Go to B&Q, get a £7 pair of steel snips (beefy metal cutting scissors) and cut a section out of the HDD bay area so the card fits.So what do I do?
Go to B&Q, get a £7 pair of steel snips (beefy metal cutting scissors) and cut a section out of the HDD bay area so the card fits.So what do I do?
Wish I knew this when my hoover broke... Would have had a decent legal case against Vax!
Not if it was a Hoover you won't.Wish I knew this when my hoover broke... Would have had a decent legal case against Vax!
You know what I meantNot if it was a Hoover you won't.
You know what I meant
Anyway, can't I just RMA the card?
No, I ordered a riser, which won't arrive until Friday.Have you tested it yet?
£50just wondered how much you paid for the card .....me being nosey!
Say it wasn't working are there even 50 quids worth of salvageable parts you can get from that?
No of course not. There's nothing of value in it if it doesn't work.Say it wasn't working are there even 50 quids worth of salvageable parts you can get from that?
Anyway, can't I just RMA the card?
I'm surprised you think it won't work. What could possibly have broken about it? Nothing really breaks these days.
I might be brave enough to take the MB out but from what i remember there is a screw underneath the giant CPU heatsink so might never bother. :/
Yes the advert said "oh I've got some cards, i turn 'it' on and the fan spins but nothing else"... but it said the exact same on all 12 so I thought he probably hasn't actually done anything.
Maybe it will be easier to buy a cheap PC, like if someone is selling an old(ish) PC, and test it with that. I don't particularly want to take all my stuff out of the case. It just needs PCIE and ATX power right?
Slightly creepy that you found the listing, but good detective work. I like to think that the seller didn't know what he's doing. He didn't write "i'm a computer expert and I can't get it to work", so maybe he just did something wrong
Slightly creepy that you found the listing, but good detective work.
to others, sometimes people sell stuff from bulk as untested because they probably cant test it, ive done it without issue, but if i can test it i will, not to say people wont pull a fast one, but its 50/50 chances.
Type in product name in ebay, then tick "sold items"... not creepy at all.
No where near 50/50 - whilst I'm sure there are a few people who do legitimately sell "untested" items, majority of people on ebay, do just try it on.
Even assuming you bought a "job-lot", then selling a 390X GPU working vs none-working is the difference between £50 or £100+, multiply that by a few cards that take minutes to plug in and test (once you've got a pc set up), and "haven't got time to test" for most people is an unlikely excuse. Equally you're unlikely to be buying a job lot of GPUs if you haven't got at least some knowledge of PC components.