Monday, February 6th 2023
ASUS UK Launches Trade-in Program for Graphics Card Upgrades
ASUS UK launched a trade-in program for graphics not unlike the Apple trade-in program for the latest iPhones. The company is offering cash payments ranging between GBP £65 to £300 for trading in your old graphics card. The way this works is, you purchase an ASUS GeForce RTX 40-series "Ada" graphics card from the company's ROG Strix or TUF Gaming series, by paying its full price upfront. You then submit a trade-in claim on the ASUS website within 15 days of delivery of your new graphics card. You then mail in your old graphics card within 30 days of receiving a trade-in approval from ASUS. Within 30 days of ASUS receiving your old graphics card, assuming it's in working condition and matches your trade-in claim, ASUS pays you the trade-in price directly to your bank account. For now the program is limited to the UK, and to participating online retailers, only UK residents can avail it, and the qualifying new graphics cards only cover the RTX 4070 Ti and RTX 4080 (but not the RTX 4090).
This page lists out the participating retailers, qualifying new graphics cards, qualifying old graphics cards, and the money you stand to receive when everything checks out.
Source:
VideoCardz
This page lists out the participating retailers, qualifying new graphics cards, qualifying old graphics cards, and the money you stand to receive when everything checks out.
56 Comments on ASUS UK Launches Trade-in Program for Graphics Card Upgrades
Without evga in the mix it really does not mater anymore what prices are
Asus is a no go same as giga../ msi/..
Most of these "excess" chips are sat on store shelves. Nobody wants a $1300 RTX 4080 when it's not enough of an upgrade over someone's existing $500 card to merit even an $800 price tag.
Not very long ago, I was buying $400 cards for myself every couple of years and considered "an enthusiast" willing to spend "above average" on a GPU.
$400 gets you jack shit these days. In theory you could buy a 3060Ti for that, but they were never really sold that low.
I guess I'm lucky in that I deal with so many GPUs, I can essentially take whatever I want home for "testing" but realistically I've found no real reason to get faster than an RTX 3060. That'll run everything just fine at 1080p high and getting the same framerate at 4K would need a 3090 or 4070Ti. Higher resolution does not make a bad game good.
But to trade-in an old GPU, if you don`t want to deal will selling online, is a very nice option.
If it was in my country I would actually considered it.