Buying a used RTX 3090

[steverebo]

So I put an offer in on ebay for a used Asus RTX 3090 tuf OC and I have a counter offer of £700 for the card. Seller claims he purchased it in December and is selling due to upgrade and card has not been used for mining although I will take the last 2 statements with a pinch of salt.

What's tge verdict on buying used RTX 3090's, are they safe to buy even if they have been mined on or are they a high risk of failure?

 

[AlienALX]

You will know well within the return window if it is Donald Ducked.

If it is? it is. Nothing can fix it. If, however, it works fine? then IMO at that price it is well worth the small risk of it crapping its pants in a year.

I've had a dodgy 2080Ti for years now. Dodgy VRAM, like. I just have to tune the memory on a game per game basis, it is still working. If it dies? then IMO I have more than had my £480 out of it.

 

[Dicehunter]

So I put an offer in on ebay for a used Asus RTX 3090 tuf OC and I have a counter offer of £700 for the card. Seller claims he purchased it in December and is selling due to upgrade and card has not been used for mining although I will take the last 2 statements with a pinch of salt.

What's tge verdict on buying used RTX 3090's, are they safe to buy even if they have been mined on or are they a high risk of failure?

If he only bought it a few months ago he should still have the sale info in which case you can still use the warranty.

Even IF he bought it in December and mined on it, It wouldn't have done anything to the card unless the card was built by a blind badger during a full eclipse while also high on meth.

 

[steverebo]

I've gone for it and what I will do is bench the life out of it when it arrives checking temps, from what I remember time spy test 2 pushes the vram and a bit of furmark as well. If all is good once the return period has passed I will swap out the thermal pads for the vram and repaste the gpu with some thermal grizzly

 

[Dicehunter]

I've gone for it and what I will do is bench the life out of it when it arrives checking temps, from what I remember time spy test 2 pushes the vram and a bit of furmark as well. If all is good once the return period has passed I will swap out the thermal pads for the vram and repaste the gpu with some thermal grizzly

Make sure to get the sale invoice, It will say on it if he actually bought it in december.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Yeah there's no excuse for no invoice. He bought online more than likely. They keep receipts for years.

 

[steverebo]

Card arrived today and all seems hood so far, did a timespy run and hit 17,600. I've checked gpuz and it shows the memory maxing out at 84 degrees 92 degrees hot spot when looping timespy test 2

 

[Dicehunter]

Card arrived today and all seems hood so far, did a timespy run and hit 17,600. I've checked gpuz and it shows the memory maxing out at 84 degrees 92 degrees hot spot when looping timespy test 2

All good then, Still would benefit from swapping the pads out down the line for even better temps.