[quote=gzz]
People are buying high end gaming PCs, stripping out the GPU, and then selling the gpu-stripped desktop as “New (other)” on ebay.

Any thoughts on them?[/quote]

It really just depends on what you are doing. I work as a programmer in 3D graphics for games and I’m looking for a machine with enough horse power to do ray tracing demos. That’s way more than most games at this point, and that’s even farther from what your average user needs. If these gpu-stripped desktops are decent you can get a decent graphics card and put it in. Cards under $500-$600 are readily available I believe. Just know that they won’t really work well with ray tracing. But for most people that’s a non-issue.