90 000$ for a 7990Malta GPU on ebay ..sold :D

[abigfish]

Some sick guy paid 90 000$ for a GPU :D

http://www.ebay.com/itm/AMD-Radeon-HD-7990-Malta-Engineering-Sample-/121096253149

[Lethn]

The fuck?!

[abigfish]

saw it today in my local news... I was like waaaaat ?
thing is mass prod is awaited in about a couple of months ...but still SICKO !!!!
they do say it might have a vintage value even bigger in the following years being the first working prototype and such ..but fuck me ..90 000 $ wow he could have bought a house...

[mralbi]

maybe an early bitcion adopter that doest not care about money

[John (John K.)]

Might be nVidia buying their competitor's product for some insight. 

[Remember remember the 5th of November]

Or it might be just a fake bid. I saw one once where they had a bid for a casing of an HD5970, no card just the plastic for a few grand. I think it went up to a million or maybe not.

[abigfish]

http://media.novinky.cz/998/369988-original1-ejbw3.jpg

a lot of fake bidders )
(i've read that it's already been paid for too

[MysteryMiner]

Engineering Samples have additional collectible value but honestly... For such money I can only imagine Apple fan buying prerelease sample of best and latest device just weeks before they are launched in stores.

There already are custom-made dual HD7970 cards that cost orders of magnitude less and are basically the same or even better performance.

[bit777]

That is literally INSANE!!!