Buying a hd 6850

[Nika299p]

Should i buy a hd 6850 with red lines going downwards showing on monitor for 7$

If yes then how do i fix it? i read some articles that its a driver/software issue

[BondiBlue]

A fully functional Radeon HD 6850 is only worth a little bit more than that. It's an ancient card. Lines on the output is normally more indicative of a hardware issue, not a software issue. I wouldn't buy it. 

[Middcore]

Buy it for what? 

 

It's not useful as anything but a basic display adapter now, and it arguably doesn't even function as that if you have to put up with red lines all over the screen you may not be able to fix. 

[_Omega_]

Nope, unless you like it as a desk ornament 

[PDifolco]

Buy a soda instead, more useful spending  

[8tg]

You can get a working one for like, 20$

 

Think of it this way, would you buy an unstable, already faulty RTX 4090 for 600$?

No, even if it works in the short term, its clearly dying, and youre not going to be able to fix it, youre just throwing away 600$

 

[Somerandomtechyboi]

What will you actually use the thing for?

Anything pre kepler (gtx 600) or pre hd 7000 is effectively useless now because miniscule vram and pretty awful performance

 

To guage a really cheap cards value compare it to a cheap rx 4/570 or 4/580 as those usually go for ~50$ atleast for the 4gb model and perform somewhere inbetween a 1050ti and a 1060 (though the 580 is closer to a 1060), though unlikely youll find a better value card than a dirt cheap polaris thats problably ex mining but mining gpu > gamed on gpu cause gamers treat their hardware like crap compared to miners. 4/560 and 550 are alot shittier gpus that arent even that much cheaper than their 70 and 80 counterparts so even lower end polaris ends up being worse value

[emothxughts]

Normally I'd be against buying such an ancient card like the other posters say, but since it's about the price of one fast food meal, I'd say why not? Even if you can't fix it, it doesn't cost you too much, maybe one meal skipped, and it'll make for a nice desk ornament at least.