Video cards are sold out everywhere!

[knoober]

My day job consists of sitting on the couch, so I'm good there. LOL

So you've already quit your day job then! I had hopes that my warning was in time!

 

[Alaric]

That happened before the mining thing came up. LOL

 

[Alaric]

Seems like help may be on the way. https://www.yahoo.com/tech/mining-oriented-graphics-cards-save-133706554.html

 

[wingman99]

That looks like a good solution, I hope they can make enough of them.

 

[Tír na nÓg]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but they would be usable in xfire, wouldn't they?

 

[DaveB]

Has anyone been following the ebay auctions for AMD cards? Used 480's and 580's going for way over retail.

7950's going for 150.00 US?

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If you own an AMD card, now is the time to part with it.

Yep that's a pretty standard price for one now. I sold my GTX 1070 for a big profit, maybe my Sapphire HD 7950 is next. I'll be at the beach most of the summer anyway, so why not dump it.

 

[knoober]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but they would be usable in xfire, wouldn't they?

Im pretty sure crossfire is irrelevant to mining, thats why you can use cards from completely different gens and still mine.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=29456.0 <-- post 3 here is kind of the defacto knowledge that I have been working under.

 

[||Console||]

Im pretty sure crossfire is irrelevant to mining, thats why you can use cards from completely different gens and still mine.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=29456.0 <-- post 3 here is kind of the defacto knowledge that I have been working under.

I think they mean use this card as a second with a normal Rx and use CF

 

[knoober]

I think they mean use this card as a second with a normal Rx and use CF

I guess I hadn't thought of that. Ill bet the mining cards have a tweaked bios though so I wonder if it would make sense to do that. Hmmm... If it was flashable to a regular RX bios... I hope someone gets one and makes a post about it after they tinker around a bit

 

[Blaylock]

That's what I was thinking too. I doubt it has the xfire port since it's missing the others. Plus IIRC DX12 eliminates the need.

 

[wingman99]

With DX12 the game needs to support (AFR) or (SFR) when using differing video cards.

 

[RJ88]

Mine with 270s or something back in the day laughable how bad that looks now it was baddd then lol, yeah should probaly get the 1070/1080 if you're not real big on gaming anymore or mild like yeah 1060 or 580 something cool there is about right.

 

[Tech Tweaker]

Yeah, this renewed interest in mining is messing with used card pricing as well, at least for more recent cards.

You could have bought a used GTX 980 Ti on eBay about 3-4 weeks ago for $260-320. Now they're $340-420 more often than not, and I probably haven't seen a used working one go for less than $330-335 for at least two weeks now.

On the bright side, this is great if you're in the market to sell one (or more), not so great if you're looking to buy though.

I wonder if my 780 Ti will increase in value for the miners on a tighter budget.

 

[King107s]

Just sold my Sapphire HD 7970 Dual X OC's for $185.50 +$10 Shipping and $177.50 +$10 Shipping on ebay before fees... never thought I'd get that much for them!

My new Aorus GTX 1080 Extreme clocked in at a 40% increase in 3DMark Firestrike over the crossfired 7970's!