I'm pretty sure I introduced it as "a stupid question".
But also, riddle me this. Why is it applicable to RTX and not RX cards? Purely mining driven by a select few ching chong ding dong in Taiwan/ Hawng Kawng?
Seems like financial suicide...because if Palit or Zotac (or any other brand) decide not to follow suit, then lol... easy sales heading their way. Makes fuckall sense to force consumers into a console-like transaction (whole thing or no thing) when all you want is a component. They will choose with their wallets..
That's fine, for now. But when R4k or R8k grows to R15k+ difference (for a whole computer), this decision gets all the more confusing, to the point of just being plain stupid.
So they go from "shit we dont have stock of GPUs to give the people" to "fuckit, lets force them to buy all our excess hardware if they want the few GPUs we do have".
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You don't wanna knowWhat is this price if I may ask... Pissed off AMD user here
It's them damn miners again. lolRIP industry
Distributors like Asus are doing the best they can to prevent people from buying hundreds of gpu's at a time I reckon.Good.
PS: Fuck all you miners that have distributor accounts when you aren't even resellers, scalping up cards before they even land.
Many may complain but ASUS is doing a good thing. Here's to hoping Gigabyte and MSI follows suite at least until this craze blows over.
Well at the rate my pc is going I will be able to build a new pc just with all the 'replacement' parts I am having to get to try and find the cause of my issues, so who knows, just getting a different gpu might be cheaperYou don't wanna know
I will admit that I did whip out the measuring tape. Alas your sloppy seconds will not fit in my build.Well at the rate my pc is going I will be able to build a new pc just with all the 'replacement' parts I am having to get to try and find the cause of my issues, so who knows, just getting a different gpu might be cheaper
why? just coz all my parts are black and not white?I will admit that I did whip out the measuring tape. Alas your sloppy seconds will not fit in my build.
Nope, you have too much length, will hit the front mounted radiator. I already moved the rad inside, fans outside and it still has a hard limit about 310mm. By chaning orientation that could possibly extend a further 10-15mm.why? just coz all my parts are black and not white?
Well that would be a firstNope, you have too much length,
From what I have seen some mining cards end up looking like (especially from people who live by the sea) this might actually end up looking less damaged if you mined with them like this.
Isn't 2 GPU's a bundle dealDistributors like Asus are doing the best they can to prevent people from buying hundreds of gpu's at a time I reckon.
Most stock for the next 6 months or more is already 'booked' according to @SILTECH786 so this is pretty much the only way they can try and curb this.
But what of the oke wanting to run SLI or people who needs a bunch of GPU's for rendering, so they gotta buy a board for each gpu.
Makes things quite a bit more expensive, but also helps with moving stock on lower end boards, so some good, some bad.
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Woot just posted a strix for R27,299. It's ludicrous
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They are literally upping the price of the cards every time they get new stock, yesterday this was live and R500 cheaper, am sure before that it was cheaper. Current price is R25,999.00 for those clicking on it by the time it is yet again bought up.
So just like Woot pumping the price of my MERC319 Black from 22500 to R26k in 2 weeks?Wootware has stock of EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 FTW3 Ultra Gaming 10G-P5-3897-KR 10GB GDDR6X 320-bit PCI-E 4.0 Desktop Graphics Card - Wootware
They are literally upping the price of the cards every time they get new stock, yesterday this was live and R500 cheaper, am sure before that it was cheaper. Current price is R25,999.00 for those clicking on it by the time it is yet again bought up.
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Woot just posted a strix for R27,299. It's ludicrous
This is from ASUS, not from NVIDIA. NVIDIA has been selling directly to miners and scalpers, they literally could not care less.All of that added together with limited supply and the sudden scalping craze and bad pr on supply, you got pressure from nvidia on aib partners to fix the distribution chain to try mitigate against scalper web bots and backdoor mining sales.
Forcing someone to buy a R 300 DVD writer is hardly going to make a difference to someone spending R 20,000+ on a card. This is moving dead stock, plain and simple.So one of the easiest options, which is also a win-win on revenue movement, is to force bundles as scalpers and miners should not have an interest in buying, as there is much less consumer demand on pc parts for scalpers to profit consistently on, and miners have no use for extra parts for their mining operations, lots of other industries apply this practice to contain demand and move stock.
There are no partnerships. An ASUS graphics card with an ASUS component only. It makes ZERO difference in ASUS' lives whether you buy a Kingston SSD or an Intel CPU. What you're suggesting is borderline the end of the DIY market, as you'll be forced to buy certain combos. Maybe they could take it a step further and make you buy everything from the processor to the case as a combo. They could call themselves Dell or something.The other reason for bundles is that there is data indicating high consumer demand for other pc parts (but not enough for scalpers to run low risk operations on buying, graphics cards can be sold to gamers or miners, but cpus are only wanted by gamers and at a much lower volume), outside of sa there is currently a very high shortage on zen 3 chips available. Depending on what the partners are paring inside the bundles, bundling might also provide consumers a win-win situation on getting a working pc together in one go. Lastly bundling gives partners an opportunity to gain profit by enticing other component manufacturers like intel or kingston to partner together to push each others items on shared cost. Therefore even if some partners do not bundle, the sheer demand and circumstantial data indicates that bundle items will still be bought by a considerable number of consumers which provides board partners improved profit, and the constrained supply means unbundled partners will not be able to monopolize market share, depending on the cost/sales analysis and market share/popularity, choosing to not bundle is choosing to have less profit, which for-profit companies seldom choose to do.
Nobody is buying 100s of GPUs at a time, at least not in SA. It's not for lack of buying power, but rather shipments being as small as 5 cards at a time.Distributors like Asus are doing the best they can to prevent people from buying hundreds of gpu's at a time I reckon.
Most stock for the next 6 months or more is already 'booked' according to @SILTECH786 so this is pretty much the only way they can try and curb this.
But what of the oke wanting to run SLI or people who needs a bunch of GPU's for rendering, so they gotta buy a board for each gpu.
Makes things quite a bit more expensive, but also helps with moving stock on lower end boards, so some good, some bad.
LOL, no.Isn't 2 GPU's a bundle deal
That's not a scapler. It doesn't say "Sold by XYZ." That's Takealot.Takealot
www.takealot.com
Scalpers are trying their luck on Takealot
R 20,999 at the end of last year from a screen grab @SILTECH786 sent me.Wootware has stock of EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 FTW3 Ultra Gaming 10G-P5-3897-KR 10GB GDDR6X 320-bit PCI-E 4.0 Desktop Graphics Card - Wootware
They are literally upping the price of the cards every time they get new stock, yesterday this was live and R500 cheaper, am sure before that it was cheaper. Current price is R25,999.00 for those clicking on it by the time it is yet again bought up.
I take it the driver limit has already been implemented? Sure miners already have coders working on a solution, many mine on Linux, which you could get open source drivers for... Won't be long till they are mining at full throttle.evetech sold out on 3060 strix for R15k, card can't even mine atm, tuf was 14500 also sold out.
Yeah this is a problem ey... Dick move though.Good.
PS: Fuck all you miners that have distributor accounts when you aren't even resellers, scalping up cards before they even land.
Many may complain but ASUS is doing a good thing. Here's to hoping Gigabyte and MSI follows suite at least until this craze blows over.
Not for a lack of trying though... wasn't there a post earlier of a guy wanting like 150 gpu's or something...Nobody is buying 100s of GPUs at a time, at least not in SA. It's not for lack of buying power, but rather shipments being as small as 5 cards at a time.
I had a customer who wanted 1,000x 3060 Ti, but he wanted them within 2 weeks. 150 is small fryNot for a lack of trying though... wasn't there a post earlier of a guy wanting like 150 gpu's or something...
point is, if they could, they definitely would, and Asus limiting stock in this way, at least hampers them slightly..
I offered a few people RX 6800 XTs yesterday. Not. One. Person. Interested.