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Ebay GTX 690 Scam?

lilwic
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So ive been looking on ebay at GTX 690's and all of them are priced around $300-$400, which is 1/3 of the original price. Has something happened to the 690 that makes it obsolete or are these just scammers getting money for a broken card?

 

Link : http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&LH_BIN=1&_nkw=gtx+690&_sop=12

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It's an old and used card? People want the new stuff, making the old stuff go down in price.

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It's two generations old and has 2gb effective vram.

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They're kinda outdated. Thus hard to sell.

However they beat the GTX 970, GTX 980, GTX Titan, and GTX Titan black? I just dont get it

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its old so sells for less its 2 x 680s which it about the same as a 980/980ti

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It's two generations old and has 2gb effective vram.

2GB? on pcpartpicker it says 4GB or is it just 2GB per GPU making 4

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2GB? on pcpartpicker it says 4GB or is it just 2GB per GPU making 4

pretty sure it's 4GB as newegg says it's 4GB so it must be 4GB per card, right?

 

 

Anyway, I reckon the 690 had stuttering issues aswell as heat issues, but don't quote me on that. Research it yourself.

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2GB? on pcpartpicker it says 4GB or is it just 2GB per GPU making 4

 

pretty sure it's 4GB as newegg says it's 4GB so it must be 4GB per card, right?

 

 

Anyway, I reckon the 690 had stuttering issues aswell as heat issues, but don't quote me on that. Research it yourself.

 
 

It only has 2GB of RAM which is a too little these days and SLI support has kinda... faded away

 

 

It has 2GB EFFECTIVE vram, because each GPU needs it's own so it has 4 in total but only 2 can be used.

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It only has 2GB of RAM which is a too little these days and SLI support has kinda... faded away

 

huehuehue get it? Faded away...

Should i go with a 960 4gb instead? (970 only has 3.5gb)

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2GB? on pcpartpicker it says 4GB or is it just 2GB per GPU making 4

2gb per gpu = 2gb usable due to the way sli works. I really wish they never muddied how the vram works on dual gpu cards

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pretty sure it's 4GB as newegg says it's 4GB so it must be 4GB per card, right?

 

 

Anyway, I reckon the 690 had stuttering issues aswell as heat issues, but don't quote me on that. Research it yourself.

Yes, it's 4GB per card, but you have two GPUs. 4GB divided by 2 GPUs gives you 2GB per GPU.

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Nah, get the GTX 970 (from EVGA, MSI, or ASUS).

oh did MSI, ASUS, ect. fix the VRAM issue?

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However they beat the GTX 970, GTX 980, GTX Titan, and GTX Titan black? I just dont get it

They don't really beat titan black and 980, only in games that scale perfectly which don't exist. And it's only got 2gb of vram. I don't think more than 200 for one is reasonable at this point. 

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No... these are just the best brands.

is 3.5 Really enough?

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oh did MSI, ASUS, ect. fix the VRAM issue?

It takes 960 sli to match the performance of a single 970. The vram "issue" isn't even an issue for most 970 owners. Unless you plan on playing at 4k, in which case the 960 would be woefully inadequate, then the vram problem wouldn't be a problem.

nvidia fixed the situations when the vram would go over 3.5gb through drivers

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