RTX 40 series graphics cards have become the mainstream of gaming platforms, but there are still many players whose budget does not reach 5000 yuan, and if you want to get good graphics performance and gaming experience, you need to use second-hand graphics cards to improve the cost performance. However, second-hand graphics cards have become once chicken and dog jumping because of mining, which makes the purchase very risky, let's talk about how to avoid pitfalls when buying second-hand graphics cards.
At present, there are two main categories of second-hand graphics cards, that is, personal graphics cards and mining cards. The overall performance of the graphics card for personal use is better, and it enjoys an official warranty within 3 years of purchase, but the price is more expensive; The price of the mining card is much cheaper, but the stability is relatively poor, and it cannot enjoy the official warranty.
For these two different second-hand graphics cards, let's talk about them separately. If you don't know much about the parameters of the graphics card, you can buy a second-hand card for personal use, and how to understand the graphics card better, so you can choose a mining card.
Xianyu buys a personal idle graphics card
Personal idle graphics cards are mainly Xianyu, because once Xianyu completes the transaction, there is no after-sales service, so there is no guarantee for merchants in Xianyu, so there will also be merchants disguised as individual sellers in Xianyu to sell mining cards.
When Xianyu chooses a graphics card, as long as it has been mined, it should be regarded as a mining card, and all descriptions with the words "female college students for their own use" can be regarded as mining cards. For graphics cards purchased within 3 years, the seller needs to provide the initial purchase information of the graphics card and confirm whether the graphics card has been disassembled or repaired.
Then you need to pay attention to the seller's credit value, and it is not recommended to buy if the credit value is too low. In the sale of goods and transaction records, if the graphics card occupies the majority, then it is likely that the merchant is not an individual, and the choice should be cautious.
If you want to pick up the parcel at the express cabinet for some reason, then you must unpack it under the camera of the express cabinet, and do not take it home and then unpack. The inspection should confirm the specific model of the graphics card, the fragile sticker is intact, and the output interface and power supply interface are the same as those of the new product to avoid being dropped.
Further inspection after taking home includes testing on the computer, reading the graphics card information with GPU-Z or AIDA64, then updating the latest graphics card driver, using software to run scores, paying attention to whether the main frequency of the graphics card is reduced during the test, whether the power consumption is commensurate with the official nominal value, and then playing the game for more than 1 hour, paying attention to whether the game frame rate is consistent with the same model card, whether the frame rate is dropped during the game, and communicating with the seller in time if there is a problem.
The platform buys second-hand mining cards
Mining card merchants are mainly Taobao, Pinduoduo and other platforms, because the merchants' shipments are large, and only mining cards can meet the demand. Because the evaluation and follow-up of the platform are very important, and individual sellers do not pay attention to this, it is not recommended for individual sellers on the platform to give priority.
What I want to remind everyone about mining cards is that it is not that mining cards cannot be bought, but that you should not buy high-priced mining cards disguised as personal use. Mining cards have the use value of mining cards, but they should be within the reasonable price range of mining cards, so we should avoid camouflaged mining cards instead of mining cards.
At present, the hardest hit area of mining cards is RTX30 series graphics cards, because almost all of the previous 30 series graphics cards have been swept away by miners, and all 30 series graphics cards on the second-hand market can be identified as mining cards, and RX 580 and 590 are also likely to be mining cards or even secondary mining mining cards, which require special attention.
Mining trucks do not enjoy the official warranty, only the store provides a warranty, so before purchasing, you must understand the store warranty time, as well as the warranty scope included in the after-sales service.
In addition, there is a special second-hand card like P106/P104/P102 such a model, which is specially designed for mining, generally does not display the output interface, and can not install ordinary drivers, although the price is cheaper, but it is very troublesome to use, so it is not recommended to choose.
Finally, I want to remind everyone that the second-hand graphics card market is very large now, and the price is very mature, don't think about "picking up leaks" when buying second-hand graphics cards, and buy low-cost cards that directly indicate mining cards if you don't have a small budget.
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