[SOLVED] does buying used mining gpu safe

[tyo.cube]

i want to upgrade my gpu and found a rx 570 red devil that have been used for cryptocurrency mining (eth) at least 7-10 month
https://www.tokopedia.com/zevan/pow...t_page=1_ob=23_q=rx+570_po=6_catid=319&whid=0

and does that gpu will bottleneck my system (because my motherboard only have pcie 2.0 x16)
spec :
i5 4460
12gb ram
asrock H81M-VG4 R2.0
500w 80+ digital alliance psu
thx and sry for bad english

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

The GPU would be pretty balanced with your system. PCI_E is backward compatible, so a PCIE 3.0 card will work fine in a 2.0 slot.

But personally, I wouldn't buy a second hand GPU, and certainly not a mining one. Yes, it's cheap, but it very well may fail before it should.

 

[512-Bit]

Mining cards will be more worn. You should not buy a used mining card, unless it is dirt cheap.

 

[DSzymborski]

Throw away this garbage PSU first. It's not actually a 500W PSU; it has 20A on the +12V rail, so it's essentially a 240W PSU. And even worse, they appear to have faked an 80+ badge.

Notice that they post a PDF of the 80 Plus testing for their PSU.

http://www.digitalalliance.co.id/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/500W-80-Bronze.pdf

And now notice that they actually photoshopped in their PSU over the actual one tested (which even then wasn't a good PSU).

https://clearesult5.sharepoint.com/:b:/s/PLS/EYNdruhDARNCu55V6cpDhxQBdkCn2LvacQRXKZBjPivcwA

Then they "helped themselves" to a better 80 Plus, giving a Bronze that even the PSU they faked was not awarded.

Immediately dispose of this PSU in an environmentally safe manner.

 

[tyo.cube]

Throw away this garbage PSU first. It's not actually a 500W PSU; it has 20A on the +12V rail, so it's essentially a 240W PSU. And even worse, they appear to have faked an 80+ badge.

Notice that they post a PDF of the 80 Plus testing for their PSU.

http://www.digitalalliance.co.id/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/500W-80-Bronze.pdf

And now notice that they actually photoshopped in their PSU over the actual one tested (which even then wasn't a good PSU).

https://clearesult5.sharepoint.com/:b:/s/PLS/EYNdruhDARNCu55V6cpDhxQBdkCn2LvacQRXKZBjPivcwA

Then they "helped themselves" to a better 80 Plus, giving a Bronze that even the PSU they faked was not awarded.

Immediately dispose of this PSU in an environmentally safe manner.

does Deepcool dn500 any good ?

 

[tyo.cube]

The GPU would be pretty balanced with your system. PCI_E is backward compatible, so a PCIE 3.0 card will work fine in a 2.0 slot.

But personally, I wouldn't buy a second hand GPU, and certainly not a mining one. Yes, it's cheap, but it very well may fail before it should.

soo my pcie 2.0 will not reduce my performance ?

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

No not really, PCIE 3.0 cards hardly saturate the 2.0 spec. There is some slow down, but only like a percent or two.

 

[DSzymborski]

does Deepcool dn500 any good ?

It is not.