I recently bought a used PC on ebay that i7 9700k 32gb ram and a 1080ti aorus gigabyte. I got the pc for 800 euro so i was over the moon i ran some stress test(3d mark) played some games and it was working great. Two days after i bought it my pc randomly shut off after i restarted and my gpu seems to be completely dead. I took off the heatsink to discover this
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One of what i think is a capacitor is not connected to the pcb and was stuck onto the thermal pad.
There is also a burnt smell. Im pretty upset and hope something can be done.
Is there anyway to fix this as i paid cash and i dont think im going to get my money back.
Also is there anyway the seller could of known about this issue and just used the pressure between the pcb and heatsink to hold it down.
Do you think it could have shorted onto something else and killed the gpu that way or maybe me moving the gpu to a different pc caused it to become
more loose.
It was working when he sold it too me so i have no idea how to convince the guy it wasnt my fault but the hardware he sold me was bad.
One of what i think is a capacitor is not connected to the pcb and was stuck onto the thermal pad.
There is also a burnt smell. Im pretty upset and hope something can be done.
Is there anyway to fix this as i paid cash and i dont think im going to get my money back.
Also is there anyway the seller could of known about this issue and just used the pressure between the pcb and heatsink to hold it down.
Do you think it could have shorted onto something else and killed the gpu that way or maybe me moving the gpu to a different pc caused it to become
more loose.
It was working when he sold it too me so i have no idea how to convince the guy it wasnt my fault but the hardware he sold me was bad.
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