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Captain_Yuri said:

NVIDIA RTX 30 ‘Ampere’ GPU Supply Evaporates From The Market As Second Hand Prices Increase By Up To 200%

https://wccftech.com/nvidia-rtx-30-ampere-gpu-supply-evaporates-from-the-market-as-second-hand-prices-increase-by-up-to-200/

2020 flashbacks coming back in full force

Well, I have to agree with the writer, that it's scalpers buying the cards to resell them at higher prices, because we (still) haven't heard of crypto rising again.

They may try to revive the "good old days" of the crypto boom by messing with the supply to increase the price of the cards again but, without crypto farms willing to buy anything, this could (and hopefully will) end quite badly for them.

After all, so far this only affects the used market and mostly Nvidia, with AMD cards readily available during the BF deals at excellent prices (in the US). And let's be honest here: who the F is going to buy a used 3080Ti for $1200 when you can get an overpriced 4080 FE, that's superior in any way, for that amount of money?

I hope it blows up in their faces and lose everything.

haxxiy said:

JEMC said:

You're likely right and it's just that we, or I, didn't notice it as much because, well, there weren't as many reviews and tests available as there are now.

Still, they're pushng a bit too much for my liking.

Some people would still try when the part in question was particularly egregious. I liked to do it too, but because my case had pretty bad ventilation :D

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/73ikda/rx_vega_extreme_undervolting_overclocking_and/

Here's an interesting example, though more commonly you'd see people settling for 70% of the power and 90% of the performance, which is closer to the case with the 4090 considering the actual average power consumption in gaming.

Oh! I remember the undervolting posts and even articles (I recall Tom's Hardware doing an article about it) of Vega and Fury cards. Those were bad times for AMD.

We need more of those, both for GPUs and now also CPUs.