Graphics cards are expensive

Well with everything going on from bitcoin miners trying to make money and buying all the GPU’s lately, you’re probably like the rest of us and can’t find that really high end graphics card to play games with.   You could also just be wanting a better graphics for your graphical editing or even for programs like autocad that can be used for business.   Either way, you’re still waiting for the Low Hash Rates to come out or start being sold but until then you are probably like everyone else trying to get the cheapest graphics card you can for the price and buying those can seem very hard to get even if you do try to do the Newegg Shuffle.  Even then there is not much you can do for that system that needs that graphics card to run the programs or even just because the CPU doesn’t support any Graphical hardware on the motherboard.  What’s a person to do?

Buy a used low end GPU

The first way you can do this is to go searching for low end used graphics card.  I am going to talk about where you should look to buy that low end card and what you should look for when you finally find that card that will keep you going until the prices drop to where you can afford to buy the card.   This isn’t going to be a big list but it will be a list that I’ve used in the past and seems to work really well.

• Buy it off of Facebook – Although you can find some really good cards that seem like they are good.  You still have to do your research and make sure the buyer has either some good ratings or maybe even has some good used GPU.
• Mercari –  Is another site I like to watch and have notifications for products that either go on sale or even products that reduces their prices.   They have a great way to watch products that will allow you to watch for that GPU that might work for you.
• Google Shop – You can look for that cheap GPU or find a really good used GPU that you can use until the price of the High end GPUs start to come down.   Either way you can get notified when there are new products that are for sale and or get notified when there is products in your area that is for sale.
• Ebay – Although this is one that I don’t support anymore because of how much people have increased the price on GPU and made it extremely hard to buy good GPU’s.   I am just throwing this out for those who might want to check it out.  You might be able to find a low end GPU that will work for you until you can afford to get a good GPU.

Buy a High end GPU

So you’ve decided to buy a higher end GPU and you don’t want to pay the ridiculous prices that you are seeing from Amazon, or even other sites like that.   You want to get it for as cheap as possible but you don’t know how or where to look.  I’ve going to give you a few options that I know of but that will likely only be good for a small chance of getting a high end graphics card for cheaper than most.

• NewEgg Shuffle – This is one those that I might get you a decent chance of getting a GPU that is closer to the MSRP or even at MSRP rates.   I just don’t like it when they bundle GPU’s with something that won’t work or you don’t need.   It sometimes does have the GPU’s that are sold by themselves and thus can be good sometimes.
• Google Shop — Another good one because you can get notified when you find a cheap High end GPU that might work for your needs.  It however isn’t always accurate and thus you will need to keep that in mind when it comes to finding that high end GPU.
• Shop Local Computer Repair Shops –  If you’re local shop has a website that will notify you when they have GPUs this would be a good time to keep watch on when they have a GPU.  You might even be able to find it closer to the MSRP.

Well these are just a few recommendations on how to either find a cheap Graphics card or if you are looking to try to find a high end gaming card for as cheaply as you can.  If you are really going to try to find a cheap Gaming Graphics card, this would be the ways I would do it.   Either way, you will most likely just always be looking until you find one that will work for you.

What’s some ways you have found a GPU that can work for your needs?  Why not leave a comment and tell people how you did it yourself.   I know these aren’t the only way to buy cards that are closer to the MSRP.  Like what you read, why not subscribe and find out more stuff that might help you with your computer parts.