Radeon RX 580 Thermal Paste Change
As a conclusion of 2020, I decided I finally need to update my home PC, with a shiny new Ryzen 7 3700x. However, it seems I picked, the wrong moment as far as buying a video card is concerned. Video card prices are insane and things are not getting much better going into the first few months of 2021. A screenshot of price grabbing site in Bulgaria on 7th March is showing RX 580 8GB selling for the astronomical 1099 BGN (~505 EUR). We can thank the crypto mining craze for that situation. Buying a second-hand video card seems a totally valid choice as long as you can live, with having a 4GB video memory. By the end of 2020 and beginning of 2021 Ethereum DAG increased over 4GB, which makes all 4GB video cards no more suitable for Ethereum mining, so actually, the second-hand market is full of used RX 570/580 video cards pushed out of the mining business. I was able to find second-hand Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 4GB SKU#11265-09 for 170 BGN (~85EUR) in very good condition and origin