I have been really nice to the community I started selling cards here for $140 $160 180 200 . . There's one account on here who is continuously trying to do a chargeback when they got the card the card was pictured was sent as pictured and packed with a lot of stuffing and the card works for them it boots and they still want to do a chargeback.
I'm the buyer referenced in the post "I will stop selling BC 250s on Reddit it's not worth it." He blocked me, so I can't reply there.
Chat log and two photos of the card as it arrived: https://imgur.com/gallery/3fkPMSj
UPS tracking: https://www.ups.com/track?tracknum=1ZTP174G0323724056
I paid u/FreeThePeopleNow1 $200 shipped on Sep 22. He declined PayPal over fees and sent a Stripe checkout link. The merchant on that checkout was a business called Titan Shield Cloud NJ. He said he would ship the next day. My card issuer flagged the charge for review that evening, so I told him and resent my email address. It cleared.
UPS shows he created the UPS label on Sep 23 at 4:18 PM. The UPS entry for it reads "Shipper created a label, UPS has not received the package yet." I asked on Sep 23 and Sep 25 if everything was fine and got "yes." I asked for tracking on Sep 26 and he sent 1ZTP174G0323724056 which showed the package still hasn't shipped. He saying it should update by Monday. On Sep 28 I let him know again there was still no scan.
On Sep 29 he said he would look after a meeting.
On Sep 30 at 2:04 PM I told him I was opening a dispute.
At 2:10 PM on Sep 30 he said he was reprinting the label and sending it out that day.
UPS took possession at 9:09 PM that night in Secaucus, NJ. The shipment originated in Englewood, NJ and was delivered in Chicago on Oct 2 at 3:33 PM.
Packaging was insufficient for the contents. No antistatic bag, and the board slid around in the box in transit. The backplate was missing. It boots. Photos are in the album.
UPS shows delivery on Oct 2 and I did not have it until Oct 6. That gap is not his. I got a working card, I am not out any money, I'm not happy with how this all worked out and it certainly wasn't a deal. I closed the dispute
Here's the parts that don't make sense to me.
UPS shows one label and one shipment. He only sent images of the box I received which had the same label that was created on the 23rd. You would never ship 2 items with the same label.
At 2:34 PM on the 30th he said UPS never checked the box in and it was "wondering somewhere in the truck."
He also said mine was another card he had lost and that it had been three so far that he had to reship. WHAT!? UPS lost 3 boxes in a month and you are still using them?
On Sep 30 he told me he had sold over 60 cards. On Oct 7 and in his post it is 170.
I ran some benchmark tests comparing the BC250 running three different OS, and Steam Machine running SteamOS and Windows 11.
The BC250 was running 40 CU's unlocked at 2000MHz, CPU with 6 Cores / 12 Thread at 3900MHz. I currently have my setup running in open air with a Jiushark JF13K (white) cooler, and during gaming, it rarely ever exceeds 55C. Steam games were installed and run off an external USB 2.5" Samsung 870 EVO SSD.
Systems Tested:
I ran seven games, all at 1080p, no frame gen, no super sampling (ie FSR, DLSS, etc), no ray tracing:
The charts are of the actual FPS throughout the test, as well as an inset with the average FPS and 1% low FPS at the end of the run. Dark colors represent 1% low, brighter color represents average fps.
There are no clear winners here, really. I did find that CachyOS was more stable and better 1% lows and generally "felt" better. SteamOS perfomed well, but surprisingly was not very stable for me. Bazzite was good, but I did have a couple crashes, weirdly only in the Steam Game Mode menu, not during gameplay.
was also interesting to see how well the BC250 handled a day 1 AAA release game like Gears of War E-Day. Medium settings seem a bit too demanding, although low didn't improve FPS by a whole lot. I'm sure some FSR and frame gen might help a bit. But even at medium settings it was only consuming about 4.5GB of VRAM.
Windows 11 on the Steam Machine was the most interesting as it seemed to perform remarkably well despite using aged drivers from Valve.
It is interesting to see how well a BC250 holds up against the Steam Machine though.
I have more data and may post a video of some gameplay or at least benchmark runs to see how it looks, but I think these charts tell a fair story on their own.
So i made overcomplicated tower case. Its quite tall. I think i need to designs new one that will be more space efficient and less pain to build.
Hey everybody, I’ve decided to part ways with my BC250. It’s been fun tinkering and experimenting but I want to build another system. I listed it on eBay here: https://ebay.io/m/RNDuBq
Noticed that there are no case that supported 360 mm Radiator. Only major item left is creating a cover. Current build requires glueing 2 sides together.
I’ve been really craving a new project
Running CachyOS and ran through the bc250 toolkit (https://github.com/redbeard1083/bc250-toolkit)
Now to test some things! What things should I try? For now I'm just replaying Borderlands 3 on it to see how it does at 1080p.