Soo I got a deal on an r9 270x 2gb graphics card for 40 bucks... a good price for a relatively modern card. We met at his place, he showed me that the card was in fact working and I went for it. Came home, installed it into my budget gaming pc and it was all good... for 3 hours... after about 3 hours of moderate usage, the screen froze. I restarted the computer and the screen was all messed up (artifacts, etc). Turned it off let it sit for a while and came back an hour later. After an hour, same thing. It wouldnt even boot into windows, no matter what I tried. So I took the card out. Upon closer inspection there were 2 things that bothered me. 1: it looks good. What I mean by that is just how clean it looks. I know that people clean gpus before sale but this doesnt look like a used gpu. It looks too clean. 2: you know that epoxy that they put around the gpu at factory? Well one piece is missing. That probably means that it had been repaired before. There is no flux residue though. Tried contacting the seller but his number has been deactivated. What should I do now?
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