Buying a used PC - What should I check and how ?
Posted by Alternative-Mind4222@reddit | buildapc | View on Reddit | 3 comments
Hi everyone.
Im not experienced at all when it comes to PCs and testing them but I want to buy a used PC. Found one in my city and the guy selling it said I can pass by and test everything I want to test, has some games on it too so can test those as well.
What would you recommend I should test ?
These are the specs and he is selling it for 2300€.
CPU: Intel i9-13900K
- Undervolted in BIOS: Global Offset -0.07V, Turbo Core -0.025V
- Overclocked to 6.0 GHz (visible in screenshots)
- Equipped with a contact frame, which further reduced temperatures by 10–15°C under load
GPU: PALIT RTX 5080 16GB GDDR7
- Runs incredibly cool – under 68°C in FurMark stress test (see screenshots)
- Full 112 ROPs – this is the complete model, no cut-down variant
- Brand new with full 2-year warranty
Motherboard: ASUS TUF Z690 D5
RAM: G.SKILL Trident Z Neo 32GB (2x16GB) 6000 MHz
Storage: 1TB NVMe M.2 SSD
- Read speed: 7000 MB/s
- Write speed: 6200 MB/s
Cooling: Lian Li HydroShift 360 LCD AIO
- Whisper quiet and extremely efficient at cooling the CPU
- Brand new
Case: NZXT H7 Elite
- Includes 4x NZXT F140 ARGB fans and 3x NZXT F120 fans for exceptional airflow
PSU: Phanteks 850W Gold (ATX 3.1 Standard)
- Fully modular with braided cables
- Designed for RTX 50 series GPUs
- Brand new with 2-year warranty
He did add some cinebench and furmark pictures to his post but I cant add them here.
Furmark score is 16581 and cinebench 37995.
SeiBot187@reddit
For a used build thats a bit pricey. Only 1tb of storage is rough and if youre mainly gaming those parts are just not it. The 13900k is a great cpu for productivity but its honestly not worth it for gaming, especially when compared to an am5 3d-v-cache build. The 5080 is just bad value overall, a 5070ti does basically the same for way less money. If its for gaming, id look elsewhere or consider building something new, a budget of 2000€ can get you a similar performance in games
Alternative-Mind4222@reddit (OP)
He does sell another PC with a RTX 5070ti.
This one is 1400€. I will be playing VR Simracing with a quest 3 mostly so I thought the first one would do a lot better.
Thing is PCs are expensive af in my country, I wont find a 5080 PC under 3k€ here with that kind of CPU.
SeiBot187@reddit
The difference between a 5080 and a 5070ti is about 10% while having the same vram, honestly its not worth the price difference. The second one looks a lot better but that ram is awfully slow and once again youre stuck with 1tb of storage. Im not really that knowledgeable on vr gaming requirements but from my 2 minutes of research vr sim racing requirements have come down quite a lot so it shouldnt make a noticeably big difference. If youre comfortable building one yourself with some slightly different parts, thatd be great (with the changes to ram and storage youre looking at about 1500€ new, more if you also want to upgrade the cpu). If not, the second build is decent value (if new and with warranty) however youre probably gonna want to change the ram, storage and potentially cpu sometime in the future.