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Looks like Newegg has officially embraced cryptocurrency mining. The now have a dedicated mining category listed on their components menu. Personally I think this is in bad taste considering the outrage over mining. I looked at some of the things they have to offer, and found that they have quite the mixture of dedicated mining equipment and gaming gear, including a 1060ti 3GB at MSRP. Although the 1080 and Vega cards listed are still at nose bleed prices. The catch phrase for this menu is "Get Geared to Mine Cryptocurrency". Seems like AMD and Newegg are trying to nail the gamer's/upgrader's coffins closed.

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11 minutes ago, arkanseen said:

Seems like AMD and Newegg are trying to nail the gamer's/upgrader's coffins closed.

yeah ... and when the gamers are gone and the mining bubble finally imploded they have no one left to sell to and it will be then that they realize what they have done. 

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13 minutes ago, arkanseen said:

Looks like Newegg has officially embraced cryptocurrency mining. The now have a dedicated mining category listed on their components menu. Personally I think this is in bad taste considering the outrage over mining. I looked at some of the things they have to offer, and found that they have quite the mixture of dedicated mining equipment and gaming gear, including a 1060ti 3GB at MSRP. Although the 1080 and Vega cards listed are still at nose bleed prices. The catch phrase for this menu is "Get Geared to Mine Cryptocurrency". Seems like AMD and Newegg are trying to nail the gamer's/upgrader's coffins closed.

Maybe some screen shots and stuff to demonstrate your points? Could also use them to qualify for the source citations.

 

Also, I don't think it's a bad idea. I mean, they are a company that have a variety of clients. They handle the logistics with many 3rd party vendors handling product pricing. They don't control video cards supply from manufacturer. If this helps give their customers better organization, then they will probably have higher profits. It sucks for gamers, awesome for miners, and no one else will notice.

 

Also, I thought GPU mining was pretty much a 4gb+ thing at this point?

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Less compelled to shop at Newegg.

 

Bad enough they have garbage 3rd party sellers with jacked prices as is.

 

 

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1 hour ago, Ryujin2003 said:

 

Also, I thought GPU mining was pretty much a 4gb+ thing at this point?

You can still mine with a 3gb card for a few months now. Zcash only uses 1.5gb and ethereum 2.8gb.

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58 minutes ago, Mooshi said:

Less compelled to shop at Newegg.

 

Bad enough they have garbage 3rd party sellers with jacked prices as is.

I was less compelled to shop at NewEgg when they were purchased by a Chinese company. Plus, their customer service and such hasn't ever been more competitive with Amazon. At least where I live.

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God I just got an email from them advertising a hot price on a PowerColor RX 580 8GB: $440 with free riser cable.

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Yeah, I'm just gonna take the GTX 1080 I got for $595 CAD in October and hide in a hole with it for the next two years.  Good luck, Consumers. D:

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3 hours ago, AshleyAshes said:

Yeah, I'm just gonna take the GTX 1080 I got for $595 CAD in October and hide in a hole with it for the next two years.  Good luck, Consumers. D:

I am going to do the same with my 1080ti that I got for 800 earlier this January. So glad I bought when I did.

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Looks like my next gpu upgrade will be straight from the manufacturer again..580 for 440 lmao Newegg you can kindly heck off 

 

 

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I feel like sticking up a gpu mining operation is going to become a thing, the amount of profit to be made is enormous and I doubt their security

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To be fair to newegg, money is money to them and mining is definitely in the spotlight now. 

 

As as a company they should always aim to make money.

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I mean my brother and I greatly benefited from the GPU crises, we had 2 1080Ti and a Xp, sold a 1080 Ti and bought a Xp with zero expenses, then sold the Xp SLI and investing only 500 dollars which can't even buy you a 1070 right now we afforded the TITAN V lmao.

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On 2/3/2018 at 12:27 PM, AshleyAshes said:

Yeah, I'm just gonna take the GTX 1080 I got for $595 CAD in October and hide in a hole with it for the next two years.  Good luck, Consumers. D:

I just got a 1070 for $459 at the beginning of January so I'm content for now. I should have bought all 5 that were available and profited. 

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Not surprising,especially when Newegg was sending emails that a PowerColor RX580 was back in stock with a "free" riser cable included. 

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2 hours ago, RorzNZ said:

To be fair to newegg, money is money to them and mining is definitely in the spotlight now. 

 

As as a company they should always aim to make money.

Which is exactly what Newegg has been aiming at more,by charging fees for returns,and trying too hard to compete with Amazon by allowing 3rd party sellers. 

 

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On 03/02/2018 at 10:29 AM, Mooshi said:

Less compelled to shop at Newegg.

 

Bad enough they have garbage 3rd party sellers with jacked prices as is.

Newegg itself is price gauging. Or at least Newegg Canada is.

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@arkanseen I have moved your thread to General Discussion as it doesn't fit our Tech News & Reviews Posting Guidelines.

 

This event fits better in GD anyway, unless Newegg has an announcement about this that you can quote.

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Had to get a 1050ti because of the shortage.

 

On the bright side, I ended up with a CPU upgrade.

 

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