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I bought this GPU through marketplace so my money actually went through Facebook, they guarantee you up to $500. Better then you would expect!

I agree with you these are the risks you take buying a used Graphics card! I just thought people would like to see what can happen sometimes buying used.

About a week ago I purchased a used Gigabyte RTX 2080 Windforce off Facebook Marketplace for $450. The seller provided video footage to me of the GPU in a system working so I trusted the seller. When the RTX 2080 arrived yesterday, I opened it up and threw it in my system to test it out. Booted into windows with no problem. I then installed the latest Nvidia drivers and opened Minecraft RTX for my first test. Once I loaded Minecraft RTX in my GPU fans immediately went to 100% and at that moment I knew something was not right. I opened up MSI Afterburner only to see throttling clock speeds of 1500Mhz and a GPU temperature of 89 degrees. It doesn't take a computer wizard to know that those temperatures show that something is seriously wrong, so I pulled the GPU out of my system and noticed some blue aftermarket thermal padding squished in between the cooler and PCB. I then knew that whoever previously owned this GPU messed up the thermals pretty bad so I decided to take the GPU apart. Following an easy disassembly guide, I split the PCB and the cooler only to find this: https://ibb.co/JHBpC2x What a mess! whoever tried to thermal pad this RTX 2080 had no idea what they were doing. Not to mention that the seller never mentioned any thermal issues OR that the GPU had been tampered with. Upon closer inspection, we can see what is undoubtedly the main thermal issue https://ibb.co/P9b49N6 https://ibb.co/5hdVGMp The previous owner had attempted to use a thermal pad instead of thermal paste. Speaking of thermal paste, it was everywhere. https://ibb.co/MND6zGG Apparently whoever decided to thermal pad this Graphics card thought that the extra high-temperature thermal paste would make a difference for low-temperature thermal pads. In this image here: https://ibb.co/P9b49N6 on the right you can see that the market blue thermal pads are way too thick and likely the reason the previous owner put a thermal pad on the IHS to actually make contact with the cooler because without the thermal pad on the IHS it doesn't even touch the cooler. Either way, this GPU was a mess. I ordered thermal grizzly padding in the correct thickness as a replacement and I will repaste the IHS with some KPX paste I have lying around. What a disaster, be careful what you buy! By the way, this is what it is supposed to look like stock... https://ibb.co/p1Sy8Ss

I've tried that, they work when I first install them but with one reboot they don't work again...

Everything crashes. Any game I run on my gpu thats taxing crashes to the desktop. The strange thing is, if I reinstall my gpu drivers without rebooting everything works fine, but once I reboot games crash again until I reinstall my gpu drivers. I've tried deleting my geforce experience, physically reinstalling the gpu, changing clock speeds (it's not overclocked), I tried cleaning the drivers and reinstalling them using ddu, and I tried updating my bios. I just don't know what's causing the issue, and I noticed it sometime around last month. I've had this gpu for a little over 2 years, it's a gtx 1070 strix edition. Any help would be fantastic, thanks.

I just updated the bios no luck.. atleast I can play my games fine if I reinstall my drivers

I bought it over a year ago... Idk if it still has a warranty or not its an asus strix

It uses a metal piece that attaches to the keycap to keep the key uniform while pressing it down

I've had the GPU for over a year now I'm not sure if it's faulty, but it definitely seems stable once I reinstall the drivers without rebooting, I can even overclock it and it's fine using stress tests.

I have a razer keyboard (blackwidow x chroma) and I broke the spacebar keycap. I want to buy a new set of keycaps but I can't seem to find anyone that sells them for razer keycaps. I know the normal cherry keycaps fit on razer keyboards, but the spacebar is a different story. Does anyone know where I can buy replacements?

I'm having an incredibly strange issue with my graphics card and drivers. Whenever I try and play a game like grand theft auto or any pretty demanding game for that matter, within a couple min of start up the game freezes and crashes. If I reinstall my graphics card drivers WITHOUT rebooting this fixes the issue for me... Until I reboot. The GPU isn't over heating, and here are my pc specs: Ryzen 1800x GTX 1070 (Asus Strix) 16 gigs of ddr4

yeah sorry I mean 250 gb and that makes more sense now thx

I have a Samsung 840 evo 300gb and I'm getting weird benches... Anyone have any idea what is causing this?

How would I go about calibrating a monitor to display more accurate colors? An example would be an IPS panel like this one: https://www.amazon.com/Pixio-Display-Professional-Adaptive-Monitor/dp/B0761P6MC7/ref=sr_1_2?s=musical-instruments&ie=UTF8&qid=1512951665&sr=8-2&keywords=pixio

Yeah it seems like a driver issue for the GPU.. My full screen is fine, though. This happens to me at least once a day.