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UPDATE(1/28/2018) Still looking! :)

Hey guys. Was wondering if anyone had some gpus laying around that either have bad artifacting... or just won't even post.

I want cards which will atleast spin up during boot. But no output is fine.

Tell me what you have an what you want for it. I will accept almost anything but I would like a picture of the back of the cards and a brief description of what is wrong with it.


Thinking this might be a great time for people to dump their cards that may not be game worthy... atleast before asics come online.

I'll also buy working gpus if the price is right.

Thanks!

I have quite a few Radeon cards. Price would be based on eBay prices for faulty cards.

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Ebay as-is or For Parts prices are acceptable.

Thanks!


****Should also say that I'm in the US. Shipping costs may be prohibitive if you are outside of the US. Never hurts to check tho.****

i have a dead 7970 and a few dead 5870. the 7970 fan spins up, but is not recognized by the comp. 1 5870 shorts out. 1 5870 has a damaged vrm or something not really sure. 1 5870's fan spins up to 100% and it not recognized by the computer.

I have a few bad 6950s, one the fans went dead so I tried replacing them however its just taped on, it has 6970 shaders tho, another 2 that just run hot like 100c+ but still hash fine. I have a 5850 with fan issues and a 5870 that artifacts/crashes in games but can still hash if its not overclocked. I dunno what to price them at? I guess 50$-75$ each. Send me a pm and I can give you more info.

I am located in Sarnia, Ontario Canada border to Port Huron Michigan.


I have a 5850 with a burnt cap. It will boot fine and work as a desktop card, plays movies and what not but it will only mine for about 30 seconds before freezing up.

Have replied to everyone. Thanks guys! Keep em' coming.

I have an ASUS reference model 5870 I bought new last February. It makes a clicking sound when running, and the noise gets louder and faster as the fan speed increases. I think a fan bearing is just loose or broken; it might need a new fan. Other than that it works and hashes fine; I had it overclocked and got up to 425 mh/s. I'm asking $100.

YGPM

I have 3 x 5850 reference cards that post and boot but glitch when I start trying to mine with them. 2 have new fans and the third one is in good condition.I think all 3 were regreased as part of the troubleshooting them.

pm'ed you^

Check out mine https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=103920.0

I have a 5970 that posts, boots into windows, and seems fine until i try to mine with it. 

Make me an offer. 

^Replied and money sent!

Hey bud...

I got some pic's finally... Geez I am slow :P


http://i46.tinypic.com/m749pf.jpg


http://i49.tinypic.com/verz6.jpg

That's a reference design 5850.... Fan works fine....

I have a Sapphire 6970 for sell, it was mining fine when I sold it on eBay, but the customer returned it to me complaining about artifacting. Drop me a line.

I may have 2 5970's with one core on the fritz......what are you offering for those?

Hey

I have a Gigabyte 5870. One of the fan does not spin without an initial flip of the finger.Goes up to a black screen then goes off. This one was not used for minning but I believe was damaged during transport. Still looks all shinny

Send me a pm with what you are willing to pay

Come on guys... I have bitcoins burning a hole in my e-wallet

Well are you sure about that??

$40 shipped  ;D

$80 for a 5770? Are you insane?  :o

That's the max I would ever pay for a 5770.... Going rate around here for local sales on cards that have never mined.......

Pretty sure ~$50 is average.

I have gotten 60-65 for 5770s on both ebay and locally on craigslist(craigslist is always preferable)... That said, I wouldn't offer anymore than 40 for it shipped either.  ;D

You can get a new 7770 for $90 AR (higher efficiency), so there's little incentive to buy a 5770 for $80.  I think $50 shipped is reasonable.

I'd be more interested in a 7750 for $75. They don't require a 6pin PCIe power connector.

Where you findin 7750s for $75? I'd take that deal too but craigslist and ebay currently have people shooting for what they paid for it retail.

brand new..... NCIX ??? I see brand new 7770 for under $100 @ NCIX.ca

i have a reference  5970 diamond i think . fans spin up but no post

i'll trade you a broken 5870 missing back plate and fan for a reference 5970 heat sink

the 5870, uh, gets warm when i turn on the computer.

Wait, does it post? When running the ram at 300, it doesn't need a backplate to act as a heatsink for the ram. Now the fan missing...is that an issue where a 120mm fan and a few zip ties can fix?

No, he demolished the card. It will never run. The bga is still good probably... But I havn't gotten into reballing and you can buy 5850 bgas on ebay or cheap.

I have a 6970 that I m might sell to you. It doesn't seem to post but the fan works good. Can you send me an offer?

I have a 5870 that makes a high pitched squeeling. The fan spins, but it won't post or display video. I haven't tried mining with it yet as a non display card. I also have a 6870 that intermittently gets picked up / drops out of Windows. It won't post video, but when it would show up it would mine fine. I took it apart, partially cleaned, and repasted it. I just tried it in a GD70 and it will not work as a display card, but I don't have any other open slots to test it in. Feel free to shoot me an offer on either.

NVidia 9800 GT manufactured by BFG: I've done some online research on this card. Apparently two versions were made- one that doesn't need to be hooked up to your power supply and one that does. This one does, although it was marketed as a low-power consuming card. It has one six-pin power input.

NVidia 8800 GTX: Manufactured by NVidia? Don't seen another brand on it. Gigantic card! Heavy as a tank, huge fan and heavy cooling. Dual 6 pin power input.

NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS manufactured by MSI: Needs no external power! Yay! Big heat sink, no fan.

All of these cards work as AFAIK, but I haven't tested the top two. I don't think the top two got much use.
Shipping is going to be an issue as the 8800 is HEAVY.

I want $30 (or equivalent BTC) + shipping. I would have to box them up and weigh them to find out how much shipping is.



  

 

Looking for more current cards.

Thanks,

I will take nvidia cards though if they are newer.

How much would you offer for the entire lot of. We spoke before about a single card i think

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=109764.0

anything yet?

^Still nothing, sent you a pm

5x working 7970's, 1650 shipped.

andrew, any interest in my "totally busted" 5870?  we spoke earlier, but..

i'd rather not list it on ebay and have someone buy it thinking it can be fixed, haha.  i don't know if you have some use for the parts, or what.

i could keep the fan on it (+$10!), so then all it'd be missing is the backplate, a few screws, and lots of shiny things on the card.

i missed the end of that 5970 heatsink auction.  went for like $11... wtf   >:(

Hey man, I allready have quite a few 5870s that are junk... Thinking of getting rid of them on ebay myself. You could use a heatgun to pull the core off of it and make a cool keychain or something? :)

care to explain me for what u need em?
disasembling and assembling fully working ones or just as hardware supplier/etc?

greetings

^replied to you via pm

I have a 5970 which artifacts, but mines. It gets unstable and turns itself off occasionally.

It's in my sale thread, but PM me if you're interested.

Check your inbox^

I have a 3 or 4 Nvidia quadro FX1800's here.

They are all in perfect condition, no boxes though, they were pulled from workstations i upgraded (mostly for cad and other design) for a local company.

Make me an offer?

6950 that just started acting up this weekend.  7-8 btc shipped.

Shoot me your addy for payment^

What about a broken 6970 ?

This story kills me, but I bought this thing in a private sale and it was brand new in the box.

I had run it to test on my test bench and everything was great. I wanted to put a waterblock on it and then realized the block I had was the wrong revision.

I was taking the card out of my car and I dropped the thing on the pavement.

Card didn't look super damaged, but it wouldn't post. I took off the stock heatsink and couldn't see anything major, but no dice.

So not sure if based on your knowledge that tells you it's easy or hard to fix, but make me an offer. I can take some pics if you want.

Pm'd and ready to ship

3x working 5970's: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=115621.0

Clearing the shelves off as I tear down my GPU farm. I've got a 5970 on which the fans spin up and it warms up a bit but it doesn't do anything. Interested in it before I chuck it on eBay? I'll take BTC or USD.

Hi. I have a gigabyte 5850 dual fan. The card works perfectly for both mining and gaming. The fans however are another story. It was either insufficient wire thickness or bad connection, but one of the fans failed to spin much at all. I thought it might've been un-lubed bearing, and I remedied that, but it still refused to spin properly when connected to the card. When connected to a separate 12v power source, both fans, connected individually, ran at expected speeds. I decided to take it off and tie on 2 x 80mm x 25mm fans to the heatsink. It cools much better now and has a similar noise level, but it now requires a 3rd slot, MAYBE a 4th, if you're putting it in a computer without risers.

Like all gigabyte nonref 5850, this is voltage locked, somewhere between 1.0875v and 1.2v. It mines with core at 1035, regardless of whatever voltage I pick.
I still have the original fans and shroud.

Not sure what to sell it for, seeing as it is functionally perfect. Even the fans change speed if you tell it to via whatever software you use for OC/fan.

Replied to all. Thx

Had a bit of trouble with the card LiteBit sent... I couldnt get it to load drivers or install. I worked out a deal with him for 4.5btc instead of the 7.5btc originally agreed upon. Great transaction otherwise and I would trade with him again!

I have 2 sapphire 5830s I'm ready to sell. Working perfectly. I will accept any fair offer. MSI mobo/cpu/ram combo w/pcie cables up for sale also. It supports up to 4 gpus.

up to 3x fully working 5970s.  two should still be under warranty (diamond 5 yr and xfx lifetime).

I have 2 5850s
1 reference (no name on it ) boots into windows and can load the drivers but will not mine or run games.
1 non reference xfx pc won't boot with card installed have not tried to trouble shoot it.

2 of those fx1800 cards are gone

2 left

^All replied to via pm

I have a 5970 with only a single core that works, and no output gets displayed. One of the Volterra regs on the GPU closer to the DVI ports was shorted out and was removed, so that GPU isn't detected although it appears to not have a short downstream of the reg. It's possible that if you have a bunch of broken cards you could replace the missing regulators and get the other GPU back online.

Wanted to post a list of prices I'd pay in bitcoins for fully working cards.

These are minimum prices... Reference Powercolor or other crappy brand prices... For a beefier cooler on the card or better brand I'd be willing to pay more.

5830 - 2btc
5850 - 4btc
5870 - 5btc
5970 - 10btc

6850 - 3btc
6870 - 3.5btc
6950 - 5.5btc
6970 - 7btc
6990 - 12btc

All obo as well.

And also... Bump on broken cards!

You're only willing to pay $120 for a fully working reference 5970 and $24 for a 5830?

I would go up to $200 for an xfx 5970... or 50 for an xfx 5830... I'm not however going to pay ebay prices and I also think it reflects recent price drops as we get closer to asics launching. I also will consider what someone is looking to get.

I put the list up as a bare minimum of what I'd buy the cards for and it kinda reflects my interest in certain cards... I'm less interested in 5800 series because they lack resale value. I want to help people out by taking cards off there hands. But I don't want to lose money when I sell them in a month either. If you havn't noticed... the number of people buying has dropped off while the number selling has increased... Supply and demand in economics would tell us that leads to a buyers market and falling prices.

Please don't take the list as an insult though.

want to make an offer on these?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=118381.0

Bit of a distance to ship though. If you want, Make an offer inc P&P and I will get back to you.

Bump... I can pay ebay prices now that they are falling in bitcoins for 6870s, 6950/6970s... and up.

Thanks,

Got 2 5970's for you, sent you a PM.

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For the public record:

I am selling 2 5970's to AndrewK for an undisclosed price.

I will post a reply once the transaction is confirmed.

^ half of the payment has been sent in bitcoins. Other half will be sent upon receipt.


Thanks,

Is this 5850 card available for sale?

^replied

I have a 5870 at home with a burned out HDMI port.  Interested?

-EP

Busy week, sorry to jjshabadoo for the late reply.

Cards received. sent partial final payment. Should have the rest to him shortly.

I sold that card listed to Andrewk.

I have numerous other cards and entire rigs for sale... I am toooo lazy to bump my own thread i guess :P


Good day to you all

Andrew,

I have 2x Diamond 5970's that each have a single core on the fritz. 

The working core mines fine in BAMT, but I have zero luck getting the second to fire up, despite being seen by the OS.

You interested? 

I still got those 5970's.....

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Got a reference 5870. Mines perfectly. The fan when I got it was wobbley (sometimes hit the plastic cage and made noise); I made an access hole on the face of the fan for oil/lubrication, hasn't made any noise since I oiled it.

I do not believe it is suitable for gaming. RAM is possibly messed up. Last time I OCCT 3D stressed, it showed almost all abnormal colors, but the 3D shape of the fuzzy object was normal (good GPU core), and normally it has streaks/artifacts on the desktop too, but I hooked up a monitor today and I haven't seen any artifacts yet.

If you toss an interesting offer, I'll see if I can get it OCCT stable since the artifact-less desktop is encouraging.

^PMed

Hio :)

One EVGA GTX 460se. Works flawless even though its missing a pair of SMT resistors. Will only run 8x pcie 2.0 in a 16x slot or 4x in an 8x slot.

http://img.techpowerup.org/121031/P9200986.jpg

One Asus HD 4850 , was artifacting and then stopped posting after the 9th bake. After the 10th bake failed, I managed to reflash the bios, but still won't post. I have the heatsink but have lost the screws.

HD 4850 + modded NB cooler lmao
http://img.techpowerup.org/121031/P9130951.jpg

Shipping + BTC tip ??? = yours ;)

pEACe

Update on my sale. Andrew owes me 1 BTC but has paid the rest as stated.

Good sale and transaction, good communication and a stand up guy!

Thanks for the shoutout JJ. I will have that last btc to you tonight. I only have one rig going right now and its mining at 1.2gh/s... But the pool I'm using is not paying me nearly what it should. May have to find another pool.

Bitclockers takes about 1/2 your earnings, just fyi.

Yeah... I was mining with bitclockers originally. Now I'm on 50btc and I should be getting .40 btc per day... getting closer to .22 by my calculations.

I've had the rig mining for 3 days with maybe 3 hours of half mining(when the 7970 is down so I can watch a movie)... and I only have .83btc to show for it.... Any suggestions on better pools?

I mine at slush's pool, the return is defnitely noticeably higher but very irregular.  If you want to maximize profits you should ask Shadow383 about his pool--I would be mining with him currently (you make a lot/day) but guiminer kicks me off after about 12 hours.  I *plan* on switching to ubuntu-based machines with a better program like cgminer, (which I believe would have no trouble connecting to a private pool like that) but I don't really see the point in investing much time/learning into other systems if the other shoe drops like some people are predicting.

Why not try mtred? 0% fee's......

What is your config ? A 7950 should easily handle that.

With my setup, I can watch video/dvd, surf the web and mine on my 7870. The -f70 flag costs me about 2-6 mhash/s, but meh... 

I undervolt my cards substantially... even have the memory undervolted on the 7970... and If I'm mining and watching video the drivers sometimes freeze. Granted I havn't played around with the settings much in cgminer but its not much trouble to pause the miner and play whatever I want... Then start it back up again.

I may try adding back 10 mVolts or so and see if that helps.

I'll bet you won't need the mv bump if you try using cgminer to limit gpu usage to 97-98%. Or try bumping up the memory. :)

^Thanks I will try that.


Also: Last bitcoin I owed JJ is sent.

I have a few 5830's for sale.......

I have a 7950 that the fan turns on but I cant get the rest of the card to work if your interested

Just curious, what price (in USD or BTC) would you pay for my 5970 which boots up an displays output, but seems to have issues with instability? Doing further testing right now.

Did further testing, here's what I have:
5970 that boots and displays graphical output for a while, but when launching something graphics-intensive the driver continually crashes until the screen stops showing anything.

^Replied.

I have a Powercolor 6770 that semi-works. Tends to cause machine to reboot itself after about 30 seconds of use. I'll get rid of it for 2.5BTC+shipping, have box. PM if interested, normally over 200mh/s out of this card.

^ I have a 5830 sitting around that does something similar... But it'll mine for a few then reboot... I have a feeling it's something to do with the DVI port.. If it's plugged in it dies right away.. If it's used as a secondary card it seems fine for a few.... then dies :P

Maybe a problem with the vrms... or some part of the power circuit feeding into the dvi. Try undervolting and lowering memory and core clocks and see if it stays stable for longer.

Unfortunately I have so many cards on my hands right now I'm mostly looking for the high mh/s cards. PM me if you'd like help trouble shooting though!

What would you pay for 6990 with an artic cool fan setup?  Also if only one of the chips are acting up is there any way to fix it that you know of?

Pmed ya^

itty bump.  8)

Is transplanting a pair of pcie smt resistors as easy as it seems ?

I'm tempted to buy a cheap gun so I can replace the missing gtx 460se resistors with the ones off a dud HD 4850.

Its not too bad. I use a mini handheld torch with a "heat" attachment to flow the solder on the pcb. Wipe that off.... Then use a little solder paste you can buy online(it has silver, flux, and some other crap and basically comes out of a tube like goo). place the replacement smd caps on the paste... Use the torch to flow the solder paste...

All that said, I've found that replacing caps is pretty iffy. If the caps burnt out there was usually another reason that they did...

If you just knocked the caps off then replacing them has a better chance of working.

Let me know if you need any other advice.

What do you think about cards that function as secondary but won't post as a main card.?

Depends... Most cards that I have messed with that have that problem are not repairable with a reflow but sometimes its worth a try. Usually what happens is I'll reflow them, they'll start posting but will still artifact... Still aren't worth gaming on so I usually just leave them alone mining untill I need them for video output...

When this happens the cards probably need to be reballed... I however don't have the setup, and wouldn't feel comfortable doing that.

Even tried sticking a card in the oven?

The capacitors and everthing else are fine. Thx for the tips. :)

Ahh.. grade 9 tech class... its all coming back to me ! ;p

pEACe

^np

^^I have tried reflowing in an oven but I mostly reflow using a heat gun on the core only now. I don't know that there is much difference in outcomes to be honest, but it seems safer to me to just use a heatgun on the core. Thinking about trying an oven on a 5970 I have that will not post though.

Let me know how that goes... I might do the same on a card I have.



You have to remove the DVI/HDMI ports correct?

Not sure what you mean by remove the ports? Short answer is no. You need to remove the heatsink/fan and any thermal paste or pads on the pcb... Had an HDMI port fall off one time when I was replacing a surface mount resistor near it.... Looked like a bitch to get back on so I said screw it :)... RMAd the card

lol..

okay so the DVI and HDMI adaptors wont melt?

No but like all other surface mounted parts... They will fall off if you bake/heat for too long ;)

Seriously: I've heard of people removing electolitic caps and other components before reflow.... But it is a big hassle... honestly, you are taking a risk just by reflowing but if its not under warranty and isn't working then you are not taking too big a risk.

Unless of course you want to sell it to me :)... I don't buy cards other people have tried a reflow on... Seen too many people over do it, can cause cards that are unsafe to put into any computer(shorts all over the card and in the power circuit).

Good luck though, I probably won't get to my reflows untill after thanks giving.

I just wanted to try.. It's only a 5830 that's been acting wonky.

Haha, not hating on you. Never learn untill you try something.

I'll buy anything for the right price anyways... :)

I'll keep it.. It's going in the oven in about 5 minutes.. Got it all taken apart.. I'll laugh if it works properly afterwards :)

Just baked two 5970s in the oven... One now posts where it didn't before... Havn't gotten drivers on it yet so it may still be worthless. Gonna play with it more after thanksgiving.

The other: fan used to spin. Now it doesn't... card won't post. Gonna play with it after thanksgiving as well... Probably killed it though.

Also baked a 7950... no luck there either.

I tried baking it... So far nothing.


Do you bake @ 385'F for 8 minutes?

I have a gas oven and I wonder if I should increase the temp and length it stays in the oven.

I have a 5870 with loose fan for sale https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=127147.0

^pmed

^^I wouldnt just start baking for longer and longer... Do you have a meat thermometer or an infrared thermometer (one of those handheld guns) that you could use to check the temperature of your oven after its preheated?  Check the temp before you  put it in and if it gets anywhere between 385-400 you are probably fine.

Sometimes it doesn't work...

Yeah I don't think it worked. I did heat it a second time at a little higher temp. Have yet to test it.

Some people bake turkeys on thanks giving... :)

Still looking for some broken graphics cards... Also interested in FPGAs that work atleast part of the time.... and fpgas in general

I have a 5870, there was a huge spark then a smell. a little transistor exploded. its an xfx.

http://cdn.techiser.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/XFX-Radeon-HD-5870-Graphic-Card-Side.jpg

make me an offer, shipping from canada.

Sent an offer via pm^

2 msi 6990's going here. Just the cards, No boxes

Both mine just fine, no problems ever.

Downclocked and fan speed never went over 65%, heat levels were well managed on them.

I'll take BTC for them.

Have a think. Im off on holiday for a week on sunday.

got 2-3 more 5970's if you're interested. send me a PM.

I have a Visiontek 5850.  As of this morning the fan spins up, but there is no longer video output.  I do not see any blown caps or obvious brown spots on the board.
http://i47.tinypic.com/ra6kuu.jpg
http://i45.tinypic.com/ats09d.jpg
Interested?

Sure, sent you a pm.

I'll be moving a lot of cards in about a month. What's your timeframe for buying? A few with broken fans that I haven't gotten around to ordering replacements for. 6950s , 5970s, 5870s and 5830s.

I was prepared to create some gaming rigs and sell them for the holidays, but things are delayed and GPUs are still barely profitable, so on they go.

Pm sent^

I have a working, but unstable HD 5830. PM me if interested :)

^PMed

5870 which does nothing. I don't know what's wrong with it. It doesn't have a fan anymore and I'm pretty sure there aren't screws left for the reference cooler.

5970 which is not recognized and there's no picture of course. Green lights go on on the GPU so at least some parts of are working.

5970 with a wrong bios and two small parts removed (parts that contain the bios, I still have them)

^pm sent

I have successfully conducted a transaction with AndrewK.  He's a good guy, so no escrow was required.   :)

Thanks Man^

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=133070.0

just posted this up, didn't see your thread.

Shoot me a PM if you're interested.

Merry Christmas!

Sent you a PM.

Thanks!

Thx for the pm just looked and got quote for shipping thing it will be too much on shipping to your self. So will have another look at different ways to send with different shipping services.

I understand. Shipping across the ocean is a pain.

How much do you charge to fix video cards? I have a 5970 (not one you gave me) that will sometimes have a red light come up underneath the board by the PCI-E power connectors after some time of mining (maybe a minute, maybe an hour, maybe a week), and it freezes the entire computer, need to hard power off the entire computer before its detected again.

Just kinda fishing to see if its worth sending it out for a real reflow instead of baking in my oven (I still dont know if 8 minutes at 400F is working for me or not).

Edit without bumping: Hopefully, I may have jumped the gun about the gpu's actually going bad. I found one of my PCI-E power splitters taking on a brown tinge. I examined it closer and 2 of the 12v wires were darkened significantly. The middle wire was flawless, so power was probably only being supplied through 2 hot wires compared to 3 cool wires. Good thing I have lots of spares and also redid the wiring on that miner so all the 8 pin power plugs come directly from the power supply and the remaining 2 PCI-E power plugs get split into 4 and plug into the 6-pin power receptacles. Hopefully that works out better.

I have a fully functional BFG 7950GT with custom Zalman cooler.  Interested?
http://i50.tinypic.com/2yya694.jpg
http://i49.tinypic.com/30hvghz.jpg

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Thanks

Been asked several times about repairs so I thought I'd throw it out here for everone to see:

I will try and repair any card someone wants to send to me.

If there is no major damage to it... I.E. scorch marks or tons of missing capacitors I charge $20 to look at it and I charge an extra $20 if I can fix it.

The buyer pays shipping both ways.

Things I repair:

Artifacting graphics cards

Cards that won't cut on

Missing Capacitors

Blown capacitors

Broken fans... etc.

Some repairs may be more but I will allways tell you before you ship it to me

I use a hot air gun, heat pencil/mini heatgun, and a calibrated oven to do reflows depending on what is required.


*** Please understand that all repair solutions are not created equal and that the likelyhood of my repairs working depends greatly on the problem with the card***

The chance of my fixes working also greatly increase with the ammount of information about the card I recieve beforehand. High resolution pictures of any damage are also a necessity.


If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask. Given a description of the problems and pictures of any damage I can usually give you a rough estimate of the likelyhood of my being able to repair it.


I also make no guarantee on how long repairs work. It is impossible for me to warranty a video card that is several years old. I do however guarantee the card arriving back to you as I described it (whether repaired or not). Pictures are allways great ideas for both ends of a transaction.

Thanks guys,
Andrew

Hey andrew i sent you a pm a few days ago. Maybe you missed it? I never got a reply.

^ Sorry, somehow missed your pm. Responding now.

Found a bunch of cheap, probably broken, 5870 on ebay.

www.ebay.com/itm/290846335848

$26 each, free ship. Already sold.

Ahh man, hate I missed that. Good looking out though!

I have a 9800 GT with artifacts. I can still see enough to boot go through the BIOS, but windows won't load. PM with your pricing and I'll be able to get pictures to you tonight.

Located on the East Coat, USA.

^Replied... Looking for slightly more current cards.

Thanks,

I got a Asus 6870 DirectCU that broke on me last summer. Computer wouldn't boot, sometime it would post and show graphics but with a lot of artifacts then just to reboot after 1 minute. Not sure if totally broken.

I also got a Nvidia Geforce 8600GTS or something like that, dunno if it works, dropped it on concrete floor once.

Interested in any of those? I think shipping would be about 3.2BTC at todays rate if you are outside of Sweden.

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Are you still buying?

I have an AMD 5870.  The fan stopped working and I replaced it with an Accelero X Treme artic cooling fan, which works fine.

However, my electricity is too expensive, so I have no further use for the card.  I can provide pictures etc if required.

Are you interested?

What sort or price would you offer.  I will be shipping from UK.

Please PM me if interested.

i have an mildly artifacting gigabyte 5870 with a broken fan.
it will show a desktop without issues, but it cannot mine bitcoins.

interested, PM me with an offer.

Thanks,
KB

PMed^

Weekend bump! Anyone got some cards laying around that need to unload them? I will pay bitcoin for the right cards!

Thanks,

Want a 4870? Mines, and games fine. 110 mhash

Thanks for the offer. Looking for cards a little more current.

No problem dude, just looking to ditch this extra card for cheaps

I didn't read this whole forum yet, but I have a 5970 that just started having problems on startup.  Wanna help me troubleshoot, or is this what you're looking for?

I see "for parts" or "as-is" 5970's listed on Ebay for $50-$100.  I'm also up for trading for a working one and paying you $50 or $100 to get a working one so I can play Diablo III :)

Let me know your thoughts.

I have a couple of Sapphire HD 5830 Xtremes + 1 of the same but non Xtreme version.
All three cards were used for mining (approx 6months) and all cards work well, mined
under low temps and with fans around 60-70% (depending on ambient temps). I have full
retail/original boxes and accessories for each card. They are VERY clean and were
used in a smoke free environment.

PM me with an offer for one or all if your interested.

-ST

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Thanks!

I have more HD 4000s than I can shake a stick at.. you got any interest?

^ mostly looking for HD 5000, 6000, and 7000 generations. Try Ebay, sell them as a lot buy now style and list them for 29 days

I have a reference design 5970 that will post, but won't output video.

BAMT detects it, but when it begins mining the machine hangs.

Make an offer.

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Sent the card, and got BTC payment today.

Thanks.

^Thanks for the quick and easy transaction.

i got a 5970 that will mine bitcoins fine but wont mine scrypt coins. if i get it hot first it will mine LTC. i might try to reflow it if that fails are you interested?

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Andrew is good at what he does!

Got my card to mine, but I needed a gaming card, so I told him he could keep it.

I broke down and bought a 7970 so I can keep mining/ playing Diablo 3.

^Thanks man,

Yeah... card is mining away as we speak... Unfortunately not every repair can get cards to stop artifacting... someday when I have the time and money I might get a bga reball setup.

I've got 2 5970's and a 5870 eyefinity 6 port.

1 5970 spins. died suddenly overnight. redid pads, still wont post.
1 5970 works, but gpu0 is flaky. VRM runs too hot on 2 phases. Tried everything still wont run cool. Second gpu is fine mines away all day long at 950 mhz.
5870 eyefinity, it popped a capacitor ( exploded and blew things off board ). I replaced with same under microscope by hand but still get no video out. Used to mine, without video out. Stopped working. It's a pain in the ass to hand solder <1mm SMD.

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Dead cards seem to be drying up. Anyone breaking rigs down soon that have dead cards?

I have an XFX 7970 double dissipation

dead card, fans still work.

pm me with your offer?

I have a 5870 that died, I'd ave to take it out of this computer, but it's here. its mined me 150 btc in the old days :)

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I have a 5970 that has artifacting during 3dMark

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Are you just looking for AMD cards or Nvidias as well?

I will consider high end nvidia as well. thanks

Got a GTX260 that won't boot up. Fans do though.

I got a xfx 6770 working.

This guy is legit. Bought a card from him, turned up two days later. Would buy again, A+++ and other such Ebay type things.

Haha Thanks man!^

Backplane plate arrived this morning too. Though I'm not sure if I'm ready to put the tower back upright yet. I need to work out some proper support for that ridiculous heatsink on my old card and better attaching the case fan I currently have leaning up against it :) That open-air shelve thing is looking more attractive all the time.

I've got a 5870 that never seems to get going... no video - no mining. System boots; I can see hardware in the OS - just can't really use it.

I've also got a 6950 that USED to be a good miner; but now it won't power on and the system will refuse to boot up if it's installed.

Interested ??

I have a Sapphire 5850 reference card.  Only thing I did to it was flash to a new bios sent to me from Sapphire to fix the release batch GDDR5 volt issue.  IIRC, the original was like 12.011.xxxx something, and this one was 12.014.xxxx. Now it works rather well, but on occasion it still gives me a GSOD. It has been run for a total of 3 months, and sat in a box until recently, and now I'm using it. So the fan is good. I pre-ordered it through Sapphire's old trade-up loyalty program, got it a week before online retailers, and the drivers were buggy. I got fed up, repackaged the card in it's box, RL got crazy busy so I forgot about it, and then I found it in my closet 2 months ago.

I'd definitely sell it, but I need time to replace it.  I also have a BFG geForce 6800GT w/o the heatsink/fan, Sapphire x800xt(worked last time I checked), and a XFX 4650 1GB somewhere(works perfectly). IDK what you're offering, but if any of that interests you, lemme know.

Replied to both... thanks!

very fine deals to be made here! thx again for keeping your part of the sale!

PM'd you; four cards 2x 5830 & 2x 5870 that actually work, just fan probs.  And an MSI mobo if interested.

I have a 4870 HIS, has a XSPC waterblock with it. Took waterblock off and installed original cooler, I don't think the fan has ever been run, its brand new.
Card spins, but no post.

^Sorry, didn't see your post. looking for atleast 5800 series but thanks!

I have 3- 6870's that I am considering selling.

(1 sapphire and 2 msi twin frozr)

Would like to sell all together if interested.

Hio Andrew :)

Looking to build some rep by selling my sapphire 5850 for some tastey BTC. hehe..

pEACe

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where are you from, i have guy who repair graphics ?
regards..

I have a Sapphire 5970 for sale. PM

I have 12 broken 5970 for sale. PM me if interested. in the EU.

Anybody still selling broken cards?

5850's for sale - UK but dont worry about shipping ill offset that - 6x 5850's

All fans speed up, just no output from the display

I have a couple older 5770 and 5750 cards that I cannot seem to get mining.

If you are interested, PM me.

How much would you give me for a 5970 that will not boot into windows?

I'd like to speak to you via DM as I have an old GPU that got replaced by my current HD6950 GPU.The old card works fine,only issue is with the fan assembly (Lost an important part when reapplying thermal grease to fix an overheating issue).

Can this be eligible for your offer.I'm also based in UK so you must be prepared to pay for shipping (UK and international) is you do decide to go ahead with any deal. :)

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Thanks,

i have a 5850 that wont boot, powers up with fans but not seen in windows. shipping from eu.

What are you doing with all those damaged cards? This puzzles me...

I repair them.. About half are repairable... The rest I keep for parts ;).

YGPM

WTS --- 3*6770 Powercolour, all working

looking to upgrade to 79X0 series

Location = Australia, Victoria

I have an ASUS HD 6990, in very good condition, offer?

How much for non working 7970s

^ and ^^ pmed

I have a few cards i might sell. I'm thinking about getting out of mining.
I have five 5830 Sapphire. All work fine.
two 5870s one Reference, the other not sure it has huge heatsink with 3 fans on it. Both work fine
I have 5970 Asus works great. I plan games in windows with.
And i have 1 5970 Sapphire, with a dying core. It will mine in linux if you warm card up first.
But windows don't detect core.

Please let me know what u pay for these's.
If the price right, i'll ship them out.
If needed i can take pics of all the cards running.
Thanks,
jay

Hey my brother has a miner

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=220459.0

What sort of price would you pay for the cards - if it's a good offer I'll try and convince him to sell them separately

make me an offer on 4 working 5870s, 1 "sorta damaged" 5870?  the damaged one is just missing two of the pins for the fan power connector on the card.  two of them are missing backplates.  four of them have the ATI reference fans in them & still working, the fifth "sorta damaged" one has a fan ziptied on it and the shroud removed.  can send shroud separately & also a reference fan that works.   don't have the two backplates, no clue where they ran off to.  in essence, 2 are in "normal" condition, one has a backplate with a fan ziptied on to it, w/ a shroud I can include, but the fan power connector doesn't work because a couple of the pins have broken off, the other 2 are in normal condition except for a missing backplate.

2 are asus, 1 is HIS, 1 is XFX, and 1 is unknown.  all are reference cards, 1GB memory

i could also toss in another 5870 that doesn't post at all, but still has value i assume (heatsink is on it, if nothing else...  and some handy pins you could solder on to the card that's missing 2).  it doesn't have a backplate or shroud  ;D

and a 5970, which i'm 95% sure doesn't work, but not positive.  it used to be watercooled and i don't have the original heatsink & fan for it.  i was told it didnt work & never really bothered to test for myself.   just the card itself, no heatsink or anything else.

I have one Sapphire 5830 that spins up but no display.

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I have a Sapphire 5850 Xtreme.  The card will drive a display, but once mining commences, it is only a matter of time before the system freezes.  It could be minutes, it could be hours.  I had to scavenge its fan for use on another GPU, but the case fan I super-glued onto the housing cools much better than the original fan did.  It's also quieter, though it does take up a good deal more room and of course is not speed variable.  There is a small spot of red foam stuck on the back of the PCB, but it's been there, not affecting performance, since I bought the card almost a year ago.

http://i44.tinypic.com/oj2wq9.jpg

http://i39.tinypic.com/mlmpew.jpg

I have a MSI Twin Frozr 2 6870.

Displays/Games/Mines just fine.

Issue is that the fans do not work as well as they should. (Almost like they do not get enough power).
If the card is idle, and fan speed % is left on Auto, the fans either run at a very low rpm or not at all. but once the card is in use (or I adjust the fan speed % in afterburner) the fans will kick on but do not spin as fast as I know they should. So obviously it can not be used to it's full potential otherwise it gets hotter than I would like it to run at. (Sorry for being vague, not at home so I do not have the numbers in front of me right now).

I have been debating putting on a new fan assembly and running it, since it does not seem to be too big of an issue. (Like I said everything works except the fans act funny).

If interested shoot me an offer, otherwise I will tinker with it and see if I can fix it. (It has just been sitting around, unused, for about a month. I am pretty willing to get rid of it, but Im not looking to get slaughtered price wise.....especially since it seems to be just a fan issue)

Thanks

I have two XFX 5870s that just need new fans. I used them before I heard about bitcoin, so they were only used for gaming and a maybe a couple of months sporadically on BOINC projects. I thought about fixing them and building a 2cd machine just to mine, but I would have to buy all the other parts too. Everything was working great on them (ok maybe not always ATI's drivers lol) until the fans died. One fan completely froze up and one just sounds horrible.
If you might be interested shoot me a PM.

I guess I'll take another shot at this thread.

I have two cards. The first is a Dell?/OEM Radeon HD 5870. Was mined on ... I lost track how long. Likely about a year though doing SHA256. It does output video. It does successfully boot into Windows, and continues to boot successfully after driver is installed. The card even works (usually?) with OCCT:GPU:3D and Furmark, but presents with major artifacting or driver crashes when tested with 3DMark 2011. All 4 VRM chips seem to be healthy (not dead; no abnormally high spiking temperatures). The fan currently spins freely as well, but it has been oiled once in the past a few months back. A tiny access hole on the face of the fan has been created to allow re-oiling (It is beneath the black electrical tape). I have not reflowed this card. As it stands, I don't think this is suitable to game on. It might work fine if you want to bitcoin mine on this, but when plugged into a multi-GPU computer, it freezes the entire computer when put under load. When plugged in by itself, it mined fine for the couple minutes I tried it by itself.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9768004/gpu/SAM_0205.JPG (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9768004/gpu/SAM_0205.JPG)

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9768004/gpu/SAM_0206.JPG (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9768004/gpu/SAM_0206.JPG)

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9768004/gpu/SAM_0207.JPG (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9768004/gpu/SAM_0207.JPG)

The other card I have that I just pulled from my systems is an OEM 5970. It has a new fan. The core and memory of both master and slave work fine. The only thing wrong with this is 2 of the 3 voltage regulator chips for the master GPU are dead, putting the remaining current through the last VRM. Sensors easily triple (or higher) the estimated current while idling and under load*. Putting a significant 3d or mining load on it at stock clocks and volts instantly freezes the computer. I was able to get the card to run furmark in full screen with 0.875 volts and 425MHz core and 1000MHz memory with no artifacting or crashes (I verify both cores were loaded by monitoring the amps of each core). It also mined at 0.85v 485MHz core on the master and 1v 865MHz on the slave. I tried baking this in the oven at 425F for 12 minutes, didn't fix it.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9768004/gpu/SAM_0221.JPG (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9768004/gpu/SAM_0221.JPG)

(4) Sapphire 5850's you might want. All will boot, run windows, even overclock, just choke at varying points if you try to mine with them.

I have 2 5970's that both only have 1 working GPU but they mine fine on that one. and 1 5970 that won't boot if you are interested.

All replied! lol, I went out of town for a 5 day weekend and hadn't checked the thread.

Thanks!
Andrew

got a
4870x2 no heatsink just the bare board i think it kept crashing but not sure
6570 the fans broke and the gpu just dosnt show up or display

nvidia gtx295 works but has a bad flash on 1 of the gpus (i dont like flashing nvidia cards to much goes wrong)

make me and offer XD

^ Thanks for posting. Those cards are a bit old. I doubt I'd give you enough to do much more than cover shipping.

Bump.

hey i have 3 7950 twin forzer i want to sale they have broken fans but i bought them just 2 months ago one has both fans broken and the other have one fan each still working well all of them work just need to replace fans hit me up with an offer im in the usa or pm if you need any more info or pics

2x 5970s for sale!
fans spin on both!
one of them works completely and the other won't display a screen.

Definitely interested in selling for BTC, won't be able to ship for a few weeks since I'm out of town but let's get the ball rolling!

5870 that locks after a few hours of mining. Display seems alright. Could probably be fixed by firmware or replaced VRM.

Was out of town for a few days... Replied to all Pms

Thanks!

Hio :)

I know someone that has a Gigabyte GTX 560ti 448 core, that will not post on two different rigs. I thought about checking or flashing the bios but shut the pc down after windows became laggy with the 560ti/ headless, in the 2nd slot.

What do you think ?

HT xD

I have a working xfx 7870 let me know if you want pics or a price

2 x 5970, both can't remain stable mining on both cores.
One of them, 1 core crashes in 10 minutes. The other can mine for days, but eventually will crash.

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I posted this back in May. Never got a PM.
I still have cards. They all been off past 3 months due to Dif increase.

Replied^ sorry about that...

I have a Sapphire 5830 that I can't get to display. It is recognized as a generic vga device in windows but I havn't gone any farther in trying to fix it. Also I have a working Diamond 6970 if you are looking for working cards. PM if your still interested in buying and I'll send you pics.

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I have a Nvidia 8400gs that works fine but the fan should be replaced. I have a xfx hd radeon 6670 that works but wont mine with OC  setting ( stays stock ). Last but not least, I have a Nvidia gt520

Hello,

Maybe it could be of your interest?
1x Dual 7990 and 1 x 7970 OC ed.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=267968.msg2865011#msg2865011

Thx
bobsmoke

Bump... mostly looking for 6900 series and 7900 series.

Sent PM

I have a 7950 with a burnt pin. Interested at all?

I have a crap load of video cards and all work perfectly.

5830's, 5850s, 5870s, 5970s, 6950's, 6970's 7950s


AndrewK pm with your offers and I will review them. These are fully working cards.

Blast from the past...

Still looking for dead cards!