The cryptocurrency market crash has caused several large and small-scale mining operations to decide to sell their graphics cards to liquidate them. While those used RTX 3000s will be available at dirt cheap prices, some users are already encountering various problems, like the memory modules are faulty.
The reselling of GPUs used for mining is so widespread that there are several reselling sites that have listed the entire range of GeForce RTX 3000 series graphics cards. well below its retail price on the second hand market. They are definitely having to accept large numbers of GPUs and as stores, they need to accept them and try to sell them.
In Asia the RTX 3000 are practically left over in second-hand stores
Chinese and Asian markets are being flooded with these types of graphics cards. But early adopters who venture to try these charts have encountered several problems. A user on the NGA.CN forums recently paid around $536 for a second-hand MSI GeForce RTX 3080 SUPRIM X graphics card. He discovered that all the labels on the screws had been removed numerous times due to overheating from crypto mining.
It was also discovered, using GPU-Z, that if the card was supposed to have 10 GB of memory, it only showed up with 8 GB of VRAM. It was the 10 GB model with a 320-bit bus, but it had reduced memory due to faulty memory modules. Although they usually stop working, there is a bypass that allows users to continue using their graphics cards even if some memory modules have died.
En general, it is advised to stay away from all used graphics cards. Although there are several ways to make the rest of the memory work again by replacing the modules completely. But that would mean that it is necessary to pay for another graphics card with the same memory modules, so in the end there is no saving. This would apply to the RTX 3000 cards, the most popular for mining, and to some extent the RTX 2000 and the RX 6000, mainly the higher ranges.
Although as the story goes, it would mostly apply to shops and vendors in Asia, where mining operations are most concentrated. If you buy an RTX 3000 or an RX 6000 in a Spanish store, this probability is unlikely to arise.
Source: Wccftech
