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Normally I never sell my old cards or try to time my GPU purchases with new releases. I skip every other generation (or two) and buy the best I can afford when I am paying attention and then I give away the old (kinda worthless) GPU. Yet many recent benchmarks have made me decide I shouldn't ride my Maxwell 2 card past this year, which means for the first time I plan to move from one generation to the next (or get a crazy clearance deal on last gen when the next gen hits). To finance the move I am going to do something I have never done before and try to sell my current card at the right time when it still has value to help finance the next card. Which leads to my questions:
When is the best time to sell your current card for the most value before the new cards hit? As soon as they are rumored? As soon as they are announced?
Do most gamers pay attention to the point that old cards immediately drop in value the day concrete rumors pop up? Or is it when the new cards are in the retail channel that the overall value for all cards change?
Right now my 970 goes on Ebay for nearly what its original value was, so if I sold it soon I get most of my money back (like 90%). But if new cards don't hit until Q3 I am gaming on my 750 ti for half a year (which I don't want to do if I can avoid it). For a concrete example, I would be happy gaming on the 750 ti for say two months if that is where I get say 85% of the 970's value compared to 90% today but if two months out I can only get say 70% of the value then I need to get on Ebay ASAP. I am not a Titan-level consumer that is willing to throw out hundreds of dollars a year to stay in the hobby, but I lack any experience about this sort of timing.
Thank you in advance for letting me loan your experience.
When is the best time to sell your current card for the most value before the new cards hit? As soon as they are rumored? As soon as they are announced?
Do most gamers pay attention to the point that old cards immediately drop in value the day concrete rumors pop up? Or is it when the new cards are in the retail channel that the overall value for all cards change?
Right now my 970 goes on Ebay for nearly what its original value was, so if I sold it soon I get most of my money back (like 90%). But if new cards don't hit until Q3 I am gaming on my 750 ti for half a year (which I don't want to do if I can avoid it). For a concrete example, I would be happy gaming on the 750 ti for say two months if that is where I get say 85% of the 970's value compared to 90% today but if two months out I can only get say 70% of the value then I need to get on Ebay ASAP. I am not a Titan-level consumer that is willing to throw out hundreds of dollars a year to stay in the hobby, but I lack any experience about this sort of timing.
Thank you in advance for letting me loan your experience.