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| not for me but you computing nerds may be interested in this auction (Page 1/3) |
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maryjane
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DEC 11, 01:15 PM
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RWDPLZ
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DEC 11, 01:49 PM
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Just bought a 3090 Ti, I should be good for a few years
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Raydar
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DEC 11, 03:06 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by maryjane:
High bid is currenty over $13,000 for a EVGA RTX 4090 graphics card.
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Other than it being for charity, can someone please explain why?
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Jake_Dragon
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DEC 11, 03:34 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by Raydar:
Other than it being for charity, can someone please explain why? |
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That would be the only reason. GPU prices aside this is not worth 10% of that price.
Money grab, perhaps they will write it off as a tax deduction 
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Patrick
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DEC 11, 04:18 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by Raydar:
Other than it being for charity, can someone please explain why?
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Auctioning stuff off for charity at exorbitant prices is nothing unusual. The charity gets a handsome reward, and the purchaser gets a healthy tax write off. Everyone wins!
I needed an NVIDIA card to be able to run an Artificial Intelligence graphics program on my PC. Went all out  and bought an older EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 SC 6GB for a hundred bucks ($73 US). No tax write off... but if nothing else, I'm thrifty.  [This message has been edited by Patrick (edited 12-11-2022).]
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IMSA GT
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DEC 11, 05:50 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by Raydar:
Other than it being for charity, can someone please explain why? |
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They aren't worth that price. I think they sell on Ebay for $2500
You can mod a game and take it from this:
To this and have the horsepower to drive all these mods. Now even the guy who created the mods below has burned up his graphics cards overdriving the realism of the graphics.
The perfect example of a good graphics card is on this forum at Christmas. Many people complain about the snowflakes bogging their computer and making it choppy. If you have no graphics card or and older computer, you may have issues with the snow.[This message has been edited by IMSA GT (edited 12-11-2022).]
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Raydar
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DEC 11, 06:47 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by Patrick:
Auctioning stuff off for charity at exorbitant prices is nothing unusual. The charity gets a handsome reward, and the purchaser gets a healthy tax write off. Everyone wins!
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Yeah, okay. That makes sense. I get it. I've seen other sales like this. Just never a video card.
IMSA GT's post showed a dramatic difference. Fortunately, I will never require that kind of graphics power, since I'm not a gamer. (More power to those who are, just not my thing.)
I'm not even going to tell you all what I use for a "daily driver" computer. But it pretty much does everything I need it to.
Now, in a few weeks, when they finally complete our fiber internet connection, it will probably be a different story.
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IMSA GT
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DEC 11, 07:17 PM
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The other thing a high end GPU is used for is cracking password protected files. In combination with your normal processor, it can "hack" passwords VERY fast.
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82-T/A [At Work]
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DEC 13, 08:42 AM
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The price of these cards have been insane. The prices have shot up so astronomically, that many people were buying top-of-the-line computers from a year ago (new old stock / unopened), taking out the graphics card, and selling the graphics card separately... and then selling the computer (which itself is basically a super computer) at half price and still making a killing.
I bought a Lenovo Legion for my wife earlier this year, with some top of the line AMD processor... I dunno what it's called, but the equivalent to an Intel Core i9 w/ billion GHZs or whatever, and I paid under $300 bucks for the whole thing. It just needed a graphics card. I had an RTX 1080 video card that I'd apparently bought for my Dell 990 like 4 years ago, so I just stuck that in there and it does all the word processing, internet surfing, and emailing she needs it to.
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blackrams
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DEC 13, 08:52 AM
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| quote | Originally posted by IMSA GT:
The perfect example of a good graphics card is on this forum at Christmas. Many people complain about the snowflakes bogging their computer and making it choppy. If you have no graphics card or and older computer, you may have issues with the snow.
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Hmm, didn't know that. I don't have a problem with the snowflakes bogging down my computer, I just don't like snow. I won't mind when it disappears.
Rams
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