As the price of graphics cards is no longer so exaggerated, a new generation of graphics cards is also being launched one following another. Many players must be considering upgrading or renewing, but just like other products, graphics cards are getting more and more expensive. Not everyone has such a If you have a lot of budget, many people will worry regarding buying a second-hand graphics card, but the mining card may not be as bad as you think.
Recently, a foreign hardware channel with more than 10 million subscribers uploaded a shared video. After testing multiple mining cards, they showed that buying second-hand mining cards is actually not a bad idea. Most of the performance is as good as second-hand game graphics cards.
The actual measurement of well-known foreign hardware channels shows that “buying second-hand mining cards is not a bad idea”, most of them are as good as second-hand game graphics cards
In the past few years, due to the skyrocketing cryptocurrency, many graphics cards were bought by miners for mining. Mining will cause the graphics card to be in high-load operation for a long time, which will affect the lifespan. This is why most people and the media will recommend not to buy it. Mining cards, but Linus Tech Tips, a well-known foreign hardware technology channel, believes that this argument is wrong following measuring regarding 19 mining cards.
Linus Tech Tips bought 19 second-hand graphics cards from 17 unknown buyers in the past year, including NVIDIA RTX 3060, RTX 3070, RTX 3080 and AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT, etc. Some of them have been used in large quantities for mining:
Although these 19 second-hand graphics cards can all work normally, of course the luck is not so good, there are still 2 small problems, namely Gigabyte Eagle RTX 3060 OC and Sapphire Pulse RX 5700 XT.
They first used the MSI Kombustor tool to test the maximum and average clock speed of each graphics card. The average clock speed of the Gigabyte Eagle RTX 3060 OC was too low, and the measured temperature was over 100 degrees, so the follow-up tests did not run this one. . The Sapphire Pulse RX 5700 XT is clocked a bit lower, but not much lower. They also recommend anyone who is interested in buying a used graphics card, ask the seller to test it with this tool if you can, it only takes a few minutes to know the result:
Next, look at the actual test results of the game. The top is the reference value. You can see that the two second-hand RTX 3080s are not worse:
Then there is the RTX 3060, except that the MS Ventus 2X OC is a little lower, the rest are similar to the reference value:
Finally, the RX 5700XT, all of which are similar to the reference value:
And some people think that following a long time of mining, the performance of VRAM will deteriorate. They also have tests. The problematic Gigabyte Eagle RTX 3060 OC really failed, but everything else is fine:
In the second half, Linus also shared the argument that many people think that the use of mining cards for a long time will cause damage to the graphics card. He disagrees. He thinks that the damage caused by long-term game play may be even greater. Those who are interested can also listen to it. This paragraph:
In any case, although only one of the 19 second-hand mining cards they tested has a problem, Linus also has supplements that must be checked before purchasing. There are several steps that can be referred to:
- Communicate with the seller, most of them will honestly tell the status of the graphics card
- Shake the graphics card to check for any looseness
- Check the graphics card for external and internal damage
- If buying in person, you can even test the graphics card on the spot
In addition, they also mentioned that in fact, most miners will take good care of their graphics cards:
Of course, this report does not encourage everyone to buy second-hand mining cards, but compared to ordinary second-hand graphics cards, mining cards are indeed cheaper. If you choose carefully and refer to the steps provided by Linus, you may be able to find a cheap one. No problem second-hand mining truck.
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Data reference source: Wccftech
