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.

  • jetAEnglish
    491·
    11 months ago

    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

    • bloodtide@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      6·
      11 months ago

      Good advice, I agree. Any inside on best card to purchase within the price range I’m looking at? I was thinking 3060ti

      • highenergyphysics@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        11 months ago

        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.

      • ogeist@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        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.

      • Delphia@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        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.

      • xyguy@startrek.websiteEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        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.