Broken GPUs?

[Troika]

Why do people buy them at all? Whether broken period or malfunctioning/heavily artifacting, do people buy them because they think they can fix or revive them? I know Linus did the oven fix for gpus and sorta kinda worked so I wonder if that's why people are buying them.

[Radium_Angel]

4 minutes ago, Troika said:

Why do people buy them at all? Whether broken period or malfunctioning/heavily artifacting, do people buy them because they think they can fix or revive them? I know Linus did the oven fix for gpus and sorta kinda worked so I wonder if that's why people are buying them.

At the current prices of GFX card, it's one of a few things:

 

(1) "I can fix it myself, it's something simple!" (no, it isn't. we're not fixing a toaster here)

(2) "I'll buy it cheap and flip it to some sucker who doesn't know any better"

(3) "Hey, cool 3-D wallpaper!"

[Valkyrie Lenneth]

its the same reason why ppl gamble, for the small chance of winning usually ppl buy em for the oven trick to gamble for the best, other then that their using them for parts ( they might have a similar card with a broken fan for example, so they buy a defect card same model, to replace the fan on the good card n what not )

[Tellos]

Also some people buy them not knwoing they are broken. Either cause they donno what to look for or are duped by unethical sellers.

[arnavvr]

Some miners buy "broken" GPUs. These cards are often not always broken, they just don't output video. 

[Troika]

I see, well, I can understand the using them as wall art or the fact that they work but don't output video so they'd work fine as a second card for sli or dedicated physx. I did think about that, using them to scam people but I've seen sellers on ebay list cards as non-fuctioning or for parts and people buy them. I have a few old ones, prolly not worth much beyond scrap of the pcb and heatsink. To me that is since I don't know how to repair gpus and I don't really like the idea of possibly filling my toaster oven with potentially toxic fumes from whatever is on the pcb. I might list them at somepoint. I dunno, would someone here in the LTT community buy them if I listed them in the classifieds page?

[tikker]

3 minutes ago, Troika said:

I see, well, I can understand the using them as wall art or the fact that they work but don't output video so they'd work fine as a second card for sli or dedicated physx. I did think about that, using them to scam people but I've seen sellers on ebay list cards as non-fuctioning or for parts and people buy them. I have a few old ones, prolly not worth much beyond scrap of the pcb and heatsink. To me that is since I don't know how to repair gpus and I don't really like the idea of possibly filling my toaster oven with potentially toxic fumes from whatever is on the pcb. I might list them at somepoint. I dunno, would someone here in the LTT community buy them if I listed them in the classifieds page?

Most likely 99% of the people do not have the means to fix a GPU.

You also do not want to do the oven trick in one where you plan to keep preparing food in for that exact reason  

I wouldn't buy a broken GPU. I have my own (working) ones as paper weights, plus it's a wast of money since I can't do anything with them.