I just sold my XFX R9 290X 4GB Double Dissipation for $150CAD, yesterday. It was sitting in my closet doing nothing. I paid $230 for it in 2013. People are still selling them over here for almost $300. I can't justify ripping people off for that much. I listed it for $100, but in 15 minutes I was offered $150 if I'd ensure he could pick it up within the hour! It is still desperate out there. Love the channel. Cheers from Vancouver!
Black Friday prebuilts are the way to go right now. Got an HP with a R7 5700G, 3060 12gb, 512gb nvme, 16gb ddr4 3200.... For $850 usd. The proprietary parts blow, but the sum = value in this market.
1GB gfx cards obviously are still very useful, just not in systems for playing PC games. But for office PCs with an F SKU CPU or most AMD CPUs they are fine. They are also fine for making a retro gaming PC running Retroarch or Launchbox that has been loaded up with games for MAME, SNES, Genesis, PS1, PS2, Gameboy, Saturn, Dreamcast, etc.
I recently bought a S7000 Firepro. It's basically a 4GB HD7870. I did add a 3rd party heatsink because the card is passive otherwise. I built the card for a total $85 USD.
Im in the lottery mood rn by getting a few Visiontek mystery boxes for some 720p pcs im working on, but its always cool seeing your finds 4:46 One of the pcs is an 8gb, 2500k system with a 1gb hd 6850 for $80, for a good friend coming from an Imac with 4gb and an integrated graphics dual core cpu from intel with 128mb of vram. So for him the 1gb gpu is already 100 times better for his usecase.
@@DuneRunnerEnterprises Yeah I just got 150$ worth a few days ago and im waiting for it to be delivered. Im happy that theyre adding storage and knick knacks to this round
My favorite series on your channel. Always good to see Bryan excited about hunt for used PC parts. It feels like some good loot dropped from chest box in hack and slash game :D
theres a surprising high amount of games that run just fine with 1gb cards.The fact that they are usually pretty slow to beginn with makes it that when you run out of vRAM, you sometimes don't even realize.
For a time I used 560 Ti SLI, before moving up to a 580 1.5GB, then the same SLI, then 580 3GB SLI, then finally a single 980. I tended to mod things which pushed VRAM a lot, but sometimes raw performance was also an issue, though back then I had a CRT using 2048x1536.
Hey Bryan I always look forward to watching this series each month. Question, do you mainly try to source deals only at the end of month ? How much time otherwise do you spend looking for deals on marketplace/ Gumtree daily. Many thanks
This absolutely hand down is my favourite Tech channel when it comes to PC building/refurb/repairs etc love it Brian! Do you think in the future you'd ever consider buying/repairing/refurbing / cleaning up and flipping games consoles?
Loving the budget bangers this month. Friend of mine has an i5 3570, do you reckon a little 3rd or 4th gen i7 would be a good move? Patience is a virtue my man, always a good move.
My favorite content before I sleep! Thx for the tip on 1gb VRAM cards, and looking forward to the results on broken mobo combo. Tech Yes does it again! Thanks always
I've been limiting myself to 4gb GPUs, 1gb and 2gb cards are out for me. Lower end GPUs seem to be slowly coming down in price, but mid to high end cards aren't moving. I think we're in that stage where ppl are hanging on to their asking price but hopefully that will change over the next few months. I've been able to snag a couple of gtx 960 4gb and gtx 970s for 1080p gaming systems. Hard to get anything higher at a reasonable price. Have you had luck building higher end systems with a budget GPU such as a gtx 970 to hold them over with 1080p gaming until prices return to reasonable levels to pick up a high-end GPU ? I was considering buying a 9900k system with this in mind. Update: The auction I was watching went up too high. The complete build would have gone up to £790 and I don't think I'd be able to sell a gtx 970 build for £900 regardless of the other parts so I didn't go for it, so back on the lookout for a reasonable parts to pair the gtx 970 with.
I ran a 730 for a year. Nothing to brag about but nothing to complain about either. That was years ago and 2GB even then was bare bones for games. I've had people ask me to help them out with basic PC's for netflix type stuff and I'd be fine with sticking a 1GB card in those sorts of builds. 1st, 2nd Gen i5 with a 1GB card for movies and browsing. I'd be fully up front with them. That's something they could rely on for a year or two.
In Germany the prices are enormous even for this old GPU like R9 270. Recently seen one of them for 130 euros. For a GTX 1050ti, 250.00 is sometimes traded used. Seen in this light, the prices in Australia are really cheap ..
Hi Brian, hope you are doing great. Quick question, I just bought a used Asus tuf b350m with a r5 1600 for my wife's office pc. In terms of cleaning/new thermal paste on the chipset, what do you recomend?
Hey Tech Yes, how is that Kia Stinger serving you? I am a bit of a "petrol head" as well as a pc enthusiast (probably should put that second one in the past tense), so i wanted to know if you have any issues with it. Thank you in advance.
Managed to get a bunch of rx 470 4gbs (6 of them on a mining rack) for about $115 USD each. They're a bit rusty and some of the fans need replacing but I've been able to reflash them and get them all working well so I'm happy! Looking forward to selling some budget pcs with them in the next few months
Saw those mobos stacked on top of eachother, cheap tip, you could probably find old vertical document/file holders, theyre perfect for slotting in a motherboard or two and prevent PCB warping and just general safety so you don't knock a chip off, thought i'd pass on my findings :p
I just copped a used galax gtx 1070ti ex for $180 SGD (based on google $131.25 USD, $184.28 AUD), just want ask is that a good deal? It came quite dusty so i had to clean it up.
For ultra budget machines a 1gb card works for me. I put a 6850 with an overclocked fx 6300 and 8gb of ram and it ran valorant, minecraft, and csgo with good fps. I got the card for free though... In my mind that's all it's worth.
How often do you purchase dead hardware, out of curiosity I wonder how difficult it would be to carry 3-4 different motherboards and mini versions of everything you need to power on and get display out for any part.
I've had to liquidate a couple 1GB GT 640's; they actually made solid Valorant / Dota PC's when I bundled them with CRT monitors. Those old CRT's are a great bundle with an entry-level esports rig, being lower resolution but being overclockable af
Is a evga gtx 1050 for $175 nzd good i gonna try a low offer on it. Also is a evga 660 ti good for $100 nzd gonna try low offer to. Just wondering if i should buy and if good for my pocket.
Hey mate, I know I could probably google this but I'm just about to upgrade my MB as my current ASUS SABERTOOTH Z87 has somehow nerfed ram slots A1 & A2, is this a common thing that's easily fixed or is it only downhill for this board from here??? thanks
I'm still running the GTX960, and as much as I'd like to upgrade it's still capable at 1080p. Saw an ad for $1100 for Ryzen9, GTX1080 2x monitors, desk, chair etc.... Price seemed too low so much as to be a scam. Also in 150km each way from me so didn't bother.
Yeah, you aren't going to get a discount on a current gen GPUs buying used with the way the market is. I'm in the US and a few months back, I sold my Zotac 3060 for $590 which is what I paid for it after tax and shipping from the manufacturer's website. Nobody ever questioned the price, they just wanted proof that the card worked. I sold it because I regretting spending that much on a 3060 and I ended up getting a 3060 ti on Newegg shuffle for around $60 less.
Radeon HD7770 1GB here, with an i7-3930k. Can play Civ6 at 3440x1440 resolution, full screen, with 30-50fps averages, on all low settings. Good enough for some casual gaming.
I just bought a lenovo office pc i7 4790, 8gb 1333Mhz, 256ssd, 1080p 20" monitor, mouse and keyboard for $60AUD in Vic I have a spare case, 650w power supply and my old relic HD7970 3gb Going to put it all together and put activated Win 10 on it. What price would you put on this build?
Even if the market crashes im wondering how good the mining cards will be? Ive checked out some mining vids and the cards get flogged 24/7. Lots of overheating, thermal pad and paste replacement and fan replacement. In saying that, most of the cards were 3080-90's which run hot regardless so maybe avoid those and lean towards 3060-70's????
I have been hearing more and more from people struggling to get by hosed by used minng cards. I think Bry doing more content addressing this with solutions would be great, btw. I think these miners dumping their broken gps are as reprehensible as scaler distributors and of course the cartels who run the show.
The thing is cards with gddrx runs at very hot temperatures 24/7 and once they are sold by miners they are pretty much done. Dont fall on that trap just but the onese non x based.
There is also the fact that while knowledgeable and well-financed miners may indeed under-volt their cards for longevity and keep them meticulously maintained, regardless the engineering tolerances (i.e., capacitors, etc,) of the components will eventually fail and the buyer is not only taking that chance it won't be them but also in the entire process they are in effect financing and facilitating mining itself, even when we know how hard it is on the environment, etc. It is extremely troubling because those who can least afford it are the ones who (really through no fault of their own) are in effect financing these mining pyramid schemes. It is insidious and invidious.
Pity with that 260X. Used to have the 1GB version and sure, for some games the 1GB was a stop sign (eg. Dishonored 2) but other games that weren't so memory hungry like Witcher 3 or KC:D actually ran quite great with textures turned to minimum. With some stutter maybe but still totally comparable to a 750 Ti. Some ancient 2011 games like Dishonored and Portal 2 were even possible for 4K/60fps :D - which you just can't do with the 750 because it doesn't have display outputs for that :D
Since you got me into flipping PCs, I've found a nice niche in my local market for the lower end as no-one seems to have a lot to spend. The 1Gb GTX 750 has actually been something I look for as I pair that with a 1st gen i7 and a 900p monitor for a great little cheap gaming PC. Many of my buyers have been using crappy laptops for gaming so even the lowly 1Gb card feels like jumping to hyperspace for them. Also, for really old games like Runescape 3 (which has a thriving community even today, and a market for people grinding and selling in-game items) the 1Gb GDDR5 cards are ideal starting points and kick a GT710s arse all day long, lol.
Best budget cards from my experience are the 750, 750Ti, and the 1030. The 730 is ok but needs at least 2GB and some overclocking to get some decent performance out of it.
@@Lostcontroller I just found a GTX 645 2gb GDDR5 for £35. It's not as good as a 1gb GTX 750 out of the box... but holy hell does it overclock like a monster. As it stands, it never goes above about 45C, but overclocked it can push 60C and that's it. I may even keep it, I'm having so much fun trying to get a world record on Fire Strike with it, lol. I'm tempted by an EVGA GT 740 SC 2gb gddr5 if I can snag it for the right price.
Until I see a 1050ti or a GTX 980 for $50-$80 used, things are not going back to normal. At this point, that's where cards like this should be. Just before the GPU crisis hit, I was able to pick up an 8GB RX580 for $100 slightly used. Right after the RTX 2xxx series came out, I picked up an almost new RTX 1080ti for under $300 because the guy who just bought it 2 weeks before was able to pick up a 2080. The GPU crisis is far from over. And even when it is over, prices will be far from what they were.
Hey Brian! Could you take a look into modded AMD GPU drivers? They let you install the latest drivers on HD 7000 series, R9 200, 300, Fury and even HD 6000 series. They're called Nimez drivers.
I like 1gb cards, personally, just because there are so many of them you can get for pretty much nothing that'll play e-sports titles. But I mean that's literally for personal use, because I'll sit there and tweak settings forever to make something work right and I'm cool with like 720p on a cheap card. Totally get not picking them up yourself when it comes to selling the PCs, since most people will just run everything stock, including graphics settings, so they'd probably have bad experiences with 1080p monitors.
Hello, have You ever had a CPU preventing the pc from powering on? I dont mean not posting, i mean the fans not starting and everything. I have a B450-A Pro mobo (which i know works) and this Ryzen 9 3950x with a missing pin. With other cpus the pc works perfectly fine. Without any cpu the pc powers on and cpu debug LED lights up (...well, obviously). But when this cpu is in, the pc doent do anything at all. Im probably gonna try to get an extra pin and put it in the mobo but i thought id share this problem and ask about it because its really weird.
I have been noticing new gpus are slowly coming down. Computer alliance is seling the 6600xt for $899 and the 6600 for $849 which makes a pretty good deal if u are going to do a new gaming build..I have been sitting on some good parts for a i5-10600k build and I have the z590 gigabyte motherboard. samsung 980 nvme hard drive and 16 gig kit of denominator ram.
This week I managed to get 2 GT 1030s. One was GDDR4 and the other GDDR5, both Gigabyte branded. The results from Heaven Benchmark were really different. Do you use the GDDR4 ones for entry level gaming builds?
Use them both, the D4 isn't as good as the D5, but as long you just call it entry level and don't get peoples hopes up then they can make for really cheap tidy rigs.
I have a 1050Ti that broke just a year after I bought it brand new. Tech says it shorted out. Is there still hope for it? 😢 There was no visible damage anywhere on the card when I took it apart and took a close look. Buying another one is not an option cuz it has doubled in price that I purchased it
In Germany were I live used graphic cards are very expensive, one example, Rx580 8gB on local market costs 250-300€. A brand new I paid 200€ in 2019 by Media Markt.
Here in Sweden I have no problem to find used GPUs. But you got to pay. Done a lot of builds with Asus Strix 970 and MSI 970. It's also easy to find 1060, but I don't use 3 GB VRAM. It's a lot harder to find Intel CPUs and motherboards gen 6-9. And it can also be hard to find working gen 4 motherboards. I have no problems to find RAM. I also started to use pci-e to m.2 adapters for SSD.
My man! I am about to score a ryzen 2700x for 100 euros and sell my 2600 for 80! 20 euros upgrade to eight core! we take those! Used PC part hunters! assemble!
@@yahyasajid5113 hummm... Each country is different, because here in France a rx 6600 is like minimum 540 so.. But the gtx 1660s is 300-400 but used isn't worth for gaming, and I think if you have the money for the 1660s in. My country you need to be very fast to buy it because miners buy gtx 1660s, 1660, 1660ti, rx 8gb cards and more very fast
@@zebench1 Yes but he said hes in the uk like me and i know that's a bad deal, if he wanted a card like a 1660 he could've bought a 980ti which is faster for £220ish
@@yahyasajid5113 220 pounds for a 980ti is the price on avg or if you're lucky, because I bought a 980 ti recently but for 250 euros. And the 980ti is more powerful than the 1660ti?
i dont mind 1gb gpus for cheap cheap esport builds, especially in this time. Ideal for minecraft, roblox, and can just about handle fortnite, gta etc. Great for old and retro games also
The more popular budget bangers in latvia, FX cpu/intel 2nd or 3rd gen with GTX 570 1.2gb Or i5/i7 4th gen with GTX 960 4gb Theres nothing really else, personally im searching for GTX 960 4gb because i have a coolermaster mATX case with a Triple slit GTX 680(asus direct CUII Top) Its like a furnace in the case while playing theHunter Call of the wild. The cpu is a E5-2620V3 non modded
@@techyescity Thats awesome. Would be cool to see more videos that go into the decision making in builds and what makes sense to pair what with what and how much ram they get etc etc
Some 1gb cards specially Nvidia gtx 750 can offer a very decent experience. I'm not talking about using it for latest native pc games but for atleast latest Nintendo Switch games thru Yuzu emulator. 😁👌🏻 Put it on atleast a 4th gen i5 system then sell it for cheaper than a Nintendo Switch V2 then it's a good deal. Well for me, that's what I'm doing.
My local micro center has EVGA 3070s for $730 and 3070 TIs for $840. Last year Ide have bought one but now to late I dont care. I can wait 6 months for a RX7700xt or RTX4070.
My guess is that to recase the aurora you'll have to buy a new mobo, maybe a PSU and get decent ram since the most likely config in it will be some low frequency 1x16 stick
A friend of mine has an Alienware R10 i think the cooling in this thing sucked we pulled out his 2tb HDD and added another fan to that spot and changed the AIO fan out to push pull and the cooler on his 3080 is lighter then the one on my RX 5700XT and the temps where ungodly hot
1gb of vram is enough for very low end gaming and office pcs so it depends. for the average gamer no but for entry level users it can still run some low end older games and a 1gb gpu can still do normal tasks swiftly you have just gotta use the system like a less trash non portable chromebook so yea you have just gotta find people who have a kid or need a pc to do work so or people who need a gpu to do mid range emulation yea there's a market its just small mostly intel users and og amd users
Yup the GPU market is crazy, even faulty cards are going for 3x the price on eBay 🙄 I'm trying to get 1070 cards to go with the cpus I've got but they are like rocking horse poop for a good price
I'd buy a 1GB card to screw around with I'd say but not for $30. If I were to sell one in a PC it'd have to be paired with something extremely low end (1st gen i5 or an APU) and for under like $75. A R7 260 1GB should be able to run any game from pre-2015 and most indie games even today. Now that I think about it can't a 260 do Dual Graphics with a lot of APU's? I'd love to screw around with that.
If you cannot get Graphics cards then AMD RYZEN 5700G is the way to go if you can get AM3 socket Motherboards and 3600Mhz Threadripper Compatible DDR4 RAM.
USED PC Parts goodness!
I just sold my XFX R9 290X 4GB Double Dissipation for $150CAD, yesterday. It was sitting in my closet doing nothing. I paid $230 for it in 2013. People are still selling them over here for almost $300. I can't justify ripping people off for that much. I listed it for $100, but in 15 minutes I was offered $150 if I'd ensure he could pick it up within the hour!
It is still desperate out there. Love the channel. Cheers from Vancouver!
Tech Yes goodness
Hey what the fuck, WHERE IS THE DADMAN
can i get a used gtx 750ti
The £20 HD 5850 1GB card that I put in my daughters cheap gaming build last year is doing a fantastic job of getting us through the gpu shortage!
My GTX 560 Ti OC is a 1gb card and it's not bad for a 10 year old graphics card. It can run GTA5 at 1080p @ 37 fps.
Yeah 560ti is a beast
isn't it 1.5GB? Edit, no that was the 580!
I have a HD7850 1GB and I get over 60fps in GTA5 at 1440p. Low settings though. I was shocked
I have the same card but get over 60fps... must be the CPU
I have a GTX 660 oem and it can run any valve game at max setting and it gets over 100 FPS
Black Friday prebuilts are the way to go right now. Got an HP with a R7 5700G, 3060 12gb, 512gb nvme, 16gb ddr4 3200.... For $850 usd. The proprietary parts blow, but the sum = value in this market.
That’s actually insane and quite value even if we weren’t in the gpuapocalypse rn
1GB gfx cards obviously are still very useful, just not in systems for playing PC games. But for office PCs with an F SKU CPU or most AMD CPUs they are fine. They are also fine for making a retro gaming PC running Retroarch or Launchbox that has been loaded up with games for MAME, SNES, Genesis, PS1, PS2, Gameboy, Saturn, Dreamcast, etc.
I recently bought a S7000 Firepro. It's basically a 4GB HD7870. I did add a 3rd party heatsink because the card is passive otherwise. I built the card for a total $85 USD.
Im in the lottery mood rn by getting a few Visiontek mystery boxes for some 720p pcs im working on, but its always cool seeing your finds
4:46 One of the pcs is an 8gb, 2500k system with a 1gb hd 6850 for $80, for a good friend coming from an Imac with 4gb and an integrated graphics dual core cpu from intel with 128mb of vram. So for him the 1gb gpu is already 100 times better for his usecase.
They still do "mystery boxes" ?
Oh, they do, but not shipping out of USA....
@@DuneRunnerEnterprises Yeah I just got 150$ worth a few days ago and im waiting for it to be delivered. Im happy that theyre adding storage and knick knacks to this round
@@FireFalcon
Cool!!
Would you be interested in making a video about it, what did you actually would get?
@@DuneRunnerEnterprises I definitely plan on it once they come in
Very cool. When we help out others we help out ourselves, too.
I've dusted off my 1060 3gb and I7 2600 rig and was surprised how many games it still runs at 60fps. Happy holidays to you and your dad.
My favorite series on your channel. Always good to see Bryan excited about hunt for used PC parts. It feels like some good loot dropped from chest box in hack and slash game :D
theres a surprising high amount of games that run just fine with 1gb cards.The fact that they are usually pretty slow to beginn with makes it that when you run out of vRAM, you sometimes don't even realize.
my first gpu is a 560ti, which only has one gig vram. good memory. can play skyrim at 1080ti with no issues.
At 1080 ti?
My first GPU was a 550ti!
freudian slip lol
For a time I used 560 Ti SLI, before moving up to a 580 1.5GB, then the same SLI, then 580 3GB SLI, then finally a single 980. I tended to mod things which pushed VRAM a lot, but sometimes raw performance was also an issue, though back then I had a CRT using 2048x1536.
Is it profitable to buy these cards while driving around and picking them up? Considering gas costs atm
Hey Bryan I always look forward to watching this series each month. Question, do you mainly try to source deals only at the end of month ? How much time otherwise do you spend looking for deals on marketplace/ Gumtree daily.
Many thanks
This absolutely hand down is my favourite Tech channel when it comes to PC building/refurb/repairs etc love it Brian! Do you think in the future you'd ever consider buying/repairing/refurbing / cleaning up and flipping games consoles?
Loving the budget bangers this month. Friend of mine has an i5 3570, do you reckon a little 3rd or 4th gen i7 would be a good move? Patience is a virtue my man, always a good move.
My favorite content before I sleep! Thx for the tip on 1gb VRAM cards, and looking forward to the results on broken mobo combo.
Tech Yes does it again! Thanks always
I've been limiting myself to 4gb GPUs, 1gb and 2gb cards are out for me.
Lower end GPUs seem to be slowly coming down in price, but mid to high end cards aren't moving. I think we're in that stage where ppl are hanging on to their asking price but hopefully that will change over the next few months.
I've been able to snag a couple of gtx 960 4gb and gtx 970s for 1080p gaming systems. Hard to get anything higher at a reasonable price.
Have you had luck building higher end systems with a budget GPU such as a gtx 970 to hold them over with 1080p gaming until prices return to reasonable levels to pick up a high-end GPU ? I was considering buying a 9900k system with this in mind.
Update: The auction I was watching went up too high. The complete build would have gone up to £790 and I don't think I'd be able to sell a gtx 970 build for £900 regardless of the other parts so I didn't go for it, so back on the lookout for a reasonable parts to pair the gtx 970 with.
im looking for 8470's and 5450's because i want to use tri fire. its not good by any means but thats my current use case
Hell fire, a 4gb 960 is £150 in the UK second hand now! for a 6 year old card.
970 is 3.5GB
@@Deuteriumaddict Regardless it plays games at 1080p fine. Got any recommendations for 1080p gaming cards at a similar price point ?
@@rathstar r9 290, 780ti, rx 570, gtx 1060
I ran a 730 for a year. Nothing to brag about but nothing to complain about either. That was years ago and 2GB even then was bare bones for games. I've had people ask me to help them out with basic PC's for netflix type stuff and I'd be fine with sticking a 1GB card in those sorts of builds. 1st, 2nd Gen i5 with a 1GB card for movies and browsing. I'd be fully up front with them. That's something they could rely on for a year or two.
Snapped up a 2687W v2 Xeon for $40 on Facebook Marketplace. My son will be happy going from 4c/4t to 8c/16t👍Love Tech Yes City deals👍
In Germany the prices are enormous even for this old GPU like R9 270. Recently seen one of them for 130 euros. For a GTX 1050ti, 250.00 is sometimes traded used. Seen in this light, the prices in Australia are really cheap ..
1050ti second hand in the UK are going for £185 currently. That's for a 5 year old card! Someone please shoot me now.
@@buggerlugz6753 Man here in Bosnia they are asking 500e for rx580 8gb
ive seen 1050ti s for around 400 euros
Hi Brian, hope you are doing great. Quick question, I just bought a used Asus tuf b350m with a r5 1600 for my wife's office pc. In terms of cleaning/new thermal paste on the chipset, what do you recomend?
Arctic MX-4 is a good choice, it's well priced and non-conductive.
Hey Tech Yes, how is that Kia Stinger serving you? I am a bit of a "petrol head" as well as a pc enthusiast (probably should put that second one in the past tense), so i wanted to know if you have any issues with it. Thank you in advance.
Do you take gas price in account when pricing the parts you pick up ?
Managed to get a bunch of rx 470 4gbs (6 of them on a mining rack) for about $115 USD each. They're a bit rusty and some of the fans need replacing but I've been able to reflash them and get them all working well so I'm happy! Looking forward to selling some budget pcs with them in the next few months
Meanwhile in my country they ask 300 USD ...
@@filds1 yeah usually even in the states people ask at least 250, I just got a lucky with that deal
Markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent. - great quote!
Saw those mobos stacked on top of eachother, cheap tip, you could probably find old vertical document/file holders, theyre perfect for slotting in a motherboard or two and prevent PCB warping and just general safety so you don't knock a chip off, thought i'd pass on my findings :p
I just copped a used galax gtx 1070ti ex for $180 SGD (based on google $131.25 USD, $184.28 AUD), just want ask is that a good deal? It came quite dusty so i had to clean it up.
That's a really good deal, even in a non crypto market. Great pick up!
@@techyescity oh thanks for replying :) love your videos on used pc hardwares!
check if the memory is working well. plenty of 1070 and ti were being used for mining since the early crypto boom
For ultra budget machines a 1gb card works for me. I put a 6850 with an overclocked fx 6300 and 8gb of ram and it ran valorant, minecraft, and csgo with good fps.
I got the card for free though... In my mind that's all it's worth.
You should see lots of 7 and 6 th gen intel oem pcs coming. Most companies are upgrading. Look out for good deals
My favourite of the old era used gpus is the gtx 660 ti 2gb, what a little beast it still is and power efficient.
How often do you purchase dead hardware, out of curiosity I wonder how difficult it would be to carry 3-4 different motherboards and mini versions of everything you need to power on and get display out for any part.
I've had to liquidate a couple 1GB GT 640's; they actually made solid Valorant / Dota PC's when I bundled them with CRT monitors. Those old CRT's are a great bundle with an entry-level esports rig, being lower resolution but being overclockable af
Is a evga gtx 1050 for $175 nzd good i gonna try a low offer on it. Also is a evga 660 ti good for $100 nzd gonna try low offer to. Just wondering if i should buy and if good for my pocket.
Hey mate, I know I could probably google this but I'm just about to upgrade my MB as my current ASUS SABERTOOTH Z87 has somehow nerfed ram slots A1 & A2, is this a common thing that's easily fixed or is it only downhill for this board from here??? thanks
I'm still running the GTX960, and as much as I'd like to upgrade it's still capable at 1080p.
Saw an ad for $1100 for Ryzen9, GTX1080 2x monitors, desk, chair etc....
Price seemed too low so much as to be a scam. Also in 150km each way from me so didn't bother.
Yeah, you aren't going to get a discount on a current gen GPUs buying used with the way the market is. I'm in the US and a few months back, I sold my Zotac 3060 for $590 which is what I paid for it after tax and shipping from the manufacturer's website. Nobody ever questioned the price, they just wanted proof that the card worked. I sold it because I regretting spending that much on a 3060 and I ended up getting a 3060 ti on Newegg shuffle for around $60 less.
Radeon HD7770 1GB here, with an i7-3930k. Can play Civ6 at 3440x1440 resolution, full screen, with 30-50fps averages, on all low settings. Good enough for some casual gaming.
I just bought a lenovo office pc i7 4790, 8gb 1333Mhz, 256ssd, 1080p 20" monitor, mouse and keyboard for $60AUD in Vic
I have a spare case, 650w power supply and my old relic HD7970 3gb
Going to put it all together and put activated Win 10 on it.
What price would you put on this build?
Even if the market crashes im wondering how good the mining cards will be? Ive checked out some mining vids and the cards get flogged 24/7. Lots of overheating, thermal pad and paste replacement and fan replacement. In saying that, most of the cards were 3080-90's which run hot regardless so maybe avoid those and lean towards 3060-70's????
I have been hearing more and more from people struggling to get by hosed by used minng cards. I think Bry doing more content addressing this with solutions would be great, btw. I think these miners dumping their broken gps are as reprehensible as scaler distributors and of course the cartels who run the show.
The thing is cards with gddrx runs at very hot temperatures 24/7 and once they are sold by miners they are pretty much done. Dont fall on that trap just but the onese non x based.
There is also the fact that while knowledgeable and well-financed miners may indeed under-volt their cards for longevity and keep them meticulously maintained, regardless the engineering tolerances (i.e., capacitors, etc,) of the components will eventually fail and the buyer is not only taking that chance it won't be them but also in the entire process they are in effect financing and facilitating mining itself, even when we know how hard it is on the environment, etc. It is extremely troubling because those who can least afford it are the ones who (really through no fault of their own) are in effect financing these mining pyramid schemes. It is insidious and invidious.
@@frankstared No undervolt and "care" will reduce the inmense stress these gddrx memories are suffering all day.
Pity with that 260X. Used to have the 1GB version and sure, for some games the 1GB was a stop sign (eg. Dishonored 2) but other games that weren't so memory hungry like Witcher 3 or KC:D actually ran quite great with textures turned to minimum. With some stutter maybe but still totally comparable to a 750 Ti. Some ancient 2011 games like Dishonored and Portal 2 were even possible for 4K/60fps :D - which you just can't do with the 750 because it doesn't have display outputs for that :D
I agree. I had a 1gb R7 260x. It was quite impressive. RE7 ran well at high settings. In many benchmarks it beats a GT 1030.
Since you got me into flipping PCs, I've found a nice niche in my local market for the lower end as no-one seems to have a lot to spend. The 1Gb GTX 750 has actually been something I look for as I pair that with a 1st gen i7 and a 900p monitor for a great little cheap gaming PC. Many of my buyers have been using crappy laptops for gaming so even the lowly 1Gb card feels like jumping to hyperspace for them. Also, for really old games like Runescape 3 (which has a thriving community even today, and a market for people grinding and selling in-game items) the 1Gb GDDR5 cards are ideal starting points and kick a GT710s arse all day long, lol.
Best budget cards from my experience are the 750, 750Ti, and the 1030. The 730 is ok but needs at least 2GB and some overclocking to get some decent performance out of it.
@@Lostcontroller I just found a GTX 645 2gb GDDR5 for £35. It's not as good as a 1gb GTX 750 out of the box... but holy hell does it overclock like a monster. As it stands, it never goes above about 45C, but overclocked it can push 60C and that's it. I may even keep it, I'm having so much fun trying to get a world record on Fire Strike with it, lol. I'm tempted by an EVGA GT 740 SC 2gb gddr5 if I can snag it for the right price.
@@720PC don't buy a 740. Get a GTX 745. Although it has 4 GB of DDR3, it is a Maxwell architecture gpu and is still getting driver support by Nvidia.
@@Lostcontroller Good to know.
Beautiful car! What's the brand/model?
Just a heads up for UK people. The Titan X Pascal is around £380-400 right now that's 1080ti - 3060ti zone just cheaper.
Agree with those 1GB cards. Got a HD 7850 1GB for free myself and I used it as a temporary solution as I built a budget rig for my brothers.
Bry, your positivity and ingenuity are an inspiration to many during this time of challenges. Take care.
Honestly don't know how he keeps it up in the current market Frank.
He sure is a legend and an inspiration
I know it. He is modelling resiliency but also adaptability. Just hope he is taking good care of himself.
Really get the impression we're scrapping the bottom of the barrel of used GPU's right now.........The situation is far from improving.
Hey thanks for the great content, I always enjoy! Wish you could come out here by Chicago Illinois, it's not hard to find gpus at all.
Until I see a 1050ti or a GTX 980 for $50-$80 used, things are not going back to normal. At this point, that's where cards like this should be. Just before the GPU crisis hit, I was able to pick up an 8GB RX580 for $100 slightly used. Right after the RTX 2xxx series came out, I picked up an almost new RTX 1080ti for under $300 because the guy who just bought it 2 weeks before was able to pick up a 2080. The GPU crisis is far from over. And even when it is over, prices will be far from what they were.
Here in England the gpu prices have only got worse on the run up until Christmas, I'm having to use GTX 770 2GB which I bought for £90 😭
Them tears are real Ewan.
Hey Brian! Could you take a look into modded AMD GPU drivers? They let you install the latest drivers on HD 7000 series, R9 200, 300, Fury and even HD 6000 series. They're called Nimez drivers.
How do you inventory your parts so you know what a build cost you?
So envy Australian used pc parts market is so affordable. For comparison GT 1030 here in Indonesia could sell for $90
Integrated graphics is as good as that gpu, not worth the price.
Only ryzen igpus
I like 1gb cards, personally, just because there are so many of them you can get for pretty much nothing that'll play e-sports titles. But I mean that's literally for personal use, because I'll sit there and tweak settings forever to make something work right and I'm cool with like 720p on a cheap card. Totally get not picking them up yourself when it comes to selling the PCs, since most people will just run everything stock, including graphics settings, so they'd probably have bad experiences with 1080p monitors.
Yeah,the favourite piece of TechYesCity!!!
Hello, have You ever had a CPU preventing the pc from powering on?
I dont mean not posting, i mean the fans not starting and everything. I have a B450-A Pro mobo (which i know works) and this Ryzen 9 3950x with a missing pin. With other cpus the pc works perfectly fine. Without any cpu the pc powers on and cpu debug LED lights up (...well, obviously). But when this cpu is in, the pc doent do anything at all.
Im probably gonna try to get an extra pin and put it in the mobo but i thought id share this problem and ask about it because its really weird.
1g card is good for a retro xp machine, but only if the card is free because win xp machines don't sell for much at all
I have been noticing new gpus are slowly coming down. Computer alliance is seling the 6600xt for $899 and the 6600 for $849 which makes a pretty good deal if u are going to do a new gaming build..I have been sitting on some good parts for a i5-10600k build and I have the z590 gigabyte motherboard. samsung 980 nvme hard drive and 16 gig kit of denominator ram.
This week I managed to get 2 GT 1030s. One was GDDR4 and the other GDDR5, both Gigabyte branded. The results from Heaven Benchmark were really different. Do you use the GDDR4 ones for entry level gaming builds?
Use them both, the D4 isn't as good as the D5, but as long you just call it entry level and don't get peoples hopes up then they can make for really cheap tidy rigs.
where I live:
electricity 10x more expensive than a month ago
Gpus: still a 10% increase in price from already super high prices...
Great to See some Awesome Tech Yes fresh Video content 👍
I have a 1050Ti that broke just a year after I bought it brand new. Tech says it shorted out. Is there still hope for it? 😢 There was no visible damage anywhere on the card when I took it apart and took a close look. Buying another one is not an option cuz it has doubled in price that I purchased it
Definitely agree, 2GB is the bare minimum. I’m trying to avoid using 3GB 1060’s also
In Germany were I live used graphic cards are very expensive, one example, Rx580 8gB on local market costs 250-300€. A brand new I paid 200€ in 2019 by Media Markt.
My guy is turninig into a gt730 “ultra fast GAMING PC” reseller 😂
Grabbed a GTX 1080 ti for 530usd. Nice upgrade from the 980 👍
Here in Sweden I have no problem to find used GPUs. But you got to pay. Done a lot of builds with Asus Strix 970 and MSI 970. It's also easy to find 1060, but I don't use 3 GB VRAM. It's a lot harder to find Intel CPUs and motherboards gen 6-9. And it can also be hard to find working gen 4 motherboards. I have no problems to find RAM. I also started to use pci-e to m.2 adapters for SSD.
My man! I am about to score a ryzen 2700x for 100 euros and sell my 2600 for 80! 20 euros upgrade to eight core! we take those! Used PC part hunters! assemble!
Crazy market glad I got my 2060 super system early last year for 800$ usd before the craziness
i scored a 1660 standard model for 390 which is only 95 over retail here in the UK the fact thats quite a good deal depresses the crap out of me
That really isn't a good deal
You can still find RX6600 for that much
@@yahyasajid5113 hummm... Each country is different, because here in France a rx 6600 is like minimum 540 so.. But the gtx 1660s is 300-400 but used isn't worth for gaming, and I think if you have the money for the 1660s in. My country you need to be very fast to buy it because miners buy gtx 1660s, 1660, 1660ti, rx 8gb cards and more very fast
@@zebench1 Yes but he said hes in the uk like me and i know that's a bad deal, if he wanted a card like a 1660 he could've bought a 980ti which is faster for £220ish
good god, you got hosed dude.
@@yahyasajid5113 220 pounds for a 980ti is the price on avg or if you're lucky, because I bought a 980 ti recently but for 250 euros. And the 980ti is more powerful than the 1660ti?
i dont mind 1gb gpus for cheap cheap esport builds, especially in this time. Ideal for minecraft, roblox, and can just about handle fortnite, gta etc. Great for old and retro games also
The more popular budget bangers in latvia, FX cpu/intel 2nd or 3rd gen with GTX 570 1.2gb
Or
i5/i7 4th gen with GTX 960 4gb
Theres nothing really else, personally im searching for GTX 960 4gb because i have a coolermaster mATX case with a Triple slit GTX 680(asus direct CUII Top)
Its like a furnace in the case while playing theHunter Call of the wild. The cpu is a E5-2620V3 non modded
Always love to see the Yes Mobile!
I love cpu building hunts. great show!
9600k, 1060 6gb, z390, 8gb ripjaws $115 USD. I Scored big today!!!!!!
I got a full pc with a 8gb rx 480 for 400 usd, super happy with that buy cause I had a gtx 760 before that
what kind of cpus do you pair with the gt 1030s? older i5s?
Yeah usually older 2nd gen i5s go perfectly, make for great little fortnite rigs.
@@techyescity Thats awesome. Would be cool to see more videos that go into the decision making in builds and what makes sense to pair what with what and how much ram they get etc etc
Hope that cape is heat resistant, because it sounds like these deals are gonna be HOT... okay I'm out 😅🤣
I'll have to use that in the coming months :p
Some 1gb cards specially Nvidia gtx 750 can offer a very decent experience. I'm not talking about using it for latest native pc games but for atleast latest Nintendo Switch games thru Yuzu emulator. 😁👌🏻
Put it on atleast a 4th gen i5 system then sell it for cheaper than a Nintendo Switch V2 then it's a good deal. Well for me, that's what I'm doing.
what games have you been playing Bryan. Hope you do a livestream soon miss hanging out with the yes man and Daddabyte
nothing wrong with 1gb video cards. i'm sure there's always demand from parents wanting to buy their kids a cheap minecraft/e-sports computer
Great deals this month sir! Any GPU is better than nothing!
1:30ish yeah sadly prices in Victoria ain't that low. RTX 3060's are still 1200 aud
Is that an ASUS GT730 with 2GB DDR5 and dirtect x12, ? Than it can play Valorant fine.
Just bought a gtx 980 for $165 thru meet-up on OfferUp. I'm happy‼️😁
My local micro center has EVGA 3070s for $730 and 3070 TIs for $840. Last year Ide have bought one but now to late I dont care. I can wait 6 months for a RX7700xt or RTX4070.
Can you also test the cooling performance in the dead heat of the summer of the alienware and how can you upgrade the cooling without costs.
Even APU market is dry here right now. Best you can find at $100 is the FM2 A8s or A10s if you are lucky enough
My guess is that to recase the aurora you'll have to buy a new mobo, maybe a PSU and get decent ram since the most likely config in it will be some low frequency 1x16 stick
GTX 570 is like 1.3GB and they do bits in some older easy to run games at 1080p
I have a question for you, how much does the R9 370 graphics cost
I’ve been able to pick up a bunch of gpus in my local market, I can’t seem to find motherboards and cpus for cheap
1 gig cards are ok for games like league of legends....cs:go......valorant....i had ati radeon 6850 1 gig and it did over 100 fps in all 3 games
Brian, what could i do to help flip my Gaming PC's faster without sacrificing too much profit?
I gig cards still carrying a premium in UK and not always cheap
A friend of mine has an Alienware R10 i think the cooling in this thing sucked we pulled out his 2tb HDD and added another fan to that spot and changed the AIO fan out to push pull and the cooler on his 3080 is lighter then the one on my RX 5700XT and the temps where ungodly hot
1gb of vram is enough for very low end gaming and office pcs so it depends. for the average gamer no but for entry level users it can still run some low end older games and a 1gb gpu can still do normal tasks swiftly you have just gotta use the system like a less trash non portable chromebook so yea you have just gotta find people who have a kid or need a pc to do work so or people who need a gpu to do mid range emulation yea there's a market its just small mostly intel users and og amd users
Yup the GPU market is crazy, even faulty cards are going for 3x the price on eBay 🙄 I'm trying to get 1070 cards to go with the cpus I've got but they are like rocking horse poop for a good price
1GB GPU is just for office PC only internet browsing ETC for someone just want to browse the internet and play solitaire and low games at 30fps
I'd buy a 1GB card to screw around with I'd say but not for $30. If I were to sell one in a PC it'd have to be paired with something extremely low end (1st gen i5 or an APU) and for under like $75. A R7 260 1GB should be able to run any game from pre-2015 and most indie games even today.
Now that I think about it can't a 260 do Dual Graphics with a lot of APU's? I'd love to screw around with that.
If you cannot get Graphics cards then AMD RYZEN 5700G is the way to go if you can get AM3 socket Motherboards and 3600Mhz Threadripper Compatible DDR4 RAM.