BEFORE You Consider A USED GPU...

Idk if you want to buy mine my 3070ti was able to over clock to 2085mhz

i really dont understand why people use gaming cards for mining. nvidia makes purpose built mining gpu's that can handle constant mining.

I’ve bought a couple used mines on gpu’s over time and I’ve never had a issue besides some heat issues which were swiftly fixed with new paste and pads

I buy used GPUs and I haven't had any issues luckily so far I got gtx 1070 8gb triple fans xfx 580 8gb rx 580 8gb working great on my builds👍

I have my PCs temps in the mid 40°c thanks to my hvac skills I applied it to my PC builds and air flow & cooling my specialty 😁👍

You can remove the water mark in regedit 👍

If you're gonna buy a Rog Strix 3070TI, you WILL need to do a thermal pad application even on the STOCK GPU.
ASUS has shit quality control, and as such they have shipped these with mismatched thermal pad placement for certain components.
You can clearly see it when opening it up as there is an outline on the cooler where the thermal pad goes, and yet it misses several key components leaving you with a 105c hotspot that will throttle your card in any game.

If your hotspot is hotter than your memory, then congratulations you got a shitty thermalpad application aswell.

I've bought about 10 gpus the last 2 years, multiple used for mining.

Majority fine. 1 was sold broken, which was said in the ad, but it was worse than advertised. One simply missed thermal pads and a part of 1 fan was broken (would obv. be seen if I had bought in person).

Another one's memory broke after a month of usage, which was the worst of all.

Other than that, the rest have been fine. Basically $200-400 cheaper than equivalent from stores. For me, worth it

I've had a few mined GPUs, never had an issue.

Hey fellow gamers let's all take a moment to feel sorry for Nvidia...just kidding. Nividia is experiencing the karma that it deserves! Hey Nvidia maybe you should treat loyal gamer customers better. Nvidia's blood is in the water and the sharks are gathering. Crash and burn scalpers and miners!!!

Can’t wait for 3080tis to get really cheap when 4000 series drops.

Here in Australia 🇦🇺 we’re not fortunate enough to get the RTX30 series FE models😢 ….. at launch about 20 came to our shores and we haven’t seen them since (raffle system to have the option to but them from 1 retailer). The FE are beaut looking models🥰🥰🤩 imo. I did manage in the past to get a GTX1080Ti FE which was also a very slick design 💪👍✊. I wish Ngreedia would reconsider selling the FE here … the GTX10 series were the last we got 🤦‍♂🤦‍♀😢.

I would imagine that it would depend on the miner in question. Some people have PC's that they keep clean while others don't even throw a can of air at a PC the entire ten years that they had it sitting on the floor in a garage covered in dried up stains and turning beige from years of dust and smoking. I for one have had plenty of mining cards. See...I never throw out my old PC tech. IT sits on a shelf. I took all my old cards and mined with them 24-7 for 2 years non-stop. Within that 2 year time I also bought old cards from Ebay. I never mine with new cards. I game with them. But they do mine when I am not gaming. The old cards I bought from ebay was RX 580's, GTX 1070's and 1080's. The cards never went past 70 degrees even once. They sat at about 62 - 65 degrees. I clean them regularly because they run better when clean and when they run better they make more money. The cards never once ran as hard as it would while gaming. It just ran non stop is all but very under powered. It used 130 watts max.

I only needed to plug one of the 2 plugs in on the RX 580's because they used soo little power to mine. I can not game on this card with just one plug. It just can't run the games fully with one plug. But mining was simple to it. One plug was all the power it needed. Way less work than any game would put it through. I would argue that most competent miners will have mining cards that were way better cared for than a gaming one that just sat in a machine running games and reaching temps well past 65 degrees and doing way more calculations than the simple ETH calculation that it does but it just does it non stop. Gaming runs your card as hard as it can. Mining does not. Gamers take their cards and install it then proceed to overclock the crap out of it. Miners take their cards and then under volt it and tune the overclocks. I stopped mining this summer. The old cards are now back to gaming. Yeah...they still work. GPUS were designed to run. Not much you can do to tear it up by having it do its job. The act of mining don't tear your cards up. What tears cards up is retarded owners that are too lazy to do preventative maintenance on their cards. Mining is not the devil for GPU's despite the fact that I used 580 Red Devils to mine.

Only one dead card out of all the cards I got. How did it die? I dropped it. But it still looks brand new. They all do. Because competent miners take better care of their equipment than any gamer. So if I was given the choice to buy a used card that was gaming for 2 years or a card that was mining for 2 years.....I am gonna pick the mining card. The card made us money. We totally had the funds to buy cans of air, thermal paste and pads, and plenty of fans. Who do people think really take better care of their cards? Gamers or miners? Buying a card from a gamer would be like buying a PC from a regular consumer. They may or may not have taken care of this machine because they have no incentive to do so. Buying a card from a miner would be like buying a PC from a business. They have incentive to take care of their equipment. The equipment don't get much use because it only does specific tasks for the business unlike a consumer PC used for literally everything. It does those specific tasks all day but only those specific tasks. Some businesses have incompetent leadership but you will run into less incompetence buying stuff from a business rather than some random dingbat out there telling me the card is fine then it arrives with human hairs and crud in grooves and crevices. Thermal pads hard as rocks cause the lazy bum cleaned the card once the entire time they owned it cause they wanted to sell it to you. No other time would they ever take it apart and clean it. Miners do that cause it affects the bottom line. Games do not on average because why?? There is no incentive to take care of your assets.

So from my experience....buying used mining cards is just like buying used regular cards. You look at the pictures and try to determine the condition of the card. The End. Thats all you can do. But there is a difference. If you know the card has been mined on....well...you know that most miners care about how much they can mine in a single day. And clean and well maintained cards make more money a day where as gamers only care if the game runs. There is no incentive to care for the card. It takes considerably more power and wear and tear to run COD than to mine ETH. I can run 4 cards mining ETH with the power it takes to run one instance of COD. One of these 2 acts makes you money. One of these 2 people can afford cans of air and thermal pads everyday if needed cause their cards make money 24-7. So from my experiences in this....I have never had an issue buying used mining cards. They always come clean and with original packaging usually. Gamer cards come with bent heatsink fins, stains on the PCB, fans with years of caked on lint that will never come off and human hairs. Why you sell me your hair? The fan always looks chalky no matter how much you scrub it, and its almost a guarantee that the card ran at gaming temps upwards of 75, 80 and sometimes 90 degrees and full power being call by that GPU. I have killed GPUs gaming. I have never killed one mining. Not once. Mining cards are fine. Its the smuck you buy it from that will determine if its a piece of crap or not. Not the act of mining on it.

You left out that msi warranty is also 3 years.

As long as they have not been overclocked and the fans are working ok, mining GPUs are fine.

Why the hell did Nvidia not make two versions of cards. one for the retarded mining and one for gaming? It pisses me off.

Luck of the draw isn't something you really need to be doing, especially if you're going to spend quite a bit of money on it. Buy a new one. At least then you definiitely know it hasn't been abused. If money isn't a concern or any kind of problem and a gamble on a miner's GPU interests you then ok. It's not something I'll ever do though.

No thanks, why would I as a gamer want to put my money into the pocket of a miner? I'd spend a little more and treat myself to something new.

I wouldn't even consider buying one used unless it was at least half the price of the current new price. Not worth the risk, and I usually hang on to my cards for at least 5 to 7 years. Maybe even longer these days as they are reaching the limit of performance without making them the size of a bar fridge.

I’m confused you’re saying that if the graphics card is modified the warranty won’t honor the warrant, however you also say it’s a good sign that the original owner took care of it well. So which one is it?

so what we learned is..because the miner opened it and put more thermal pads, and made everything a mess...if the card dies after you buy it...its no longer in warranty. awesome (:

Today I'm buying a $570 mined on 3080 10GB. Wish me luck!

This is good advice, however I'm stuck with FE or AMD reference because longer cards won't fit in my case. Really torn between 3080, 3080ti & 6900xt.

I did the thermal paste/pad mods on my 3080Ti because I have an SFF build with very limited airflow & my fan was getting annoyingly loud in games like Forza. The main problem was my hotspot temp on my core. After opening it I realized nvidia missed the paste on almost the entire upper half of my dye. After doing the mods/undervolting, my core temp was about 20° lower & my memory was around 8° lower. I had gotten unlucky from the factory & now when I want to sell it people are going to think it’s been mining

Do not buy used, not because it will be good or not but simply because companies won't give you after sales service as u r not the original buyer.

I'd buy any 3080/3090 that has had its thermal pads replaced and avoid miners who kept them stock

I like this perfection. Very good video.

Awesome video man!! I found a miner selling a 1 year used (probably more than a year used since it came out in dec 2020)rtx non LHR 3060ti for $300 and just recently I found a brand new RX 6650 XT also selling for $300. can you help me choose which do you think is the better choice to pick? also taking into consideration I live in southeast asia, ambient temps here average around 26-30c.

Thanks dude

In my country 90-95% of the folk into mining don’t know nuts about computers never mind about taking care of its components. The Marvins here are akin to striking a lottery technically. Also there is no such thing as “returning to the seller”. You can only possibly try a RMA and it will be subjected to the maa a manufacturer whether they will honour it or not since some of them explicit warn people that their gpus are not for mining and will void existing warranties.

I bought 2 1080ti's with a friend of mine from a closing down mine in about 2018. This was in the last Crypto selloff (Before this one LMAO). Anyway, we managed to pick up 2 "mined" 1080ti's from a new mine which immediately shut down and sold all its stuff after the first big fall (Bet they feel dumb about that).

Anyway we picked up 2 1080ti's for $300 each when they were worth $1200 per card on MSRP. I can confirm the fans were damn loud, they had heating issues.

But - We're still using them! Why? Because they're still some of the best cards on the market, and crucially the performance of the cards was - as expected - as if we bought them new.

I encourage you to buy mined GPU's from people who have obviously looked after them. Ours were given to us in their original boxes they were so new, without a scratch on them, and completely unmodded.

How did we solve the heating? We slapped on a couple of beautiful water coolers for about $60 each, and the cards instead of running at 80 under load, now run at 50. Incredible.

The right deal is out there.

I'm surprised this doesn't have a lot more views... It was a really good video I think. Well produced, well structured and informative with a touch of humor. 👍

I've only bought a single new gpu ever. With a little research you can find reputable resellers that sell reliable used tech. I prefer lower power cards like the 1650 non super. I don't need to game at 4k, ultra 60fps. The games have never been more fun to play.

Bought rx 580 for 60euro.
It crashes constantly and goes black screen for 5 seconds every minute or so if you run it at full speed.
It also coil whines and makes weird noises 😀
My PC won't boot if I leave the case connected to electricity. For some reason GPU stays dead unless you let it be for a while with electricity cut off.

The best part is, I am still using it (3d month now) and planning to replace it with a new GPU. Limiting FPS in games helps avoiding black screens and I always manually switch off PSU to be able to boot my PC so ... the gpu is usable. Would I buy anything beefier and potentially mined by a filthy miner for a significant sum of money? No thanks. They made GPU prices sky high, profited from their GPU and now look for absolute idiots who pay them almost full price xDD

I love u xx

Second hand card or anything else for that matter ummm never goodbye.

I bought a mined card used it only 5 hours and its gone, played cyberpunk, spidrrman, apex, and pubg. bruh

This video proofs that mining cards are not badd in a way that people assume. Of taken care that ussualy means out of the box pad replacement and good thermal paste job is done.
In this case are founders 3080s they suffer from small form factor desing and only 2 fans and eaven that is not causing bad thermals or bad performance.
To brake theese badd reputation you could do game peformace between 2 of them and it will ne the same...

Linus' tests showed largely mining GPUs really don't matter in quality. They are solid even after extensive use. So, no real need to worry getting a great card at real value.

Thank god marvin had a good ending. I was worried about him :'-)

In my country this month suddenly useD GPU FLOODED BY IMPORTER AND THEY ARE SELLING BY "USED FOR GAME"

AND HERE I'M TO FIND OUT...

PROS AND CON

Is it a good sign if the graphics card version is LHR? Do miners even use those cards?

I bought a used 3070 FE with a 4mos warranty from the seller. I do not if it was mined on. After 4mos, the card died, I can't claim warranty anymore. So I decided to have it repaired. According to the repairman, power IC gave out. He was able to revive it, but after 2 days it died again. So I sent it back, same issue but different power IC this time. It got fixed, after 2 weeks it died again.

what software do you use for memory testing?

How would a gtx 1080ti be after 3 months of mining and never used again?

We don't have eBay here and our local "market" doesn't have such a buyer protection

I'am using a 3080 after minig for about 2 years now, everything is perfect.