1885

I wouldn’t buy one personally no, but if I was tight on cash I would take a gamble on a card at 50% MSRP.

@J_Thomas: The way these things work, as you continue to mine coins it gets continually more difficult. So while cryptocurrency value may not crater, the amount of money you can make via mining will continue to drop, barring any technological advances.

1886

I wonder if nvidia employees can get product. Just got pinged by one of their recruiters. If they allow remote work I might consider it.

1887

That depends on whether you count discarded engineering samples as “product”. When I was there I rescued a GTX 690 and a couple of 780s out of the bin, but all of them had random BIOS quirks, reduced clockspeeds, and died completely after a few months of use. Oh, also a SHIELD portable whose screen started displaying upside down after a while. My team did all get NIB SHIELD tablets and consoles, but that was specifically because we had to be able to support them, not a companywide thing.

1888

Yeah, i figure would get engineering samples just to get work done. Would be nice to be able to buy a ga product at msrp though. Looking for people to harden their Linux kernel GPU drivers.

1889

Bitcoin, Etherium and others have been talking about moving to proof of stake for well over a year now, and nothing has happened. Part of the initial huge run up on crypto prices in 2017 was the “threat” of moving to proof of stake. Then people started jumping in just to make money when coin prices got ridiculous, and now I firmly believe they will stay proof of work as long as they can because it keeps the prices of cryptocurrencies inflated.

As gamers, we’re basically screwed until the higher priced cryptocurrencies are mined out.

1890

Seems like GPU manufacturers should be hiring more elves for the factory.

1891

I don’t think that is the bottleneck. It sounds like the biggest issue at the moment is memory being prioritized to other manufacturers that are paying a premium for it.

1892

Elves to the memory factory!

1893

That was probably my favorite album of the early 2000’s.

1894

This contradicts the rumors reported upthread. Guess we’ll have to wait and see what happens at GTC.

1895

They’re selling all the 10XX cards they can make and AMD is not competing. There’s no rush.

1896

nVidia has stock! At MSRP. But not the 1080ti. :-/

Edit - nope, all gone in less than an hour.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/products/10series/geforce-store/

1897

I just looked and the only thing in stock is the Titan V. Everything else said Notify Me.

1898

This Titan is actually cheaper…

1899

Well, the 1070ti is still in stock for… Nan dollars…?

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1900

Looks like someone saved the cost as a string to the database including the “$”

1901

It means you have to sell your grandmother to afford it.

1902

Yours was better.

1903

Sold. Can I still get a card if my grandmother is, uh, very refurbished?

1904

Pretty sure that is the creepiest thing I’ve seen on the internet all week,