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Hello yall! I'm on the hunt for a new GPU and could use some advice. I've managed to negotiate these deals on Facebook Marketplace: PowerColor RX 6700 XT for $300 CAD RX 6800 for $400 CAD ASUS Strix RTX 3070 for $325 CAD Here's some context: My Setup: I have an LG C1 TV that maxes out at...

Which tests should I run on a used GPU before buying it to be as safe as possible? The card is a Zotac dual 3070, and the seller is a used hardware company that claims the cards were mined on for 6 months.

Hello, I wanted to ask your guys opinion on if this is too good to be true. I was browsing the used market for an upgrade and just noticed a brand new listing for an RTX 3070, which claims to be "broken". As described, the card boots into windows, is able to withstand FurMark without any...

I usually do some scavenging in my way to home, and collect Books, VHS and E-waste like stone aged CPU, GPU and most likely HDD (and SSD if lucky) most of I gathered seems functional, but my brother says I should just throw away instead of using it on to our PC, he thinks it may contain some...

So I'm currently looking into the used market in order to upgrade my 1660 super, as I got a 240hz monitor for pretty cheap and the 1660s can't really push that many frames in most games at 1080p. The 2 best options I've found are: An MSI 2070 8Gb for about $180 US An Asus 3060 12gb Single fan...

I created a thread about 2 weeks ago on buying a replacement motherboard and going by what I have read on the forum, I have come to the conclusion that it really isn't worth it so now I am considering getting a refurbished / second hand i7 laptop. I have seen some on a place called backmarket...

Hey¬! I'm in need of a daily runner £400 laptop preferably smaller (13 inch) for Uni work. I'm a chemist so my workload is very excel and word/ pdf heavy, alongside a lot of chrome tabs. No gaming required, I have a rig for that :). Used, Refurbished or New does anyone have any suggestions...

Good afternoon. I am going to sell my laptop, could you help me with price estimation, please? I have a Lenovo laptop that I bought new about two years ago (summer 2021). It is still under warranty until July 2023, and the warranty can be extended for additional two years for 100 euros. It was...

A friend of mine is selling an 3090 ROG strix gaming OC with, allegedly, 6 monthes of use with an average 2 - 4 hours of resting (turning off the minning setup), for like half the price (not worth sepcifiying numbers since I'm not from the US, but let's just say it's like a month of work and a...

Is it okay? I currently use a 250w power supply that came bundled with the case and I'd like to replace it with one that's bigger (at least 400w). I found some stores online that sell used power supplies for cheap (around 20 dollars in my currency). Many are 80 plus certified, some just white...

Hi there. So I recently bought a used ASUS rog strix 1080 ti from a buy/sell website I use regularly. The description looked solid, I spoke with the person on phone (I didnt ask for benchmark photos or videos or any info at all Which I realized was a big mistake afterwards) I was sorta in a...

Well uhh hi,new to this forum thing so plz cut me some slack Im looking for a new pc build. 500bam/km ( 260ish usd iirc) is the budget,main use would be gaming For the site i use,i use https://olx.ba/ For my wants,it's a ssd For my needs its 1tb of storage and wifi Main use will be gaming and...

Hi! I'm visiting Japan next month and wanted to check in on the used vs new marketplace Intended Use: 90% used for smooth productivity, lots of windows/tabs, very light gaming (league of legends @ 120fps), movies Will be using a: 4k 48" @120hz "gigabyte aorus fo48u oled" (ty black friday :D)...

Hello people, I would like to sell my GTX 1060 6gb. What price can I sell it for? 150€? I'm looking forward to get some answers. Best, Jobjanusz

What's the best site for estimating the current market price of a prebuild that was ordered off Newegg? It's been some years since I've looked at this kind of stuff (as you can probably tell from the timestamps of my profile) and I'm needing to get the current market price of a 1year, 7month...

Hi, I would really appreciate some help and advice on this one! I'm in the process of purchasing a used RTX 3060 ROG STRIX 12GB for a good price of £400! The chap had very kindly driven over an hour to deliver the GPU to myself to which he knew I wanted to test the card on my rig before...

Hi, so I live in Lebanon, GPU prices are still way higher than msrp (3060 new 680$) I found this used PC for 600$: Core i7-8700 RAM 16.0 GB 1 stick GRAPHICS CARD - 1660 TI 1TB HDD 256 GB SSD Mobo boistar b360mhd pro2 Case xigmatic prosper RGB Power supply 600w What do you think guys...

So recently I saw that a retailer (well known) in my country was selling refurbished Corsair MP600 Force SSD's. It's important to note that they are refurbished by the MANUFACTURER (Corsair) not the RETAILER. I was thinking about buying the 2TB variant. The normal price is around $330 (converted...

Hello, I found a used air cooler nh-d15, i was told it was only used for few times, i have attached the pics here below, so any advise for what i should be looking for before buying it. pictures

Hey everyone! I'd love to hear some ideas/opinions about what I've got going on as I prepare to deploy a server for the first time, specifically about storage setup I'm looking at storage solutions for my newly purchased (used) HP Z640 Workstation. I got it for $360 with the following specs...

I wanted to buy a used acer nitro vg240Y FHD 75hz 24” monitor. It was connected to a ps5. Then I played a video on it and next to the side I saw a led line illuminating from top right all the way down to bottom left. Is this normal or is it damaged? Maybe the ps5 and the monitor wasn’t set up? I...

Hello, wanted to buy a used GPU (3080 ti founders), how can i check if everthing is okay with it, or if it has any problems? Heard using a stress test is one way (is this one good? https://geeks3d.com/furmark/) Or also benchmarking on Heaven (https://benchmark.unigine.com/heaven), but i don't...

A friend bought a new desktop (ASUS) and has asked me to take the SSD out of his old PC and put it in his new one for him. I've done this myself with an HDD without wiping it, but is it the same with an SSD? Do I need to wipe the drive or can it be installed as-is? Will it cause boot problems...

I bought a used hard disk drive. The seller assured me that it has no bad sectors. I need to know something.. Even after a hard disk drive gets reformatted or gets all of its information wiped clean, can it still carry viruses from an older system?

Who can help me? should I get this one gtx 980 4gb windforce or NEW one 570 4gb asrock,980 is $30 dollars cheaper in my country but used for 2 years on games.

Hi. My question is it ok to buy old mobile HP workstation 8570w? It has these specs: i7-3520M CPU 2.9Ghz, Nvidia 1000K 2GB, 320GB SSD. Is it completely waste of time to look into used laptops or they can work even if they are old?

Hey, so I need some help. I am buying tomorrow MSI GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4GT OC from a guy. He says that he used it for casual gaming, work... Warranty expired few days ago. I wanted to hear your opinion on this GPU and should I buy it used. If so, please recommend me some programs to test the...

Hello, I want to buy a gpu and dont know which one to buy... I watched all the benchmarks and still cant decide... why... because i know that AMD ones gets better while the time pass (with driver optimisation or fine wine if im right) My budget is arround 200 euros and in my country( Bosnia and...

I know the RTX 3060 isn't out yet so this is hard to say but I'm either planning on buying this second hand Intel Core i7 8700K, Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Master Motherboard, Corsair H60 V2 AIO, 16GB G.Skill Trident Z RGB 3200Mhz DDR4 RAM, MSI RTX 2080 Super Ventus XS, 1TB Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe...

Alright, I bought a bunch of parts used and I'm trying to make a computer out of them, but I'm getting this issue: TL;DR The computer will turn on with a positive beep code but suddenly stop being able to boot entirely. Random things will make it work again. Here's a list of all the things...

Hello guys, I want to buy an used i7 4790, is still good? I have an i3 4150, 8Gb RAM [16Gb coming soon] and a GTX 1660 6Gb [Normal, not super nor ti]. This option it's cheaper than upgrade the entire system to an i3 10100, and I can't spend in a full upgrade [CPU, RAM, Motherboard]. My question...

Hi everyone! I'm trying to buy a used laptop for my girlfriend's last 2 years of university. She uses alot of drawing programs like Vectorworks and AutoCAD so she's in need of a decent GPU. My sister offered selling us her 4 year old ASUS UX501J. Back in 2016 it originally costed her €1750. We...

so I found this used msi gtx 750 ti 2gb ddr5 for $25 the seller said that the hdmi port is broken but he/she has not tried to other ports. should I try and risk it and try the other ports?

Case: BitFenix Enso Motherboard: GIGABYTE AORUS Z270X-Gaming 9 RAM: HyperX 8GB KIT DDR4 2133MHz CL14 Fury Black Series x2 = 16GB Processor: Intel Core i5-7500 Turbo 3.8GHZ SSD disk: ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro SSD 2TB - 3 months old with warranty HDD disk: Seagate BarraCuda 4TB - 3 months old with...

I'm thinking about selling my MSI GE63 Raider RGB 8SG, but I'm not sure how much the asking price should be. I've had it for about 7 months and I've had some parts added on to it. I've been overly careful in protecting it and undervolted the CPU to protect against high temps (also used a...

So i need a new laptop for school and for my budget the lenovo s145 looks to be the best : the laptop on amazon Specs: R5 3500u 8gb dual channel ram (mystery speed lol) 512 gb ssd Decent 1080p display I know that this can easily multitask and not feel sluggish for a few years to come but what...

Hi I'm upgrading my gralhics card and I'm looking at used 1070s. There's an offer 1070 for 180€ and a 1070 ti for 230€. My question is: is it worth buying the ti for the additional 50€? Other GPU suggestions are welcome aswell. Other specs: i7-4770k 8GB DDR3 GigaByte GA-Z87MX-D3H

Hi there, I have been struggling with an issue the last couple of days attempting to recover the files off of my old SSD from my previous desktop. The device is a Seagate Barracude, Model Number ST2000DM001 About half a year ago, I had noticed my desktop was getting really slow, to the point...

Hello people. So yesterday my friend bought a used PC. It's i3 4160, 8GB of ram and 2 x 500 GB hdd. He was hoping that he could install a used r9 270 so he ordered it. Then we realized that psu (BlueBerry PSB560, pictures below) in system probably wouldn't run those specs very well since it has...

So I have bought a used FSP 500 60APN (no 80+ certification) a month ago and it's condition looks good (From outside at least) and it's been running my system fine so far in games even after increasing GPU's powerlimit... But then I saw so many people online warning about old and used PSUs (as...