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yes, some dropped $200-300 already. I'm seeing quite a few mining rigs up for sale as well. I think regulators taking closer look, crypto prices going down and other factors are finally correcting the market. Those who bought up card stock thinking pricing will be going up and up, now realized it costs them more to mine than to buy and there is no profit at the moment unless you are in asia or iceland.
It's a ten year old Hanns-G HG281D. It's annoyingly heavy, runs hot, and is generally a pain in the ***. And I love it, because it has a 16:10 aspect ratio. 1920 x 1200.
The power supply had started to get flaky. I sourced an OEM replacement from China, and was installing it this morning, and, well... I broke a really delicate connector on the timing board. I didn't pull the connector off the board, I mean the ****** is cracked in half.
You wanna know how hard it is to find a 16:10 monitor in the 28-30" size range these days? They're practically unicorns. The very cheapest one I can find is $710. All the consumer-grade stuff these days is 16:9.
I just happen to like native aspect ratios closer to square. IMO, it's been downhill since we moved away from 4:3. Also, the present-day standard resolution for 16:9 monitors is 1920x1080 (same as an HD television), whereas the older 16:10 displays tended to run at 1920x1200. We've gone backwards in terms of resolution.
None the less, the period of mourning was brief. I've been looking for an excuse to replace this old dinosaur anyway.
Turns out that 32" is a hell of a lot of monitor.
Also, 4k ***** with your head. I used to think that an image 1200px wide was just about right. Now that image I posted above looks downright tiny...
It seems as though GPUs are slowly starting to come back down.
bitcoin came down a lot.. the beginners dont realize we're still mining the same amount of coin, just its worth less. Once the coin spikes again, it would be a nice bonus.
I've realized I'm going to have to go ahead and take the plunge and just build an all new machine. My Motherboard is 8+ years old, no 3.0 USB, maybe just 1 USB 2.0, etc.
I've realized I'm going to have to go ahead and take the plunge and just build an all new machine. My Motherboard is 8+ years old, no 3.0 USB, maybe just 1 USB 2.0, etc.
We're in the same boat... 4GB of DDR2 ram has made it this far.
With gpu & ram prices all over the place, I've been looking at different pc building vendors on their options. Cyberpower PC is looking real promising
I've realized I'm going to have to go ahead and take the plunge and just build an all new machine. My Motherboard is 8+ years old, no 3.0 USB, maybe just 1 USB 2.0, etc.
Serious thought: Consider just buying an off-the-shelf machine. I recently upgraded my 2010 vintage home PC by simply purchasing an HP Z240 workstation and transferring my graphics card and hard drives into it, along with some extra RAM. Big case, beefy power supply, plenty of I/O.
Name-brand PCs are cheap as hell these days, even for ones loaded with nearly top-spec parts.
Serious thought: Consider just buying an off-the-shelf machine. I recently upgraded my 2010 vintage home PC by simply purchasing an HP Z240 workstation and transferring my graphics card and hard drives into it, along with some extra RAM. Big case, beefy power supply, plenty of I/O.
Name-brand PCs are cheap as hell these days, even for ones loaded with nearly top-spec parts.
I am considering that option now. Especially thanks to the CyberPowerPC link, they seem to be the most reasonably priced with loads of great custom options.
This will still be a gaming machine, and I want to use top quality parts so it lasts along time like my last machine.
yes, some dropped $200-300 already. I'm seeing quite a few mining rigs up for sale as well. I think regulators taking closer look, crypto prices going down and other factors are finally correcting the market. Those who bought up card stock thinking pricing will be going up and up, now realized it costs them more to mine than to buy and there is no profit at the moment unless you are in asia or iceland.
Sometimes those places have pretty good deals on stuff. I had a friend of mine recently buy 2 PCs from iBuyPower, both with dual Vega 64 GPUs. He parted out both systems for a good profit.
What I have to keep reminding myself is I don't need THAT much to run three 1080p/60hz monitors or an Oculus Rift. But the upgrade bug goes well you can get X for only Y much more!
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