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How about an Rx 480... for $640

Mon Jun 12, 2017 1:02 pm

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product. ... -_-Product

And that's the cheapest model that Newegg has in-stock, the other ones are over $700. The joys of mining fads.

For anybody who remembers what happened with the R9-290 & 290X in the last go-around, this doesn't actually mean good news for AMD since all of these cards are going to be dumped on the secondary markets in a few months.
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Re: How about an Rx 480... for $640

Mon Jun 12, 2017 1:07 pm

It's really annoying, too. My friend really wants an AMD card because the FreeSync/Adaptive Synch monitors are significantly cheaper. He might limp along a 7 year old GPU until this fad dies down.
 
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Re: How about an Rx 480... for $640

Mon Jun 12, 2017 1:30 pm

Lets see, the Miners of the latest "coin" fads is not only raising the cost of power bills for everyone else, they are also causing shortages of graphic cards for the rest of us as well. I really hope this Mining fad goes away in the future.
 
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Re: How about an Rx 480... for $640

Mon Jun 12, 2017 1:33 pm

I would reckon, its just the (r)e-tailers are grabbing this markup. Or, would they pass on a little bit to AMD ? Just being naive....
 
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Re: How about an Rx 480... for $640

Mon Jun 12, 2017 1:38 pm

good grief
 
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Re: How about an Rx 480... for $640

Mon Jun 12, 2017 1:43 pm

Last week, Newegg on Ebay had a 1080 Ti (Gigabyte non FE edition with 3 fans) for the same price. Is a 4GB Rx 480 really more efficient for mining than a 1080 Ti?
 
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Re: How about an Rx 480... for $640

Mon Jun 12, 2017 1:49 pm

cynan wrote:
Last week, Newegg on Ebay had a 1080 Ti (Gigabyte non FE edition with 3 fans) for the same price. Is a 4GB Rx 480 really more efficient for mining than a 1080 Ti?


YES! ABSOLUTELY!!! [looks around nervously trying to act cool and prevent a run on Ngreedia's cards too]
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Re: How about an Rx 480... for $640

Mon Jun 12, 2017 2:04 pm

chuckula wrote:
And that's the cheapest model that Newegg has in-stock, the other ones are over $700.


It's not actually Newegg, just the 3rd party sellers that work through their storefront. When Newegg has cards, the prices have been pretty reasonable, although they have been climbing. I was able to get an open box RX 480 8GB from them today for $216. You just have to be very motivated to get one before they sell out.
 
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Re: How about an Rx 480... for $640

Mon Jun 12, 2017 2:05 pm

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chuckula wrote:
And that's the cheapest model that Newegg has in-stock, the other ones are over $700.


It's not actually Newegg, just the 3rd party sellers that work through their storefront. When Newegg has cards, the prices have been pretty reasonable, although they have been climbing. I was able to get an open box RX 480 8GB from them today for $216. You just have to be very motivated to get one before they sell out.


In that case, Newegg won't sell you an Rx 480 at all right now, so it's a question of what you are willing to pay today vs. how long you are willing to wait.
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Re: How about an Rx 480... for $640

Mon Jun 12, 2017 2:16 pm

Wow, for a ryzen 'red team' build I bought a higher clock 8GB with the best ram type for $180. I should get back into mining when its cold again.

Wonder how this will effect vega availability and gouge-tailer pricing, was considering a TR build with one when they are both out.
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Re: How about an Rx 480... for $640

Mon Jun 12, 2017 2:22 pm

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Re: How about an Rx 480... for $640

Mon Jun 12, 2017 2:26 pm

cynan wrote:
Last week, Newegg on Ebay had a 1080 Ti (Gigabyte non FE edition with 3 fans) for the same price. Is a 4GB Rx 480 really more efficient for mining than a 1080 Ti?

I thought GPUs had been replaced by ASICs for mining at this point. That said, I believe GCN is much better for most non-rendering related work loads.
 
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Re: How about an Rx 480... for $640

Mon Jun 12, 2017 2:29 pm

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cynan wrote:
Last week, Newegg on Ebay had a 1080 Ti (Gigabyte non FE edition with 3 fans) for the same price. Is a 4GB Rx 480 really more efficient for mining than a 1080 Ti?

I thought GPUs had been replaced by ASICs for mining at this point. That said, I believe GCN is much better for most non-rendering related work loads.


The newer types of coins include tweaks to the algorithms that make them unsuitable for the existing ASICs... until the manufacturers build new ASICs that are suited to the new coin algorithm. It's an arms race.
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Re: How about an Rx 480... for $640

Mon Jun 12, 2017 2:37 pm

Bauxite wrote:
Wow, for a ryzen 'red team' build I bought a higher clock 8GB with the best ram type for $180. I should get back into mining when its cold again.

Wonder how this will effect vega availability and gouge-tailer pricing, was considering a TR build with one when they are both out.

Yeah if this mining craziness continues by the time I get around to doing another build, I would still stick with Nvidia as I have been doing for the last 17 years.
 
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Re: How about an Rx 480... for $640

Mon Jun 12, 2017 3:20 pm

[quote="chuckula"][quote="cynan"]Last week, Newegg on Ebay had a 1080 Ti (Gigabyte non FE edition with 3 fans) for the same price. Is a 4GB Rx 480 really more efficient for mining than a 1080 Ti?[/quote]

YES! ABSOLUTELY!!! [looks around nervously trying to act cool and prevent a run on Ngreedia's cards too][/quote]

Actually the 1080 & 1080i perform worse than the 1070, which is a decent miner of Ethereum. Read on a post that Nvidia claimed that it was due to latency of GDDR5X and the 1070s use GDDR5.
 
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Re: How about an Rx 480... for $640

Mon Jun 12, 2017 3:51 pm

I get the feeling I should sell my nice RX 480 and get a 1070 instead...
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Re: How about an Rx 480... for $640

Mon Jun 12, 2017 4:01 pm

If you can get more than the price of a new GTX 1070 I think that's a solid option.
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Re: How about an Rx 480... for $640

Mon Jun 12, 2017 4:03 pm

southrncomfortjm wrote:
I get the feeling I should sell my nice RX 480 and get a 1070 instead...

I was thinking the same thing. Except wait till Vega launch. Looks like RX480s are getting bid on for $400 on ebay.
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Re: How about an Rx 480... for $640

Mon Jun 12, 2017 4:20 pm

Actual Newegg, as opposed to the third parties selling there, seems to be "protecting" their big Polaris cards by making them available in bundles only. Want an RX 570? OK, but you have to buy this Ryzen 5 1600 along with it, and you can only buy one combo at a time. Even the 4GB RX 560s are starting to become scarce.

I'm rooting for the ASIC makers, personally.
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Re: How about an Rx 480... for $640

Mon Jun 12, 2017 4:49 pm

So is the recent Bitcoin surge to blame for this? What are people buying these to mine? Bitcoin? Ethereum?
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Re: How about an Rx 480... for $640

Mon Jun 12, 2017 4:55 pm

DPete27 wrote:
So is the recent Bitcoin surge to blame for this? What are people buying these to mine? Bitcoin? Ethereum?

Yep it sure is. PC World even had an article about this.
 
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Re: How about an Rx 480... for $640

Mon Jun 12, 2017 5:29 pm

Tulip Mania again.

It makes no-sense to buy hardware to mine at this point. All of "easy stuff" is gone now and you will end-up making a net-loss. The worst point is that you cannot "easily" convert those crypotucurrencies over to "USD" which makes it kinda pointless for USA-types.

AMD, etailer vendors and utility companies are the only ones who are laughing to the bank.
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Re: How about an Rx 480... for $640

Mon Jun 12, 2017 5:31 pm

southrncomfortjm wrote:
I get the feeling I should sell my nice RX 480 and get a 1070 instead...


You can easily convert that RX 480 to a 1080 at current market prices.
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Re: How about an Rx 480... for $640

Mon Jun 12, 2017 6:17 pm

Krogoth wrote:
southrncomfortjm wrote:
I get the feeling I should sell my nice RX 480 and get a 1070 instead...


You can easily convert that RX 480 to a 1080 at current market prices.

If you can sell something for 3x what you paid, you'd be stupid not to do it. Sell your card immediately before your miss your chance.
 
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Re: How about an Rx 480... for $640

Tue Jun 13, 2017 7:35 am

Looks like it will be an interesting time to shop for a secondhand RX480/580 after there are ASICs availabile for Etherum, et al, I'm sure we'll see lots of very broken-in examples selling for peanuts.
 
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Re: How about an Rx 480... for $640

Tue Jun 13, 2017 9:29 am

As enticing as it was to sell my $210 RX480 for $400, I chose to enter into Ethereum mining last night. Figured I'd try it for a month and see what it's all about. Heck, according to ROI calculators, my one RX480 should net me $150/mo profit (after power bill). And at least I can still play games, whereas I obviously couldn't if I sold my GPU.
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Re: How about an Rx 480... for $640

Tue Jun 13, 2017 9:38 am

Prion wrote:
Looks like it will be an interesting time to shop for a secondhand RX480/580 after there are ASICs availabile for Etherum, et al, I'm sure we'll see lots of very broken-in examples selling for peanuts.

Buy at your own risk, it would not surprise me if most of those cards died all of the sudden after a month or two of gaming.
 
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Re: How about an Rx 480... for $640

Tue Jun 13, 2017 9:43 am

The Egg wrote:
Krogoth wrote:
southrncomfortjm wrote:
I get the feeling I should sell my nice RX 480 and get a 1070 instead...


You can easily convert that RX 480 to a 1080 at current market prices.

If you can sell something for 3x what you paid, you'd be stupid not to do it. Sell your card immediately before your miss your chance.


Well, its up on Amazon. Solid $300 profit if it sells. Definitely looking at a 1070 upgrade, or even a 1060 6GB and save the rest for a new CPU :)
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Re: How about an Rx 480... for $640

Tue Jun 13, 2017 9:57 am

southrncomfortjm wrote:
The Egg wrote:
Krogoth wrote:

You can easily convert that RX 480 to a 1080 at current market prices.

If you can sell something for 3x what you paid, you'd be stupid not to do it. Sell your card immediately before your miss your chance.


Well, its up on Amazon. Solid $300 profit if it sells. Definitely looking at a 1070 upgrade, or even a 1060 6GB and save the rest for a new CPU :)

That would be the only way I will spend $400+ on a video card, other than getting a whole bunch of money that I would have to spend.

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