Does anyone have this GPU and would recommend it?
The guy says he has two for $200 for both. Doesn't seem like a bad deal but want to know if anyone has had any problems with these cards.
Price seems a little cheap to me. But might worth at the price.
both for 200 seems decent
Way too cheap, either he doesn't know what he has, which I doubt. Or there's something wrong with them.
Ask him why he's selling them and for that price. If they aren't working depending on what it is, it could be something as easy as putting it in the oven for 15 minutes.
inb4 
This is not how you reflow leadless solder on modern cards! Even if you do reflow the BGA on the board the damage done to the traces is irreparable and will more than likely destroy any chance of getting the card working again. Unless you have a PROPER IR rework station and can diagnose the problem down to a single component, never buy a card expecting to fix it with a reflow. That's like buying a totaled car expecting to just drop a new engine in to get it on the road.
AS FOR @MajinZendo :
GTX 780 SC was a great card. Well priced for the performance. If you're sticking to 1080p then these aren't bad cards, expect most games to be fine on higher settings with a few games (Witcher 3 for example) needing things turned down a notch to stay smooth. I would normally advise against an outdated multi-GPU solution but nVidia has actually put some effort into helping Kepler get back in the fight with newer drivers, and improvements to SLI scaling have been made. Could be worth it.
I've done it before and it worked, you have to strip any plastic off first and mount it on tin foil but it worked, it definitely wasn't my first try at fixing it though more of a last resort because I got screwed on Craigslist.
I know people have done it before and it worked, people have also fallen off tall buildings and survived. That does NOT mean it's worth gambling money on it.
The idea that baking a dead board brings it back to life magically dates to around 2006 when low quality leadless solder was being produced and EVERYONE was forced to use it. This solder would chip and fracture under thermal stress, and giving it a quick bake would reform the structure and connections.
Today however, this is almost NEVER the problem. If you take the time to diagnose the leads you will, with near 100% success, discover that a component on the board has failed. And sadly, baking does not fix a popped cap.
Thanks guys. I appreciate all the replies. I have messaged the guy asking some red flag questions to see his responses.
$200 for both is not a crazy deal. It is also not a TI, which were the flagship models. A GTX 980 is selling for $200ish so with the 780 being three generations old now, $100/ea sounds about right. Honestly you are better off with a single GTX 1060 for $200ish than two 780's for $200ish, as crazy as that sounds.
A GTX 1060 is equivalent to a GTX 980
Oh and not to mention the power required to run two 780's and the excess heat.
For the money... Get a RX480 or a GTX 1060... Will probably perform better with more recent games since Nvidia doesn't support drivers for th 7xx cards anymore
These are valid points. Especially with the power draw. Hmm... The latest in terms of release nvidia cards I have are two gtx 970's. Neither which I personally paid for and not looking to upgrade the rigs they currently inhabit just yet.
I feel like I may just not worry with this now. I was wanting to try to get a 1070 after the first of the year anyways.
Thanks to everyone who replied and the advice. I probably would have bought these and ended up putting them on the shelf with my r9 270 lol.
Don't do this.
If you have 970 SLI now the only upgrade path that makes sense is 1070/1080.
If you are saying you have two 970's in two systems and were thinking of putting both cards in one system but need a replacement card for one system I still wouldn't recommend a 780 for $100. Heck I have two 970's I want to sell and I would be happy with $150/ea so yeah $100 for a 780 is not a deal.
I realise that, but the 780 is one of those cards it's been proven to work on. It's still a last resort though
It can be "proven" to work on any card if you are that dumb to try it on any card.
If you think that Linus Tech tips doing a video on on it that he got lucky enough for it to work is "proof" that baking a GPU is a good idea then you have some learning to do on how gpus work, lol.
Do you realize home many componants on a gpu board there are that are not designed to hit temperatures that a card would see when placed in an oven. Yes it does work for a lot of cards but seriously, It's like trying to screw in a lose screw with a hit from a hammer. Yea sure it might work with getting the screw through the hole, But you have caused irreverable damage to the rest of the item.
Throwing a GPU into an oven is a stupid idea, And keplar is still new compared to older cards that didn't have such sensitive componants like modern cards do. Not to mention when baking a GPU, It releases checicals into the oven's enviroment of which is a health risk to anyone who consumes food, baked in the ovem.
Don't suggest baking GPU's. It doesn't matter that Logan has done it or Linus has done it or someone you know has done it. It is dangerous to health to do when done in an improper enviroment and will cause damage that can not be repaired. Especially when you can get a profesional to use profesional equipment to review the card, determin what the issue is and fix it if it's repairable.
You can't even tell if the issue with a GPU is with the solder. It could be a bad capacitor or a fault in the traces on the board or even the gpu itself. There are so many compnants on a GPU, it could be anything.
Lastly baking a card is a fire risk. If the process damages a mosfet on the board, the current under load with cause thermal runnaway within the VRM, at best burning out the VRM requiring an expensive repair, at worst killing the entire card or even causing a major fire.
Leave repairing electrical componants to the profesionals.
Suggest staying away... its not great price as suggested. (+ those are not Ti versions)
if you keep looking on ebay you'll find Ti versions of 780 for $100~ SLi is not great and doesn't work in most games, same as corssfire.
Again nv is not known for supporting old gpu's you will not get great performance from those gpu's; and its all down hill for those cards now.
Its been said before, but when you consider power and the fact that you are relying on SLI with cards that are 3 years old, you are probably better off with a good RX480 (one of the 8GB custom cards). Thats another thing, the amount of VRAM will hurt in the future.
I have a 780Ti and the 3GB of VRAM isn't hurting too much now, but its getting there. I wouldn't buy a card with anything less than 6GB today (more likely 8GB) just to help a bit with gasp future proofing.
not to mention he's going to get better performance on single 8gb 480.
(again no future proofing in pc hardware) there always is going to be something better.
