ebay banzai! place bets now! (hd6950)

[Iceni]

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just found this on ebay.

Personally failure on cold boot suggests a psu issue not a gfx card issue.

I'm selling faulty Radeon hd6950.
After motherboard upgrade I'm having problems with random restarts or no video signal on cold boot.
Card sometimes is working fine after few restarsts- not overheating, running latest games on high specs with no problem.. I don't know what's wrong with it, hence card is being sold as FAULTY.

anyone think it's worth a gamble?

[OneMoar]

Idk worth a shot I would't go more then 100 bucks on it
if it turns out not to be a power issue you can try baking it

[ShiBDiB]

its a last gen card that isnt 100%..

I wouldnt waste a penny

[Iceni]

its a last gen card that isnt 100%..

I wouldnt waste a penny

perhaps but i already own a HD6950 that's been modded. A second one cheap would put me in a decent situation graphically. Since that is an older revision reference design card with dual bios, i could unlock it and have 2 similar cards in crossfire.

There is no way in hell i'll pay over the odds. It just seems odd that the guy hasn't rma'd it.

It leaves me thinking 2 things. Either is dead and he knows it.

Or he's a retard. The spelling mistakes in the listing also help with this assumption.

I may ask him a question regarding the listing.

"when the card/system crashes does the gpu fan spin up to full speed and make a lot of noise?"

It's a fairly innocent question but if it does then it sets my mind at ease as the card is suffering from power loss and not a hardware crash. A hardware crash would black screen to a dead system with a total shutdown, Powerless goes into safe gpu cool down.

Also i believe asus offer 3 year warranty on GPU's. A few minutes on the phone with them i could get an rma. It'd be pretty easy to say i got the card for my birthday from my grandmother who recently passed away so i have no access to a receipt. (no shame).

[xxdozer32]

^lol

[Iceni]

hahaha got to love ebay history this just gets sweeter by the minute.

¸
30-Jun-11 21:31
Asus ATI HD 6950 2Gb DDR5 HDMI HD6950 Graphics Card (#310327285821) --

the cards not even a year old

[erocker]

Sounds to me like possibly the sellers PCI-E slot is having a hard time initializing on his motherboard.

[OneMoar]

Originally Posted by erocker

Sounds to me like possibly the sellers PCI-E slot is having a hard time initializing on his motherboard.

either way free `card`
/bids