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Best time to sell your used 4090s is now.

None of this addresses the fact that the entire premise of this thread is false. People are not going to fetch your claimed $2,500 - $3,500 by selling their used 4090. Selling now is hardly better than any other point in the 4090's lifecycle. I don't know how you reconcile with the fact that the amount people should actually expect to get for their 4090 is a far cry from what the title and content you wrote suggest. You seem to be making a call to action for people to sell their used cards but cite new prices that are frankly extremely hard to find and questionable as to whether many people are actually buying in that $2,500 - $3,500 price range. I can't find a single product at that $3,500 value and the only place that comes close is newegg. Most other outlets that still have stock sell for up to $2,200 (and that is still very high). And again, those are new prices yet your title clearly states "Best time to sell you used 4090s is now".

I'll also point out that you did not respond to my rebuttal of your claim that the 4090 will drop 30% in value. I'll repeat that here:



As this was part of your logical reasoning for advising people to sell you should be able to extrapolate on your positioning.

If we peel back the misleading statements and questionable title, I don't see much merit in this thread if all that's left is subjective opinion. If you wanted to discuss subjective opinion you should have titled the thread appropriately and tailored your first comment as such.



No one said you would. My comment wasn't quoting you nor was it directed at you. Mind you, I wouldn't call you a POS even if you did sell your 4090. The actual prices 4090s are selling used for right now are only slightly elevated from MSRP. You end up taking a loss in most cases. The original post and title advising people to sell and that they'd net $2,500 - $3,500 is simply disconnected from reality, as the linke I provided earlier that has eBay sold listings proves.
I mean the 3090ti might be the outlier but it did drop by 50% which is below the 30% magic number you are claiming, 3090 also by 40% or more on second hand market, 2080ti also fell by 30% for the ftw hybrid when I sold it. So you believe when the 5090 drops and the 4090 owners will attempt to sell it against the 5080 stock that the price will remain as it is now? What's your basis on the the value holding higher than traditional previous generations that went through 2 crypto mining booms etc etc. If you want the highest value mark my words the best time to sell is before Blackwell drops!
 
How about unused 4080s? :D

(Yeah, I still have my 4080 sitting unopened in its box.)
 
Only a complete moron would pay that much for a used 4090..
People are claiming it's for LLM training because in 2025 when you can play 4k120 with hdr in the cloud using a 4080 that there is no cloud services that warrants sky is the limit over inflated 4090s that train llm in the cloud. Oh wait!

How about unused 4080s? :D

(Yeah, I still have my 4080 sitting unopened in its box.)
Best time to sell is before rdna 4 drops.
 
Picture this, I got €150,- (35%) for a GTX 1080 in 2024. Seven year old GPU, bordering on 8.

I'm guilty of selling my 1080s for more than what I paid for them during the crypto boom of 2017.... I really wanted a Titan Xp :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

My radeon cards sold for good $$$ 290x/7970 during that time also.
 
New 4090s are going for a minimum of $2500 to $3500. Sell your used 4090s while they have equity before the market correction next month when Blackwell drops. You can use the GeForce ultimate $10 trail in the interem to mitigate the pain of integrated graphics/ in between low end dedicated gpu. If you are planning to upgrade to Blackwell you can used funds to mitigate impact of upgrade out of pocket expenditure. :rockout:
Funds are available. First the 5090 then I'll decide, probably sell the 3090 and replace it with the 4090. Unless someone buys that 3000$ computer first listed on jawa

Actually I might just upgrade to the Titan version if it's available I am eyeing the Noctua PSU by Seasonic if you are interested. :cool:
That's a heavy hitter, dual 12vHWP connections on 1600 Watt model and fanless
 
Funds are available. First the 5090 then I'll decide, probably sell the 3090 and replace it with the 4090. Unless someone buys that 3000$ computer first listed on jawa


That's a heavy hitter, dual 12vHWP connections on 1600 Watt model and fanless
If the 5090 is 600 watt tdp then the Noctua Seasonic 1600 watt PSU will probably be the best match especially with the new dual standard 12V-2x6 connection for the Titan. I believe Corsair might have something in the pipeline but the Noctua is God tear imo.
 
Same thing happened with 9800x3d and I bought it one day one like a boss by reserving mine at 7am and walking in after work. If I can't purchase it it's not the end of the world. Although my reflexes haven't let me down yet.

Update one the Noctua Seasonic availability. FYI.
 

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This has the first generation connection though.
25 month old connector on the sold 4090 for sh!ts and giggles. I set it and forgot it meanwhile I hear people OCD and checking on it every day.
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If the 5090 is 600 watt tdp then the Noctua Seasonic 1600 watt PSU will probably be the best match especially with the new dual standard 12V-2x6 connection for the Titan. I believe Corsair might have something in the pipeline but the Noctua is God tear imo.
Gotta a be quiet! Dark Base 1500 although it isn't ATX 3.0 be quiet! came up with a cable to replace the 4x8-pin adapter plug for the 12VHPR connector.
 
What? Why?!?
I bought it at the beginning of the year. Thing is, my current platform wasn't ready so I had to buy some additional stuff. Also, this year I've been riddled with illness. I just didn't have the necessary energy.
I guess it's too shy to come outta the closet.
Yeah... It's a bit unsure about its pronouns. :p
 
Not only is it scummy, I think ebay is too much of a risk of being scammed. Sell a top end GPU, then end up with ebay siding with buyer on not as described or something.

I sold my 1080ti during the first scalpers boom during Turing, but sold it for considerably less than what they were going for on ebay and on a private market.

When I sell on my 3080 it will probably be on ocuk members market.

Also not sure if I would want a 5000 series GPU, be mega inflated at launch, launch software bugs as early in its life, and even higher power requirement, also wouldnt be surprised if they even bigger as well.
 
I bought it at the beginning of the year. Thing is, my current platform wasn't ready so I had to buy some additional stuff. Also, this year I've been riddled with illness. I just didn't have the necessary energy.
Ah, that makes sense. When you need a new PSU, that can be a good reason.
 
I'm not selling my 4090 after what I had to go through to get it. It'll be plenty fast enough to handle anything for many years, at least until the next generation of consoles come out, and when it gets too slow I'll deal with it then.
 
Not only is it scummy, I think ebay is too much of a risk of being scammed. Sell a top end GPU, then end up with ebay siding with buyer on not as described or something.

I sold my 1080ti during the first scalpers boom during Turing, but sold it for considerably less than what they were going for on ebay and on a private market.

When I sell on my 3080 it will probably be on ocuk members market.

Also not sure if I would want a 5000 series GPU, be mega inflated at launch, launch software bugs as early in its life, and even higher power requirement, also wouldnt be surprised if they even bigger as well.
Blackwell might be the lowest price at launch and then later on the year be affected by tarrifs. I am not sure how the tarrifs will affect the second hand used market though.
I'm not selling my 4090 after what I had to go through to get it. It'll be plenty fast enough to handle anything for many years, at least until the next generation of consoles come out, and when it gets too slow I'll deal with it then.
I got lucky the manager at Microcenter held the Suprim liquid for me and called me when it came in on day one 25 months ago. Hey the way I see it I got to enjoy the 4090 Suprim liquid 4090 at 3ghz for $250 for 25 months and am not budging until I can get a 4k 60 fps pathtracing experience. Normally I would hold on to it until I had something to replace it but when I saw the price shoot up decided to sell it before prices drop. I could be wrong and pricing will stay elevated but I believe the 4090 owners currently will dump thier used cards when they upgrade to 5090 so the prices will surely come down especially if the 5080 performance per dollar is competitive.
 
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I just bought an asus 4080 super new from best buy last night. Ill wait intil q3 or q4 for the 5090. Not worth it to me since my display only goes up to 120hz. Im good with the 4080s with the games I play.
 
My question is - what are you all playing? Maybe I'm just getting old, but I believe there's less and less AAA titles worth buying/playing these days - hardly see the reason to upgrade every generation...
 
My question is - what are you all playing? Maybe I'm just getting old, but I believe there's less and less AAA titles worth buying/playing these days - hardly see the reason to upgrade every generation...
I'm still rockin an RTX3080 in my gaming system. I only upgraded to that from my RTX2080 because I wanted more performance in a couple of games that were running less than 120fps to match my 120hz displays(dual). I have skipped the RTX4000 series as it just wasn't enough of a performance jump. The RTX5000 series will likely be the next upgrade. I'm also going to get two of the newest ARC cards from Intel. The B580 has proven to be a great new offering. The B700(or whatever they're going to call them) series will be the other, but those two are going to go into different systems.
 
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My question is - what are you all playing? Maybe I'm just getting old, but I believe there's less and less AAA titles worth buying/playing these days - hardly see the reason to upgrade every generation...
I played most AAA to experience it first hand instead of tech media blowing smoke up my arse. I have no regrests. Some are extremely smooth at a locked 4k 120 fps without upscaling and frame gen and some need improved hardware to get thier unfortunately. Using a 4.5 yea oldr CX oledat 48 inches. Cheers.

Not to shabby playing with friends in Brazil from NYC on Cata diffuclty in Chaos waste.
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I have a 4080 super and play games from the 90s and stuff like marvel rivals, mw3 and d4. SC2 and other stuff. I love pc games from the 90s though.
 
This thread is so depressing.

I've got a coworker I'm doing a build for and we've been hunting a decently priced 4090 and that's just impossible. He's gotta sit on his 2070s til either 50 series or he accepts depression.
 
This thread is so depressing.

I've got a coworker I'm doing a build for and we've been hunting a decently priced 4090 and that's just impossible. He's gotta sit on his 2070s til either 50 series or he accepts depression.

They be goin for like 3500$ now. Crazy!
 
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