Considering the global graphic card shortage since last year, anyone found GTX 1060 card on sale right now?
Would like to get one for my gaming PC.
Thanks
Looking for GTX 1060 3GB or 6GB
Lallenrong88 on 29/01/2018 - 12:40
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Thx. Any good deal on the market recently?
thanks for the site.
Forget it..CyptoPpl have looted everything.
Holy crap, the one I paid $330 shelf price for three months ago is now $419.
I bought a MSI GTX 1060 6GB gaming X last year for $349 delivered on eBay using 20% off code at PCCG now it's $499
prices are insane right now.
Looking for a decent 2nd-hand deal is also worth the effort. I picked up 2x boxed as-new Asus ROG GTX1080's from someone on Gumtree 2 weekends ago for $1200. Both were purchased from the local MSY and have 2.6+ years warranty remaining. He'd been getting low-balled for Two days before I noticed the and bought them paying his asking price.
Another round of shortages / price hiking is upon us, so if you find something decently priced buy it right away.
https://kotaku.com/the-great-graphics-card-shortage-of-2018-…
https://www.polygon.com/2018/1/26/16936984/graphics-card-gpu…
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/01/cryptocurrency-b…
Depends on the price and title.
The slowest GTX 1060 cards are slower than GTX 970.
The fastest GTX 1060 Ti cards are faster than a GTX 980.
….really depends on the card, the system, the API, and the title.I would personally go for a GTX 1060-6GB (non Ti), but its impossible to find stock or they're grossly overpriced.
The GTX 1060-3GB are a good card, but they're just as overpriced if not more, and they're beginning to hit their limits as some games are passing that 3.5GB VRAM limit due poor optimisation, or relying on 4K/High-Quality textures as standard.
If you were going to upgrade your rig, I would either wait a little longer, or, get a second-hand unit (GTX 980Ti) just not something weaker like a R9 290/R9 390X or a GTX 970 or a GTX 980. AMD and Nvidia are getting ready to release their newer generation cards this year. Or you could go for a more powerful card like the GTX 1080 because it has a smaller overprice ratio, and it is unpopular with miners because of the GDDR5X memory latency bottlenecking their crypto mining rate, so you're not as ripped off as much.The bigger concern is the DDR4 memory pricing, which has gone up back to its original prices when it was first released in 2014.
Everyone is hoping for price drops, but I suspect its going to drop slowly rather than swiftly.GTX 1060 Ti = Full 1060, Overclocked, with the extra 6GB memory, and the 9Gbps memory.
I didn't even know there was a 1060 Ti. Am I that out of the loop?
It's a GTX 1060, with a slight overclock and a faster memory.
Nvidia don't call it a GTX 1060 Ti, but many system builders do. Its not much faster than the slowest GTX 1060 models. It's almost at the same difference between the GTX 1070 and the GTX 1070 Ti.However, bang for buck, the non-Ti/non-9Gbps models with 6GB RAM are the best…. if the market was back to normal. Unfortunately, the market isn't healthy as demand outweighs supply.
And the dedicated mining cards are not cheap or worth it, so even the miners are staying away from them. Shame.Yeah I bought a nice EVGA SC 6gb when they were first released. Pretty sure they're more expensive now..
Dedicated mining cards can't be sold off to gamers afterwards either so they're more of a risk for miners.
I think you are slightly misinformed. I have never seen anyone call the 9Gbps 1060 a 1060ti. Also There is big difference between 1070 and 1070ti. 1070 = 1920 cores, 1070ti = 2432 cores, thats over 25% difference.
1080 / ti price seems so low compared to 1060 or rx 580 now.
got my 1080 for 650 last years EOFY ebay, sold it for 710 Nov2017 and got 1080ti (used 3 months) for 880.
That was a good investment, hahaha. Thx
AU$820 for a GTX 1080 Ti…. that's a normal price if there were no mining/shortages (and DDR4 restrictions).
Seems like a steal today.I mean, the previous generation we were looking around the $800-$900 range.
Example; https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/233316The generation(s) before that, ~2012, with the AMD HD7970 and GTX 680 we did see a supply shortage and price rises due to increased BitCoin mining.
However, it was a small window of effect. Most gamers continued buying the GTX 680 and most miners continued buying the HD7970.
Later around 2014, the miners sold off their graphics cards due to the BitCoin scams that hurt the Crypto Market and by that stage the hash rate was very small.
So the Used Card market was flooded with older/stressed mining cards, mostly the HD7970's and GTX 770's, but later AMD R9 290's.
I suspect we might see a similar thing in late 2018/early 2019, the Used Card market flooded with RX470's RX580's, and GTX 1060's.
Neither, get a 1070