The 1080's on Craigslist have been popping up like mad recently. My friend returned some of his store bought cards to buy the cheaper ones.
We are loving the power coming from 1080 machines. Quite a large amount of hashrate density.
Perhaps with the 1080Ti positioned starting at 800$....
Many 1080 owners will be going for that price point and selling off their 1080s.
It will be a nice to pickup cheap 1080s for a ZEC rig.
I think AMD has been checked mated by NVIDIA before the RX500 launch.....
I suspect a LOT of gamers are moving up to the 1080 TI from the 1080.
They are not a checkmate for the RX 5xx though - The 1080 and 1080 are VEGA targets, the RX 5xx is mainstream (and it's ONLY direct NVidia competition are the pair of GTX 1060 models, though the RX 480 can infringe on GTX 1070 territory sometimes on some things sorta despite being 60% more or less of the price).
The 1080 TI is still on a "new card low availability" price premium though - but even with that, it and the 1080 price drop + quite a few used 1080s being sold are exerting a LITTLE pressure on 1070 pricing.
LTC is ASIC controlled, I don't see it enabling SegWit (probably in 3 weeks or so, there's a *has to be over the threshold for 2 continuous weeks" requirement) having any effect on hashrate for other coins - though if it goes through the roof due to SegWit proponents on pricing it'll HURT profitability on everything else a bit by draining money out of other coins.
*I* on the other hand am enjoying the MAJOR improvement in income and profitability on my small A2 farm - and have been contemplating firing my Gridseeds back up once I move late this month or next month to a bigger facility with a LOT more power and circuits availability. 8-)
(300 was for the Biostar board, ram and processor).
