280x vs 760 - Price vs Risk

[patrickbdavis]

So my friend is looking to build a new system soon.

 

He is looking at an Nvidia 760 for his graphics card, but looking through eBay he is seeing all the super cheap 280x's (likely from ex-miners) being unloaded for butt cheap. 

A 760 will run him about $200-$250 (depends where he buys, sales/promos). A 280x on eBay, which is a way better card, will run him typically ~$200. 

Now obviously a lot of these cards are being unloaded by miners, but is that really all that bad? Wont the cards still perform reasonably well. And a lot of them are still under warranty (or at least according to the listings they are...), so if something went really bad he could get a new one.

 

I am a pretty Nvidia-favored person, so my advice to him was get the 760. But is the 280x at this price really worth it?

 

 

Thanks!

[Enderman]

Unless you can get it at 1/2 price of a new 280x, don't go for it.

[Skanic]

Or he can not take the risk and get this sweet powercolor r9 280x http://pcpartpicker.com/part/powercolor-video-card-axr9280x3gbd5t2dheoc

for 255$ from ncix for example.

 

Now thats a beast card.

[Sonefiler]

Or he can not take the risk and get this sweet powercolor r9 280x http://pcpartpicker.com/part/powercolor-video-card-axr9280x3gbd5t2dheoc

for 255$ from ncix for example.

 

Now thats a beast card.

Sonefiler seal of approval

[flibberdipper]

Mining = No.

[DeViLzzz]

Does your friend appreciate physX in games? If so he has to think about an Nvidia option.

[Sonefiler]

Mining = No.

Unless it has warranty

[Sonefiler]

Does your friend appreciate physX in games? If so he has to think about an Nvidia option.

PhysX is fucking stupid

No one should appreciate it

[Nickolas47]

I never buy used pc parts

[patrickbdavis]

PhysX is fucking stupid

No one should appreciate it

ive gotten used parts before, always had a good experience even off eBay. But i have never bought anything that i was 90% sure had been in a mining rig. 

[Clarkey]

PhysX is fucking stupid

No one should appreciate it

PhysX is fucking awesome. Stop being jealous:)

[ForsakenLive]

Get the Powercolor R9 280X, it's only $254 !! And Powercolor is aweseme 

[Sonefiler]

PhysX is fucking awesome. Stop being jealous:)

I'm not jealous. What I used to be jealous of was Shadowplay, until Intel QuickSync and the AMD GPU thing happened.

[patrickbdavis]

Mining = No.

 

 

does mining really cause that much wear on a card? I mean he is looking at an Asus DCU2 card, so it should be a solid card and have been cooled reasonably well. 

[Sonefiler]

Get the Powercolor R9 280X, it's only $254 !! And Powercolor is aweseme 

PowerColor seal of approval

[Skanic]

PhysX is fucking awesome. Stop being jealous:)

Jealus of what? Some sparkely dust?

Most of the games let you run PhysX on the cpu.

Also PhysX is annyoing in Warframe for example i had to turn it off so many PhysX you cant see anything .

[Clarkey]

Jealus of what? Some sparkely dust?

Most of the games let you run PhysX on the cpu.

Also PhysX is annyoing in Warframe for example i had to turn it off so many PhysX you cant see anything .

In batman its awesome. Its just a shame its not more widely implemented. As when implemented correctly its awesome

[flibberdipper]

does mining really cause that much wear on a card? I mean he is looking at an Asus DCU2 card, so it should be a solid card and have been cooled reasonably well. 

No matter how you look at it, the card was really pushed hard for an extended period of time, probably close to 80C, and it ight not have had the cleanest power going through it with the load on the power supply.

[Skanic]

does mining really cause that much wear on a card? I mean he is looking at an Asus DCU2 card, so it should be a solid card and have been cooled reasonably well. 

Just get the r9 280x i posted.

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/powercolor-video-card-axr9280x3gbd5t2dheoc

[jmaster299]

PhysX is fucking stupid

No one should appreciate it

No, that's just a pathetic excuse AMD fans spit out because they hate people pointing out the fact that AMD can't compete in terms of features.

[Sonefiler]

No, that's just a pathetic excuse AMD fans spit out because they hate people pointing out the fact that AMD can't compete in terms of features.

lmfao

thats funny

maybe

i just 

don't 

like

physx

is it that hard to understand

it just bothers me when i play and when it's implemented properly... the game is batman

[EyePlayGames]

So my friend is looking to build a new system soon.

 

He is looking at an Nvidia 760 for his graphics card, but looking through eBay he is seeing all the super cheap 280x's (likely from ex-miners) being unloaded for butt cheap. 

A 760 will run him about $200-$250 (depends where he buys, sales/promos). A 280x on eBay, which is a way better card, will run him typically ~$200. 

Now obviously a lot of these cards are being unloaded by miners, but is that really all that bad? Wont the cards still perform reasonably well. And a lot of them are still under warranty (or at least according to the listings they are...), so if something went really bad he could get a new one.

 

I am a pretty Nvidia-favored person, so my advice to him was get the 760. But is the 280x at this price really worth it?

 

 

Thanks!

 

not sure what is wrong with amd one thing for sure it is alot cheaper and people say that it gets alot hotter to about 80 degrees well why dont you just add some extra fans onto your case they are cheap like 5-10 bucks and if your worried about noise get a headset...

 

also amd has the same amount of features if i remember correctly

[Sonefiler]

not sure what is wrong with amd one thing for sure it is alot cheaper and people say that it gets alot hotter to about 80 degrees well why dont you just add some extra fans onto your case they are cheap like 5-10 bucks and if your worried about noise get a headset...

 

also amd has the same amount of features if i remember correctly

150$ of games yeaaaa

[EyePlayGames]

does mining really cause that much wear on a card? I mean he is looking at an Asus DCU2 card, so it should be a solid card and have been cooled reasonably well. 

 

yes cards that have been mining tend to be useless in 2 years, cards normally have a lifespan of 5 years

[GamerDude]

PhysX is fucking awesome. Stop being jealous:)

No it isn't, only a handful of titles use hardware accelerated GPU PhysX.....not jealous as I do own nVidia cards. It enhances some effects, but I can easily do w/o it.