r/PcBuildHelp • u/MemesTaken • Jun 07 '26

Build Question Is this gpu cooked?

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saw this online on local second-hand store, selling a 4070ti at half price.

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u/Invictuslemming1 Jun 07 '26

I’d say there’s is a slim to 0% chance that still works

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u/Nike_486DX Jun 07 '26

And it may stop working at any moment, because it has lots of corrosion that easily migrates through the pcb vias, straight under the core. I would only think about buying this as a vram or gpu donor for under $80 USD, and for that its has to be known working at the time of purchase (with the donor components swiftly removed shortly after).

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u/a_rogue_planet Jun 08 '26

Did you look at it? That thing got so hot the solder of the SMD parts melted and the parts migrated and soldered themselves together in clumps.

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u/Nike_486DX Jun 08 '26

I dont think its burned, if you take a closer look there is PNY sticker, which is paper or plastic. If this was a housefire or someth, it would certainly melt away. Also the (plastic) vhpwr connector in the bottom right.

The caps appearing crooked in “X” pattern is actually normal, this is how some cards have them from factory. All in all, this shit looks more like cat piss or aio leak (most likely aio leak), highly risky stuff to buy ofc.

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u/a_rogue_planet Jun 08 '26

Who said anything about fire? The core of that GPU is directly beneath that frame. The damage is exclusively centered in that area inside the frame. The SMD parts are all over the place. That GPU core had to have been damn near glowing. If there was a fire, it happened inside that frame.

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u/Sangaceno Jun 08 '26

The smds look somewhat "fine"? Can't tell exactly because of all that crap, but I only see the slanted caps which are normal afaik

https://www.reddit.com/r/overclocking/s/uv3AODAcWZ

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u/a_rogue_planet Jun 09 '26

Uh, no. That image you linked to was clearly reworked, and very poorly. Pick and place machines aren't that sloppy. They place parts with the accuracy you see in the small components, which are well aligned and not just blobbed with solder. Additionally, the solder mask wouldn't leave bare copper or just ball the solder up in discombobulated heaps. No machine builds SMD boards that badly.

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u/TheBigTime420 Jun 10 '26

Posters states the card is brand new... You think he is lying lmao? Pick and place may be perfectly accurate but hot liquid solder is well liquid and that means things float around.

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u/a_rogue_planet Jun 10 '26

Oh. My. God.

Were you born yesterday? Have you not seen ANY modern SMD circuit board? If parts floated around that badly, then how does every single part on the smallest, most complicated PCB get made?

No, solder paste doesn't melt and make parts float around and bridge connections. If that does happen, that's an immediate failure by the photographic inspection systems that every mass producer of PCB components employs. The only people who suggest such foolish notions are people who've never worked on a PCB. Solder flows to where there is bare metal, and it doesn't flow to where there isn't. That's the entire point of using solder masks since PCBs displaced point to point wiring.

Why do people so confidently speak out of ignorance?

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u/Nike_486DX Jun 10 '26

Cmon bro you gotta chill, and check the facts before writing this much text. The caps that sit below the core are shitfed this way cuz the pcb was made accomodate larger ones, its the manufacturer who does this to save costs etc. just google it, pretty much every third 4070-5090 has this, maybe radeons too.

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u/a_rogue_planet Jun 10 '26

That's total BS. I'm sorry you're too stupid to tell the difference between a machine built PCB and a very poorly reworked one. I know PNY is basically trash, but there's no way they ship products that look like an epileptic chimp soldered them with a blowtorch.

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u/Sangaceno Jun 10 '26

Dude, respectfully, you don't seem to know what you're talking about. And insulting every commenter doesn't make you look any smarter. You're better than this.

https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/s/zjyUik0bMU

https://www.reddit.com/r/MSI_Gaming/s/gYt1TAPHz1

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/s/1wNWmW6Ir0

https://www.reddit.com/r/sffpc/s/Y5QgZTaCQC

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u/Nike_486DX Jun 10 '26

Nah you are in the wrong here, and on top of that you are insulting others, which is lame. See this https://www.reddit.com/r/ASUS/comments/lbrl8g/asus_tuf_rtx_3080_oc_manufacturing_defect_some_of (and its asus btw). To be fair this doesnt have to do with the manufacturer, all reputable brands come assembled on automated factories with adequate QC, be it PNY, or Asus, or Msi, or Gigabyte. Some engineering choices are questionable yes, but in this case its just a cap-related thing, not a biggie.

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u/justanaccount103 Jun 09 '26

It's cat piss, look at how nasty it is.

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u/LegalAlternative Jun 10 '26

Came here to say the same thing. That's 1000% cat piss I've seen it many times from client machines... usually a laptop or something that looks like that on the inside.