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can someone please explain to me why are this ‘cmp’ cards bad for second hand market?
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They’re graphics cards, but without the “graphics” portion. They have most of the parts of a graphics card, but there’s no HDMI ports, etc. They’re only for computational jobs, mainly cryptocurrency mining.
Who would buy one second hand? Without graphical outputs, you can’t connect a monitor to them. So they’re almost useless for games. So gamers will probably not want them. Businesses running computational/scientific jobs aren’t going to be interested in them because they lack the features that Quadro cards have (eg: lots of RAM, ability to connect 2 cards together, more reliable parts). Crypto miners probably won’t want them because… well, if cryptominers are selling them, they’re probably not profitable for cryptomining any more.
Second hand graphics cards can be useful in games with the settings turned down, or lower resolution monitors. (I find it strange to say 1080p is a low resolution these days). But without that option, the second hand market for them dries up very quickly. That means they’re garbage when miners don’t want them any more.
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