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i cant stop thinking its a conspiracy,
all 6990s sold out in the world? for months?

someone bought all 6990s in my country... 1 person in 1 day in cash (bank transfer).
they arrived at 11AM gone at 2PM, ALL 6990s in my Country.
i had 1 in my hand...

¿could be some goverment agency or some large corporation building a MASSIVE BITCOIN Mining Rig...?
i mean a Billion Dollar Mining Rig...

10.000x 6990 = $8Million dollars.
= 8.000.000MH/s

why someone purchasing all 6990s in the world?
who? why?
to END BITCOIN ?

*hits you with a stick*
Everyone wants a 6990 because thier compact and powerful, Ontop of that they will survive Moores Law the longest out of ALL card on the market today
I own two for these reasons.

it does not make any sense....
two 6970 are cheaper and faster...

¿why ATI/AMD its taking soo long to make newones? if Everyone wants a 6990, and theres no conspiracy at all?

I just bought some 6990's, guess you're just looking in the wrong places.  ::)

do you have some photos to proove it?.

Amazon. Gone.
eBay, overpriced.
newegg.com Gone.
SuperBiiz.com Gone.
Tigerdirect.com Gone.
A-Power.com Gone.
CompUSA.com Gone.
Alibaba.com Gone.
frys.com Gone.
canadacomputers.com Gone.
directcanada.com Gone.
ncix.ca Gone.
microcenter.com Gone.
ibuypower.com Gone.
malabs.com Gone.
bhphotovideo.com Gone.
antonline.com Gone.
bestbuy.com Gone.
buy.com Gone.
cdw.com Gone.
chiefvalue.com Gone.
centralcomputers.com Gone.
ateck.com Gone.
atacom.com/ Gone.
circuitcity.com Gone.
computers4sure.com Gone.
computerbrain.com Gone.
shop.hdnw.com Gone.
excaliberpc.com Gone.
ecost.com/ Gone.
directron.us Gone.
adorama.com Gone.
datavis.com Gone.
cybertronpc.com Gone.
cyberpowerpc.com Gone.
insight.com Gone.
jr.com Gone.
microcenter.com Gone.
mobileadvance.com Gone.
motherboardpro.com Gone.
mwave.com Gone.
http://www.powernotebooks.com/configure.php?special=993   AVAILABLE!!! $2637.00
pcrush.com Gone.
pcmall.com Gone.
pcconnection.com Gone.
store.onsale.com Gone.
officemax.com Gone.
officedepot.com Gone.
spacecentersystems.com Gone!
sears.com Gone.
rkcomputer.net Gone.
ritzcamera.com Gone.
redbarncomputers.com Gone.
qvc.com Gone.
xtremepcgear.com Gone. Pre-Order.
xoticpc.com Gone.
zipzoomfly.com Gone.
all local stores in my Country. Gone.

This (http://chiptec.pt/incs/verproduto.php?id=10949&session=rr3tgpkin1dgspdkr9lrjtsf26)? It's a portuguese local store  ;D

Alguns dos produtos que recebeu encontram-se em estado "Para reservar", irá apenas receber estes produtos quando estes entrarem em stock.
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Some of the products that received meet in state " For reservar" , it will only go to receive these products when these to enter in stock.
http://babelfish.yahoo.com/

$600.00 EUR = $853.723 USD
Euro
US Dollar
1 EUR = 1.42287 USD
1 USD = 0.702804 EUR

6950 still better.

Hum... You're right. I didn't notice that it was a reservation. 6990 is probably equipped with alien technology and the government wants to destroy them all.

Dual 6870's are "nice" but you can have that in one slot rather than two

But if you have plenty of money to spend and X number of pci slots to fill, why wouldn't you use 6990s? If someone is actually building a mining operation that is around ~10,000 cards big, that means they probably have some substantial financial backing. They are probably going to need space to house and cool at least 2500 rigs (assuming 4 cards per mobo). So in a situation like that, your 'hashing power per square foot' becomes a bigger and bigger factor.

Your overhead costs would be much higher to house and AC the same amount of hash power using 6970s as opposed to 6990s. So even though the initial cost per mhash is higher on a 6990 compared to dual 6970s, the 6990s would be much more efficient to mine with in the long run. Overhead cost per mhash is often more important to consider than purchase cost per mhash, you only buy the card once but you pay money to run it every second after that.

I would definitely prefer the 6970s, but that is just based off of my current situation.

I haven't seen any NEW 6990s at NewEgg since July 4th, and it took less than an hour for them to be sold out.  AMD needs better SCM or something.

i don't think there's any conspiracy going on here ... there are lots of backorders for retailers to fill. When they claim it's now available; it's probably the few remaining after filling the backorders. It's not surprising they are out of stock within minutes.

In Latvia it is available for about $850-900.

not surprising ?
all stores in the world within minutes?

i remember the PlayStation3 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3):

"81,639 PS3 systems were sold within 24 hours of its introduction in Japan.
the PS3 was released in North America on Nov. 17, 2006.
Reports of violence surrounding the release of the PS3 include a customer shot, campers robbed at gunpoint, customers shot in a drive-by shooting with BB guns, and 60 campers fighting over 10 systems.
March 23, 2007 ... sold about 600,000 units in its first two days.

In a July 2008 interview, the objective for the PlayStation 3 is to sell 150 million units by its ninth year, surpassing the PlayStation 2's sales of 140 million.

Worldwide:
50 million as of March 29, 2011
A 2009 study by SquareTrade, a warranty provider, found a two-year failure rate of 10% for PlayStation 3s.

The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) created a powerful supercomputer by connecting together 1,760 Sony PS3s which include 168 separate graphical processing units and 84 coordinating servers in an parallel array capable of performing 500 trillion floating-point operations per second (500 TFLOPS). The Condor Cluster is one of the top500 largest supercomputers in the world and will enable scientists to better identify objects flying in space."


links please... phone number, address, store name.

If you guys are talking about running more than two cards in a rig then the 6990s are a waste of time and fail at being power/cooling/price/density efficient.

hmmm... and you're surprised by that?

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=https://smsz.net/btcStats/bitcoin.kml

really?

Seen that new 6870x2? =o Bet some people will jump on that, 400$ for dual Bart core GPU... I mean could be better but if your limited for $ and want a 6870 CF then way to go in a single card for sure.

Are you sure they were released, and its not that they havnt been shipped yet?

newegg sells it for $500.

http://www.materiel.net/carte-graphique/asus-eah6990-3di4s-4gd5-radeon-hd-6990-4go-67551.html

http://www.rueducommerce.fr/Composants/Cartes-Graphiques/Cartes-Graphiques-ATI/MSI/4842312-Carte-graphique-MSI-R6990-4PD4GD5-Radeon-HD-6990-4096-Mo-PCI-Express.htm

Yeah, might be a good time to buy stock in AMD.....

not a good idea ^^

http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=29060.0

Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s (AMD, Trade ) shares jumped 14% after the maker of processors used in personal computers disclosed a third-quarter sales outlook that topped market expectations.

not a good idea?
http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=AMD+Interactive#symbol=AMD;range=5y (http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=AMD+Interactive#symbol=AMD;range=5y)

people that bought on Nov 12 2008, are billionairs.

Man i got so lucky I ordered a few way back when, thye told me would take a week, 3 weeks went buy they told me maybe 2 months. The next day he calls me back says he got 3 xfx shipped to him. Only ones in Canada. I went and grabed 2, kicking my self i didnt buy all three

i have a lot..how many do you need?

I'm joking....i found a few shops here in italy...but at like 630 euro \\ OMG that's 900 $