[SOLVED] Are second hand say from CEX or ebay GPUs a good idea? Say a GEForce RTX 2080 Ti/?

[spikeysonic]

Are second hand say from CEX or ebay GPUs a good idea? Say a GEForce RTX 2080 Ti/?



Trying to deal with the this software wants a quadro that software wantsa a Geforece card issue.


So was thinking get an Quadro RTX 4000 now and later pick up a second have Geforce csrd but are they likely to be burned out, worn out and damaged? as would be around £500 - 700so can swap them in or out dep on software of the day.

How risky is this?

 

[Lutfij]

I would not advise on second hand GPU's unless you know the seller or the seller has a reputable history and rating. You can't tell if it was mined and most won't tell you how much they were used for mining.

Best just drop the money on a brand new card. Also why are you looking at a workstation GPU and then looking a gaming GPU later on?

 

[Swarzenegger]

I've bought multiple 2nd hand midrange-cards from the seller directly. Never had any problems at all.

CEX should be fine, but if you want to find a deal I would recommend trying to find sellers nearby with marktplace-sites... But for newer, high end cards this might be a problem. But this allows you to try the card out before you buy it.

Eh for high end cards, buy a new one, people selling their highend cards now sounds fishy.

 

[spikeysonic]

I would not advise on second hand GPU's unless you know the seller or the seller has a reputable history and rating. You can't tell if it was mined and most won't tell you how much they were used for mining.

Best just drop the money on a brand new card. Also why are you looking at a workstation GPU and then looking a gaming GPU later on?

Is because I have been trying to spec all the components for a threadripper mulit content creation use workstation for

• Video Editing, Compositing, and Visual Effects (Ie Premier / After Effects / Nuke etc)
• Rendering /Encoding (ie. Premier / Media Encoding / Keyshot / VRay / Blender etc
• CAD (ie, Solidworks, Rhino and addons, Catia, Inventor, Autocad, Google Sketchup, Auduino etc
• 3D Animation (3d Studio Max, Maya, Lightworks, Softimage etc)
• 3D Modelling and Characters (Mudbox, Z Brush, Cinema 4 D, Modo, Mari etc)
• Audio and Podcasting (Audition)
• UX/UI (Sketch etc)

and software like Solidworks in particular seems to demand Quadro cards like the affordable for me RTX4000 (can t see me affording the Quadro rtx 5000 let lone 6000) as well as various autodesk software whilst other sofware Im told is fine and often far better off with the likes of a similar priced Geforce card like the Nvida RTX 2080ti) which should be much faster.

The £4440

• Case: Fractal Design Define R6, White, Tempered Glass,
• Processor: AMD Threadripper 3960x
• Processor Cooler: CoolerMaster Master Liquid ML 360 RGB TR4 Edition
• Motherboard: ASUS TRX40 Zeneth II Extreme or MSI TRX40 Creator (not 100% made up mind on which , open to advice here)
• PSU: 3XS Only Corsair RM1000x 1000w Gold Modula PSU
• GPU: Nvida Quadro 4000x
• RAM: 64GB 3200ghz Corsair Vengence LPX
• Operating System Drive: 1TB Corsair Force MP600 (Open to the 1TB Gigabyte AORUS SSD or Firecuda if better)
• Storage Drive: 2x Seagate Ironwolf Pro 4TB Hard Drives in a RAID 1 array.
• DVD Drive: ASUS DRW 24D5MT
• Operating System: Windows 10 Pro 64bit

Is going to blow enough of a chuck out of my £5800 savings with little money coming so been trying to work out and struggling to work out eh best compromise and balance to do it all well.

 

[ohio_buckeye]

I would say higher end stuff, consider new. Like I did get an rx 580 8gb used for about 100 bucks. But that's a pretty good deal. Only talking about 100 bucks. If you are talking 1k, that may change the stakes a little. You may find if you're comparing new vs used in the higher end, you may not save a lot on a used card.