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Block customers from buying more than 1 card a month, and only up to 2 at a time. There is a big difference between a guy who buys 5 cards every time a truck comes with new stock vs a guy who needs to upgrade once to play new games. But that in of itself would be a hard thing to keep track of fairly, but then again, this whole pricing for GPU's inst very fair in the first place.
Don't sully this PR move with your practical questions, just accept it.
The thing is, the big miners don't bother with the stores. They buy straight from the distributors.Originally Posted by Chachi123
Block customers from buying more than 1 card a month, and only up to 2 at a time. There is a big difference between a guy who buys 5 cards every time a truck comes with new stock vs a guy who needs to upgrade once to play new games. But that in of itself would be a hard thing to keep track of fairly, but then again, this whole pricing for GPU's inst very fair in the first place.
Did you see that post on reddit about the couple buying every Nvidia card above a GTX1050ti in the NY area? They had a picture of a crap load of GPUs, they said they had friends and family help them get past the 1-2 card limit per customer.Originally Posted by AlphaC
I don't know why retailers aren't instituting a one card per person/address policy unless it's a GTX 1080 Ti. There's "creative" ways to skirt around it such as going into the store multiple times or asking family members and friends to purchase graphics cards but at least it will alleviate the problem somewhat.
Most people will just upgrade their card; the amount of people that will opt for GTX 1070 / GTX 1070 Ti / GTX 1080 SLI is low and GTX 1060 and lower has no SLI ability.
They can't. But why won't they just make mining cards that have the GPU but no video out and aren't graphics cards? Is there no market for devices that are built like GPUs but only for mining? It would actually be cheap and smaller.
But they do make miner cardsQuote:Originally Posted by huzzug
And how are they going to differentiate between a miner and a gamer who wants to mine ?
They can't. But why won't they just make mining cards that have the GPU but no video out and aren't graphics cards? Is there no market for devices that are built like GPUs but only for mining? It would actually be cheap and smaller.
Apparently there's AntMiner, but most mining hardware is discontinued. Strange considering the potential. Maybe they're worried about Bitcoin crashing?
The good news is that about 18,000,000 out of a total 21,000,000 has been mined. That means there are only about 3 million bitcoins left to mine.
Cuz the same thing would happen. The bottleneck is that they can't manufacture the chips fast enough. The mining specific cards would sell out, and miners would be back to buying gaming gpus.Originally Posted by aweir
They can't. But why won't they just make mining cards that have the GPU but no video out and aren't graphics cards? Is there no market for devices that are built like GPUs but only for mining? It would actually be cheap and smaller. Apparently there's AntMiner, but most mining hardware is discontinued. Strange considering the potential. Maybe they're worried about Bitcoin crashing?
Mining cards simply will not be successful. The reason for buying a gaming or production card for mining is resale value, there is no value to mining specific card with no display outputs. I will not buy mining card for mining, but instead I will by a gaming card. Unless mining cards are significantly cheaper, which will not happen. I may as well buy an asic instead of mining card.Originally Posted by aweir
They can't. But why won't they just make mining cards that have the GPU but no video out and aren't graphics cards? Is there no market for devices that are built like GPUs but only for mining? It would actually be cheap and smaller.
Apparently there's AntMiner, but most mining hardware is discontinued. Strange considering the potential. Maybe they're worried about Bitcoin crashing?
Hi,
Hi,Originally Posted by AlphaC
I don't know, now the Microcenter policy is "BYO discount" if you build a whole system , aka GPU for MSRP.
It seems every GPU is double the price it is normally relative to MSRP.
EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti SC = $1370 , so about $685?
EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 SC = $1020 , so about $510?
EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti SC = $920 , so about $460?
EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 SuperClocked = $890 , so about $445?
EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 FTW 6GB = $630 , so about $315?
EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR5 SSC = $600 , so about $300?
Sapphire Technology Radeon NITRO+ RX 580 4GB = $650 , so about $325?
Sapphire Technology Radeon NITRO+ RX 570 4GB = $540 , so about $270?
While this is a PR move, actually selling to miners is bad for both nvidia and AMD.