I wonder how many mining cards will be sold through the likes like EBAY. I wouldn't want an old mining card - too much used up already - and I doubt ( but don't actually know ) if anyone else will be still building 3080's.
Any competent miner optimized for energy efficiency meaning they run at 50% to 80% of max power. They do run 24x7 so that's a negative.
Gamers are the ones that destroy GPUs. Never buy a used gaming GPU. They hack the VBIOS, overvolt, overclock and overpower. A recipe for destruction.
I am still seeing a lot of evga GPU buying and selling on eBay.
The evga rtx 3080 ti is producing very nicely on e@h.
So like Windows 7. Evga gpus will never die....
(giggling)
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I recently replaced a Gigabyte RTX 2080 Super under warranty and Gigabyte sent an RTX 3070 as they did not have any replacement 2080s
I asked about the eVga problem and got this reply from support:
Dear Customer,
I cannot divulge EVGA’s situation but I can re-assure you that Gigabyte at this moment in time does not have any plans to stop working with Nvidia or AMD.
The following is old news but worth repeating
Han also told GamersNexus that Nvidia regularly mistreated the company — despite it holding 40% of the North American market share of Nvidia cards — by keeping it in the dark on prices until the last minute. Nvidia would also regularly undercut its partners like EVGA by selling its own first-party branded cards
I recall Nvidia used to provide chipsets for motherboard "nforce" but not any more. Their GPUs are built into laptops for Dell and others, I assume they make better margins doing that and selling their own line of video boards.
Maybe eVga wants to be bought out. I understand the cards are made in the PRC and eVga may change the heatsink or add a backplane after taking delivery. Maybe the COVID, economic problems in PRC. and being undercut by Nvidia simply are too much.
For what it is worth, the only "Nvidia" card I ever bought had the fan labeled "Nvidia" but the card was a fake. I managed to get a refund from the eBay seller.
From a reputation POV who is the 2nd best Nvidia brand GPU maker after EVGA?
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GWGeorge007 wrote:I wonder
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Any competent miner optimized for energy efficiency meaning they run at 50% to 80% of max power. They do run 24x7 so that's a negative.
Gamers are the ones that destroy GPUs. Never buy a used gaming GPU. They hack the VBIOS, overvolt, overclock and overpower. A recipe for destruction.
I am still seeing a lot of
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I am still seeing a lot of evga GPU buying and selling on eBay.
The evga rtx 3080 ti is producing very nicely on e@h.
So like Windows 7. Evga gpus will never die....
(giggling)
A Proud member of the O.F.A. (Old Farts Association). Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.® (Garrison Keillor) I want some more patience. RIGHT NOW!
Tom M wrote: I am still
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China will just rebuild them anyway
I recently replaced a
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I recently replaced a Gigabyte RTX 2080 Super under warranty and Gigabyte sent an RTX 3070 as they did not have any replacement 2080s
I asked about the eVga problem and got this reply from support:
The following is old news but worth repeating
I recall Nvidia used to provide chipsets for motherboard "nforce" but not any more. Their GPUs are built into laptops for Dell and others, I assume they make better margins doing that and selling their own line of video boards.
Maybe eVga wants to be bought out. I understand the cards are made in the PRC and eVga may change the heatsink or add a backplane after taking delivery. Maybe the COVID, economic problems in PRC. and being undercut by Nvidia simply are too much.
For what it is worth, the only "Nvidia" card I ever bought had the fan labeled "Nvidia" but the card was a fake. I managed to get a refund from the eBay seller.
From a reputation POV who is
)
From a reputation POV who is the 2nd best Nvidia brand GPU maker after EVGA?
A Proud member of the O.F.A. (Old Farts Association). Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.® (Garrison Keillor) I want some more patience. RIGHT NOW!
Tom M wrote: From a
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Maybe ASUS
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