If you have the box and note that you can show it running is all I'd add to an advert.

Oh and that you'll only take cash or bank transfer and the money has to be in your bank before they touch the card.

Good luck.

A GPUZ validation

Replace thermal putty or thermal paste on GPU die, dissassemble to show GPU PCB to show if it has not BEEN fried. or in a oven.
Clean fans and clean the GPU from the dust...

引用自 Im smoking gas：

Replace thermal putty or thermal paste on GPU die, dissassemble to show GPU PCB to show if it has not BEEN fried. or in a oven.
Clean fans and clean the GPU from the dust...

no
thermal paste only needs to be replaced when the cooler is separated from the cpu ihs, or gpu die
if they are never separated you do not need to replace it

引用自 Im smoking gas：

Replace thermal putty or thermal paste on GPU die, dissassemble to show GPU PCB to show if it has not BEEN fried. or in a oven.
Clean fans and clean the GPU from the dust...

I would never buy anything from somebody who does this.

引用自 Im smoking gas：

Replace thermal putty or thermal paste on GPU die, dissassemble to show GPU PCB to show if it has not BEEN fried. or in a oven.
Clean fans and clean the GPU from the dust...

Unless you are a specialized person or place that resells refurbished/renewed GPUs then there is never a reason to do such things. GPU all in working order then you simply clean it up, so its free of dust or pet hairs... very simple. All the original stickers should be intact, unbroken, visible and legible

Then good quality pictures of each angle of the GPU to verify that. Also helps so they can get a look at the ports as well as any power connections.

GPU-Z validation as I've said before should be something everyone selling a used GPUs should be doing. Or CPU-Z validation if selling a used CPU.

Yeah, no need to redo thermal paste unless it's old and NEEDS replacing, if it's working fine and relitively new, don't go opening it upto sell it, infact, for most, that would be a negative.

My gpu's are watercooled so I do swap them back to stock air coolers to sell and I do document the process showing everything is OK and then show the card running, but that's a bit of a special situation that most won't be doing and so have no need to open it up just to sell it.

Basically advising the average person to repaste a gpu to sell it is REALLY BAD ADVICE.

Cash only, write down serial number, let them test gpu on your pc.

If they like they pay, then they get card

Blow the dust out of it. When buying a used gpu I also like to know some brief history (if you know it), like
- are you the original owner (if no, how long have you owned it)
- how did you use it (gaming? crypto mining? professional app acceleration etc)
- has it been in storage (you upgraded, stored it, and are now pulling it out of storage to sell it)
- if yes for how long
- has the functionality been tested (do all fans work? do all display outs work?).
Any of that is nice to see and builds buyer confidence.

引用自 _I_：

引用自 Im smoking gas：

Replace thermal putty or thermal paste on GPU die, dissassemble to show GPU PCB to show if it has not BEEN fried. or in a oven.
Clean fans and clean the GPU from the dust...

no
thermal paste only needs to be replaced when the cooler is separated from the cpu ihs, or gpu die
if they are never separated you do not need to replace it

Kind of a sidebar, but that is wrong on so many levels. Paste dries out over time. Every gpu more than 5 years old should have its temps evaluated to see if it needs a repaste. The last two new gpus I've owned (7900XT and 4070TiS) needed to be re-pasted within a month of ownership because Asus and XFX both used garbage pastes and the gpu hotspots started over-heating. "If it's never been separated you do not need to replace it"? Absolutely, 100% WRONG.

Should it be a requirement for selling a gpu? No, I don't think so. While it's on the seller to provide a working product, I think the buyer assumes the risk of whether a gpu needs a repaste or not.

引用自 BurakZG：

引用自 Im smoking gas：

Replace thermal putty or thermal paste on GPU die, dissassemble to show GPU PCB to show if it has not BEEN fried. or in a oven.
Clean fans and clean the GPU from the dust...

I would never buy anything from somebody who does this.

Depends on if the seller obviously cared for his gpu or not. I hunted a long time for a nice TeraScale HD 6950 / 6970 for my collection. The one I wound up getting had been re-pasted by the owner with Kryonaut. He didn't have a ton ratings on Ebay, around 300 (100% positive), but his presentation was first -rate - tons of photos and a description that wasn't written by AI. He was the original owner, card when it arrived was immaculate and was in the original box. Turned out it was one of the early HD 6950's and he had flashed it with the 6970 bios (unlocking the additional shaders), so that was a nice bonus.

If the seller is a new account selling a collectible gpu (like a working R9 390x2) claiming its been repasted, I'd be suspicious, but my point is a seller claiming a gpu has been re-pasted isn't necessarily a bad thing.

You only need to repaste if temps are out of the ordinary.

If you had new cards showing odd tps within a month you should not of repaste them but rma'd, though I have my doubts in that tbh.

New sellers aren't really any more suspecious than old ones (everyone starts somewhere) if it's not a store and they have dozens of gpu's listed, then it might be questionable but you have the same protections on ebay, so it doesn't matter anyway.

Dry paste isn't necessarily bad either, it all depends if it's still conducting heat properly or not, an idea that you need to repaste at 5 years or if it's dry is just wrong.

引用自 Monk：

You only need to repaste if temps are out of the ordinary.

If you had new cards showing odd tps within a month you should not of repaste them but rma'd, though I have my doubts in that tbh.

New sellers aren't really any more suspecious than old ones (everyone starts somewhere) if it's not a store and they have dozens of gpu's listed, then it might be questionable but you have the same protections on ebay, so it doesn't matter anyway.

Dry paste isn't necessarily bad either, it all depends if it's still conducting heat properly or not, an idea that you need to repaste at 5 years or if it's dry is just wrong.

I said "after 5 years evaluate whether it needs a repaste", not that it automatically needs one.

Dry paste literally does not conduct / transfer heat properly (compared to fresh paste), by virtue of it being dry.

I've rma'd Asus before, won't do it again if I can avoid it. Plus it was a chance to use PTM7950, which is better than any factory paste I've encountered (tricky to apply tho).

There is zero need or point to those more expensive pastes.

AC MX4 or a similar mix and price per volume works just as well at very low cost. It's like $9-12 for 20 grams; which is plenty of paste for doing a few CPUs and GPUs worth.

What will cost a bit more is getting proper replacement sheet of thermal padding. As you'd need to ensure the thickness for this per the GPU model is correct

引用自 AbedsBrother：

引用自 Monk：

You only need to repaste if temps are out of the ordinary.

If you had new cards showing odd tps within a month you should not of repaste them but rma'd, though I have my doubts in that tbh.

New sellers aren't really any more suspecious than old ones (everyone starts somewhere) if it's not a store and they have dozens of gpu's listed, then it might be questionable but you have the same protections on ebay, so it doesn't matter anyway.

Dry paste isn't necessarily bad either, it all depends if it's still conducting heat properly or not, an idea that you need to repaste at 5 years or if it's dry is just wrong.

I said "after 5 years evaluate whether it needs a repaste", not that it automatically needs one.

Dry paste literally does not conduct / transfer heat properly (compared to fresh paste), by virtue of it being dry.

I've rma'd Asus before, won't do it again if I can avoid it. Plus it was a chance to use PTM7950, which is better than any factory paste I've encountered (tricky to apply tho).

Again, dry does not mean it won't conduct heat, it depends on the paste, most will still conduct even if very dry, besides, it's only to fill in tiny fractions of the die really where contact might not be perfect, be it an imperfect cold plate or uneven pressure when mounting.

So, dry paste is not always bad, it's only bad if it's paired with a notable increase in temperatures.

引用自 Bad 💀 Motha：

There is zero need or point to those more expensive pastes.

AC MX4 or a similar mix and price per volume works just as well at very low cost. It's like $9-12 for 20 grams; which is plenty of paste for doing a few CPUs and GPUs worth.

What will cost a bit more is getting proper replacement sheet of thermal padding. As you'd need to ensure the thickness for this per the GPU model is correct

Have an R9 290 and a blower Vega 64 that both run a lot cooler with PTM7950 than they did with MX4, espcially now that they've been heat-cycled a few times. The 4070 TiS is an Asus Dual model (aka the cheapest, smallest, lightest version of that gpu) and stays around 70C (82C hotspot) while playing Cyberpunk w/ path tracing.

Not saying I use ptm7950 on every gpu in my collection - have used MX4 on most of them at some point with good results - but I have seen a definite improvement in high-heat scenarios like the blower Vega.

Give that even going to liquid metal only nets 5 to 10c max any real difference between pastes and pads will generally be 1 to 3c any more is likely down to mounting it more evenly or a better overall distribution of Tim, though it is hard to get that wrong, though the added thickness of those pads I could see making up for a less than perfect cold plate easier/better than paste.