Taking advantageof miner resells

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So miners are buying prebuilt gaming PCs and then ripping out the AMD graphics cards and reselling them on ebay. Like this one that originally had a RX 480 in it:

http://ebay.to/2eWkqIv

Since this had a 480 in it you can get away with putting any GPU in it which uses the same or less wattage. Like a GTX 1060, which requires 120 watts, same as the RX 480.

You'll want to use a blower cooler on your 1060 since the case on this PC doesn't have much ventilation. You can get a reference cooler GTX 1060 3gb for about $250-275

http://ebay.to/2gFV2dY

$624 for an "almost prebuilt". You give up 1gb of vram from the 480, but at 1080p that is not going make much of a difference, and this is a 1080p gaming PC. For people who don't want to mess with building their PC but think they have enough skill to at least swap out a GPU I think this could be a pretty good way to go.