Current Hardware market

[Flex]

If you have not noticed how crazy the current hardware market is, then I have no idea where you have been!!
This includes especially GPUs, PSUs and now ever CPUs.

The stock is running dry, with backlogs as far as the eye can see!
Now this is causing the second hand market to go crazy! People asking 10K for a card that was 3K new... and people are actually buying them.

Who of you have actually bought hardware to mine with, and who of you purely game and wanted to upgrade and now won't be able to.

Most gamers are furious while other people are capitalizing and making a few quick bucks.

 

[B1nary]

yup seen this first hand recently as my housemate wanted to upgrade his GPU for gaming , I have been thinking of doing the same guess I will have to wait, whats going to be interesting to see is when all the people who jumped on the hype train realize they are not becoming overnight millionaires, will the second hand market flood... I hope so..

 

[Flex]

yup seen this first hand recently as my housemate wanted to upgrade his GPU for gaming , I have been thinking of doing the same guess I will have to wait, whats going to be interesting to see is when all the people who jumped on the hype train realize they are not becoming overnight millionaires, will the second hand market flood... I hope so..

People that payed 10K+ for a 480 4gb are going to hurt. But I reckon that won't happen anytime soon hey

 

[Blazzok]

Yep. I have a look at Carb every now and then, it is crazy. No one has stock of any midrange GPU's, and I see even the higher end GPU's are starting to go out of stock.

I just want a normal priced 1060 dammit!

 

[Flex]

PSUs are affected? :wtf: *Prays to the PSU gods not to take my beloved beQuiet from me* Seriously, if my beQuiet had to die I would pay a premium to buy/ import a new one. Best PSU I have ever owned!



I purely game and I was hoping to upgrade to Vega when it launched, sadly given the current state of things such an upgrade is looking more and more like a pipe dream now. Hopefully I'll be able to secure a pre-order for one through Amazon when they are finally announced or I may just end up being forced to stick with my Fury X and wait for Navi if things don't improve.

Luckily my Ryzen upgrade unlocked additional performance in my card that was previously bottlenecked by my FX8350. Games are also slowly starting to receive optimizations for Ryzen which further improves things. So I'm not too bad off if I can't get a card at launch, it's the people who have nothing or components far older and are completely unable to upgrade who I feel sorry for.

Yeah, people using 2 x 1000/1200W power supplies in their mining rigs.

Why get Vega when you are going to use it for gaming ? Not read up much on it i presume?
It will not be for the gaming market at all

 

[Flex]

Okay, well that is overkill for me anyway. I'm currently using a 750W which is plenty for my needs.



I am waiting for the gaming version of Vega because I don't want to lose out on FreeSync support in my current monitor. What is coming out in the next month or so is the Frontier Edition of Vega which is geared towards digital content creation and data scientists. The gaming version should not only be a cheaper card but it's been confirmed that it will be faster than the Frontier Edition and be better optimised for gaming.[SUP][1][2][/SUP]

All Frontier means it is like Nvidias Founders edition. Still exact same architecture.
Vega architecture is not aimed at gaming and will be much more expensive than what people think.

 

[Ser_Bunnylot]

There's always been a case for importing your own hardware, and it seems like I might even consider it for the next upgrades - depending where this goes.

It's a very interesting situation though - is it happening overseas as well? I imagine because of SA's isolation this is a pretty unique situation?

 

[Flex]

There's always been a case for importing your own hardware, and it seems like I might even consider it for the next upgrades - depending where this goes.

It's a very interesting situation though - is it happening overseas as well? I imagine because of SA's isolation this is a pretty unique situation?

WORD WIDE!
Even amazon is out of stock of RX, 1060 and 1070 cards as far as I know

 

[Xiphan]

All Frontier means it is like Nvidias Founders edition. Still exact same architecture.
Vega architecture is not aimed at gaming and will be much more expensive than what people think.

Even if the arch is the same it would be akin to the Founder's Edition launching with Quadro drivers; gaming performance simply would not be as good as it could be. While they have shown impressive benchmarks of games running on the Frontier Edition I will rather wait for the consumer version than buy a workstation card. Even Raja Koduri himself confirmed during the RTG AMA that the Frontier Edition was not meant for gaming and that there would be better optmised and faster versions of RX Vega:

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[Flex]

Even if the arch is the same it would be akin to the Founder's Edition launching with Quadro drivers; gaming performance simply would not be as good as it could be. While they have shown impressive benchmarks of games running on the Frontier Edition I will rather wait for the consumer version than buy a workstation card. Even Raja Koduri himself confirmed during the RTG AMA that the Frontier Edition was not meant for gaming and that there would be better optmised and faster versions of RX Vega:

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Yeah, but I would not count on it being a 1080ti equivalent for gaming. Might have slightly higher clocks, but architecture being the same there is only so much they can do. I still reckon that the whole Vega range will be for video editing and rendering primarily. Don't get me wrong, they will still be able to play games. But this is ALL speculation from EVERYONE at this stage