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is the mining apocalypse upon us today we're gonna go pick up some really good deals and see what we've got I mean there's a heap of different deals this month later on in the month I will be doing a parts hunt in Italy too so stay tuned for that but I have heard bad rumors about Italy and if we do fail there at least we've got some deals now to account for that but let's hit the road and see what this first package is all about - here are the cards on the desk here this is the 1080 T eyes we've got three of them the EVGA models as well so really good we've also got a 1070 Strix as well so what we're gonna do is we're gonna put these cards now on the bench and see their temperatures because they've been mined on and then we're gonna give them a bit of tech yes lovin and see their temperatures afterwards now another really good thing is - is it still got like warrants yeah I think like almost two years warranty on them so that's a good thing if you're buying an ex used winding card for very cheap you can get yourself a deal and balance out all those bad prices that we saw in the past three so we've now finished four different tests I decided to test the other two EVGA cards and one of them was going up to around 66 67 degrees I believe this was 60% fan speeds and I did this after to benchmark runs in Unigine heaven so after we did the apply the thermal paste and clean them all up the Strix saw a three degree drop and then one of these cards stayed virtually the same and then one of them had around a 767 degree drop and then the other had just a couple of degrees so there's a results but keep in mind one thing to keep in mind with these cards is that at least when I did my mining rig back in the past some of the data that I collected was that EVGA is Zeus and also gal axe cards are really good they're some of the best so even the thermal paste they put out of the box is pretty good you saw one of these cards may have lost its viscosity on the thermal paste but that's only one and that was probably in the middle I'm guessing these cards here so it's probably getting that hot but other than that these cards are now running absolutely fine they've been fully tech yes loved and now they're good to go but also some other real good news is here I picked up a GTX 780 for 120 Australian dollars which I think we like 90 USD this is almost brand new it looks really good behind that is another GTX 760 2 gigabyte model we got this for 17 straight dollars so some really good deals to be had in this current situation where I believe FPGA mining is taking over and those some of those asset resistant currencies is the latest news I've heard so you can expect a lot of cheap graphics cards to come well with that in mind let's move over now to a conclusion and here we are finally going to answer that question of should you buy a mind graphics card one that's bin weight that doesn't make any sense should you buy a graphics card that's been used on a mining test bench and that really depends I mean these cards here today they weren't that dirty when I inspected them closely they really didn't look like that been used a whole lot if you go and see a mining test set up before you buy the cards and they look really shot then maybe you want to think about twice before you hand over your money that's one thing you may wish to do I saw these cards before I bought them and they all look really good they even come with the receipts and they've still got another two years warranty and that's another thing if you want to buy one of these cards you want to make sure you get a real good deal then of course make sure the price is right and not only that make sure it's one of those higher tier cards as I said before when it comes to graphics cards there's generally three brands I turn to and that's Galax azuz and EVGA they're really good cards as you saw with the before and after temperatures with GC extreme it didn't make a huge difference and that's even when these cards have been on a mining setup so it's a really good deal if you can get it when the price is right and that's what we did here today picked up three 1080p is also a gtx 1070 and then of course later on picked up a gtx 780 and also gtx 760 so it's starting to rain graphics cards again if you guys are deal hunters get your wallets ready or if you know a friend who wants to build a gaming pc on the cheap it's always good to have you wallets ready wait for them miners to start selling up because another thing as well is a algorithm called eques hash has apparently been cracked now by FPGAs and that's apparently field-programmable gritter ways from the top of my memory and essentially they're in between an asset and a graphics card in terms of their maximum potential and essentially that will get a lot more hash rates then a graphics card otherwise would for a specific task and in this case mining a cui hash so the asset community is maybe a sycamore but it's not FPGA immune and so you're seeing these cards come in and they're making GPUs useless so a lot of miners are gonna be selling off their Nvidia cards now so get ready for that too and always pick up a deal when the price is right that's my recommendation but also check the cards out too as well make sure they go warranty if you want to be super safe and I hope you guys enjoyed this one if you did then be sure to hit that like button let me know in the comment section below if you haven't questions about xmind cards I'm okay picking them up it's the price is right you know me a deal's a deal and I'll catch you guys another tech video very soon peace out for now bye