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Can I buy a GPU yet?
- have_faith 9y agoHow does it decide on a Yes or No?
- voltagex_ 9y agoIt's hardcoded - I decided I couldn't see prices coming down any time soon. If you've got a price API I can hit from JS, then I'll add something that checks if a 1080ti is above $1000. I really didn't expect this to get votes - I threw it together in 5 minutes!
- tmikaeld 9y agoI liked it, jokes are thin around here and this one hit the current trend! You should add in some value by pulling prices from somewhere.
- voltagex_ 9y agoIf you can point me to an API with CORS enabled I can probably do it in the morning.
- have_faith 9y agoSomething like CamelCamelCamel? don't know if they have an api
- Sir_Cmpwn 9y agoJust bought a GPU at a ridiculous markup. Sold my old one on eBay to make some of it back, but still had to spend way more money than I should have. Fuck cryptocurrencies.
- jlebrech 9y agoit's games console and ultrabook season. unfortunately.
- Robotbeat 9y agoCryptocurrencies: designed to be deflationary, but in reality lead to stagflation in GPU capabilities, crowding out useful applications of GPUs for high performance computing, deep learning, virtual reality, etc. Yay. Long-term might not be so bad, though, as it padded Nvidia and AMD's bottom line and thus might indirectly help them make better GPUs in the future.
- jnordwick 9y agoThere are some pretty horrible abuses of economic terms in crypto, but to talk about "stagflation" in a single tiny product class might be the worst I've seen this year.
- Robotbeat 9y agoAbuse of term as it's only applying to a small product class? Certainly. :) But I wasn't unclear, was I? Shorthand for prices going up without significant growth/improvement. We're used to the opposite in computer technology. It really is odd that price/performance has stagnated or even worsened for years.
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- carlmcqueen 9y agoClever, however their link to this chart I think ends as a net positive outcome for me: https://au.pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/video-card/ https://au.pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/video-card/
- Waterluvian 9y agoI was so frustrated when I came out of PC literacy retirement to upgrade and found that $300 doesn't get me much further than my old HD 7870 After this many years I was expecting 2-3x performance boost.
- lykr0n 9y ago$300 at MSRP will get you a lot, but with inflated prices an virtually no supply on the market; it sucks.
- abandonliberty 9y agoYes that should get you a gtx 1060 6gb, or 3gb if you really want the highest ROI.
- kjullien 9y agoI don't think you understand that guy's issue.
- SuddsMcDuff 9y agoWay to get your Bitcoin donation address on HN!
- voltagex_ 9y agoI was 50/50 on putting it there. I decided that putting a PayPal address would be more evil than this. I also didn't expect this to get anything other than downvotes.
- a13n 9y agoEh, with transaction fees as high as they are I doubt they'll get a single donation.
- voltagex_ 9y agoI shoulda used something else! Oh well, the .xyz domain only cost me ~5AUD
- Klathmon 9y agoTX fees are insanely low right now, the average transaction should cost about $0.80 USD worth of bitcoin (and closer to $0.40 USD worth if you use a segwit address).
- SuddsMcDuff 9y agoIt's all relative. "Insanely low" compared to a month ago, sure. They're still insanely high when compared to any other crytpcurrency, or Bitcoin itself before it was allowed to hit the block size cap.
- JepZ 9y agoI am not sure but it looks to me, like someone wants us to donate bitcoin to his address so he can buy a GPU. But so far nobody seems to have donated: https://blockexplorer.com/address/1HKsanBZFom6WL4cGDtKPF9NToVy8LtoSE https://blockexplorer.com/address/1HKsanBZFom6WL4cGDtKPF9NTo...
- zawerf 9y agoIf you can't beat them, join them. The current rates are like $4-5 per day for a gtx 1080/1080ti on nicehash. Super simple installation and you can set it to run whenever idle. https://www.nicehash.com/profitability-calculator https://www.nicehash.com/profitability-calculator Just think of it like a really slow but never ending rebate. And if enough people do it, we'll even have a chance of lowering the overall profitability.
- voltagex_ 9y agoI pay ~34C/kWh, last time I tried mining for NiceHash they got robbed.
- sharemywin 9y agoyou might want to at least login back in today they announce when you get refunded. I was out $800...I mean $700...I mean $500...$300 myself.
- Retric 9y agoYou lose ~1/2 of that paying for electricity.
- mavhc 9y agoand 10x that because you caused global warming
- dvfjsdhgfv 9y agoI believe this exactly is the thin line that delineates people who make the world a better place and those who don't really care and their aim is to just live a nice life. If anybody is wondering where all this global warming and pollution came from, it's just from that: you calculate the net result, you know what using that electricity means, but you choose to ignore that. Maybe you even rationalize that you contribution is too small to mean anything. When millions have that attitude, the whole Earth suffers.
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- blauditore 9y agoDoes anyone know a website showing good graphs about hardware price development? For example, I'd like to see how the price of a GTX 970 developed over the past year or so.
- ljf 9y agocamelcamelcamel.com tracks amazon prices if that is of use? EG: https://camelcamelcamel.com/Gigabyte-Geforce-GDDR5-Graphic-GV-N1050OC-2GD/product/B01MG0733A?active=summary https://camelcamelcamel.com/Gigabyte-Geforce-GDDR5-Graphic-G...
- noxToken 9y agoCamel Camel Camel[0] has good price history, but it's for Amazon products only. It's on a per product basis, so all of the individual variants will have their own graph. [0]: https://camelcamelcamel.com/search?sq=gtx+970 https://camelcamelcamel.com/search?sq=gtx+970
- lykr0n 9y agoPCPartPicker does price graphing. Gamer's Nexus also did an article on this.
- valine 9y agoThe price of a new GTX 1080 Ti on Newegg is $700 above Nvidia’s list price. I didn’t realize things were so bad.
- lykr0n 9y agoMiners are buying directly from the factory floor (for both GPUs and PSUs) or from a retailer the minute a shipment comes in. Fry's told me they have a list of people they call the minute a shipment comes in due to the demand. I'm guessing the price on Newegg is past what a miner would pay for a card.
- kjullien 9y agoVery true, most people who are serious about mining will have "contacts" within the factories, even their main subsidiaries in the countries they are based in (I know I get my stuff directly on order from AMD France for instance). But the bad thing is that most "mining" illiterate people who see the "potential" are just buying and buying with a ridiculous markup because they think it's a guaranteed lifetime revenue or something (poor souls). MSRP for RX 580 is ~250$, I payed 340E a piece directly from AMD about 2-3 weeks ago and online (Amazon, electronics stores etc) they go for minimum 400E now, if not more. So on a card that has a profit of ~2.5$ a day (at the moment) you get an ROI of a little more than 3 months. (with MSRP) With the price I paid 2-3 weeks ago you I will need about 5 and a half months. And the guys that buy at 100%+ markup will get their ROI in about 7-8 months. The thing is, by the end of the year (2018), ethereum (and the majority of people mine eth, with consumer graded GPUs at least) will switch from proof of work to a mix of that and proof of stake, apparently rendering eth mining non profitable/impossible with all that shiny hardware they bought, and they have no idea what they are getting themselves into... Basically in 8 months, with a lot of luck (without electricity costs so actually a little more, and praying the market doesn't crash) they will break even on their investment, they will be able to get pure profits for about 2-3 months before the next generation of GPUs come out and the switch of ethereum to PoS. I actually wonder how many people with little to no knowledge jump on the trend... Manufacturers have no real interest in selling exclusively to miners, so even if they do so, they know that giving 100% of their stock to one target demographic that doesn't actually do much for them is not a good thing. NVIDIA even issued a PSA not long ago to retailers of their product stating they should always prioritize "gamers" and not miners. So my guess is that 99% of this inflation of prices is due to a public that has done close to no research beforehand and are just in a "gold rush" mentality, but these guys are not miners, they wish real hard they were when they read posts about students on reddit making 5K a month and make stupid rushed decisions. If that's the case, eventually when they realise how bad for everyone it is to buy at that kind of markup, the hype will slowly die. Pretty sure it's going to be exactly like what happened with the cryptocurrency markets recently : very good performance in december, media coverage, hype train, everyone and their grandmother joins in and then the demand skyrockets, prices go up accordingly, then the correction arrives (obviously) and people cry they lost their 3rd mortgage on their house to cryptos... Not a single miner, especially not "big players" would buy at those markups when even at MSRP it can be hard to break even....
- Shinchy 9y agoThank god I bought a 1080ti when I did.
- mwest 9y agoNeed something similar for DRAM prices!
- kra34 9y agoI don't understand why the site isn't using React?