Topic: Parting out my mining rigs - EBAY potential problems (Read 119 times)
Mining equipment at a discount can be sold very quickly on forums or telegram chats in your country. I reflash the BIOS of AMD video cards, test video cards and sell them to gamers. I didn't have any returns. But in my country it is not forbidden to sell video cards with problems (for spare parts, without further claims to the seller).
I had issues with eBay also with mining equipment. Usually it was when selling something high priced and during periods of high profitability.
I don’t think profits are crazy high right now and the RX 480 is not an expensive GPU so you might not get any issues. Just clean the fans and run benchmarks and make sure it passes. Also connect a monitor to all the outputs. Because some of the outputs might not have a display. When doing a benchmark make sure you are watching the demo because on some bad GPUs you will see artifacts.
Sell a few and see how it goes. You might not run into issues. But it’s best to sell stuff like this on Craigslist’s if you got time.
I don’t think profits are crazy high right now and the RX 480 is not an expensive GPU so you might not get any issues. Just clean the fans and run benchmarks and make sure it passes. Also connect a monitor to all the outputs. Because some of the outputs might not have a display. When doing a benchmark make sure you are watching the demo because on some bad GPUs you will see artifacts.
Sell a few and see how it goes. You might not run into issues. But it’s best to sell stuff like this on Craigslist’s if you got time.
Must you use eBay to sell? Go on Craiglist, Aliexpress, and other local stores around you, honestly, rx480 just sucks so much for mining this day, if I am in your position right now and I have free or very cheap electricity I will keep mining ETH and stack some USDT, then after ETH merge goes live I will start mining FLUX only, I will stack some FLux for 2025.
I have decided to part out my RX 480 8GB rigs because I can't sell them even with a 20% discount on what they would cost to build from EBay pieces.
I'm now facing an issue that the cards won't mine any more (they rapidly crash) when they are flashed back to their stock BIOS, although I can make them pass all sorts of burn in tests (Kombustor, furmark, GPUmemtest, OCCT memory, OCCT gpu, playing games...) so I think they would be perfectly fine for gaming. They're perfectly fine for mining too with their BIOS mod (memory clocks below stock), but obviously you then need to patch drivers in Windows to be able to play games which gamers won't want to do.
I'm worried that even if I'm honest about that in my item description I'm going to get fucked up the ass by EBAY returns policy unless I list the items as "for parts / not working" in which case it's caveat emptor and they won't even sell for £50 each.
Any thoughts / experiences on that subject?
I will also need to sell the rig frames themselves, do you guys think that fully assembled / setup 6 GPU frames tested and working etc have any value beyond their parts cost now or should I just split these up too?
I'm now facing an issue that the cards won't mine any more (they rapidly crash) when they are flashed back to their stock BIOS, although I can make them pass all sorts of burn in tests (Kombustor, furmark, GPUmemtest, OCCT memory, OCCT gpu, playing games...) so I think they would be perfectly fine for gaming. They're perfectly fine for mining too with their BIOS mod (memory clocks below stock), but obviously you then need to patch drivers in Windows to be able to play games which gamers won't want to do.
I'm worried that even if I'm honest about that in my item description I'm going to get fucked up the ass by EBAY returns policy unless I list the items as "for parts / not working" in which case it's caveat emptor and they won't even sell for £50 each.
Any thoughts / experiences on that subject?
I will also need to sell the rig frames themselves, do you guys think that fully assembled / setup 6 GPU frames tested and working etc have any value beyond their parts cost now or should I just split these up too?
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