Long story short, coworker was talking about how he upgraded from a 3080 to a 4080 last week. He asked if I was interested in buying his old 3080 for 400 USD. I told him yes of course (my gaming pc still running a 970 and I’m getting back into PC gaming after a long break).
Well today he comes in, says he was mistaken, it’s actually a 3060 and because of that he’s willing to sell it for 300 USD. I thanked him but after seeing new 3060s for sale on Amazon for the same price I’m thinking that I need to haggle or look for another card. Thoughts?
TLDR: Used 3060 for 200-250 USD, new 3060 for 300 USD or another option preferably vram min 10gb. Very top end of my budget (stretching it) is $450-500. I want to game at 4k (I know “good luck” but I wouldn’t mind settling for 1440) and have a respectable bump up in graphics performance from the Xbox series X or else the purchase isn’t really worth it to me, as the Xbox is already doing 4k @120 hz on my TV. Yes I know the Xbox 4k is probably upscaled.
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It’s better not to cause bad feelings between you and your co-worker. Just tell them hey I’m not really looking for a 3060 right now. Thanks anyway
Then you can go buy a new one online or used one whatever
If you haggle, it could lead to relationship friction at work. That’s my only concern
Good advice, I agree. Any inside on best card to purchase within the price range I’m looking at? I was thinking 3060ti
You can easily get a 4060ti for $320 or less dawg. Or a 7700XT which will blow it out of the water and has 12gb for $440.
About a year ago I got a rx6700xt for $225US used Thats a 12 gig card that can 1440p pretty well.
You can do better than a 3060.
I’m doing fine for 1440p with the regular rtx3070 but I would like to jump to AMD. I believe the 6800xt is in the same range.
6700xt should have a longer life. With the 12gb vram. They are ~$330 US new and just under 300 used/refurbished. The 7700xt is close in performance to the 6700xt but has newer video codec support and if you don’t need that specifically they 6750xt or 6700xt is a much better value.
Greater than 60fps on high-ish on most AAA games at 1440p (Cyberpunk, Red Dead) in my, (my buddy’s) experience.
Alternate title: “My co-worker is trying to rip me off”
300 for a used 3060 is terrible. Frankly, it’s terrible even for a new 3060. I wouldn’t offer that price to a stranger, let alone an acquaintance.
Regardless, given your performance target of 1440p/4K, the 3060 won’t get you there. If I were you, I would try to turn the offer down. If you want to upgrade, you might want to consider if you even want an Nvidia card, since they are generally more expensive at the same performance than an AMD card. I would really only recommend Nvidia if you care about ray tracing. Otherwise, for 500-ish dollars, you can get a very good AMD card. I would recommend looking at an RX 6800XT or 7800XT, whichever is cheaper where you are. (Performance is about the same)
I would also recommend waiting a couple months. Nvidia’s recently-announced 4000 SUPER cards have a pretty meh price (as compared to Nvidia’s usual terrible price). The lower-than-usual pricing might cause AMD to respond by lowering their own prices, so it’s a good time to hold out and wait
An RTX 4060 is $300 brand new and is like 20% faster than a 3060, no reason to buy last gen at that price.
IMO a 3060 isn’t worth $250 used, more like $200 or less.
Don’t get ripped off by a co-worker.
I sold my used RTX 3060ti to a friend at work for 220eur and it was also a really nice overclocker. I would not even pay 300$ for a new 3060, not to mention used one… You can most likely grab used RX 6700 XT in that price range which will wipe the floor with a 3060.
I got used RX 6800 XT for myself in the May last year for 400eur and it’s also a good overclocker so I got 3090 levels of performance (in raster) out of it at over 300W but at that price I can’t complain at all.
