so can we make a complete list of all the video cards used for gpu mining 2016/2017? this should be a guide on which used video cards NOT to buy from miners who think they will resell gpu's they used and abused anywhere close to msrp.
Brands that Mining on invalidates warranty:
Inno3d
PNY
so far i have
RX570
RX580
RX560
RX470
RX480
ALL VEGA
GTX 1050
GTX 1060
GTX 1070
GTX 1080
did i miss any?
i would still pay 120 for an abused rx580 or higher. Just to btfo card manufacturers who are literally raping their customers
so
"works great"
as in fails every 3d benchmark and artifacts when you try to game on it?
or
"new open box"
my dick you just opened the boxes to check and insure the product was inside
ensure** don't get high and type on 4chinz
hey if it isnt as advertised you can get a refund i would rather that than get a 1050ti for 900 us dollars from newegg
so....
none of them
pic related
>tfw you get a 1080 right before the price hike
Card manufactures don't get to set the prices. Retailers have raised prices due to the high demand.
Nvidia does not want their consumer GPUs used for mining, because they correctly understand that the miners will dump their cards as soon as prices go back down, and gamers are their core audience (for the consumer cards).
I appreciate the valor of the gpu companies. If only RAM manufacturers were this cool.
201€ new in Europe. The fact that your shitty distributor quadrupled the price doesn't make barely working used card a good deal.
Every gaming card
>nd gamers are their core audience (for the consumer cards).
Amen brother. I got a new 1080 GTX asus strix for $500 delivered right around Christmas. Not one month later its like $700-$800 anywhere its not backordered.
I am kicking myself for not getting some of the amazon warehouse deal cards the week of christmas. There were evga 1080 classifieds going for like $430 + tax left and right.
I think nVidia is the cats meow as compared to ATI. ATi is blatantly pandering to crypto although money is money and I can't blame them either. As Adam Smith said "Anything is worth what the purchaser will pay for it". My friend works at a local Fry's and he was handling like 10+ calls a day when the next batch of Radeon cards were coming in. Not a single one asked for the price. He got shipment of 40 the night before, they were all sold within 15 minutes of store opening the next day.
>butthurt nocoiners
I already made back my initial investment on the GPUs and much more. Now I am just selling them off and it doesn't even matter how much I can get for them but I will still sell them close to MSRP anyway because desperado gaymen will pay top dollars to run their stupid kid's entertainment software on ultra LMAO.
You're gonna buy those card anyways, the crypto market couldn't be more bearish but the GPU prices keep going up and until Ethereum goes POS mining will be profitable.
>ATI
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Literally never had any issues finding a card. Idk why everyone is acting like there is an issue.
here's your list:
all of them
no reason to pay premium though, just buy locally and ask for a demonstration.
You retard miners use cards more carefully than returd gamers. You have to undervolt and underclock to get max profitability. A gpu running 24/7 at mild temps on 1v will last a help of a lot longer than a card going through repeated hot and cold cycles running at a flaming 1.2v. The solder alone will probably crack before any modules die because of the extreme temperature cycling
>never
We're taking about past 1-2 months, you bought a not overpriced GPU that recently?
And depends on your location, in some places there's less mining craze due to high electricity cost
Vega being a pile of shit and the ddr5 memory shortage made me buy a 1080.
Glad I did as well since nvidia's dragging its ass on their new arch.
>t. haven't bought a card in the last year
Friendly reminder that any
>mining cards are fine, nothing wrong with them
user is very likely a minerfag that will try and resell them in the future
I've seen people claim miners do and miners don't undervolt. I've seen claims clock speed does and doesn't influence mining. I've seen claims that buying a miner used GPU is and isn't a good decision and that it will and won't last long. All here on Sup Forums. What is the fucking truth already?
Because anecdotal evidence. Some people bought miner cards and they still work, while others bought cards on their last legs.
Speaking from my own experience, bought an ex-miner 280x about an year and a half ago, it died within 3 months. Make of that what you will.
Overclocking was done years ago when people still mined Bitcoin.
Today only the memory is overclocked. GPU core is underclocked by as much as 50%. Every miner does that because it saves a lot of power without losing any mining performance.
Virtually all video cards in the past two years and all the ones coming in the future can be used for cryptocurrency mining. Even almost all cpus that are quad core or higher can mine easily. At this point in time almost every video card and cpu you buy for mining will payback their cost in less than 6 months and if you are able to buy the hardware at retail cost or lower it might be possible to recover all your costs in one to three months. That is why people are willing to pay over 3 times the retail cost on a lot of the computer hardware to build a mining rig.
I bought a used GTX 680 for less than 50 dollars and in less than a month I recovered all expenses so anything after that less electricity is pure profit. This is a video card that is over 5 years old so even really old gpus can mine for a profit if you can get them at a decent price less the electricity and maintenance costs.
Where are you getting your cards? You can still pre-order GTX 1050 Ti for 180 to 300 dollars on several websites. If you happen to be in an Asian country, some of the retail stores still sell the GTX 1050 and 1060s for below 200 and 250 respectively
Only a GT 1030 X4 can save the master Race.
Where the fuck do you get a card for 180?
Vega vs 2x 580 vs 570
Is 8 gigs worth it to mine or is 4 fine?
The SM mall in Manila, Philippines on Edsa hwy has a few. Also craigslist in Nevada and California region some people are selling RX 560s and GTX 1050s for 200 or less if you can bargain for a trade. I got the GTX 1050 Ti for a hundred bucks and I gave him a gaming keyboard and mouse so my total was less than 150 actually. Currently trying to trade for a GTX 1060 that's quoted at 200 for 100 and a mechanical keyboard or an Astro30 or Sol V8 headset. There is a good chance I get the card for less than 180 and that's good for getting a chance at a GTX 1060 even if it is only a 3GB version. The people who are selling on craigslist have at least 5 or 6 but they usually don't want to sell unless you can meet them locally. They want cash.
i got a b-stock evga gtx1080 without tax for $449 with a 1 year warranty, around spring last year. Then alt coin mining blew up.
Why don’t one of you faggots write a program that can detect if a gpu has undergone strenuous usage or specific “mining” tasks.
I’m too much of a brainlet cause I don’t even know if thats possible.
I also failed my first semester of programming with python (just to validate my statement)
>solder cracking
What parallel dimension are you from?
Enjoy your Ponzi make believe pretendbucks.
There probably would be some warning signs as to whether a video card has been used extensively.
The branding and serial code on the card would indicate some date of production and initial location where the card would have been sold and distributed.
The deformity of capacitors and discoloration of areas around the heat sinks would be major indications of useful life duration dropping fast or already in the malfunctioning phase of a video card.
The examining of the bios and settings of the card whether under volted and overclocked would definitely indicate mining use.
Residual non-cleared cache from the card would give information as to what was the last program that ran on the video card.
Baked or melted PCB board circuitry would indicate that the card had already malfunctioned and that someone had actually baked the video card in an oven to restore the item back to life for a short time or unknown duration.
As to how long a video card has been used to mine? That's a tough question because there isn't an actual counter on the cards for specific use of the item.
If there was a GPU equivalent of SMART monitoring we would have already solved this issue
Dont forgettti all of the R9 GPUs as well.
I think they mine on GTX 980s and 980 Tis too
The only modern cards not mined on are GTX 970s(3.5gb aint enough) and GT 1030s
ITT people pretend to understand what causes wear & tear on GPUs.
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Someone bought my 7850 1gb today for mining purposes. Good luck to him.
honestly, without gamers nvidia would be dead considering they make up what 70~% of their profit, yet funny enough, all the money gamers pour in doesn't go toward better gaming cards.
nvidia will likely split the baby with the next card, putting in a chip on the consumer ones to kill mining, and selling a separate higher price card (from manufacture higher price, not retail) to miners specifically.
that way when mining crashes, the market isn't flooded with cards that force all gpu prices down, and you can roll mining cards into gaming cards and not loose to much value.
amd is better at number crunching, amd doesn't want to sell their cards to miners, and part of the reason they dont start supplying more cards or making a new marked up sku is because of how hard it bit them in the ass last time.
depends entirely on how well the cards handle thermals going 100% for months-years.
a good card wont feel it while a bad one would be on deaths door, not because of the chip inside it, but because of all the chips supporting it.
technically gpus should be able to go 24/7 without fail for the entirety of the warranty, but let's be honest, outside of mining and pro/server cards, they never use to go more than 12 hours a day.
>amd doesn't want to sell their cards to miners
Haha, no, miners are the ones who keep AMD afloat on the GPU market, the only reason they're not revamping their production is because is too dangerous to do so.
Mining hardware depends on the mining algorithm you intend to use the GPUs and CPUs for. The main reason miners are snapping up video cards with more than 4 GB of memory is to mine Ethereum as long as the coin uses the POW phase of mining.
Most other mineable coins use 4 GB or less so you don't need to get a lot of memory especially for the newer coins. When coins start requesting or needing to use more than 4GB that is when the cost of a card with more memory will be needed but to pay an extra 50 to over 300 dollars just to get 2 to 6 more GB isn't cost justifiable for mining purposes in a year's time since it will take much longer to recupe your expenses.
So decide what you want to mine then adjust what you buy to become more efficient and make a profit faster.
Lisa already said they are ramping up production and the only reason for delays is VRAM shortages
>yes, goy, let us spy on what your GPU has been up to
How damaged could be a ex mining card?
Sad news for many non-miners. I haven't found any video card released in the last 3 years that don't work with CryptoNight. Many older and weaker video cards have been able to use CryptoNight, Pascal, X11Gost, Sia, and Lbry.
Every video card I have tested has been able to use some type of mining program because some mining software doesn't even need a decent graphics card. Because of proof of work, stake, capacity, and burn there may seem to be a niche for any type of process to mine.
Just fuck off already, using gpus for mining is the future. A retarded niche use like gaming is dying and no one gives a shit about some whining bitch who cant play his shitty games.
>Wanted rx480 ref card because autism aesthetics
>Sold out everywhere
>Have to get gaymen strix version
>Got it for 249 off Amazon
>Not even 2 weeks later it doubled in price
I bought my 280x in 2013 for 290eur and just sold it last week to some desperate miner for 160eur lmao
Holy fuck
>tfw literally gave mine away to a friend who immediately did fuck all with it
Until you have USD in your account, that cryptocurrency means jack.
>hurr durr I have $X worth in muh bitcoin but I haven't sold it
obviously they can be used but the older cards have a way worse yield per watt
don't get me wrong, amd does not give one fuck who the card goes to, but they don't want to sell the gaming cards to miners with stupidly large productions because of what happened last time, everything fell through because of the coin market.
they want to fucking split the market
1 gpu for gamers so they get 100% of the sales there, 1 gpu for miners so they get 100% there too, and if mining folds, excess mining stock can be rolled into gaming, without taking the massive fuck off hit that amd took last time.
Odds are you are getting only somewhere between 6 months and a year out of it before it dies
Most miners have no idea what they are doing, you are better off buying a new rx560 versus an miner used 580
>built rig 2 years ago
>it would cost me exactly the same to build it again today
Oh what a world
I use my RX580 for mining and gaming. it does great in both.
>too dumb to cash out
>posts brainlet images
Classic
Well I got 60cad for it so nothing crazy. I already have a backup gpu that I'm using from selling my rx580 (gtx 670 2gb)
I bought a RX 480 on release day
1080 Ti, 1050 Ti, 1070 Ti
And they won't because literally every exchange gets """""""hacked"""""""