Great. Thanks for the help guys. Cheers.

I figured it was reseller markup just surprised to see such a significant jump in such a short amount of time.

As a new miner I guess I'm part of the problem really, just wondering if this has been happening or Dec/Jan was a significant spike in demand.

Thanks for insight re: all 1070s being mostly the same. Are there any manufacturers that tend to have 1070s stocked more frequently than others so I can avoid resellers?

Hello,

One month ago I purchased the components to build my first mining rig. I only purchased 1 GPU at the time because I wanted to make sure I could get it working before buying more. Now that I got the rig working properly, I looked on Amazon to buy an additional GPU and saw that the only available GPU of the same make/model was selling for an additional $1,000 over the price at which I purchased it only 1 month ago!

The GPU in question is a Gigabyte AORUS GeForce GTX 1070 8GB Graphic Cards:

Price I paid in beginning of December: $469.99
Current price available on Amazon: $1,470.00

Is this price type of price jump typical with GPU cards?

If so, did I just get lucky to find a GTX 1070 for only $470? Is there another make/model I should be looking towards that has more consistency in terms of price and availability for purchase?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

- DP

Thanks!

Hello,

I'm trying to update the BIOS on a MSI Z170 SLI Plus motherboard. This is my first build and I need to update the BIOS in order to install Windows 10.

Using my mac, I downloaded the BIOS update from the MSI website and saved it to a usb drive. When I run the usb in M-Flash, it shows the folder but none of the files are executable. Nothing happens when I click on any of them.

I looked online and saw some people saying that usb drives need to be properly formatted before they can be used to install a BIOS. I saw some mention that the flash drive needs to be in FAT or FAT32 format.

My question is this: is it possible that the proper files are not showing in M-Flash because I added them to the usb from my mac? If so, is there a way to accomplish this on a mac, or do I need to download the BIOS update and save it to the usb on a windows operating system?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Thanks very much for the replies everyone.

I believe the heatsink is what I was referring to. It's the underside of the CPU Cooler (the part touching the CPU).

Sounds like I'll be okay just using the stock thermal. The tutorial I watched was showing someone move a CPU from a different motherboard, so that's where I got the idea that I needed to apply an aftermarket paste.

Thanks again everyone for the direction. Cheers.

I'm quite new to assembling computers, so please bare with me as this is a beginner's question:

While waiting for some thermal compound to arrive from Amazon, I started assembling some parts just to see how things work.

I attached my Intel G3900 Dual Core CPU to my MSI PRO Z270A SLI Plus Motherboard.

After seeing it attach properly, I removed the fan and realized there must have been some stock Thermal Compound on the fan that has now spread to the processor. I had read a tutorial that said to remove the stock thermal compound, so I tried to remove with a dry napkin but it was pretty hard to remove, so now my fan and processor have about half a layer of thermal compound on each.

My question is this: what should I do once I receive the new thermal compound (Arctic Silver 5) from Amazon? Should I apply the new compound over the existing, try to remove the stock and then apply the new, or just go with the stock (which I partially removed)?

Like I said I'm new to all this so any direction would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.