RX 580 Sold Out New cards For Mining?

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Hello, guys I am new here but have been a long fan of Linus since he was making reviews in sandals outside of NCIX .  In any event I saw his video friday about the shortage of AMD gpus due to cryptocurrency and in particular Ethereum. A year from now would you buy a rx 480 or 580 from someone after watching this video? The card could have been running full tilt for over a year and on its last legs, is it still a good deal? Crypto-mining can be made faster by overclocking as well but the usage rate of the card itself increases exponentially. I feel it to be a valid topic for discussion. Also, the new cards coming out by AMD/Nvidia specifically for miners, have a flaw of being unable to sell the card to gamers for a profit. Would you consider a card that is 100 bucks cheaper when you know a year from now if the card starts to show its age, its nothing more than a paperweight? Id love to know you guys's opinion. But in any event glad to be here and all the best!!!

[Electronics Wizardy]

The cards should still be fine after mining for a while, there will still last a few years. When gpu mining isn't a thing anymore there are probably going to be a lot of cheap 480's on ebay.

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3 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

The cards should still be fine after mining for a while, there will still last a few years. When gpu mining isn't a thing anymore there are probably going to be a lot of cheap 480's on ebay.

I hope so, but judging by the market share of ethereum the only way it could go down is if the roof fell from under it which is entirely possible with crypto-currency 

[AvocadosGuac]

I CANT READ IT. PLEASE REMOVE FORMATTING.

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On 6/10/2017 at 0:40 PM, Jrock said:

I CANT READ IT. PLEASE REMOVE FORMATTING.

sorry about that fixed! =)