Your old GPU could be worth more than you think

Your old GPU could be a goldmine thanks to the RAMaggedon. Your old GPU could be worth more than you think. News Computing Your old GPU could be worth more than you think If the RAMaggedon’s good for anything, it’s turning your old GPU into a potential goldmine.

If you end up with an extra GPU lying around, there’s a lot you can do with it — including keeping it as a back-up or re-using it to build something new. Even a well-worn GPU can be worth a nice pile of cash on the aftermarket. Finding an affordable GPU during the great RAMaggeddon of 2026 is no easy task, with the AI gold rush sending prices into the stratosphere.

While this has been generally problematic for would-be PC builders everywhere, it has at least provided a great window for selling any old GPU you might have. Even a long-dead GPU can find new life scrapped for parts, and one with a decent life ahead of it can sell for some good money. How much a used GPU could be worth in 2026 Jovana Kuzmanovic/Shutterstock First, it’s important to look at the prices you can expect.

Getting the most out of my 8-year-old Pixel 3 XL. I turned my old Pixel into a TV box and security camera — and only one was worth it.

I turned my old Pixel into a TV box and security camera. To this day, it can still handle messaging, web browsing, and most of my other basic tasks — just at a noticeably lower speed.

That’s why I wanted to push it beyond what it was designed to do, making it useful in a different way. I know smartphones work best as smartphones, yet giving my eight-year-old Pixel a second wind is far better than simply watching it limp to the finish line.

I’ve attempted to turn my aging Android phone into both a surveillance camera and a replacement for an Android TV box. These two experiments turned out to be more interesting than I’d imagined.

After all, what should you repurpose your old Android for.

For instance, NVIDIA’s RTX 50-series cards have shot up as much as 39 percent, and a further 30 percent hike isn’t out of the cards — not to mention AMD’s price hikes of as much as 10 percent.