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Posted on 2/4/21 at 10:07 pm to
Posted by Dam Guide
Member since Sep 2005
16708 posts
Posted on 2/4/21 at 10:07 pm to
I won an opportunity to buy a 6800XT for 1100 from Newegg tonight, passed on it. I may buy a 3080 to put in another mining rig, I've made a good bit off my 3090.
Posted by Raz
Member since Oct 2006
8471 posts
Posted on 2/5/21 at 1:13 am to
I’m live with the zotac 3070 I picked up the other night. No uni fans yet so I have the case all opened up and I kicked the fan speeds up in firestorm to make sure it keeps cool in the mean time.

Need to get ram clocks up tomorrow too. They’re 3200mhz but bios showing 2133. Is it just as simple as turning on xmp?
Posted by bluebarracuda
Member since Oct 2011
19365 posts
Posted on 2/5/21 at 7:01 am to
quote:

Need to get ram clocks up tomorrow too. They’re 3200mhz but bios showing 2133. Is it just as simple as turning on xmp?


Yup
Posted by SpeedyNacho
Member since May 2014
2578 posts
Posted on 2/6/21 at 10:54 am to
I would have given you 1200$ plus shipping.
Posted by bluebarracuda
Member since Oct 2011
19365 posts
Posted on 2/6/21 at 11:34 am to
Cuz u dum
Posted by Dam Guide
Member since Sep 2005
16708 posts
Posted on 2/6/21 at 12:36 pm to
quote:

I would have given you 1200$ plus shipping.




Ah well, I would have just passed on the opportunity to buy it if I could have done that. Limited to my account.
Posted by Raz
Member since Oct 2006
8471 posts
Posted on 2/6/21 at 4:18 pm to
Can I mine with my gtx 970 now that I got my new rig up and running?
Posted by bluebarracuda
Member since Oct 2011
19365 posts
Posted on 2/6/21 at 4:19 pm to
Yea but you'll lose money
Posted by Raz
Member since Oct 2006
8471 posts
Posted on 2/6/21 at 4:23 pm to
Rip. What about mining with this 3070 when I'm not using it? Then eventually when I get a 3080, I could put it in the old machine to replace the 970.
Posted by bluebarracuda
Member since Oct 2011
19365 posts
Posted on 2/6/21 at 4:50 pm to
Posted by UltimateHog
Thailand
Member since Dec 2011
69403 posts
Posted on 2/6/21 at 4:58 pm to
Got damn I'm glad I got my 6800XT at $799 weeks before the big jump. That's insane.
Posted by bluebarracuda
Member since Oct 2011
19365 posts
Posted on 2/6/21 at 6:16 pm to
Yea frick you

The 3080 and 6800xt are non existent now
Posted by Raz
Member since Oct 2006
8471 posts
Posted on 2/7/21 at 8:11 pm to
Can you mine in the off hours or does it need to run all the time?
Posted by thunderbird1100
GSU Eagles fan
Member since Oct 2007
72204 posts
Posted on 2/8/21 at 8:15 am to
Mining has just destroyed the video card market for a while now, whenever the next crash/selloff is will be a great time to stock up on some GPUs.

After looking up more and more on mining, interested in maybe buying up a bunch of GPUs during the next selloff and setting up at least 1 dedicated mining rig for shits and giggles. Old roommate and I back in 2013 had a small rig (2 cards) setup mining dogecoin and litecoin. Getting a little more into it these days and almost feel like I should keep my 5700XT gaming rig on mining for the hell of it and make a few bucks every day in meantime.
Posted by SpeedyNacho
Member since May 2014
2578 posts
Posted on 2/8/21 at 2:10 pm to
Local guy has a new Red Devil 6800XT and asking 1450$. Trying to get it for 1200$ but hes not budging lol.
Posted by bluebarracuda
Member since Oct 2011
19365 posts
Posted on 2/8/21 at 2:41 pm to
Last place I would go for one of those cards in local... frick them. Plus you have more protection going through ebay

... But I ended up buying local too for my 3070
Posted by bluebarracuda
Member since Oct 2011
19365 posts
Posted on 2/9/21 at 10:38 am to
Best buy just had another drop for 30xx founders cards just now. Got in after 2 minutes and they were all already sold out
Posted by SpeedyNacho
Member since May 2014
2578 posts
Posted on 2/9/21 at 11:56 am to
Yeah i just struck out, tried every card imaginable! Got them in my cart for them to sellout by checkout.



Now I'm literally buying the same card UltimateHog bought for 750$ for 1300$. I hate it, but I'm tired of waiting. I was going to pay the scalpers 1750$ for an ASUS ROG 6800XT, this seems like a nice compromise.


ETA: I wouldnt do it, but kid has the receipt, and waited at microcenter from 4am-10am just for it to not fit his build.
This post was edited on 2/9/21 at 11:58 am
Posted by Dam Guide
Member since Sep 2005
16708 posts
Posted on 2/9/21 at 12:07 pm to
I think the bots figured out how to get all the supply from BB now. I added to cart immediately before the bot trackers sent out notifications expecting a drop today and didn't get shite.
This post was edited on 2/9/21 at 12:08 pm
Posted by boXerrumble
Member since Sep 2011
54363 posts
Posted on 2/9/21 at 12:38 pm to
Yeah I tried today for the hell of it, and in the past it allowed me to add it to the cart but have to stay on the wait page.

Today everything was fricking gone in 2 seconds
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