14298 "You're not my first": select b/a video card after mining

“You’re not my first”: select b/a video card after mining



Not so long ago we talked about mining and the missing video cards: best rates one of the new digital currency produced only on graphics cards, has created an explosive demand for them. The result is a shortage of available iron and Grazuciu prices on inventory. Fortunately, any “hot topic” sooner or later experiences a collapse and the flight of Finance. For us this means only one thing: the price of cards will fall, and the secondary market is littered with outdated iron. Wanted to upgrade? The time to study the proposals and make a choice!

The reasons for the collapse of the market

This paragraph is a brief summary of our last article on bitcoin, if you’re interested — you can read it, the video card will not run away.

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Every fall precedes the rise: in early summer, the increase in the exchange rate of several cryptocurrency (resistant to hardware optimization) made their prey is not just profitable, but extremely profitable. As the only means of production such “crypts” are the graphics card, the experienced miners estimate the payback period and swept from the shelves of the most efficient models. Of course, this activity has not gone unnoticed, and in the theme of “free money” and a flood of neophytes, raskupili iron easier. Oil poured into the fire, many publications, telling about the new minerkom boom. From late spring interest in the cryptocurrency is growing constantly: the market has gone actually all more or less decent GPU, and the prices soared for the remaining 30, 50 and sometimes even 70%.

The result of this chain of events was not only to problem with the supply of graphics cards, but the increase in the exchange rate “crypt” for dollars. Who would not want to bother with the build farm, just bought a cryptocurrency, waited a few days, sold more… the classic currency of the operations to produce money out of thin air.

As the concept of mining involves increasing the complexity of the calculations with each mined “coin” (and a corresponding increase of each coin on the market, because its production have to exert more “effort”), this explosion of interest and the number of active participants could not affect the speed of extraction and the profitability of the entire enterprise.

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As soon as monetary the exhaust from content farms has decreased the most cautious “investors” began to slowly fade from the ship. Even a couple short notes about the loss of financial attractiveness of new-fangled resource was enough to squander a few course Etherium’and some other coin s. This led to repeated “panic” and the next outflow of capital, but a further fall was, as they say, a little predictable. The money and the people ran in all directions, “digital Klondike,” has become obscenely similar to the sinking Titanic.

Analysis of the situation

If you managed to read to this place, and not ran for the nearest flea market for a graphics card at a good price, you know — before something to buy, it is necessary to weigh all “for” and “against”. And to get it as accurate as possible, it is necessary to study the topic thoroughly.

Step 1. Study the clientele

The first c overheated market off two categories of players. Those who managed to fight off all the investment and time to understand that excess profits will be no more. Those who came too late, and is now trying to minimize losses and keep at least a zero balance.

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If we ignore the integrity of sellers (which may not indicate that the graphics card is removed from mining-farm), and to consider only “iron” side of the issue, the following picture emerges.

In the first case (miner, who managed to recapture costs) the market will be merged graphics card, which worked 24/7 from six months to a year. In the second (late beginner) we expect almost zero instances, really “smelled of gunpowder”, but the price will be higher.

Step 2. We examine the market

As for the production of “Ether” and other coins were required graphics card with video memory of 3 GB, then the secondary will be overwhelmed by them. From the “red” camp are waiting for us cars RX470 and RX570 (mostly for the 4GB edition), a large number of 480’s and 580’s with 4 and 8 GB of memory. The old “radika”, too, can meet: R9 370, 380, and their variants are also suitable for mining, but they are hot, voracious, and very little interesting piece of hardware for an upgrade in 2017. 5-6 thousand rubles, it is a wonderful price in a big market day.

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Among NVIDIA’s most popular (in view of the availability in the era of the mining boom) offer — GTX 1060 in the embodiments 3 and 6 GB. Rarer GTX 1070, 1080 and 1080 even Ti — five minutes is the most powerful video card this year — their exploit is still trying to recoup investments directly. Last year’s flagships (980 Ti, Titan X Maxwell), high end (GTX 980 and 970) is also used, but it is unlikely many of them survived to the secondary market. To take with hand graphics card of a lower rank little sense: the price ratio of the exhaust youngest models chetyrehluchevoy GTX 1050 Ti; the GTX 960 — it was less than optimal, and used them, except that of despair. From sale they will not disappear, and prices in stores have gone up simply because the greed of our followers knows no bounds. Hang in there — the market will settle down, will take the same, but the official, with a guarantee and no-hassle.

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Of course, the greatest interest is depreciated “tops” — the GTX 980Ti, GTX 1070 or older, but they should be checked carefully: you are not alone so smart, who reads useful articles and dreams about freestuff upgrade. Options in good condition will be sold as hotcakes, and look for the seller privlege you half dead iron and the guy who threw a disposable SIM card — enjoy below average.

Step 3. Considering the cost

Most of the graphics will be asking those who took them recently at highly inflated price tag. To assess the fairness of a proposal in a jiffy. Choose an ad, look at the card model and go to “Yandex.Market.” Under the popular suggestions will be located in the price chart — it is exactly what we need: visual display of average poppiest instance on the interested region with the layout on dates. March-April prices to “boom” is a reasonable starting point: take the conditional GTX 1060 with six gigs of memory is more expensive than 16-17 thousand — the idea is so-so.

Выбираем б/у видеокарту после майнингаIt looks like the projection average price of MSI GeForce GTX 1060 6GB in Moscow on the time continuum.

Step 4. Weigh all the “pros” and “cons”

Online wander two opposing views — to take a card from mining-farm or not. Supporting both points of view, the arguments appear to be sensible, try to compare them and find the truth.

According to armchair analysts and mommy experts in the field of hardware, the main reason to abandon the iron used in mining cryptocurrency — mythical “wear crystal”. Argue as follows: video gaming are not designed for 24/7 load, and temperature regime of the mining farm above a comfortable 40-50 degrees. Slightly less common view of the model after the crypt “tired” from memory, nutrition, chokes, and you can die at any moment. As proof applies the same arguments: not rated, Ko-Ko-Ko, overheating, blah-blah-blah.

Выбираем б/у видеокарту после майнингаSomehow it looks like the graphics card after mining-farms according to some users on the network.

Any more or less experienced PC user knows that most of the problems does not happen in the stable operation of iron, and in the moments of transition from one state to another. How often do you burn out the bulb itself and not at the time of inclusion? The logic here is about the same: constant and uniform load, and temperature, much less wear out the crystal GPU than fluctuations “100% games, 5% in Windows”, and the cyclic shift heating to 60-70 degrees and cool to room temperature.

With regard to the statements on “she’s gonna die soon” — then, sorry, natural selection: all that was defective, poorly sealed and containing microdefects, has been sent to the trash or garantiyku. Of course, you can always run into an unscrupulous seller that tries to sell you a dead cat under the form of a live sable, but if you bought a working card, passed a rigorous selection in mining-farm — rest assured, the game loads it will withstand.

The choice of graphics card

So, the market found mainly iron with a barely assembled and very old mining farm that has passed a severe selection constant load, but still at very good prices. Of course, this situation will attract a certain contingent that lives on the principle “without the sucker and life is bad”, so to choose a card before purchasing it is necessary with special care.

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Checking for lice

First, carefully studying the ad. Some users, honestly, but be warned: dismantle your farm, here iron — these ads can be trusted a little more, and their authors in absentia to put a plus in karma.

The options are “sell, because it gave unnecessary” and “sell in connection with the transition to %videocartoon%” — most likely, trying to hide the real situation. Then it’s better to err on the principle of “trust but verify”.

Not bit, do not paint, without a run on Bitcoin

When selling used iron is considered good practice to wipe the dust off, and generally put in the most presentable — who wants to take up the dirty piece of metal with “boots” in the radiator? However, even a can of compressed air will not give b/a the card factory view: electrostatic effect will leave a barely noticeable layer of dust on all parts. This feature can be used when visual inspection of photos or invoice.

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If the author States that played on my RX 480 is only “Tanks” and “Dot”, and the cooling system cleanliness is not inferior to surgical office — it is an occasion guard. Likely the graphics card at the time of mining becoming more efficient radiator or “dropsy”, and before the sale was returned to the factory state. Examine carefully the screws WITH — there are no signs of screwdriver. Check integrity of warranty seals. Then it’s better safe than sorry: if the owner lies even in such trifles, from buying a pig in a poke schrödinger should be abandoned.

Stress test

Ideally you should negotiate with the seller (even for an extra 500 roubles or a bottle of unfiltered lager) to meet somewhere in the city, and his house, and take a little test pieces of iron before purchase.

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To check the piece of metal it is necessary not in the games (where the problems can come out on the second or third hour of hardcore Zaruba), and specialized software. The easiest way to get rid of the famous “hairy bagel” FurMark (or similar benchmark under the brand MSI Kombustor) in a stress test: it intensively heats the iron and load all the Executive units of the graphics core directly. If the GPU has hidden defects, suffered from permanent loads or there’s some problem with soldering (memory, CPU, power) — they will come out literally 10-20 minutes.

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The work “problem” graphics cards can generate a variety of artifacts from here have broken these blocks of pixels to the sprawling and twitching polygons, missing textures. In the worst case you will crash the driver or even BSOD.

Alternative test — OCCT “Perestroika” — load not only the videocard, but the rest of the iron parts: processor, RAM and primary drive. On the one hand, it actively hurts the GPU, on the other — contaminates research, as testing all the iron at once. In addition, “Restructuring” has the reputation of “killer of power supplies”, so we are for good old FurMark.

If everything is OK

The graphics card you like, the price, the owner has shown her work in benchmarks, and in your mind, you already paraproktit the best games of the last ten years in high resolution at “maximum speed” and with anti-aliasing enabled? Go back down to the ground, we’re not done.

The “podstelit straw” — and deal with the warranty on the iron. Even if you chose a GTX 980, and by a happy coincidence, this video was one of the first audits, purchased in the fall of 2014 or three months of quiet life you have left, as have most major stores (DNS, Ulmart, “Citylink”), the warranty period for graphics cards — 36 months. Accordingly, with the younger cards (Radeon RX, GTX 10-series) and no problems at all — the remaining warranty of two years or longer.

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A warranty period is not the panacea to the repair, replacement, or refund may be denied if the state of the iron does not like relying to the worker. So before you buy, double-check the integrity of all the warranty stickers, seals and stamps.

Good, except the video card, “Garantie” you have no right to demand anything else: all the iron breaks along with serial numbers and the store should know when and at what price you (or previous owner, here it does not matter) sold the video card. Unfortunately, due to miniscule boom, many unscrupulous sellers try to avoid the fulfillment of the warranty, sometimes on false pretexts. You — say — it mainily, this misuse, we guarantee you will take. The correct answer is “First prove that I mainil, but not in the game drove to the loss of pulse”.

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If the previous owner left a receipt — be sure to collect them along with the card. In the best case, they are not useful, at worst you will save a lot of time and nerves. If there are no documents — not a problem, in DNS, “Yulmart and Citylink” managers can easily restore to you all the documents by serial number. With small shops and “Regarda” everything is more complicated — you have to figure out the terms of service before buying a video card with it.

Actions after purchase

Let’s say you bought from the hands of high-quality card: it makes no noise, no “whistle switch”, passed the stress test, and the newfangled “Andromeda” happy stunning facial animation and deep storyline. The first thing (especially Radeon) — go to the website of the manufacturer (MSI, ASUS, Palit, Sapphire, Gigabyte), there are looking for exactly your model and open the downloads section.

Attention! Many vendors produce visually identical models with factory overclocking and without it, do not mix!

Выбираем б/у видеокарту после майнингаEight editions of the GTX 1080, five of which look the same!

Graphics cards often pereprodavat for best results in mining — raise the operating voltage to improve stability, set a higher clock frequency, to optimize the kernel configuration. Such changes negatively affect gaming performance. Our task is to undo it: you will need a proprietary utility for updating the BIOS of the graphics card. It is very important to do this as early as possible. If your card is suddenly “lay” and the service center will detect changes in the control microcode — guarantees will be deprived of faster and more reliable than the rights for drunk driving.

Approx. author: some manufacturers of graphics cards contains two BIOS — primary and backup. Check and update is both.

If no luck

For example, a purchased card worked for a month and started to RUB artifacts. Take your documents, stamp to the nearest branch of the store which sold the graphics card to the previous owner, please contact the warranty Department. As the modern pieces of iron arranged too difficult, and repair is only possible in the case of an elementary fault (for example, stopped working motor of one of fans), most likely the graphics card will be replaced with a new one or return the money by check.

If it wasn’t lucky

Unscrupulous inspector or the seller may try to “jump” to your legal requirements and deny you warranty, pridralis to the appearance of the graphics card. In case of oral denial of service demand, but in writing and with a seal/signature failed. If it is not given — write themselves. This will help you master form from the website OZPP, cope with it even a child. Remember that the video card does not apply to technically complex goods, defined in the Government decree No. 924, and properly make a claim. It must be printed at least in two copies, stamped and signed. A detailed sequence of actions itemized on the website of the society for the protection of consumer rights (see “You bought the defective product”). To refuse service or replaced because “we do not will sell” you can not — and you can always answer that you gave the graphics card on the birthday of your hamster.

Checklist

So you’ve decided to buy b/graphics card. Repeat five simple steps that will help you to choose a reliable piece of metal.

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  1. Read the announcement: as operated card, what is the reason for sale.
  2. Arrange to test before buying, bring on flash drive FurMark.
  3. Meticulously inspect the cooling system and warranty seals.
  4. Ask for all the documents in the hardware or store where purchased, when, by order number.
  5. Home return the card to the factory default settings: restore the default BIOS would not indulge in overclocking, if the warranty period is coming to an end.

Good hunting!

Author: Ivan Krylov

Source: 4pda.ru

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