ASRock Radeon RX 5700 XT turns up at thrift store, boots after quick rebuild
A gamer has posted a thrift store find after spotting an ASRock Phantom Gaming Radeon RX 5700 XT at a Goodwill store. The card was still in its retail box, but it was not in ready-to-run condition.
The cooler assembly had been tampered with, and the card was missing basic thermal interface materials. The previous owner had placed copper blocks inside the cooler, and there was no thermal paste or thermal pads installed at the time of purchase.
After cleaning the cooler and rebuilding the contact surfaces properly, the owner brought the card back to working order. The repair involved fitting replacement thermal pads, applying fresh thermal paste, and reassembling the heatsink. With the cooler restored, t he system booted and the GPU operated normally.
The Radeon RX 5700 XT is a 2019 desktop graphics card based on AMD’s first-generation RDNA (Navi 10) architecture. It uses a 7 nm GPU paired with 8GB of GDDR6 on a 256-bit memory bus. It was AMD’s fist architecture to support hardware accelation for ray tracing.
The Goodwill price tag on the card was $4.99, exactly 80 times less than at launch.
Source: Reddit
