astronomical GPU prices?

kirbyrj I expect nothing less. Cheers :)

KickAssCop 5 1070 / 1070 Ti rigs spread over 4 4U cases + my workstation.

The 4U builds all basically look like this:
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... and my workstation is a Corsair 750D Airflow Ed. that i am in the process of modding to handle Mini-style ITX cards:
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Specs of the rig in 1st picture? As in mobo, ram, cpu, etc.

Looks nice. What are you using to mine?
 
I dusted off my PS4 and started on my backlog after I sold my GTX1070 for $150 profit. I guess there's never been as good a time to try your hand at console gaming!
I ain't got a console to dust off. :(

Hell, at this rate, you could sell whatever you have and buy a console and still come out ahead. I am tempted to find a stock cooler for this GTX 970 I have and pawn off all my other cards. Either that or just say eff it and build a miner using what I have, if this is how it is going to be. Im sure with all the cards I have laying around I could figure something out.
 
Woah... what the hell?

I picked up a few 3GB 1060 cards for a little over $200 during the holidays. There's nothing under $290 now and most of the cards are $300 to $600 for 1060s !?!?!??!?!?!?

What in the actual #@$! ? Now the 3GB cards are toast for price? I thought miners hated those cards?

That was the last of the "real" gaming cards that were even sort of affordable.

Wait... WHAT? I just looked up EVERY video card. What the hell?

The 1080 Duke card I just bought is now $1400? I'm selling this thing. Who needs games when I can pocket $900?
in November/December prices were still relatively normal with micro center selling 1070 Tis for $470 on sale. Now you have people trying to sell RX580s for $500 and I see 1080s listed on craigslist for 600-1000.

You can get somewhat lucky if a person isn't aware of the recent value increases. I missed out on a 1080 that was listed for $500, he agreed to $475 but had someone ahead of me. That person of course showed up and bought it For the most part you should get your email on the in stock notifications and buy new as most guys think they have gold.
 
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Looks like Newegg has only a slightly inflated price on Gigabyte 1060's right now in stock. Kicker is you have to buy a $150 motherboard to get the cards.
 
Crypto has been taking losses for the last week, ETH alone dropped more than 30% in the last 24 hours and that’s after it had been dropping all week to begin with. You may just see a wave of sales going on soon.
 
Question for mining types, are RX 580 8GB blower cards worth anything or only open style coolers? Legit asking for a friend who bought two a while back and doesn't PC game any more, he wanted to know if it was worth ebaying them. He got them when they were like $250 or whatever they were originally.
 
Question for mining types, are RX 580 8GB blower cards worth anything or only open style coolers? Legit asking for a friend who bought two a while back and doesn't PC game any more, he wanted to know if it was worth ebaying them. He got them when they were like $250 or whatever they were originally.

Yes in the short term. If he sells them next week, the market might have crashed for mining gear with the ~30% drop in crypto recently.
 
Yes in the short term. If he sells them next week, the market might have crashed for mining gear with the ~30% drop in crypto recently.

Good to know, I may buy them off of him for a fair price just to have them. I don't follow the mining at all, still too pissed that I chucked a couple hundred bitcoin back in 2009.
 
Question for mining types, are RX 580 8GB blower cards worth anything or only open style coolers? Legit asking for a friend who bought two a while back and doesn't PC game any more, he wanted to know if it was worth ebaying them. He got them when they were like $250 or whatever they were originally.
I'll take both for $250 ;)

Joking aside he can easily sell those for more than he paid. On my brother's rig the blowers actually do better than those with open style coolers in terms of temps.

Good to know, I may buy them off of him for a fair price just to have them. I don't follow the mining at all, still too pissed that I chucked a couple hundred bitcoin back in 2009.

200 @ $18,000=3.6 million

I wouldn't be able to sleep at night.
 
I’ve been looking at buying a videocard for the past two weeks, and I’ve seen no nVidia card with more than a single fan for anything less than 250 dollars, and the lowest MINED cards are $330+ for 1060 6gb...
 
Wow... I tried to sell 2x GTX 980 Ti on craigslist last month for ~$300 each but I didn't get any bites.

I relisted it again and somehow sold them for $400 each within 24 hours.
 
Despite the recent big losses, I think a lot of folks are still bullish about cryptocurrency, long-term. And a lot of investors standing on the sidelines will probably jump in once it hits low enough targets.

You know, "buy low, sell high".
 
Wow... I tried to sell 2x GTX 980 Ti on craigslist last month for ~$300 each but I didn't get any bites.

I relisted it again and somehow sold them for $400 each within 24 hours.

Yeah, I've been trying to get one to hold me over for around $300, but I can't find one.
 
I have been out of the loop, can someone tl;dr what's going on?

Crypto miners have caused the price of any modern graphics card capable of playing 1080p or above to skyrocket in price to the point of being several hundred dollars over MSRP because they have bought virtually all of the new supply available at MSRP and the used supply is extremely overpriced.
 
Kinda bum that I sold a Gigabyte GTX 1070 fresh from RMA for $400 last month. I see they are reaching $700.
 
I didn't realize cards prices had jumped so much. Thinking of listing my 1070 and moving my 1060 from my HTPC until the next GPU release. Just saw one go for $600 on ebay I paid $400.
 
Crypto miners have caused the price of any modern graphics card capable of playing 1080p or above to skyrocket in price to the point of being several hundred dollars over MSRP because they have bought virtually all of the new supply available at MSRP and the used supply is extremely overpriced.

Its combination of Crypto miners, large crypto companies buying them & both AMD & Nvidia stopping production of the Vega & 10 series fabs to transition to the next model. Its really the perfect storm.
 
I had to go with the 1070Ti...I can't pull the trigger on a 1080Ti with the Titan V already launched and Volta coming sooner than later.
 
Im gonna be the voice of reason here and tell you all to save your money. You're paying day of prices for hardware that's roughly 2 years old.

Fair enough. I bought a 1070Ti for $519, and I sold my 1070 non-Ti for $525 the other day. Essentially a free upgrade to a 1070Ti is how I'm looking at this.
 
Fair enough. I bought a 1070Ti for $519, and I sold my 1070 non-Ti for $525 the other day. Essentially a free upgrade to a 1070Ti is how I'm looking at this.

Its a good option IF you already have a 10 series card.
 
Fuck me. The only thing available is a 1060. I really wanted a 1080 for my new build
 
What you guys need to be hoping for is that mining algorithms get so tough that GPUs become useless when mining them.

Then you'll see the market flood with used GPUs and prices will come way down, but cryptocurrency will still be profitable in other ways.
 
What you guys need to be hoping for is that mining algorithms get so tough that GPUs become useless when mining them.

Then you'll see the market flood with used GPUs and prices will come way down, but cryptocurrency will still be profitable in other ways.
Most of the newer algos are anti ASIC, ie the are meant to be mined via GPU/CPU.
 
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