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AMD 6800 & 6800 XT MBA LAUNCH AT 2PM TODAY - EXTREMELY LIMITED STOCK!
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I'm sorry it has probably been said but can't read 100 pages because of limited time. Can someone please tell me in 1 post what happened today, why they didn't release them properly, and if we have any info on when they are going on actual sale. Thanks i advance any info will be appreciated
Can do it in two words.
Paper. Launch.
Might be some stock late December, but most people waiting for 2021. As in, 99% of people waiting at least until 2021
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/forums/threads/todays-6800-series-aib-launch-important-info.18908580/
there's a pinned thread on this if you'd bothered to check
I know right? Im guessing the guy was being sarcastic? Cause Nvidia earning reports show they sold all our Ampere chips to Mining companies which is a public fact, conjecture is it was more profit and kept the price in the gaming market high as there is artificial scarcity. So the reason we are all looking for cards? Nvidia sold them to miners direct.
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OCUK didn't have any stock. No other retailer in the UK had any stock. They might start to trickle in over the next few days or weeks but the majority of people won't get one before Christmas. The prices are nowhere near RRP and in many cases in excess of the 3080's which also aren't available either. Other sites are getting occasional stock drops but no FE's have been seen since last week.
Whether that's true or not (it could be), there's no doubt that mining is the most retarded modern invention, ever.
Literally £billions worth of hardware sitting around solving made-up maths problems, for no actual benefit to anyone in the real world.
I can't believe the levels of idiocy that we've sunk to. Literally flushing hardware and energy down the toilet for absolutely no reason.
The mind truly does boggle.
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Not quite it makes somebody a lot of money!!
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I can see four retailers with the limited edition powercolor red devil listed. A card that is only getting 1,000 made worldwide. Ive seen at least 5 reviewers have got one as well so far.
So how many of these will each retailer get, 1 each? @ScottiB ? You may as well frame it not sell it.
So how many of these will each retailer get, 1 each? @ScottiB ? You may as well frame it not sell it.
If you'd be bothered to read i said i have no time I'm working a lot of hours every day I don't have the time to check, I was already on this topic so I just threw the question. You look a bit aggressive maybe because you broke your f5 for no reason today? Don't bother answering next time
Thanks a lot bro
@Gibbo Would it be possible to have a dedicated stock announcement thread that is locked but which we can subscribe to for updates? That way we can be notified if stock is available without the message getting buried in the thread.
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there is one already.
What I'm getting at is that that hardware, and that energy, is just being diverted into a workload which is by definition non-productive.
And that, somehow, we managed to put a price on a non-productive, non-entertainment, non-anything workload.
It's basically like paying someone to buy all the GPUs and have them sit in a warehouse doing nothing. And similarly, paying someone to take energy out of the grid and just dump it.
Ultimately that's what mining is.
We're paying people to just dump resources.
It entertains noo-ne. It produces nothing.
We're paying people $$$ to dump resources. To take hardware and energy out of the system and dump it.
That's mining.
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Whilst i agree with you, why is 'real' gold any different? Its only use (at least historically when prospecting was just getting started) was to be a precious thing that makes people money. Why does it matter if the thing is a physical object or a virtual one?
Nothing the human race does is truly productive. This is why I don't care if covid wipes us all out.
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Ah nVidia, customers friend: they sell the 1080ti for £720, the 2080ti for £1300+, and called the 3080ti a 3090BF and charged £1500+. And the 3090 owners must be super pleased that next year others can get a 3080ti (maybe 2fps decrease from 3090) for about £1300 again. Gotta pay for jenson's spatulas somehow I guess.
Well people prospecting for a mining gold are putting things into the system.
And if gold only has minimal other uses (it is used in electricals, etc) then storing gold doesn't really hurt your ability to use it for other things.
GPUs being bought and effectively dumped is a different kettle of fish. It's taking useful things out of the system and making them useless.
Ditto with energy. There is demand for energy and we will face more energy uncertainty going forwards.
Taking the energy used for mining and effectively just dumping it means there is more demand for energy and that's a bad thing when energy is not infinite. And much of it still generated with fossil fuels.
Mining is the glorification of wasting resources in the most gratuitous way. It is something that no environmentalist should be or would be associated with.
That's not a bad idea. The "Limited Edition" hasn't stopped Gibbo from giving them a purchase order for ten thousand units
but I doubt that he has had any confirmation on actual stock deliveries yet.
i think sensible peeps are better off waiting it out and let stock build up and most important the price war to start.
That way you can research all the cards available and get the one you want and at a fair price.
That way you can research all the cards available and get the one you want and at a fair price.