>current rig was built in 2011 >thinking about finally

... and?

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>>61256288
cool blog, where can I subscribe?

:DDDD

>>61256288

Had the same thought today mein Freund.

Conclusion :

Fuck.

>>61256288
Ram prices are also going up.
Just buy a pre-built. It's straight up cheaper.

I got my 1060 GTX for 280 Euros one week before it went out of stock. Thankfully it was also only 15 Euros more expensive than the months before at that point. I also had no choice. I already bought every other part and my old computer was from 2009. When I look at the exact graphics card I bought now it starts at around 350 Euros.

>>61256288
Get a used one as replacement, wait until the difficult double and the old rx 4xx or r9 become shit in minning(2 months +-) them get a used rx480 or some jewvidia 9xx line. No need to rush to 10xx line, they are in the verge of being last gen

Only thing to do now, which I'm doing, is very closely watching sites get more cards in stock at their normal MSRP prices before the miningfags swipe them up. It's annoying, but currently the only way.

Why is mining becoming big again? I remember it was a meme thing back in 2010 or whatever when AMD cards were notoriously overpriced for mining which I did not understand.

Was there some new breakthrough that happened in online currency news?

>>61259193
Different cryptocurrency. Bitcoin mining was taken over by specialized hardware designed to exploit certain weaknesses.

This new currency, ethereum, does not have this weakness, GPU mining is still most efficient. And, AMD cards, having many weaker cores versus NVidia's fewer stronger cores, are superior at mining.