Yeah, it's going to be quite a while before the GPU market returns to normal. Until the pandemic is over and people stop jacking off to bitcoin at least
It was doable before the pandemic, at least with certain AMD cards. I even saw reasonable 2000 series prices for NVidia cards. Not sure if people use those for crypto farming but it definitely has been shit since at least March 2020.
If you can spot the blown capacitor (the parts most likely to go "pop"), and can acquire a new one and a soldering iron, you can definitely temporarily resurrect graphics cards.
Soldering and desoldering feels like one of those things that's much harder than it looks, and it already doesn't look too easy.
It's the opposite as long as you have rosin core or lead solder and an iron that isn't complete shit. Kinda wild how the solder just kinda goes where it's supposed to of you flux your components.
I might be able to give you a gpu, send me a message. I’ll need a day or two to dig around and make sure I actually have a decent one for you.
capitalism promised
yeah it breaks those. literally every time.
it promised me choice in gadgets, but I can't find a good phone option that isn't snitching. it promised me a free market, but I can't find a CPU that doesn't snitch unless I mod it my own damn self.
it promised me my choice of food, but good luck finding anything healthy or genuine vegan food.
it promised me a choice of carreers, but if I want a job there's really just the two available at a thousand different places. three, if you live near an amazon warehouse. and good luck getting there without a car.
it promises us the world to rob us of tomorrow.
fuck. that. shit.
I'm pretty sure my wife has an old card laying around from when she upgraded her rig in 2019. If it's allowed, and you're interested, shoot me a DM, it's yours, I'll even pay the shipping.
Nowhere near as good as the dearly departed, but I do have a spare 645 just sitting on the shelf. Yours if you want it to at least play some potato games
Can you still boot though? You can either overclock the voltage/drop frequency ( if the instability is caused by silicon degradation) or even better: disassemble and check thermal paste
Edit: thermal paste is relevant if it boots from cold normally, and then start acting out
Wow that is really frustrating. Its absurd how low GPU inventories have gotten. Being squeezed by cryptos and manufacturing gaffes.
honestly have no idea what nvidia is doing. like are they just not producing cards or something? like bruh just make more
They switched to a new foundry for making chips and it turns out that's a terrible idea when every chip needs to have less than one error in a billion and the foundry hasn't made these before.
AMD is also fucked because their foundry is being split between PC components, consoles, and Apple & Huawei producing custom chips. Terrible year to buy hardware.
So it's less because of covid and more because of stupid decisions and bad luck?
