I had a quick look through the thread and I was just wondering what others have been experiencing, so I thought I'd chime up and let you know what I've been up to.
As most of you know I do love my hardware and to be honest, ironically, I've only really been buying GPUs whenever I have seen them at a slightly reasonable price. I do a bit of mining here and there and with all the cards I have previously bought and still own, I'm using them. They might not be the most efficient or effective when it comes to getting the best for the power used and all that jazz but they work and I'm able to help that along.
Thing is I'm dead set on prices that I will pay. I won't go stupid but that said, I was lucky/stupid to buy a MSI 3090 Gaming Trio X for £1900 from a company, not through Ebay.. First off I was very unsure on buying it, then I thought, %^£$ it and I bought it. I'm not going to lie, but it's been mining since I've had it, for sure it will help pay for itself but then I'm not going to go selling it off for another 50% on top which I believe they are currently going for either.. I'll just build something for the Mrs and throw it in. Cos you know, why not? If only she had a clue.... Still, that's another story and I digress.
I have also bought two 5700XT cards, which are the Powercolor Liquid Devil cards. These are just pure awesome and my two girls will have a rig each with one each of these in eventually
They weren't so badly priced in the craziness, but I didn't pay over what I wanted to so I'm very happy with those purchases.
I've also been able to find over in the US a few cards, such as a 3080 and a 3090 Strix, my mate has also got the same cards. He's also found and had a few 5700XT's and up till recently, 6 5600XTs which he bought before it all went bat crap crazy... For the 3080s and the 3090 Strix, for me sending cash over to the US, because of the exchange rate, I actually paid about MSRP for the cards, so I'm very happy with that. The 3080s I've sold to my mate who will not pay a penny more than I have and he'll help with the import taxes as well. So all things considered, I don't believe we've done badly out of it at all.
Any card I buy will be mined on especially if its new because it's so much more efficient, plus it'll help pay for itself which I really don't believe is a bad thing.
Your cards are yours and you can do whatever you want with them. After the mining has died down, I'll set them all up to do FAH so they'll be used for that (I'm hoping for some good things!!) and can then get the CPUs crunching away as well but as I don't have those cards with me at the moment as they are still over with my mate in the US. So whenever I can, I'll get them imported over and away I go over here
I just wished to check this that you bought a pre built rig for £1700, you sold everything but the graphics card for £400?? Surely the hardware in them was worth a heck of a lot more??
On other things I'm after, I'd like to try and get a few big SSDs for the girls, I've seen some Crucial and Samsung 2TB SSDs for £140 and £160 which I think are pretty decent as they are normally about the £200 mark each I think? Definitely thought it was worth a look but I'm trying to save up currently and have finally stopped buying GPUs, I probably will be able to
