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Is now the best time to sell your GPU?

I am surprised the high street second hand shop held offer prices this long for the RTX cards they were getting flooded. Still with the above GTX`s and more RTX supply coming in over the next few months the better all round and do not for get the lower spec cards from AMD and Nvidia hitting the shelves over the coming months. By Autumn the Gpu`s situation should be looking good and all being well some price drop also. If you are thinking about buying a graphic card it is now better to wait and get outside an enjoy the summer.
 
By the time me and wife moved to another house ill be looking into getting a 40xx series possibly by the time for my gaming rig set up in my own gaming den.
Im having no luck getting an upgraded GPU now....
 
Unless crypto coins surge again I think that we have passed the top of the market for this mining boom. For those wanting to buy at the best price it might still be several months wait to get there, but hopefully by Q1 next year intel will have released their cards forcing Nvidia and AMD to be competitive. Rumor mill puts intel top part at same price or less than 3070, with more like 3070ti performance and 16GB vram
 
ASMB said:
Unless crypto coins surge again I think that we have passed the top of the market for this mining boom. For those wanting to buy at the best price it might still be several months wait to get there, but hopefully by Q1 next year intel will have released their cards forcing Nvidia and AMD to be competitive. Rumor mill puts intel top part at same price or less than 3070, with more like 3070ti performance and 16GB vram
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Yes I'd be very tempted at that subject to reviews. It should get very interesting with 3 players. I can't remember the last time we had that situation, it may be when I first got into PCs around the late 90's.
 
Troezar said:
Yes I'd be very tempted at that subject to reviews. It should get very interesting with 3 players. I can't remember the last time we had that situation, it may be when I first got into PCs around the late 90's.
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Think you are right, can't remember any time with more than 2 competitors in the GPU space other than the 90s.

Really hoping Xe-HPG DG2 is competitive on price/perf.
 
I think it is the best time to sell.
Few cards (not only the 30 odd quid ones) started to be available, but at very high prices.
I think as more cards start to be available, won't be long until prices are more reasonable.
At the moment, manufacturers and retailers are simply gauging prices and trying to profit from those customers that aren't aware that they're not buying the last GPU mankind will ever produce, but only one of the many that started to be available.
A 2060 costing more than I paid for my brave previous 2080 on release day, just justifies what I said.
Selling old tech (not judging the card's performance, which many still be very good), no thanks.
When I decided to go with the 3090, madness, £1600, but I wasn't going to pay £1400 for a 3080.
My initial plan was a 3080, but considering how much the difference was, I thought I would lose much less in the future selling the 3090 (which was very close to MSRP) than I would selling a card that was almost double of its MSRP.
I expect things to improve in the next 3 to 6 months, unless things go south again.

About Intel GPUs, another choice is always welcome.
 
Drumroll said:
I think it is the best time to sell.
Few cards (not only the 30 odd quid ones) started to be available, but at very high prices.
I think as more cards start to be available, won't be long until prices are more reasonable.
At the moment, manufacturers and retailers are simply gauging prices and trying to profit from those customers that aren't aware that they're not buying the last GPU mankind will ever produce, but only one of the many that started to be available.
A 2060 costing more than I paid for my brave previous 2080 on release day, just justifies what I said.
Selling old tech (not judging the card's performance, which many still be very good), no thanks.
When I decided to go with the 3090, madness, £1600, but I wasn't going to pay £1400 for a 3080.
My initial plan was a 3080, but considering how much the difference was, I thought I would lose much less in the future selling the 3090 (which was very close to MSRP) than I would selling a card that was almost double of its MSRP.
I expect things to improve in the next 3 to 6 months, unless things go south again.

About Intel GPUs, another choice is always welcome.
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Yah , things will improve that Cex shop are offering to buy 3080s for £998, they are dreamers.You can't even find the card below £1500 used.

Yes, slowly people will realise how they are being held hostage for these products and not pay up, so the prices will drop once the products stay on the shelves for more months.
 
Having seen how bottlenecked my 3090 is by my 2700X, I think I'll sell that eventually but I figure the best thing to do is keep refreshing the CEX sell order every 3 days, and keep using it until the price drops again (at which point claim the original agreed price). That way I effectively get a free loan of a 3090 compared to just selling it today. Don't want to risk ebay etc for something so valuable despite getting a lot more cash.

Sold my RX480 at the weekend, got about double what I paid for it over 4 years ago. Strange times indeed.
Looked at the values of my other GPUs but not really worth selling I think, 1070ti only seems to go for about £50 more than the RX480 (looks to have dropped a bit, was often selling over £400 a week or two back), and will be my main card when the 3090 goes. If I could get hold of say a 3070Ti at MRSP then I'd probably look to sell. 7950 which replaced the RX480 in my son's PC goes for under £100 so again not worth selling. Older cards not worth the hassle of selling as worth so little.
 
HangTime said:
Having seen how bottlenecked my 3090 is by my 2700X, I think I'll sell that eventually but I figure the best thing to do is keep refreshing the CEX sell order every 3 days, and keep using it until the price drops again (at which point claim the original agreed price). That way I effectively get a free loan of a 3090 compared to just selling it today. Don't want to risk ebay etc for something so valuable despite getting a lot more cash.

Sold my RX480 at the weekend, got about double what I paid for it over 4 years ago. Strange times indeed.
Looked at the values of my other GPUs but not really worth selling I think, 1070ti only seems to go for about £50 more than the RX480 (looks to have dropped a bit, was often selling over £400 a week or two back), and will be my main card when the 3090 goes. If I could get hold of say a 3070Ti at MRSP then I'd probably look to sell. 7950 which replaced the RX480 in my son's PC goes for under £100 so again not worth selling. Older cards not worth the hassle of selling as worth so little.
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Wouldn't it just be a better idea to get a faster CPU?
 
I looked into it briefly but it's just another big outlay, to make the upgrade even remotely worthwhile it would need to be a 5800X or better, which don't look particularly good value at the moment. Going Intel would mean a new mobo and the sort of CPUs that appeal to me (11400F) won't offer much of a gain either. The 3090 was just an impulse buy to see how the other half live because I knew it would hold value in the short term, excluding monitors the most I've ever paid for a single component before is £270. I know this gives me a bit of an imbalanced system that I woudn't build from scratch during normal times, and it will seem odd to people having a monster GPU and also be worrying about the cost of other components, but with most games being so GPU limited I wanted to try putting all the eggs in that basket.
 
Troezar said:
My advice is not to buy them ;)
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Exactly. The rules are simple, no profiteering. If they can prove they purchased it for more and someone is willing to pay asking then there is no problem. End of the day if people on here were not buying them at that price people would either not bother listing here or would lower their prices.

IMO no 1080Ti is worth more than £300. They are mostly out of warranty now and in new games Pascal does not do very well from what I have seen. But each to their own.
 
TNA said:
Exactly. The rules are simple, no profiteering. If they can prove they purchased it for more and someone is willing to pay asking then there is no problem. End of the day if people on here were not buying them at that price people would either not bother listing here or would lower their prices.

IMO no 1080Ti is worth more than £300. They are mostly out of warranty now and in new games Pascal does not do very well from what I have seen. But each to their own.
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Its more all this place has done is cry we need 3*** gpus "what about the gamers" OCUK staff saying they are trying to help the situation, then in the MM people selling there old tat for 3 times its value. Ive always saw the MM as a place of salvation for nerds like us. Seems its no better than fleabay these days.
 
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