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Posted 15 September 2017
SAPPHIRE Pulse Radeon RX 580 8G GDDR5 Dual HDMI/DVI-D/Dual DP Graphics Card - Black - £219.24 @ Amazon
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Pre-order but decent price considering the current crypto currency inflation on AMD cards. Lord knows when any of us will get it!
Edit:Just realised this is a duplicate to an earlier post in Aug, happy to take this down if the original OP updates the price!
Edit:Just realised this is a duplicate to an earlier post in Aug, happy to take this down if the original OP updates the price!
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Edited by eddiewa, 15 September 2017
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sorted byHey Rich, curious, how long have you had yours on pre-order for now...?
About a month. I haven't really been in a rush for it though. Otherwise I would have just stumped up the ~£300 for an 8gb model already. People seem to think they'll be around soon ish. (i.e a few weeks). Serveral price drops and stock updates on Amazon today though.
A lot of GPUs come with very easily replaceable fans these days, which is the main thing that will get knackered by mining 24/7, so a second hand mining card isn't necessarily a bad buy, if the price is right.
Might see a real race to the bottom soon. (edited)
this graphics card should be able to handle destiny 2 at 1080p with decent settings, i haven't personally tested it so i cant give you an idea of frame rates but i'm sure someone on the internet will have done testing. Like i said your overall build is pretty solid, if you were more experienced and liked to overclock, i would suggest to go for a ryzen 5 1600 which you can then overclock. As you said though this is your first build and overall will do the sort of stuff you are looking to do, with the AM4 platform it will give you plenty of opportunity to upgrade later on when your budget allows.
Most people have no clue about crypto, what it means, what it brings, what it gives. You've heard of the revolution, crypto is the revolution x 1,000,000. Market vectors have brought the price down, but it was up again today, let's see what happens when China awakes tomorrow.
Crypto is not mainstream yet, because the software infrastructure is not there. The n00bs and let's face it most people are idiots, the 10% who have a clue and aren't naive will own crypto before the n00bs get anywhere near, any that have touched it so far have got burnt through not protecting their private keys, sending crypto to the wrong deposit address, and buying high and selling low. Idiots who use crypto will get burnt very easily, this is an emerging market and it's not an easy system navigating from FIAT to crypto. Then once the n00bs get on crypto they're instant traders, crazy! Most people aren't traders they will get burnt! This is easy money, easy won easy lost. Highly volatile, invest in what you believe and hold on. (edited)
It's called BS. They are not banning crypto this has been said of them many times before. The real way to ban crypto is to stop FIAT to crypto exchange, however crypto will eventually become a competitor to FIAT money, no one knows how many years in to the future that will be. I'm invested in crypto as a high risk investment, I have around 7 different coins and tokens. There's many ways this could all blow up, but China banning crypto is not one of them. If some one said to me should I invest in crypto now, I'd say that's up to you, invest only what you can afford to lose as there's more than a chance you'll lose. (edited)
would you really want to buy a used gpu that has been used for mining? i know i wouldnt, but ppl will, which should have a knock on for new prices
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you will see a little more performance from the 8gb but it wont be all that noticeable to be honest, if you can wait it out i would pre order this card as it is cheaper and you are then saving a few pounds and in the process getting more performance.
Your build overall looks pretty solid for an entry level gaming pc, the only thing i could suggest maybe is to save a little on the ram and maybe see if you can scavenge a hard drive so you can upgrade the CPU to maybe the 1600. This will give you overall a big performance boost over the ryzen 3 but i'm unsure of your pc needs so i cant say for sure if this would be worth it.
this build was made by a friend
Any suggestions/changes
And any idea about prices ? Should I hold out a bit more as im in no rush to build? As haven't been able to see any Rx 580 in stock due to the mining craze
personally if you can wait i would pre-order this card and wait it out, for an rx580 i doubt you will get a much better price than this as miners will always keep the price of these cards over the £200 mark. With no new cards being released in the immediate future, i cant see prices of graphics cards changing that much to make waiting for a price drop all that worth it.
One reason for lower price here is strength of the pound. Pound is nearly 1.36 against dollar now. Wait for prices to feed back into retail.
I still have this on order but managed to snag a 1060 Gigabyte windforce card on a previous deal. Friend might take this card from me. 1060 card is smaller compared to this 29cm card. On the pre order you always get lowest price it went to. So £219 seems very good.
The wait time is not so good but not really shocked. (edited)
I do not debate whether some miners will immediately sell their cards. The price has to fall a lot more in order to make a loss. At this rate you're still making around £100 a month. (Eg. 6x 1070s) Yes, some all crypto fell in value but some gained strength shortly after. They are tied to the biggest currency in a way like the dollar affects all other currencies. But I would not hope for 200 quid 1070s anytime soon. This card will come out sooner than crypto becoming not profitable.
It wasn't investment advice.
Same here mate, let's see if it's a genuine rx 580 8gb eh? Lol question is... What are you going to do with yours? I completely forgot about this and got a gtx 1060 haha
To those that stuck by this for over 2 months? Here's a £102 toast to you all!
Not really, they're about equal in fact. Get a second 970 or mod the vbios for more power and speed.
Ha I hope mate. Maybe one consequence of stuff like solar panels is the spare power generated (if not stored in an energy storage battery) is miners pretty much mining for free? Either way... Common GPU bubble burst!!
dont think my psu can handle a second 970 and have alrewady O'C'd the first one
Lol well.... It's half of the time RichTE was waiting for... So I'm still OK!
Not as well as you might hope. The 290 was rebranded as the 390, and the 480 was rebranded as the 580, so despite AMD's deceptive branding, this is really only one generation up from the 290, and a grade below. An individual 580 will perform roughly equally to a single 290 (but with less power consumption), and on the occasions where crossfire works, your rig wiill perform around 60-80% better than this.
Well why not? The mechanical stress is the main risk, and a lot of cards have literally pop out and replace fans.
Show me any evidence that 24/7 mining cards are at significantly greater risk of electronic failure, in their expected useful lifetime. I'll be surprised if you can.
That said, I wouldn't pay full price for one, but the point is you're really not expecting to have to. If mining is truly over and done, there will be 100000 of these bad boys hitting ebay before Christmas.
If the bubble stays busted, I'll be surprised if you can't pick up a 470 for 75 quid. I mean, that's a steal.
Currently got a GTX 1050 ti and looking to upgrade slightly at the £225 mark (edited)
This is 'snake oil'.
That's what they said about the World Wide Web in the 90s.
Yeah with talk of China banning the currency we could see cheap graphics card on Ebay very soon, though it could just be a blip and it might not affect demand for the cards.