Heya, figured I’d share this awesome deal I got on a 3090.
I work in tech recycling/e-waste/refurbishment, there was a giant box with 1,500+ LBs of 30 series GPUs sitting on the floor and a coworker told me about them. It had 3070, 3080, 3090s etc. they were all pretty beat up but we decided to try to buy them.
Since they’re e-waste and my managers aren’t too technically inclined they sold us parts for the raw material value which was only $10.
I bought a 3080 TI that looked in perfect condition but it didn’t post, so I tried this slightly beat up 3090 – aside from one broken fan, and slightly warped shroud it booted first try and has been my main GPU for 2 years now 🙂 it still had the plastic peels on it.
My coworker also got a 3070 TI, but it had a line in the display. He ended up RMA’ing it and had a fully functioning 3070 TI for $30.
Unfortunately the upper management caught on and stopped selling us cheap parts, but I got some good deals while I was there.
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I’m jealous
Before they shut down the deals I also got:
Sennheiser HD 598s ($10)
Meta quest 2 ($10)
980 Pro 2TB ($20)
Nintendo switch ($10)
3050 TI / i7 ASUS tuf laptop ($200)
Xbox series controllers ($5/e)
3440×1440 curved Samsung 100hz ($50)
And a few other small things here and there.
Now that the deals are gone though it’s not really worth working there anymore 🙁
I swooped a 3090 fe from my SO’s Ewaste a few weeks back.
https://preview.redd.it/k8kmpwnved5f1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d22891d0a7edb5725aec3ef5ef9ef052e7585944
3070 and 2080ti Ewaste for size comparison
Gotta say, I’m impressed how TUF it actually is.
Wow so they practically were just giving those items for free. No regard for what it was.
And I thought this £350 RTX 4070 Ti Super was awesome… You kicked my ass five ways to Friday.
The management stopping. Gotta love capitalism “hey wait you guys actually got it working we coikd have sold that for way more so fuck you now its all trash because we must orofit”
Where the heck do you work lol
Who snitched? Ah man lost a gold mine right there.
Fwiw, many companies trust dedicated e-waste companies to properly destroy hardware so it cant be resold or re-used.
Reasons for this can include private/sensitive data on storage devices, test hardware with custom firmware, and etc.
Reselling e-waste without destroying it is definitely a violation of contract.
Source: Used to work for a big hardware company
That still has the original plastic wrap on it
Nice find
I guess it lives up to its namesake, that GPU is TUF!
li’l rough around the edges
Anyone know of a place where I can snag a new 3080?
Great, does it work?
Congrats! Beat my $10 2080ti e-waste special
Did someone remove that card with a dull beaver or what?
I don’t understand what the issue was? Aren’t these going to be dismantled into their base components anyway?
Or do they actually test everything before hand?
Considering the GPU has the original plastic on top, and 0 sign, seems pretty fake to me.
Where do you work? Because this happened during the mining craze, no?
That would explain a lot.
I found a 1060 ti in e waste, WHY CANT I FIND A 3090????? Congrats!!!
That’s some insane value