AMD Tahiti GPUs (Radeon 7950 / 7970 / 280X / 7990 ) Owners Appreciation Thread

[arielbit]

These video cards can no longer be found on sale without serious problems. The 7970/280x video cards have 3 GB of memory, the 290 video card has 4 GB of memory, which will not allow mining some modern coins, and these video cards have very high power consumption, which is also a problem.

Still better than a heater, power consumption is heat generation, the more power consumed the more heat generated, these cards can still reduce cost of heating if you are in a cold climate and the newer cards are still overpriced hehe. Even better if you already own them.

[FP91G]

These video cards can no longer be found on sale without serious problems. The 7970/280x video cards have 3 GB of memory, the 290 video card has 4 GB of memory, which will not allow mining some modern coins, and these video cards have very high power consumption, which is also a problem.

Still better than a heater, power consumption is heat generation, the more power consumed the more heat generated, these cards can still reduce cost of heating if you are in a cold climate and the newer cards are still overpriced hehe. Even better if you already own them.

Do you seriously want to make a heating system out of 7 year old graphics cards? With the current profit and problems with old video cards that have a memory limit, I would not do experiments. Do you suggest putting these video cards in a special liquid?

[arielbit]

These video cards can no longer be found on sale without serious problems. The 7970/280x video cards have 3 GB of memory, the 290 video card has 4 GB of memory, which will not allow mining some modern coins, and these video cards have very high power consumption, which is also a problem.

Still better than a heater, power consumption is heat generation, the more power consumed the more heat generated, these cards can still reduce cost of heating if you are in a cold climate and the newer cards are still overpriced hehe. Even better if you already own them.

Do you seriously want to make a heating system out of 7 year old graphics cards? With the current profit and problems with old video cards that have a memory limit, I would not do experiments. Do you suggest putting these video cards in a special liquid?

If the cards are 7 year olds, the motherboards that they plugged in are teenagers LOL.

No they are not going to explode, just plain air cooling will suffice.

Even if the profit is negative 3 usd, with zero hash rate heater your profit will be negative 7 usd, you will save 4 usd..that is good enough.

[adaseb]

They are still ok for some type of light gaming. Especially when you can crossfire them. Sure power consumption is not great but for gamers it won’t matter.

In terms of mining. I think when ZEC went all ASICs it was the end of the road for these GPUs. They went from mining Bitcoin in the early days, to Litecoin and doge during the 2014 era, then later to ETH and finally ZEC was last good coin to mine on them.