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if you're disappointed with the latest round of graphics cards from Nvidia I don't blame you there's still hope for you if you've been sitting on eight-year-old hardware since the beginning and dying for an upgrade there's still hope for you now the intent of this video is to shed light on the beautiful huge graphics card market and I practice what I preach I bought not one not two but three used powerful cards on eBay and for the lot I actually paid a lot less than retail so let me break it down here's what I paid for each card at first is the gtx 980ti we're looking at comparable gtx 1070 performance here with a 6 gig frame buffer more maxwell cuda cores and the pascal equivalent and a beefy amp extreme custom PCB from zou tech all in exchange for a higher TDP without knowing which card was older you'd probably think the 92 TI was the more powerful card pascal architecture does reign supreme but the framerate disparities beg to differ i'm averaging well over 60 fps and all titles tested up to 1440p with the 980 TI and i can even actually handle 4k to an extent though I'd much rather sacrifice 4k for higher frame rates in lower resolutions I should also add that 10 70s right now are selling for similar prices and used markets I found some EVGA cards for as low as 240 bucks used and that to me is a really great deal I've searched eBay primarily and always sort from best price you can filter down to just the Buy It Now option if you aren't interested in bidding but don't be afraid to pitch a few offers if you're comfortable in fact this gtx 1080 right here was the one that i bid on the 290 tea eyes were buy it now sales and one of them i picked up for two hundred and sixty bucks when i got a little more familiar with the market i found the second one identical card same design and everything for two hundred and twenty bucks that was a much better deal in my book so right now you can find any 2d eyes in all shapes and sizes for around 200 bucks again custom PCBs for your coolers are gonna cost just a bit more than 10 70s for around 250 bucks great values when seen in the context of new prices as for the GT x 1080 here I paid 320 bucks for it though I lost to another bidder on an identical card later on for 300 bucks so I'd try to stay on this mark the 1080 is considerably more powerful than the 1070 and 980ti and may be worth the extra hundred bucks or so if you intend to ramp up in game settings this card right here uses a reference PCB by the way so if you want an aftermarket add-in board something it's been customized just a little bit for higher power loads let's say higher overclocking support then you might pay a bit more than three hundred dollars for that particular card and by the way with respect to eBay's bidding system if you intend on bidding and notice the current that is much lower than you'd be willing to pay let's say there's a day left in the bidding cycle you can always place a bet much higher than this value and eBay will actually increase the bid in around five dollar increments when others bet until your max bid is met so for example if a current bid on a card is 150 bucks but you'd be comfortable paying up to 200 bucks for it place the $200 bid and eBay will only place a $155 bid or so on your behalf if no one else bids on that card after that point then you'd only pay 155 but if someone bids you up eBay raises the stakes and $5 increments until you're $200 cap is met it's a good way to ensure you pay the lowest price possible for the item without needing to sit in front of your screen all day until the sale closes so if you place an initial bid and someone immediately out bids you it just means that their total bid was higher than that bid that you just submitted by the way if you're worried about whether or not these cards were used for mining there's really no physical way to tell so you kind of have to rely solely on context clues if a seller is getting rid of dozens of ten seventies for example he or she is probably a miner if you literally see a picture of a mining bench in the background probably a miner you get the point this isn't a foolproof job and you'll never really know for sure so it's something you have to be okay with upfront now if you're adamant about avoiding mining cards all together a safer bet is probably going with the Maxwell gen stuff still not foolproof though most ninety D eyes for example weren't used for mining or public word since a lot of these cards were released in 2015 people bought them in 2015-2016 and mining craze really didn't peak until around 2017 2018 so they may have been used for mining but they weren't bought for mining so they probably weren't run 24/7 you kind of rationalize it in your head but I would say Pascal would be more affected by this than Maxwell so if you're okay with the higher power draws from Maxwell these are probably your safer bet if you don't want to get into the mining stuff which again is hit or miss so let's just say the odds are better for the Maxwell stuff by the way if you need something a little weaker for around 120 or 140 USD and you're comfortable again buying used there are some pretty great rx 580 and GTX 970 deals so the chance of the 580 is being used for mining are probably higher than nine 70s but if you're set on the US graphics per market again this is the risk you've got to be willing to incur and rx5 eighties are great for some medium to high 1440p gaming 1080p is a breeze and they'll be much more efficient than their Maxwell you know alternatives and I mean to be honest if the card runs out of the box when you buy it used it probably will run for the next few years at least think about how many CPUs for example randomly die despite running for long periods of time server CPUs literally never stop running and you don't hear about too many of those who need replacement usually it's DRAM or it's some moving component like a hard disk drive a graphics card is like its own mini computer but it's all on board right so it's a little more fragile but again unless you slam the card against something or bend it in a weird way it probably won't die any time soon even if it was used and all that really means is that it's set in a computer and got intermittently hopped so chances are if you're watching this video you're at least interested in the possibility of buying used I know eBay screwed over more than one person in the past there's always a horror story or two in the comments section but in a general sense if you buy something and it turns out to not be what you thought it was maybe it just doesn't work or it didn't come with all the gear that should have you can return the item and get your money back under the eBay buyer protection guarantee it's safer than Craigslist in that respect and only requires five to seven days worth of shipping time in most cases so if I was building a computer today I would forgo r-tx completely I mean come on this prices are ridiculous I would even forego Pascal if we're talking about new cards and by straight-up use the value here is just too good to pass up but that's just my opinion now I want to know what you guys think leave a comment down below and include the most recent graphics card you purchased along with whether it was new or used if you're considering an upgrade I strongly urge you to check used markets first Craigslist eBay offer up they're all great starts give this video thumbs up the others cool just like it for the complete opposite feeling or if you hate everything about life you guys click that red subscribe button if you haven't already into if you wanna be fancy with it we'll catch you in the next video this is science studio thanks for learning with us