What ever happened to all those "cheap" GPUs that people were mining with?
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What ever happened to all those "cheap" GPUs that people were mining with?
What ever happened to all those "cheap" GPUs that people were mining with?
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>I am 12 and what is ebay
i think he means the 30 series cards that were all gobbled up and were expected to sell 'cheap' on ebay, but ended up being sold above RRP for the most part. and the 'cheap' cards never eventuated. because 40 series continued to sell far above RRP
rx580s are still $150, brutal
sold for MSRP on Amazon :^)
spencer?
>starts raining
wouldn't do anything, rain has no salt in it to damage the electronics
Doesn't have to be salt. Look up the effects of acid rain.
>Look up the effects of acid rain.
no
there was a crt tv outside of my house for years and it still works after being in tons of thunderstorms and snow
There is a parts shop where I live which sells them kind of on the side. The prices are ~2/3 of normal used, but they can be totalled so you have to check in person.
>but they can be totalled
This sounds coutner productive for a business. Why won't they just check if the card works before offering it for sale?
I'm not sure how it works myself. The cards look like they come from some shitty warehouse where they sat for a year+. I guess they buy them in bulk and it's cheaper to have people come over to check them, than do it in the shop?
I got a 3070 for about $200, but it was in absolutely trashed. The copper pipes were blue for frick sake!
Works like a champ though after some TLC.
"Parts only"
>some TLC
Like what?
>scuttles away with GPU crumbs around mouth
H-how should I know, why do you ask?
heh
"Gpu-philiacs or mynocks, I'm not sure which is worse."
i'm the one with the mask
rain happened that day
bought by thirdies en masse from aliexpress despite knowing the gamble it is
t. thirdie
I got my 3070 for free so i guess right here
Cryptominer here.
After the market crash I threw my entire cluster in the trash because I fricking hate you gaymers.
>I hate le gaymers
>on 40chinler
you know what to do
>buys gpus instead of asics
>doesn't profit
>it's da geymers fault
>I threw my entire cluster in the trash
i know, thank you :^) i found them while dumpster diving, cleaned them up, repaired a few basic things, and built a ton of cheap gaming computers out of them and resold them for huge profit. that funded my massively overpowered current gaming rig.
That's what you get for infringing on gamer's freedom.
Found mine in the trash, works perfectly
"the market will regulate himself" - Andrew Ryan
>ends up dead
Strong argument.
They get sold on Ali now
After the cryptocurrency market downturn, many miners found it unsustainable to continue mining, leading to a significant drop in the demand for GPUs used in mining. Consequently, the market saw an influx of these GPUs, causing prices to plummet. This shift has made the second-hand GPU market a viable option for budget-conscious buyers. However, potential buyers are cautioned as these GPUs may have been subjected to constant use and could have wear and tear that affects their longevity and performance. While it’s a buyer’s market, it’s important to be aware of the risks and to thoroughly check the condition of any used GPU before purchasing.
>causing prices to plummet
Plummet? That's the word you chose to describe how much motherfrickers want for abused overheated trash?
There was a tiny dip in prices. Greedy greedy shitstains keeping prices ridiculously high. CrYpTO mInINg made me rich until I had to pay my electric bill
STUPID MOTHERFRICKERS
Crypto buying wasn't as massive as people make it out to be.
Even at the height of crypto, the total amount of GPUs sold was still a fraction of what they have been historically
eBay
There was also a brief price dip about a year ago where some cards went below their price floor or some specific models were available that aren’t as common now.
I got a zotac mini GTX 1080 for $140 that way. That variant is now a lot less common but the 1080 in general has settled around that price pretty stable.
You can get any old RX 580 for 60-80$ on eBay now too.
High end nvidia cards were not all that common for mining, they’re out there for sure, but the sheer numbers flooding the market and driving prices down are Polaris cards, rtx 2060’s, some Vega 56’s, etc.
I bought a used 3090 for under $750
Btw price jumped on 3090 after 4090 sanctions. Maybe the 40 supers pushed them back down.
3090 ti is about the same as a 4070 super which is a $600 card
I pay more because not American but still. Used 3090 is the cheapest way to get into 24GB VRAM. 4090 is 2.5x the price for a 1.5x perf boost.
not at all really, plenty of used last gen workstation cards have 24gb or more with way less cost. its a gaming card. and at that price it is inferior to a brand new 4000 series.
The old cards with 24GB are not compatible with many AI/ML libraries because they are missing features. They also don't come with a fan, you need to install one yourself.
They also don't have video output so you will have to use another GPU.
They sold all throughout Asia. We never saw them because shipping costs would never make it profitable to sell to the US market. The actual gpu makers need to reserve freight containers way in advance and ship in a huge amounts to keep the pricing reasonable.
People have been offloading NIB 3090s for years on eBay, do you live under a rock? Feels like the supply is drying up though as they change hands into AI tasks.
>People have been offloading NIB 3090s for years on eBay
At what price tho?
"Refurbised"
why was there a market crash? isn't bitcoin doing extremely well right now?
bitcoin is hard af to mine, you need to go ASIC to profit
for etherum they went with a different approach in were the richer can decide which transactions are fake and which are not
it was all a lie
there simply weren't that many gpus to begin with at all
The real at scale locations in China dumped them on the Chinese market.
I saw a lot of mining cards liquidated on craigslist or facebook but it certainly wasn't at the scale of a Chink farm.
powering russian drones lol
how?
and aren't their drones consumer grade like what you can find at Best Buy and what not?
They spent all their high-tech in no time at the beginning of the Ukraine war, now they fall back to consumer and out dated tech.
One of their drones was caught years ago, revealing that they switched to consumer gear with strapped-on Nikon cameras, lel
it feels like they never hit western market
A lot of the higher end 20 series are being modded with more memory by Chinese companies and sold as budget AI cards. I don't know about the 30 series, I think the bios is locked down on those preventing that. Who knows?
they all died