ROFL. No there wont be bonfire of the rtx cards, theyll just move algo. Its pure fantasy
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Anyone just given up on looking for a new GPU?
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ROFL. No there wont be bonfire of the rtx cards, theyll just move algo. Its pure fantasy
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With the crypto opportunities / volatility recently no one will be selling 30 series cards until better mining hardware comes along.
There's too much hashpower for the other algos to absorb. (as things stand now, at least)
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Correct. Even if you take away ASIC's there is far too much power like 50X times the power and that's if half the power on ethereum is ASICS which it won't be. I'm guessing 20-30% is ASIC. There are a lot more GPU's out there than ASICS for sure by magnitude of millions.
Anyway nobody can know for sure what will happen. Just need educated guesses. Miners can somehow manipulate prices too when the power switches over. Will be interesting to see what happens. A lot of miners will leave the scene as soon as ETH goes POS. Some will stay. I'm guessing more will leave than those that will stay. Especially with UK electric prices doubling and these new coins not being profitable as it is when ethereum hash moves over. So I can't see how it's profitable with double electric on top.
We need to wait for ethereum to go POS though that could be 2 years away they keep delaying it and moving the timeline for mining to finally die in the numbers we are seeing currently anyway especially in the UK.
When it comes to graphic cards there will not be much in the way of offers.
Was away with family yesterday and we went to a Halloween disco event thing for the kids. As it was in a shopping centre I couldnt help but beeline to a window passing a CEX and it had a 1060 for £265.
I'm not sure I paid that for mine when it was new... second hand pricing is a bit of an insult right now
Meanwhile I'm still not sure what people are buying with cryptocurrencies... or why we're trusting them when they aren't backed by a bank
I got a asus strix 6800xt OC watercooled version after waiting months with a new build for a gpu upgrade i paid a stomach churning £1150 for it. The only saving grace was selling my 1080ti for £480 which was crazy considering its 3rd hand and i got it for £520 a couple of years ago.
Sheesh. Doesn't sound like you're happy paying that amount... so why did you?
Immunity from prosecution for money laundering??? XD
Basically because i had planned to upgrade my 1080ti during the launch of the gtx 2080 cards but skipped this gen as the performance improvement was not good enough. The new cards out were a big improvement skipping a generation so i built a new rig all set for a new gpu but the availability and price just went crazy so i waited and waited and got fed up enough to just think what the hell i have the money so when prices dipped i just bought the best card i could find for around £1k ..and i did ! Always bought Nvidia but a 3080ti was £600 more for little extra performance so i switched to AMD. At the time i did not want to pay more than £800 for a top end card hence the stomach churning
i didn't think i would get enough for my old card to offset the £350 over budget but its worked out in the end. I was concerned a little about moving over to AMD but i love it and drivers are better than Nvidia from my experience so far.Basically because i had planned to upgrade my 1080ti during the launch of the gtx 2080 cards but skipped this gen as the performance improvement was not good enough. The new cards out were a big improvement skipping a generation so i built a new rig all set for a new gpu but the availability and price just went crazy so i waited and waited and got fed up enough to just think what the hell i have the money so when prices dipped i just bought the best card i could find for around £1k ..and i did ! Always bought Nvidia but a 3080ti was £600 more for little extra performance so i switched to AMD. At the time i did not want to pay more than £800 for a top end card hence the stomach churning
you sir, respectfully, are part of the problem haha!
When I did try a Nvidia GPU I too felt the driver panel was not great, had been an AMD GPU owner for lengthy while. I'm also getting the stomach churning looking at current GPU pricing. At present just planning to sell my current GPU, hold on to the money as long as I can to snag a new GPU. Dunno how long I'll last!
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I wasn't planning to upgrade until next year, but with shortages forecast to last until 2023 or longer and the likelihood of MSRP prices going up next gen, I thought screw it just get what you can now. I might have been fortunate but I didn't have to wait too long after signing up to Part Alert on telegram before I ordered a 3070 Ti for £540 delivered. Managed to sell my 5 year old GTX 1070 for £280 so quite a cheap upgrade considering it's around 2.5 times faster, more so if you consider DLSS. Total system power consumption is at 460w while gaming though, compared to 205w on my PS5, so I think I know which one I'll be using in the summer.
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Winner!
Miners getting desperate now.
A truck load of EVGA RTX3000 GPUs were stolen en route to a California distribution centre.
Evga is asking people not to buy a card from a 3rd party without a receipt and also warning those who buy a stolen card should not even try to register it or ask for support - they may report you to the police
https://forums.evga.com/m/tm.aspx?m=3490851&p=1
A truck load of EVGA RTX3000 GPUs were stolen en route to a California distribution centre.
Evga is asking people not to buy a card from a 3rd party without a receipt and also warning those who buy a stolen card should not even try to register it or ask for support - they may report you to the police
https://forums.evga.com/m/tm.aspx?m=3490851&p=1
It reminds me of the days many many years back when criminals use to break into offices open Apple Mac`s and take out the memory chips because there was a similar situation like there is to day with Graphic cards.
Whats interesting btw (from a reddit lawyer) is EVGA are actually only scaremongering as they missed an important word from the actual law:
Law section (ca.gov)
is from EVGA.
I do agree to a point it would be nice to say stuff you nvidia and amd keep your GPUs at those prices...i did during the 2080 release but things got even worse not better as i hoped ! The new games i like need a powerful gpu to get the best out of them and i cannot get away with console which i considered but even then they are overpriced as well. Its the way of the world now unfortunately so suck it up or give it up.. looks like you've done the latter or love a slide show gaming experience