Question Buying a used card, what should I look for before purchase?

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MatthewJamess

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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.
 
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Hello.
Being a "miner" i would think twice.
Why? Because all miners are hardly used. Most of them are even memory OCed so all those chips can fail at any moment.
Yes, a test would show you that at the moment you have a fully functional card.
But keep in mind that those memory chips can give you an error right the next day when the warranty expired.
So...it's your call
 
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MatthewJamess said:
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.
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some obvious things to look out for is: are they the original owner, do they list the amount of time mined on, do they list the card specs, do they lose out on details about the card (for instance they just say something bland like graphics card or just used, pay close attention to descriptions.)
Eximo said:
RTX 3070 are around $100 on ebay. A decent risk at that price.
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where did you find the rtx 3070 for 100 bucks?!?!
 
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I'm not uncomfortable with eBay. The good thing with them is you get buyer protection, so I think you get 30 days to return it even if the seller doesn't do returns. But make sure to read the fine print. Guys like me who don't want to hassle and have been burned before, I will put on my listings that even though the items are working, consider them as parts only. I don't even mind to take a bit less on price just because I don't want to deal with a return.

For example, one dude bought an AM4 cpu from my gaming rig when I was redoing stuff. Apparently didn't know you should not install a 5800x into an a320 board, installed it, couldn't figure out how to get it to work right, wanted to return it which I let them do. Then I get the cpu back, and it wasn't in the cpu holder correctly and had bent pins on it. So that's why I'm like that about some of that.

That said, I've bought at least 5-6 cards on there and not been burned. Check the description carefully, check the person's feedback. If they have good feedback, they usually care about their rep and will help you out.

When you get the card, install it ASAP and run it HARD. In other words, play on it etc within that 30 day window and make sure it's working correctly so you can file a case with ebay if there are issues. But I've been pretty lucky. My current 6800xt is from newegg, but the previous 4-5 were from ebay. In that case newegg wasn't much more for a new card than a used one on ebay, so what do you think I picked:)
 
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Eximo said:
Used hard. Hardly used in English has the opposite meaning in modern language. You have to go back a century or so when hardly meant what it should.

I believe the idiom comes from a sarcastic response to a question of difficulty.

RTX 3070 are around $100 on ebay. A decent risk at that price.
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You are absolutely right.
I meant used very hard...not only hard.
But since i am not native speaker i translated in my head.
But yeah...you get my point :)
 
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