If bad comes to bad, lower the power a little. He's playing Fortnite. I assume he's not using a high refresh rate monitor. This is like buying clothes two sizes to big for your 10 year old. He'll grow into it soon enough.
Send Kyle the money...
A 6900XT for that price and he'd use a pizza box for a case for a month or two until you sort a better PSU (if needed) and case.
And you're father for the decade. Or at least the next 4-5 years.
That's my only worry. It's a mAtx board and case so I have to be careful on size of the gpu. Although my case is a full sized, so if I'd doesn't fit his, It'd fit just fine in mine.
It's an old Nvidia gtx960. He mainly plays Fortnite online and it seems to be handling it well enough. I just don't want to get to the point where I HAVE to buy one so I'm trying to stay ahead of the game- no pun intended. 😁
In general, used GPU's can be a great value. But, you should either test before exchanging cash or buy from a seller that offers returns, like a refurbisher.
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your call. ive used used cards without issue.
nope, you can get them new for $250.
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