Buying Used in 2024

A comprehensive guide to buying used graphics cards and CPUs for PC gaming in 2024, including which components to buy and which to avoid.

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Given the trend towards higher prices in consumer PC components, and the abundance of options on the used market, it can be hard to find the right ones for your needs. In this video, I attempt to analyse the last decade or so's worth of PC parts - identifying those that are best left to rot, those which still have a place in a budget PC, and those which are almost as good as new.

Zen 1 CPUs & Nvidia driver overhead:    • Is Radeon REALLY better for old PCs? ...  

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00:00 Buying Used PC Parts in 2024
00:46 Part 1: Should You?
09:27 Part 2: Graphics Cards
09:31 Nvidia Kepler & earlier
11:16 Nvidia Maxwell 2.0
13:46 Nvidia Pascal
17:19 Nvidia Turing & beyond
18:55 AMD Terascale & GCN 1.0
20:17 AMD GCN 2.0
21:04 AMD GCN 3.0
21:58 AMD GCN 4.0
23:36 AMD GCN 5.0 & 5.1
25:52 AMD RDNA 1.0
26:46 Part 3: CPUs
27:08 Windows 11 Support
27:38 PCI-Express
28:36 AVX Extensions
29:31 AMD Bulldozer, Piledriver et al
30:11 AMD Zen & Zen Plus
30:58 AMD Zen 2
32:08 APUs
33:14 AMD Zen 3
34:49 Intel: Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake & Kaby Lake
36:17 E5 Xeons
38:34 Coffee Lake, Comet Lake & Rocket Lake
40:36 ... Or Just Buy New?
42:31 Conclusion

A D S
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