Age and PC specs
Hi Guys, I've been playing Apex Legends for a couple of months now, and first of all congrats for such a cool and addictive game! I will be the first to admit that I'm a lousy player. I'm 50 years ...
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If you can get a good used 1080Ti for <600, then that's your best option by a very large margin. And by good I mean one that won't die within a couple of months. If it looks unburned (no discolorations, burn marks, bloated condensators, etc), doesn't make weird noises (well fan replacement is not terribly expensive, so it's always an option) and can hold during stress tests - it should be fine. Don't buy one if you can't look at it and run the tests though.
1080Ti was so extremely powerful and ahead of the previous cards, that it's still going to be one of the best cards after 2-3 years.
The bitcoin mining boom and collapse ensured that the 2nd hand market is way oversaturated with 1080Ti's (the main choice for mining), so the pricing is lower than normal.
For the same price you could get something like new 2060, which is noticeably weaker. 1660Ti is not worth the price, since it's on the level of a 1070 - buy a used 1070 for pennies instead then.
2080Ti and 2080 are most definitely not worth the price, unless you simply need the best.
P.S. Got my used 1080Ti a year ago for 400 eur and it's still working like a bee.
The thing with nvidia cards go look on ebay and second hand ones for parts or not working and there is loads.
Its a massive risk buying nvidia second hand.
The best way to buy used card is in person, preferrably straight out of the PC it was used in. I would never buy one on ebay.
I stopped buying nvidia because they are the only cards that break in my opinion, i have never had a amd or ati card break once.
The components nvidia use are not good quality the vrm's are weak also.
Nvidia is greedy they want you to buy a card every generation they gimp the drivers down so you get less fps in games 2 years down the line.
They are not a trust worth company and they put their prices up everu year and you get hardly any more performance for the money.
