Quote Originally Posted by Iconyu View Post
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...877&IsNodeId=1 Out of stock and they are supposed to cost $399 each, as you can see the lowest is $499
Same with amazon and every other vendor basically in the US. Miners are snapping them up (including myself).

Quote Originally Posted by vario View Post
I dont think you said what you think you said ;-) .
Because it means AMD`s market rose 15-20% and thats pretty much hampered by the lack of cards, it looks like it would be even more with steady supply.
Personally i think it applies only for mid-high end cards.Supply of 280X got better here but still in my city of almost a million theyre elusive, internet shops have them but prices arent that attractive, same goes for 290/290x.
As for your statement about gamers not being interested in R9 series, its actually mind blowing to came to that conclusion when theyre solding out everywhere.Yes coiners give a boost, but this people also game in vast majority and you have exactly NO IDEA how much buy them just because of mining.
Its pretty obvious AMD wasnt expecting such demand themselves.
As for maxwell , not that exciting given that this cards are going to be mid-low end ones at start.
I'm sure he's quite able to say what he knows he's saying.

It means that AMD's *SALES* rose a nice amount but that the marketshare isn't really changed, just the sales for this small time period, hampered by low supply which means if they weren't selling out to gamers before, coin miners are the guys causing it since that's the segment with huge intensity right now and nothing happened to change gamers' demand for the better. It's very obvious that us miners are the vast majority of purchases right now since the cards were in-stock readily at MSRP/below for month(s) and then once the coin news picked up, they're suddenly out everywhere and being jacked up in pricing when they're in-stock for brief periods. As SKYMTL is saying from his source, this doesn't mean they're selling well in absolute terms but rather just that they are having trouble maintaining their normally-small supply with vendors and keep having to refill it with small amounts.

Maxwell could be very interesting if it's really GM104... 2x GK104 are compelling compared to GK110 as a 780 for example, and even 780 Ti to this day. If we get a GM104 that's similar to what GM100/110 ends up being in the same way that GK104 is to GK110, well, that's very interesting performance and certainly not low-end cards at the start if true.