Hey y'all, I'm currently looking around on behalf of some friends who are looking to buy their son his first gaming PC.
As the title suggests, this morning they just shot me an offer for a used PC sporting the following specs:
Mainboard: Gigabyte B760M Aorus Elite X AX
GPU: MSI GeForce RTX 4090 Ventus 3X 24G OC
CPU: Intel Core I9-14900
RAM: Crucial Pro DDR5 RAM 32GB (2 x 16) 6000MHz CL36
PSU: Corsair RM1200x
The other parts are also listed but I figured these would be the most important to mention.
Obviously for 2000€ that's a steal. But they also mentioned that it was used for a few months of crypto mining. I'm not too familiar with how much wear and tear crypto mining would inflict on a GPU, so I told them I'd get back to them after informing myself, and that I'd only go forward with the deal if they personally know and trust the seller.
Moral questions aside, I'm not sure if I want to give them the go. Kind of worried they're falling for a scam or a GPU that is going to fail them after a few years of use. Any thoughts?
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Update:
I'm still waiting for them to get back to me on if the PC is a private offer or something they found on the net. If it's a private offer, I'll probably offer them to go check the PC out in person, maybe check the SMART data on the SSD to see how long it potentially was in use.
Update 2:
Turns out I was panicking too much over the "few months of mining". It was a private offer and it sounds like the PC wasn't in much use at all. Obviously I'm still going to give it a small check up once it arrives, but I'm very happy to announce that a 15 year old boy is going to have a very, very happy Christmas.