The flood of secondhand hardware onto the market is fantastic.

[JollyJamma]

After nearly 3 years of exorbitant pricing and scalpers, those people who have very low budgets can finally upgrade.

Seeing a ton of ex mining cards on eBay.

RIP mining and cryptocurrency.

Hope everyone is enjoying their value upgrades.

I’m thrilled to be getting a cheap Z490 rig for a Docker/VM/Plex/Linux server to put in the roof.

 

[JollyJamma]

We await the forthcoming 'I've been ripped off on eBay, what should i do' post

Oh no, I don’t buy off eBay unless I have to.

I found a cheap Z490 motherboard here on OC.

The pricing is often cheaper here on OC and people are great at communication.

eBay just seems to have really badly priced hardware that you might get scammed on.

 

[JollyJamma]

i wouldnt buy a second hand GPU anyway since the mining craze took off, id rather buy new

I know what you mean but it depends on if the card was looked after ie proper lowering of voltages and clocks with removal of any dust.

I've got an old RX580 that I got second hand, did some mining on and it's still going strong but yes, you don't know the condition if you buy from eBay.

 

[JollyJamma]

I don't think all of this hardware is coming from mining. I think there are many people who bought cards at the beginning of COVID because they knew they would spend more time gaming, and now they don't need them.

A lot of people are offloading their high end cards to buy RTX 40 series high end cards.

We’re seeing 3080 ti cards go for £575 which is roughly what the 2080 and 2080ti cards were going for before the launch of the RTX30 series.

Someone said that they aren’t seeing a discount on hardware other than GPUs but I’ve seen more than a few 12th gen bundles at a good price.

 

[JollyJamma]