should i sell my GPU to help pay for an upgrade or nah?

[dreamcast4599]

so i currently have a 6700XT sapphire pulse and im debating if i wanna sell if on the used market i.e. craigslist or fleabay to help pay for either a used 6900XT at say $500 or a new in box 7900XT at say $850-900+ i have about $400 in affirm credit to use thoughts i usually cant afford to upgrade but when i did a search on ebay for sold and completed listings of 6700XT gpus i saw they were selling for around $300 or so so i figured why not sell it while i can the original plan was for me ot hold on to my 6700XT and then gift it to my uncle once i had saved up enough money for a new/used high end gpu for my 1080p 144hz led display

[strange13930]

38 minutes ago, dreamcast4599 said:

so i currently have a 6700XT sapphire pulse and im debating if i wanna sell if on the used market i.e. craigslist or fleabay to help pay for either a used 6900XT at say $500 or a new in box 7900XT at say $850-900+ i have about $400 in affirm credit to use thoughts i usually cant afford to upgrade but when i did a search on ebay for sold and completed listings of 6700XT gpus i saw they were selling for around $300 or so so i figured why not sell it while i can the original plan was for me ot hold on to my 6700XT and then gift it to my uncle once i had saved up enough money for a new/used high end gpu for my 1080p 144hz led display

if you do plan on selling wait till after you buy the new gpu, that way if there's a problem you still have a working one to use well you figure it out.

[dreamcast4599]

@strange13930 my 7800X3D has an IGPU i also have a 4gig rx 480 i keep as a spare so i think im good to sell it now whatcha think

[SorryBella]

3 hours ago, dreamcast4599 said:

i have about $400 in affirm credit to use

Then you don't have 400 dollars. Skip, never buy heavily depreciative product on loan, fuck Affirm for enabling this. That 400$ will become far more than that if you missed out on repaying it, and even if you paid on time you would've gotten enough money to get a better GPU outright by the time you finished payment.

 

And considering how disrespected 6700XT resale value is due to taxi/miner cards, not like itll be a boost of moolah unless if you go off to ebay in which case you could get 200-300 USD for it. 

 

3 hours ago, dreamcast4599 said:

for a new/used high end gpu for my 1080p 144hz led display

You can easily do 1080p144 on a 6700XT with high end CPU, im literally doing exactly that right now with my 5700X3D. Dont be greedy with the pixel peeping and optimize your game settings, and then use temporal aliasing (FSR, XeSS, or LS1) to carry the GPU through to the finish line if necessary. Cant reach it? Try frame generation, Lossless Scaling solution particularly is REALLY STRONG with AMD cards, compared to Nvidia. The overhead is straight up lighter than AFMF in some case.

 

Just as a PSA though: Lossless Scaling is only officially available on Steam. Everywhere else is malware or outdated version.

 

[Salted Spinach]

Bad: taking a loan to buy a graphics card

 

Worse: taking a loan to buy something that may never arrive

 

My recommendation: estimate how much you can get for your 6700XT. Add on the cash you have, and see what you can get for the sum. If its not a big enough upgrade, stay with the 6700XT

 

After all your display is only 1080p

[Dedayog]

12 hours ago, dreamcast4599 said:

@strange13930 my 7800X3D has an IGPU i also have a 4gig rx 480 i keep as a spare so i think im good to sell it now whatcha think

No, as this is the worst time to buy a gou.

 

Sure, you get more for the 6700xr but you're losing even more on the new card.

 

6900xt isn't worth $500, nor is the7900xt worth $900.

[dreamcast4599]

@SorryBella if it wasnt for affirm i wouldnt have the AM5 pc i have now

[Dedayog]

2 minutes ago, dreamcast4599 said:

@SorryBella if it wasnt for affirm i wouldnt have the AM5 pc i have now

Well, honestly, Affirm is nothing more than a paying AFTER.  You could always save up the money BEFORE buying

 

It's the same thing.

[SorryBella]

5 hours ago, Dedayog said:

Well, honestly, Affirm is nothing more than a paying AFTER.  You could always save up the money BEFORE buying

 

It's the same thing.

Yes but one is an exercise in financial abandon that doesnt have any mattress to land on the second you or your paymaker skipped a beat and the other is buying a PC.

 

Its NOT the same thing.

[dreamcast4599]

@Dedayog usually what i do with affirm is have at least 20-40% of the amount saved up so i dont pay full affirm price but i think ima wait a few more weeks save up money see where prices are for gpus

[Salted Spinach]

The only time using credit makes sense is if allows you to catch a significant discount on your purchase, or to avoid an expected stock outage or increase in price.

 

Otherwise its always better to save up and buy later, because it can avail you to better options and the normal trend of lower prices due to tapered demand