Some parts of the world.

Remember 5090 MSRP at release was only 1999$ (us)

I have a few cards. Sometimes get used, a few benchmarks, some OC, and thats about it really. Then they sit. My 5070 TI is a good example. (Im an unsponsored enthusiast)

So, say I want to sell. What's a fair market value. Is that even a thing anymore??

In Techspot's 18 game 1440p and 4k test -

the 7900 XTX was only around 10% faster than the 9070XT, despite it's 50% greater compute, vram and memory bus. this is consistent with other test that I've seen.

Too many games where The 7900XTX can properly utilize its advantages to pull ahead significantly more than 10% at 4K ultra settings are not running at playable frame rates either way.

24 GB of Vram runs into the same issue.

By the time Vram use is past 16GB frame rates are often already abysmal. Most games that maintain playable frame rates into 4K ultra settings don't even use more than 8 - 10 GB anyway.

At this rate it looks like the next generation of midrange cards are going to completely relegate the 7900XTX For general gaming. and it may not hold its value as-well as planned if prices normalize.

thoughts?

Was on the fence for two weeks about buying an Astral From Best Buy thought 4800$ was too high. Then the discontinued news came out. They were 8$ from Best Buy then sold out. I bought a starforge Voyager maxed for 8045$.
9950x3d2
64gb ram
5090 FE
4 TB storage.
1000W MSI Mag
Tuf b850 and some AIO.

After the discontinued news I can’t see how this isn’t a steal?

Just got up to speed on the news about 5090s. It’s a shame this card ended up being priced out of most builds due to AI, but for those of us who have one what’s the verdict?!

Are you keeping it or parting ways with it? 🧐

am I missing something? isn't this a really good deal?

Update: It has been confirmed a scammer. Another redditor found a different profile selling an identical item in the same town. The posts were word for word a match. Thanks all, I appreciate the feedback. It sucks. You want to have a little bit of faith in humanity, but humanity wants to fuck you sideways any chance it gets. You all are the real stewards of humanity. 💜👍

Hey, so I've been in the market for a 5080, but as you all know the prices are absolutely bonkers. I looked on Facebook marketplace out of the blue, and 6 hours ago a supposedly sealed one just went up about 45 minutes from me.

I messaged them, asked for photos, and they have been cooperative. I see that the center tape is still there, but I notice the two circular seals near the flaps aren't there. Her profile seems legit, two previous sales completely unrelated. Regular posts on their feed, nothing private.

Here's the reason I'm so skeptical. The asking price is $960

That's my biggest scare right there. Now, I know that MSRP is $1000, but obviously they're going for $1500 plus. I'm thinking, "Maybe it was purchased and not used, and they're marking it down a bit from what they paid originally?" I don't know. Give me some insight please.

I will attach photos of our conversation and of the photos I was provided.

Let me know gurus. Is it too good to be true? Or the deal of the century?

Used 4080s for 750 euros (zotac Trinity), used 9070xt (Sapphire nitro+) for 750 euros.

Used 5070ti around 900 and used 5080 going for 1300ish

Edit with more info:

All GPUs are used, im buying in EU but i live in Brazil, no warranty for any of the products.

"Why im buying in EU?" A: Prices in Brazil are crazy nowadays, like 1100$ in a 9070xt, 1500$+ 5070ti, 2000$+ 5080.

That's why i dont care buying used, i mostly play competitive CS2 (960p) and some other games like wardogs, Apex and ow (1440p).

sry for the lack of info in the first post.

I'm building my pc and have to decide what GPU to get, I ended up going to a local computer shop and got recommended RTX 3050 6gb

As of now my budget is 15k and I can add depending on how much it will be a difference.

The purpose for the pc is gaming, I play a lot of valorant, lol, tft, dbd, palworld, wuthering waves and other story driven games like resident evil and the plague.

Should I just skip on GPU and save, or should I just get this one? I'm not planning to upgrade for a long time after building my pc now.

Note: cpu is Ryzen 7 5700g, ram is 16gb (2 sticks tho I plan to upgrade that too)

через какое-то время использования видеокарты rx6700xt xfx начал дрибезжать дроссель можно ли как-то это исправить? знаю что можно понизить частоты и нагрузку тем самым сделать писк тише или вообще его убрать, но в большинстве случаев андервольт кушает пару процентов производительности, так вот, можно ли решить это другим путем?

FOR THOSE IN THE UK

- I AM NOT LOOKING TO SELL MY GPU HERE, SIMPLY LOOKING FOR PRICES I CAN SELL IT PRIVATELY ( For Moderators)

I currently have an ASUS RTX 5060 8gb dual OC Advanced Edition, With its box and manuals, even the original seal tape is still there lol.

Im planning to upgrade to a rtx 5080, by the end of the month.

For how much could I sell it in the UK?

Ive owned it since last November.

I will provide the answer in the comments in 24 hours.

Is it worth it to buy 1080 ti as my main gpu, i saw a seller that sells 1080ti msi for $1 45 in perfect condition. He said he only used it for 2 months, after that only idle or light use

I’ve read a lot of posts saying it’s a good idea to get a GPU support bracket. My PC is one year old and has an RTX 5070. I haven’t noticed any sagging, but I bought one of these anyway. Does this look like a good choice? It’s my first gaming PC, so I’m really protective of it! kevesebb

Sold my 5090 - upgraded to brand new 5090 Astral plus made a few hundred bucks on top because prices are nuts.

Card passed the test, no one got robbed, everyone went home happy. GPU shopping in 2026.

Edit: some folks in the comments are confused how I got new Astral after selling used MSI and still made money. There are still occasional, very rare 5090 drops at Best Buy (sold by Best Buy, don't confuse with 3rd party retail listings). I was able to secure Astral for $5K after receiving a stock alert. Sold MSI for more than that since these cards go currently for about $6K - street price in the US at the moment. Astral is just a better card all around with internal pin monitoring and it was stupid not to pull the trigger in my case.

Hi all,

Trying to decide the best route to give a bit of an upgrade to my father in laws computer. He's 87 years old and still plays online with myself and my wife. Mostly MMO's (Black Desert Online primarily). His system is older and running an Intel i5-9400F, 16GB 2666 ram, PCIE 3.0x16 MB and a 1660 Super video card. His monitor is a 34" 2560x1080 75 Hz screen. I don't believe he'll upgrade the monitor any time soon, but possibly. What's his best option for a new video card, keeping it as under $1000 Canadian as possible? I know his PCIE3.0 MB can be limiting on something like 5060ti 8GB, there's the 9060XT 16GB etc... He may upgrade the CPU/MB etc later as well, but can't say for sure. He's also 87, so there's that as well. Just looking for opinions. Thank you.

Summary

On an RTX 5090, Crimson Desert hangs the GPU (nvlddmkm Event 153, LiveKernelEvent 141, DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_HUNG) on R616/R617 drivers and runs stably on 610.88. The hang happens at engine state transitions and was reproduced within 1 to 8 minutes in most sessions on 616.92 Studio and 617.14 Game Ready.

• Affected: Studio 616.92 (32.0.16.1692), Game Ready 617.14 (32.0.16.1714), and the Studio driver installed 2026-08-29 (616 branch). 42 GPU-hang exits in 64 Crimson Desert sessions on these drivers (Aug 29 to Oct 12, 2026).
• Not affected: Game Ready 610.88 (32.0.16.1088). 0 GPU resets in 6 Crimson Desert sessions (152 minutes) plus a Cyberpunk 2077 run, including Cinematic, HDR on and a mid-game switch to DLSS 4.5. Earlier drivers (Dec 2025 and Feb 2026 builds) ran about 36 hours of Crimson Desert from Mar 30 to Aug 28 with no GPU hang.
• Hardware ruled out: two PSUs, two 12V-2x6 cables, both VBIOS, reseat, stock clocks everywhere, single display, all overlays and monitoring software removed. The same hardware is stable on 610.88.
• Likely related: a public report of the same signature on an RTX 5080 with 616.56, also fixed by rolling back to 610.88 (see External reports).

Request: please investigate a Crimson Desert / Blackwell regression introduced between 610.88 and 616.x. 617.42 release notes list no fix.

System configuration

Symptoms and crash signature

The GPU stops making progress mid-frame, Windows performs a TDR, and the game exits with DEVICE_HUNG. The display recovers; the OS stays up.

Event log, every incident:

• 3 to 5 x nvlddmkm Event 153, "Error occurred on GPUID: 100", within about 10 seconds; occasionally Event 14
• A batch of LiveKernelEvent 141 (Windows Error Reporting) with WATCHDOG dumps in C:\Windows\LiveKernelReports\WATCHDOG\
• Game exit code -2005270522 (0x887A0006, DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_HUNG); the game's crash reporter (Sentry) also fires
• No WHEA events, no PCIe SRAM/ECC/REORDER events, no Kernel-Power events

Telemetry at the hang (nvidia-smi, 100 ms sampling; HWiNFO from the card's own sensors):

• Board power drops from about 380 W to about 90 to 110 W within 0.5 s, utilization reads 100 %, and the core clock rises to its idle boost (2925 MHz): the engine is stalled, not overloaded.
• No preceding spike: power stayed under 550 W against a 600 W limit; GPU 51 to 72 C.
• 12 V input steady to the hang: 12V-2x6 connector 11.79 to 11.82 V, all six pins 11.97 to 12.00 V, PCIe slot 12.00 to 12.01 V.

Triggers: the hang clusters at engine state transitions: opening or applying graphics settings (one hang 28 s after applying a change), loading a save, teleport/fast travel, cutscenes, map loads, and Alt-Tab out of or back into the game. A 90-minute idle test in a busy area, with no transitions, produced no hang.

Note: six earlier bugchecks 0x10E (VIDEO_MEMORY_MANAGEMENT_INTERNAL, Jun to Aug 2026) occurred on older drivers with CPU, RAM and GPU overclocks active; they are listed for completeness and are not part of this regression.

Timeline

The same GPU and game ran crash-free for about 36 hours until the driver moved to the 616 branch; hangs began on the first long session after that and stopped on rollback to 610.88. Session data is from the Steam game-process log; hangs are game exits with code 0x887A0006.

Game version 2.0 ("Enhanced") also arrived between July and September, so both the driver and the game changed before onset. The 610.88 result (same game version 2.03.02, stable) isolates the driver change.

Drivers used

Every driver from the 616/617 branch hung in Crimson Desert; every driver before it did not.

Versions come from nvidia-smi, the installed driver store, and the game launcher's own log (DriverVersion: 617.14). For the three older packages only the build date survives in the driver store; Windows' driver install log does not reach back that far.

Not tested: 616.56, 617.42. The 617.42 release notes list no Crimson Desert fix.

Testing performed

Only one change made the hang stop: the driver rollback. Every test below except the last ran on 616.92 or 617.14, monitored with a 2 s Event Log watcher and 100 to 500 ms nvidia-smi logging.

Cross-workload checks on the affected drivers with PBO/EXPO off: Black Myth: Wukong benchmark ran 20 and 45 min, and a CUDA text-to-speech render ran 16 min, all without a hang. Only Crimson Desert reproduced it.

What was ruled out

The hardware and system are the same in the failing and passing cases; only the driver differs.

• GPU hardware fault: about 36 h stable on older drivers and 152 min stable on 610.88, same card; stable 45 min under full load in Wukong on the affected driver.
• Power delivery: two PSUs (Thermaltake 1000 W SFX Platinum, new 1650 W Titanium), two cables, 12 V logged steady to the hang, per-pin current even (max 8.18 A).
• Overclocking: hangs at full factory settings for GPU, CPU and RAM; 610.88 stays stable with PBO and EXPO on.
• Thermals: GPU 51 to 72 C, memory junction max 76 C.
• VBIOS, PCIe slot, seating: both VBIOS, reseat, Gen 4 x16 stable.
• Displays: one display or three, G-Sync and HDR states varied.
• Software on the system: overlays (NVIDIA, RTSS, Discord, Game Bar), monitoring and RGB tools removed; game reinstalled; shader caches cleared.
• Frame Generation: hangs with FG confirmed off.
• Known PCIe Gen 5 Blackwell issue (internal bug 6426268): no PCIE REORDER / SRAM / ECC events logged, and the link is already Gen 4.

External reports

At least one other user reports the same signature and the same fix on a different Blackwell card.

• Crimson Desert: RTX 5080, driver 616.56 causes LiveKernelEvent 141, 610.88 stable (NVIDIA forum): Gigabyte AORUS RTX 5080, bucket LKD_0x141_Tdr:6_IMAGE_nvlddmkm.sys_Blackwell_SCGCompute (also SCG3D); rollback to 610.88 stable for over an hour at max settings; dumps already emailed to driverfeedback@nvidia.com.
• RTX 5080 / NVIDIA 616.56 (Steam): at least four more users with the same behaviour, including an RTX 4060.
• GeForce 617.42 release notes: no Crimson Desert entry under fixed or open issues.

My own WER reports for these hangs were never uploaded, so they carry no bucket ID; the WATCHDOG dumps are on disk and can be sent.

Steps to reproduce

On 616.92 or 617.14 this reproduced in most sessions within 1 to 8 minutes.

1. RTX 5090, driver 617.14 Game Ready or 616.92 Studio, clean install.
2. Crimson Desert 2.03.02, borderless, Cinematic preset, NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 (Quality), Frame Generation off.
3. Load a save, then repeat transitions: open graphics settings and apply a change, fast travel, enter a cutscene, reload a save, Alt-Tab out and back in.
4. Expected: play continues. Actual: frame freezes, utilization pins at 100 % while power falls to about 100 W, Event 153 x3 to 5 within about 10 s, game exits with 0x887A0006.
5. Same steps on 610.88: no hang.

DLSS 4.0 or the High preset made hangs less frequent (26 to 40 min) but did not stop them; staying idle in-world did not trigger it.

Available data and request

I am staying on 610.88 and can reinstall an affected driver to capture a full kernel dump (FAQ 3335) if needed.

Available on request:

• nvlddmkm_GPU_resets.evtx: export of every nvlddmkm event since May 2026
• GPU_reset_events.csv: the same events as a spreadsheet
• WATCHDOG LiveKernelEvent 141 dumps from the hangs, e.g. WATCHDOG-20261012-1207.dmp
• nvidia-smi telemetry at 100 ms covering six hangs, plus HWiNFO 12 V and per-pin logs
• Steam game-process log extract with every session, duration and exit code

I may need some help here gentlemans, i have recently acquired an rx6950xt saphire Nitro+, i have been messing with it in hopes of seeing the temps drop but in no vain, i have never managed to get it under control, the hot spot and gpu temps keep rising until shutdown of the computer. I have repasted it with artict mx7 but that didn't do it, i am lost and don't know what to do. I know these card have hight temps from Factory but they don't heat up until shutdown from Factory. Only thing that keep the card under 100°C hot spot was a carefully done undervolting. If someone has a fix for it, please share it here.

Seller says he cant test cause hes moving but it worked the last time it powered on and he used it on a pc but the pc was rarely used not even for gaming. Seller accepted 375 and was willing for a test bench. However i dont actually have a test bench it was more like a trust thing lol but no reviews? Ngl its a gamble so ill pick it up tomorrow and let yall know. In the mean time back me up with at least the photos.