Boomerang Posted January 21, 2021 Posted January 21, 2021 How many people out there consider this as an option for a budget build? Is it worth the risk?? Really depends on what it is and for what purpose. Some examples may be spare parts or something like a bargain. These days with water cooling solutions for PC's, the risk of a secondhand bargain could end up in a nightmare for some. A good friend of mine has a water cooled 1080. He has had it for many years and just recently the AIO, (ALL In One), pump died. Is it worth hunting for another New AIO, or Heat sink and fan solution? Should it just be sold as a bargain explaining the state it's in, or kept for spare parts? Not everyone is honest, it's a gamble on whether your time is wasted or risking further possible damage. Personally, I would encourage people to buy NEW for some of the related reasons above. Other reasons may be related to environment or how the part was handled. Below is an example of why.. . Damage caused by someone's choice of a PC cooling solution. This card is a RX Vega 56, it can be repaired, not for sale. Anyone hood winked, or just had bad luck?
Panzerlang Posted January 21, 2021 Posted January 21, 2021 I used to super-glue heatsinks to GPUs and it always worked well. I'm not sure it would work with the weight and tension of an AIO pump-block but might be worth a shot if a more solid method can't be achieved.
zhihengcao Posted January 21, 2021 Posted January 21, 2021 My advice never buy refurbished or used GPU cards. I got two refurbished 2080Ti from newegg in 2019, countless headaches. Never had problem with refurbished electronics before, but nVidia GPU seems to be different, a lot of latent issues like rare Windows crash, and I run GPU rendering (redshift), and rendering crashes after running for a few hours. The number of transistors must be so large in these GPUs they cannot full test all possible failure modes to guarantee quality.
Art-J Posted January 21, 2021 Posted January 21, 2021 (edited) ^ Possibly ex-mining cards, worn out by hard bitcoin work. For this reason, I would also be careful about buying used GPUs nowadays. Other components, though? Why not, might be worth taking a bit of a risk. Edited January 21, 2021 by Art-J
Sokol1 Posted January 21, 2021 Posted January 21, 2021 In my "corner of the world" is common people buy used VGA, CPU - specially Xeon CPU's.... in Aliexpress (China), due their more low cost. VGA's generally are very stressed models, probable used in cyber currency mining, some samples have the memory modules marked due excessive heat. But this is an option for have a reasonable capable game machine (for popular MP games), for half or less of the local cost of an Core i5-10400F, Ryzen 3600 PC.
Voxman Posted January 21, 2021 Posted January 21, 2021 In October I bought from Amazon a Gigabyte RX 5700 XT that was used, and that was on a hunch that the 6XXX and Nvidia cards would be hard to get with the holidays approaching. Plus hedging my bets that prices would possibly drop on the 2070 Super and those cards. Not sure if it happens all the time, but I had a return window up to the end of this month, which would also help if availability and prices dropped on the newer cards. Little did I know how hard and expensive it is to get any GPU at this point in time. Nevertheless, the card has been working flawlessly. Get great frame rates and I'm thoroughly satisfied with the purchase and most likely won't replace, unless I get a 6800XT at $360.
kestrel79 Posted January 21, 2021 Posted January 21, 2021 Never bought refurbed stuff, it always scared me. But I have bought used GPUs from respected members of sim forums and have had no issues with 2 GPUs.
AndyJWest Posted January 21, 2021 Posted January 21, 2021 I have in the past as a result of sheer lack of dosh had to resort to buying second-hand PC parts, but I'd really not recommend it except as a last resort, or unless you are buying from someone you know and trust. Air-cooled graphics cards are probably amongst the safer purchases, as they don't really wear out (other than possibly the fan motors) and either work, or don't. Anything that is liable to deteriorate over time (an HDD, an AIO CPU cooler etc) is much more risky. People sell them because they show signs of wearing out... 1
Jaws2002 Posted January 23, 2021 Posted January 23, 2021 (edited) On 1/21/2021 at 12:29 PM, AndyJWest said: AIO CPU cooler etc) Used AIO's and water cooled graphics cards are risky. First most of them die in around four years. Then, a lot of people damage and prematurely wear out AIO coolers because they instal them wrong. I see so many photos of AIO cooled computers with the pump above the radiator. You could even see them installed this way in adds by big companies. If the pump is above the radiator, all the air bubbles will collect in the pump and damage it. Edited January 23, 2021 by Jaws2002
HunDread Posted January 23, 2021 Posted January 23, 2021 I have sold all my PC hardware in perfect condition so far because I upgraded to stronger hardware. Most of the time people sell because they upgraded not because they want to get rid of faulty hardware. Of course it happens but I don't think it's the norm.
DD_Arthur Posted January 24, 2021 Posted January 24, 2021 10 hours ago, HunDread said: I have sold all my PC hardware in perfect condition so far because I upgraded to stronger hardware. Most of the time people sell because they upgraded not because they want to get rid of faulty hardware. Of course it happens but I don't think it's the norm. Agree with this. I’ve bought motherboards, processors, graphics cards and memory from eBay. I’ve never had a problem. I wouldn’t buy a water cooled graphics card anyway.
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