Should you buy a "faulty" GPU to fix it? - PC flipping tips

There's a lot of "damaged" GPUs available to be bought for a tiny fraction of the price of a working unit, does that mean you should buy one, either for yourself or to sell for a profit?

Let's talk about it in depth and bring as an example a recent RTX 3070 Ti Asus TUF that I bought for 80$ as broken and managed to fix via a reflow and bios flash!

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