Sell it to me at a low price then!! I will get them refreshed!! I would dare to say few buying a used card don't have the hutzpah to take apart his heat sink from the GPU and do all the above. TG likely acquired these cards 'AS-IS' on the market. Until then I'll just do without.ĭigitalgriffin said:The review was fair. (this I'm not 100% certain on, but I know Intel and AMD both employ these internal fuses to look for things like overclocking on CPUs)) I might consider a used GPU IF it was half MSRP. I believe there are burn fuses to indicate a custom rom was used. (OEM's reserve the right not to honor warranties on mining cards. All things to take into consideration when buying a bleeding edge last gen card.īasically I wouldn't touch one, even if it had a warranty. There's also a potential of silicon decay and paste caps failing as well as power delivery circuits. They get noisy, don't run as fast, and eventually bite the bullet. I want to see a raise of hands to whom here has actually taken off their cooler on a working card, repasted it, and then took a can of air / toothbrush and cleaned the fins.īTW: GPU fans wear out with time too.