CARD WITH ARTIFACTS worth anything?

[andydabeast]

my friend has a 6950 2gb that he says produces artifacts after a couple min of use. So I have two questions (btw I mine LTC)

1- would this effect mining at all? or could I take this off his hands for cheap and just mine it into the ground?

2- I also have a 6950 2gb in my gaming desktop that I put to mine when I am not on my computer. Would it work to use my friend's as the SECOND card for cfx and plug my displays into my current card? Would I still see artifacts?

thanks

[HellDiverUK]

Probably will be OK, depends on what part of the chip is fried.  I had an old 5870 that wouldn't even display a picture, it just displayed random gibberish.  It mined fine.

[RandomQ]

you shouldn't see artifacts if you are not plugged into that card.

plug it in 2nd card and see if it will mine