I got 16 "Untested" Graphics Cards for $100.... Huge Mistake?
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- čas přidán 9. 12. 2021
- Someone was dumping off 16 untested graphics cards! Where they didn't really know what they had, they just wanted to get rid of them. And that's where the Tech YES slots into the picture.
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Love this. I did the same a year ago. £100 for 9 graphics cards and I just needed any 2 of the good ones to make it worth it. Got a gtx 950, gt 1030, gtx 670, gtx 660 working and a local graphics card repair guy swapped the non-working ones for a working gtx 1050ti. I made out like a bandit with this deal.
Thats an amazing deal
@@Apocalyman Thanks, I thought so.
hell yeah dude no better feeling than making out like a bandit hahaha
Where did you bought them?
Where did u buy them I need to try this
A shame about the cards that didn’t work in the end. I would still keep the cooling for the cards as they may come in handy for other cards in the future if you grab them on a deal or parts hunt. Great stuff as always, Bryan.
@@danceographicocean not 100, but maybe 50
@@danceographicocean If I needed fans for a card, I would just have the setup I have now, attached two Arctic P12's to my MSI GTX 970. Temperatures are in the 70s when gaming.
i was hoping for some chip level repair like swapping memory n stuff
I love how the top comment ruins the video before I even put it on full screen
@@abadmiah4906 what did that ruin? You thought he was going to fix EVERY broken card??
I think it's also important to keep in mind where you get your untested graphics cards from. Most eBay sellers use "untested" as a way to get more money out of total junk.
I bought an untested z77 extreme 4 board on eBay and it worked completely fine. I used it as my main system from late 2017 to early 2019 and it still works fine to this day. In fact as I’m writing this it’s running with an 3770k with a 4.2ghz overclock right now.
@@EvilTurkeySlices That is anecdotal evidence. Many times "untested" is just a cover for "it doesn't work".
@@christopherwood2290 also bought 6 game controllers all untested. All of them worked.
Always check sellers' other listed items who state items are "untested". If they are also trying to sell similar items as "working" then they have the ability to test them and have tested them... they are lying to you and they don't work. The only 'untested' I will ever buy is from sellers whose selling history shows they don't regularly sell similar items and I query to check why they can't test it.
"Untested" in my experience in 100% of cases means that its broken beyond any repair and some scumbag is trying to get more money for his trash.
Yeah that's usually what I find as well, though for some reason taking a look at these cards it just seemed like they were more just someone who had a stash of cards that they potentially pulled from a dumpster?
@@techyescity sure, plus even if they all were dead, its very possible now to sell any 16 cards as broken and get more than 100$ back. "untested" cards i see are usualy listed for half or more of recent crazy prices, like 1050ti for over 100$, and thats not a risk i would ever take.
Yeah, this market is insane. Even complete e-waste with a GPU name written on it is worth $100-$200.
I won a Clevo Sager P750DM-G laptop in an auction for $159 and it was untested. Has i7 6700k, 64gb DDR4 memory, GTX 980m, and 4k G-sync display. Only thing wrong is it has just one hot pixel in the screen that's barely noticeable.
Not really, I got a 3ds and a ds lite for $40 total. Untested, no chargers... but when I ordered the chargers they both work like new. 👍
I used to be a Electrical Technician, back in the day, my knowledge is very limited, and I am going out on a limb her. If you are having to feed a higher volt (than designed) to you GPU. That would to me suggest that you have a power regulation issue on the cards (over use) I used to see this a lot on CCTV cameras. All we would do is replace the voltage regulator, and normally the first resistor next in-line on the circuit, as this would sometime effect it resistance / tolerance. please look it up, you may be able yet to bring those last cards to life... great hoard BTW.
First thing that comes to mind is, some VRM phases that step down 12 volt to GPU core voltage on the card are not working so GPU voltage is too low. When input voltage is a bit higher than 12v then just enough power gets delivered through remaining good VRMs for the card to turn on. Fixing bad VRM phases would fix the card.
some of these gpus could possibly still be saved by 10min of 200°C Oven.
Bad solderpoints are not that uncommon for cards this old
yeah I bet the oven trick would fix most of those cards
200 degrees isn't enough to reflow solder. The only thing you'll affect with 200 degrees is issues with thermal expansion.
@@samiraperi467 Yea thermal expansion puts mechanical stress on the solderpoints, doesn't it?
If you reflow the solder in an oven youd risk components falling off, though its not impossible if you do it side by side with a heatgun and a little but of heat from below for heating up ground
@@robinbambach1458 whats that in freedom units?
@@robinbambach1458 Well, the card are basicly already lost from a certain point of view.
I dont know if trying multiple times with increasing heat is a good idea, thermal expansion&contraction multiple times in a row...
It takes a while for the card to reach the oven temperature, 10min 200C should be fine in most cases, in the solder oven the card is @ over 200C for 2-3minutes, not only exposed to 200C for that time, as it is preheated slowly step by step. (also 200° is not quite enough to make the solder flow in ROHS compliant devices, so basically all consumer electronics today)
well from cards that are not working you can extract mem banks and hardware and fans plus power stages and LDO MOSFETs, and you can try to fix a couple of them with the spare parts that you've managed to salvage, this way at least you gain experience in micro soldering and troubleshooting which is priceless in your line of work
You mean...the Louis Rossman of Australia?
Fixing GPUs is not a easy task
Feels so satisfying to watch old parts being given that tech yes lovin
Man, i've watched your channel for so long and found so much stuff to be super helpful and informative, when I get the extra $ I'm definitely gonna become a member. Hope your 2022 is better bro!
I'm staggered that any of these worked. In my experience, "untested" means faulty. If the seller has the skills to remove a graphics card from a build, they have the skills to test it. You got extremely lucky here!
True I also had similar experience when I bought motherboard from ebay. I thought maybe this is bios problem but sadly it was more than that
and in my experience untested means the seller just couldn't test it (lack of power adapter or something like that) ,9 out of 10 untested things I got were fully functional, but I don't want to push my luck so I only bid on super super cheap stuff ;-)
@@vasopel where do you bid on these? where can i find something like this
@@codewithjarred_ at ebay. there were various items that were listed untested, a sega master system, a NES,a Wii controler,a steering wheel for my PS3 and others. yahoo japan actions is another good place...and there "faulty" means "untested" (because japan!)
@@vasopel Does Yahoo Japan Auctions ship international?
Now this is content! Take note JTC, you were just asking what we want to see.... GPUs the little guy and budget resale builder can find!
Must admit, I've stopped watching JTC. All he does is whine ... then flex all the high-end gear he gets for free from manufacturers and vendors.
At least Bryan here takes risks and gives it a go. Some of the stuff he does might not be pretty, but it's entertaining!
Erm...who is JTC?
@@jeffsan0.5 jayz two cent?
@@naufalfarhan2255 oh i see, yeah his content became incredibly boring, he was way funnier around the r9 300 and gtx 900 era
Care to discuss?
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Great one! I'd love to see some more low-power-use gaming experiments too. I'll think about the membership, good luck to you!
Kudos to you! You:
1. help alleviate the GPU shortage a bit. 2. Make your future buyers happy. 3. Lower the e-waste pile on our planet. 4. Make cool youtube videos. :-) And I could add more good points.
Happy new Year!
This is the second video i've watch of your channel so far, and i've noticed CZcams's automatic stabilization (i think thats whats called) in some of your takes. Be careful with that, it can make veiwers dizzy
Wow! It just goes to show that some computer parts just need a good clean and some basic maintenance. Here in the UK non working computer parts are regularly sold on EBay as non-working parts only, so you could still get some money back on the non-working GPUs. Nice video, thank you.
Could also worked out of the package, they only say "untested"
Why? Could you ever earn a return of anywhere approaching $15 an hour for such work (factoring in the purchase cost)? And assuming the answer is "yes", would you end up with something better than a 1050ti?
Damaged parts with Things blown can also short out the power in (12V and 3.3 V) from the PCIE slot killing the motherboard
If you want to check this kind of short grab a multimeter and in continuity mode (beep mode) hold the ground pin on the mounting bracket with the card on its back ports to the left... Probe with the red on the 1st 3 pins from the left, they are 12v (75W) input and 4th pin from the right of the notch is 3.3v the rest of the pins to the right after the notch is data (the 16x lanes and a ground pin at the end )
I've had a few old cards act like that first gtx 770 you tested. I literally installed the latest drivers from g force experience and from windows update. It completely fixed it. I was so surprised
For some cards there is e-waste, for everything else there's TYC! Keep up the budget gamer content :P
Just had an RX580 go dead, turns out one of its capacitors got loose from the board - running RX480 for now until I get hold of a proper multimeter and small solder iron - time to experiment!
Isn’t the rx580 and rx480 the same architecture just that the rx480 have a lower clock speed. Form that point you aren’t missing out on much 🙃
@@moseses3414 Yeah I figure that as well :) and tied to an old i5-2500K i have definitely not noticed that much drop in FPS :D
@@mikfhan lucky u my 1050ti failed on me and I’m reverting back to my integrated graphics 🙃
Thank you for your vids, I was inspired to build my wife a computer after I built my own- with many recycled parts. She probably will never game but better than a prebuilt and it helps for her engineering courses. It felt good to bring what was meant for the landfill purpose and prove they are still useful despite not being cutting edge.
CZcams is such a f'n time sucker. That 17 mins went like a flash. It is of course also a sign that you're making well paced, interesting content. Cheers mate
Good Show! I would definitely take the same chance.
Also, I would try to replace the burned mosfets if they aren't very expensive. There's always the chance that something else is damaged also.
Hope you're well Brian, it'd be great to see more workstation orientated builds with those quadro cards, that's of course if there's any call for workstation builds that you flip :)
Nice find bro! I am happy that you definitely came out ahead! Yes..I would love to see some "behind the scenes" videos on how you operate your business! Be well and safe out there and Happy Holidays to you and yours! 👍👍❤❤
PS: I also LOVE the dumpster diving videos as that is what I used to do back in the day before my health went sh*tty and it became nearly impossible to find ANY electronics due to restrictions on recycling where I live. 😕
No way! Not a mistake! Cause if Tech YES Lovin is not enough, Taiwan YES Lovin will get the rest!
Taiwan YES Lovin' has been done in the past ;)
Great video, this sort of content is why I keep coming back.
I enjoyed your video. thank you for making this. 👍💪
Great video and good to see your gamble paid off.
That looks like the seller put up 12 untested cards, then threw in a known faulty 1050ti + 3x known faulty 770s.
10:13 Ron Burgandy Vibes
Great Video, pity about some of them.. alas still a good pickup.
Jolly good show @Tech YES City keep up the awesome work my friend 🙂
Great content as always. Keep up the amazing work!
Oh wait, I've been watching ur content without knowing u were in Australia, glad to see quite a few tech CZcamsrs in Australia popping up in every category, Hardware Unboxed, JarrodTech and u inlcuded
Saw R9 370 during test. hope you'll make a video on it soon. Great content as always @#TechYesMan
Hecka lovin' it, I think I can't wait for the dumpster diving. Thank you.
Learnt a lot. Thanks.
good stuff as always Bryan! I'd totally take the bet on the GPUs!
Great video mate. Thanks!
This is the first time I see this channel and I do not regret checking it out!
Send em' down to Melbourne Brian (mate), I'll sell the broken ones for 20-50 minimum (for parts) so jealous of those deals up in the Sunshine coast. Awesome find. Lets Go!
Amazing video man love your content.
That first card you tested of the four at 10:15 with the choppy screen issues, I had a card just like that with the same issue.
My fix was removing the cooler and any other plastics I could, heat protected the ones I couldn't remove with film and put it in the oven for a few mins.
The issue was resolved and that card is purring away 2+ years later in my nieces gaming pc.
"Baking" GPU chips is kind of risky, after you "bake" the GPU, you cannot use that oven for food (until you clean out the oven).
You so awesome, loved watching this and very educational. Love your work in life and how you survive hard times. Thanks. Merry Advent Calendar!
I'd love to see a video of you taking a solder to these cards or faulty cards like this and trying to replace the faulty chips
Great outcome for those neglected GPUs ✨ Great videos as always 👊 Thank you!
The old quadro was my favourite, along with the PNY galax... Happy yo see those survived
the card that dont give signal at all might have a faulty/missing "small" component (like a single transistor, resistor or capacitor)
check if there is any voltage in the power rails on the card (on 1000 series for example its 5v, 1.8v, vcore and vmem and 1.02v pex)
i managed to fix a 1070 by checking the rails, saw that Vcore doesnt turn on because the enable signal on the voltage controller was 0v, i found a missing resistor and transistor and the card is working now
So sad about the ones not working - but this is a great video. Thanks :)
This is awesome Bryan!
You can try baking some of the dead ones to see if resetting the solder helps.
love the vids, keep them coming
It's a great success, when the GPU prices are this high! Keep 'em coming!
I would've done it too!!! Great video, love this type of videos..
love the vid but i gotta comment on that kdyn track, sounds so good. good taste in music guy
That K4000 alone is worth it! Those Kepler Quadro cards go for surprisingly high prices on the used market. Around here at least, which literally is on the other side of the world but still XD
Hey any Tech Yes Q&A livestreams? I miss those 1-2 hour streams they were great
really good return on that bunch regardless the ones that worked did work flawlessly
this psu problem with older pieces is just a pain, last year i got an old pc and bought a new psu and was hoping to get it to work but no, it couldnt power up the system, but an older psu with lower quality could, nuts.
a lot of really old motherboards require a lot of power on the 5v/3.3v rails that modern PSU's just dont supply.
Brian easy coming in with the Friday night banger? I'm here for it.
Gotta be a significant profit you'll make there, Bryan. Good stuff!
Loved the vid, looking forward to dumpster dive...have u ever managed to fix error code 69 on gigabyte motherboard?
Nice content, but try those cads with a riser. If the vcore is shorted it could take down your mobo because the 3.3v rail in the pcie is shorted with a dead core
Wow, you made out fantastic with this GPU mystery pile.
Great Job! What luck you had! I wish I could find 2 working 660 for $100.
That is what we call here at Tech 215, a Grand Slamarooni Home Run!!! The Yes Man Strikes Again!!!!
Try and bake those with the glitchy output, I have fixed quite a few cards with that :) Got one running in my Imac for over 2 years that was dead.
I was not expecting such a good outcome!
I also do a lot of parts hunting where I live, Stockholm, it's so fun.
when you get just artifacts you can use the oven method, but that's only temporary of course
If I saw a deal like that locally... you bet your ass I'd go for it. Nice pickup man.
I wonder if using a heatgun to heat up the back of the pcb with the cooler and backplate still connected (so there is pressure) enough that it slightly remelts the surface mount solder and resolidifies creating a new join would work for any...
heck doing exactly that worked for me on 5x PS3 to reserect them from the yellow or red flashing light deal. to my knowledge all of those PS3 are still working 3 years on.
Others on the web at the time said chucking the PS3 MB into the oven at 200 degrees (i assume Fahrenheit) did the trick, but I didnt want to risk melting the plastic connectors, so I just used a heatgun to selectively heat the parts of the board around the CPU, GPU and Memory, then let it cool down naturally over 40 minutes or so. When I put it back together it booted, new HDD got the Sony OS on it and was working like a charm.
Maybe something similar could be done with these. Unfortunately I dont think I have any dead GPUs around, only got living ones so cant try it.
Hi Brian have you thought about asking another CZcams channel like tronics fix. to see if there interested in fixing the broken gpu's that are not working. Just a suggestion
ayyy i did this with a pile of ten quadro k2000s and they all work
not amazing for gaming but they're excellent for your average desktop
i did this last year and only got a gts 240 out of the deal , a directX 10 card with 1.5 gb of vram and about 150 shaders and cores. its a strong ish card but the other 9 were not capable of much at all. now i have 9 cards on the shelf to use as display adapters
The Gts240 might run CSGO at low settings, but that's about it 😬
@@MaximusAdonicus ahhh but the 440 a few years later and like 80 more cores really does a good job. you really have to crank the memory and clock speed though .graphics cards were slow for a long time. Bragging about 500 mhz core clock and 550 mhz memory . like damn
a new amd gpu broke the 2 ghz speed range and can clock to almost 3000 mhz/ 3ghz now . such a drastic difference
What do you think about component level board rework on the upper tier GPUs? Should be profitable, right?
Just here to help the algorithm. Nice to see good value come out of a small gamble.
I love watching content like this, especially now that it applies to me too, with untested/lot cards.
Any update on the Big Boy duster? I know you wanted to give it a bit of a longer test drive, wondering if you’ve come to a conclusion.
You can salvage the component from another dead GPU (the same or similar mosfet) and replace the burned one. Find someone who can do microsoldering. Or even good at soldering
Something you could do is use them the same way gaming laptops do. Use integrated graphics as video output and use the GPU to render the 3D graphics. It could also be the video output ports. My FX 5200 glitches and constantly gives a black screen when I use the DVI port at 1080p but when I use the VGA port at 1080p it works completely fine
Thanks for sharing 🤗💯💖👌
Nothing was lost with that GT520, Well at least you have some surplus of coolers.
Brian, what could be causing a PC to lose signal on a cold boot? I pretty much have to power it off manually and turn it back on to get it to work.
@TechYes Any idea about a GTX 960 that works but randomly goes to No signal after random time but is still in-game.
very interesting, I wonder what the behavior of those cards would be if they were connected to 14 or 15 volt
Would def take an offer like that! :)
Which type of cleaning liqueds and tool you using? I took gtx1050ti from friends pc and put in mine and does not work. In meantime I clean it with soft car brush at back, around fans and at side, I was gently, dismentle fan hausing to clean radiator with brush. Now does not work... Friend is huge smoker, gpu is sticky.
Is their any Electronics repair shop specializing in Computer part repairs in Australia or a CZcams Collaboration for some of those broken cards?
Can I have the name of the song during your cleaning?
😅
Awesome! I would take the same offer!
Looking forward to the dumpster dive video!
I need to join your membership, but must consult my CFO aka wife
Can you arrange shipping for those gtx 770s and the ones with broken caps and mosfets. I can fix them for you.
Did you do the oven trick on the 4 broken ones?
you think reflowing the solder would've given them a second chance? obviously only on the more valuable ones. I guess it's not worth it unless you had 1060's etc.
i think its okay all those fans and cooling stuff can put into use one day can attach those to a SSD or HDD
That gt510 can be used for a solid heat sink on a chipset or other card possibly
What if you try the "cooking" method on the graphics card, it fixed my issue with my R9 270 that was dead, i baked it in the stove on 200 degrees for 8 minutes and i got it back to life😁
bake the faulty cards that gave signal! :), then make custom bios from the default bios'os with lower clocks and reflash!
i really love this guys for all of his content
Ive got a 980TI that has some strange problems, crashes, freezing the entire system every now and then, and any crashes or freezes result in one of the HDMI cords getting burnt out/no longer working.. gpu still works.. monitor still works, replace the HDMI cord and its good for a while
Did you test all outputs - ports? sometimes port dies but gpu is ok.
I got a cheap 960 because the hdmi was dead, but the DisplayPort was fine! you considered that?