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Hey guys!

 

I got a really good deal for a 1070 which was used for mining for 6 months admitted by the seller. I have the option to check out and test the card before finalizing the purchase. What should I look out for? What benchmarks should I run? I have no clue what to look for other than performance. 

 

Thanks for the help in advance:) 

 

Edit: Forgot to mention that its an EVGA card with still almost 3 years of warranty and its from amazon

 

Edit2: Thanks for the suggestions guys. Just an update. Got the card some time ago and it was probably the best and most pleasant purchase of my life. Its a KR model so we transferred warranty and he was very open about mining and how it was used. Cool guy. Undervolted in a cool server room he could access. The card looks and works out of the box if it was new. Performance and temp vise just perfect. Havent tried overclocking yet. I got every accessory still unopened and in the original packaging.

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Could run Furmark or heaven to see if no artifacting. Elsewise not really sure 

 

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2 minutes ago, vishy92 said:

Hey guys!

 

I got a really good deal for a 1070 which was used for mining for 6 months admitted by the seller. I have the option to check out and test the card before finalizing the purchase. What should I look out for? What benchmarks should I run? I have no clue what to look for other than performance. 

 

Thanks for the help in advance:) 

 

Edit: Forgot to mention that its an EVGA card with still almost 3 years of warranty and its from amazon

Performance, temperature, and fan noise(the fan could be faulty due to being run at high rpms for long periods of time). Usually these cards if they weren't abused they should run completely fine, you just have to repaste them

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btw it's completely normal for Furmark to show much lower GPU frequency, if you want to check the frequency behaviour, use Heaven benchmark

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You could run kombustor from afterburner and use the built in artifact scanner to check for artifacts

1 minute ago, _d0nut said:

Performance, temperature, and fan noise(the fan could be faulty due to being run at high rpms for long periods of time). Usually these cards if they weren't abused they should run completely fine, you just have to repaste them

And yes, defiantly check the fans. Fans that run at high RPM for long periods of time can whine or just die sooner than you would like. 

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Just now, StrafeStopper said:

You could run kombustor from afterburner and use the built in artifact scanner to check for artifacts

And yes, defiantly check the fans. Fans that run at high RPM for long periods of time can whine or just die sooner than you would like. 

I mean if the fans die sooner(very possible) he can just RMA the card since it's under warranty and EVGA's customer support is known to be world class. He'd have to wait a while  though

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I mean if the fans die sooner(very possible) he can just RMA the card since it's under warranty and EVGA's customer support is known to be world class. He'd have to wait a while  though

Yeah exactly, thats the sucky part. Hopefully its fine tho. You could always just zip tie case fans to it like linus did in the ugly pc build lol.

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1 minute ago, StrafeStopper said:

Yeah exactly, thats the sucky part. Hopefully its fine tho. You could always just zip tie case fans to it like linus did in the ugly pc build lol.

I'm pretty sure NZXT sells a bracket to mount Asetek AIOs onto the GPU die. A 120mm should do fine

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1 minute ago, StrafeStopper said:

Yeah exactly, thats the sucky part. Hopefully its fine tho. You could always just zip tie case fans to it like linus did in the ugly pc build lol.

fans are expected to die (very noisy/ weak) first for mining cards, even without warranty, its very easy to get original fans for replacement

I got my msi 970 gaming replaced for ~USD12

and remember to fully clean inside the gpu before using

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fans are expected to die (very noisy/ weak) first for mining cards, even without warranty, its very easy to get original fans for replacement

I got my msi 970 gaming replaced for ~USD12

and remember to fully clean inside the gpu before using

Thats not bad. I've never had a fan issue so I wouldn't know what it takes to replace 

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Thanks for the input guys! So running Heaven benchmark and checking the fans will do? What should I check exactly? other than noise levels. What should an EVGA 1070 SC acx 3.0 score on that bench? what are acceptable temps?

 

Sorry for the bombardment of questions I just never bought a card used and have 0 experience in these things

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18 minutes ago, vishy92 said:

Hey guys!

 

I got a really good deal for a 1070 which was used for mining for 6 months admitted by the seller. I have the option to check out and test the card before finalizing the purchase. What should I look out for? What benchmarks should I run? I have no clue what to look for other than performance. 

 

Thanks for the help in advance:) 

 

Edit: Forgot to mention that its an EVGA card with still almost 3 years of warranty and its from amazon

I have a 1070 that was used for mining to I’ve had it for 3 months so far and no issues. And plus miners under volt their cards so they last longer and run cooler

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Linus posted a video "recently". They owned a $75 1060 mining GPU. It's been used a long time, it has no video output but they still managed to have it running perfectly fine.

 

You should have a look at it if you didn't have a chance yet. If I had to build a budget PC from ground I'd definitely go with a mining card.

 

This is the kind of component (CPU as well) from which you don't have to be scared about former use as long as it works, it's not going to work with a lower performance.

 

As a personal experience, I owned form eBay a used xeon e5 v2 for my workstation. Didn't get a chance to test it before buying. I ran a geekbench test which result is very close to the expected results from a brand new one.

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if theres no artifacts in heaven and no burn marks on the card go for it, its unlikely it'll be damaged mined cards are fine. 

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Would be fine. It isn't crap like msi. Use is use. Unigine benchmark or something similar.

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