Why a sudden price increase in GFX cards?

[Moozart]

No one is mining BTC with GPUs for years now! No one! And new cards are utter shit, they dont even have a video output so they are usless for anything except moning and even in that they dont offer that much!

You sir live under a damn boulder. Before you spout off like a complete tool at least do some research.

[Moozart]

Tons of places aren't jacking up prices. Just have to look around a bit and set up alerts for when they're in stock.

Sadly Newegg is not one of those places. I have done more business than i can think at newegg and they way they are handling the card pricing make me not want to shop with them anymore.

[chazus]

Sadly Newegg is not one of those places. I have done more business than i can think at newegg and they way they are handling the card pricing make me not want to shop with them anymore.

Are they actually raising prices?

I guess the question is, what would you prefer? 2x cost on cards, or simply out of stock indefinitely?

[markos82]

You might want to go back and read the thread. Crypto mining is in again.

Dude i am in mining " business " for probably longer than you know it even exists! BTC isnt mined by GPUs nor mining rings it is mined by ASIC Miners

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Except it is profitable to do so again so there has been a run on cards.

again NO IDIOT IS MINING BTC! IF you are doing that your are retard! Difficulty is insane and it is only mined by ASIC miners adn it has been like that for years

[Triggered Fridgekin]

It'd be a tough time if you were in the market for a mainstream card for any reason. As it stands, I can't find a single retailer in Canada which has an even remotely consistent supply of 570s or 580s and even the 6GB 1060s are starting to hit over $400. The 3GB cards are actually starting to get as expensive as their 6GB counterparts when prices/availability weren't all fuckey.

I thought it was bad at launch but the scalability in Eth mining really means we're gonna be SOL for some time to come even with purchase limits set. 1070s probably won't fair any better over time since they're pretty damn good Eth cards as well.

[markos82]

You sir live under a damn boulder. Before you spout off like a complete tool at least do some research.

Lol Dude i have 10 mining rigs ( with ATI cards ) and making 4 more with 5x1080ti ( Asus STRIX ). If you are to slow in reading the part " No one is mining BTC with GPUs " then you have a problem

[chazus]

Lol Dude i have 10 mining rigs ( with ATI cards ) and making 4 more with 5x1080ti ( Asus STRIX ). If you are to slow in reading the part " No one is mining BTC with GPUs " then you have a problem

Nobody said anything about BTC except you. We all know BTC mining isn't done with GPU's anymore.

Nobody was talking about BTC. They were talking about GPU prices for Crypto in general. Again, please read the thread.

[markos82]

Nobody said anything about BTC except you. We all know BTC mining isn't done with GPU's anymore.

Nobody was talking about BTC. They were talking about GPU prices for Crypto in general. Again, please read the thread.

Since you dont even have a clue what you wrote then let me remind you with this nice photo

Note the part where you said bitcoin specific card !

[Miyagie]

Puhh, i was lucky to get my MSI 1080 for 470€ 2 month ago, it cost now 600€ ^^.

[Moozart]

Lol Dude i have 10 mining rigs ( with ATI cards ) and making 4 more with 5x1080ti ( Asus STRIX ). If you are to slow in reading the part " No one is mining BTC with GPUs " then you have a problem

I have 30 Minting Rigs with Titan Xps and 20 more on the way with (AMD VEGA). I even Run it all off of solar panels to maximize efficiency!!

I can make up stuff also.

[markos82]

well i have photos to prove, want me next time when i got to where my rigs are to take a note, put it infront of each ring and take a photo ?

[Lathais]

Dude i am in mining " business " for probably longer than you know it even exists! BTC isnt mined by GPUs nor mining rings it is mined by ASIC Miners

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again NO IDIOT IS MINING BTC! IF you are doing that your are retard! Difficulty is insane and it is only mined by ASIC miners adn it has been like that for years

Yeah, you are right, no idiots are mining BTC. Smart people are mining Etherium though. Idiots are doing what you claim to be doing.

[chazus]

Note the part where you said bitcoin specific card !

You know as well as everyone else what card I was referring to, the new mining cards. Regardless, nobody was talking about Bitcoin. We weren't discussing those specific cards. We weren't discussing bitcoin. We were all, from start to finish, discussing why prices of cards were going up, due to crypto mining. Not bitcoin.

[markos82]

Yeah, you are right, no idiots are mining BTC. Smart people are mining Etherium though. Idiots are doing what you claim to be doing.

I was talking about GPUs and using them to mine BTC. So no smart person is using GPUs to mine BTC since its pointless and you wont make any profit no matter how much you mine them.

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You know as well as everyone else what card I was referring to, the new mining cards. Regardless, nobody was talking about Bitcoin. We weren't discussing those specific cards. We weren't discussing bitcoin. We were all, from start to finish, discussing why prices of cards were going up, due to crypto mining. Not bitcoin.

I know which card you were talking about and even that card is nothing special ( as in new Nvidia released for mining ). 580 is shit, uses more power than 480 and makes about the same. You said " new bitcoin specific card ", all I said was no one is using GPUs to mine BTC!

[Bryntrollian]

I was talking about GPUs and using them to mine BTC. So no smart person is using GPUs to mine BTC since its pointless and you wont make any profit no matter how much you mine them.

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I know which card you were talking about and even that card is nothing special ( as in new Nvidia released for mining ). 580 is shit, uses more power than 480 and makes about the same. You said " new bitcoin specific card ", all I said was no one is using GPUs to mine BTC!

Yes, they are using those GPUs to mine ethereum and zcash instead.

When he said " new bitcoin specific card " I'm pretty sure he was talking about one of those ASIC miners and not an actual gpu

[markos82]

Yes, they are using those GPUs to mine ethereum and zcash instead.

When he said " new bitcoin specific card " I'm pretty sure he was talking about one of those ASIC miners and not an actual gpu

Amoung other cryptocurreny you can mine ( some atm are more profitable ). you can check on www.whattomine.com

[pansertjald]

Just looked at the biggest hardware seller here in Denmark and not a single x580 in stock and only a few 1060 3GB in stock. 1070 is allso out of stock and most of them are not due untill August and the 1080 has gone up to 600 euros and the 1080 ti has gone up to 800 euros again.

[Zoldor]

Should have ordered more cards when I upgraded. Could make a nice profit in secondary sales market. Too lazy to setup mining rigs.

[Moozart]

well i have photos to prove, want me next time when i got to where my rigs are to take a note, put it infront of each ring and take a photo ?

Shit bro i got some of those too

[DeltrusDisc]

Is Ethereum yet another new cryptocurrency?