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 $450-500. I want to game at 4k (I know “good luck” but I wouldn’t mind settling for 1440) and have a respectable bump up in graphics performance from the Xbox series X or else the purchase isn’t really worth it to me, as the Xbox is already doing 4k @120 hz on my TV. Yes I know the Xbox 4k is probably upscaled.
I sold my used RTX 3060ti to a friend at work for 220eur and it was also a really nice overclocker. I would not even pay 300$ 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.