Topic: Broken/As-Is/Defective Cards. - page 2. (Read 2766 times)
im guesing your shipping from outside of the us
dmcurser: 4.5 BTC shipping
dropt: 6.25 BTC shipping
dropt: 6.25 BTC shipping
Postal Code is V8X 5H4 (Canada) Shipping through USPS tends to be the easiest and cheapest. I suppose I'll request a shipping quote as well, but your cards seem to be in better shape than I'm considering working on, so I expect you're going to want more than I'd like to offer, but I suppose there's no harm in inquiring..
my zip is 08088 southamton nj plz let me know how much shipping is so i can calculate that into my offer
Since you're both interested, I have:
ASUS 5830, electronics are fine, plastic fan holder snapped off
XFX 5870, boots but flakes out when mining
Vapor-X 5780, boots but flakes out when mining, has been reflowed in oven once already, worked temporarily
Best offer, include you zip with the bid so I can estimate shipping.
ASUS 5830, electronics are fine, plastic fan holder snapped off
XFX 5870, boots but flakes out when mining
Vapor-X 5780, boots but flakes out when mining, has been reflowed in oven once already, worked temporarily
Best offer, include you zip with the bid so I can estimate shipping.
I may have a few cards in this condition I'd let go for a few BTC.
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what type of cards and how much is a few btc?
I may have a few cards in this condition I'd let go for a few BTC.
A lot of the time the problem is just the solder on the GPUs cracks and doesn't make a decent connection/doesn't make a connection at all. (Lead free solder is terrible for this)
Quite often you can do a simple solder reflow with an SMD rework station (or an oven if you really want to)
We have rescued many graphics cards at working using the oven method. Also useful for nforce chipset motherboards that do the same thing quite often. (also good for PS3 and XBOX 360) We have a small oven in the office at work... Reflow a motherboard and cook a pizza. Work AND food
Quite often you can do a simple solder reflow with an SMD rework station (or an oven if you really want to)
We have rescued many graphics cards at working using the oven method. Also useful for nforce chipset motherboards that do the same thing quite often. (also good for PS3 and XBOX 360) We have a small oven in the office at work... Reflow a motherboard and cook a pizza. Work AND food
I've noticed in my travels that it's often a card will go through ebay that's marked as damaged/As-Is/Defective. It would seem that on average the symptoms are that the card will not display output but the fans operate automatically somewhere in the 60-100% range as soon as powered up.
Now, has anyone done any investigative work with a card exhibiting these issues? I've the skills to troubleshoot and repair electronic circuitry, but obviously this is only useful if what's plaguing these cards is something serviceable on the board (IE: Not a processor).
My question is: has anyone found these to be repairable, and have repairs proven fruitful enough for someone like myself to start buying dead boards and replacing VRMs, Capacitors and Diodes? Or is one to assume that the repair success rate over time will make this a losing endeavour?
Now, has anyone done any investigative work with a card exhibiting these issues? I've the skills to troubleshoot and repair electronic circuitry, but obviously this is only useful if what's plaguing these cards is something serviceable on the board (IE: Not a processor).
My question is: has anyone found these to be repairable, and have repairs proven fruitful enough for someone like myself to start buying dead boards and replacing VRMs, Capacitors and Diodes? Or is one to assume that the repair success rate over time will make this a losing endeavour?
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