Holly cow I can't believe how high these cards crept up

[sygnus21]

Man I can't believe how high these AMD R9 cards have crept up in price :shock:

I paid $319 plus 19 buck in taxes in Nov 2013....



Today I see at Amazon they want $519 bucks for the same card - Amazon.com: Sapphire Radeon VAPOR-X R9 280X 3GB GDDR5 DVI-I/DVI-D/HDMI/DP OC Version (UEFI) PCI-Express Graphics Card 11221-02-40G: Electronics

Hmmm.... something strange going on with the site as I can't seem to upload files, or click to attach smileys

 

[paulpicks21]

It's just due to mining Drew, AMD GPU's are better than Nvidia for it and prices went a bit silly. Things have calmed down in the UK now though and they are back to normal prices.

Your card is not quite as expensive on Egg - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202045 often independent sellers on Amazon come up with some stupid prices too.

 

[NoN]

Man I can't believe how high these AMD R9 cards have crept up in price :shock:

I paid $319 plus 19 buck in taxes in Nov 2013....


Today I see at Amazon they want $519 bucks for the same card - Amazon.com: Sapphire Radeon VAPOR-X R9 280X 3GB GDDR5 DVI-I/DVI-D/HDMI/DP OC Version (UEFI) PCI-Express Graphics Card 11221-02-40G: Electronics


Hmmm.... something strange going on with the site as I can't seem to upload files, or click to attach smileys

Which makes you lucky...here in EU is not under US$400 without shipping cost!

 

[sygnus21]

It's just due to mining Drew, AMD GPU's are better than Nvidia for it and prices went a bit silly. Things have calmed down in the UK now though and they are back to normal prices.

Your card is not quite as expensive on Egg - Newegg.com - SAPPHIRE 100363VXSR Radeon R9 280X 3GB 384-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card often independent sellers on Amazon come up with some stupid prices too.

Yeah, that's a heck of a lot better than Amazon. Still it's up by 80 bucks from what I remember. I got mine from Amazon because I get free 2-day shipping.

 

[badger906]

when i was in the market for a new GPU i wanted an R9 290, after finally being able to justify the expense of £300 for it, i went to my usual online shop to purchase it, to find the prices had gone up to £340 and as high as £380... So i went to team green

 

[sygnus21]

Yeah AMD has got to do something about this or they're lose a lot of customers; something they clearly don't want to do. Anyway I heard they weren't too happy with the sudden price jumps themselves so we'll see how that goes.

 

[paulpicks21]

Yeah AMD has got to do something about this or they're lose a lot of customers; something they clearly don't want to do. Anyway I heard they weren't too happy with the sudden price jumps themselves so we'll see how that goes.

I guess the prices are all down to greedy retailers Drew. From AMD's point of view Mining should be a great thing as they would sell a shed load more cards, but retailers were pumping up the prices big time to make a pretty penny and rip people off, nice eh but no surprises.

 

[badger906]

having said that it did work in my favour.. My old GPU was a HD 6950 2gb, which i paid around £170 for almost 3 years ago, i sold it this week for £100 initially i was going to stick it on ebay for like £50 until i saw others going for upto £120...

 

[N00berG00ber]

When i bought mine it was $320. At one point they were at $600. I tried to sell mine for a 780 but no one bought. You can thank bitcoin mining for that.

 

[sygnus21]

You can thank bitcoin mining for that.

True. I guess I should try selling my old 6950 for like a grand considering it's BIOS tweaked to a 6970

Anyway hopefully AMD puts a stop to this silliness.

 

[paulpicks21]

When i bought mine it was $320. At one point they were at $600. I tried to sell mine for a 780 but no one bought. You can thank bitcoin mining for that.

No shit?

 

[madcratebuilder]

When i bought mine it was $320. At one point they were at $600. I tried to sell mine for a 780 but no one bought. You can thank bitcoin mining for that.

No shit?

Technically it's not BTC mining, it's Litecoin mining. It's a different process, script vs sha256. It's going to get worse before it gets better. With Mt Gox going under a LOT of miners are switching to LTC's.

Six months ago I bought a pair of 7950's to mine ltc's, one died last month and Sapphire replaced it with a 7970 I'm rooting for the other 7950 to die.

 

[Solarstarshines]

When i bought mine it was $320. At one point they were at $600. I tried to sell mine for a 780 but no one bought. You can thank bitcoin mining for that.

No shit?

Technically it's not BTC mining, it's Litecoin mining. It's a different process, script vs sha256. It's going to get worse before it gets better. With Mt Gox going under a LOT of miners are switching to LTC's.

Six months ago I bought a pair of 7950's to mine ltc's, one died last month and Sapphire replaced it with a 7970 I'm rooting for the other 7950 to die.

Yeah i got some good coin for my pair of 7970'S I might have lost a little performance but the issues with Crossfire had turned me off

i got 365.00 for the oldest card :shock: and 325.00 for the newer one go figure and i got my GTX 780 TI on sale paid 777.00 so i was only out of a little cash but still didn't kill my wallet when i pulled the Trigger

 

[badger906]

things might balance out soon when the new nvidia cards hit the stores. the new 750ti has their latest architecture which is suposed to be more mining friendly, for us that means competition for amd.. so prices in a whole should come down.

im more than happy with my 770 and dont plan to do any mining.. maybe another 770 in a few months which will give me an excuse to buy a 3rd monitor..