Buying a used graphics card is going to be an expensive gamble.
You'd be forgiven for thinking now would be a great time to treat yourself to a new graphics card. Ethereum mining has finally gone the way of the dodo, meaning that the second-hand market should be buoyant, and prices for new cards are approaching reasonable levels too. So all good news for once? Hold that thought.should in theory mean that eBay and the like will be flooded with cards.
The big mining farms will have used the best VRAM and GPU frequencies and voltages to get the absolute best bang for their buck from the cards. This generally means getting the most from the memory, which is often the bottleneck for achieving a high hash rate, and easing back on the GPU itself—running it at lower frequency and undervolting to reduce power usage.
You simply don't know what the card has done. How hard it has been run. Whether it was overclocked, whether VRAM has been replaced already, or will need to be. And without any kind of warranty, this all seems a bit too scary. Particularly given that we're not seeing massive savings on used graphics cards at the moment anyway. At least not enough to make them a risk worth taking.
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