Topic: Happy New Years! Seventh alt coin thread! - page 81. (Read 34194 times)

True    I just meant to avoid these kinds of things use a little oil every 3-6months. 

I think it's too late to try oiling this one... 

Sewing machine oil and a syringe does wonders for fans.

only if I hit the blades

HIS cards are literally falling apart while they are running 



Anyone else having GPU fans failing spectacularly?

Anyone else notice that "Seller Newegg" listings for the 1070 ti (AND 1080) are almost all gone entirely as of tonight (they had a BUNCH this afternoon).
Not "notify only" but NOT there at all (exactly ONE left).

Makes me furiously to wonder what's behind THAT....


Also found this in an article dated October 29....

"Nvidia’s manufacturing partner TSMC has confirmed that volume production of the upcoming Volta GPUs will begin towards the end of year, giving us major clues as to the release date."

 Which would explain a lot of the current Pascal shortage, if TSMC shifted most of or all Pascal production to Volta about a month ago.

 I have no idea why you think they were supposed to predict this price surge, much less how much it would be and how "across the board" it would be.
 The last AND ONLY such widespread price surge was back this spring, not Q4 - and that was ITSELF "no precedent for it" as you say.
 Even the Chinese "markets re-opened to Yuan purchases" event didn't produce such a sudden widespread HUGE jump - it bumped Bitcoin up a lot fast and helped feed a long surge, but nothing else went up much at that time.

 The other factor to keep in mind - they might not be ABLE to bump production much if at all, given how swamped every 14/16nm production line has been during their entire existence (except Samsung, but the Nvidia move to produce SOME of their cards on Samsung seems to have eaten THAT spare production) there doesn't seem to BE much if any spare production left at that node.
 It's been a long-known fact that lead times on 14/16nm are measured in months, and have been for a long time now - AMD and Nvidia would have had to predict this surge LAST SUMMER at the latest, and in that timeframe coin pricing had flattened out to started drifting DOWN.

 Vega disappeared for 2 reasons - the widespread "this is a KILLER Monero mining card" reviews and articles that started showing up in early-to-mid November, and the extreme existing shortage of production on them probably due to continuing issues with HBM2 production.
 That PREdated the big December price jump and is not related (though the price jump certainly didn't HELP any).

 I have yet to see stock anywhere of Vega custom cards, though I've seen a couple of listings.
 Possible someone had a few and I missed it though.

 1070 1070ti and 1080 dried up pretty close together, yes - and 1080 ti a day or two after that.
 AMD Polaris was almost a week later from what I saw.
 I'm not sure on the 1060 6GB cards, there WERE still a few 1060 3GB available for a couple days after the last of the AMD 470/570/480/480 cards at non-gouge pricing went poof.


 Unfortunately, Newegg has decided to start doing MILD gouging on what stock they're getting now - not DOUBLE, but 20-40% over normal markup level so far.

Of course I am a reasonable guy and will consider lower price if there are enough feedback - after all I don't go against market price.

Oh yeah... screw those BIOS flashing etc during the AMD era - moving to NVIDIA was a big blessing in disguise - so much easier to tame these cards and also get them cool and eat less power.

Btw, I have dealt with Sidonia/Letine, Panto-tech and also the K17 guys. And I have bought from all 3 of them. So far so good and with PayPal. I guess we need to be exact in our emails or Alibaba chat service - plain English to avoid any misunderstanding. In my experience, they are very good in written English compared to spoken ie Skype etc.

Try to get them to also bundle the RAM and PCIE short cables, in most cases i get better deal for these parts from them because they probably buy or manufacture in bulk.

Yeah if you can get people to pay it I do not blame you 1 bit.

I sold 9 1070ti hybrids.  for  5400 600 each  a small markup but they earned me about 1500 in mining.

So a 1500-1650 profit in 2 months is good for me.

That's the going price or higher in Amazon.com and elsewhere.

Its all about supply and demand, my friend.

Also have an order with sidonia. She mention shipping by end of this week or early next week. During my purchase a 22nd jan delivery was mentioned.

Hope it arrives in time with my 1070ti batch. Never want to go back to risers.

Sidonia Huang
2018-01-17 19:49


Dear Bubba,

Delivery will be made at the end of this month, mass production will be ready at the end of this month,

all clients are waiting for the end of month delivery, we will update you at the first time once ready

Best regards

Sidonia

I'll bump  that big fuck you to bios flashing lol. I only did 1 rigs worth and it wasn't that difficult with the batch flasher but I still had a bit of anxiety doing it. Even if I brick a card I would just get a refund, but it's still a hassle and wasted time, to me time>$$$

And yeppers - I mentioned Philipma sent me - give me a deal! Kept swearing I was already getting the best deal though hahaha.

Fuck bios flashing.

Repeat  fuck bios flashing

one more time fuck bios flashing.




@  alibaba   buyers.   I was told they  ran out  and was given a refund for the new version.  I ordered a sample of 1.  She refunded my paypal 191 usd.
 I have given her  almost 4300 usd in orders  a total of 31 mobos. She also told me  10 people mentioned me  as referrals.

I hope you all did paypal. 

Yeah  I would like to think  she is young and pretty.  Could be my Granddaughter. 
I am almost 61  I could have  22 or 23 year old  grandaughter. 

I do consider them to be the better seller then the people that sold me the suspect k17 board.

Same - I had a firesale of all my AMD cards.  sold 14 and I have another 4 to go.  NVIDA plus linux = miners dream.

OK... to be a bit more fair to the demand analysts at both companies... I agree that it's maybe not reasonable for them to predict the DEGREE of this mid-Nov to early Jan... but most certainly some kind of Q1-Q2'17 pump should have at the very least been included in their scenario analysis.  I would give them almost a complete pass on that early '17 situation since there was no precedent for it. But that event itself should have been considered as a potential precursor for another such rise in prices, and hence, demand for GPUs.  As someone who has done this type of work, I would be expected to at the very least to make management aware of these scenarios. Maybe they did and they were just quashed by moron directors that know nothing about crypto, we will never know for sure... but most certainly, somebody dropped the ball big time at both companies. Again, not saying they should have predicted the Degree of spike but they clearly ignored the possibility outright.

As to the timeline of stock disappearing... this is what I observed:

- I was able to get 3 Vega 56's from NewEgg in mid-Nov for $450 each.  Maybe 7-10 after that I realized prices going up, then they were pretty much gone by first week of Dec
- This is what started me looking into Nvidia cards. I was out of the country for about 11 days and back just after xmas and in the next few days, was able to get 4 1070ti's for about $500/each.
- By the time i decided i wanted more just a few days later, they were either gone or way above retail.
- That started me looking into rx 570s. Was able to get an MSI 570 8GB from newegg for $300 on Jan 3rd and 4GB variety for $270 on Jan 8th.  Since then, nothing readily available at all for a reasonable price.

So, it seemed that top-end AMD dried up first, then top-end NVidia (1070 and up - actaully 1070 & 70ti's seemed to go first closely followed by 1080s. I remember there still being 1080tis available for $800 when I was looking for more 70ti's), then AMD mid-range (570-580) was next to go.  Granted, it seems very likely that a big cause of the Vega shortage is the shortness of HBM2. Once those intitial blower style Vegas were gone, it's just been way too long for any amount of custom ones to hit the market, and only a very very few have.

Sales 101 homie. Any time I would be pitching or closing a new client I made sure to bring one of the pretty loan girls or even my secretary. Just shut up and smile is what I'd tell them. Works every time.

Regarding the "she" part, isn't it suspicious that all the sellers from Letine are young pretty girls? I bet we are actually chatting with fat old guys

I ordered last week and the last I heard was that they would ship out at the end of January, and that would be it until after the Chinese New Year.  She's said nothing about any delay due to materials.

LOL Yeah I built 1 AMD rig had it running for about 6 months but I sold it couple days ago. From having to have stupid HDMI plugs to super slow deployment to having to flash bios and all that other crap, I just like the ease of nVidia too.

Win10 is not an issue either.

I do need to figure out a script to 1 click install that would seal the deal for me