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I look at this way.. I exchanged the free 3tb for 8gb more ram to 16gb, upgrade my motherboard from a b350 to x370, and drop my previous total of 981$ to 951$.. along with adding a mechanical keyboard and wireless dongle that I forgot to add on my previous order.. SOLID..
yeah the overall base price seems cheaper as arranged today.
But -- it's not that much more on the upgrade prices -- maybe $100 bucks more -- and I figured the looks might help it sell if I go that route on eBay.
I called and asked if you could add a third RX470 to the order. They said no.
I found out the RX470's they are putting in these machines are MSI brand. That's good, because I think those are popular cosmetically (for resale).
I bought my third system after thinking about it (and being prompted by my cousin who bought four of these).
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This is my third config I made -- this doesn't represent the best value this time -- instead it's a mining purposed system - with a cosmetic flair. I picked upt the Taichi board in this one so it has 3 PCI-E X16 slots (only 8x to two and 4x to the third) -- but it'll fit three RX470 cards. So I could vampire one of the RX470 cards from one of the other systems I purchased and try mining with it. RX470 cards at this current time are supposed to be good for mining at the rate of 1500 per year through NiceHash. So if currency holds - it would be $4000-$4500 in mining value for all three cards. (that's gambling --- vs. taking the sure value now on ebay).
Anyway -- I dressed this one up a bit - added the fancy 360mm CPU rad (totally unnecessary, but will look great in the TT P3 case, and chose a bit more expensive modular gold PSU to ensure the wiring can still look decent in the open case.
SO yeah -- -- it'll look real nice while mining.
http://www.cyberpowerpc.com/saved/1JT72Y
I wonder how long till you start considering paying $400 for an rx 470 off ebay.
wow, what started as an opportunity to cash in on greedy miners driving up gpu values as turned you into the very thing you were trying to take advantage of and it only took a day or two!
btw, I seriously doubt gpu mining will be viable in a year as both Nvidia and AMD are selling cheaper and more powerfull mining versions of these gpus which can only be bought in bulk. With the increasing mining difficulties already reducing incomes (nicehash calculator doesn't factor this) and with the massive gpu mining farms coming online in the next few months together will squeeze the last profits to be made by the gpu miner at home. Similar to what happened with bitcoin before.
. I now have a taste of it via my two Fury X cards and a 1080ti card at my house running the last couple days (started Monday night). This is the first time I ever tried it and I wanted to see what the fuss was about.Probably true.
Maybe still be worthwhile to get in while the getting is good.
My stats
https://new.nicehash.com/miner/19BtZuQUeV319VE1ZShNbfncWotadTvTKn
The taste?
It tastes like free money right now - to the order of $400-$500 a month. And I gotta tell you that taste is quite sweet.
Now I just gotta decide if I'm selling or keeping these six RX480 coming in the next week or two via these three systems.
Well I'm not yet. Payday is Saturday and I should get like $120? We'll see if it's real then after my first partial week of mining. That's just predicted payment now at current crypto value.
It's more than a "pretty good" value...