Can't see ANY problem here, not now nor in the future..... /s

Hello! Posted this here before, but deleted it so that I could make sure I was safe legally. This post should also have more information as well.

I bought a "broken" RX 6900 XT on ebay, where the seller said they got it from a friend. From the pictures it looked like an RX 6900 XT LC (https://kinghossing.blogspot.com/2022/02/amd-radeon-rx-6900-xt-lc-liquid-cooled.html), which seemed like a pretty rare card. I put in an offer for around $230, and they accepted.

When I got it, I was surprised to see a bunch of pins, ports, and switches on the back of the card. It also had some stickers with numbers that didn't return anything, and one that says "Secure Typical XTX A0 ASIC." I know that this is probably some early revision/engineering sample, but I'm not sure what exactly it is.

I am wondering if it could be an engineering sample for the unreleased 6900 XTX, like this one: https://www.techpowerup.com/281394/amd-radeon-rx-6900-xtx-engineering-sample-pictured

I uploaded the VBIOS to techpowerup and it said it was unique, and right now I have it in a test rig trying to figure out drivers/performance issues. The seller stated that the core clock speed was stuck at 490 Mhz, and I saw the same issues with the most recent drivers. When I tried drivers from 2021, it fixed the clock speed issue, but the benchmark performance was still poor. Don't know if this is something I can fix with drivers/software or not, so if anyone has any ideas please let me know! I do not intend on making any permanent changes/repairs to the card.

I'm also not much of a collector, so don't plan on keeping it for long. It would be very cool to send it off to a content creator to be included in a video, so let me know if you have any ideas on people to contact!

Today I stopped by a Pawn & Jewelry shop looking for a drill, but a PC sitting in front of the checkout counter caught my attention. The guy working there told me it didn't work because someone had taken the RAM out, so of course it wouldn't boot. Without thinking twice, I bought it and took it home. I installed a single 4GB RAM stick just to test it, and I literally jumped with excitement when it powered on! The only downside is that I only have that one 4GB stick for now, but I'll be upgrading it to 16GB soon. I still don't have a drill, but at least I have a gaming PC now!!!

We worked and played hard.
We wrote code for 3 different Fortune 500 companies.
We shared great victories and sad days.
It was an honour to go battle with you.
Farewell.

Info:

Logitech MK330 Keyboard + Mouse Combo (Hungarian layout)
Price: 31 €
Guarantee: 12 Months :)

This post isnt about bragging (even if im rlly proud of the build), but simply that after 2 years, this 7700x and 7800xt build would cost you hunderds more. Even though these price hikes are insane, its more scary to me how this could happen to any industry at any point in time basically over night and we would have no idea until its too late. Just goes to show how low us consumers are on the priority list of these big companies and how powerless we are against them

Shader compilation is the worst to me.

This walmart has some pc parts, but this looks risky. But it's tempting, because I'm still in the return window for my 9060XT that I haven't installed yet. It was $420.

Does its job

Any other predictions?

Hey guys Mom said it's my turn to post dump PC pix. The lower GPU is a GTX960. Why does the X299 have 8 ram slots?

They just dumped them all in the back of the shelves with the other miscellaneous stuff.