Fair prices for these 2 cards?

[Playboy]

Hi guys

Wondering if you guys could help me out, im in the process of upgrading within the next 2 weeks but I need to make a choice of either keeping the below two cards, 1 for my new and 1 to leave in my old pc, or to sell both and then i'd prob go with buying a brand new card and buying a second hand card for my old pc.

What would be the fair prices for a
1.) 7900GT

and

2.) 8600GT - brand new out the box- hasn't been touched (won at a comp)

Regards
Marco

 

[|tera|]

6800GT, about R800 (that's being generous)

Don't know what the 79 cost back in the day

 

[a3dm86]

keep one for your old pc.
re-sale value of gfx cards like phones and cars goes down the drain when you buy them.
also, you will know what you have whereas a second hand can go bust anytime with no warranty.
theres another thread for good gfx cards (6&7 series cards a bit old now, depends on what you want to do with it)

 

[ZuBS_]

Keep the 7900gt for your old machine, its still a good card

 

[Playboy]

Sorry guys i made a mistake there, it's an 8600GT i keep getting confused between the two

Thats the exact specifics:
GV-NX86T256H Gigabyte® NVIDIA® GeForce 8600GT, 256MB 128Bit GDDR3, Dual DVI, HDTV, DirectX10, OpenGL, Dual RAMDACS, SLI Ready, Silent Pipe II


I'm considering keeping the 7900GT but my problem lies with the fact that an 8600GT might be to superior for an old pc which i won't use that much.

I might alternatively use my brothers old gfx card, but then i could sell my 2 current cards. If i can get a decent price i'd rather get a new card and get it over with? any suggestions?

 

[Mephisto_Helix]

You be getting confuzzeling bru What exactly is it you are doing /want to do?

 

[Playboy]

Put it this way.. I want to see whether it would be worth selling both the 7900GT and 8600GT in order to be able to purchase a new card.

If it's worth selling the 2 cards and i can get a decent price for them, it'll be better to sell them sooner than later (before the values decrease further), and get myself a new card to go with the upgrade

 

[Mephisto_Helix]

Ah I see You say the 8600 is unused? If thats so you could probably get anything between R500 and R900. As for the 7900 (depending on brand and condition) you might between R1000 and R1500. But that's just based on what I've seen in classifieds around

 

[SanchoP]

I answered this at Prophecy, but I wasn't then aware that it was an 8600GT. I would put the 8600GT in the older PC, (what's it for?) and use the 7900GT in your proper PC until you want to upgrade. Then sell and buy a 9600GT...

I definitely don't think you'd get R1500 for the 7900GT. Maybe R800 for the 8600GT and R1k for the 7900GT.

 

[Playboy]

Guys i don't know if you are aware, but the cost price incl vat for this specific model of 8600GT is R1600. Don't you think selling it anything below R1200 is a bit of a waste ?

7900GT is about a year and a half old, but is still in perfect condition, I haven't experienced any problems with it.

Seems like i can get hold of a decent second hand card for my old pc for a really small fee, so im considering selling both the 7900GT and 8600GT and buying myself a new series card.

The old pc im leaving at my moms house, so that when i go and visit there (holidays, some weekends) i don't need to cart my new pc around. I'll still use it to play games etc but since the old pc will only have a 3200amdxp cpu, it's not worth putting in a decent card as the cpu will create a bottleneck of some sort im sure?

 

[Mephisto_Helix]

Hate to burst ya bubble but most 8600GT's are now between R800 and R1400

 

[hj2k_x]

Hate to burst ya bubble but most 8600GT's are now between R800 and R1400

And nobody really wants them cos they are limited by their 128-bit busses.

So, better to hang on to it if you ask me

 

[Playboy]

fair enough... Mmmm wondering if i should jus keep the 8600GT for the old pc and then use the 7900GT for the meanwhile, and upgrade my graphics in a year or so..

 

[hj2k_x]

fair enough... Mmmm wondering if i should jus keep the 8600GT for the old pc and then use the 7900GT for the meanwhile, and upgrade my graphics in a year or so..

That might be a better plan. That 7900GT is still quite a good card. Depends on what games you are gonna be playing though, I guess.

 

[SanchoP]

Will it will rock the socks off my X850XT, which somehow manages to do COD4 at 1280x1024 with full everything except a bit less AA and AF... So your 7900GT should do quite well until the next batch of games comes around. Hell, maybe if you still have it a few months down the line I'll buy it from you!

 

[Playboy]

So for COD4 and CSS, u reckon it shouldnt have a problem ?

 

[Zenbaas]

COD4 has an amazing abilty to run quite well on older machines. I suppose thats part of what makes it such a good game

 

[SanchoP]

Yes. Now I am truly impressed and flabbergasted! COD4 runs perfectly with EVERYTHING completely maxed out. Be that's with the old 850XT, a P4 and 1GB DDR400. Crysis, on the other hand, I have to run at 1024x768 and pretty much all settings on low... Still looks amazing in general, but it means I lose out on the nicer shadows and lots of the particle and physics.