everybody Gordon with PC world here with Brad or from his expert yeah also from
piece of world I want to take the opportunity to ask Brad a question I've
been asking is it a good idea to buy a used GPU oh that's easy I thought you're
gonna get more personality that's actually a question I get a lot you know
people hit me up on Twitter asking that question this is a question that people
get very emotional about lots of people swear by used GPUs lots of people swear
they will never buy a used GPU I'm not against used parts okay right you just
did a video recently talking about you CPUs and why you know they just sit
there at a pretty good idea and I agree with that
in general I don't like to buy use graphics cards because graphics cards
have a lot of moving parts graphics cards you can overclock the snot out of
them real easy okay between those two things I think there's just a lot of
risk involved with buying graphics cards for the prices that are normally charged
used if you could get a graphics card for say 50% off of this used it might be
worthwhile it's up to your own sense at risk and reward but in general you don't
see use graphics cards going for that cheap for relatively recent ones so well
yeah so like 10 atti Greg card at one point $600 now there
are 1,200 dollars retail cuz none left you're saying you wouldn't pay for
$5,500 for that I would not pay 400 or 450 or 500 dollars for a GTX 280 I know
even though I was just recommending people buy them new for more than that
over an RT X 2080 just a year ago again because their risk to reward is so high
and the fact that now we have faster graphics cards or they're not
necessarily faster than say the gtx 980ti something like the $400 Radeon rx
5700 XT or the $500 2070 super they're not quite as fast as the gtx 980ti
but they're awfully damn close and you don't get the risk if you buy those new
so the risk you're talking about it is just because people clock them or we're
talking about hangover from the old Bitcoin days all of that is a concern if
you talk about gtx 980ti just in general overclocking can shorten the life of a
chip and if people write it hard it can make a big difference that also can
happen with CPUs I'm not so concerned about that like I said it's because
graphics cards also have tons of moving parts they're not a simple thing they're
a very complicated piece of machinery there's a lot of things that can go
wrong especially if it's been ridden hard for a long time so there's just
there's much more chance of you know coming up snake eyes when you buy a used
GPUs I think but of course that speaks to buying it on eBay or Craigslist from
a random stranger right you just don't know that this history of it what about
if you're buying it from a buddy if you're buying it from a buddy and you
trust them you can say hey you know Jeff have you overclocked this no I just put
it in there and I've been running it you know it's been a year to do you want it
you probably get a better buddy discount than you would get on the Internet -
that's show that you know that plays into it okay so that's okay but it's
just buying it from yeah from Phil from Alabama or whatever I mean who knows
what he's done with that card so just not worth the risk in general unless
there's a huge discount right unless there's a huge discount like again it
depends on everybody in their own sense of risk versus reward just when you find
used you are taking a chance the warranties not gonna carry over the
thing might not work when you get it there you know Ebates won't always
return your money if you say it's broken but if you there's a chance to get
something like a gtx 980ti for like 300 bucks like something that's like that's
a stupid price that's real good it might be much more worthwhile to roll the dice
yeah but in the end you are putting your money on the line when you're buying
used huh okay so Brad basically saying not worth the risk unless there's a
really good reward and in general it sounds like not really worth the risk
anyway that's Brad's opinion come back we talk about this stuff all the time on
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