WTH is up with video cards?

[Mister Fork]

Went to get a AMD based video card (since GeForce are all being scooped for bitcoin), and I couldn't find ANY gaming video card that a) want's already 2 or 3 years old, or b) wasn't $1000.

So, what's a guy to do? Wait for the bitcoin bubble to burst (and it will, dramatically) or B, buy a computer with a good card, and then sell the computer without?

[Denniss]

Actually miners bought AMD first, then switched to Nvidia.
the only option is to wait, hoping for some containers full of gfx cards to arrive.
At the moment you likely only get low-end or outdated cards.

[oboe]

I've never seen anything like this.   Crazy.   Not good for the gamers or the gaming industry at all.   

[Vraciu]

I'm gonna' laugh at these idiots when the market gets flooded and they lose their shirts.

[Chalenge]

You can laugh already. You literally have to use more money in electricity than you will ever recover from mining. It's a fools market.

[Vraciu]

You can laugh already. You literally have to use more money in electricity than you will ever recover from mining. It's a fools market.

You made me smile with this one.

[Meatwad]

You can laugh already. You literally have to use more money in electricity than you will ever recover from mining. It's a fools market.

Guarantee a lot of them still live with their parents so they dont have to worry about paying bills

[Skuzzy]

I would like to update my video card too, and figure it might be another 6 to 8 months before the cryptocurrency craze passes.  At least, I hope so.

[Randy1]

In a way, the bitcoin thing reminds of the book Ready Player One.

[Rebel28]

It’s like starting a company selling bottled air. No factories just stockholders……

[popeye]

What does bitcoin have to do with video cards?  (I really don't know.)

[Bizman]

What does bitcoin have to do with video cards?  (I really don't know.)

As you know, modern processors (CPU's) can have multiple cores, 2 and 4 cores being the mainstream and 6 or 8 widely available. The more cores, the more simultaneous calculations can be performed. Mining bitcoin is calculating. When you get a result, you earn some. Of course the calculations are much more complicated than 1+1=2 which of course means that more processing power = more calculations = more possibilities to "find" a "coin" in a certain period of time.

Now you may know that video cards are very similar to computers. They have a processor and memory just like the computer has. The main difference is that the video card processor can have hundreds of cores instead of, say, 8. And they're fast. So instead of chaining hundreds of computers you can achieve the same calculating power by getting one single high end video card. Not to mention you can SLI/Crossfire several of them in a single machine.

[TWCAxew]

What does bitcoin have to do with video cards?  (I really don't know.)

The GPU's are used to generate new bitcoins. Or in other words "mining". These bitcoin miners have been buying cards like crazy and created a shortage on the market and therefor the prices skyrocketed.

DutchVII

(While i hit reply some one came into my store, i didnt see Bizmans reaction. Oops  )

[popeye]

Madness!!   

Wealth should be traded using something with real value -- like tulip bulbs!   

[TWCAxew]

Madness!!   

Wealth should be traded using something with real value -- like tulip bulbs!   

We Dutch totally agree. And we are way ahead of you. It's our 1# export product.

DutchVII