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DrDork posted:If you're gonna do it, do it now before the market burns down any further. Plus the added excitement of possibly being robbed It appears I'm not the only one who had this idea, and there's a few listed in the 700's and also one at $460 that's been there for a few days. Probably not worth it. heated game moment fucked around with this message at 16:16 on Feb 2, 2018 |
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cool startup feel posted:Plus the added excitement of possibly being robbed Which is why you do the transaction at some nice public place. Like a coffee shop next to the police department or whatever.
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Feb 2, 2018 16:56
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DrDork posted:If you're gonna do it, do it now before the market burns down any further. Who is getting hit by all these return scams? I ended up flipping like 10 cards without even a complaint. Ebay doesn't seem to struggle to attract buyers either.
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Surprise Giraffe posted:Who is getting hit by all these return scams? I ended up flipping like 10 cards without even a complaint. Ebay doesn't seem to struggle to attract buyers either. I don't think anyone's really getting hit by the "179 day return" stuff people were worry-mongering about a bit earlier in the thread. But people absolutely have gotten nailed by <30 day returns when the bottom dropped out of the market and suddenly people figured their $700 card that's now selling for $300 was a bad purchase.
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Feb 2, 2018 17:11
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DrDork posted:Which is why you do the transaction at some nice public place. Like a coffee shop next to the police department or whatever. In my town, we have an actual online transaction meetup spot under surveillance at the police station. As Canadians we are dumb sometimes but this is actually pretty smart.
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Feb 2, 2018 18:52
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Why are the centrifugal fan/blower cards considered worse ? They don't seem to recirculate any of the warm air back into the case. Is it just a matter of them being noisy ?
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Feb 2, 2018 18:54
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They're loud and often don't keep a card as cool as a non-blower setup. The up side is that the air is dumped out of the case entirely. Depending on your case's airflow, this might be better overall.
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jonathan posted:In my town, we have an actual online transaction meetup spot under surveillance at the police station. As Canadians we are dumb sometimes but this is actually pretty smart. This is really cool. Is it official or just something everyone did enough times that the police decided to join in?
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Feb 2, 2018 18:59
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jonathan posted:Why are the centrifugal fan/blower cards considered worse ? They don't seem to recirculate any of the warm air back into the case. Is it just a matter of them being noisy ?
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buglord posted:This is really cool. Is it official or just something everyone did enough times that the police decided to join in? I don't know which town he's in but it's traditional in Vancouver to either meet in the parking lot of a police station or at a SkyTrain station (especially since there's transit police -- who are actually real law enforcement officers -- at all of them these days). I'm fairly certain there are craigslist meetup spots around the region now too. e: Ah yeah looks like the VPD at the least has basically said "please feel free to use our HQ parking lot as a craigslist meetup spot".
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buglord posted:This is really cool. Is it official or just something everyone did enough times that the police decided to join in? I think more police departments are starting to do this. My midwestern city has a few spots designated for online transactions in a couple of police station parking lots.
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So I think I'm just going to stick to being a generation behind. My 970 at 1080p is still amazing, and I picked it up for $160 off of craigslist one and a half years ago. There is nothing on the market it can't impressively run at this resolution. My enthusiasm about getting in the hype of the next gen's release has dampened a lot as a result which is sad cause that was one of my favorite hobbies.
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mr_gay_sex_fan posted:So I think I'm just going to stick to being a generation behind. My 970 at 1080p is still amazing, and I picked it up for $160 off of craigslist one and a half years ago. There is nothing on the market it can't impressively run at this resolution. My enthusiasm about getting in the hype of the next gen's release has dampened a lot as a result which is sad cause that was one of my favorite hobbies.
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Wind chills into the low teens tonight. Good thing I got a 390!
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A lot of cards are restocking today and staying in stock for almost 10 minutes. I think it indicates that the mining bots arent buying and gamers are. Hold out a week and GPUs might actually get within 20% of MSRP as demand is finally starting to get met
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Feb 2, 2018 22:49
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Smart move of Nvidia to crash the Bitcoin market two months before the Ampere announcement. 
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ufarn posted:Smart move of Nvidia to crash the Bitcoin market two months before the Ampere announcement. keep it crashed and I think most folks would be happy.
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I have to admit I was a big fan of blower cards back with my 780's. Dumping all that heat into my 3930K's case at the time would have been terrible but the blowers have gotten a ton better in recent years than they were prior to the 700 series for Nvidia at least. They redesign the cooler for the 690 and made it even better with the 780+ Series. Vapor Chamber and all. They are louder than some good AIO designs, but not incredibly so unless you really have everything else super quiet in your case. In SLI one of them is going to get louder since it has only the air that is getting heated by the card below it (usually causing it to be up to 10C hotter than the lowest card) but for the most part Temps are easy to keep at 70C or below unlike the old days. My 4870X2 back in the day with its blower had a hard time keeping below 80C on both cores stock, and when it was dying for the 3rd time, messing with some voltages got it up to 130C hah. Stable but man that was a silly number to look at at the time. My currently RMA'ed 980Ti only hits around 60C with the Strix cooler. It stays cool but my case temps do rise about 5-10C because of it. I feel if Nvidia drops the 1180 or I hold out for an 1180Ti, I may just go back to blowers directly from them on launch day. Since the days of waiting for GPU's to drop in price and have rebates/free games/whatever seem to be behind us for the moment... Right now I just wonder if I will be getting my 980Ti back before they announce or hell release their next gen. Asus support seems rather, sloppy and it took them 2 weeks to show that they got my card, and said my Serial # was different from the one I submitted, but the comparison # is identical soooo.... Yea. At the current rate I am stuck on my 560Ti or my lappy. Thank God for EVGA's SC17 being pretty dang badass and having a fantastic Christmas sale. And once you fix the touchpad drivers (Swapping from Synaptec's garbage driver to the Windows Precision driver) the thing is perfect.
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Newegg has some RX580s for less than a million dollars: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod...S0A&ignorebbr=1
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redeyes posted:Newegg has some RX580s for less than a million dollars: Wow I paid less than $200 for a 4gb before Christmas... it probably doesn’t help that Newegg is bundling with a PCIE riser.
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VulgarandStupid posted:Wow I paid less than $200 for a 4gb before Christmas... it probably doesn’t help that Newegg is bundling with a PCIE riser. Well that was a great deal for that card. I have a RX480 that ran $280 right after they came out. Didn't notice the riser though. Gah.
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Newegg.ca is listing 1070s for what I paid for a 1080 Ti six months ago. Jeeeeeeeesus.
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Kazinsal posted:Newegg.ca is listing 1070s for what I paid for a 1080 Ti six months ago. EVGA upped the MSRP of their cards too. Including for people who want to use Step Up which is kind of bullshit tbh. Part of the reason I bought my card was thinking I could get a reasonable price on an upgrade later if I wanted even if I had to wait due to the shortages. Then they bumped up the Step Up 1070Ti to $570 which is a dick move.
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I got a pny 1080 ti blower card from Newegg Canada. Was waiting for prices to drop but finally said gently caress it. Still waiting for Amazon to refund me 1100 on an ROG strix card that I got scammed on 2 weeks ago. Once the 1080 ti is too slow I'll upgrade to sli I guess.
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When Titan first came out I thought "who the gently caress would spend $1000 on a video card that would be obsolete in two years" and now I see 1080Tis come in stock for $850 and think "hmm not a bad price" Doesn't Nvidia usually take a bit before launching their mainstream lines when a new gen comes out? And usually follows their X80 card with a much better X80 Ti six months later? Going to be rough the next few months.
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The pny was 1350cad after tax and shipping lol.
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Getting the 1080 Ti founders edition off the Nvidia website when it was first released for $770 after taxes was a great deal looking back at it.
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GPU manufacturers: Instead of selling out of video cards at SRP the day they list, we just try to sell them at the huge markup like everyone else?
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Nobody can get any RAM to make cards and apparently there is demand regardless of what they price em at so UP UP UP for every measly batch they can crank out.
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Star Man posted:GPU manufacturers: Instead of selling out of video cards at SRP the day they list, we just try to sell them at the huge markup like everyone else? Jacking up MSRP mid-lifetime is a lovely move. Jacking it up when a new product line is released makes more sense from PR/marketing justification. GamersNexus and the hard tech sites will rip them for the margin above BOM cost, but that's not information that the average gamer sees.
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If and when this RAM shortage goes away, I have a feeling that these spiked video card and RAM prices are going to stay that way.
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mr_gay_sex_fan posted:So I think I'm just going to stick to being a generation behind. My 970 at 1080p is still amazing, and I picked it up for $160 off of craigslist one and a half years ago. There is nothing on the market it can't impressively run at this resolution. My enthusiasm about getting in the hype of the next gen's release has dampened a lot as a result which is sad cause that was one of my favorite hobbies. I've found my 970 is feeling a bit pushed at 1080p/60 - it takes quite a lot of dicking about with settings to get things looking good while still hitting 60fps.
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My 970 is generally good at 60fps, but since GPU prices are so stupid I got a gsync monitor instead. Fingers crossed that keeps things good enough till the next gen cards are out and easily available at MSRP.
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Star Man posted:If and when this RAM shortage goes away, I have a feeling that these spiked video card and RAM prices are going to stay that way. Maybe not, if AMD has to aggressively price cut for yet another generational flop. 
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I don't know how much I can blame the board partners for increasing prices at this point. Back when they set the MSRPs for their 10 series cards VRAM was way cheaper, they have been absorbing the loss in profit margin from the increased VRAM prices for a long time now, eventually they would be forced to increase prices no matter what. Plus it's not like many people are getting these cards at either the new or old MSRP anyway, the prices will be jacked up by retailers regardless of MSRP changes.
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Prediction: cryptocurrencies will take a deep dive by the end of March and people will be trying to recuperate their sunk costs into mining equipment and investment by selling their used video cards for higher than their original SRPs.
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isndl posted:Maybe not, if AMD has to aggressively price cut for yet another generational flop. Don't worry! In a few weeks time, AMD will have everyone mining on Threadripper! SwissArmyDruid posted:Speaking of buttcoins: Using Threadripper to mine.
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I don't have anyone reputable to cite, but I also heard that AMD has been pitching mining on Threadripper articles to anyone with a tech site. That does go along with their bitcoin pioneer initiative.
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Star Man posted:Prediction: cryptocurrencies will take a deep dive by the end of March and people will be trying to recuperate their sunk costs into mining equipment and investment by selling their used video cards for higher than their original SRPs. Mining already has taken a deep dive but I think as long as it earns even a dollar more a month than the electricity it costs, miners will refuse to sell their GPUs in large numbers. And I'm sure they will buy up as many Ampere as they can just because of the arms-race aspect. Here's hoping Ampere is somehow lovely at mining.
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