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Hello, I'm new to LTT forums.

 

I was cleaning & repasting my gpu the other day (which is a pre-owned Powercolor RX 580 probably ex mining, bought for about 75 USD converted)

And I noticed some vacant solder points for other display ports supported by the card model.

(Below is a reference photo of a Powercolor RX 580 PCB)

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Apparently this card I have only has a single DVI D port, but in Powercolor's site, all of their listed RX 580 variants support 3x DP, 1 HDMI, and 1 DVI-D.

(Below is the photo of my actual card before cleaning)

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Disregarding how risky it would be, I was just wondering what would happen is someone were to miraculously solder some Displayport or an HDMI port into the PCB, would it work as an extra display output? or is it bad to even think about it.

 

[H.A.N.D.] <^_^> - Have A Nice Day

 

Budget PC, my specs:
CPU: Ryzen 7 1700

GPU: Asus ROG Strix RX 580 8GB

RAM: 2x8GB DDR4 2666MHz @3000MHz

HDD: 1TB Seagate Barracuda

SSD: Kingston A4000 NVMe 256GB

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