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SAPPHIRE RX 480 NITRO NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER AT OVERCLOCKERS UK (WORLD FIRST) !!!

SwarfegHead said:
Giving the reference a head start was one thing, they could have at least made sure the partners would be in a decent position to ship out cards within a decent period. At this stage I can see a lot of people dropping their orders in favour of the 1060, which isn't exactly great for AMD.
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I've just gone and ordered a Fury X that'll set me back €80 more than my pre-order for the Red Devil 480 was.

I just need to get back to getting stuff done and at that price, and the current horrific wait for the 480 it's just too good to pass up.

Sadly I won't have the 480's lovely dedicated encoding hardware for Premiere Pro, but the Fury X is second to it, while being better in everything else performance wise.

I hope for Vega AMD at least have their supply and manufacturing A game ready.
 
andyr said:
Going to wait until they are on the shelf then pop into he shop and buy one !

Advantages of living locally :)
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When they've cleared the backlog of pre-orders, Ethereum miners are going to buy every single card that comes in.

Just one mining company in Iceland has bought 10,000 of them so far, and is planning on expanding again.

Good luck with finding any in stock anywhere with these bloomin' large-scale mining operations snapping everything up.
 
FoxEye said:
When they've cleared the backlog of pre-orders, Ethereum miners are going to buy every single card that comes in.

Just one mining company in Iceland has bought 10,000 of them so far, and is planning on expanding again.

Good luck with finding any in stock anywhere with these bloomin' large-scale mining operations snapping everything up.
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If that is true then AMD should just make a dedicated mining card just for these types of cutomers. Potentially huge demand for it.
 
I've never looked too closely at mining but I thought ASICs became the way to go pretty quickly. Do miners gain any benefit whatsoever from 8Gb of RAM or are they just using the parallel processing power?
 
RobinGopher said:
I've never looked too closely at mining but I thought ASICs became the way to go pretty quickly. Do miners gain any benefit whatsoever from 8Gb of RAM or are they just using the parallel processing power?
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Yeah I thought the same thing. Most other "altcoins" have been minor variations of BitCoin, and ASICs as you say took over.

Apparently Ethereum is different. Nobody has yet come up with an ASIC for it, and GPU mining is very effective. A single card run 24/7 will only net you about $8 per month tho, so it only works at massive scales.

Hence companies like Genesis mining setting up in Iceland where electricity is much cheaper, and running 10s of thousands of cards in massive warehouses.
 
Sounds like the installer isn't recognising the hardware and aborting. If you knew the registry key you could probably poke it in there and then try again...


tried installing it with a 480 and then swapping it for a 470?
 
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Right, there are some nano's in stock for £299 - considering it against this - Any pro's and cons apart from the 4GB and port of the nano. It should still perform better.
 
Sad to say, order cancelled for the 3rd time. Disappointed to say the least, should have mine in hand tomorrow afternoon.
 
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