Reply 50040 of 52929, by Trashbytes
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TheAbandonwareGuy wrote on 2023-08-08, 19:37:Bought *another* 9700 Pro off eBay. This time to the tune of $60 USD.
Hopefully this one works. 3rd times the charm right?
It is remarkable how difficult it is to find a working example of a card that sold like hotcakes. Even considering how comprehensively the cooling solution on them seems to suck.
Not that difficult to understand if you know just how many died due to ATI being generally boneheaded about GPU die design and putting fast heating metal around it while not bothering to have both adequate cooling nor temp monitoring of that metal shim or die.
If the cooler had been bigger with stronger retention we may have more working 9700 Pros out there, the fact the 9700 could overclock like a demon also didn't help.
They did actually fix all these issues with the XT PCB design which had both temp monitoring and a bigger cooler with retention bracing, not sure why the 9700 didnt get a XT model.