BoredSloth

I agree 100% with what you said. NVidia is a publicly traded company and hence cannot afford to play the game of holding cards. But does the video mentioned above state exactly the opposite? This was exactly my thought on why I first thought there might be a large dump.

Summary If GPUs are being sold in China below MSRP, what does that mean about the prices of new stock? My thoughts By banning the mining and owning of cryptocurrency in China, miners have begun liquidating their hardware hoping to recover some of their costs. Taking this thought forward Gamers suddenly have more access to hardware they have been waiting for. Remembering the times where we weighed the pros and cons of buying used hardware. For e.g. GTX 1060 6 GB cards are currently available at CAD 300. Nice if you compare the performance to a GTX 1650 (which costs about the same). Bad as the card is over 5 years old and we can never determine how the card was used or how many hands it has changed since it was first sold Are there new graphics cards currently available in China? If so, what are the prices that they are being sold for? Interested to know if they are being discounted too What will happen first? Nvidia and AMD flooding the market causing huge losses to scalpers and miners? I would love to see this. The companies one day just dropping a bomb supply. OR Miners liquidating their hardware causing a sudden drop in new GPU sales. The companies will quickly have to come to MSRP or discount them even further to get rid of inventory. Memory Express currently has the 6700XT available for CAD 1035. The interesting bits are that it also says "CAD 75 off from their original pricing of CAD 1110". And their buy limit has increased to 2.

Oh so much cheaper to train on cloud! But the amount of work just to setup for each test is irritating. Nothing beats owning your own server grade GPU. Yup. The other option is waiting for the 3060 to get to MSRP levels or lower. Thank you so much for your inputs! Really do appreciate the other perspective.

Yes. To the drivers question but in a more general context of "Are there drivers that can run both cards on Windows?" and "Would installing the Tesla drivers in a system containing the GTX 1650 drivers cause conflicts?". I was hoping that the M40 would work in a more "Plug and Play" way. Keep everything on the system as is and give me extra compute power when accessing via python. It costs about $500 so I can't exactly buy it without knowing it will work. :(( What do you think my chances are? 60% chance of it working?

Thank you @igormp but its is a family system and I do not have the veto power to change the OS to Linux. And just to reiterate, I don't need the GPU to do anything other than compute tasks. Stuff like get recognized in a python environment and can be used by TensorFlow and other ML libraries. For display and gaming, I do not need anything more than a GTX 1650.

Thank you so much! That is an elegant solution to cooling the K80/M40. So add another $50-$75 bucks to the budget ...

Power supply update: I have the Gigabyte P750GM. Possibly the most hated PSU! But on the bright side, it does come with 2 CPU cables which means I might be able to power the additional GPU and not worry about tripping up the PSU. Am I missing something here?

I am about to buy the M40 24GB version GPU. My current system specs are CPU - AMD 3700X Motherboard - MSI MAG X570 RAM - 32GB 3200 Graphics card - GTX 1650 (only GPU available at the time I was looking for the 3060) OS - Windows 10 SSD - 500 GB (to run the OS) HDD - 2TB Seagate drive @ 7200 (for storage) I need the extra memory for my deep learning projects (mainly python) Will the M40 be able to use the installed drivers of the 1650? Is it possible to then install the M40 at all in such a system? Is there something else that I am missing?

Thank you for that. I checked for SLI support and noticed that none of the mining cards have the same GPU and memory as the graphics card. The only one that had matching specs were the 1060 6 GB versions but it does not support SLI. (Source: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/?gpu=GP106&sort=generation).

I had the same question except for the 'gaming' bit. While I do intend on gaming on my system in the future, currently I am testing algorithms for machine learning. Should I get the 2700X (which has the greater number of cores, but lesser speed) or the 3600 (which has fewer number of cores but higher speed)?

Is it possible to SLI a graphics card with a mining card? Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY4s35uULg4 I am a machine learning enthusiast. At some point, I might game in VR. Is it possible to SLI a regular 1060 6GB graphics card with a mining card mentioned in this video? If yes, In terms of gaming performance, which single card would it match up to. Would this make sense in terms of price? I have 12 GB of memory now available. Is this useful? Overkill? For machine learning, this would make sense. Can someone help me explore this?