looks like all the allegations I made against these cards are false, just got a call from my supplier asking me if I want to cut a deal with him for Inno3D variant of mining gpus.
I ll be buying a lot of them. He said price is close to normal 1060 but hash rate is more. around 30-35 in ethash.
35 MH? are you seirous that si very good, if true, but other are saying that is equal to a normal 1060, but without display port make it useless for reselling to gamers, so i don't like that
This is information from my supplier, and I will confirm this once I get the cards. Well, I think it might go 30 atleast or 30+ since it is dedicated for mining. They say the stocks are coming in 4 days. Lets see, I will confirm the price tomorrow.
30 out of a 1060 6GB varient wouldn't be a big stretch, upgraded memory timings in the BIOS plus some OC on the memory could account for that.
35 - that's a bit of a stretch. I'd have to see that to believe it.
On the other hand, even at 30 and if it's lower than "standard 1060 6GB MSRP" it's going to get some attention, especially with the extreme shortage on other good ETH mining cards and their inflated pricing.
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It's scary when I saw a 1070 (MSI gaming, NOT a water-cooled model) at the SAME price as their lowest-cost 1080 ti (not 1080, 1080 ti that was NOT a typo).
I do grant it was the HIGHEST priced 1070 on Newegg at the time - but STILL crazy.
Looks like 1060s are starting to get hit by the "nothing else to buy, grab these" shortages and price-climb too.
It's debateable if Alibaba has more scams than eBay - but they both have issues with scammers.
It is true that prices are going crazy, I am watching them from may 2nd week and I see them rise exponentially.
I have no much options but to buy these mining cards or I ll have to cut down on number of cards, like I only get half the numbers if I go for 1070s , which will only give me the half the hashrate or even less...which is sad.
I am taking my chances here..They asked for full advance payment and only sells in big quantities, I guess. Lets see.. with eth difficulty going up and all that, this seems to be the best option.
I am hoping 30 mh/s on ethash atleast.. with 90 days warranty..its actually a gamble.