Older Graphics Cards

[SuperShermanTanker]

We all know it's nice when we get a brand new graphics card and install it into our machine and boom you get that extra 30 fps and you get to turn up the settings in your favorite game to the max but howabout when we find that deal on craigslist or ebay and get something like a GeForce GTX 780 or in my case a GeForce GTX 650ti for $50 US currency and boom you have something just as good for a lot less then buying a brand new GPU. Have you guys ever gotten a great deal on a used GPU and if you did were you just as excited as you would be buying the latest and greatest graphics card out there.

[Coaxialgamer]

1 minute ago, SuperShermanTanker said:

We all know it's nice when we get a brand new graphics card and install it into our machine and boom you get that extra 30 fps and you get to turn up the settings in your favorite game to the max but howabout when we find that deal on craigslist or ebay and get something like a GeForce GTX 780 or in my case a GeForce GTX 650ti for $50 US currency and boom you have something just as good for a lot less then buying a brand new GPU. Have you guys ever gotten a great deal on a used GPU and if you did were you just as excited as you would be buying the latest and greatest graphics card out there.

i got an hd 3870x2 for ~15 dollars . Quite a nice find.

[SuperShermanTanker]

1 minute ago, Coaxialgamer said:

i got an hd 3870x2 for ~15 dollars . Quite a nice find.

How does it run the games you play?

[Coaxialgamer]

Just now, SuperShermanTanker said:

How does it run the games you play?

Haven't really tried running anything with it yet , because i need to find drivers for it ( goes up to catalyst 13.3 ). I mainly got it out of curiosity

[SuperShermanTanker]

1 minute ago, Coaxialgamer said:

Haven't really tried running anything with it yet , because i need to find drivers for it ( goes up to catalyst 13.3 ). I mainly got it out of curiosity

 Yah the dual GPU cards are pretty unique when you find them and from what I heard the drivers aren't always easy to find for them and when you do find the drivers they aren't always very optimized

[paps511]

Absolutely! As much as brand new shiny things are cool, it is unrealistic to buy a $700+ GPU every six months for most people. 

I look for the price to performance in the used market!

[Coaxialgamer]

7 minutes ago, SuperShermanTanker said:

 Yah the dual GPU cards are pretty unique when you find them and from what I heard the drivers aren't always easy to find for them and when you do find the drivers they aren't always very optimized

what i find pretty interesting is the fact that the dies used in that gpu are quite small ( probably not more than 250-300mm² ), compared to the massive ~600mm² dies in current flagship cards 

[SuperShermanTanker]

if you think the dies in the current flagship GPUs large you have to see the die on my Geforce 8600gt graphics card that I have sitting in a box on my shelf the die on that thing is massive

[SuperShermanTanker]

6 minutes ago, paps511 said:

Absolutely! As much as brand new shiny things are cool, it is unrealistic to buy a $700+ GPU every six months for most people. 

I look for the price to performance in the used market!

I remember getting my EVGA Nvidia GeForce GTX 650ti for $50 from someone I know and it still runs newer games at medium to high settings at 1080p

[Coaxialgamer]

3 minutes ago, SuperShermanTanker said:

if you think the dies in the current flagship GPUs large you have to see the die on my Geforce 8600gt graphics card that I have sitting in a box on my shelf the die on that thing is massive

8600gt has a die size of 169mm²...

[iDeFecZx]

Someone was selling a working 980Ti on Gumtree for £200 the other day. 

[SuperShermanTanker]

5 minutes ago, Coaxialgamer said:

8600gt has a die size of 169mm²...

oh ok I was going off how big the die looked from seeing the stuff on the back of the GPU and I don't own a flagship GPU my besy GPU is only a 950

[SuperShermanTanker]

7 minutes ago, iDeFecZx said:

Someone was selling a working 980Ti on Gumtree for £200 the other day. 

its all from the 1080 release

[iDeFecZx]

3 minutes ago, SuperShermanTanker said:

its all from the 1080 release

This was almost £200 less than all the others

[SuperShermanTanker]

4 minutes ago, iDeFecZx said:

This was almost £200 less than all the others

yah that is very inexpensive