DON'T Buy a Used Mining GPU! - $h!t Manufacturers Say

Between scalpers and cryptocurrency miners, its been really tough to buy a graphics card. But soon, we could see a flood of used mining GPUs hitting the market- possibly at some pretty attractive prices. But should you buy a second hand GPU that's been used for crypto mining?

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Intro: Laszlo - Supernova

Outro: Approaching Nirvana - Sugar High

CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
1:55 Background Info
3:15 Test Setup
4:10 Test 1 (10 months)
4:49 Test 2 (18 months)
7:12 Test 3 (4 years)
7:56 Conclusion
8:13 Buying Tips
10:48 Outro

[zengwenxin]

Smart full-time miner: lend my GPU to LLT so that gamers are confident to buy my cards when the crypto crashes.

[RidiPwn]

Linus: sends miner back the wrong card
Miner: it's ok, they perform the same

[JayMaverick]

"Heavy usage of this chip will degrade the performance by 10% per year." Sounds like something a clueless marketer would say.

[quickscope]

Bought my 3070 from a miner, 1 year used card undervolted, mining rigs kept in a 15c temp enviroment. The person even showed me his rigs and how he takes care of them. I also got the warranty papers and i couldn't be happier with the purchase.
Conclusion: If you know that the person takes care of the cards, i'd rather buy used from a miner than a gamer.

[Gronbar]

"If you can buy them for half of the price..." Miners selling GPU above MSRP lol

[DibzZDobzZ]

“When GPU prices crash” is sounding a whole lot like “when coronavirus ends”

[kingofstrike]

Palit : Don't buy used mining GPUS
Also Palit : Increase the price to 200%

[Chanharp]

I am not buying those because of what manufacturers say. I am not buying those because i am not going to reward miners for creating the GPU shortage and price hikes. I hope they get stuck with all the GPUs rotting under their asses.

[phirewind]

The most likely "degredation" is simply the lifespan of the fans themselves. If a fan motor is rated for 40, 000 hours, that's about 4.5 years of 24/7 operation, so if you buy a used miner's card that's been going 24/7 for a year, those fans should be good for another 3 years of continuous 24/7 use.

[billymsh]

"world of tanks matches are won with skill not with money"
oh linus you poor sod, if you only knew.

[vtubersilvionimbus]

"Unless Palit is saying their cards die really quickly"

Well, I've had a Palit GTS 250 and GTX 460 both go bad on me rather quickly, soooo...

[fkeuser]

Bottom line is like anything you buy online, if you take care of your stuff then it has a second use for someone else.

[Anteritus]

Linus: " skills wins the battle, not the money"

Premium Shells: are you sure about that?

[Battleneter]

Miners always undervolt, and mining cards seldom go through the somewhat stressful heat up and cool down cycles of gaming cards, so there is a counter argument to a decreased life span, outside wear on the fans.

[zodwraith]

Palit: Huge seller of pallets of GPUs to miners.
Palit: "Don't buy miner GPUs!1!"

[Nacalal]

Your biggest risk when buying a 2nd hand mining card is the fan burning out, running at higher clocks for longer means more heat which means boosted fan speeds to keep heat down and prolong card life.

[sammiches]

If Palit is testing and claiming this with their cards, I will assume it's a problem with no other brand and will avoid theirs altogether. Good information Palit.

[DJ.]

Since when has consistently running solid state electronics at well below their rated maximum temperature and power limits caused any kind of measurable degradation in a short time period of a few years? The worst that happens to a properly configured mining card is the wear and eventual failure of the fans. If a properly configured card dies while mining than it would have died doing any other task.

[buggerlugz]

Pro tip: If manufacturers don't want folks to buy mining GPU's second hand then how about manufacturing some?

[skilletborne]

Would have been nice to see gaming framerates. Clocks are a great indicator, but FPS would have been a lot more consumable data at least, and may have shown other degradation.