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yeah buying use can be risky business but as I've explained in several past videos including this one right here the benefits usually outweigh the costs and the costs are pretty low for used graphics cards eBay remains one of the best places to buy used PC hardware thanks to its buyer protection guarantee and high degree of seller competition meaning lower prices and more selection simply type in the phrase graphics card into eBay search bar and you'll be inundated with choices ranging from just a few bucks to several hundred dollars so what I've done is compiled a small list of discounted used cards and categorize them by resolutions of 1080p 1440p and 4k gaming cards hold on your pants let's start first with the 1080p resolution which is by far the most popular according to Steam surveys in this category we have literally dozens of options at around a hundred bucks starting first with a personal favorite the GTX 970 now ignoring the issue pretending to the last half a gig of VRAM this card holds its own nearly all modern titles in 1080p the EVGA models are the ones which have the most experience and run very quietly run very cool and they've never disappointed you can expect to work with at least two 6-pin supplemental power connectors depending on the board's design power draws pretty small by comparison especially compared to some AMD cards out there this one here sporting dual sixes a bit weird in today's day and age but a worthy trade-off for a card at this price point I have benchmarks the GTX 970 by the way in this video right here no the second card I recommend the 1080p category comes in at around 120 bucks so just a little more expensive and that's the AR X 480 from AMD or raid on a little side note the RX 580 is essentially the same card you can actually flash 580 BIOS is over 40 cards it's essentially yeah the same card and the 475 70 variants are slightly less powerful so all of these are pretty much interchangeable to a degree but if you can get all of these for around the same price pick the one with the highest number and the highest chunk of VRAM in the title check out the sapphire R X 480 for example first of all it's an 8 gig card which is great for stacking texture packs and bumped in game settings it also comes from a reputable board partner the piece çb is also totally custom usually a good sign in terms of overclock ability power delivery and thermals look if a manufacturer is willing to put their own stamp on a board or redesign it from the ground up and use invidious or AMD's GPU in the process I'd say they're gonna be pretty reliable that confidence doesn't come lately there are cheaper 4d options out there but you can find one like this here for 120 bucks and I'd say that's a pretty good option for a budget-conscious gamer another great card for modern 1080p gaming is the GTX 1060 now I normally wouldn't recommend the three gig variant of this card but in situations where money is tight it may be a good option at least temporarily right to get your foot in the door currently these can be bought used for anywhere between 130 and 200 USD obviously the cheaper the better to an extent but you should also keep the brand and cooler in mind some of the smaller variants of this card can run pretty loud in my experience especially the ones with a single fans my recommendation is to stick with two fan cards and an average pcp length nothing super small this three gig model from gigabyte for example is a solid choice and only cost 130 bucks once you throw in shipping that's a good deal in my book the GTX 1060 is a better card than say the GTX 780 pretty much every way in case you're wondering about some of the older models and is arguably better than the GTX 960 4 gig variant from a value perspective which is becoming increasingly difficult surprisingly to find for a decent price on ebay I've been trying to find a gtx 960 like for the past 6 months or so but I can't find them for much cheaper than GTX 970 s and it makes no sense to pay the same price for a 960 that you can pay for a 970 so one of these days I want to pay around 60 bucks for one I feel like that's a good price point maybe 80 bucks with shipping included but I think that's pushing it a little bit if your budget only allows for a graphics card on the $50 price range one of two options there you could drop your in-game resolution to 720p and go with a cheaper card or you can buy something like a gtx 950 it won't push your frame rates or in-game settings to phenomenal levels in 1080p but it'll do the job much better than a GT 1030 and won't venture too far from the performance of a GTX 1050 in fact in some cases a 950 will outperform the 50 which is something I don't feel like a lot of people know about so sticking with Maxwell in this case is the logical choice if you're interested in saving some coin and don't mind the additional power draw next up are the 1440p cards and I'll cut right to the chase here the ones you'll want to consider are the gtx 1070 10 780 i 1080 vega 56 and vega 64 all 5 of these will range in used price from around 200 bucks to 400 USD gtx 1070 s in particular are especially great values right now they're very efficient and runs very cool you can get them on eBay for anywhere between 2 and 250 bucks so they'll pack a heck of a punch in either 1080p or 1440p is this video shows and I mean they're great cards for the money I think they just one of some of the best value cards I would say that the 10 seventies were already great value cards in a new market and then considering the fact you could get these for literally half the price of a new card I think that they're even better so if you have about 200 bucks to spend I think it's a no-brainer buy a gtx 1070 if you can buy one of those possibly a gtx 980ti though it'll run typically a bit hotter unless you get one with a really beefy cooler they might cost a bit more or less depending on where you're looking and when you're looking they might perform slightly better than a 1070 and cuda accelerated tasks but they will consume more power as well so all of these things need to be kept in mind but you know just from a black-and-white perspective both cards are going to game like a boss in either 1080p or 1440p now as for AMD vega 56 has come down quite a bit in price actually since the mining craze and use prices are touching 250 bucks in a few cases so if you're a fan of AMD and you don't mind the higher power draw it might be the right choice especially if you're already sporting a free sync monitor and are concerned about the support for free sync from Nvidia cards because it's still a little sketchy and primitive right now but if I had to choose either between a 10 70 and a 56 for the same price I guess I should also mention that it be the 1070 simply because it runs quieter it runs cooler usually and it consumes less power I'm just more familiar with Nvidia software as well so that's kind of a kick in the green teams direction there but both cards are gonna perform very similarly in some cases the 56 will perform slightly better so it really depends if I'm using Premiere quite a bit and I want a card that is supported by Adobe Premiere then I would go with the 1070 because CUDA acceleration does benefit us video content creators so it is something to keep in mind especially if you're looking this from a content creation standpoint but from a gaming standpoint really either cards gonna do just fine the only big difference is the power draw if you have a power supply that is capable of pushing that much power to a card and not running outside its efficiency peak then I'd say either one whichever one is cheaper at the time you are looking the GTX 1080 in Vega 64 are the next steps up and performance for this category and you can find them for around three to four hundred dollars in ebay and other use sites I personally purchased 310 ATS from eBay just before inventories right up for around 300 bucks each so it may be a bit more difficult now to navigate the use market because you can't buy these as often now in the new market but every now and then you'll find a gem like this one here whether it be from AMD or Nvidia lastly the 4k options we really don't have much to choose from here if your games of choice support SLI or crossfire then you could probably make a case for like dual 10 80s or 10 70s or even crossfire at 56 or 64 s I'm not gonna like that power draw but it's an option just keep in mind that a lot of games are still not going to fully support SLI or crossfire and you can't really interchange them either right some games are decent with crossfire but they're terrible with SLI and vice versa so it's kind of a mixed bag there I'd suggest doing a lot of research into the games you intend to play before you decide to purchase two cards used or new my preference would be to stick with a single card and that leaves us with like two or three options so I will try our best here first up is the GTX 1080 Ti I'm sure this was expected it's a difficult one to recommend though for the used market simply because prices really don't differ too much from the new market and at this point like why would you pay the same price for a used card that you can get new oh yeah you can expect to pay anywhere between four hundred and fifty bucks or so up to an excess of $700 for some models which is difficult to believe these are used cards we're talking about after all but this is what we have to deal with now the Pascal supplies are trying for online retailers sellers know this and they're playing right into the markets hand who can blame them everyone's in it to make a buck or two now the second option would be to purchase something like I use Titan X or a Titan X P never in a million years that I think I'd be recommending a Titan graphics card they've come down a lot in price surprisingly so if you want one just for the heck sake I guess you could go out and buy one and just keep it for 10 years and sell it as a vintage item but they were never truly targeted toward gamers more or less just Nvidia kind of flexing the muscles so yeah maybe for the right price these would be sweet 1440p and 4k punchers you might get lucky and find a listing or two for a Titan XP below 600 bucks at which point in my opinion you should at least consider it okay yeah it feels super we're talking about in recommending Titan cards it's just that's not the nature of this channel I think we'll stick to the new market for the 4k strategy save a 1080i the only other viable cards that aren't outrageously overpriced at this point or the r-tx 2070 and r-tx 2080 the latter of which could certainly handle some 4k 60fps action but again for a hefty price tag the only downside is yeah you'll end up buying into a platform whose drivers aren't fully developed and whose developers haven't fully caught up to the potential demand of RT and tenser core is packed into these graphics cards so 4k gamers are and will continue to be in a bit of a bind through spec to both availability and pricing long story short until serious competition from AMD comes to fruition or until or if Nvidia decides to slash its own prices which wouldn't make sense unless they were interested in competing with themselves which they already do but maybe not from a price perspective higher end cards will be expensive in this difficult to obtain so I have this video at least open your eyes to the great deals that can be had especially on the low end of the spectrum 1080p capable graphics cards are widely available on sites like eBay and I hope you at least give them a quick glance before jumping into your next PC build especially if you're on a tight budget by the way I've linked several graphics cards down below in the video description so Amazon and Newegg affiliate links are tied to the new cards if you plan on avoiding the use market altogether thanks for watching the video these are the ones to which I'd give the strongest consideration new now the ebay links are generic search generated links tied to some of the used cards we discussed in this video they're not super fancy there's gonna send you to a search splash page for that particular card so you can kind of hunt for yourself have a look and let me know what you think about them in the comments below if you're currently sporting a two or three general card I'd especially like to know what your plans are for an upgrade and how much you're looking to spend myself or others may be able to point you in the right direction also okay one more thing if you think other cards should have been added to this list and they're used cards feel free to mention and link them down below I you know it's easy to get like a card that's super cheap from like a best friend but like we're talking about trends online like if you see a certain type of graphics card selling for considerably cheaper than it used to on a site like 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