Message from @.PunishedShlomo
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I'm assuming that nvidia is going to change the contract details with AIB partners, something along the lines of cards not being X% higher than MSRP, $1500 prices out 90% of users, unless this thing is literally double the performance of the 1080, then I'm not expecting it to sell. No matter what, though, this is just speculation still
@Bearchoyboi you can SLI any card of the same model. For the most part, you can match the same stable frequency with almost any version of the same Pascal model. Again, given poor optimization and lack of support entirely on many games, I don't recommend SLI, The best thing is a single 1080Ti. If you are still within return/exchange period with microcenter, the single 1080Ti is likely cheaper than both collectively as well, and if you truly do ever need more performance it gives you way more headroom in the future.
So let's say new Volta cards come out and the 2080 (not Ti) beats the 1080Ti, but at the time you already have 1x1080Ti, then you can get a cheaper second 1080Ti because of people reselling or reseller price drop.
theyre going to be 1500$ either way unless something happens to stop mining
as I said, nvidia is likely going to renegotiate contracts with vendors when volta releases
^ and aside from that, their is potential that they will make cards specifically for mining, and limit the firmware of the gaming cards to mine. It makes sense for them to do that because it gets them the crypto miner and gamer market at the same time.
mining GPUs aren't practical
a large reason why people like them is because of the resale value afterwards, you get to mine thousands of dollars worth of bitcoin, then you sell them at maybe 20-30% under what you bought them for
actually mining gpus dont get as good a hashrate as regular gpus
so they arent even a profitable decision
best mining gpus right now are the 1070tis
makes sense
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The 1070Ti is far from the best mining GPU, lol. For ETH, XMR, ETN, BTC, LCN and way more, the best singular GPU is the Vega 64. Especially for Cryptonight algorithm based coins.
And if these mining GPU's had drastic advantages for hashing algorithms, the resell would be lower but the demand would be extravagant.
so that argument saying mining GPU's aren't practical is wrong. Especially because companies that make ASIC miners don't have damn near the capability of making compact, high efficient processors for specific functions. So if there were specifically miner designated cards, they could probably destroy current GPU's for hashing.
The only problem for all of us that are speculating, we don't know shit for details about what Nvidia actually intends on doing...
@Wayne you dont even have a mining rig faggot. the 1070ti is the most efficient when you put power cost into the equation. ie the biggest baddest gpus are not power efficient lil brainlet.
and if you look at the hashrates on mining gpus, (if you actually researched before you talked shit) youll quickly discover that non-mining gpus out clock them majorly
and asic mining is for dumbfags
not to mention that you dont even understand mining at all
asic miners can only mine sha-256 coins / etc. they cant mine coins that gpus can exclusively
with gpu mining you can mine literally almost EVERYTHING with asic you can only mine ASIC coins
never talk to me about mining again
roasted and toasted
look at me, I don't even have a pascal GPU, but hey, I know everything about the 1070 Ti!
the 1070 Ti is most definitely the most efficient, it has the same heatsink as the 1080, it's space efficient, and most importantly, high yields. I wish I had gone with a couple 1070 Ti's rather than my 6 1060's
the best 1070ti ive found is the zotac mini's - just 1 8pin instead of 2 and they clock better than others