A gamer wants to throw away his old Nvidia graphics card, but finds that he can get around €1,000 by selling his GPU on the second-hand market.

JVTech News A gamer wants to throw away his old Nvidia graphics card, but finds that he can get around €1,000 by selling his GPU on the second-hand market.

Graphics card more than 20 years old

A gamer says he wanted to throw away his old graphics card. Its Nvidia GeForce 4 is still 20 years old and cannot be used in modern systems., and modern games can no longer be played with it anyway. But he was surprised to find what he was able to find while searching for his graphics card on eBay 350 to around 1,000 US dollars for its models (by Reddit). We also find offers on eBay between 800 and 900 euros, but only in the United States and not in France (via Ebay). The user himself explains with some irritation:

Does this card really sell for this price? I can understand the slightly higher value since it’s no longer in production, but the demand for this card can’t be that high, right?

Why is this card so valuable? The specialty of this graphics card lies in its connectors, because it is a Mac model with ADC connectors. So, someone explains that Mac ADC computers are very expensive to repair:

Nowadays, cables are like gold and it is almost impossible to find new ones. Standard PC versions are not expensive. Anyone who wants more than scrap value won’t sell. Only the fancy Apple version is special.

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Specific use cases

Why are people willing to pay so much for old computer hardware? on the one hand, Of course there are collectors who are willing to pay a lot of money to put certain products or devices in a display case.. For them, old equipment is a part of history that is perhaps even a witness. But on the other hand, There are also companies that rely on very old computer systems or whose machines are only compatible with old components.. If a component breaks, it is difficult to replace, as the equipment, sometimes 20 years old, is no longer manufactured. On Reddit, someone explains under a post that their company had to pay US$8,000 to replace a 4 GB hard drive in an old server.

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And some examples of applications where companies or even states have been using or have been using outdated hardware for a long time are:

• In Japan, for example, there is a legal standard that is imposed Use of physical data carriers such as floppy disks.
• For years, Deutsche Bahn (German Railway Company) used Floppy disk for seat reservation data.
• There are exceptions even for reasonably modern systems: Microsoft, for example, extended support for Windows 7 Business licenses and allegedly paid handsomely for them.

If you still have old “treasures” in your basement, it’s worth checking to see if they’re still valuable before they end up in the scrapyard.

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