 to 14000), but would artifact fast in any tests.

Dropped it down to 8000 with a bunch of thick thermal pads added on to sandwich the ram chips with the heatsink, thought it was fun to push a £50 card as much as I could.

I was considering flashing it to 128 bit too, but googled the part number on the ram chips and they are in fact 7000 Mhz 64 bit chips so don't think you can double them to 128 bit.
 
I've officially given up, couldn't resurrect it this morning, last night was obviously a bit of luck.

If it doesn't shift at least I can try out some of those tricks for myself like Ballistix

Thanks for the help all round.
 
I actually tried the 128 bit flash and it bricked, reverted it using my pentium iGPU but now my Time Spy scores have tanked buy about 200 points damn.

I found out that the 512 core 550's GPU actually has 640 cores, but theres no 640 core 64 bit ram bios to try, only for 128 bit.

There was a RX 550 640 sp model released by Sapphire that actually used the 1024 core chip, and a bunch of people that got one for mining were able to flash it to 896 or full 1024 RX 560 bioses.

But I've never seen that model available anywhere. Its just fun to get a cheapo card and push it to destructive levels.
 
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I actually tried the 128 bit flash and it bricked, reverted it using my pentium iGPU but now my Time Spy scores have tanked buy about 200 points damn.

I found out that the 512 core 550's GPU actually has 640 cores, but theres no 640 core 64 bit ram bios to try, only for 128 bit.

There was a RX 550 640 sp model released by Sapphire that actually used the 1024 core chip, and a bunch of people that got one for mining were able to flash it to 896 or full 1024 RX 560 bioses.

But I've never seen that model available anywhere. Its just fun to get a cheapo card and push it to destructive levels.
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Last time I tried something like this was with a 220mx in the early 2000's with a crudely attached case fan to it's plastic heatsink. It ran some good numbers for 2 minutes before locking up, that was just boosting the clock cycles etc rather than flashing.
 
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