Reddit user managed to make $501 profit by selling a pre-owned MSI RTX 3090 Suprim for $1,500 to a buyer who bought a new white Mercury 9070 XT graphics card for $999. The sale of a pre-owned MSI RTX 3090 Suprim at $1,500 shows that legacy high-end graphics cards can retain high resale value. This is an example of what users can make when they decide to upgrade from legacy high-end GPUs like the RTX 3090 and move to a newer model.
Legacy GPU retains high value in white-themed PC upgrade
The user bought the RTX 3090 for $750. They posted the GPU for sale on eBay at $1,500. Net profit: $501.
- Old GPU: MSI RTX 3090 Suprim
- Old GPU Sell Price: $1500
- Old GPU Buy Price: $750
- New GPU: Mercury 9070 XT
- New GPU Price: $999
Main reason for the upgrade is for aesthetics (White-themed build). Net profit $501 after selling the RTX 3090 for $1,500. Initial purchase price was $750.
The main component in the new build is the Mercury 9070 XT which the user bought on Amazon for $999. The Mercury 9070 XT GPU is combined with an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU. For cooling, a white PCCOOLER AIO DS360 liquid cooler is used.
The motherboard is a white Gigabyte Ice Gaming Series. The RAM is 32GB G.SKILL Trident Z5 Royal Neo at 8000MHz.
It looks like Mercury 9070 XT is the name of a modern AMD graphics card. (There's no '9070' in current AMD lineup). The source says this is the replacement of the RTX 3090 in the user's particular case. This is the whole setup for the build.
The whole build is themed white for all the important components. The reason for the white Mercury 9070 XT upgrade mainly seems to be for aesthetic reasons (theme-to-match-white).
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