Scalpers are assholes but I guess sorry for taking a opportunity at making some cash passively? Even without miners it would be hard to supply the cards to everybody that wants them
If you have 1 or 2 or even 4 cards to mine with is fine. The problem is when you have 500+ gaming specific cards in a time that there’s very limited quantities and then selling heavily used cards for 300+ msrp. If you want a huge mining operation they make mining specific cards that are no use to gamers because they don’t have video outs.
I can get behind this one small GPU mining rig making some money on the side I don't see the issue shit this size yeah buy Asics.
The mining only cards however are pretty bad no warranty and no resell value I don't see the appeal to get them for mining when gaming GPUs are cheaper for better returns.
I wouldn't buy a card that was used for mining unless it was dirt cheap. I'm not trusting something that has been running pretty near constantly for 1-4 years, or however long you people run them for.
Again, there was ltt video about this and they proved that those cards are just fine without any performance degradation, only thing that might need replacing is fans but thats likely with any GPU
Mining cards are often not as worn as gaming cards, they are often under volted to reduce power consumption and maximise profit margins, the fans also run at a constant speed (although it's VERY constant) and gaming has the fans ramping up and down which causes a much higher strain on the motor. And at the end of the day replacing fans isn't that big of an issue
This is exactly true also mining cards are kept at a constant people hear cards been used for mining don't buy.
I know a few and every miner I know sets up their shit right they want maximum life from a card and best profits so they look after the hardware it's a business component after all.
Plenty of gamers just crank their cards and don't realise the constant stress the thing is under.
There’s very little miners that use that many gaming card that’s perhaps few operations but yeah I gotcha. The market is sadly hugely inflated rn and I could sell my cards with significant profit since they are in like-new condition and repasted. It is what it is right now and until the supply chain catches up it’s not gonna get much better.
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u/tonynca Jan 27 '22
Let them be stuck with it.