Crazy Fire Sale on 290x's

kirbyrj said:

You could use the same "car analogy"...

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You can not use the car analogy since cars have much more different variations of mechanical and structural wear, cars have components that need regular or irregular maintenance. You don't buy a car for $ 200 and never need to spend any money on it directly to use it. You also don't sit in your GPU or don't depend on it to get you to your job like a car does. It doesn't need insurance or can be easily misused to kill people or save people. Maybe if you are creative in coming up with arguments but nothing realistic.

Phuncz said:

You can not use the car analogy since cars have much more different variations of mechanical and structural wear, cars have components that need regular or irregular maintenance. You don't buy a car for $ 200 and never need to spend any money on it directly to use it. You also don't sit in your GPU or don't depend on it to get you to your job like a car does. It doesn't need insurance or can be easily misused to kill people or save people. Maybe if you are creative in coming up with arguments but nothing realistic.

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My point was that the car analogy isn't a good one when talking about video cards because you can make the analogy say whatever you want.

Ah sorry, my bad, I misinterpreted your post. I meant it more as a general post because many people dilute discussions (including this one) with bad analogies.

Well, the card looks new and it installed fine. So far no problems. It runs quite hot, which I guess is pretty normal for these cards. I bumped the fans speed up which seems to have solved the problem.

Nice little upgrade from my old 6950, I must say.

Also all you supposed "AMD Supporters" buying used cards are not supporting AMD. They receive no revenue from a "Used Card" sale. While you own one of their cards you have actually hurt their bottom line. What's funny is using your liberal logic you expect a warranty on said "used card" as if you purchased it new. Which in turn costs AMD money when you collect on that warranty you didn't pay for. Don't say you don't either. Because a lot of past forum posts prove other wise.

And yes, graphics cards can kill people like a car. Stand there and let me throw a 290x at your head.

SnowBeast said:

Also all you supposed "AMD Supporters" buying used cards are not supporting AMD. They receive no revenue from a "Used Card" sale. While you own one of their cards you have actually hurt their bottom line. What's funny is using your liberal logic you expect a warranty on said "used card" as if you purchased it new. Which in turn costs AMD money when you collect on that warranty you didn't pay for. Don't say you don't either. Because a lot of past forum posts prove other wise.

And yes, graphics cards can kill people like a car. Stand there and let me throw a 290x at your head.

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1). I haven't seen any "AMD Supporters" talk about the financial status and/or revenue of AMD in this thread, so you have a straw man argument there. This thread is about sale prices of 290X's for consumers (with discussions about price/performance vs. GTX 970, and a tangent about buying old mining cards).

2). I don't know if you understand the terms of a warranty. Many video cards warranties can be transferred, some can't. Many new car warranties can be transferred, some can't. It has nothing to do with "liberal logic" as I really don't like liberals, but think your argument is nonsense anyway. It has everything to do with the terms of the warranty. Some cards have a blanket 3 year warranty from date of manufacture based on serial number. Some cards have lifetime warranty for original owner. Assuming people are trying to get something for nothing without referring to a specific example or warranty is useless.

He is trolling, 'liberal logic' was a step too far over the line for believeability but still funny