Used GPUs??

[thenlan]

Planning to build a pc later this year, but due to the space rocketing price of GPUs it is being postponed... but later i found that used ones are available for damn low pricess.

for example i can get a RTX 3060 Ti as low as 246 USD...

So should i buy used ones or wait till new ones' price reduces.

[jj9987]

I have never purchased a brand new GPU, always had second-hand ones - current one being a 1080 Ti AIO version that I've had for 3 years (no idea how long it has been used before). Haven't had any issues with any of the GPUs.

[jaslion]

11 minutes ago, thenlan said:

Planning to build a pc later this year, but due to the space rocketing price of GPUs it is being postponed... but later i found that used ones are available for damn low pricess.

for example i can get a RTX 3060 Ti as low as 246 USD...

So should i buy used ones or wait till new ones' price reduces.

Yeah so that 3060ti is 100000% a scam or broken. There is NOT A SINGLE WAY ITS LEGIT.

[Covelight]

23 minutes ago, thenlan said:

RTX 3060 Ti as low as 246 USD

It most probably has a video memory failure - these kinds of issues are tricky: they preheat these chips and they indeed do work and you will use your card as if it's new until it'll fail again and again and... you get it

[Covelight]

Or it's just a low tier card, refurbished to look like a legit one

 

Or a chinese card which is new, just with 10 year old chips

[thenlan]

2 hours ago, Covelight said:

Or it's just a low tier card, refurbished to look like a legit one

 

Or a chinese card which is new, just with 10 year old chips

yeah was thinking the same too, as i also saw Linus' video on Fake GPUs..

 

Edited August 31, 2021 by thenlan

[thenlan]

3 hours ago, jj9987 said:

I have never purchased a brand new GPU, always had second-hand ones - current one being a 1080 Ti AIO version that I've had for 3 years (no idea how long it has been used before). Haven't had any issues with any of the GPUs.

Yeah that's ok, but as others said getting a 3060 for such a low price could mean something doesn't it?

[jj9987]

1 hour ago, thenlan said:

Yeah that's ok, but as others said getting a 3060 for such a low price could mean something doesn't it?

I totally missed the part about the price, my bad.

 

Yea, that is suspicious - new 3060 Ti starts at around 800 € here, used (3060 and 3060 Ti) go around 600 €.