Last week I poked around on ebay and found a very limited number of 5870 cards. Just checked now and there are dozens of them listed.
Is the sudden liquidation due to difficulty increases or are people spooked because of the mtgox hacks?
Last week I poked around on ebay and found a very limited number of 5870 cards. Just checked now and there are dozens of them listed.
Is the sudden liquidation due to difficulty increases or are people spooked because of the mtgox hacks?
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Combination of both, IMO. People are trying to cash out of the hardware investment early, while there's still a market for these cards. Can't say I blame them with the madness that's been going on. Don't think right now is the best time, personally... I'd want to see a correction before making my decision, instead of dumping now with little to no information.
I'm actually hoping maybe with the sudden semi-panic and flood of cards that maybe I could snag one for dirt
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The Mt. Gox leak perhaps?
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wait whats going on?
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Panic. It's a fun thing to do, especially for larger groups of people.
gotta love panic.... for me I never invested in any new cards so if the market crashed today I would be no less behind then before. also the more people who sell off now with the panic, the less people mining and the higher the value for BTC. so if anything its a good thing for us.
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there are a lot of cards fs at anand and hard; some with decent prices and some rediculous
thought about trying to pick another up, but might wait it out and see how this goes.
Hmm, I hadn't seen many for reasonable prices, but haven't looked in the last week or two.
What are you guys thinking is "reasonable"? I'd consider that ~200 US. I'm afraid all this bitcoin craze is going to make it hard for me to build my Crossfire-Eyefininty setup for Battlefield 3!
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Nice.
I'm in a bit of a technological backwoods, never anything good like that here locally!
I am noticing better deals on cards on the bitcoin forums. It looks like the big cash grab is over and miners are starting to run scared.
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Even mewegg sell HD5870 eyefinity 2GB for $500+....Got a R5870 Lighning for decend price from there though
5870's are pretty much all sold out here in retail shops. strange, not long ago everyone was selling them
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