I bought a used nitro rx 470 and it has problems

awp0109

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hello everyone,i bought a used nitro (not nitro+) rx 470 8gb card and well.. it has issues

i installed the drivers but then i noticed something really weird in gpu-z, speccy and adapter properties in screen resolution -> advanced settings -> adapter

its in the link https://i.imgur.com/drniJwG.png
my (really uneducated,kinda hopeful) guess is that the bios was flashed for mining.

What i noticed (from left to right) : in first gpu-z pic bios version has that 001 part,but when i went to https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/?architecture=AMD&manufacturer=Sapphire&model=RX+470&version=&interface=PCI-E&memType=GDDR5&memSize=&since= the only bios is the one without the 001 part........oh and gpu and memory clocks are 0 mhz??

in speccy gpu clock is again 0, and the memory is shown at 48 mb..

and then in gpu-z on the right everything seems out of place

finally in the little properties tab under speccy there is really nothing.

this version of the card doesnt have the bios switch button :(

idk how to fix this,if someone can give me instructions or a link to them or something i'd be very grateful :/
 

casual_gamer47

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I don't know if it's too late or not but you can go to youtube and search 'tech yes city' there you can get a tutorial on how to flash a mined card and it doesn't required the bios switch which you have mentioned