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meerkt wrote:Not good prices, but better than $600...
The Egg wrote:Solution: Buy crypto, profit, buy overpriced graphics card.Is it unethical that I'm secretly hoping for all these cryptocurrencies to crash and burn?
To help with decentralization/democratization of mining.why are some of these currencies coded in such a way so as to deliberately discourage the use of ASICs?
meerkt wrote:The Egg wrote:To help with decentralization/democratization of mining.why are some of these currencies coded in such a way so as to deliberately discourage the use of ASICs?
The Egg wrote:meerkt wrote:The Egg wrote:To help with decentralization/democratization of mining.why are some of these currencies coded in such a way so as to deliberately discourage the use of ASICs?
When $400 cards are going for over $1000, how is it any better than ASICs in that regard?
techguy wrote:I thought about buying a 1080 Ti this week for 4k gaming. I checked prices @ MicroCenter, Newegg, and Amazon over the past few days. MicroCenter was straight up OUT of gaming graphics cards above GTX 1050 (now they have a few 1060 in stock), Newegg and Amazon didn't have any available for less than $1000. I was half-tempted to buy a Titan Xp but don't feel like spending $1200 + tax and shipping, especially since I already did that when the first Pascal Titan X was released in 2016. Not doing that again.
Kougar wrote:What the flipping hell. Newegg is out of official 1080 Ti cards, only 3rd parties are selling any there and those start at $1200 on up. EVGA's own store is completely sold out of any and all kinds of 1080 Ti cards. Even at the worst of the crypto craze the 1080 Ti cards weren't affected so why now?
Redocbew wrote:I'm just resigned to the fact now that buying my next GPU is going to suck. Hopefully that won't be happening for a while yet.
Pville_Piper wrote:Kougar wrote:What the flipping hell. Newegg is out of official 1080 Ti cards, only 3rd parties are selling any there and those start at $1200 on up. EVGA's own store is completely sold out of any and all kinds of 1080 Ti cards. Even at the worst of the crypto craze the 1080 Ti cards weren't affected so why now?
When GTX 1060 6gb cards are going for $600 and GTX 1070 cards are going for $700, suddenly, the GTX1080ti cards start looking like they are bargain!
Vhalidictes wrote:Before the holidays, prices were starting to come down for mid-range cards too.
Well, I guess the good news is that I don't need to worry about options now. Going to steal my wife's R9 290 and crossfire it with my RX 390, that should get me another year or so.
(Outside of the insane power costs, Hawaii sure has held up pretty well, eh?)
CScottG wrote:Oh, look at this one:
https://www.ebay.com/i/322908722600?chn=ps
-damn decent of "him" to offer it with free shipping.
ColeLT1 wrote:If Nvidia is bad, then don't look at AMD. My $420 vega 56s can ebay for ~$800 now.
Krogoth wrote:Wait until the crypto-currency market undergoes its long overdue "correction" not just the minor "hic-ups" of 2017 you mind.