Bought an used gtx970 for 150$cad, tell me what you think of those pictures.

[Howitz]

The card is supposed to work fine, i'm about to test it in the next minutes, i noticed that it once was rather dirty, some weird spots on some components on the back of the card and the hdmi port is bent. I am willing to overlook those flaws if they do not influence the good working of the card.

[Eastman51]

Not sure how the HDMI port gets bent, that's odd.

 

Dirty spots could be because the GPU was previously owned by a smoker, but its hard to say until you get it. I bought a 970 that was owned by a smoker recently, was a bit tough to clean, but it was possible.

[Howitz]

2 minutes ago, Eastman51 said:

Not sure how the HDMI port gets bent, that's odd.

 

Dirty spots could be because the GPU was previously owned by a smoker, but its hard to say until you get it. I bought a 970 that was owned by a smoker recently, was a bit tough to clean, but it was possible.

Do you know what the orange spots on the welds on the back of the core are? I was thinking maybe rust but its bulging outward like some sort of glue so maybe it's suposed to be here?

[Tsuki]

bent hdmi is a little concerning, but everything else looks fine.

 

[Eastman51]

Just now, Howitz said:

Do you know what the orange spots on the welds on the back of the core are? I was thinking maybe rust but its bulging outward like some sort of glue so maybe it's suposed to be here?

Could be corrosion or rust, but I'm not too sure.

[Snipergod87]

Could be corrosion ro rust that was caused by left over chemicals on the back side of the GPU from manufacturing.

[Howitz]

ok, my friend is a confirmed ass, it's totally dead lol, when i plugged it in ,the computer would'nt boot, then i unplugged it, held power button till i heard a ''click'' and booted again without the gtx970 without issues.

 

Can't even boot, does that mean it's shorted and dead and could be dangerous to my computer?

[Wufflez]

It should be fine.. I'm guessing the prev owner liked yanking out the hdmi cord, and it bent the port in the process. It may warrant that port unusable, but you have other ports that you should be alright with. 

[Guest]

or 

23 minutes ago, Eastman51 said:

Could be corrosion or rust, but I'm not too sure

or just the smoke tar forming 

[Eastman51]

1 minute ago, nnfancois said:

or 

or just the smoke tar forming 

never heard of smoke tar being orange, but I guess it could be.

[Wufflez]

3 minutes ago, Howitz said:

ok, my friend is a confirmed ass, it's totally dead lol, when i plugged it in ,the computer would'nt boot, then i unplugged it, held power button till i heard a ''click'' and booted again without the gtx970 without issues.

 

Can't even boot, does that mean it's shorted and dead and could be dangerous to my computer?

RIP well go get your money back. If he lets you keep the card, you could open it up and see what the problem might be.

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Eastman51 said:

never heard of smoke tar being orange, but I guess it could be.

yeh its smoke tar or corrosion or possibly spilled food?Now that im thinking,the resan why i guessed smoke tar is bc i had something simuler before where it smelled of cigarettes and weed so yeh

[Eastman51]

16 minutes ago, Howitz said:

ok, my friend is a confirmed ass, it's totally dead lol, when i plugged it in ,the computer would'nt boot, then i unplugged it, held power button till i heard a ''click'' and booted again without the gtx970 without issues.

 

Can't even boot, does that mean it's shorted and dead and could be dangerous to my computer?

Shouldn't harm the PC.

 

One of my friends purchased a dud 970 off ebay a few weeks ago. When I went to help him install it we found that the VRMs were dead. The card had coil whine that was beyond what any card should be capable of. The card also refused to display out when it got too hot (aka when we tried to install drivers). The broken VRMs caused the whole PCB to overheat; I even burnt my hand when I went to go take the card out of the system (there was no backplate on that card).

Edit: He got his money back, and then bought a different 970. That card worked fine, no harm was done to the PC.

[Howitz]

Ok thanks, got my money back and this was a fun adventure about buying used gpus i guess