GPU mining profit vs. ebay depreciation

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Quote from: krayzie32 on August 07, 2013, 09:22:55 AM

Quote from: zvs on August 05, 2013, 01:15:52 PM

Quote from: krayzie32 on July 31, 2013, 07:41:14 AM

Same people buying GPU's to mine now.

well, I haven't looked at the eBay prices for the 'USB Eruptors', but at least several times a week you can find deals on GPUs where you could turn on a profit on eBay right when they hit your doorstep & after fees

since i don't know the resale value of the USB Eruptor, I wouldnt pay more than $10 for one from a ROI perspective

btw, you can buy 7790's that can do 330mhash for $80

I can't find any 7790 card that sold that cheap the ones I see go for $100-150, when you can buy an USB stick for about $60. I sold all of my USB sticks at a profit on eBay. eBay buyers are not the smartest, heck I've sold a lot of ChromeCasts for retardedly high prices.

hmmm, yeah, looks like the cheapest is $105 now.

re: the $80

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5/28/2013 3:17:21 PM

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PowerColor AX7790 1GBD5-DH/OC Radeon HD 7790 1GB 128-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 CrossFireX Support Video Card
Item #: N82E16814131490
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$139.99

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AMD Gift FARCRY3 Blood Dragon BIOSHOCK
Item #: N82E16800995157
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AMD Tomb Raider - Level up
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it had a $25 MIR to drop it to $115, then sold the games for $35

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Quote from: zvs on August 05, 2013, 01:15:52 PM

Quote from: krayzie32 on July 31, 2013, 07:41:14 AM

Same people buying GPU's to mine now.

well, I haven't looked at the eBay prices for the 'USB Eruptors', but at least several times a week you can find deals on GPUs where you could turn on a profit on eBay right when they hit your doorstep & after fees

since i don't know the resale value of the USB Eruptor, I wouldnt pay more than $10 for one from a ROI perspective

btw, you can buy 7790's that can do 330mhash for $80

I can't find any 7790 card that sold that cheap the ones I see go for $100-150, when you can buy an USB stick for about $60. I sold all of my USB sticks at a profit on eBay. eBay buyers are not the smartest, heck I've sold a lot of ChromeCasts for retardedly high prices.

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Quote from: Bonam on July 18, 2013, 12:08:00 AM

If you assume an ebay price drop of $50/year, that's $0.14/day in lost sales cost. At a BTC price of $100, you need to be making 1.4 mBTC per day to break even. Right now, 300 MH/s = 5.7 mBTC/day. So you're still better off mining now and selling later, given your assumption of free electricity.

You cant make 5.7mBTC per day at 300 Mhps its has become harder in the two weeks.

Im running at 340 Mhps im only making 0.0025 BTC today at current speed.

last week I was making 0.044 BTC

Its a big difference.

Last month I was making 0.05

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Quote from: krayzie32 on July 31, 2013, 07:41:14 AM

Same people buying GPU's to mine now.

well, I haven't looked at the eBay prices for the 'USB Eruptors', but at least several times a week you can find deals on GPUs where you could turn on a profit on eBay right when they hit your doorstep & after fees

since i don't know the resale value of the USB Eruptor, I wouldnt pay more than $10 for one from a ROI perspective

btw, you can buy 7790's that can do 330mhash for $80

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Quote from: krayzie32 on July 31, 2013, 07:41:14 AM

Same people buying GPU's to mine now.

altcoin.

still profitable.

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Same people buying GPU's to mine now.

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Quote from: krayzie32 on July 29, 2013, 07:28:19 AM

Who's dumb enough to pay $250 for 300-400M hash when you can get a USB Eruptor for alot less, save power and have more per computer.

Who's dumb to buy a USB Eruptor that will never even pay for itself.

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Who's dumb enough to pay $250 for 300-400M hash when you can get a USB Eruptor for alot less, save power and have more per computer.

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Quote from: sinner on July 19, 2013, 12:50:34 AM

Quote from: Quix on July 18, 2013, 07:51:06 PM

I can get Radeon 7950s new locally for under $250 at the moment. Because of increased competition from the big N I expect they'll hit $200 new soon.

how? where? cheapest 7950s i can find are like $300. thanks

ah, funny i see this now

here's my post on slickdeals:

http://slickdeals.net/f/6179666-MSI-Radeon-HD-7950-Video-Card-3GB-R7950-3GD5-OC-BE-for-230AR-5-42-shipping-TigerDirect?

i think newegg price matched. so wherever you don't pay sales tax

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I managed to sell my farm of 5830s after two years of use for roughly what I spent on them. Tongue

I wouldn't expect that to happen again!

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Quote from: sinner on July 19, 2013, 12:50:34 AM

Quote from: Quix on July 18, 2013, 07:51:06 PM

I can get Radeon 7950s new locally for under $250 at the moment. Because of increased competition from the big N I expect they'll hit $200 new soon.

how? where? cheapest 7950s i can find are like $300. thanks

Powercolor / TUL are making the cheapest Radeon cards, you have to search a bit to find a good price. Hint: try google shopping for example ;-)

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Quote from: MrBilling on July 20, 2013, 05:44:50 PM

What I don't understand is why people still mine BTCs with GPUs?

Mining LTCs is almost twice as profitable. I have had all my rigs mining LTCs for a while now. If you don't want anything to do with LTCs you could always just trade them in for BTCs. And you would get almost twice the amount of BTCs.

I have 13 7950s between three rigs right now. I'm still way way way way profitable.

True, true...
I used to mine LTC back in the days I could fetch more than .x ltc per day, it was more like 10 LTC a day...
I'm minimg BTC with my Block Erupter, and LTC with my dual hd7850's....

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What I don't understand is why people still mine BTCs with GPUs?

Mining LTCs is almost twice as profitable. I have had all my rigs mining LTCs for a while now. If you don't want anything to do with LTCs you could always just trade them in for BTCs. And you would get almost twice the amount of BTCs.

I have 13 7950s between three rigs right now. I'm still way way way way profitable.

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Quote from: Xyver on July 16, 2013, 05:30:37 PM

Well, I currently get 285 Mhash/sec, so your 310 is pretty close to what I get.

I'm currently making 6 mBTC a day, and it's slowly dropping. At 100$, that's 0.60$ a day. So... Technically, assuming free electricity, even if you only get 0.0000001 coins, it's still profitable, because you are getting something out of "nothing". However, I'm stopping soon, (maybe 1 or 2 more difficulty increases) because I've just passed the beak even point. It takes me $0.67 a day in power to run my rig, and I'm now less then that on the coins I'm making, so I'm going to stop. Maybe once I drop below $0.40 a day, or even $0.50.

I don't understand your question about the graphics card depreciation...

What I dont understand, is that people get such low hash-rates woth their 7850's?
I get 400mh/s with 1165 core, and low as possible mem (1500 mem LTC mining, 6000 effective) + a UNDERVOLT...
Is it your coolers? I have a DCII, fans at 40% is 55 degrees = almost no noise...

I let em mine whenever I can, and I did not buy them for BTC mining but gaming, so making profit is not a must for me.
So, I pull ~800mh/s with 2 cards @ 300 Watts, that is about 1.43$ a day, or 43.42$ a month, I dont have to pay for power.
And I have a Block erupter mining 24/7 = 17.91$ a month...

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Quote from: Quix on July 18, 2013, 07:51:06 PM

I can get Radeon 7950s new locally for under $250 at the moment. Because of increased competition from the big N I expect they'll hit $200 new soon.

how? where? cheapest 7950s i can find are like $300. thanks

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Quote from: kendog77 on July 18, 2013, 03:58:04 PM

7950s are falling in value fairly quickly. I sold multiple 7950s on ebay a 4-6 weeks ago for between $250-$280, and now it looks like they are selling for around $200.

I can get Radeon 7950s new locally for under $250 at the moment. Because of increased competition from the big N I expect they'll hit $200 new soon.

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7950s are falling in value fairly quickly. I sold multiple 7950s on ebay a 4-6 weeks ago for between $250-$280, and now it looks like they are selling for around $200.

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ah, like buying those 5830's off of newegg in.. april of 2011 i think... with the shogun coupon? selling shogun coupon for $10, so got card for $95

then 2 years later, sells used on ebay for $120

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I mined the s**t out of a 5870 I got used off eBay. I got it for £80, mined it to death, sold it 5 months later for £80. It wouldn't mine any more, but played games etc OK.

I have a 6970 that I got used for £120. I mined the s**t out of it for nearly a year, and I'm now using it in my gaming rig. I expect to get another 6 months out of it, and if I get £60 for it I'll be happy.

I got a pair of 7950 for £200 each, and they're still mining away like mad. Some of the same used cards on eBay are selling at more than what I paid (Gigabyte Windforce X3). I could technically turn a profit on them, if I sold today and I was lucky.

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If you assume an ebay price drop of $50/year, that's $0.14/day in lost sales cost. At a BTC price of $100, you need to be making 1.4 mBTC per day to break even. Right now, 300 MH/s = 5.7 mBTC/day. So you're still better off mining now and selling later, given your assumption of free electricity.

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