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Just received this suggestion from Aliexpress. Seems cheap (£49.25 inc VAT) at checkout. Yes, it’s an ex-mining graphics card, but it seems there’s plenty of demand for them. Suggest you pay via PayPal for extra protection.
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LinusTechTips just released a video about off brand GPUs youtu.be/Fdb…lOY
Jonah13
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Finally jumped on the Rx580 8gb 2048sp train. Was considering last month when the same spec was £63ish refurb from China, but dawdled and offer went. So at £49.25, can’t take a chance on missing this. It’s going to be better than the onboard graphics chip I have now, and have safety net of AliExpress guarantees + PayPal. Will update once received, if anyone’s interested.
Somersett
50% of the performance of the 6600/6600M cards at around 140. Good enough for older games at 1080P. Hopeless for modern AAA games unless you are happy with poor frame rates and low graphic settings. Price is fantastic if you know what you are getting into.
BUT, if you can find the money, the 6600 makes far more sense in 2023.
KudzoSt
Poor frame rate? Played Witcher 3 with max settings + HD reworked mod with no issues or lags at all on Sapphire RX 580. Yes, ordinary 60ghz monitor.
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fiqqer
lol this is not even an nvidia - its a fake envinda card. good luck with it working let alone be able to play games on it. And it is listed as refurbished even then. Wave goodbye to your money. (edited)
Somersett
And to think, they allow everyone of age to vote- what could possibly go wrong?
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bagnaj97
Mine arrived today, to go into an eGPU box for use with my laptop. All appears to be working as it should.
Are you using an adapter that fits into the NVME/WiFi slot powered off an external PSU?
It's something I want to test out for a YT video.
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mudddy
Showing up at £41.04 delivered for me. Any hidden costs?
Jonah13
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When you go to pay will include VAT, which takes it up to £49.25.
jonagon
"Mining Gaming Card"
I love mining games, especially Deep Town, worth it just for that.
The.Fat.Cat
This card is much better for old school mining games, like Manic Miner and Boulder Dash.
Boulder Dash, what a classic! (edited)
Jonah13
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My results are in, was running Ryzen 3 3200g with built in Vega graphics. Only changes made are new EV3A 600W PSU, to give me required PCIe connector and of course, the new RX580 2048SP installed.
PreInstall - Gaming = 9%, Desktop = 56%, Workstation = 8% PC Performance as expected (42nd Percentile)
After Changes and Install - Gaming = 33%, Desktop = 76%, Workstation = 27% PC Performance above expectations (66% percentile)
Still not the gaming pc that some would like, but am expecting much better game play with the RX580 installed at a budget price.
Not put under gaming load yet, but super quiet.
Going to run a couple of graphic cards authenticity checks to see what’s behind the dual fans.
Czubaka
I wouldn't touch the Userbenchmark with a bargepole. I'd recommend you run Furmark to stress test and use either AMD Adrenaline overlay or MSI Afterburner with Riviatuner to see the actual temps/clock speeds/ utilisation. If you want to find more about the gpu itself, use GPU-Z. Hope this helps. Thanks for getting the community updated. For 50£ it's a great starting point for a gaming PC. You'll be upgrading CPU to 5600 in no time lol, enjoy!
PS. It's going to be an MSI card behind those two fans (edited)
jimbo001
Gonna end up with a voodoo 3d GPU.
Aretak
You wish. Voodoo cards are a lot more valuable than a 580 at this point.
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mikesunboxing
Bought a few of these recently and pleasantly surprised with the delivery time and quality I went with the Elsa ones
Cattle
Same here, didn't even need them, they were just too cheap to pass up, I give them to family and friends who are using onboard gfx
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sysak
2048sp is effectively an rx 570 with 580 clocks and 8gb of vram. The real rx 480/ 580 & 590 have 2304 FPUs and would be about 10% quicker. Not saying it's a dealbraker but it should be mentioned.
Esfiha28
RX 580 what is it, 2018 still
Arkz
It's a £50 card with 8GB VRAM. What are you expecting here?
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Alexhus
I use AliExpress cards, got a fair few. I test them on my channel.
Mitchellin
Looking forward to a 3060m in 2023.... I wonder if the 3080m will ever be back on sale at reasonable prices
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Jonah13
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Looks like it's been well refurbed, no dust or damaged as suggested in listing on AliExpress. Will run benchmark software, pre and post installation, hopefully tomorrow and share results, if anyone's interested.
Jonah13
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alan.ag
This should do for running along side a Nvidia card in a gpu passthrough, so i can use Looking glass on Linux.
Thanks.
dirge
Have one in my machine, plays most things okay.
DarkDoor
Giving this a shot... My old amd r7 260x in my potato pc just packed in.... It will be a handy stopgap while I continue to save for a new pc... Heat for this! (edited)
If Newegg let them sell on their website, then chances are these are fine. Just an unheard of Chinese brand making their own budget AIB version of the GPU. IMO.
Jonah13
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Looking on AliExpress most of the retailers listing these use the same images, spec details, etc. Probably a couple of factories testing/refurbing and supply them all. Just down to who's prepared to take smallest margin to get the volume of buyers.
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iuser123
This reminds me the panasonix brand
eternald
Raging won't ship to n.ireland
cecilmcroberts
Will ship for me fine to N.Ireland. Never in my life seen anything on Aliexpress that wouldn't ship to N.Ireland. (edited)
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ought
What would these retail at new these a days?
losCHUNK
It's prolly a fair bit better than a 1650, not far off a 1660 depending on the game
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zebz001
Am I missing something? RX580 are selling circa £50-60 on fleabay…
losCHUNK
Just had a look on sold and it's more like 70 or 80 ?
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Yellowstonebob
Only 85 quid for an 8 gig RX580 from CEX with a 2 year warranty, would rather take a punt at one of those than these.
Jonah13
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£49.25 for this or £85 from Cex with 2yr guarantee, as long as Cex are still around in 6-24months. It's graphics card roulette.
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iwo
How loud are these at load though?
Vomit
This is down to £43.13 today!
tomfin
Plus VAT, natch.
So, er, up. To £43.13, that is.
With my apologies.
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Ryan_90
does anyone know if freesync/vrr will work with these if hooked up to a tv with the HDMI port. Whats chances of it being HDMI 2.0?
lukaszw
8Gb VRAM so the same as the newest card on the market!
andyglider
How many HDMI outputs does this card have. Hard to tell from photos.
Jonah13
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One HDMI.
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Ryan_90
mines isn't great sadly one of the fans makes a high frequency clicking sound that I can't get rid of. I've also noticed bad frame pacing in a lot of games and stutter that's hard to pinpoint. I put it in an old pc though i7 4790 with 8GB DDR3 ram, I upgraded the ram to 16GB(2x8) which helped a lot with certain games (forza 3, 4 and 5) with the stutter and now using an SSD 500/mb sata 3. I noticed new stuttering in Quantum break which actually ran better on the old gtx770 2gb I had. I installed amernimezone custom drivers too. My TV supports upto 4k 120hz but I think the card is only HDMI 2.0b strangely it can output 1440p 120hz on desktop or borderless fullscreen mode but if I try to output the same resolution in fullscreen mode it upscales to 4k and locks to 60hz. It's frustrating as freesync really runs best at 120hz due to low framerate compensation support. (edited)
Jonah13
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Have you contacted seller through AliExpress, if it has a fault it should be sorted/refunded/replaced? Always found AliExpress very good on resolving issues.
Jonathan_Murray
So I am total graphic card novice, I almost exclusively play World Of Warcraft and my R9 380 works fine, but looking for an upgrade that isn't expensive and I assume this would be a big boost to WoW for me? But would it play the new Starfield game, even on lowest settings, I really don't need it to look amazing just be able to play it that's all.
bagnaj97
It's not a massive upgrade over your current card, at least compared to more modern cards. Starfield is what graphics cards have nightmares about - this card can run it, but on the lowest settings with resolution scaling. Personally I wouldn't want to play the game like it but your tolerance for blurriness might be better than mine!
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BUT, if you can find the money, the 6600 makes far more sense in 2023.
3dmark.com/3dm…897
userbenchmark.com/Use…633
It's something I want to test out for a YT video.
I love mining games, especially Deep Town, worth it just for that.
Boulder Dash, what a classic! (edited)
Results from UserBenchmark.com performance test:-
PreInstall - Gaming = 9%, Desktop = 56%, Workstation = 8%
PC Performance as expected (42nd Percentile)
After Changes and Install - Gaming = 33%, Desktop = 76%, Workstation = 27%
PC Performance above expectations (66% percentile)
Still not the gaming pc that some would like, but am expecting much better game play with the RX580 installed at a budget price.
Not put under gaming load yet, but super quiet.
Going to run a couple of graphic cards authenticity checks to see what’s behind the dual fans.
PS. It's going to be an MSI card behind those two fans (edited)
Thanks.
It will be a handy stopgap while I continue to save for a new pc...
Heat for this! (edited)
aliexpress.com/ite…668 (edited)
If Newegg let them sell on their website, then chances are these are fine. Just an unheard of Chinese brand making their own budget AIB version of the GPU. IMO.
But would it play the new Starfield game, even on lowest settings, I really don't need it to look amazing just be able to play it that's all.