_GATOR_ Posted January 5, 2018 Member ID: 26584 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 3 Topic Count: 12 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 313 Content Per Day: 0.12 Reputation: 448 Achievement Points: 2380 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 2 Joined: 12/06/17 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 13, 2021 Birthday: 08/07/1969 Posted January 5, 2018 Hey all. I am looking to upgrade my video card, and was wondering what others are using. I have not had to do this in awhile, so I'm kind of out of the loop. Awards
tsw 8.5 Posted January 5, 2018 Member ID: 906 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 144 Topic Count: 537 Topics Per Day: 0.10 Content Count: 17544 Content Per Day: 3.12 Reputation: 42645 Achievement Points: 151942 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 691 Joined: 12/20/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 23 hours ago Birthday: 11/30/1960 Device: Windows Posted January 5, 2018 how much $. and what kind.then we can go from there .. Awards
_GATOR_ Posted January 5, 2018 Member ID: 26584 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 3 Topic Count: 12 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 313 Content Per Day: 0.12 Reputation: 448 Achievement Points: 2380 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 2 Joined: 12/06/17 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 13, 2021 Birthday: 08/07/1969 Author Posted January 5, 2018 I don't mind the idea of something around $200. That might be too cheap. Awards
Sammy Posted January 5, 2018 Member ID: 3036 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 32 Topic Count: 219 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 9419 Content Per Day: 1.92 Reputation: 7515 Achievement Points: 62539 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 21 Joined: 11/29/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 17 Birthday: 04/26/2008 Device: Windows Posted January 5, 2018 From what I read the higher end cards are all pricey because of the bitcoin miners buying them all. Awards
7Toes Posted January 5, 2018 Member ID: 87 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 58 Topic Count: 98 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 3789 Content Per Day: 0.66 Reputation: 3589 Achievement Points: 27251 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 18, 2022 Birthday: 04/02/1871 Posted January 5, 2018 first off you need to know your motherboard specs and what it can handle also your power supply plays a big part as in watts?then you go from there! KicknDatAzz, JohnnyDos and KaptCrunch 3 Awards
J3st3r Posted January 5, 2018 Member ID: 2162 Group: ++ COD4 Admin Followers: 153 Topic Count: 152 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 5223 Content Per Day: 1.00 Reputation: 5172 Achievement Points: 45913 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 24 Joined: 01/25/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: 59 minutes ago Birthday: 02/26/1972 Device: Windows Posted January 5, 2018 (edited) You will not find anything worth a crap for under $300-$350 unless it's a used card or a very low end card. You can Blame the Cryptocurrency miners for that shit. I've read that Video card manufacturers are quite angry because of how the retailers are jacking up prices to ridicules proportions to offset the demand for hi to mid range cards. Quick example of what I'm talking about. The GTX Titan is 5 years old now and Newegg is selling Refirbished cards for $995 + shipping. My R9 290X reference card is worth + $150-$175 more now USED on Ebay than I paid for it NEW 4 1/2 years ago. It's Very power hungry and runs Hot and the single blower fan sounds like a Jet plane. Ask people what my fans sound like In-game lol. Wish I could afford something decent but I can't afford to pay $550-$650+ for a mid range gtx 1070 ti card that's normally priced around $350-$400. Looks like prices are still going up. Looked through this 3 weeks ago when I considered getting a new card and prices are Way up from just a couple weeks ago. https://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&IsNodeId=1&N=100007709 601202919 601305993 Edited January 5, 2018 by J3st3rXI Awards
Angelz Posted January 5, 2018 Member ID: 24295 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 11 Topic Count: 272 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 2311 Content Per Day: 0.69 Reputation: 2829 Achievement Points: 20239 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 17 Joined: 03/27/16 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 2, 2021 Posted January 5, 2018 49 minutes ago, J3st3rXI said: You will not find anything worth a crap for under $300-$350 unless it's a used card or a very low end card. You can Blame the Cryptocurrency miners for that shit. I've read that Video card manufacturers are quite angry because of how the retailers are jacking up prices to ridicules proportions to offset the demand for hi to mid range cards. Quick example of what I'm talking about. The GTX Titan is 5 years old now and Newegg is selling Refirbished cards for $995 + shipping. That is insane. I went to my local pc stores website and was shocked to see the prices of the vid cards. I do not blame the manufacturers for being angry. I will never pay a price like that for a pc part like that. Glad I got my new pc before the prices jacked up like that....GULL DANG!!! KicknDatAzz 1
Sammy Posted January 5, 2018 Member ID: 3036 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 32 Topic Count: 219 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 9419 Content Per Day: 1.92 Reputation: 7515 Achievement Points: 62539 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 21 Joined: 11/29/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 17 Birthday: 04/26/2008 Device: Windows Posted January 5, 2018 Well, we can all hope things will ease when the bitcoin craze wears thin after it crashes. Nothing is immune to such things. I suspect the gaming industry isnt too happy either. All those high end games need high end cards. When nobody can afford them the developers get to hear how their games suck because of frame rate blah blah blah. They dont like that. I need to get a new card one of these days but not at those prices. Awards
L!ckALotAPus Posted January 5, 2018 Member ID: 21216 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 20 Topic Count: 33 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1695 Content Per Day: 0.43 Reputation: 1732 Achievement Points: 15803 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 07/15/14 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 8, 2020 Birthday: 02/09/1966 Posted January 5, 2018 https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150774 I got this card new for $220 with a $30 mail in rebate and a $20 online store instant rebate final was like $189.98 for an 8 gig card
NostradewmusXI Posted January 5, 2018 Member ID: 47 Group: +++ Minecraft Head Admin Followers: 13 Topic Count: 123 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 664 Content Per Day: 0.12 Reputation: 469 Achievement Points: 5354 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 2 Birthday: 10/13/1983 Device: Android Posted January 5, 2018 I just upgraded to a MSI gtx 1050ti and i love it. My two 6970's that ive been running for 8 years finally couldnt keep up. this new card was 175 and i can play codww2 all turned up. Awards
KicknDatAzz Posted January 5, 2018 Member ID: 833 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 41 Topic Count: 49 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 769 Content Per Day: 0.14 Reputation: 598 Achievement Points: 5724 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 1 Device: Windows Posted January 5, 2018 10 hours ago, L!ckALotAPus said: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150774 I got this card new for $220 with a $30 mail in rebate and a $20 online store instant rebate final was like $189.98 for an 8 gig card and 10 hours later - OUT OF STOCK lol L!ckALotAPus 1 Awards
J3st3r Posted January 5, 2018 Member ID: 2162 Group: ++ COD4 Admin Followers: 153 Topic Count: 152 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 5223 Content Per Day: 1.00 Reputation: 5172 Achievement Points: 45913 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 24 Joined: 01/25/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: 59 minutes ago Birthday: 02/26/1972 Device: Windows Posted January 5, 2018 10 hours ago, L!ckALotAPus said: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150774 I got this card new for $220 with a $30 mail in rebate and a $20 online store instant rebate final was like $189.98 for an 8 gig card That card is out of stock. It's one of the ones Bitcoin farmers use because of the 8gb memory VS the stock 4gb cards. Accually it's hard to find the 4gb cards now for under $350. The RX 580 8gb cards are becoming extinct as we speak. Newegg only has a couple left and the rest are out of stock. This is a decent card if you can afford $280. RX 570 is almost 2x more powerful than the GTX 1050 ti by all of the benchmarks I looked at. If you want 1 you better hurry before the fucking bitcoin freaks buy them all up to. https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814126189 Angelz and L!ckALotAPus 2 Awards
J3st3r Posted January 5, 2018 Member ID: 2162 Group: ++ COD4 Admin Followers: 153 Topic Count: 152 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 5223 Content Per Day: 1.00 Reputation: 5172 Achievement Points: 45913 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 24 Joined: 01/25/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: 59 minutes ago Birthday: 02/26/1972 Device: Windows Posted January 5, 2018 (edited) If ALL retailers would put a fucking 10 card or less Limit on how many cards people could purchase it would pretty much kill Bitcoin farmers. I think at this point this should be a mandatory requirement set by the manufacturers. Good news is If you want to upgrade your Motherboard and CPU they are actually quite a bit cheaper now. Thinking about picking up a intel i7 7700k. I've seen them as cheap as $350 (used) which is pretty damn cheap for one of the best gaming CPUs that money can buy. Edited January 5, 2018 by J3st3rXI L!ckALotAPus 1 Awards
Angelz Posted January 5, 2018 Member ID: 24295 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 11 Topic Count: 272 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 2311 Content Per Day: 0.69 Reputation: 2829 Achievement Points: 20239 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 17 Joined: 03/27/16 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 2, 2021 Posted January 5, 2018 59 minutes ago, J3st3rXI said: If ALL retailers would put a fucking 10 card or less Limit on how many cards people could purchase it would pretty much kill Bitcoin farmers. I think at this point this should be a mandatory requirement set by the manufacturers. There are low lives that do this. If they do it that way all the ahole has to do is buy the max amount then go to his car and come back into the store and buy the max amount again. Or, they bring a friend with them and get that friend to buy the max amount. Just the price hike alone will cause peeps not to want to purchase any. L!ckALotAPus 1
J3st3r Posted January 5, 2018 Member ID: 2162 Group: ++ COD4 Admin Followers: 153 Topic Count: 152 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 5223 Content Per Day: 1.00 Reputation: 5172 Achievement Points: 45913 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 24 Joined: 01/25/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: 59 minutes ago Birthday: 02/26/1972 Device: Windows Posted January 5, 2018 (edited) Errr jacking up the price more won't stop them @Angelz It's not the poor or mid class people like us that's buying up all of the good cards. It's the Allready Rich that can afford shit like this. It's LARGE scale Bitcoin farms around the world that impacts video card prices. Each small forum factor Micro ATX motherboard with atleast 1 16x PCIe slot can have a daisy chain of 16 riser cards or more hooked to 1 PCIe 16x slot. Here take a look at this small Bitcoin farm. 42 shelves on 1 side with 6 PCs per shelf 4x video cards per PC. 1,008 high end video cards on 1 side of this double sided rack system and there are several racks like this in this particular warehouse. This is a Small bitcoin farm compared to some that I've read about. 1 normal home owner PC with 6-8 really good cards will pay for it's self in Bitcoin in around 10 years. None of use Can afford $504,000 for the video cards in the picture and another $504,000 on the other side and 2 more full rack systems in this small warehouse can they? If so PM me ASAP You need to Stop being greedy give to the needy. I'm in the need lol. Edited January 5, 2018 by J3st3rXI XjCrAzY 1 Awards
Predat0r Posted January 5, 2018 Member ID: 5777 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 85 Topic Count: 80 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 1479 Content Per Day: 0.33 Reputation: 1060 Achievement Points: 10812 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 02/26/13 Status: Offline Last Seen: September 28, 2019 Birthday: 07/09/1981 Posted January 5, 2018 i have a MSI GTX 1070 8 GB.... im happy with that..... but cost more then $200..... try MSI GTX 1060 maybe Awards
NostradewmusXI Posted January 6, 2018 Member ID: 47 Group: +++ Minecraft Head Admin Followers: 13 Topic Count: 123 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 664 Content Per Day: 0.12 Reputation: 469 Achievement Points: 5354 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 2 Birthday: 10/13/1983 Device: Android Posted January 6, 2018 maybe this helps illustrate some as well Awards
NostradewmusXI Posted January 6, 2018 Member ID: 47 Group: +++ Minecraft Head Admin Followers: 13 Topic Count: 123 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 664 Content Per Day: 0.12 Reputation: 469 Achievement Points: 5354 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 2 Birthday: 10/13/1983 Device: Android Posted January 6, 2018 Awards
J3st3r Posted January 6, 2018 Member ID: 2162 Group: ++ COD4 Admin Followers: 153 Topic Count: 152 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 5223 Content Per Day: 1.00 Reputation: 5172 Achievement Points: 45913 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 24 Joined: 01/25/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: 59 minutes ago Birthday: 02/26/1972 Device: Windows Posted January 6, 2018 That's fucking ridicules. Just read that one of the largest BITCOIN farms is in China with eight warehouses containing 25,000 processing machines each. It's getting so bad that it's degrading the Power Grids World Wide and they expect it to be 20x worse by 2020. Figures Bitcoin was invented in China. Sounds like a fucking Hostile Economical World takeover if you ask me. And all the government has to do is ban generated crypo currency and we're back to normal but at war with China. What happens WHEN someone figures out how to hack the damn thing? NostradewmusXI 1 Awards
SamIam Posted January 6, 2018 Member ID: 25922 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 4 Topic Count: 3 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 9 Content Per Day: 0.00 Reputation: 14 Achievement Points: 97 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 05/12/17 Status: Offline Last Seen: July 11, 2019 Birthday: 10/31/1961 Posted January 6, 2018 I just put a GTX 1050 in my old PC. It is 10 years old. I reinstallwd Windows 7 and turned off all updates. Cod2 runs great. SamIam XjCrAzY 1
NostradewmusXI Posted January 6, 2018 Member ID: 47 Group: +++ Minecraft Head Admin Followers: 13 Topic Count: 123 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 664 Content Per Day: 0.12 Reputation: 469 Achievement Points: 5354 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 2 Birthday: 10/13/1983 Device: Android Posted January 6, 2018 just like when the NSA started building their massive datacenters. The price of HDDs went thru the roof. Awards
XjCrAzY Posted January 6, 2018 Member ID: 50 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 9 Topic Count: 12 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 180 Content Per Day: 0.03 Reputation: 118 Achievement Points: 2061 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 28, 2023 Birthday: 09/26/1979 Posted January 6, 2018 Ok on the topic of bitcoin I swear I threw a few bucks at it 10 years ago but don't know for sure. Is there any way to check if I actually did or if it was a brandy dream? Also wtf does bitcoin mining actually mean and or do? Thanks ya'll!! Awards
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