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GPU Resale analysis

Dirk Diggler

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The x70 cards are always very good bang for buck, that's obvious without needing any kind of data like that :p

I disagree with the Titan being a sensible option, especially when Nvidia are unpredictable with their releases, you never know if they will screw you over soon after like they did when they released the 980Ti.
 
^^ On the flipside those buying Titans, etc. as a gross generalisation don't tend to be the type that are too worried about money.
 
Thanks for the link, String - food food for thought...

Not sure if you saw it, but the OP on Reddit also had some advice for those of us who can't afford Titan X cards (in the comments section):

Question:
So do you have recommendations for someone who buys a card and uses it for ~5 years? Better to go high end or midrange?

Answer (OP):
I'd recommend just getting comfortable reselling. Instead of buying a high end card, buy a midrange and flip it every two years. You'll have better performance and reliability that way, while spending about the same as a single high end card in the long run. Plus you never lose warranty coverage, so the chances that your GPU becomes worthless overnight are pretty small.
 
Titans can have absurd resale value. I sold my original titan for£280 last month. Even though it was over 3 years old I was still very impressed by the performance at 1440p.
 
I don't like to talk about money and what I can afford because for one it doesn't come across well and for another anyone can claim anything on the tinternet, let's be honest. However, it's relevant so here goes:

I have a wee secret squirrel account that I hide from the wife, it's named "Geek Fund" and currently contains £2k. I'm sitting on my 980ti regardless, because I just can't bring myself to buy a 1080 or Titan P. This is partly because I saw what happened with the 980ti eclipsing the Titan M and so have been holding out for the 1080ti, and I just can't bring myself to buy a 1080 at the current price point.

My reluctance has nothing to do with what I can afford, I suppose it's more about justification and feeling like I invested well. Having read that Reddit post, I'm now wondering if the smart move would have been to buy the Titan P. Now it just feels like it's too late and I need to wait for the next wave of GPU to make my "smart purchase"! :p
 
String said:
I have a wee secret squirrel account that I hide from the wife, it's named "Geek Fund" and currently contains £2k. I'm sitting on my 980ti regardless, because I just can't bring myself to buy a 1080 or Titan P. This is partly because I saw what happened with the 980ti eclipsing the Titan M and so have been holding out for the 1080ti, and I just can't bring myself to buy a 1080 at the current price point.
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Between the length of time stuck on 28nm, Intel not doing anything particularly interesting in the CPU space, etc. I've built up a nice little pot for upgrades - had to slightly raid it to replace the garbage Asus ROG Swift with the much better Dell equivalent which aren't cheap monitors :S but aside from that hardly anything lately tempting me to spend.
 
Rroff said:
Between the length of time stuck on 28nm, Intel not doing anything particularly interesting in the CPU space, etc. I've built up a nice little pot for upgrades - had to slightly raid it to replace the garbage Asus ROG Swift with the much better Dell equivalent which aren't cheap monitors :S but aside from that hardly anything lately tempting me to spend.
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That's a fair point, I've got a 5930k and ASUS RVE and I'm not sure when it'll be time to upgrade from there. If history is anything to go by, it'll be around 2020 :D
 
I saved £20 a month from the release of maxwell to buy my next card. By the time 1080 rocked up i had saved £420 and was ready for something new.
 
Disco_P said:
Titans can have absurd resale value. I sold my original titan for£280 last month. Even though it was over 3 years old I was still very impressed by the performance at 1440p.
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To be fair, you'd hope given its original purchase price it would still be able to hold its own.

I think the same of my 870 CPU, old yes, of course, but it still just about cuts the mustard today, in its day it was high end and priced accordingly.

If your high end expensive purchase can't give a degree of longevity performance wise, it's really time to pack up and go home isn't it?
 
String said:
I don't like to talk about money and what I can afford because for one it doesn't come across well and for another anyone can claim anything on the tinternet, let's be honest. However, it's relevant so here goes:

I have a wee secret squirrel account that I hide from the wife, it's named "Geek Fund" and currently contains £2k. I'm sitting on my 980ti regardless, because I just can't bring myself to buy a 1080 or Titan P. This is partly because I saw what happened with the 980ti eclipsing the Titan M and so have been holding out for the 1080ti, and I just can't bring myself to buy a 1080 at the current price point.

My reluctance has nothing to do with what I can afford, I suppose it's more about justification and feeling like I invested well. Having read that Reddit post, I'm now wondering if the smart move would have been to buy the Titan P. Now it just feels like it's too late and I need to wait for the next wave of GPU to make my "smart purchase"! :p
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I also have a 'geek account', even though the wife knows what I have in it and I depleted it on my last build (6850K X99 with a GTX 1080) and it is healthy again but I am seriously not feeling buying anything at the mo. I have gamed so much more than I have for years and not having MSI AB running and just playing seems to work. If I see my comp struggle though, of course I would look to upgrade but no longer interested in SLI/CF as a solution.
 
Got a joint account to pay the bills, separate accounts to do as we please, I don't gurn at her spending and she'll never with me as long as I don't pay the hookers with plastic.:p
 
I've also been considering staying one behind the curve with top end cards (hence the signature :p) and buying second hand. If I can pick up a card with warranty and a block installed then the bang for buck is immense and the seller is also seeing a benefit, as I've found out myself through selling. In my experience as soon as you remove the block to sell the card, you'll never shift the block so if you are a constant upgrader it's always better to sell sooner for maximum resale value.

But then you have to suffer the thought of there being a faster card out there... And all you need to do is put it in the basket and it's yours, all yours! :D
 
SilverFish21 said:
I'd recommend just getting comfortable reselling. Instead of buying a high end card, buy a midrange and flip it every two years. You'll have better performance and reliability that way, while spending about the same as a single high end card in the long run. Plus you never lose warranty coverage, so the chances that your GPU becomes worthless overnight are pretty small.
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I used to do this during the noughties but gave up around the GTX280 point as it developed an intermittent fault and didn't want the hassle if the buyer had issues. Values of most cards by time I wanted to sell them were quite low and then you've got the hassle of selling / shipping etc. I'm not very good with keeping hold of all the cables / misplacing the boxes etc too.

Yes I'd have be better off selling off old cards but now I just keep them with the misguided idea that I'll bother setting up my secondary rig / use as a spare (actually to be fair I did use the GTX280 as a spare once when had an issue with its replacement GTX470). My guess is had I offloaded my GTX280 / GTX470 I'd have maybe £120-150 extra cash at best. The GTX470 was an RMA replacement in June 2012 so probably would have fetched a few quid.

My current card is a HD7950 which I would like to replace with something like a 1070 ideally. Going rate seems to be about £55ish on MM so after shipping fees etc is under £50. Although actually not too bad I suppose for a card I purchased in 2012.
 
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Rroff said:
^^ On the flipside those buying Titans, etc. as a gross generalisation don't tend to be the type that are too worried about money.
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If you can sink £1100 on a titan card then probably another £200 to water cool it, you don't usually worry about price or money.
 
String said:
I have a wee secret squirrel account that I hide from the wife, it's named "Geek Fund" and currently contains £2k. I'm sitting on my 980ti regardless, because I just can't bring myself to buy a 1080 or Titan P. This is partly because I saw what happened with the 980ti eclipsing the Titan M and so have been holding out for the 1080ti, and I just can't bring myself to buy a 1080 at the current price point.
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This is how it's done, wife or no, put a few quid aside when you can, and spend it wisely.

Last year, after two years of doing nothing I upgraded my CPU/platform in January, my GPU in July and my monitor in October. I can't see myself doing nothing but replenishing the war chest for another year now. Just gonna play some games :)
 
I spent £1600 on my Maxwell Titan X SLI

Silly money...But as of March I'll have had them 2 years and they pretty much handle everything thrown at them at 4K/Ultra and when they don't I just use my 21:9 G-Sync monitor instead.

I'm not talking about 4x MSAA and supersampling, but in general you can put most settings up to the highest and maintain 60fps.
 
bfar said:
I can't see myself doing nothing but replenishing the war chest for another year now. Just gonna play some games :)
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I am replenishing the war chest but ATM I can not see anything new on the horizon worth looking forward to.

Vega is likely to be mainstream Pascal performance.

1080 Ti when it turns up is a non starter for me.

Pascal has killed any thought of highend OC cards like a Kingpin as even the best chips all hit the wall short of 2200mhz.
 
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