Personal computing discussed
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Concupiscence wrote:Below seven thousand as of now. Reddit's /r/hardwareswap is beginning to show a lot of people sheepishly offering nice hardware at prices that are still inflated, but at least the parts are becoming available again. Newegg's still a calamity, but cards are available again, even at ghastly markup.
It's not the turning point people yearn for, but it is a beginning.
rrrhal wrote:I saw an article that said retailers noticing a distinct uptick in people returning Vega RX 56's
Glorious wrote:rrrhal wrote:I saw an article that said retailers noticing a distinct uptick in people returning Vega RX 56's
I imagine that's going to be a trend, if it isn't already.
Kougar wrote:Guess we will soon be adding GPUs to the list of non-returnable if opened items
Waco wrote:Kougar wrote:Guess we will soon be adding GPUs to the list of non-returnable if opened items
...which means eBay will be full of cheap GPUs. Woot!
Redocbew wrote:Yeah it's completely bonkers. No doubt the increase in DRAM pricing helps with that also. Nearly a year ago I bought 16GB of DDR4 for $200. The same stuff goes for 280-ish now.
DancinJack wrote:April 21, 2016
Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 DRAM 3000MHz (PC4-24000) C15 Memory Kit - Black (CMK16GX4M2B3000C15)
Sold by: Amazon.com Services, Inc.
$69.99
That's DDR4 3000 with tight timings. Prices are so insane. It is currently 204.99.
BIF wrote:Wow, $1K for any GPU is just nuts.
I want to upgrade my GTX 980s to 1080 TIs, but it's just not gonna happen at these prices.
If this continues, I see competition heating up. Prices will come down, but probably not anytime soon.
Welch wrote:I'm curious if Nvidia will do anything on Volta to prevent mining. Either at a hardware level or attempt some special sales tactic.
The only thing I can imagine working would be onboard hardware and possibly software that worked independently of one another to check if the card is trying to be used for blockchain. Perhaps selling gamer version at a cheaper price that don't do GPU computing. Similar to set instructions or ECC being left off of consumer teir CPUs.
Then again, I don't think any of the manufacturers really truly want to stunt sales to miners. They just want the PR that they want to help gamers.
BIF wrote:I'd guess you can. I'm also guessing that the clever amongst us can mod it away.
Bauxite wrote:...Watching people lose their minds and think somehow their game hobby can ignore market effects is hilariously entertaining.
NovusBogus wrote:Manufacturers, for their part, need to ditch the old man thinking and devote resources/staff to understanding these use cases as they do with gaming. Take it from my industry, getting blindsided by something that should have been obvious yields the orthodox Chinese definition of interesting times.