Hello fellow overclockers,
I recently bought a GPU from an electronic repair shop (with 1 year warranty). The GPU is a 4090, and the reason it was sold cheap is due to scratches on the PCI-E motherboard connector. One of the pins even appears either stripped or soldered over (doesn't look gold-plated)
I used it for two days and it seems to be working fine, power and voltage software readings (MSI AB and HWInfo) seem fine, all standard benchmark tests score as intended, temps are excellent, no coil whine. But I'm just wondering if this GPU will have longetivity issues down the line.
Since this is the forum with most hardware experience in the entire world, I'm sure someone here ran into such things before - What do you think? Should I return it? You can see the images of the front/back:
Thanks!
I recently bought a GPU from an electronic repair shop (with 1 year warranty). The GPU is a 4090, and the reason it was sold cheap is due to scratches on the PCI-E motherboard connector. One of the pins even appears either stripped or soldered over (doesn't look gold-plated)
I used it for two days and it seems to be working fine, power and voltage software readings (MSI AB and HWInfo) seem fine, all standard benchmark tests score as intended, temps are excellent, no coil whine. But I'm just wondering if this GPU will have longetivity issues down the line.
Since this is the forum with most hardware experience in the entire world, I'm sure someone here ran into such things before - What do you think? Should I return it? You can see the images of the front/back:
Thanks!