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I Know I Watch It: A Used PC Build Experience with the RX 470

I know I watch it there's 70 videos, a bunch of those videos okay gotcha what's your Venmo name scan code is that you yep okay so it'll be $70.70 and this is for um our X 470 offer PC are you building so this one's going to be paired with a Ryzen 5 1600 system so kind of older parts which kind of work with this well it's like an all used build so all right let me know when you get that do you buy and sell a lot oh I just built sometimes did you any of the new parts by chance the 30 series yeah people are scouting them way too much I saw they were selling the 30 60 ti for like the same price as a 37 yeah basically even more like $899 yep okay sweet alright thank you very much all right we are back to the good camera now so I guess when he saw the uh action cam he recognized I was a YouTuber but yeah that was a nice quick easy transaction let's get home test this card out and um I'm gonna cut to me in the driveway because this is gonna be a boring and uneventful drive home all right we are boom I'm alive here's a good look at the card in much better lighting but man this Shroud is beautiful it's a little bit dusty but that's fine whatever I can dust and clean that up there's no back plate on it so what I'm gonna do real quick is I have this system which is gonna be in actually a future video I'm really excited for this system actually but I'm gonna for now need it so that I can test this card out because it has everything it actually has a RX 580 in here right now not too different of a card of what we're gonna test but yeah I'm gonna pop this into the system and then make sure everything works fine I don't think I have to install any drivers because the Adrenaline drivers for the 580 should work with the 470.

Let's see opening up MSI Afterburner we do see the RX 470 drivers you have Adrenaline 20.11.3 so we're good to go there I'm not gonna have to install anything else do I have Fur Mark on here I do and uh we're going to run for a mark we're going to do the GPU stress test so I'm just letting it run for a little bit we're getting about 70 FPS on the Fur Mark 1080p no uh MSAA stress test and the card is reaching its at 77 degrees now and I think this is with the default fan curves too the fans are ramping up later that night so everything checks out there's no artifacting or any crashing or anything like that hopefully it can overclock a little bit just to squeeze out a little bit more performance maybe push it up closer to a 480 or like a 570 but I'm going to go with this this card really happy I was able to pick it up for $70.70 and $0.70 which I think that was an awesome deal for this card anyone building a PC under like the I don't know $500 price range definitely look to the used market especially for the graphics card with the CPU you can get by with a newer like uh Intel i3 or if you can find like a Ryzen 3 those are priced not too bad those are around like $100 or so but graphics cards there's not that much in the new segment so if you've got a limited budget the graphics card is where you can save the most amount of money because as I said earlier the equivalent performance to these cards like the 470, 570, 480, 580 it's gonna be at least $150 if not close to $200 for new parts.

The Used PC Market: A Changing Landscape

The used PC market has undergone significant changes in recent years. One of the main factors contributing to this shift is the rise of cryptocurrency mining, which has led to a surge in demand for graphics cards and other high-performance components. As a result, many people are looking to sell their used PCs and parts online, which has created new opportunities for buyers to find affordable deals.

However, the used PC market has also been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has caused disruptions in the global supply chain and led to increased prices for new components. This has made it even more challenging for buyers to find good deals on used parts.

Despite these challenges, many people are still finding ways to build PCs using affordable used parts. In fact, some builders are even making a profit by selling their own refurbished or rebuilt PCs online.

To take advantage of the used PC market, buyers can look for deals on older models of graphics cards, CPUs, and other components that are still capable of delivering excellent performance at a fraction of the cost of newer models.

For example, I recently picked up an RX 470 graphics card for $70.70, which is an amazing deal considering its original price was over $900. Similarly, I found a Ryzen 5 1600 CPU for $100 or so, which is significantly cheaper than buying a new one.

Overall, the used PC market presents many opportunities for buyers to find affordable and high-performance components. By doing their research and being patient, buyers can build PCs that deliver excellent performance at a fraction of the cost of newer models.

Building with RX 470: A Great Option

The RX 470 is a great option for builders looking to create an affordable and powerful PC. With its high clock speed and decent memory bandwidth, it's well-suited for gaming and content creation tasks.

One of the main benefits of building with an RX 470 is its affordability. As mentioned earlier, I picked up one for $70.70, which is an amazing deal considering its original price was over $900.

Another advantage of using an RX 470 is its compatibility with older systems. Many laptops and desktops still support the RX 470, making it a great option for those looking to upgrade or build a new PC on a budget.

However, it's worth noting that the RX 470 may not be as powerful as newer graphics cards like the RX 6800 XT or NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080. But for most gaming and content creation tasks, it should provide more than enough performance.

Overall, building with an RX 470 is a great option for those looking to create an affordable and powerful PC. With its affordability, compatibility, and decent performance, it's definitely worth considering for any builder on a budget.

In conclusion, the used PC market presents many opportunities for buyers to find affordable and high-performance components. By doing their research and being patient, builders can create PCs that deliver excellent performance at a fraction of the cost of newer models. Building with an RX 470 is a great option for those looking to create an affordable and powerful PC, offering a balance of affordability, compatibility, and decent performance.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enokay my glasses are completely fogging up with this mask hey what's up everyone danny here in this video we are going to go on a used part pickup ride along which is something i have not done since like the end of may or early june of this year and most of that is because all these parts deals have kind of dried up around me covet doesn't help because there's low inventory in the new market so people aren't upgrading so they aren't selling their old stuff off but also everything currently being released from like either nvidia or amd uh whether it's graphics cards or processors there's nothing at the very low end like zen 3 processors the lowest end one is the ryzen 5 5600x which is 300 the cheapest new graphics card is the 360 ti as of me recording this right now and that's 400 not only that but they're not even in stock because they are constantly being sold out every time they're restocking so i think a lot of people especially people with less money they are cleaning up the used market right now like if people only have 100 to 200 to spend on either like a cp or gpu they're definitely gonna have to look in the used market and they're picking up anything that's a decent deal which is why i haven't been able to find a decent deal around me but today or actually yesterday i found what i think to be a really good deal the post was not even 24 hours old when i responded it's for a graphics card and i'll talk about it more on the way out but i gotta go meet the seller right now otherwise i'm gonna be late so i'm gonna grab my jacket and then i got my first person camera because that's my backpack so uh yeah let's go on this ride along and i'll tell you more about the deal this video is brought to you by antlion audio creators of the mod mic the boom microphones that can be attached to almost anything you want take your favorite pair of headphones vr headset or whatever else you fancy find a flat surface to attach the magnetic base to and instantly turn into a sound recording peripheral the mod mic comes in three different versions the wireless usb and universal three and a half millimeter all the audio in this pre-roll is actually being recorded by the mod mic wireless and this is all the way over in my echoey bathroom this is raw and unedited it hasn't been altered in any way so this is the high quality sound that you can expect from mod mic if you're interested in this or any of the other products that they have to offer definitely check out the links in the description below but other than that back to the video i'll be back all right so this pickup is going to be for a graphics card the msi gaming rx470 the seller has it listed for 70 which is an awesome price seventy dollars would have been a great price pre-copied but since we're in covet time frame it makes it an amazing deal i would value this right now at around 100 to 110 dollars if you're gonna go based on something that's readily available like found on ebay or something to the masses i don't think 70 is going to be a common deal a lot of people will be able to find and the rx 470 yet it's a few generations old but you got to consider the 500 series from amd was a polaris refresh so it's not like it was completely new architecture anyway so if you think about what amd has offered afterwards which would have been what vega and then we went on to the rx 5000 series is not that many generations behind with regards to the market right now the closest thing i can think of for a brand new graphics card in the ballpark of this rx 470 will be like the 1650 super or the 5500 xt both of those which are going for around like 170 to 200 so getting this at 70 dollars even though it will be slightly lower performance than those i think it's a great deal even though it's used too just because there's you don't find those two cards in the used market that much so for the lower end market there's really not that much of an offering you have to go like a few years old the rx 470 released in the middle of 2016. so by now it's coming up on four and a half years old but it's still very relevant i am stuck in traffic right now and hopefully that does not make me late you can see the police lights right now but um yeah you want to get the rx 470 480 570 or 580 i would say even the gtx 1060 whether it's a three gigabyte or the 60 gigabyte versions uh are gonna be good enough and i know people hate the three gigabyte 1060s i don't really know why that amount of vram is perfect for someone playing at 1080p and i honestly don't think it's a problem especially when you don't have the option of being picky right now with how bad especially like for me the local used market is if you don't have that many options in your own personal use market then you're gonna have to go with what you can get um and i would say the 1063 gigabyte at 100 isn't that bad of a deal of course if i were to rank all these cards it would be at the bottom of the list but i would still consider it so the seller wants to meet me at the local bank uh becu and i asked him if he was willing to take venmo or paypal just because the less you have to touch money the better and he said he was down with venmo which thank goodness he is because i didn't want to have to go and withdraw money beforehand even though we are meeting at the bank um just because it's 70 so there's like an odd number in there which would require either 5 or 10 bills but i think the atms only give out in uh in twenty dollars so that would have been a pain uh to try to get that one of the twenties broken into two tens the one thing i do like about offer up over craigslist you can actually tie more information to it to kind of verify that you're legit it does track like the verified transactions that you do i really like that about it and it lets people rate you whether or not your communication was good whether or not you came on time things like that so let's see where i can get a parking spot right in the front where there's good lighting get my mask on so i do not forget about that all right he says he's here by the entrance hey how's it going danny nice to meet you what was this card used for oh i just bought a computer how are you from youtube yeah i am from youtube i saw your videos really yeah did you guess that this it would have been me coming to this meetup at all yeah but i know i watch it there's 70 videos a bunch of those videos okay gotcha what's your venmo name scan code is that you yep okay so it'll be 70 70 and this is for um our x 470 offer pc are you building so this one's going to be paired with a ryzen 5 1600 system so kind of older parts which kind of work with this well it's like an all used build so all right let me know when you get that do you buy and sell a lot oh i just built sometimes did you any of the new parts by chance the 30 series yeah people are scouting them way too much i saw they were selling the 30 60 ti for like the same price as a 37 yeah basically even more like eight nine hundred dollars yep okay sweet alright thank you very much all right we are back to the good camera now so i guess when he saw the uh action cam he recognized i was a youtuber but yeah that was a nice quick easy transaction let's get home test this card out and um i'm gonna cut to me in the driveway because this is gonna be a boring and uneventful drive home all right we are boom i'm alive here's a good look at the card in much better lighting but man this shroud is beautiful it's a little bit dusty but that's fine whatever i can dust and clean that up there's no back plate on it so what i'm gonna do real quick is i have this system which is gonna be in actually a future video i'm really excited for this system actually but i'm gonna for now need it so that i can test this card out because it has everything it actually has a rx 580 in here right now not too different of a card of what we're gonna test but yeah i'm gonna pop this into the system and then make sure everything works fine i don't think i have to install any drivers because the adrenaline drivers for the 580 should work with the 470. let's see opening up msi afterburner we do see the rx470 drivers you have adrenaline 20.11.3 so we're good to go there i'm not gonna have to install anything else do i have fur mark on here i do and uh we're going to run for a mark we're going to do the gpu stress test so i'm just letting it run for a little bit we're getting about 70 fps on the fur mark 1080p no uh msaa stress test and the card is reaching it's at 77 degrees now and i think this is with the default fan curves too the fans are ramping up later that night so everything checks out there's no artifacting or any crashing or anything like that hopefully it can overclock a little bit just to squeeze out a little bit more performance maybe push it up closer to a 480 or like a 570 but i'm going to go with this this card really happy i was able to pick it up for 70 70 and 70 cents i think that was an awesome deal for this card anyone building a pc under like the i don't know 500 price range definitely look to the used market especially for the graphics card with the cpu you can get by with a newer like uh intel i3 or if you can find like a ryzen 3 those are priced not too bad those are around like 100 bucks or so but graphics card there's not that much in the new segment so if you've got a limited budget the graphics card is where you can save the most amount of money because as i said earlier the equivalent performance to these cards like the 470 570 480 580 it's gonna be at least 150 if not close to 200 for new parts the used pc market up here used to be really good even after the whole crypto thing when people are offloading the cards that was also a good time it's just this whole kobe thing it's it's it's new it i don't know if it's gonna have long-term lasting effects or not hopefully not but we'll see but yeah i'm really curious everyone out there what do all of your used markets look like is it a lot worse now similar to what i'm experiencing because of the reasons that i stated or you know are you still finding really good used deals and if you are let me know what you've been picking up in your used market so i can be jealous and so the other people reading the comments could also be jealous but other than that i hope you all enjoyed this video i look forward to reading all your comments down below and i look forward to seeing you in the next video which should be featuring this build with this rx 580 so yeah i'll see you then bye youokay my glasses are completely fogging up with this mask hey what's up everyone danny here in this video we are going to go on a used part pickup ride along which is something i have not done since like the end of may or early june of this year and most of that is because all these parts deals have kind of dried up around me covet doesn't help because there's low inventory in the new market so people aren't upgrading so they aren't selling their old stuff off but also everything currently being released from like either nvidia or amd uh whether it's graphics cards or processors there's nothing at the very low end like zen 3 processors the lowest end one is the ryzen 5 5600x which is 300 the cheapest new graphics card is the 360 ti as of me recording this right now and that's 400 not only that but they're not even in stock because they are constantly being sold out every time they're restocking so i think a lot of people especially people with less money they are cleaning up the used market right now like if people only have 100 to 200 to spend on either like a cp or gpu they're definitely gonna have to look in the used market and they're picking up anything that's a decent deal which is why i haven't been able to find a decent deal around me but today or actually yesterday i found what i think to be a really good deal the post was not even 24 hours old when i responded it's for a graphics card and i'll talk about it more on the way out but i gotta go meet the seller right now otherwise i'm gonna be late so i'm gonna grab my jacket and then i got my first person camera because that's my backpack so uh yeah let's go on this ride along and i'll tell you more about the deal this video is brought to you by antlion audio creators of the mod mic the boom microphones that can be attached to almost anything you want take your favorite pair of headphones vr headset or whatever else you fancy find a flat surface to attach the magnetic base to and instantly turn into a sound recording peripheral the mod mic comes in three different versions the wireless usb and universal three and a half millimeter all the audio in this pre-roll is actually being recorded by the mod mic wireless and this is all the way over in my echoey bathroom this is raw and unedited it hasn't been altered in any way so this is the high quality sound that you can expect from mod mic if you're interested in this or any of the other products that they have to offer definitely check out the links in the description below but other than that back to the video i'll be back all right so this pickup is going to be for a graphics card the msi gaming rx470 the seller has it listed for 70 which is an awesome price seventy dollars would have been a great price pre-copied but since we're in covet time frame it makes it an amazing deal i would value this right now at around 100 to 110 dollars if you're gonna go based on something that's readily available like found on ebay or something to the masses i don't think 70 is going to be a common deal a lot of people will be able to find and the rx 470 yet it's a few generations old but you got to consider the 500 series from amd was a polaris refresh so it's not like it was completely new architecture anyway so if you think about what amd has offered afterwards which would have been what vega and then we went on to the rx 5000 series is not that many generations behind with regards to the market right now the closest thing i can think of for a brand new graphics card in the ballpark of this rx 470 will be like the 1650 super or the 5500 xt both of those which are going for around like 170 to 200 so getting this at 70 dollars even though it will be slightly lower performance than those i think it's a great deal even though it's used too just because there's you don't find those two cards in the used market that much so for the lower end market there's really not that much of an offering you have to go like a few years old the rx 470 released in the middle of 2016. so by now it's coming up on four and a half years old but it's still very relevant i am stuck in traffic right now and hopefully that does not make me late you can see the police lights right now but um yeah you want to get the rx 470 480 570 or 580 i would say even the gtx 1060 whether it's a three gigabyte or the 60 gigabyte versions uh are gonna be good enough and i know people hate the three gigabyte 1060s i don't really know why that amount of vram is perfect for someone playing at 1080p and i honestly don't think it's a problem especially when you don't have the option of being picky right now with how bad especially like for me the local used market is if you don't have that many options in your own personal use market then you're gonna have to go with what you can get um and i would say the 1063 gigabyte at 100 isn't that bad of a deal of course if i were to rank all these cards it would be at the bottom of the list but i would still consider it so the seller wants to meet me at the local bank uh becu and i asked him if he was willing to take venmo or paypal just because the less you have to touch money the better and he said he was down with venmo which thank goodness he is because i didn't want to have to go and withdraw money beforehand even though we are meeting at the bank um just because it's 70 so there's like an odd number in there which would require either 5 or 10 bills but i think the atms only give out in uh in twenty dollars so that would have been a pain uh to try to get that one of the twenties broken into two tens the one thing i do like about offer up over craigslist you can actually tie more information to it to kind of verify that you're legit it does track like the verified transactions that you do i really like that about it and it lets people rate you whether or not your communication was good whether or not you came on time things like that so let's see where i can get a parking spot right in the front where there's good lighting get my mask on so i do not forget about that all right he says he's here by the entrance hey how's it going danny nice to meet you what was this card used for oh i just bought a computer how are you from youtube yeah i am from youtube i saw your videos really yeah did you guess that this it would have been me coming to this meetup at all yeah but i know i watch it there's 70 videos a bunch of those videos okay gotcha what's your venmo name scan code is that you yep okay so it'll be 70 70 and this is for um our x 470 offer pc are you building so this one's going to be paired with a ryzen 5 1600 system so kind of older parts which kind of work with this well it's like an all used build so all right let me know when you get that do you buy and sell a lot oh i just built sometimes did you any of the new parts by chance the 30 series yeah people are scouting them way too much i saw they were selling the 30 60 ti for like the same price as a 37 yeah basically even more like eight nine hundred dollars yep okay sweet alright thank you very much all right we are back to the good camera now so i guess when he saw the uh action cam he recognized i was a youtuber but yeah that was a nice quick easy transaction let's get home test this card out and um i'm gonna cut to me in the driveway because this is gonna be a boring and uneventful drive home all right we are boom i'm alive here's a good look at the card in much better lighting but man this shroud is beautiful it's a little bit dusty but that's fine whatever i can dust and clean that up there's no back plate on it so what i'm gonna do real quick is i have this system which is gonna be in actually a future video i'm really excited for this system actually but i'm gonna for now need it so that i can test this card out because it has everything it actually has a rx 580 in here right now not too different of a card of what we're gonna test but yeah i'm gonna pop this into the system and then make sure everything works fine i don't think i have to install any drivers because the adrenaline drivers for the 580 should work with the 470. let's see opening up msi afterburner we do see the rx470 drivers you have adrenaline 20.11.3 so we're good to go there i'm not gonna have to install anything else do i have fur mark on here i do and uh we're going to run for a mark we're going to do the gpu stress test so i'm just letting it run for a little bit we're getting about 70 fps on the fur mark 1080p no uh msaa stress test and the card is reaching it's at 77 degrees now and i think this is with the default fan curves too the fans are ramping up later that night so everything checks out there's no artifacting or any crashing or anything like that hopefully it can overclock a little bit just to squeeze out a little bit more performance maybe push it up closer to a 480 or like a 570 but i'm going to go with this this card really happy i was able to pick it up for 70 70 and 70 cents i think that was an awesome deal for this card anyone building a pc under like the i don't know 500 price range definitely look to the used market especially for the graphics card with the cpu you can get by with a newer like uh intel i3 or if you can find like a ryzen 3 those are priced not too bad those are around like 100 bucks or so but graphics card there's not that much in the new segment so if you've got a limited budget the graphics card is where you can save the most amount of money because as i said earlier the equivalent performance to these cards like the 470 570 480 580 it's gonna be at least 150 if not close to 200 for new parts the used pc market up here used to be really good even after the whole crypto thing when people are offloading the cards that was also a good time it's just this whole kobe thing it's it's it's new it i don't know if it's gonna have long-term lasting effects or not hopefully not but we'll see but yeah i'm really curious everyone out there what do all of your used markets look like is it a lot worse now similar to what i'm experiencing because of the reasons that i stated or you know are you still finding really good used deals and if you are let me know what you've been picking up in your used market so i can be jealous and so the other people reading the comments could also be jealous but other than that i hope you all enjoyed this video i look forward to reading all your comments down below and i look forward to seeing you in the next video which should be featuring this build with this rx 580 so yeah i'll see you then bye you\n"