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Refurbing an old GPU for better performance

Figo

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Morning folks, thought I'd share this, I've been wanting to refurbish my R9 280X since I built my budget gaming rig since it was bought new.

Being worried I'd end up gimping the GPU or something I bought an old HD5850 1Gb on eBay to mess around with.

In short, refurbing the old GPU was really easy, took about 20 minutes and was totally worth it. Frame rates in games up, benchmarks higher and temperatures much lower.

I know we can be a sucker for getting things to run as cool as possible but sometimes the simple stuff like cleaning up components can make as big a difference as adding fans or changing out to the latest and greatest cooling gadget.

Settled in my mind now that the 280X is next to get the refurbishment treatment!
 
The card was Sapphires 'Xtreme' edition HD5850 so a 2011 card and over 5 years old.

The fact the OEM TIM had turned to dust in that time should serve as an alarm to anyone running an older Gpu or thinking of buying used on EBAY
 
glad to hear it!

also did a little review of some of the games i managed to run on the card afterwards


And before you say it... I know I look like a knob... that's the dangers of placing bets with mates..
 
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