1050ti, or how does a 570 cost as much as a 1070. amd1600 box

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• Arglebargle Member EpicPosts: 3,481

  February 2018

  Explanation probably resides in the thread about crypto-currency miners causing gpu prices to go through the roof.   Glad I go a newer one  months ago.  Bad time for it, or so I hear.

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• Alumicard Member UncommonPosts: 388

  February 2018 edited February 2018

  Arglebargle said:

  Explanation probably resides in the thread about crypto-currency miners causing gpu prices to go through the roof.   Glad I go a newer one  months ago.  Bad time for it, or so I hear.

  I guess Im looking for a card that miners wont touch. Given that any gpu is bull for BTC (ASICs getting t/Hashes for a fraction of gpu cost)and eth needs 4gb+ I though 1060 3gb but, thats still 350 for whatever reason
  
• Quizzical Member LegendaryPosts: 25,499

  February 2018

  The problem is cryptocurrency miners buying all of the GPUs.  People with more money than sense have decided that the market value of a cryptocurrency called Ethereum should be worth more than all of the Canadian currency in circulation.  Ethereum is almost exclusively mined using GPUs, and for such a valuable GPU, spending literally billions of dollars buying GPUs in order to use them for Ethereum mining is profitable.
  
  AMD GPUs handle Ethereum mining better than Nvidia, so miners bid up the price of AMD GPUs more so than Nvidia.  The Radeon RX 570 that you mention is actually better at it than a GeForce GTX 1080, in spite of only being perhaps half as fast at games.
  
  If you really want to build a gaming rig today, you just have to accept that you're going to have to overpay for the GPU unless you can get it from some source inaccessible to miners who care more about buying up GPUs than you do.  For example, Micro Center will sell you one GPU at a more reasonable price in person if you also buy some other components there.
  
  Even if you're willing to overpay for the GPU, you'll tend to have to overpay more for an AMD GPU than for Nvidia because that's what the miners want.  Lower end discrete GPUs with only 2 GB of video memory may be an exception, as they can't do Ethereum mining.

  
• Vrika Member LegendaryPosts: 7,990

  February 2018 edited February 2018

  All good graphic cards are now really expensive because cryptocurrency miners are buying more than the manufacturers can produce.
  
  Either buy that GTX 1050 Ti, or look for some used graphic card that's as cheap as possible to use for some time until there are better graphic cards available at reasonable prices.

   
• Alumicard Member UncommonPosts: 388

  February 2018 edited February 2018

  Quizzical said:

  The problem is cryptocurrency miners buying all of the GPUs.  People with more money than sense have decided that the market value of a cryptocurrency called Ethereum should be worth more than all of the Canadian currency in circulation.  Ethereum is almost exclusively mined using GPUs, and for such a valuable GPU, spending literally billions of dollars buying GPUs in order to use them for Ethereum mining is profitable.
  
  AMD GPUs handle Ethereum mining better than Nvidia, so miners bid up the price of AMD GPUs more so than Nvidia.  The Radeon RX 570 that you mention is actually better at it than a GeForce GTX 1080, in spite of only being perhaps half as fast at games.
  
  If you really want to build a gaming rig today, you just have to accept that you're going to have to overpay for the GPU unless you can get it from some source inaccessible to miners who care more about buying up GPUs than you do.  For example, Micro Center will sell you one GPU at a more reasonable price in person if you also buy some other components there.
  
  Even if you're willing to overpay for the GPU, you'll tend to have to overpay more for an AMD GPU than for Nvidia because that's what the miners want.  Lower end discrete GPUs with only 2 GB of video memory may be an exception, as they can't do Ethereum mining.

  Atm Eth mining is at 4gb. Anything below that is like a titan x vs an AMD 290. wasted potential. Especially given the overall 30% value cut,
  
  *Either Lloyds or China blocking all exchanges
  
  edit. got to mention the Russian who bought 2! power plants to sell to crypto farms. Imho 10 years to late.