Hardware The heck is going on with GPU sales?

[emmanu888]

They need to add an upcharge. More than 2 cards? You have to pay a 1.5k upcharge since more than 2 cards isn't good for SLI or Crossfire.

That's how they would know who's buying for gaming and who's buying for mining.

 

[FAST6191]

They need to add an upcharge. More than 2 cards? You have to pay a 1.5k upcharge since more than 2 cards isn't good for SLI or Crossfire.

That's how they would know who's buying for gaming and who's buying for mining.

That would assume I don't have more than one gaming grade rig, or an office that would benefit from such things.

Also if the rewards are what they are then I will go to my bank, get 50 of those one time fraud numbers, or similar amounts of gift cards/one time credit cards, a few PO boxes/a few friends and all of a sudden your stock of 100 gets purchased by me. If I am scalping an unknown variable that is a fair bit of effort, this is not that though.

 

[zoogie]

I think the drop has begun.

https://segmentnext.com/2018/02/06/cryptocurrency-miners-amd-vega-56/

Seedminer is going to bring it back up again!

jkjkjkjkjk

 

[the_randomizer]

I think the drop has begun.

https://segmentnext.com/2018/02/06/cryptocurrency-miners-amd-vega-56/

Good, serves those greedy bastards right.

Seedminer is going to bring it back up again!

jkjkjkjkjk

Ah screw them.

 

[TotalInsanity4]

Seedminer is going to bring it back up again!

jkjkjkjkjk

Are you going to start a seedcoin soon?

Actually that'd be kind of cool, use a simplified version of the 3ds' hash verification for transactions

 

[FAST6191]

Good, serves those greedy bastards right.

Why does trying to make a bit of money make you deserving of bad things?

 

[the_randomizer]

Why does trying to make a bit of money make you deserving of bad things?

What do you suggest we do when we have to replace our GPUs? Pay the exorbitant prices?

 

[Kioku]

What do you suggest we do when we have to replace our GPUs? Pay the exorbitant prices?

To be honest, with a bit of looking I've found new or lightly used GPUs for at or just above MSRP...

 

[the_randomizer]

To be honest, with a bit of looking I've found new or lightly used GPUs for at or just above MSRP...

I guess they're almost back to normal. The reason I'm concerned is I suspect the GPU I have is causing me a lot of strange issues on my PC, notably being responsibly for putting my monitor to sleep and not being able to wake it up unless I hard reboot the machine. I've tried three HDMI cables and even a DisplayPort cable and no dice.

 

[FAST6191]

What do you suggest we do when we have to replace our GPUs? Pay the exorbitant prices?

Not necessarily.
Why blame the miners though?

 

[the_randomizer]

Not necessarily.
Why blame the miners though?

I thought that's what drove the prices up in the first place.

 

[FAST6191]

I thought that's what drove the prices up in the first place.

Was it them or the GPU makers not making enough of them to meet demand?

 

[Futurdreamz]

Honestly I'd blame everyone involved with the bitcoin project. The whole proof-of-work thing means that the biggest supercomputer controls the market. And they limited the block size so small no wonder it has scaling issues. People aren't making money mining new coins, they are making money on the transaction fees.

 

[the_randomizer]

Was it them or the GPU makers not making enough of them to meet demand?

Well, it's odd that those price just so happened to go up the second the prices of the cryptocurrency went up. I thought there was a thread about this on here.

 

[FAST6191]

That's like saying "why not blame the scalpers"?

I fail to be able to draw an equivalence between miners and scalpers, not that I am especially bothered by scalpers either.

 

[Futurdreamz]

I fail to be able to draw an equivalence between miners and scalpers, not that I am especially bothered by scalpers either.

well there you go.