It worked! Waited to post until the money was officially in my account, which it is as of a lil while ago. Rather than try to swap the serial stickers and risk damaging them I swapped the backplate and the fans, so the one I was returning was all new minus the motherboard/actual GPU sandwiched in the middle.
It was maybe 7 screws all together and I ran Furmark for about 10 minutes beforehand to get the card nice and warm, which allowed the sticky thermal pads to easily release. Cleaned off oily adhesive residue and dust from the surrounding areas with qtips and alcohol. On the new card there was a sticker with a little code on it on the part that google images is telling me is called the PCIe connector- I used a hairdryer and a razor blade and it came off easily. I applied some glue stick with a toothpick (but not too thicc) and transferred it to the same spot on the old card. The only visible differences that remained were some film-like stickers on the housing of the display ports that had printed codes on the new one but that were blank on mine. They were not cooperative whatsoever so I just left them. Could only see them if you looked inside the card and it was a small detail.
Super happy and may this information serve the greater good.
i can crank it to that one brother :sicko-pog:
i refuse to read but did you swap the serial number sticker?
lmao. nah i swapped the whole backplate instead, which is what the stickers were on. it was just a few screws, ez pz
Yoo I appreciate it. I may if I get paranoid but there's really nothing too revealing in anything I've posted and I've changed/left out a few important details just in case.
Many thanks comrade! I just finished some Cafe Zapatista coffee btw, was pretty good once I found the right grind/water ratio for my coffee maker :meow-coffee:
That's some great coffee, I'm just waiting for my next bag to arrive in the mail!
:meow-coffee:
I love it when I’m talking to right wingers and they’re like “there’s this excellent coffee, from Chiapas, have you heard of it” and I’m like “yeah I think so” :meow-tankie:
Lmao. I dunno where I read this but it was probably on here I guess, but I read that Alex Jones was repping Schools for Chiapas coffee for a while obviously not knowing wtf he was supporting which is pretty funny.
Nice, good job! My card is getting really old and I'm expecting the inevitable before cards return to their normal prices (if they ever do), maybe I'll give this a go :sicko-yes:
Thanks! And I hope it works out if you do! As a note I definitely would have done this on Amazon if they'd had the same card. Newegg was just the only place that for some reason had new versions of the same old ass card.
ive heard that with amazon if you send back a box that weighs the same, they dont check it. im more impressed you managed to get a video card on the internet. i waited outside microcenter at 5am one weekend
Melty with the facts, great stuff. I've only returned the exact same item or one that looks almost identical to amazon. Never filled a box with like rocks or whatever though that would be pretty funny to get away with.
Wow that's wild! I've returned a ton of shit and the only problem I've had was them trying to charge me like a 75% restocking fee on a pokemon game without that bs being stated anywhere on the page but I just live chatted and they refunded me asap.
damn that would make so much sense! and it was a card that came out 6-7 years ago and was marked up about 300% to be fair haha. i hope you snagged one for your microcenter endeavor at least
