What's your best find on the used market?

[RaceT3ch]

I wonder how many people actually take advantage of the used market, cause if its for something like a monitor its basically a free discount. I feel like there isn't a lot of people (At least where I live) sell their old stuff to someone who wants it.
Basically, I want to know what you've found.
For me, my best finds were:
5700 XT for $320 AUD (During the mining crisis)
ViewSonic XG2431 for $200 AUD
LAMZU Maya X for $110 AUD (Is being shipped currently)

 

[80-watt Hamster]

Used listings for PC components in my neck of the woods have become pretty rare, though I've found a few gems over the years. One of the better was a full Hackintosh inside a Fractal R4 (or was it R5?) for... $150? Can't remember what was in it anymore besides 16 GB of DDR3, which may be all I have left of it. I foolishly gave the R4 away. Gotten several decent GPU deals from the B/S/T forum here. Went to pick up a CL listing for a used case or something, and saw an X58 Sabertooth lying there on the seller's kitchen table and asked if it was for sale. It was, and I think I got it for $20 including CPU and 12 GB memory. Snagged two 1st-party SNES controllers at the same time for I think $5 each.

 

[A Computer Guy]

Used Ebay finds I snagged that were 100% worth it...
- $450, X570 Taichi Razor w/ 5950x and AM4 EK Velocity2 waterblock
- $45, Areca ARC1882I 8 Port 6Gb PCIe RAID Controller, ARC-1882I

I look at ebay constantly for deals now.

Other...

The best find I've had in the new side that rivals used market then and now...
- $400 for AMD 7950x

The best finds I've had in the new side in retrospect to todays pricing new and/or used being much more expensive now...
- $150, 480GB Optane x 4
- $150 for Asrock B650 LiveMixer
- $330 for (a single) 1.5TB Optane
- $280 for RX 5700 (just prior to world wide flu and bitcoin mining shortages)

 

[DudeBeFishing]

I bought a used motherboard and there was a Phenom II x6 CPU flopping around in the box. This is when they were still being sold at retailers. I straitened the pins and it worked. Got about 4.6Ghz overclocked.

I got a few Startech 4 port USB controllers PEXUSB3S44V, for $9 each. They're over $100 new. They have 4 USB controllers, one per port, so I don't have to worry about how many devices I have plugged into the same controller.

 

[Deleted member 234478]

I am not supporting the thieving prices since 2022 and I always liked buying used things before so it was an easy transition to put more effort to buy used.
yesterday bought a pioneer receiver 935 for $125 from an old couple
bought a denon receiver for $70
bought kef q55 speakers for 125 just missed a pair of floorstanding paradigm for $125 in mint condiiton
bought 1080 ti for $150
bought 2080 ti for $250
bought 1070 for $75
bought thermaltake assasin cooler for like $25
bought freezer 3 360 aio for $50 unused. gave it to a friend
bought 5600x for like $100 last year
I buy tons of old lg phones for peanuts.

I love looking at classifieds and buying tons of used. I do research and check prices and I stick to the low price im willing to pay.
I do buy new but there I really shop around and look for used before buying new.

 

[Macro Device]

I almost always buy used since, like, my 14 y.o. ('09). Cheaper, supports local folk rather than big corps, and usually you can test before buying so I've only had a couple items die on me (and I bought more than a couple hundred thereof).

That said, hard to finger my best purchase but several years ago, I got a GTX 970 for 30% of average market price because it only has 2 surviving PCI-e lanes. It still works after all these years.

 

[FoulOnWhite]

My best is probably a old Arcam DV79 DVD player, which though might be old for playing DVDs is a amazing sounding CD player. When new this was a £1000 DVD player.

 

[Paganstomp]

Water block for Socket 775. RX 580 that works fine unlike the GTX 660 I just returned. Ryzen 5 1500X for a project I'm working on.

 

[GerKNG]

A brand new Vega 64 Strix OC for 46€ with shipping from a guy on eBay who waited for ages on his RMA replacement and decided to "get rid of it".

in 2009 I bought a in box iPod nano 3rd gen on a flee market for I believe 10€ from a man with a whole table full of music and mp3 players.

and the best of all: as a kid we had a tiny second hand electronics store in the city and the owner lived down the street, he died when I was around 10-11 years old, his wife was too old too and could not keep the store open on her own.
one day she yelled out of the window while we were playing football and she asked us if we had game consoles.
with our parents we made a deal with her and we got entire moving boxes full of PS1, PS2, Gamecube, Gameboy, N64 games for less than 100€.
i had a huge corner table with big shelves left and right and all four shelves were stacked with PS2 Games (the PS2 was the latest playstation at the time). in the end I had over 200 games for the PS2 alone together with tons of gamecube games for friends who had one, and two boxes full of GBA games.... it was insane

 

[AUTOEXEC.BAT]

a Gigabyte GTX1060 for €40, when they were €100 at other sellers. Some years ago

 

[mkppo]

The best find I've had in the new side that rivals used market then and now...
- $400 for AMD 7950x

Ahh those CPU deals, I got 3 9950x's for a grand. He was gonna sell all three together and it was a no brainer. All sealed too.

 

[blinnbanir]

A few years ago. NCIX had a deal for a G700 and G510 KB for $99....combined

 

[freeagent]

Crackheads are the best.

First good deal was a BNIB EVGA GTX570 for 200 beaver bucks when they were new, and also got a 120GB OCZ RevoDrive when they were new for like 120 beaver bucks. Meshify C for 60 beaver bucks.

 

[Princess Garnet]

Mine would be ones from two decades ago. Both came from eBay.

GeForce 4 Ti 4200 w/AGP8x 64 MB - $20.

I can't recall the exact date but this was when the GeForce 6 series was the newest thing and that was apparently released in early 2004, so I'd say sometime around 2004 (maybe 2005?) sounds right. The 4200 number might make it sound low end model, but nVidia's current lineup structure wasn't really adopted until the next generation. At that time, it was pretty much split into MX and Ti suffixes, with all Tis were higher end (the only difference between them being frequency). The funny thing was, I was upgrading from a GeForce 4 MX which was basically no faster than a GeForce 2. I really knew nothing about hardware at the time, but my father's friend did and I wanted to make some games play better so he helped me. $20 was cheap enough to not care and not expect anything, yet it actually made a big difference. I remember American McGee's Alice being improved which made me happy.

GeForce 6800 GS AGP - $100.

I again can't recall the exact date, but I want to say 2005 or 2006 because I think it was when the GeForce 7 series was the latest thing around. How a single generation old higher end tier was so cheap is beyond me, but those were different times. PCI Express was relatively new so maybe that had something to do with it.

What's funny is that despite how good of values those both were at those prices, and despite how neither of them failed, I've never again bought used PC parts ever since I've been able to afford building my own. Well, at least not for my primary PC. I guess I've become more averse because is I'm spending three figures or more for a single part, I want insurance that it will work and last or else have a warranty if not, and I've had some new parts (especially graphics cards) fail just outside warranty or be faulty out of the box.

 

[AusWolf]

I don't really buy used. I don't trust people.

Although, I do frequent carboot sales (flea markets). I once found a 4th gen Intel ITX motherboard and some RAM for a few pennies. I actually had a CPU for it lying around. The system I built around it has been my bedroom HTPC for a good few years now.

 

[RaceT3ch]

A brand new Vega 64 Strix OC for 46€ with shipping from a guy on eBay who waited for ages on his RMA replacement and decided to "get rid of it".

What was wrong with the Vega?

 

[GodisanAtheist]

I don't really buy used. I don't trust people.

Although, I do frequent carboot sales (flea markets). I once found a 4th gen Intel ITX motherboard and some RAM for a few pennies. I actually had a CPU for it lying around. The system I built around it has been my bedroom HTPC for a good few years now.

- eBay has made buying used virtually risk free thanks to their mountain of buyer protections. Bought literally dozens of parts off ebay, only ever had issues twice, was made whole without much effort both times.

To answer the topic:

A $300 980Ti in 2016 that is still going strong in my Steambox

A $415 6800XT in 2022 that is going strong in my main rig.

Hell my entire main rig in my sig was assembled from used parts top to bottom for ~$1100 all in. Built in 2022, 6 months earlier the whole thing would have been $3000 easily.

 

[Lew Zealand]

Nothing too special for me. Got a TB3 eGPU case from someone who didn’t want it any more as they had no use for it. Inside was a free 8GB RX 580 so that wasn’t too bad.

Best used purchase was probably an RTX 3070 for $220 from the ‘bay last year which was overheating. Quick repaste and good as new.

I also got one of those upcycled RTX 2060 Supers from AliExpress a while ago for $135. New board but used GPU core and memory. Fans were trash so I bought new ones but otherwise a good GPU that still runs a bit warm thanks to a meager cooler.

 

[AusWolf]

- eBay has made buying used virtually risk free thanks to their mountain of buyer protections. Bought literally dozens of parts off ebay, only ever had issues twice, was made whole without much effort both times.

I don't use eBay much exactly because of the buyer protection. They overdo it, which makes selling stuff a nightmare. Anyone can claim that your thing is broken and demand a refund.

 

[sam_86314]

I scored a Razer Core X with an RX 5700 XT inside for $130 at a thrift store during the height of the crypto boom.

Post in thread 'What's your latest tech purchase?'

Jan 23, 2022

Oh man, have I something special today.

Walked into my local Goodwill when I saw an unassuming black box priced at $129.49 sitting on the checkout counter.

I'm sure you can tell what it is, an external GPU box. Specifically, a Razer Core X.

So the first thing I did was ask if I could open it up, to which the cashier said yes.

And inside, I found...

...an MSI RX 5700XT! Absolutely unbelievable deal in this day and age.

Now, at this...

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[FreedomEclipse]

Mine was probably my old 1080Ti. I was eyeing up two on ebay and made some lowball offers, not really expecting to get a response but one guy actually accepted. So I bought his card for what I think was about £600 or just under £600 when they were still retailing for around £800/800+. It was a pretty new card aswell. Seller had only been using it for a few months before deciding not to get into PC gaming and sell up.

 

[NSR]

I wonder how many people actually take advantage of the used market, cause if its for something like a monitor its basically a free discount. I feel like there isn't a lot of people (At least where I live) sell their old stuff to someone who wants it.

I buy most things new but both my monitors were resales at 50% off the brand new price.

x2 HP Omen 25i, going for £200-£220 each brand new, got mine at £120 each. Can still find them on resale/used here and there at this price. Monitors are hard to sell I guess.

They're nothing special just on resolution (1080p) and refresh rate (165Hz) but they pack some nice features like USB 3.2 ports and wide colour space (DCI-P3 90%) for richer colour above sRGB. They were a steal at the time.

 

[GerKNG]

What was wrong with the Vega?

afaik he had the original card for around half a year and it just died. he sent it to RMA and it went across the entire world for weeks and it took ASUS months to replace it.
in that time he long bought another GPU and moved on. Once he recieved it, he just wanted to get rid of it. the card was in a brown box from the ASUS RMA Center but still in a sealed anti static bag from ASUS and it was a brand new GPU with all the plastic foil on the fans and backplate.
Still have the card to this day (it's actually the first card in my profile picture )

 

[PLAfiller]

My best deal ever was on a B910 webcam, which is essentially C920 that I got for like €10 or so. To this day a brand new C920 is quite a lot more, so that was a score. But generally where I live people are hoping to get a lot of value out of their used stuff and prices often make no sense to go that route even when you have budget constraints.

 

[Outback Bronze]

Nvidia's Last Dual GPU - GTX 690 for $50 AUD with original retail box. Dude was selling for "Parts- Not Working" as one GPU wasn't working. Once received, booted it up and both GPU's were working

Pretty sure I picked that up roughly 5 years ago now. Not bad for a card the was $999 MSRP: https://www.techpowerup.com/review/nvidia-geforce-gtx-690/

Pretty cool to see the original Alan Wake in that GTX 690 review