WTB Wanted: Graphics Card: Nvida gtx 670 to gtx 970 4GB range

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I doubt this will amount to anything, but I'm just so frustrated in my search that I'm turning here. Maybe someone here will have something and do me a good turn here.

I have a desktop going that I need to keep going for various resaons, but after the gtx670 4gb in it died I've been keeping it alive with an old 9800gtx+..which has also since died, and now a gts250 that's barely sputtering along and already getting the 'death jaggies' on screen.

I've been searching for a replacement card for a ridiculously long time. I am incredibly poor due to my health issues and just simply don't have the money to throw toward a new and available card which would be heavily throttled by the limits of this machine anyway. Bitcoin mining has made it nearly impossible to find even an older card that people don't go crazy overbidding on on ebay.

The one I DID buy from an ebay seller, he tried to scam me on and now I have that money locked up in fighting for a refund.

So.. If anyone has any working cards just sitting around that are somewhere in that range and is willing to help me out at a reasonable price..
 
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I had a old Nivida card one of the SLI ones so you can slave them and run 2 at a time .. not sure it will help you or if i still have it in the shed outback
no clue what number model it is .. been yrs LOL .. if it s out there .. mice may have eaten off all the good parts LOL ..
 
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Oh Hell, I think I just recycled a few old 256 and 512mb Nvidia and ATI cards.
If I come across any others in my electronics piles, they're free to a good home.

Edit: NM...you're looking for something with 4gb. I doubt I have any of those. I bailed on the video card swapping game at the 1 or 2gb level and went to consoles.
 
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libertysnake said:
Last I remember, the 1660 ti cards were pretty decent bang for your buck.
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Sure, but too expensive and too much bang for this particular machine which would probably throttle anything above a 970

So, I got screwed on eBay .. again. This was eBay deal #3 gone bad !

I got in a bid on a 1050ti that the seller clearly didn't feel like he got enough for (it was a fluke low bid win, but why list your item with no reserve if you're not going to honor it). First the guy lied about shipping. A few days had gone by and I asked him what was up and he claims his local POs were not accepting packages due to weather and highly encouraged me that I should just cancel the order.. because the weather might never get better.. or something. Makes perfect sense.. somehow, right ?.
When I said to him I contacted the PO and this was not true (obviously), and sort of wrote out a heartfelt plea to not screw me due to 2 prior sellers doing so.. he cancelled it on me; claiming to ebay that I'd requested it. So, that money was once again tied up in getting a refund for a few days.. for the 3rd time.

I'm so damn frustrated on this at this point.
 
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HEX said:
Sure, but too expensive and too much bang for this particular machine which would probably throttle anything above a 970

So, I got screwed on eBay .. again. This was eBay deal #3 gone bad !

I got in a bid on a 1050ti that the seller clearly didn't feel like he got enough for (it was a fluke low bid win, but why list your item with no reserve if you're not going to honor it). First the guy lied about shipping. A few days had gone by and I asked him what was up and he claims his local POs were not accepting packages due to weather and highly encouraged me that I should just cancel the order.. because the weather might never get better.. or something. Makes perfect sense.. somehow, right ?.
When I said to him I contacted the PO and this was not true (obviously), and sort of wrote out a heartfelt plea to not screw me due to 2 prior sellers doing so.. he cancelled it on me; claiming to ebay that I'd requested it. So, that money was once again tied up in getting a refund for a few days.. for the 3rd time.

I'm so damn frustrated on this at this point.
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People suck man, no doubt about it.
 
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HEX said:
Sure, but too expensive and too much bang for this particular machine which would probably throttle anything above a 970

So, I got screwed on eBay .. again. This was eBay deal #3 gone bad !

I got in a bid on a 1050ti that the seller clearly didn't feel like he got enough for (it was a fluke low bid win, but why list your item with no reserve if you're not going to honor it). First the guy lied about shipping. A few days had gone by and I asked him what was up and he claims his local POs were not accepting packages due to weather and highly encouraged me that I should just cancel the order.. because the weather might never get better.. or something. Makes perfect sense.. somehow, right ?.
When I said to him I contacted the PO and this was not true (obviously), and sort of wrote out a heartfelt plea to not screw me due to 2 prior sellers doing so.. he cancelled it on me; claiming to ebay that I'd requested it. So, that money was once again tied up in getting a refund for a few days.. for the 3rd time.

I'm so damn frustrated on this at this point.
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I could ask a guy I know. PM me if you're still looking and I'll discuss, since it's someone I know personally.
 
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ProgSpear said:
Would an Asus EAH5850 (AMD) work for you? (MSI protector is off of card that replaced this one). I replaced the 5850 because I couldn’t play IL-2 Battle of Stalingrad on it.
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Unfortunately it wouldn't, but thank you for trying; I appreciate it. The nature of my application of this particular machine is largely dependent on that 4gb memory. I'm not actually very familiar with AMD based cards, but I was already pushing the capabilities of the gtx670 4b that died on me.

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CORN NVIDIA GeForce GTX750 Graphic Card 1GB 128 Bit DDR5 DirectX 11 Video Card GPU PCI Express3.0 16X DVI/VGA/HDMI - Newegg.com
Used $50 free Shipping
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Same issue there. Those generic Chinese cards aren't known to be very stable anyway, but the 1 GB memory thing kills it.
 
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Not that I am computer whiz, but does your motherboard have built it graphics? My POS computer has a crappy graphics card installed, for what appears to be no purpose because the MB has built-in graphics that are equal in capability. Pull the card out and flip a dip switch on the board. None of my crap is high speed so this is an option for me.

Just a thought.
 
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MuttCat said:
Not that I am computer whiz, but does your motherboard have built it graphics? My POS computer has a crappy graphics card installed, for what appears to be no purpose because the MB has built-in graphics that are equal in capability. Pull the card out and flip a dip switch on the board. None of my crap is high speed so this is an option for me.

Just a thought.
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Most on board graphics, especially based upon what he's mentioned about the system, are basically useless unless it's a Facebook machine. Whatever he's doing requires the card to have a higher vram and you won't find that in on board graphics. Also, graphics aren't on the board, they're on the chip that's on the board. So while your mobo may have a dipswitch for that purpose, it may not be usable unless it's something like a laptop or a subcompact board.
 
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