And you NEED to tell the theoretical new owner of its condition.
So that we don't have to answer HIS question on this card in a couple of months.
Yes, I'm not gonna lie to anyone. Already selling it here locally and explained the issue fully, so the buyer knows what he is buying.
I'd probably sell that card cheap, maybe look at an RX 6600xt or 6700xt as well. I don't necessarily have an issue buying used, but doing it through somewhere like ebay is a bit safer since they have the money back guarantee in my opinion. So at least if the item isn't as described you can money back. But fortunately gpu prices are coming down. The 3060ti you got was probably mined on pretty heavily, which doesn't always hurt them as the guys who know what they are doing tend to downclock them and try to cool them.
Nah mate, here's what happened. The seller is basically a very busy dude, he flew to another country because of his job. The reason why he sold this card was because he basically had no time to play anymore and he said he doesn't need it. He used to play CS GO only and even then like once a week maybe. He also isn't that tech-savvy, so he needed his IT friend who suggested me to downclock and call it a day, claiming it's normal with some cards. The seller himself didn't know what he was talking about, it was visible he has no idea about all this overclocking/underclocking stuff, plus it wasn't mined because it's an LHR version and before I bought the GPU, he was like "I hope you aren't gonna mine on this card, it wasn't designed for it".
Idk, it can be all acting from his side, but I kinda see it being genuine. What happened here is that I've just got unlucky, we couldn't test the card because he is always busy and basically was never available until very late, so I couldn't go to his house and test the GPU with him, so I've got the GPU without testing hoping that everything will be fine, as always (been buying GPUs second hand for like 10 years now). This time, the luck wasn't on my side and I've got a bad card. He says since this card is just second hand, there is no warranty on it and he won't take it back, especially because he isn't even in this country anymore. He has his reasons, most people don't give a warranty when selling second hand stuff, so I just have to take it. Although, as you've said, GPU prices are indeed going down, so it's not that big of an issue, next salary will be basically enough for me to buy another 3060 Ti, it's this situation which is unfortunate.
As for AMD cards, I'm not buying them again dude. I've actually had 6600 XT before which had all sorts of issues. Even though no artifacting or stuff was present, I had huge stutters/FPS drops in games (been trying clean Windows installs and different drivers, some made it better, some drivers made it worse, but never 100% good). Buying 3060 Ti fixed it, when no artifacts or crashes are present here (with -800 or -1000 downclock), gaming is
really smooth, night and day difference between 3060 Ti and 6600 XT I've had, no FPS drops or stutters at all. Had similar issues with my old RX 580 8GB, so I'm all Nvidia now. There was even a guy selling 6700 XT for cheaper than this 3060 Ti, but I chose Nvidia so I can at least test if stutters/FPS drops will be fixed, which they were, thankfully.