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January 02, 2013, 08:35:46 PM
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I've been combing my local B&S web sites and see prices for 5800 series down to sub 100 dollar levels.  Would any of you still buy a 5870 card for a hundred bucks at this time?  Thanks.
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January 02, 2013, 09:06:16 PM
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For what? Gaming or mining?
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January 02, 2013, 09:09:34 PM
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January 02, 2013, 10:44:19 PM
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For what? Gaming or mining?

Sorry, I should clarify.  It's for mining.  Wanted to gauge the community sentiment on if purchasing old GPUs for mining is still worthwhile.  My rough calculations at today's difficulty- a 5870 would need about 90-100 days to pay for itself.
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January 03, 2013, 02:30:58 AM
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I'd probably take one for about $85 shipped. It must be game stable though (resellable condition)

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January 03, 2013, 04:48:39 PM
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I've been combing my local B&S web sites and see prices for 5800 series down to sub 100 dollar levels.  Would any of you still buy a 5870 card for a hundred bucks at this time?  Thanks.

5870s are good miners but mining with them for btc will be obsulete when ascis are out if you want  to make a rig for alt coins like Litecoin then maybe this is suited as my 5870 works perfect for it and gets arround 300 to 400Kh/s on litecoin and btc i pull 400MH/s

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January 05, 2013, 11:57:38 AM
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I've been combing my local B&S web sites and see prices for 5800 series down to sub 100 dollar levels.  Would any of you still buy a 5870 card for a hundred bucks at this time?  Thanks.

you can still sell 5830's on ebay for like $60-$85+  (not including shipping on some of these)

http://www.ebay.com/csc/i.html?_sacat=0&_from=R40&LH_Complete=1&_nkw=radeon+hd+5830&_sop=13

5870's look like they average around $125

http://www.ebay.com/csc/i.html?_sacat=0&_nkw=radeon+hd+5870&LH_Complete=1&LH_Sold=1&rt=nc

but then you'd have to pay about $14 of that in ebay fees

actually it was just 3 or 4 recent cards went for a lot.  the average is more like $100.  just do a buy it now for $115 or something, always the best
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January 05, 2013, 05:03:32 PM
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For what? Gaming or mining?
No, of course nobody buying gpus for gaming! Everyone today is playing on modern consoles with state-of-the-art powerful hardware!
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January 05, 2013, 08:34:54 PM
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For what? Gaming or mining?
No, of course nobody buying gpus for gaming! Everyone today is playing on modern consoles with state-of-the-art powerful hardware!
on which planet/universe are u living? Cheesy

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January 05, 2013, 10:41:08 PM
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For what? Gaming or mining?
No, of course nobody buying gpus for gaming! Everyone today is playing on modern consoles with state-of-the-art powerful hardware!
on which planet/universe are u living? Cheesy
That was sarcasm.
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January 05, 2013, 10:46:30 PM
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For what? Gaming or mining?
No, of course nobody buying gpus for gaming! Everyone today is playing on modern consoles with state-of-the-art powerful hardware!
on which planet/universe are u living? Cheesy
That was sarcasm.
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January 06, 2013, 09:15:34 AM
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Yes, I do. 5850/70 if less than $60, and 6950 if less than $120 (got mine for that recently). If it is cheap enough, there is close no no risk, I will buy it and mine on it until I feel the price has catched up - then I sell the HW and invest in something new again.
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January 07, 2013, 05:24:38 AM
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Yes, I do. 5850/70 if less than $60, and 6950 if less than $120 (got mine for that recently). If it is cheap enough, there is close no no risk, I will buy it and mine on it until I feel the price has catched up - then I sell the HW and invest in something new again.
I'd buy a dozen 5870's for $75 each as long as they were all in working condition... you could sell them on eBay for at least 33% profit...  not sure about the 5850 and 6950 pricing
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January 07, 2013, 05:35:06 AM
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My GPU buying is getting less and less, for two reasons, I do have a claim in the ASIC race so relying on that, But also, As my cards drop off this mortal coil, I am less inclined to replace them due to the cards holding price, I mean the 5870 is the same price it was a year ago? So unless I find cheap deals, My farm will get smaller.
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January 19, 2013, 08:00:14 PM
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My GPU buying is getting less and less, for two reasons, I do have a claim in the ASIC race so relying on that, But also, As my cards drop off this mortal coil, I am less inclined to replace them due to the cards holding price, I mean the 5870 is the same price it was a year ago? So unless I find cheap deals, My farm will get smaller.
Well, 5870 has dropped some bit tbh.  I bought most of mine for about $160 approx. 6 months ago.  Now you'd be doing good to clear about $105-$110 after eBay fees.  Clearing $100 would be more realistic (have a nice shipping price, too).

5830's, though....   just glanced at eBay and they're still going for $60-$80 before shipping (so average price maybe around $70-$90?).  I bought a bunch of mine back in April of 2011 for $100..  That newegg promotion, I'm sure a bunch of people here remember that.  I think a few weeks after that there was another promotion (maybe with amazon) where they sold them for like $110 with a shogun steam code.
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January 19, 2013, 08:26:15 PM
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Recently bought two 7950 from Gigabyte with 3 fans, run great, both on 1050 Mhz, doing 555 Mhs, default vcore.
For mining and occasional gaming.
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January 20, 2013, 05:23:48 AM
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I'm holding out to see if Avalon ships...if not, then I think I may be able to break even if I buy these old 5800 series cards (free power)
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May 27, 2013, 02:16:56 AM
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I've been combing my local B&S web sites and see prices for 5800 series down to sub 100 dollar levels.  Would any of you still buy a 5870 card for a hundred bucks at this time?  Thanks.

can you gave the link?
it sounds cheap
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May 27, 2013, 12:05:27 PM
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I bought 3 7970's a couple months ago and will probably break even with btc. When the asic hits and the difficulty skyrockets ill swap them over to LTC. I tend to think of BTC like gold and LTC like silver.
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May 27, 2013, 12:37:43 PM
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Recently bought two 7950 from Gigabyte with 3 fans, run great, both on 1050 Mhz, doing 555 Mhs, default vcore.
For mining and occasional gaming.
similar here - but as its winter i run up to 1100mh/s and they are currently on 64*C and peaking at 600mh/s.
I also use them for gaming - so BTC is basically a hobby and a way to pay for some of the initial cost of my hardware upgrades.
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