Quote from: Vann on July 02, 2017, 02:31:28 AM

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Things must be rough where you live if you consider $540 for a 1080 and $460 for a 1070 a great deal. You could buy two of the RX 470 4GB mining cards for $500 or the gaming RX 570 4GB cards for less than that, if you can find them and get roughly 20-30% more hashrate for the same price.

Nobody is selling the RX 470 mining cards for $250 - the NewEgg postings were mistakes, they don't even have the cards yet - and the rep I talked to was pretty sure they were NOT going to actually sell the things at MSRP or even close when they DO get them.

If you can get GTX 1070 at $400, GRAB THEM - that's bloody cheap at current pricing, and is the same ballpark they were in a month ago before the started getting impacted by the "mining caused GPU shortage".

Last time I checked NewEgg (yesterday), for example, the LOWEST they had a "in stock" GTX 1070 listed at was well over $500, and most were $600-$800 of the VERY FEW IN STOCK options they had at all.

BTW - they didn't have ANYTHING in an RX 470/480/570/580 for under $500 at all, and only 1 or 2 options under $600 - at current pricing the RX line has ZERO advantage in reaching ROI over the GTX 1070.

Trying to call those cards "$250 cards" is not valid and hasn't been for a month or two now.

The rep you spoke with is incorrect. The mining cards were in stock at Newegg and limited to one per person for $260 for the Samsung cards and $250 for the non-Samsung version. They are still listed on the website and you can sign up to be notified when they come back in stock.

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202291

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202283

This morning Newegg also had Nvidia 1070's for $399.99 and others at $429.99, limited to one per person. Several places have had the regular RX 570 4GB cards at less than $250 over the past week. You need to act fast because they sell out quick.

http://www.nowinstock.net/computers/videocards/amd/rx570/

these are 4gb cards. you can find 4gb anywhere. for mining, ideally would be 8gb at least. today i bought 16 evga 1080, i'll post later how they perform.
I noticed amazon sells 1080 cheaper than 1070. Suppose you find 1070 and 1080 at the same price, which one would you buy ?

That is not true. The Dag file won't be even close to 4GB until 2019 and the diffrence in hashrate between the the 4GB and 8GB is less than 1 MH/s. In fact two of the Powercolor Red Dragon RX 570 4GB cards that I bought for $190 each less than 3 weeks ago will do over 29 MH/s and I have 8GB cards that only do 28 MH/s. Just because you think it's a good deal to buy overpriced cards for the performance they have in mining compared to ther cards doesen't mean they are a good deal. The fact that you would buy 16 1080's without even knowing how they perform in mining only shows you don't have a clue.

And what if we are on dag 199 with those 4gb cards?
The 8gb versions don't seem effected but the 4gb's will hurt a lot.