RX6800 GPU EX-mining card for 2 years DEAL or NO DEAL??

[DragonPlus7]

I found an RX6800 ex-mining card for £300 preowned. The seller shows the pictures and shows and explaining there is white stuff in the fins coz of it being cooled in a damp area!! called dioxided of something. This put me off! deal or no deal ?? How much life is two years constantly ON for a GPU is it half dead already ? it was tempting but is it too good to be true. Dodgy cards on ebay tell me about it.

[Preacher]

im no expert but i'd pay the extra money to just have a brand new card that is guaranteed

[Preacher]

there is a line of thought that suggests properly used miner cards are fine to use even if they were on all the time. They say the miner undervolts the GPU and make sure they are cool while they dont suffer from expansion/contraction from being on/off

[DragonPlus7]

Preacher eredeti hozzászólása:

there is a line of thought that suggests properly used miner cards are fine to use even if they were on all the time. They say the miner undervolts the GPU and make sure they are cool while they dont suffer from expansion/contraction from being on/off

I just DONT want this happening with a used card thats so expensif see below link

https://youtu.be/VbV7xWplOSI

[Cathulhu]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFytB3bb1P8

TL;DR: It's a mixed bag and somewhat of a lottery.

[Slav Mcgopnik]

If it's being sold for like 3/5 of its MSRP (which this is) I'd strongly suggest to not bother. Anyone trying this hard to dump off a good GPU, in this market, is probably not telling you something important.

You're better off paying the extra money for one you know works and don't have to worry about past treatment of.

[PopinFRESH]

GPU mining lowers power as much as possible while substantially under clocking the GPU core and heavily over clocking the GPU memory.

Used mining cards will often have issues with the VRAM.

[DragonPlus7]

Cathulhu eredeti hozzászólása:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFytB3bb1P8

TL;DR: It's a mixed bag and somewhat of a lottery.

this is a great response, stay away from EAGLE gotcha lol!

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

Ex-mining with heavy power consumption card - yeah that will end well.

[GOD RAYS ON ULTRA™]

Absolutely not worth it. Right now a brand new one is on sale with a free starfield premium. Starfield premium is a $100 game.

[Illusion of Progress]

Those are about $430 to $450+ in the US so i guess ~400 euros or a bit less before VAT when new? So that's ~100 euros off for being used for a not-too-old GPU, but it's a mining one.

If you're okay with it being used (and the fact it was a mining GPU, which matters to some people and doesn't to some others), then the price doesn't seem too off to me?

[Introverted Gamer]

As long as it functions normally during Benchmarks and Tests. It's OK. I bought used mining cards they have yet to fail on me. Also, depend on how old the card and the mining seasons it was used. Like RX580 and GTX1060 and those older those cards likely lived through two mining seasons heavily back in 2017-2018 and again in 2020-2021.

[r.linder]

Mixed bag and definitely a bad idea for Gigabyte cards because their cards are especially ♥♥♥♥ quality and have notably high rates of defects and failures, especially on AMD.

Back before RDNA when Radeon GPU quality was mediocre at best compared to NVIDIA’s higher end, Gigabyte RX 400 and 500 series cards were among the most used in mining rigs due to their low cost. Most of them are dead now, they failed at a spectacular freaking rate when you stressed them that much. Sapphire had almost as much volume sold but had one of the lowest failure rates despite that volume.

[Monk]

While mining cards that have been looked after and ran properly are likely in a better state than the average card used for gaming.

With that said, the condition you say this card us in, the conditions it was fun in and the fairly minor discount all scream avoid to me.

That the seller didn't even clean the card up suggests even further that it was not mined on responsibly.

[Paraskeet]

I would never buy a mining card. it's like hipfire. your mileage may vary but is that worth the 100 you can save here?
most of these miners clean their cards with a garden hose. give it a few months and it might suddenly die during operation.

[Monk]

Paraskeet eredeti hozzászólása:

I would never buy a mining card. it's like hipfire. your mileage may vary but is that worth the 100 you can save here?
most of these miners clean their cards with a garden hose. give it a few months and it might suddenly die during operation.

That is highly unlikely due to the downtime such actions would require, though, the fact thst you think this is dangerous in anyway suggests that you should not be giving any tech advice.