Nvidia Cards unavailable for the next three months - as fabs switch over to manufacturing Volta?!?

Archaea said:
I was talking to a fellow last night for a local hardware sale who pointed out if the news about China cracking down on miners is true, that’ll increase hashing demand everywhere else making mining even more profitable in the next few months. Thus cards even more desirable and therefore scarce.
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Dont believe every crypto headline at face value - especially when it comes to China, since they like to announce but then never enforce. Seven times since Bitcoin's inception in 2009 they've threaten to "ban" it. Zero times enforced it. Same with threatening to ban exchanges. It's pretty much been a ruse to sink the price so insiders and whales can get sale pricing on BTC to increase their stacks. China isn't stupid, they have 40% of the world's BTC and they want more.

Chinese miner's aren't going anywhere.
 
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Why couldn't a normal 1080 sky rocket like this. I buy the only top GPU that is unwanted for mining.
 
If only a 3gb 1060 were a better mining card, those are still available, haha.
 
it's not bad for a lot of things other than eth...

I've got 4 of em running nicehash and they are making about ~$13 a day.
 
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xrealm20 said:
it's not bad for a lot of things other than eth...

I've got 4 of em running nicehash and they are making about ~$13 a day.
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Even 1050 non ti cards are profitable. Just comes down to how much that pcie slot is worth to you.
 
xrealm20 said:
it's not bad for a lot of things other than eth...

I've got 4 of em running nicehash and they are making about ~$13 a day.
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At that rate it seems just about the same as a 6gb model. I'm strongly considering it, given the piss-poor availability of anything else to fill my remaining 6 slots.

I seem to recall reading that at some point the 3gb will become a limiting factor, is that strictly for mining certain algorithms?
 
yowen said:
At that rate it seems just about the same as a 6gb model. I'm strongly considering it, given the piss-poor availability of anything else to fill my remaining 6 slots.

I seem to recall reading that at some point the 3gb will become a limiting factor, is that strictly for mining certain algorithms?
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Yes. Some algorithms don't need much ram at all. Looking at my afterburner stats, the highest my 1080tis and 1050tj has used is 2.5gb. My 1070 maxed at 4.5. All are currently using no more than 600mb.
 
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Yes. Some algorithms don't need much ram at all. Looking at my afterburner stats, the highest my 1080tis and 1050tj has used is 2.5gb. My 1070 maxed at 4.5. All are currently using no more than 600mb.
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Only algo's I've run into a problem with are eth and lyra2rev2 at intensity 21. Lyra2rev2 and intensity 20 is just fine, and everything else seems to crunch right along. Nist 5 and Equihash have been running w/o issue for a while now.
 
A friend of mine went to MicroCenter in Overland Park Kansas today to buy graphics cards. There wasn’t a single one in stock, neither AMD, nor Nvidia. Absolutely bare. He sent me these pics

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That's crazy. I'm hearing people are having a hard time finding power supplies too (high wattage ones). Read that on reddit though, haven't looked myself.
 
Yeah, it's getting a little nuts. I managed to be at the micro center here when someone returned a 1060...
 
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That's crazy. I'm hearing people are having a hard time finding power supplies too (high wattage ones). Read that on reddit though, haven't looked myself.
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Its true i had to dig to find the 1200 watt evga i brought. Most places i looked where sold out of anything over 1k. Now i am talking about brands i wanted to buy.
 
Elkwood said:
Its true i had to dig to find the 1200 watt evga i brought. Most places i looked where sold out of anything over 1k. Now i am talking about brands i wanted to buy.
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Wow that is crazy. Just took a look on evga and amazon...all good brand 1k+ PSU's are sold out.
 
pandora's box said:
That's crazy. I'm hearing people are having a hard time finding power supplies too (high wattage ones). Read that on reddit though, haven't looked myself.
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Look at the price of used server power supplies. Even those have come up a bunch. Wasn't too long ago, you could easily find high efficiency 1200+ Watt ones for under $40.
 
was going to pick up the rosewill 1500w off their ebay store for $289 last week. It jumped to $499 before going OOS.
 
Parja said:
Look at the price of used server power supplies. Even those have come up a bunch. Wasn't too long ago, you could easily find high efficiency 1200+ Watt ones for under $40.
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The problem with those is a) they're actually only 900 watts on 110v - you need 220v to get 1200 out of them unlike consumer ATX psu's, b) the little fans are screamers if you run the PSU beyond like 70% load, and sound like a hair dryer on full blast, so forget putting them in a spare bedroom or other liveable space and/or you've got other people in the house, c) the breakout boards and pcie cables are loq quality and a pain to get - expensive and backordered from Amazon, or cheap but take weeks to months from eBay sellers in China.

That said, they're an interesting option if you can deal with the caveats, but by no means a slam dunk versus paying more for a quiet ATX PSU.
 
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The problem with those is a) they're actually only 900 watts on 110v - you need 220v to get 1200 out of them unlike consumer ATX psu's, b) the little fans are screamers if you run the PSU beyond like 70% load, and sound like a hair dryer on full blast, so forget putting them in a spare bedroom or other liveable space, c) the breakout boards and pcie cables are a pain to get - expensive and backordered from Amazon, or cheap but take forever from eBay sellers in China.

That said, they're actually pretty great if you can deal with the above.
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I played with those for a little while. My breakout board worked intermittently and half the time the psu wouldn't turn on because of it. I ordered some new boards but decided I didn't want to deal with the Chinese quality cables that are readily available for cheap and quality ones are hard to find. It's definitely the cheapest route to power a large gpu array but this time I'm going with an enclosure and atx psu. Ordered a rosewill 1500w for 369....has 12 pcie cables plus a bunch of sata. Should be good.
 
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I order two 850 watt units for $100 each vs one 1500 watt unit for $400.


Less adapters, less load on each, half the price.
 
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Archaea said:
I order two 850 watt units for $100 each vs one 1500 watt unit for $400.


Less adapters, less load on each, half the price.
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Thats the way to go right now... How long before stuff between 500w and 850w disappears or gets marked up out of sight ??
 
Ive been looking everywhere and no luck, hopefully during the summer some of these bay area people will let them go for cheap
 
Yea MC and best buys around me are bare. The only video cards in stock I seen were old obsolete 680 for ridiculous prices might I add and crap like 730.
 
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Ive been looking everywhere and no luck, hopefully during the summer some of these bay area people will let them go for cheap
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The time of season is a good point.

It is easy to justify building a rig or two to heat things up.

Let's see how resolute folks are when it is 105F outside and that AC bill is triple digits.
 
atp1916 said:
The time of season is a good point.

It is easy to justify building a rig or two to heat things up.

Let's see how resolute folks are when it is 105F outside and that AC bill is triple digits.
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I think those of us with 3 or 4 gpus will be ok. Those with 10+ will be in trouble
 
Especially in those little apartments and high cost of living, right now it's fine since my rigs never see over 53C. But I have an actual garage to keep stuff cool. I really want a 4th 1080 ti but I'm not paying over $900 For another one
 
The only way I know how to get basically anything right now is to go through pc builders and sell the rigs without cards.

You can get a dell/cyberpower setup with 2 1080Tis cheaper than buying them most anywhere.
 
next-Jin said:
The only way I know how to get basically anything right now is to go through pc builders and sell the rigs without cards.

You can get a dell/cyberpower setup with 2 1080Tis cheaper than buying them most anywhere.
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Yeah, I've also been looking on craigslist for local gaming builds that are being sold. You can get the entire build for almost the price of the card on its own.
 
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yowen said:
Yeah, I've also been looking on craigslist for local gaming builds that are being sold. You can get the entire build for almost the price of the card on its own.
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Yup, snagged a EVGA 1080 Hybrid on Friday for $525. Always a bit of a gamble with craigslist, but ya gotta do what ya gotta do.
 
Got 3 1070 Ti's just now.

2 for ~510, another for ~589 (ugh, but it'll work for now).
 
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So, haul as of now within the last hour or so:

1 x1070
4 x1070 Ti
 
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