Broken transistors on gpu

[zebbedyy]

Hi,

So I recently bought a 'manufacture refurbished' Gtx 1070 strix off of ebay and immediately noticed when i received it that some transistor type things were missing along the PCI-E bit. 

 

The card seems to be working fine but I was wondering if someone could possibly tell me what these are actually used for and will these affect the performance of the graphics card?

Please see attached picture.

Thanks guys,

Zeb

[Enderman]

Those are not transistors.

Those are resistors or caps.

Clearly it is still damaged and needs to be RMAd.

Should have not bought "refurbished".

[hconverse02]

Some of the gold pci-e connections are dummies, because you can see on some gpus that not all of the connectors are even there, so you might have just gotten lucky. EDIT: try and return it anyways and get a new one if you can

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

5 minutes ago, hconverse02 said:

Some of the gold pci-e connections are dummies, because you can see on some gpus that not all of the connectors are even there, so you might have just gotten lucky. EDIT: try and return it anyways and get a new one if you can

He's not talking about the PCI-e connection. Rather, he's referring to the caps just above the connector. Where he has circled seems to be a few that have blown right off or have been ripped off

[zebbedyy]

Ah okay I was unsure to be honest what they were.

 

Card seems to be working absolutely fine so far tho.

 

Gonna do some more testing first. It came with 12 months warranty with the seller. I don't really wanna go through the hassle of sending it back unless its absolutely necessary. 

 

Maybe they are dummies like you said but why put them on the card in the first place? And if they were important surely the card wouldn't work or am I mistake? 

 

Also the GPU seems to overclock absolutely fine both Core and Memory which I thought maybe would be affected

 

No other damage that I can see though and I have bought refurbished cards in the past that have been fine although I know it can be risky.

 

I messaged the seller on ebay to see if they could tell me why the card was refurbished in the first place but they were unable to tell me anything about it.

 

Thanks again, 

Zeb

[0x1e]

They smooth out power delivery from the PCI-e slot.

Are they needed? No. Are they nice to have? Yes.

 

Can you RMA it? Probably not. You would most likely need a full receipt and it will either say it was refurbished. So either you will get another refurbished card, or a refund.

If it ways refurbished then that means someone else has RMA'ed that card, and so something is wrong with it. You accept and acknowledge that and so you get it at a discounted price.

[zebbedyy]

Ahhhh okay I understand.

 

I'm pretty sure if it's 'manufacture refurbished' then the problem should of been fixed by Asus shouldn't it.

 

Surely they can't sell on a broken graphics card?

When I first noticed it I was shocked that it worked to be honest. The seller is a reputable company that sells through eBay.

 

It wasn't stupidly cheap which didn't make me too suspicious and the fact that it said manufacture refurbished made me think that asus have clearly fixed the problem with it

 

 

[Zebbedy]

Another thing I have noticed in GPU-Z is that the graphics card is running at X4 and not X16 like it should be surely? I'm guessing this isn't normal? Would this potentially effect performance? And anyone got any advice on how to fix this?

 

My pc specs are

 

Maximus IX Hero Z270 motherboard

I5 7600

H100i watercool

16gb 2400mhz G skill ripjaws V DD4 Ram

2 Samsung 850 Evo SSD's in Raid 0

Asus GTX Strix 1070 8GB

 

Thanks