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Not sure if this was posted elsewhere, but I noticed that newegg is advertising video cards as Bitcoin mining gear. Its under computer hardware/video cards, the first advertisement in their slide deck at the moment.


http://promotions.newegg.com/vga/14-0141/696x288.jpg

Whats the cost per Ghash on these bad a* bitcoin miners.

Not exactly useful for BTC mining any more. I thought it was just interesting to see a company as large as Newegg mention Bitcoin in any advertisement regarless of how accurate it is.

I still can't believe not a single GPU make has started doing so.

Manufacturers are likely aware that miners (scrypt) are buying up all available GPU's?

Mining killed the gaming industry.  >:(

Video killed the radio star.

Just about two years too late. :)

Yeah Newegg is helping with the Bitcoin hype but it's not really realistic to be mining with any gpu as far as I can tell.  I guess for Newegg it's whatever can help them sell!

should read , litecoin mining gear

Well if it's custom made it is most likely bad. Look at iBuyPower they are using i3 which is water cooled in their top tier for mining.  ::)

So how long until Newegg accepts Bitcoin from customers who want to buy "Bitcoin miners"?

Except this isn't true in the slightest. The GPUs bought for alt coin mining is only a drop in the bucket compared to GPUs sold for graphocs.

This is great!

All these high end GPUs are going to be bought up by the uninformed.

They will get home, plug them in, start mining, and quickly realize that they made a big mistake.

This means I will be able to buy myself some very nice 2nd hand graphic cards on Ebay very soon!

I don't think a very high percentage will "quickly realize" anything.

Else they would have realized beforehand and not started mining in the first place.

DOn't you think most sales on ebay are for bitcoin mining at this point?  how do you know they are mostly sales for graphics?  especially the older cards, they must be for mining, I don't know why as it's not profitable though.

its more Litecoin mining than bitcoin mining  :)

http://lurkmore.so/images/9/9b/Slowpoke.png

They are a bit late... just a bit...

This is like selling a 49er gold panning equipment but not accepting his gold for payment.

Yeah I've advertisements for actual "Bitcoin Miners"... some of that stuff is EXPENSIVE!

Newegg's customer service is awful these days.  It looks like their ability to do some basic research on what their customers are using their purchases for is just as bad.

just goes to show the mainstream business still has absolutely no clue about bitcoins...

AMD actually started listing mining as a feature on their own product pages back when it was relevantish.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?SID=MMmQkn7oEeOCzvJvjwbRWg0_C9Yv3_iLR_0_0&AID=10440897&PID=1225267&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-cables-_-na-_-na&Item=N82E16814131547&cm_sp=

speaking of bitcoin gear.

Yup, back when the 7xxx cards came out. And they didn't specify "bitcoin", they only stated that they are good for mining, wich is a wise move, because they are good at bitcoin mining (ye well before asics) but they are also good at litecoin (scrypt algorithm) mining :D

I wonder if people still hold the mentality that "miners are just a small flash in the pan" when it comes to GPU sales.