What is custom cooling gear worth on second hand market? I have here a potential deal with a Vega 56 inside an all water cooled PC.
Phanteks Evolv temp side panel, all EKWB gear on a 6700K with 16GB of Ballistix Sport. That kind of stuff.
For 1500EUR maybe 1300.
I think I am a little biased cuz of the gpu so i thought i ask here first for some input.
Do they have the stock cooler too? Being able to return it to stock condition is worth something IMO. If they don’t I wouldn’t pay more than MSRP with a block installed as it’s going to limit what can be done with the card.
Yes stock cooler included. As far as i know every packaging box is included.
I’d probably take MSRP of the cooling parts and knock 50% off of them to start with and add them to whatever you’d consider the parts to be worth at stock in used condition. Given the current state of pricing on GPU’s and memory, this will probably wind up feeling like the cost of a brand new computer of a year ago, which sort of sucks, but is what it is.
Water cooling parts are always sort of suspect since it’s going to require work to verify that everything is in good condition beyond plugging it in and running it since loops can become contaminated, block fins clogged, etc, and so as far as I’m concerned assembled parts are honestly worth less than singular parts that are more easily inspected.
Take my opinion with some salt though, I am still pretty new to watercooling and haven’t bought a single used loop component myself yet, but this is how I would approach it if I were to do so. I don’t think I’d buy anything beyond fittings without in-person inspection.
What would all the parts cost together new if you were to buy right now?
Fuk he just sold the GPU right now. Well if nothing else I know what to look for next time and thanks for the input. Much appreciated.
Since this thread has so many eyes on it, I’ll spam this one time:
900 Pounds or 1239.24 USD for a Vega 56, anyone?
From a very known retailer in the UK, (OCUK) Link:
I’m glad to see anybody having some in stock. Means they are at least being manufactured, heh.
Well, you got options in Germany. They still suck but … at least you have some.
https://www.mindfactory.de/Hardware/Grafikkarten+(VGA)/Radeon+RX+VEGA.html
If that site doesnt have something, then rest of EU wont have it
No idea if this is related to Vega, but given that the rumor is they will be working with AMD, one can hope, right?
A gaming brand that isn’t nvidia? How dare you!
Notice that… Now if we could avoid the price gouging.
Actually this shot says clearly “hi, I am not Vega”.
So, Crossfire Vega 64s here. Also dual Vega under Linux (not crossfire obviously). Seeing some wierd stuff with Linux actually, like it cranking up the WRONG CARD to run vulkan rendering on somehow (well, GPU tach shows the non-display card being hammered :D) and getting bad performance when i run the Vulkan benchmarks 
Not a lot of insight here personally, but presumably this is the mobile Vega part:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMDGPU-Vega-12-Patches
Has anyone here had any success finding a water block for a Vega 56 Nitro+ GPU? I manage to snag the limited edition but other than need a new case because the card is so massive I haven’t been able to find a block that would fit it for a watercooling loop.
Given the already limited number of vega cards around, a custom PCB card might not get a waterblock at all.
Doom 2016 used to do that under Windows as well (Radeon cards). Something with the indexing in Vulkan being incorrect. As Vulkan is more low level, it puts more workload on the game devs. They probably don’t test with multi-GPU systems as almost no gamer has them. I tried to get some answer from id about the issue, but never got any reply. They might have fixed it now, I haven’t tried Doom Vulkan on Win with multiple Radeons in a year or so. Saw reports of it happening with multiple Nvidia cards too.
Vulkan has mulit-GPU support nowadays, but I haven’t seen anyone even begin to implement it.
