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lol catching fire?! jeez that is pretty scary.
Yea, but $385 for a 290
In other news, Ive been running 2x 290's from a Corsair CX430. Seen as high as 580W from the wall. 12v only.
Wait...What?!? How does that bugger not burst into flames?!?
In other news, my Amazon status finally changed to "Shipping Now." WoO HoOO!
You're implying the crypto miners will ever be "100% satisfied".
They will snatch up cards and keep snatching until coin mining is no longer profitable.
1 card, 3 cards, 100 cards. As if they care how many they own, as long as the price is right!
AMD could have a magical unicorn shit GPU's and it would still cost $500 for a 290.
Prices will never come down. R9 300 series will launch later this year and skyrocket to the same prices over night.
If you're trying to build a rig for gaming, just forget AMD exists, unless you want to spend hours digging through Amazon sales to pay a meager $30-$50 over MSRP.
I didn't say every miner, I said miners.So you're assuming that every miner has infinite money and electricity and that nothing else is going to change (*coin profitability, ASICs, nV hash rates, card availability, etc., etc., etc.). Sounds real plausible.
I didn't say every miner, I said miners.
There will always be someone ready to snatch up every card at a decent price. Always.
Maybe not you, but... someone.
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Apparently this is the Availability Thread and we're way off-topic now.
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Apparently this is the Availability Thread and we're way off-topic now.
When can we expect availability to return to normal to satisfy the demands of non-cryptocurrency miners then (aka PC gamers)?I agree that we're off-topic though.
End of 2014 at the earliest.When can we expect availability to return to normal to satisfy the demands of non-cryptocurrency miners then (aka PC gamers)?
When will production catch up and prices return to normal?
What's causing the delay in production?
(Realistic expectation.)
Yes, this is an availability thread, but when will they be available in sufficient quantities again?
Good god, may as well not buy AMD cards for gaming because if that ASIC miner is $2225 for the lowest model, miners will probably just get three R9 290X cards for nearly as much if going by current pricing. We'll be back to this mess waiting on stock of AMD cards all over again by the end of 2014.End of 2014 at the earliest.
http://www.coindesk.com/alpha-technology-pre-orders-litecoin-asic-miners/
Even then, people are dumb. The new AMD cards could potentially be hoarded for mining anyway.
Assuming nothing else happens to destroy the value of LTC.
You've got maxwell + pirate islands by Q4, so you can forget about gaming on current AMD cards.
Assuming nothing else happens to destroy the value of LTC.
You've got maxwell + pirate islands by Q4, so you can forget about gaming on current AMD cards.
From what I can gather is this:What do you mean by this?
mods have repeatedly cleaned this thread up. It is for 290 availability... take the mining talk to the DC forum.
i will continue to buy them anytime they come up at a reasonable price which is why I'm buying mainly 270/x cards currently.
You mining haters are just angry because you can't figure out how to mine or your power/situation won't allow and in that case you're just jealous as well.
Free money for tossing a computer together. no brainer of course I'm building more every chance I get.
I keep the Visiontek website link to their R9 290 bookmarked since it seems that one has availability regularly for some reason. I check each week now seeing that it was available off their website and Tigerdirect for the last two weeks or so.I'm not jealous of miners, or anyone, however its posts like this, that make people hate mining(ers).
Back to the availability thread, I'm curious to know why the XFX cards keep getting pushed back on BLT...There must have been only a small initial run of the new DD cards...
to hell with being available i want to know why the enthusiast press isn't taking amd to the damn woodshed over their customers being raped at all retail outlets for their cards even the older cards are fucking gone up in price for new and used...
I keep the Visiontek website link to their R9 290 bookmarked since it seems that one has availability regularly for some reason. I check each week now seeing that it was available off their website and Tigerdirect for the last two weeks or so.
I could technically afford the Visiontek R9 290 at $499 given I have money saved. I've been debating between that or just go for an R9 270X and Crossfire it in the future. And, pocket the spare $200-plus for something else.That I have actually seen in stock, as much as I bashed XFX for the last gen of DD cards, it seems like worth a go (considering its nearly impossible to find a Tri-X under $600).
Back to the availability thread, I'm curious to know why the XFX cards keep getting pushed back on BLT...There must have been only a small initial run of the new DD cards...
Hopefully your order won't get cancelled like mine did for the Gigabyte card...
Availability of chips is based on manufacturing time contracted for from the manufacturing facility. Time is ordered months in advance. AMD does NOT have its own manufacturing capability. The demand of these has far outpaced the demand that was thought to be adequate. They can't just make more chips at will. They also have to fulfill worldwide orders. The reference cards were all made in the same location. Next issue then is getting chips to the different partners for their custom made cards. Now you can have another learning curve as we have seen with XFX Windforce manufacturing problem. Again all of these partners supply the world, not just the US market. When there are problems cards are allotted to the different areas. Add to that the rise of mining and the reality of supply and demand take hold.
If you had a car you put on Craigslist and 2 buyers showed up at the same time and began to offer you more than you listed it for would you accept the highest offer or not? Principally this is what is occurring. If Newegg ordered cards from AMD, has paid for them and taken possession. The cards are the property of Newegg. They can charge what ever they like. They can give them away if they choose. Like it or not every company is in business to make a profit, windfall or otherwise. THAT IS THEIR RIGHT. They are taking the risk for their company that they can sell a product at a profit. Some things they sell they end up taking a loss because the market was not there at the price anticipated.
I happened to be on the right side this time and got a R9 290 card early on for $399. later I decided to get another one. Prices had jumped. The best I could do was R9 290X for $580 and wait a month(still waiting). The next day I decided to get another one. I don't want 290X cards but that was what was available at the best price. There were R9 290's but they were more expensive. So it is not like I have not been affected but the issue. Right now I am still using the 5870 xfire setup. I am waiting to see if I can get another R9 290. If I can I will get rid of the R9 290X cards. I would prefer R9 290's in Crossfire over R9 290X's in Crossfire.
I can not change the market. It is what it is. AMD can not change the market, The best we can do is work around the market.
OMG, this thread reminds me of the gun panic last year when it was hard to find ammo, magazines and guns in general. We had similar threads on gun forums, lol.