I just bought a 4890 for $100

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Victory! I found a guy on craigslist selling a nearly new XFX Radeon 4890 1gb for only $100. That's a steal as far as I'm concerned. I picked it up yesterday, and so far it runs like a champ. I've put it through its paces pretty well, with probably 6-8 hours of gaming so far on Borderlands, Crysis Warhead, BFBC2, and Company of Heroes. I can play all except Crysis completely maxed out at 1920x1080 without any lag at all. A worthy improvement over my 4850.

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#1 Edited By theragu40

Victory! I found a guy on craigslist selling a nearly new XFX Radeon 4890 1gb for only $100. That's a steal as far as I'm concerned. I picked it up yesterday, and so far it runs like a champ. I've put it through its paces pretty well, with probably 6-8 hours of gaming so far on Borderlands, Crysis Warhead, BFBC2, and Company of Heroes. I can play all except Crysis completely maxed out at 1920x1080 without any lag at all. A worthy improvement over my 4850.

14 years ago

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#2 Edited By Gizmo

Should have got a DirectX11 card...

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#3 Edited By Geno

Pretty good for $100.

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#4 Edited By theragu40

@Gizmo: Yeah, I considered that. But knowing that I can sell my current card for probably $60-$70, this is a minimal monetary investment that buys me time until DX11 is fully required by games. As of right now, with nvidia dragging their feet even getting a DX11 offerering to the door, it seems unlikely to me that we're going to see many DX11-exclusive games any time in the near future. Heck, there aren't even that many DX10-exclusive games at this point. I feel safe with the purchase. At any rate, there certainly is no comparable DX11 card that I could have gotten for only $100. It wasn't a premeditated upgrade, it was a "holy shit, some guy is selling his 4890 for how much?" purchase. Big difference :)

14 years ago

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#5 Edited By nasher27

I definitely would have been sketched out by someone selling such a nice card for so cheap, but if you say it runs fine, nice find.

14 years ago

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#6 Edited By HitmanAgent47

For a DX10 card, that's a great deal. He probally sold it to get a DX11 card though. It's still a powerful card.

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#7 Edited By iam3green

good find on that. i would be worried about buying something on craiglist. i need to upgrade my computer. i'm using still a pentium 4 at 4.3ghz., nvidia 7900gt 512mb, and DDR2 2gig ram.

i just need a new processor and power supply and i should be great for another couple of years. i've been using the same processor for about 5ish years.

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#8 Edited By HitmanAgent47

@iam3green: No, the nvidia 7900 is unacceptable by today's standards besides a new cpu. It won't last you five years, if you don't upgrade to a mid range videocard, you don't know what your missing out on.

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#9 Edited By Sanryd

@nasher27 said:

" I definitely would have been sketched out by someone selling such a nice card for so cheap, but if you say it runs fine, nice find. "

Yeah, lucky for this guy that it actually works. I would've never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever even looked on Craigslist for a video card. This story makes me cringe lol.

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#10 Edited By theragu40

@tdk08 said:

" @nasher27 said:
" I definitely would have been sketched out by someone selling such a nice card for so cheap, but if you say it runs fine, nice find. "
Yeah, lucky for this guy that it actually works. I would've never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever even looked on Craigslist for a video card. This story makes me cringe lol. "

I do a lot of deals on craigslist. It was really nerve wracking at first, but over time I've learned that most people out there are pretty trustworthy. I've definitely gotten screwed over a couple times, but thankfully this is not one of them. I actually didn't realize it until I got to the guy's house, but I sold him my Phenom 9600 about 6 months ago :)

Apparently he was selling this for so cheap because some other guy traded him this 4890 and a GTX260 for one 5770 because he wanted DX11. I can't imagine ever ever making that trade, what a horrible deal! I guess it worked out for me though :)

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