StoleMyOwnCar
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Short version: I went to Microcenter and picked up an open box (practically new, near perfect condition) Gigabyte G1 gaming. With some very mild haggling the price came down to 525$ (or 556$ with taxes). It includes the Bullets or Blades coupon, and a 20$ rebate I can mail in to Gigabyte. That would bring the price down to ~... eh ~500-510$ with taxes? According to them it also has the manufacturer's warranty. I'm not sure whether I'll just redeem the game or not. No coil whine or anything, but it has a horrible ASIC (~65%). It overclocks pretty badly. On stock voltages the highest I've got it at is ~1404 atm. I have confirmed it cannot hold 1460 beyond an hour or two at stock voltages. I will try ~1440 later. I haven't tried much voltage modding. Considering the price would you keep it? Microcenter has about 3 others of these in stock, but I'm not sure if I can just go in there and swap cards between them while keeping the price tag. I think I got a bit lucky here. I also have a few Kraken G10's that I can play around with.
Additional stuff:
So this is pretty much the third 980 Ti I'm trying. Nothing was wrong with the first one per se, but the second one (AMP Extreme) had fan rattle. This time I got sick of playing around with the 980 Ti lottery with online retailers and just went to Microcenter. Because I can actually return it myself and just hand it to them immediately. Plus their return policy is amazing (30 days). They had a few of these, and frankly all I did was ask the dude working with me if he could ask his manager to mark it down... just because... (or some Black Friday or <insert random reason here). They were quite generous with their markdown (75$ lol). <3 Microcenter. Anyway, I'm kinda leaning towards keeping it, but this feels like a really crappy 980Ti, esp for a G1 Gaming (and considering my AMP Extreme could hold 1442 easily AT STOCK). Am I crazy for wanting to keep it simply due to this price? I'm crowdsourcing my choice. I'm just a bit disappointed because my first two cards were 79-82% ASIC and overclocked higher than this thing is currently clocked to... at stock. I kind of half expected this considering this was returned as a pair with another one though lol.
Additional stuff:
So this is pretty much the third 980 Ti I'm trying. Nothing was wrong with the first one per se, but the second one (AMP Extreme) had fan rattle. This time I got sick of playing around with the 980 Ti lottery with online retailers and just went to Microcenter. Because I can actually return it myself and just hand it to them immediately. Plus their return policy is amazing (30 days). They had a few of these, and frankly all I did was ask the dude working with me if he could ask his manager to mark it down... just because... (or some Black Friday or <insert random reason here). They were quite generous with their markdown (75$ lol). <3 Microcenter. Anyway, I'm kinda leaning towards keeping it, but this feels like a really crappy 980Ti, esp for a G1 Gaming (and considering my AMP Extreme could hold 1442 easily AT STOCK). Am I crazy for wanting to keep it simply due to this price? I'm crowdsourcing my choice. I'm just a bit disappointed because my first two cards were 79-82% ASIC and overclocked higher than this thing is currently clocked to... at stock. I kind of half expected this considering this was returned as a pair with another one though lol.