What graphics card is this?

[lolzisgoodforu]

Someone near me on the facebook marketplace thing posted a listing as "cooling fan for a computer" He clearly doesn't know what this is if he thinks it's just a cooling fan. he's selling it for $40

[NumLock21]

It's a AMD card from the 2 internal CFX connectors. That cooler is a Sapphire Dual-X, maybe a HD 7950

https://flash.newegg.com/Product/N82E16814202169

[lolzisgoodforu]

2 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

It's a AMD card from the 2 internal CFX connectors. That cooler is a Sapphire Dual-X, maybe a HD 7950

 

1 minute ago, CUDA_Cores said:

I know that is's an XFX card from the AMD radeon 7000 or 200 series judging by the cooler. 

 

At worst it's an R9 270 and at best it's an R9 290x or whatever the 7000 series equivalent names of those GPUs were. 

 

Since you have to meet with the guy in person to buy it, why not bring over a rig to see what the card is in device manager. 

 

Better yet contact the seller and say that you are interested, but say you want very clear shots of the serial numbers on the back of the card. Then we can tell you exactly what that it is. 

So even at worst, would this be a deal for $40?

[NumLock21]

2 minutes ago, CUDA_Cores said:

I know that is's an XFX card from the AMD radeon 7000 or 200 series judging by the cooler. 

 

At worst it's an R9 270 and at best it's an R9 290x or whatever the 7000 series equivalent names of those GPUs were. 

 

Since you have to meet with the guy in person to buy it, why not bring over a rig to see what the card is in device manager. 

 

Better yet contact the seller and say that you are interested, but say you want very clear shots of the serial numbers on the back of the card. Then we can tell you exactly what that it is. 

R9 270 only has 1 CFX connector and the 290X has none, they removed it.

[lolzisgoodforu]

1 minute ago, CUDA_Cores said:

Talk him down to somewhere between $20-$30. then whatever it is, it's probably a good deal. You are also going to have to pray to the computer gods that the thing even works, so I wouldn't pay more than $20 but that's me. You may be willing to go further. 

Ok so it's probably best to try and get him to get a photo of the serial number first to make sure, cause I know if that was like a 290 or something then it would be a good deal

[NumLock21]

4 minutes ago, lolzisgoodforu said:

Ok so it's probably best to try and get him to get a photo of the serial number first to make sure, cause I know if that was like a 290 or something then it would be a good deal

That card is not a 290. 290 does not have CFX connectors.That card is from Sapphire.

[lolzisgoodforu]

1 minute ago, NumLock21 said:

That card is not a 290. 290 does not have CFX connectors.That card is from Sapphire.

What exactly are CFX connectors

[NumLock21]

2 minutes ago, lolzisgoodforu said:

What exactly are CFX connectors

CFX or Cross Fire X connectors, just like those for Nvidia SLI. They're located on the top front section of the card.

https://flash.newegg.com/Product/N82E16814202169

[lolzisgoodforu]

2 minutes ago, CUDA_Cores said:

There's another problem here however. Once you ask for screenshots of the serial number he will probably google what the thing is himself and see that it's actually worth some money after figuring out its a graphics card. Asking for a serial number could give all that away. 

 

Second, if you test the card right in front of him to verify it works, he'll see it's obviously not a computer fan when you plug a monitor into it and boot up windows, then he will want more money. 

 

Through some googling we have determined that it's probably something between a Radeon HD 7850 and a 7970. 

 

First I would try to talk the guy down and say you will driver over to his house and pick it up today if he accepts half of asking price, $20. You are taking a gamble on this, assume the card is dead. Because if you try to test it, he will want more money. And if you ask for more information to finding out what card this is, it will give the selling price to him as well. 

 

Also the $40 was probably a price he just pulled out of his ass. I once picked up a supermicro dual 1366 server that the guy who had no idea what it was (was labelled as "large,  old computer" in the listing with absolutely no indication to what it was) had priced at $30, and I talked him down to 15. The ignorant seller will assume you know what price it should be sold for, and they will trust your intuition (even if you are lying to get a good deal). 

 

Again you are taking a gamble on this. 

 

6 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

CFX or Cross Fire X connectors, just like those for Nvidia SLI. They're located on the top front section of the card.

https://flash.newegg.com/Product/N82E16814202169

 

16 minutes ago, CUDA_Cores said:

Talk him down to somewhere between $20-$30. then whatever it is, it's probably a good deal. You are also going to have to pray to the computer gods that the thing even works, so I wouldn't pay more than $20 but that's me. You may be willing to go further. 

Ok well I already asked him for the serial number and we got our answer, HD 7950. Now is this a good deal even If I fail to talk her down $10-20?

 

[Princess Luna]

What are people even talking about, gosh is really that hard to tell what video card that is?

Here:

http://www.legitreviews.com/sapphire-amd-radeon-hd-7950-flex-edition-announced-makes-eyefinity-easy_13276

 

If it is worth the value of 40 bucks or not though it is not up to me, I have never owned an ATI/AMD video card in my life.