Following on from my sharp intake of breath at the cost of new Nvidia 10 series graphics cards (see previous).
Has anyone had good/bad experiences buying used card from eBay?
There are a few showing up as "after upgrade" priced from very low to
£60-70 which seem to be a reasonable price range compared to £170 new.
I have read about ex-mining cards being dumped but I think these are too
low specification for any recent bitcoin mining.
Alternatively, a used business machine with decent graphics capability
might be an option, although my current desktop systems seem to do all I
need (apart from supporting 4k graphics).
Cheers
Dave R
Has anyone had good/bad experiences buying used card from eBay?
£170 for a graphics card capabale of 4k doesn;t sound too bad when you consider
some extreme gaming graphics cards are the best part of a grand..
Has anyone had good/bad experiences buying used card from eBay?
SH wrote:
£170 for a graphics card capabale of 4k doesn;t sound too bad when you
consider some extreme gaming graphics cards are the best part of a
grand..
But the "free" graphics built-in to most CPUs nowadays is plenty good
enough to output to multiple 4K monitors
Following on from my sharp intake of breath at the cost of new Nvidia 10 series graphics cards (see previous).
Has anyone had good/bad experiences buying used card from eBay?
There are a few showing up as "after upgrade" priced from very low to
£60-70 which seem to be a reasonable price range compared to £170 new.
I have read about ex-mining cards being dumped but I think these are too
low specification for any recent bitcoin mining.
Alternatively, a used business machine with decent graphics capability
might be an option, although my current desktop systems seem to do all I
need (apart from supporting 4k graphics).
Cheers
Dave R
SH wrote:
£170 for a graphics card capabale of 4k doesn;t sound too bad when you consider
some extreme gaming graphics cards are the best part of a grand..
But the "free" graphics built-in to most CPUs nowadays is plenty good enough to
output to multiple 4K monitors
On 17/11/2022 14:43, David wrote:graphics-card-gt-1030-2ghd4-lp-oc
Following on from my sharp intake of breath at the cost of new Nvidia
10 series graphics cards (see previous).
Not sure where you got the cost to be so high?
A 1030 will work fine and can be found <100 quid new. https://www.ebuyer.com/856068-msi-geforce-gt-1030-oc-2gb-ddr4-lp-
Has anyone had good/bad experiences buying used card from eBay?
There are a few showing up as "after upgrade" priced from very low to
£60-70 which seem to be a reasonable price range compared to £170 new.
I bought a 1660 Super a few months ago and had no issues with it. Choose
your seller carefully and you should be fine. Ebay also protect buyers
much more than sellers.
I have read about ex-mining cards being dumped but I think these are
too low specification for any recent bitcoin mining.
Yup. It's top-end ones which are primarily used by miners: xx80 (Ti).
Alternatively, a used business machine with decent graphics capability
might be an option, although my current desktop systems seem to do all
I need (apart from supporting 4k graphics).
On Thu, 17 Nov 2022 16:38:05 +0000, Chris wrote:
On 17/11/2022 14:43, David wrote:graphics-card-gt-1030-2ghd4-lp-oc
Following on from my sharp intake of breath at the cost of new Nvidia
10 series graphics cards (see previous).
Not sure where you got the cost to be so high?
A 1030 will work fine and can be found <100 quid new.
https://www.ebuyer.com/856068-msi-geforce-gt-1030-oc-2gb-ddr4-lp-
Has anyone had good/bad experiences buying used card from eBay?
There are a few showing up as "after upgrade" priced from very low to
£60-70 which seem to be a reasonable price range compared to £170 new.
I bought a 1660 Super a few months ago and had no issues with it. Choose
your seller carefully and you should be fine. Ebay also protect buyers
much more than sellers.
I have read about ex-mining cards being dumped but I think these are
too low specification for any recent bitcoin mining.
Yup. It's top-end ones which are primarily used by miners: xx80 (Ti).
Alternatively, a used business machine with decent graphics capability
might be an option, although my current desktop systems seem to do all
I need (apart from supporting 4k graphics).
Thanks.
Unfortunately (?) I blacklisted eBuyer because they shafted me over a warranty return for a HDD.
Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote:
SH wrote:
£170 for a graphics card capabale of 4k doesn;t sound too bad when
you consider some extreme gaming graphics cards are the best part of
a grand..
But the "free" graphics built-in to most CPUs nowadays is plenty good
enough to output to multiple 4K monitors
TBH if the OP is on PCIe Gen2, that must be <2012 vintage? If £170 is
the budget, I'd be looking at used ex-corporate boxes: can get some
quite good ~2016-18 boxes in the £100 territory.
eg https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/115570610151
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/125617379589
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/155260581288
I searched for 'thinkcentre' (Lenovo), 'optiplex' (Dell), 'prodesk', 'elitedesk' (HP). There are vast numbers of them out there, especially
the Skylake i5 (i5-6500 and similar).
Some of these are at the smaller size, so not very expandable if needed
- that's particularly the USFF and SFF versions. Typically each model
comes in a regular, SFF and USFF size.
Worth checking the outputs it has, but I was running 4K@60Hz on a
Haswell (2013) system using Displayport, so I'd expect more modern
hardware can do it without too much hassle.
Theo
On Thu, 17 Nov 2022 19:29:33 +0000, Theo wrote:: AMD FX-6300 in GA-990X-Gaming SLI-CF running Windows 7 Pro x64
Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote:
SH wrote:
£170 for a graphics card capabale of 4k doesn;t sound too bad when
you consider some extreme gaming graphics cards are the best part of
a grand..
But the "free" graphics built-in to most CPUs nowadays is plenty good
enough to output to multiple 4K monitors
TBH if the OP is on PCIe Gen2, that must be <2012 vintage? If £170 is
the budget, I'd be looking at used ex-corporate boxes: can get some
quite good ~2016-18 boxes in the £100 territory.
Returning to this thread but I bought a "gaming bundle" from Overclockers around September 2016.
Not latest tech but reasonably recent at the time.
Brief details in signature.
David <wibble@btinternet.com> wrote:Six-Core-vs-Intel-i7-4790-vs-Intel-i7-8700-vs-Intel-i7-11700
On Thu, 17 Nov 2022 19:29:33 +0000, Theo wrote:: AMD FX-6300 in GA-990X-Gaming SLI-CF running Windows 7 Pro x64
Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote:
SH wrote:
£170 for a graphics card capabale of 4k doesn;t sound too bad when
you consider some extreme gaming graphics cards are the best part
of a grand..
But the "free" graphics built-in to most CPUs nowadays is plenty
good enough to output to multiple 4K monitors
TBH if the OP is on PCIe Gen2, that must be <2012 vintage? If £170
is the budget, I'd be looking at used ex-corporate boxes: can get
some quite good ~2016-18 boxes in the £100 territory.
Returning to this thread but I bought a "gaming bundle" from
Overclockers around September 2016.
Not latest tech but reasonably recent at the time.
Brief details in signature.
AMD only really got back into being competitive with Zen (Ryzen), which
might explain why your system only has PCIe Gen2. It appears your CPU
was released in 2012, and they weren't competitive even then.
For example, here's the CPUbenchmark scores comparing its 6 cores
against the i7-4790 (2014), the i7-6700 (2016), the i7-8700 (2018) and
the i7-11700 (2021), which are mostly nothing-out-of-the-ordinary i7s: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/1781vs2226vs3099vs3947/AMD-FX-6300-
scores:Ta.
FX-6300: 4183 i7-4790: 7222 i7-8700: 12966 i7-11700: 20149
Personally I'd not waste time upgrading such an ancient system - I'd
look for something newer, probably an Intel with integrated graphics.
The Ryzen G-series (eg 5300G, 5500G, etc) are also not bad if going for
a new(ish) machine, although you may want to stay with an older machine
if you don't want to upgrade to newer Windows (which you should, as
Windows 7 has been out of security support for 3 years).
Theo
Returning to this thread but I bought a "gaming bundle" from Overclockers
David wrote:
Returning to this thread but I bought a "gaming bundle" from
Overclockers
I doubt many people remember details of the thread from 3+ months ago,
what do you want this machine be used for?
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