On reddit, a bargain hunter shares a find that many cannot believe. In a store where technology is sold more by weight than by actual value, he pulled an expensive graphics card out of a bargain bin. Experts advised him: Sell the thing for parts, but he installed the card in his PC.
What a bargain did he find? The reddit user BlackTo0thGrin says he plans to build his first gaming PC and was looking for cheap components. So he strolled through a store that sells returned goods from Amazon. The store in the US state of Tennessee is called “Gimme a 5 $”.
The store has large shelves that buyers rummage through for special items. Normally, you can find cables or phone cases there.
The user says he found a “monster of a graphics card” that looks 100% new. He grabbed it, paid $4 (3.84 €) plus tax, and hoped it works.
Besides the graphics card, he bought a USB channel for his phone, LED lights for the garage, and something for the dog.
Lucky guy pulls high-quality graphics card from the bargain bin
What kind of card is it? As it turned out later, the user had bought an AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX. This is a graphics card about 2 years old that sells new for 900 €.
At GameStar, the tech experts say about the graphics card:
- The card offers a lot of raster performance for 4k resolution and is relatively cheap
- Anyone looking to spend as little money as possible for high demands is well advised with this card
DIY enthusiasts say: Use it for parts
This was the reaction: On reddit, some said: He definitely found a bargain there. Even if the card is surely broken, it can still be used as a donor for parts. There are definitely 60 or 70 € to be made from it.
The buyer didn’t feel comfortable with the idea of dismantling and exploiting the card, apparently – he had little experience with building a PC, so he didn’t want to take apart a graphics card right away.
Card works, to everyone’s surprise
Does the card work? In fact, the DIY enthusiast kept the card until the end while building his first PC and first bought a CPU, a motherboard, and RAM from Walmart, then watched YouTube videos and educated himself on how to assemble such a PC.
He installed the graphics card last, surely holding his breath, and indeed: The PC started and everything worked. The BIOS of the motherboard recognizes the graphics card. The software and the drivers from AMD look fine, even the temperature is okay. He’s now installing Windows, he says relieved.
On reddit, many congratulate and envy him. It is said there that he got the “bargain of the century”.
Why is this so special? The lucky guy has to answer many questions about whether he found paradise in that magical shop. But that apparently is not the case.
The store chain “Give me a Five $” only exists in 7 cities in Tennessee, it has been renamed “Keevado”, but people still know it by the old name. It is not a paradise for PC builders: that is the first graphics card he has ever found there, says the reddit user. There aren’t many parts for PCs available there.
Normally, the store only has disordered cheap stuff. They don’t sell the goods by value, but only by quantity. There are no returns either. He just got really lucky: Gamer buys expensive processor, accidentally receives 2 of them – Does he have the right to keep both?
