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I have the opportunity to buy four 3870X2's for a total of $1380 flat from a local seller, no taxes, no shipping, nothing
that comes to $345 each
so I'm wondering a couple of things - firstly, as far as benchmarks are concerned, the 3870X2's seem to only be decent for synthetic benchmarks, of all the benchmark results I've seen, anything in the gameplay department sees hardly any difference from my 8800GTS (in some cases it beats out the 3870X2) Am I missing something here? Maybe the benches I've seen are with old drivers.. I don't know, if there's a review that uses updated drivers, I'd really appreciate a link - if so then I might consider replacing my GTS
secondly, how much demand is there for these things on Ebay? The cheapest Canadian price I could find is $420... think it'd be worth trying to make a profit off of these? If I sell them for $400 a piece, I'm looking at $220 profit, but how likely is that? Maybe a $3xx price would be more appealing, so knocking off $5 off each unit will give me a nice round profit of $200 and an attractive price tag of $395
I was also thinking that maybe I can bargain with the guy, to buy all four of them at $330 instead, or something
The guy's pretty trustworthy, he's well known on a local forum I go to and has a decent rep there
I don't know, what do you guys think?
update: I'm looking at local online classifieds (for Montreal only), and I see these 3870X2's running for $350-$360 individually, so this isn't looking too good, although, I have reason to believe the ads might be the same guy I'm buying from...
and no auctions on the card at all on ebay.ca...
that comes to $345 each
so I'm wondering a couple of things - firstly, as far as benchmarks are concerned, the 3870X2's seem to only be decent for synthetic benchmarks, of all the benchmark results I've seen, anything in the gameplay department sees hardly any difference from my 8800GTS (in some cases it beats out the 3870X2) Am I missing something here? Maybe the benches I've seen are with old drivers.. I don't know, if there's a review that uses updated drivers, I'd really appreciate a link - if so then I might consider replacing my GTS
secondly, how much demand is there for these things on Ebay? The cheapest Canadian price I could find is $420... think it'd be worth trying to make a profit off of these? If I sell them for $400 a piece, I'm looking at $220 profit, but how likely is that? Maybe a $3xx price would be more appealing, so knocking off $5 off each unit will give me a nice round profit of $200 and an attractive price tag of $395
I was also thinking that maybe I can bargain with the guy, to buy all four of them at $330 instead, or something
The guy's pretty trustworthy, he's well known on a local forum I go to and has a decent rep there
I don't know, what do you guys think?
update: I'm looking at local online classifieds (for Montreal only), and I see these 3870X2's running for $350-$360 individually, so this isn't looking too good, although, I have reason to believe the ads might be the same guy I'm buying from...
and no auctions on the card at all on ebay.ca...