Rx480 prices.... mining?

beany_bot · 9 Jun 2017 at 08:57

GizF1 said:
Did you have the Nitro + OC 1342 mhz one?

Yes

Scoren · 9 Jun 2017 at 08:57

is the mining just on AMD cards

Streetlight · 9 Jun 2017 at 09:05

Scoren said:
is the mining just on AMD cards

Nope

GTX 1060 3GB...

21.5 On ETC
270 sols on Zcash

can get them down to about 80-85 watts, had a full 6 rig running at 555watts from the wall.

Streetlight · 9 Jun 2017 at 09:06

Just noticed good few listing on RX 480 on the bay now...

all getting the same idea.

doodah · 9 Jun 2017 at 09:25

Joined a tad too late last time, not sure I can be bothered.

Selling my 290 for ~£200 and getting a 980Ti for a similar price sounds tempting though....

Scoren · 9 Jun 2017 at 09:37

what is mining anyway

ubersonic · 9 Jun 2017 at 09:45

RX prices may go even higher in the UK post election, the pound dropping against the $ means it also dropped against BTC, so the profitability (at least on paper) of mining increased overnight.

five8five · 9 Jun 2017 at 09:49

beany_bot said:
My RX 480 just insta-sold on the bay for £333. Time to replace it fast before Nvidia sells out!!

That's a cracking price! Around £300 seems to be the average now. Wish I had one to sell

doodah · 9 Jun 2017 at 10:38

Does eBay still bend you over as a seller with its fees?

beany_bot · 9 Jun 2017 at 11:00

doodah said:
Does eBay still bend you over as a seller with its fees?

Yeah they are savage. But still well worth doing in this rare instance. I needed to move fast both in the sale of the 480 and my purchase of the 1060

ShortWarning · 9 Jun 2017 at 11:13

This is interesting, I could sell my rx480 and get a 1070 for £70 odd. Is the upgrade worth losing freesync for? Probably too much hassle to be worthwhile tbh.

beany_bot · 9 Jun 2017 at 11:21

P.S. my card was bought by someone with a Polish/Russian looking name. The postage address is some holding PO BOX in the UK. Looks like it's going abroad. - Just checked. It's going to Slovenia! Looks like he paid £30 shipping! (not to me). but to paypal. weird things going on. he has valued the card at least £360. Folk could be straight up swapping 480s for 1070s soon.

ShortWarning · 9 Jun 2017 at 11:27

beany_bot said:
P.S. my card was bought by someone with a Polish/Russian looking name. The postage address is some holding PO BOX in the UK. Looks like it's going abroad. - Just checked. It's going to Slovenia!

This would set off alarm bells for me tbh. (The PO box not the polish name).

beany_bot · 9 Jun 2017 at 11:28

ShortWarning said:
This would set off alarm bells for me tbh. (The PO box not the polish name).

Money is in my account mate. It's no issue for me. I heard a lot of eastern europe countries snapping them up (must be the cheap electricity). I guess this way he doesnt need to contact everyone and say "can you ship to slovenia" etc. He has something in place.
I would recommend for anyone with a Polaris card right now to either use it to mine or sell it before the bubble bursts.

ShortWarning · 9 Jun 2017 at 11:36

beany_bot said:
Money is in my account mate. It's no issue for me. I heard a lot of eastern europe countries snapping them up (must be the cheap electricity). I guess this way he doesnt need to contact everyone and say "can you ship to slovenia" etc. He has something in place.

That's not the issue. It's when they then claim that you sent them a box of rocks. I'm not saying that will happen but a PO box is shady. I've had someone try to scam me in the same way on ebay but managed to get out of the sale. They paid, money was in my account but I thought it was a scam, told them I would deliver to them personally and they pulled out.

beany_bot · 9 Jun 2017 at 11:39

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ShortWarning said:
That's not the issue. It's when they then claim that you sent them a box of rocks. I'm not saying that will happen but a PO box is shady (I've had someone try to scam me in the same way on ebay but managed to get out of the sale).

Well I suppose the bay in general always carriers a risk. His feedback is 100% and he's been buying like bits for his bike and clothes. "normal" behaviour.

I do agree its "odd". But I would be more concerned if I hadn't read that eastern Europe is snapping up 480s. Because of that it makes sense.

doodah · 9 Jun 2017 at 12:10

Is there anything you can do to mitigate shady practices from buyers (other than avoid the dodgy looking ones)?

ShortWarning · 9 Jun 2017 at 16:22

doodah said:
Is there anything you can do to mitigate shady practices from buyers (other than avoid the dodgy looking ones)?

You can't even avoid dodgy buyers on ebay, even if they look shady. Anyone is free to bid. Even if it's an obvious scam, ebay won't listen until you're actually being scammed and then they'll side with the scammer anyway.

Nexus18 · 9 Jun 2017 at 16:37

Hmmm, think it be worth while selling my MSI GE 290?

dazzlaa · 9 Jun 2017 at 17:06

beany_bot said:
Money is in my account mate. It's no issue for me. I heard a lot of eastern europe countries snapping them up (must be the cheap electricity). I guess this way he doesnt need to contact everyone and say "can you ship to slovenia" etc. He has something in place.
I would recommend for anyone with a Polaris card right now to either use it to mine or sell it before the bubble bursts.

Same as my wife's card. It went to Italy to a very normal looking account with good feedback. The money they paid meant after fees etc I upgraded her to the Msi gaming x 1070 for about £40 extra. Absolute no brainer for me.