sk0lli3
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Creating a new post just so I follow the rules here.
I haven't received anything via PIF before so...
Item: 2 x AMD Gpu's
Sapphire R9 280x (3gb)
ASUS R9 390 Direct CU (4gb)
Age: 5/6 years old
Warranty: none
Condition:
Sapphire card working (last I checked) but the cooler has since been dismantled and some parts of shroud broken.
ASUS Card probably dead (Artifacts and Crashes but cooler still structurally sound and working)
Location: Cape Town Southern Suburbs
Shipping: sure. On you
Collection Preferred.
Disclaimer: Voetstoets. There is a 'probably' a working gpu to had from this experiment but I cannot be held responsible for any faults which may arise from their use.
If you take it. You accept it for what it is and take full responsibility.
On the left is a Sapphire R9 280x (3gb) The gpu itself works but the fans died. So as a temp solution I screwed 80mm molex fans onto the shroud. They were low rpm (about 1300 max if I recall) and non pwm. The fans blew at a constant max rpm. But were surprisingly quiet. As crude as solutions go it happily ran that way in my kids pc. Who never really played anything demanding enough to get the card that hot. Roblox, Sims and Minecraft mostly. Fortnite would eventually kicks things into low 80s though. But never seemed to get hot enough to throttle.
On the right is an Asus Direct CU R9 390 (a revision of the 200 series with a slight bump in clocks and more ram) 4gb. This card although younger and supposedly better, started artifacting and would crash games all the time. So I took it out. But...the fans were working perfectly. Since they were pretty similar cards I figured the pcb's couldn't be that different. The idea was to put the working cooler from the dead card over onto to the working card with the dead cooler. How wrong I was about the pcb's though.
Now I would have hung onto them and figured something out if it wasn't for the high power requirements. When the psu of the same machine subsequently also died. It just made more sense to buy a cheap card and low power psu to keep the kids happy.
Which I did. So here we are.
I've offered them to a couple friends who weren't that interested.
But, if you have an older machine with enough watts to drive these (I reckon about 750)
I've taken the liberty of sorting and labelling the screws for the convenience of whomever decides to assemble them.
If you want. Which I suggest for anyone with the patience to wait for them. I've sources the original replacement fans for the
280x. You can order them from china over here. Otherwise if you smaak a frankenstein mission. Be my guest.
Also why can't I link images directly in my posts? Anyways just click this to see the photo
I haven't received anything via PIF before so...
Item: 2 x AMD Gpu's
Sapphire R9 280x (3gb)
ASUS R9 390 Direct CU (4gb)
Age: 5/6 years old
Warranty: none
Condition:
Sapphire card working (last I checked) but the cooler has since been dismantled and some parts of shroud broken.
ASUS Card probably dead (Artifacts and Crashes but cooler still structurally sound and working)
Location: Cape Town Southern Suburbs
Shipping: sure. On you
Collection Preferred.
Disclaimer: Voetstoets. There is a 'probably' a working gpu to had from this experiment but I cannot be held responsible for any faults which may arise from their use.
If you take it. You accept it for what it is and take full responsibility.
On the left is a Sapphire R9 280x (3gb) The gpu itself works but the fans died. So as a temp solution I screwed 80mm molex fans onto the shroud. They were low rpm (about 1300 max if I recall) and non pwm. The fans blew at a constant max rpm. But were surprisingly quiet. As crude as solutions go it happily ran that way in my kids pc. Who never really played anything demanding enough to get the card that hot. Roblox, Sims and Minecraft mostly. Fortnite would eventually kicks things into low 80s though. But never seemed to get hot enough to throttle.
On the right is an Asus Direct CU R9 390 (a revision of the 200 series with a slight bump in clocks and more ram) 4gb. This card although younger and supposedly better, started artifacting and would crash games all the time. So I took it out. But...the fans were working perfectly. Since they were pretty similar cards I figured the pcb's couldn't be that different. The idea was to put the working cooler from the dead card over onto to the working card with the dead cooler. How wrong I was about the pcb's though.
Now I would have hung onto them and figured something out if it wasn't for the high power requirements. When the psu of the same machine subsequently also died. It just made more sense to buy a cheap card and low power psu to keep the kids happy.
Which I did. So here we are.
I've offered them to a couple friends who weren't that interested.
But, if you have an older machine with enough watts to drive these (I reckon about 750)
I've taken the liberty of sorting and labelling the screws for the convenience of whomever decides to assemble them.
If you want. Which I suggest for anyone with the patience to wait for them. I've sources the original replacement fans for the
280x. You can order them from china over here. Otherwise if you smaak a frankenstein mission. Be my guest.
Also why can't I link images directly in my posts? Anyways just click this to see the photo
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