Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “PC Parts you should NOT buy secondhand”.
Linus and luke, i love the show, keep up the great content, but i was wondering, if other than gpus, what pc parch, what pc parts you should avoid when buying second hand. Oh, i don’t think you should avoid gpus at all. I so i read this earlier. That was going to be a strong part of my response. Oh sorry, no no! I’M just saying i agree um and i i wouldn’t necessarily avoid buying any pc parts.
Secondhand there are things that i would be way more, careful about. Mostly storage and storage, secondhand storage is just secondary storage. It’S pretty sketch, often not worth it. There are cases where we’ve done.
I’Ve put second-hand storage in our like production like editing server, but but those were enterprise grade drives. You could actually go into the drives and see what their power on hours were see, what their bytes written were there. A savvy shopper can buy secondhand storage in certain cases, but for the average consumer it is not something that i would recommend yeah. You have to this is something that i run into trying to buy secondhand storage.
All the time, too, is you like shop around. You find a good deal and you’re like okay sweet and then you go look at how much it would cost to just buy a new one and it’s like the same price. I don’t know what’s up with that. I don’t get it, but the storage secondhand market has always been kind of trash, so you’re, probably not even it’s probably not even worth doing it all, but if you do make sure you’re very careful about it, um and that should be because your budget is like Really tight also with stuff like motherboards, make sure you inspect them closely and if the person’s like no, then don’t buy it for shrug idk says you should buy like 20 to 50 used mining gpus on ebay, have the lab test them uh running them.
24. 7. For gaming and see how they perform that’s a cool idea, you already did it it’s coming out soon we bought 20. um, so stay tuned um, but but no, if it works, it works and buyer protections on these used.
Platforms like ebay are so good now that if it doesn’t work, there is a strong chance that you will be able to get your money back so yeah, really the big one for me is storage. I’M a little less wary of used motherboards than luke is but he’s not wrong either, especially because a used motherboard. It can be not obvious that it’s bad immediately, whereas with a gpu, it’s actually usually obvious very quickly. You run some kind of intensive application like firmark or a game benchmark or something like that, and you should see artifacting or if you’re monitoring the clock speeds, you should see them dip.
You should see something go wrong, pretty much right away and if it doesn’t go wrong right away, then it probably has some life left in it as much as when it was new. Okay, probably not, but some yep .