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Topic: 5830s selling out - no more at Newegg - page 2. (Read 4563 times)

newbie
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June 06, 2011, 02:38:35 PM
#25
The 20,000 is probably pretty close to accurate, so if the 16M number sold is accurate why has there been such an impact on the video card market?  You can't reliably find 5850s, 5870s, 5970s, or 6990s in stock anywhere, and even 5830s are going.  If we're only .1% of the market, it shouldn't have had that big of an effect.  Does that mean there is like 50k G/hash in cards purchased recently and still waiting to come online?

It's possible, and I know I'm part of it since I bought 27 cards in the past week  Wink

Is the 20,000 miners or cards sold to miners? I personally have bought around 30 cards so far, other people who look at this as an investment are buying 5-10 without much hesitation. How many of the 16,000,000 cards are sitting in stores or in prebuilt computers waiting to be sold?
newbie
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June 06, 2011, 02:17:50 PM
#24
I just bought one from newegg too. Smiley

got it today.

waiting for the extender cable.

Hopefully, if these card are sold out, less people are willing to join mining since they will have to buy a much more expensive hardware. Smiley


full member
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June 06, 2011, 02:15:18 PM
#23
Yeah it's NEVER been this hard to find such a large number of different current-gen cards.  We are definitely having a measurable effect
full member
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June 06, 2011, 02:08:23 PM
#22
The 20,000 is probably pretty close to accurate, so if the 16M number sold is accurate why has there been such an impact on the video card market?  You can't reliably find 5850s, 5870s, 5970s, or 6990s in stock anywhere, and even 5830s are going.  If we're only .1% of the market, it shouldn't have had that big of an effect.  Does that mean there is like 50k G/hash in cards purchased recently and still waiting to come online?

It's possible, and I know I'm part of it since I bought 27 cards in the past week  Wink
newbie
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June 06, 2011, 01:56:23 PM
#21
A simple estimate of the bitcoin community puts miners in the roughly 10-20,000 range. New card sales are likely less but even assuming an optimistic estimate, we'll say 20,000.

In the first 9 months after the 5xxx series was released, AMD sold 16million 5xxx chips. 20,000 / 16million = .1% Bitcoin is a drop in the bucket at the moment. I'm glad people are being optimistic about bitcoin, that's what it needs, but really let's keep things in perspective.

Screw bitcoin :p I'm in it for the money
newbie
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June 06, 2011, 01:56:18 PM
#20
this all kind of makes me giggle.  I know when bionic put out gpu stuff for crunching numbers there was a slight increase in card sales.... But I can't imagine there has ever been a increase in sales like this.   its completely insane how many vid cards have been purchased just because of bitcoins in the past few weeks...  should of got stock in these manufacturers  Grin


A simple estimate of the bitcoin community puts miners in the roughly 10-20,000 range. New card sales are likely less but even assuming an optimistic estimate, we'll say 20,000.

In the first 9 months after the 5xxx series was released, AMD sold 16million 5xxx chips. 20,000 / 16million = .1% Bitcoin is a drop in the bucket at the moment. I'm glad people are being optimistic about bitcoin, that's what it needs, but really let's keep things in perspective.

Ooh yeah for sure overall its nothing.  But what I meant was just a average shopping time to see a huge spike in sales out of the blue.

edit: smiley after stock comment cuz was being funny.
full member
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June 06, 2011, 01:48:22 PM
#19
I just purchased 12 Sapphire 5830's from Newegg this morning, glad I made it before they sold out!

You may not be so glad in 10 days when you finally get your rigs running and difficulty doubles Cheesy

Nah, I shipped them next day air this morning with rush processing. I'll have them tomorrow.
hero member
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June 06, 2011, 01:46:48 PM
#18
this all kind of makes me giggle.  I know when bionic put out gpu stuff for crunching numbers there was a slight increase in card sales.... But I can't imagine there has ever been a increase in sales like this.   its completely insane how many vid cards have been purchased just because of bitcoins in the past few weeks...  should of got stock in these manufacturers


A simple estimate of the bitcoin community puts miners in the roughly 10-20,000 range. New card sales are likely less but even assuming an optimistic estimate, we'll say 20,000.

In the first 9 months after the 5xxx series was released, AMD sold 16million 5xxx chips. 20,000 / 16million = .1% Bitcoin is a drop in the bucket at the moment. I'm glad people are being optimistic about bitcoin, that's what it needs, but really let's keep things in perspective.
newbie
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June 06, 2011, 01:45:00 PM
#17
so wait will my 5870 do good since ive been reading that 5830's are like the best card to mine??

sorry im a noob and i didnt mean for my 1st post to be this  Smiley i was actually going to post in a different thread but this one caught my eye  Grin

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison The 5830 is the best bang for your buck RIGHT NOW. I don't know what you paid for your 5870 but it's much better for mining than a 5830 ignoring cost
newbie
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June 06, 2011, 01:43:11 PM
#16
You may not be so glad in 10 days when you finally get your rigs running and difficulty doubles Cheesy

I did all my calculations a week ago and things look good, prices have more doubled since. bring on the difficulty increase :p
newbie
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June 06, 2011, 01:42:12 PM
#15
this all kind of makes me giggle.  I know when bionic put out gpu stuff for crunching numbers there was a slight increase in card sales.... But I can't imagine there has ever been a increase in sales like this.   its completely insane how many vid cards have been purchased just because of bitcoins in the past few weeks...  should of got stock in these manufacturers
hero member
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June 06, 2011, 01:35:38 PM
#14
I just purchased 12 Sapphire 5830's from Newegg this morning, glad I made it before they sold out!

You may not be so glad in 10 days when you finally get your rigs running and difficulty doubles Cheesy
full member
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June 06, 2011, 01:33:35 PM
#13
I just purchased 12 Sapphire 5830's from Newegg this morning, glad I made it before they sold out!
member
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June 06, 2011, 01:32:36 PM
#12
so wait will my 5870 do good since ive been reading that 5830's are like the best card to mine??


sorry im a noob and i didnt mean for my 1st post to be this  Smiley i was actually going to post in a different thread but this one caught my eye  Grin
newbie
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June 06, 2011, 01:29:29 PM
#11
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=365456&CatId=3669

TigerDirect has them for $99.99 with the mail in rebate (sucks I know, but it's $60 you'll get back later, right?)

Just grabbed 2, lots in stock apparently according to TD Customer Service.

That's good to know. When I put them in my cart it made it look like you could only use the rebate once.

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"NOTICE: Limit (2) rebates per person, billing address, company, or household."

I suppose you could get around that pretty easily
sr. member
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June 06, 2011, 01:21:29 PM
#10
I wonder the same thing myself -- why don't they hire extra shifts and crank out more of those bad babys?
full member
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June 06, 2011, 01:20:17 PM
#9
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=365456&CatId=3669

TigerDirect has them for $99.99 with the mail in rebate (sucks I know, but it's $60 you'll get back later, right?)

Just grabbed 2, lots in stock apparently according to TD Customer Service.

newbie
Activity: 34
Merit: 0
June 06, 2011, 01:17:18 PM
#8
This is like the 5th thread about this this morning. And no the network doesn't rely on 5830s to grow. There are roughly 16-20 million 58xx series cards in circulation. Neweggs stock of like 200 5830s isn't really the make or break for bitcoin.

Where can you buy them for $110?
newbie
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June 06, 2011, 01:16:02 PM
#7
TigerDirect and Amazon have 5830s for $130, the XFX not Sapphire. From my research the difference isn't significant. I grabbed another 16 from Amazon before they sell out too :p
hero member
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June 06, 2011, 01:15:08 PM
#6
This is like the 5th thread about this this morning. And no the network doesn't rely on 5830s to grow. There are roughly 16-20 million 58xx series cards in circulation. Neweggs stock of like 200 5830s isn't really the make or break for bitcoin.
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