Buy a Video Card Without Getting SCREWED

[Emily Young]

In these dark times, the mines are depleting our GPU resources. How can you still get performance without paying the mining tax?

 

 

Buy a GTX 1080:
On Amazon: http://geni.us/JqOvfqt
On Newegg: http://geni.us/UE1Bh

 

Buy a GeForce card direct from NVIDIA: http://geni.us/6azI

 

Buy a Radeon card from AMD: http://geni.us/G6BL

 

Buy previous-gen video cards on eBay: http://geni.us/PkNJ1U

[Murasaki]

lmao theres a psu shortage?

[Razor Blade]

I've seen a lot of those craigslist scalper ads...

 

"Never Used!" (for gaming...)

"Lightly Used!" (in a cramped, hot closet for 24/7 mining for the past 8 months...)

 

2 minutes ago, Ross Scarlet said:

lmao theres a psu shortage?

Guess so...I keep getting "in stock" notifications for a Corsair PSU I have on my wishlist

[VVoltor]

24 minutes ago, Razor Blade said:

I've seen a lot of those craigslist scalper ads...

 

"Never Used!" (for gaming...)

"Lightly Used!" (in a cramped, hot closet for 24/7 mining for the past 8 months...)

 

Just spotted this:

 

same guy:

[johnsparty]

I cant find the link for the corsair deal. Please help.

[HimymCZe]

I've kinda expected giant spreadsheet with price/performance of all ~2 gen old card in mining, so we can easily find out cards that are "the worst" miners, therefore least affected by price change. There surely must be a correlation.

[Emily Young]

4 minutes ago, johnsparty said:

I cant find the link for the corsair deal. Please help.

Sorry, should be there now!

[Egg-Roll]

I'm sorry, butt @LinusTech have you ever been stopped by a cop for the dickbutt image?

[Maximus01]

So if the recommendation is to find older cards that are less power efficient won't that make the psu shortage worse? Also since older cards also run hotter can you do a video on how to upgrade the cooling on an older card. Like say some of AMD's 290x cards for example. Full disclosure I was given a 8gb 290x by an awesome coworker and it runs hot as F****

[Stoggy26]

The evga diy config has a good discount if you buy a  PSU and case as well all cards are in stock

[iPolymer]

This 

7 hours ago, VVoltor said:

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People like that are terrible, but from the picture of 980ti, one should assume it was used for mining, also considering the price too. 

 

I overall like this video, and I'm pretty happy with my 980ti. 

[garyhogan1991]

That car though