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Cryptocurrency miners ate the GPU market. Mid-range cards are hard to find and everything else is overpriced.
I looked into mining for fun and profit, but it turns out the best bet was to sell my card, just like selling shovels to gold miners in a rush.
Last week, I sold my year-old reference RX 480 for about fifty bucks more than I paid for it. And I may have sold into a lull in the mining rush, as the card was going for a fifty bucks more than that a few weeks ago. Six months ago, it was worth about fifty bucks less than I paid for it.
There seem to be a lot of people in the community who think that cryptocurrency mining is going to crash soon. A lot of idiots got in over the last few months, overpaid for their equipment, and may never break even. Demand for new GPUs will dry up and used cards will flood the market.
What do you guys think about this? Is this really a "fad" that will correct itself in the coming months, or will the cryptocurrency miners create a new pricing level for graphics cards?
I looked into mining for fun and profit, but it turns out the best bet was to sell my card, just like selling shovels to gold miners in a rush.
Last week, I sold my year-old reference RX 480 for about fifty bucks more than I paid for it. And I may have sold into a lull in the mining rush, as the card was going for a fifty bucks more than that a few weeks ago. Six months ago, it was worth about fifty bucks less than I paid for it.
There seem to be a lot of people in the community who think that cryptocurrency mining is going to crash soon. A lot of idiots got in over the last few months, overpaid for their equipment, and may never break even. Demand for new GPUs will dry up and used cards will flood the market.
What do you guys think about this? Is this really a "fad" that will correct itself in the coming months, or will the cryptocurrency miners create a new pricing level for graphics cards?