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Buying used might have been an option in a previous generation but you have to just assume that every used card has been mining for the last couple of years. Not for me.
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Is the 3060ti Founders Edition the best bang per buck card at the moment?
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Interested to hear how you get on with it. My brother has a 1080p 240hz display, running with 1660 Super/12700F build currently and I've recommended he goes for the 3060ti FE as well. For a retail card right now it does seem to be cracking value at the sub £400 price.
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I think if you look out for LHR cards there are good chance they won’t be mined on.
I bought a 3060ti recently second hand and it's a good card. I couldn't bring myself to buy a last gen card at full price so second hand suited me better.
Waiting til Christmas is likely the sensible choice to see how prices change but you will likely be happy with your 3060ti anyway.
Waiting til Christmas is likely the sensible choice to see how prices change but you will likely be happy with your 3060ti anyway.
Why would you buy from cex because that's who you mean when they are selling a used 3060ti fe for £415 more than new ..
3070ti fe is £540 and 3070 fe is £480 used ...
Your logic makes no sense mate. Also all FE come with a 3 year warranty.
LHR cards were also mined on as we saw.
You can get voucher at 85% face value but most time can get 80% so that makes them way cheap
Not in this country. Not with the stupidly expensive leccy prices at the time of introduction of LHR.
The first LHR 3060 was mined on due to the dev driver released by Nvidia with unlocked hashrate.
But subsequence LHR on 60ti 70 80 were bypassed fully until May/June this year which was too late for mining as eth went PoS and leccy is sky high price.
No one has half a brain was using LHR for mining in this country if they cared about profitability
How many people do you really know in daily life shopping around for other peoples cex vouchers at discount prices ?
Some of us have a life and time is more valuable to go threw all this hassle when the Nvidia site is selling them brand new for way less and 3 year warranty.
Not everyone lives on the MM or classifieds of other forums.
Next you will tell me CEX give you some special gift too when you buy anything from them... it's used goods that is priced more than new and with less warranty, no matter the discount on vouchers that you have to go threw the hassle to get from someone willing to sell them at a discount.
Go get a cup of tea mate and have a good morning.
Edit:- do you work for CEX ? because sounding like it... They are one of the last places I would buy anything from apart from a game/movie on cd/dvd/bluray and even then I ask them to clean the disks as they are scratched to hell. Last time I purchased hardware from them it was a memory card that turned out to be a fake one and they said it wasn't same one they sold me the day before.. No thanks rather not buy something from them when they can't even tell it's fake. Also I only sell to them, perfect items and they always find a fake reason to set it at B quality pricing even when selling them an unopened item once they opened it for testing and wanted to pay me B quality level price on a new thing not A quality, I asked for it back and went and returned it for a full refund at currys... they are con artists at most cex places.
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Ok I will help you.... They were mining other coins while mining Ethereum with the same gpu to make use of the gpu power not being used due to the LHR, that only limited Ethereum mining.
The drivers had nothing to do with it in the end for many.
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@Purgatory Sometimes you just have to let people make mistakes, that’s how we learn. Can’t always put the world to rights, much as you’d like to, mate.
I’d go for a new card at that price over a second hand one as well though, mainly for the warranty.
I’d go for a new card at that price over a second hand one as well though, mainly for the warranty.
There are reputable tech places on auction selling refurb or whatever conditions which offer 12m warranty and when discount applies usually 15%, it is quite a good deal.
CEX is one of the places and I have not had any trouble with them; Rtx 30 series are still fairly recent cards. Especially if you looking at 70ti. Anyway, just a suggestion to the OP. It’s upto him. You don’t agree with me that’s not a problem. I accept everyone has an opinion and preference and not trying to convince anyone’s formed opinion to change as such. So no need to bash your head against anything.
Regarding mining, LHR affected all ethash algo as well as other algo such as ergo where memeory intensive work is required. The only ones weren’t affected were raven coin and flux which were core intensive one (LHR cards had higher power usage than non-LHR). It was a non-profitable business to use LHR to mine anything really unless you enjoy free leccy or has spare solar. Many things you see on internet are American or people with ridiculously low unit rate which meant most things were profitable. I mean people were still running pascal and Polaris farms in America right upto PoS.
Also LHR card mining, the memory are not clocked very high unlike FHR cards in order to avoid the LHR detection, the cards usually are quite conservative in terms of overclocking and certainly the power usage is well below what the rated wattage the card is supposed to be able to do.
CEX is one of the places and I have not had any trouble with them; Rtx 30 series are still fairly recent cards. Especially if you looking at 70ti. Anyway, just a suggestion to the OP. It’s upto him. You don’t agree with me that’s not a problem. I accept everyone has an opinion and preference and not trying to convince anyone’s formed opinion to change as such. So no need to bash your head against anything.
Regarding mining, LHR affected all ethash algo as well as other algo such as ergo where memeory intensive work is required. The only ones weren’t affected were raven coin and flux which were core intensive one (LHR cards had higher power usage than non-LHR). It was a non-profitable business to use LHR to mine anything really unless you enjoy free leccy or has spare solar. Many things you see on internet are American or people with ridiculously low unit rate which meant most things were profitable. I mean people were still running pascal and Polaris farms in America right upto PoS.
Also LHR card mining, the memory are not clocked very high unlike FHR cards in order to avoid the LHR detection, the cards usually are quite conservative in terms of overclocking and certainly the power usage is well below what the rated wattage the card is supposed to be able to do.
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I got the card a couple of days ago and am very pleased with it.
Physically it is very premium. I have owned a reference RX 6800 in the past and it is on par with that. I don't know why anyone would buy an AIB card as they are so ugly compared to this. The packaging is very nice as well.
I have only played Minecraft on it with my Daughter so far but it runs that at 240 FPS with no coil whine and looks great (as great as Minecraft can look).
It is very quiet as well.
I am very pleased with it and feel it is good value for money. You also get a code for the new Warhammer Darktide game which comes out soon.
Once you've had an FE card, all the AIB stuff just looks like puerile, tacky, gimmicky and over designed with the teenage Asian market in mind...
Yes pretty much how I would describe mine. Best option for the money I think. As much as I prefer AMD I have to say it's a very nice card. Bonus you got a game too, there were no offers like that when I bought mine.
They undervolt and overclock like crazy gives you just about 3070 speed. Its definitely the "GTX 460" of the generation.
Very good cards.
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Is the only place to get the FE versions direct from nvidea?
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You actually can't buy it directly through nvidia. When you click to buy it on nvidia's website you are actually purchasing it from a Overclockers competitor who shall not be named. No one else in the UK sells FE's.
Indeed! Think i bought what seems to be one of the last 3060 ti FE from there as there does not appear to be any more stock atm. Shame the 3070 was not in stock as i would have grabbed one of those instead, but for 1080p coming from a 1070 OC this should meet my needs. You can also get them on that popular auction site, but those are going for silly money by comparison!
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Cheers. Say no more, I’ll likely shop around on members market for my needs anyway