Made a lot of money lately in the cryptocurrency market and sane person is not compatible.
Made a lot of money lately in the cryptocurrency market and sane person is not compatible.
The 3060ti in my wife's box and my 3070 in my box have paid for themselves over the past year. I'm happy. However, with ETH finally set on going PoS mid summer I wouldn't be buying any card right now. If all things align, i.e. if ETH does go PoS mid summer, if Intel does come out with their dedicated card, and if nVidia/AMD come out with 40xx/7xxx series by the end of the year, the resulting collapse in prices is going to be legendary - it has potential to be as epic as picking up 290's/Fury's for half off MSRP 5 years ago. Personally I'm looking forward to ditching my 3070 in favor of AMD if only for deplorable nVidia tactics.
Hah! Funnily enough I just picked up T400 for $128 shipped from dell technologies. I needed a single slot low power card for my PLEX server however used P400 (and other P Quadros) prices were pretty ridiculous considering they're 5 years old at this point. I just decided to pay a bit extra and just get a brand new T400. I wouldn't be using it to game, but to my surprise it can actually game, I never would have thought it's be able to run RDRII at 1080p.
Estimates are ~+5% from what I've read. OFC, some games are RAM limited in 4K games in high quality video modes, so I suppose it will be worth it for those folks. Well, if they are single, or married making six figures
. One of my nephews is single, making around $70K and had no problem dropping $1700 on a RTX 3080 Ti (which was actually a good price at the time).
Obviously if your card dies you need to buy a replacement. I bought my 1070, because the 7990 before it died. But I really don't want my video card to die on me atm. I only game 2-4 h/week, but I nedd those hours
Obviously if your card dies you need to buy a replacement. I bought my 1070, because the 7990 before it died. But I really don't want my video card to die on me atm. I only game 2-4 h/week, but I nedd those hours
I did a bit of research on currently listed 3080 12GB models, and the ones I found were listed as LHR, so maybe not. I suspect a FHR 3080 would do largely better, but who knows how much "lighter" the hashrate is on these, compared to if they had no limiter. I guess we will have to wait till these are actually in people's rigs, to see what kind of ETH hashrate they do, and if/by how much the LHR is able to be bypassed.
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Well, unless they updated the limiter so you can no longer get 74% of the uncapped hashrate, these should end up being around 90MH/s when dialed in.
I don't know about prices dropping after Ethereum goes PoS, Intel comes out with their Arc line-up, and when the next-gen cards launch. It's not that I don't think it's possible; I just think that given the supply crunch we're in, there's a chance that the Arc cards will get priced at the same inflated price as its direct competition, and the faster, next-gen Nvidia and AMD cards will just have prices that slot above the current gen cards. In effect, the perf/$ needle doesn't move all that much. I hope you're right and I'm wrong here, so I guess we'll just have to wait and see.
That only applies to a small subset of cards such as P2000 which does not have 3 stream software limit. The card that I was looking at P400 is limited to 3 streams just like regular geforce cards. Between paying $80-100 for a 5 year old P400 and $128 for a brand new T400 I'd rather throw a little extra and get a new card.
I think the Intel cards will have a decent MSRP so if you're quick you may be able to pick one up for a decent, but they'll almost certainly be in short supply, so prices will creep up once Newegg and scalpers get their hands on them.
That's not even a Newegg tax, that's actual EVGA price. Even on EVGA's site the FTW3 is $1299 and the XC3 is $1249, $380 and $370 more than their respective 10GB versions.
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