USD $140 sapphire pulse rx 6600 on Amazon

[ds5018]

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09JHRQY4Y?tag=pcpapi-20&linkCode=ogi&th=1&psc=1

 

normal price: $200-180

 

current price: $140

[8tg]

Wouldn’t touch it with a 10 foot pole

 

[8tg]

Looks like they’re an old dropshipping front that’s gone south, or someone is using the name.

lot of reviews on them saying they never received the item, it was never shipped, and they had to force a refund

 

not too uncommon of a scam strategy when the scammers have a semi legitimate name behind them which makes large retailers like Amazon review them in depth instead of just auto banning accounts like they would “shenzenstore11889392”.

Theyre hoping people forget about their orders until it’s too late to refund.

[BentleyOwen123]

Odd, i bought the same card for $150, not sure of the seller, but it arrived and worked fine, but it was missing one display port, it was really weird, it defaulted to 480p at every reboot, but it performed the same as any 6600 and when i took it apart, it was indead

[ds5018]

intresting

[Paul Rudd]

On 3/14/2024 at 8:49 PM, ds5018 said:

USD $140 sapphire pulse rx 6600 on Amazon

Since you're considering to buy from a random third party, a used RTX 2060 Super is the better option and will give double the memory interface, double the memory bandwidth and around a 21.5% higher shader count. It's literally the direct equivalent to an RX 6600 in raw performance, depending on the exact game as some games favor NVIDIA while others favor AMD.

 

Back in December and January a used RTX 2060 Super would go for as low as around $115 but as of February and March it's more around as low as $120 to $130, maybe a little over now that we're headed into April.

 

There's also the older generation GTX 1080 Ti, which will edge them both out in performance due to the much higher VRAM, higher memory bandwidth, higher memory interface and of course, a higher shader count. The reason this older option is actually a solid option is not only for these higher specs but because the price you will find to be a lot lower. As low as literally $75 to $80 back in January, you're only looking at around as low as $100 smackers in March.

 

Just remember that an RTX 2060 Super turns 5 years old in July while a GTX 1080 Ti just turned 7 years old a couple weeks ago. It's worth noting that some maintenance can be a good idea, fresh thermal paste is always nice. Just depends on the previous owner and everything they can tell you about what it's been through.