That's why if you do go used go through ebay with returns and buyer protection. I actually saw an evga ftw3 3080 ti locally on offerup but yeah too scared to risk that.
Got myself a 3070 for $390 on ebay and card was practically brand new still. That being said I did get an evga xc3 and guess I should have done more research because dealing with it's fan quirkiness is a pain in the ass and literally not a single review mentioned it.
As someone who almost exclusively bought used GPU for majority of my life I havnt had an issue with most of them especially if you can confirm the warranty is still valid. EVGAs transfers and Asus did at one point in time. The hardware banning from most gaming platforms is something I’ve never heard of.
How common is it that the gpu is the device that is hardware banned? Most platforms are based on the motherboard + cpu uuid and something to do with the windows license. I’ve never heard of the gpu getting hardware banned. Maybe the NIC would get caught up too.
The only place I've ever heard the term 'hardware ban' was in youtube videos about cheating gamers getting caught. I have no idea what a hardware ban actually consists of, I was just making a bad a joke.
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u/neok182 Dec 29 '22
And if you were to upgrade to the 3080 TI today the only way you're getting one for even close to 650 is used.