Will there be a secondhand market for my 4GB MSI GTX 970 Gaming card in July.?

[PeterZ640]

A bit of a wierd question.
But I just ordered a MSI NVIDIA GTX 970 GAMING Twin Frozr 5 Graphics Card - 4GB. For my new and first PC build.

I really wasnt sure whether this card was right for me, and with totally conflicting advice some saying get this one and some saying go for the GTX 980 - I played safe with the cheap version.

I had to buy some thing, as my 2011-3 socket and E5 1650 ver 3 CPU have no onboard graphics, so with only an HP IPS UHD 4K Monitor I was told I would need a graphics card to see anything.

Currently I mainly edit still photos circa 8,700 x 5,800 pixels - generating image files of 160MB each! On a long all day shoot I might have 900. - Photoshop Elements and a few ad hoc very short 10 minutes 1920 x 1080p videos.

Hopefully I Will have the cash in say a years time to get a Sony and do some 4K video editing.

Hence my question can one sell kit like this secondhand say 6-8 months old on Ebay to put towards a new Pascal based GTX 980 level card.?

It wont be overclocked and I never do gaming, hopefully it will be run very cool, in a mid tower with 5x 140mm Noctua case fans, and of course 2x 150mm Noctua Air Cooler fans.

Appreciate no one has a crystal ball but what sort of value do cards like this go for say currently?
Naturally its only a guess and I could appreciate whwn the Pascal based cards come out - they might reduce current 2nd hand prices.

Really just trying to estimate would it be near the £150 or £50 mark.

Or if anyone thinks of a better stop gap solution re my requirements - do say - as its on oder but currently looks like a 30th Jan shipment due to a delay on the case's availability.

 

[geofelt]

There is always a market for used high end cards on ebay.
Look for the card in used condition and filter on completed auctions.
In green, you will see what such cards actually sold for.

You might have done better buying a EVGA card. They have a 90 day step up program where you can turn your old card in and get 100% credit on an upgrade.

With a 4k monitor, I might have considered a GTX980 up front.


As to future value, it depends on what pascal brings and the amd response.
If those cards are strong and priced well, you will see many GTX970 users selling the old and buying the new.
That will depress the used market a bit.
My advice: If you see a new card you want, buy it as soon as it is launched and sell the old. It takes a bit of time for the old cards to appear on the used market.

 

[PeterZ640]

Thanks, see your point sounds just like pro cameras.
Get a pre reserved order in, and literally have the ebay listing ready to launch the day you get your new camera. By a week later the market is swamped by upgraders and the price of the old model crashes.

I do see your point ref the 980, do you think the 970 will be OK doing just the still image editing? But on the 4K monitor ( currently the video element is such a small % of what I do )

 

[PeterZ640]

There is always a market for used high end cards on ebay.
Look for the card in used condition and filter on completed auctions.
In green, you will see what such cards actually sold for.

You might have done better buying a EVGA card. They have a 90 day step up program where you can turn your old card in and get 100% credit on an upgrade.

With a 4k monitor, I might have considered a GTX980 up front.


As to future value, it depends on what pascal brings and the amd response.
If those cards are strong and priced well, you will see many GTX970 users selling the old and buying the new.
That will depress the used market a bit.
My advice: If you see a new card you want, buy it as soon as it is launched and sell the old. It takes a bit of time for the old cards to appear on the used market.

Wow thanks on the EVGA tip, that might be useful. - especially if the new Pascal ones came out quicker than expected. I do wish there was an onboard GPU that could have at least let me build the pc without committing to a gpu .

 

[geofelt]

For display of a 4k image, you really do not need a high end graphics card. I think a GTX750 or GTX750ti might be a good card for production.
It is not a gaming card, but it can display 4k images. If I am not mistaken, it can output displayport 1.2 which is needed to send images faster than 30fps.

And... Read the evga 90 day trade up policy carefully. Among other things, you need to register your card promptly.
They have a good support web site and there should be more answers there.