Been sold a mined on graphics card on the bay

My cards have been mined on (by me) for months on end. Prior to that they were used for folding for years on end, 24/7. There is no performance hit...
 
I find it strange that OP questions the age of a card and goes ahead and purchases it anyway. If you don't get the information you want, don't buy the card.
 
This is why i just bit the bullet and bought a brand new card as any card from ebay could be mined on and there's no way to tell unless the seller is honest about it. Second hand prices are not enough of a saving for the risk of buying a card that has been overclocked and run 24/7 at too high a temp for months imo. Although in your case the buyer seems honest as he admitted it had been mined on in the first case, when he could have lied.
 
Mark A said:
This is why i just bit the bullet and bought a brand new card as any card from ebay could be mined on and there's no way to tell unless the seller is honest about it. Second hand prices are not enough of a saving for the risk of buying a card that has been overclocked and run 24/7 at too high a temp for months imo. Although in your case the buyer seems honest as he admitted it had been mined on in the first case, when he could have lied.
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I personally wouldn't want a card that's been mined on but if it's a good price with zero issues, clocks well and is fairly new I wouldn't mind. Quite often casual miners run the cards at sensible overclocks with power figures to match to maximise profits. You don't gain a huge amount more by clocking like mad with bios flashes and high power targets as the card becomes inefficient and power draw goes up. Far better with another gpu.
 
Why didn't you ask these questions before you purchased the card? People like you infuriate me, always someone else's fault.
 
What the hell ?

The level of stupidity of OP is beyond words

Just because a GPU has been used previously wont make it dramatically drop in performance - it will be no different - ultimate massive face palm, i weep for the future of humanity.

Again, wow, just, wow.
 
Something else to check is are the fans still working ok? If not it will be throttling. Dead fans has been an issue on some cards used for mining for months on end.
 
I'm still baffled as to what the performance issue was, unless it's been flashed with a custom mining bios (then it's certainly not as described) then it should perform exactly the same as any other identical card.
 
You're more likely to have a card that is brand new or has been used only lightly for 2 years die than one that has been used heavily for 9 weeks, most faulty electricals fail early or at the first sight of stress.
 
Caracus2k said:
According to who? (you presumably) if you mean to say 'hardly used' ... Then you can use the phase 'hardly used' ...... 'as new' is a reflection of mostly cosmetic condition.
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Mined on for weeks is not in my mind "as new" for a computer item where cosmetic condition is hardly a consideration... Initially I was going to give a silly reply to op along the lines of so what... But now I'm with him, an as new graphics card is barely used .. Or never used .. A mined on one is "used'.. Almost all computer components could be sold as" as new" but as new in computer terms suggests to me little or no usage.. (since cosmetic condition is not really likley to chance)
 
Most miners treat cards better than gamers, cards are often underclocked and undervolted and temperatures kept low.
 
edscdk said:
Mined on for weeks is not in my mind "as new" for a computer item where cosmetic condition is hardly a consideration... Initially I was going to give a silly reply to op along the lines of so what... But now I'm with him, an as new graphics card is barely used .. Or never used .. A mined on one is "used'.. Almost all computer components could be sold as" as new" but as new in computer terms suggests to me little or no usage.. (since cosmetic condition is not really likley to chance)
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But yet there is still the term 'barely used' for thoose who don't want abiguity.....by using another term they think should mean barely used.

Something can also have been (genuinely) barely used but not be 'as new' say a computer component scratched as it was installed before not being used much. ...

It almost as though the two phases don't mean the same thing.....
 
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Caracus2k said:
But yet there is still the term 'barely used' for thoose who don't want abiguity.....by using another term they think should mean barely used.

Something can also have been (genuinely) barely used but not be 'as new' say a computer component scratched as it was installed before not being used much. ...

It almost as though the two phases don't mean the same thing.....
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Realistically they are interchangeable in real life.

If something has been used extensively the chances of it being in "as new" condition are slim to none.

Just depends on what your definition of extensively used is...
 
You could clock the nuts of it, bench it for 29 days then ask for a refund. New gpus would have dropped to mach his price, and it's not your money that will be affected...

Any issues on thay card wont be down to mining on it for 9 weeks, there are cards still running from the first mining craze back in 2010/2014
 
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