Quote from: lukem5 on June 18, 2018, 09:15:10 AM

Quote from: markiz73 on June 08, 2018, 04:47:39 PM

Asic is a piece of iron. It is expensive, on the secondary market is not in demand. As a rule, it's very dinny and consumes electricity. The profit falls very quickly, only those customers who will receive the first are the winners + problems with the guarantee.

The GPU has fewer problems and can be sold in the secondary market

The GPU is toast after a year of mining and NOBODY WILL WANT IT.

Gonna be a flood of used miner cards on ebay - people will soon learn they aren't worth shit for reliability! Any hardcore PC gamer knows gfx cards have a usage life depending on how hard you push em much like a car! cars with high miles = worth jack shit.

With gfx tech increasing rapidly right now fueld by crypto, you can bet that 1080/vega or whatever will be worth $60 in a year (+ shipping and ebay/paypal fees) so the resale price point doesn;t mean much.

I'd much rather have twice the production per unit of time/energy/$$ because lets be honet right now its about who can most the most the fastest speculating on a future price increase and known diffcullty scaling.

TLDR:

The asic miners blow gfx cards out of the water no doubt about it.

And this news of secret asic miners taking HUGE chunks of monero, zcash, etc, WTF?? crypto for the hobby gfx card miner is dead most just don't realize it (which fuels the at home gfx card hobby miner market).

Dear friend. In any business, you need to make investments in time and get out in time

I was very lucky, I invested at the right time. I'm against buying a video card on ebay or other international stores. Video cards purchased in the stores of the home city have a 3-year warranty (you can make 5 for a fee) and they are perfectly sold in the secondary market. 10% of my video cards were put under warranty because of breakdowns. There were no problems. The funny thing is that according to Russian laws the seller is obliged to issue a substitution for the period of repair of the video card. And while the seller was solving warranty issues, I mined on his video cards