I got 16 "Untested" Graphics Cards for $100.... Huge Mistake?

if i see you again [Music] so i ended up just picking up a whole box of untested graphics cards for a hundred aussie dollars and i thought to myself well i'm probably going to get hosed here but even if one of these 16 graphics cards works at least one of the decent graphics cards then i should be okay i should come out on top now these look like they've been neglected some of these even like this one here this gtx 770 this has a smashed in back plate but what we're going to do right now is i've made up a whole list of the graphics cards so you guys can see what we picked up inside this box where i ended up getting a gtx two gtx 1060s for example and we got a heap of gtx 770s gtx 760 gtx 950 we also got some amd cards like a 7870 and a 7950 so there's definitely a lot of cream in here as well as the gtx temperature ti so i'm hoping that if i clean these down just give them a basic easy clean down make sure there's no debris or anything like that causing any problems and in the case of this graphics card right here take these back plates off so we're going to go through these cards one by one now and see if we got hosed on this deal or see if we can pull off some magic and get some of these cards back to original working condition but one thing i haven't mentioned in the past on the channel is i do have a new trick up my sleeve that i've never spoken about before so we'll detail that in today's video to see if that trick ends up coming to fruition and if that can bring back any of these gpus so let's get busy if you want to get rid of this annoying activate windows message then today's video sponsor scdkeys has you covered for as little as 12 us dollars after you enter that coupon code bftyc you can cop yourself a legit single end user license today links in description below [Music] ko [Music] [Music] my [Music] so after cleaning the cards up we immediately have unfortunately some bad news that is the gt510 actually has a burnt out mosfet right inside just here and i'll show you guys on camera but i'm not even gonna try boot this up because and i don't recommend it if you guys come into parts where they clearly have something faulty on board you can clearly see the physical damage in the case like this gpu here if you try to boot up parts like these you can actually cause even more damage to the part itself and even worse things like fires can actually come out of damaged parts like these so definitely don't want to mess around with that so with that aside we're now down with 15 out of 16 gpus left and i'm actually going to get onto this gtx 770 right here where this was the dirtiest of the bunch and it had that damaged back plate now we're taking that back plate off just because the metal could have been contacting the back of the pcb which could have been shorting out this gtx 770 right here so i'm hoping that perhaps this works after doing this and also cleaning it up where there's just so much dirt on the graphics card itself but then we'll get to the other cards as well so it's finally time to see if we can get something out of this untested pack and of course unlock potentially some of the most ultimate [Music] i guess we got a signal but kind of not the signal we were hoping for with this uh gtx 770 here [Music] you [Music] so we've just finished testing out all these gpus now unfortunately two of the gpus that's the first one here just put the blown chip on it and this uh gtx 770 here with the back plate these unfortunately they they're not going to work and i don't think i'm going to get them to work as they've just got inherently faulty parts so you need to actually get the soldering iron out replace all that stuff which i do have a massive pile of gpus that i'm stocking up so that's going to join the pile but we've got some really good news and that is we got 10 gpus out of this whole pile working so the most the potatoes except the one potato at the start are all working so we got four potatoes working and then unfortunately these were not gtx 1060s i don't know why i thought they were 1060s i guess i've seen a 1060 with this cooler on it and they were two gtx 660s but they both worked and then we had a gtx 760 which ended up working a gtx 650 ti that ended up working and then also a 950 that ended up working and then lastly a 7870 which you can install the nimes drivers for and they show up as an r9 370. so that's some really good news 10 gpus working so i've easily and i mean easily got my money's worth already so that's that's like over the moon news but then we got these uh four cards here which we're just giving out problems booting up so we couldn't get them to boot up on our test system i tried a different motherboard on the test system but there is one more trick that i alluded to in the intro to get these graphics cards to boot up so we're going to go through that now and we're going to explain the methodology and hopefully one of these cards will works with this method and it's great if you want to extend the life of a gpu so in this case i think these gpus have been heavily used but hopefully we can still get a little bit more life out of them before of course putting them in the last chance gpu pile so this next little trick i found actually came from when i was uh playing around with the gtx 780 that i had here and i noticed that it wouldn't boot on this computer after i'd finished the video and then i was like okay well that's kind of weird because it booted up on another system that i put it into and this was consistent behavior too so i was sitting back in my chair kind of going okay well there has to be some kind of difference here and so then i experimented on two other rigs after that and i found the answer as to what the difference was when this gtx 780 booted up absolutely fine on one of the rigs day in day out and it had to do with the power supply in that the power supply that was booting up this gtx 780 when i was testing it out it had a higher 12 volt line voltage uh reading when i was uh running the volt meter on it in fact it was going close to 13. and so what we've got here now is we've found a power supply around our studio that gives out over 13 volt on the 12 volt line as opposed to these other power supplies this one for instance will give out 12.5 i just quickly tested another one 12.5 my main corsair hx1000 that gives out about 12.5 on the reading that's on the test bench so this one here i'm going to see now i'm going to couple this power supply right here that's giving out over 13 volt and i had a couple that with those four gpus that were although they were booting they just weren't giving out a signal so what we're going to do now is test out these four graphics cards and see if we can taste any success [Music] so [Music] so we got some good and bad news and the good news was that two of those four cards managed to give us a signal where we're able to get to windows in the case of the gtx 770 i got to windows to the point where i could try and flash another v bios on there and this one was a really low lower clocked v bios but unfortunately the boss didn't take properly i mean it was a hp bias with much lower clocks and the car was bricked after that so that was unfortunate but at least we tried and then we tried the 7950 and we gave that a reflash of a vaporex bios that we found on tech powerup and that was the same thing except that managed to boot into windows still but the drivers just wouldn't take as soon as you install the drivers it gets the black screen and pretty much that just in my opinion these cards they just got faulty pieces of actual hardware on them i mean sometimes you can get a graphics card to work again if it's just memory degradation or the cpu core clock is just too high given that it's been running for a few years and you can kind of get away with clocking down a bios and then getting a bit more life out of it but these cards these six cards right here unfortunately they just weren't coming back to life even though i would have loved to have got a victory with one of them but uh that's just a little method what we saw there's just a little hint a little method for you guys you can try it out at home if you come across a power supply that's got a bit of a higher voltage on the 12 volt line it may be able to give you a chance to do some extra stuff with that gravis card so you can get it to work again however what we've got now on the right hand side is 10 working graphics cards and all we have to do now is give them a thorough clean change the thermal paste and they'll pretty much work like brand new and so that's really good news i'm actually blown away by how many working gpus we got out of this pile as opposed i i honestly came into this expecting probably just like two or three of them to work but this is the one of the best case scenarios and of course we got i mean two six sixties a 760 and 950 as well as a 78 70. so those are the good cards that we got out of that and of course we put them in entry-level rigs and then make some budget pcs happen for people who just want to play things like valerian cs go and and fortnite so that's going to be really good for um sort of alleviating a bit of a gpu supply shortage that i've got going on here for flipping pcs though in terms of these ones right here i didn't bother giving them a thorough clean because you're just going to be wasting more time i know if i thorough clean these gpus right here they're like most likely going to give out no signal still and it's still going to be problematic and i'm just going to be wasting all that extra time when i don't need to and so basically the quick clean down that we did here today i feel like it's the most efficient process all this was done in a day's work so really happy with the outcome and definitely going forward i'm going to be picking up more untested stuff and in terms of picking out these i could see that they were kind of like they had some physical damage on them which means like i think if you're picking up an untested lot of gpus and they all look like they're in really good condition i would kind of maybe before you pick them up just be like hey can we test out one or two of them because usually what i've found is say for instance this gtx 1050 ti here it looks like it's in really good condition and actually hasn't looked like it's seen a whole lot of use but when you get an untested card like this in it's most likely gone through something like a power surge or something's just blowing out a part and we just got absolutely no life out of there's no signal out of this so i was kind of more impressed when i saw a little bit of scuffed and and physical damage to the cards and no real damage to resistors and things like that so i kind of went into it with a gut feeling knowing that i was going to come out all right and we came out better than all right anyhow guys from here on in i've also got a dumpster dive video coming up for you guys where we managed to get in for a quick dumpster dive and pick out some stuff where this stuff is all free and the last time we did this we came out with some very good success so i'm looking forward to giving you guys that video we didn't get a whole lot of time there but i did pick out some juicy parts so stay tuned for that if you want to see that video make sure you hit that sub button ring that bell to get the video as soon as it drops also if you don't mind just checking out that little like button giving it a tap for us and uh let us know in the comments what you think of today's pickup for a hundred aussie dollars would you take up the same offer or would you not love reading those thoughts and opinions as always and in terms of what we're doing here with these gpus if you guys want to start seeing more stuff like more enthusiasts sort of real niche how i price things up what i'm doing behind the scenes i was thinking of just re-introducing my memberships because youtube said to me they said look if you re like it's really good for your channel if you introduce three tiers of membership and so that's what i've done now i've structured three different tiers of membership where if you guys really want to see like i can do some vlogs behind the scenes of what i price things up at how i sell pcs just more real enthusiast core enthusiast stuff of what i'm doing and how i'm sort of going through this pc weird pc market then i can make that happen and i'm just going to charge the lowest price possible and then the other two tiers if you guys want to support the channel a little bit more there's always that option there and i'm not going to lie 2021 it's just been a really rough year in terms of not just youtube and doing that but it's also been a rough year in terms of personal stuff as well but you just keep on going if you guys followed us for a while you know i always roll with the punches but i'll put some links in the description below for you guys and with that aside i will catch you in another tech video very soon and i hope you guys enjoyed this one peace out for now bye [Music] you

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Length: 17min 31sec (1051 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 10 2021