Fishy RX 570

[Dreadnought]

Just found this RX 570 8GB (ex mining) but it only has 1 dvi port, is it legit?

I found this for $95, should I get it?

[TheKDub]

Looks like a PowerColor RX 570 with the decal removed.

https://www.powercolor.com/product?id=1505704061

 

I'd pass on it. You don't know how abused it has been, and one video output is going to suck.

[Jurrunio]

maybe, if you know how to make the iGPU (if your CPU has one) act as the display output rather than needing to connect to the card directly.

[suchamoneypit]

A RX580 off ebay is only like $120-130. Why restrict yourself like that for that little difference.

[mariushm]

It will work and will run games, but it will probably run a bit worse when gaming and in some games you may have corrupted textures or crashes.

 

Not sure about exactly that card, but some mining cards have their bios modified to lower the cpu frequency and voltage while raising the memory frequency and tweaking various timing to optimize memory for some specific access patterns. For example, a mining algorithm like the one used by ethereum may access the memory in a specific way and the bios may have optimized the timings to account for that while games will access the memory in very different ways.

 

For example... they know the algorithm will request some data and then for some amount of time will do some computations, so the bios could use some timings that are too agressive but which will work with those pauses of a few nanoseconds between accesses, but a game or other software may not have pauses and then memory may not give the contents to the game correctly and you could get crashes or corrupted textures. 

 

I guess you could get one of the stock bios images from a site like techpowerup, but you'll just have to be sure the bios image has profiles for the ram the card has (i have gigabyte cards that only have samsung and hynix profiles and i have sapphire cards that have hynix and micron profiles, so I would not be able to put the gigabyte bios on the saphire) 

 

Overall i'd say it's not worth the hassle especially since it only has one DVI port.

[leo1798]

Just buy new or from a seller with a moneyback guarantee like ebay, this isn't worth it on so many levels.

[Dreadnought]

18 minutes ago, leo1798 said:

Just buy new or from a seller with a moneyback guarantee like ebay, this isn't worth it on so many levels.

It's from Bukalapak (like Ebay from Indonesia), it has a moneyback guarantee. But yeah, I think I'd pass.

[Dreadnought]

1 hour ago, suchamoneypit said:

A RX580 off ebay is only like $120-130. Why restrict yourself like that for that little difference.

Amazon, eBay, Newegg, etc. are not available for me. Because I live in Indonesia, the shipping cost are like 80-90% of the product's price. So my only options are Bukalapk, Tokopedia, and Lazada.