What should I do

hossdaddy

hossdaddy

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I was wondering if I should sell my 8800 gts and get an ATI 3870. I figure I should be able to get $300 for my gts(in sig), up here in Canada I can get an 3870 for $240.

I would look at the 8800 gt but they arent in stock anywhere.

What do you all think?
 
if you have the old version of the 8800GTS, then I don't see why you shouldn't. Also consider your chipset. If you run a P35 this will be good for you cause you can run crossfire with that 3870 if you ever desire.
 
but what performance increase would I see? With my 1440x900 res would it make any difference?
 
If you can con someone into paying you $300 for that GTS go for it. But are you sure that's realistic? No one who knows anything about video cards is going to get ripped off by you like that.

Anyway, assuming you did pull a fast one over some poor sap and made a $60 profit, you're not going to see much difference in performance anyway.
 
hey echn111 there are people out there that would want it to complete an sli setup. Nice attitude assuming I am "conning" someone.
 
Maybe a poor choice of wording. He meant basically, you be very lucky to get that price.
It would have to be someone hiding under a rock with the GT/HD in the same price range.
 
no it wouldnt. If they wanted to go sli and they had an 8800 gts 640mb already which there are quite a few of out there.

Thnx for the good link AmongTheChosenX, that review told me everything I needed to know.
 
First of all tomshardware sucks these days so take their reviews with a grain of salt as they say, second, i highly doubt crossfire is going to give you any kind of significant performance increase at that resolutions, and definitely not worth the price increase IMHO, and thirdly for those of you shitting on him about selling his GTS for that price and "ripping people off"......stfu...business is business if i can sell you a box of saltines for 100 dollars because your too stupid to know any better, you better believe i will sell it to you for that price. Caveat emptor, as they say... Its not the sellers fault the buyer didnt do their homework.
 
thnx nissanztt90, I actually wasnt trying to go sli with it. I was just saying that someone might want to buy it to go sli if they had one already.
 
hossdaddy said:
thnx nissanztt90, I actually wasnt trying to go sli with it. I was just saying that someone might want to buy it to go sli if they had one already.
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Oh no i know, and someone going SLI is *likely* your only market, since most people going for high end stuff are *likely* somewhat educated on the matter (The GT being better than the GTS in this case). Dont forget...ebay is full of dumbassess, and id say thats most *likely* your best bet for getting top dollar. Oh, and no matter what anyone says, as long as your honest in your description, never feel bad for what you sold it for, no matter what its truely worth. I mean, after all, most car saleman sleep fine at night...:)
 
yeah theres idiots on ebay who don't know how much they can get it for at newegg, cause theyre addicts to ebay. haha
 
AmongTheChosenX said:
yeah theres idiots on ebay who don't know how much they can get it for at newegg, cause theyre addicts to ebay. haha
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Theres also idiots on newegg, who dont know how much they can get it for at BestBuy. Probably only one example that i can think of, and will probably be the only example ever:D
 
hossdaddy said:
no it wouldnt. If they wanted to go sli and they had an 8800 gts 640mb already which there are quite a few of out there.

Thnx for the good link AmongTheChosenX, that review told me everything I needed to know.
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so why would they pay 300 for yours when there are plenty of 8800gts's going for around 200.... By all means you can ask whatever you want for your card, thats completely up to you, I think people are just trying to let you know that you wont sell it for 300 and if you do then you are selling it to a complete sucker.
 
Just because you can rip someone off doesn't mean you should. What goes around comes around.
 
yeah I just checked the market here in Canada and it is not quite as robust as I assumed in my first post. After reading several reviews of the 8800 gt and 3870 i have determined that there is not enough peformance increase to worry about it yet.

Thanks for your input guys.
 
My choice of words certainly wasn't meant to reflect on your ethics. However, my sentiments on the situation are the same insomuch as you're not going to get that price unless you're very lucky. If you're honest about what you're selling, and do get $300, more power to you, but, as everyone has said, it is unlikely.

You've already got a decent card - I'd wait for the next gen cards to come out before selling.
 
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