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    ATI 6990 Shortage?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by WhapAChow, Aug 19, 2011.

  1. WhapAChow

    WhapAChow Notebook Geek

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    Anyone have any insight as to why there seems to be a worldwide shortage of these cards in both the desktop and mobile flavors? Newegg and tigerdirect are all out of stock on the GPUs and a retailer on these forums also states that the clone manufacturers have even stopped selling them due to shortages.

    Is there a problem with the chips? Are they killing the 6990 and introducing the 7K series? Any other news or speculations?
     
    WhapAChow, Aug 19, 2011
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  2. Bearclaw

    Bearclaw Steaming

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    Probably in preparation for Southern Islands coming out.
     
    Bearclaw, Aug 19, 2011
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  3. lazard

    lazard Notebook Deity

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    shortages usually occur when demand exceeds supply.

    /sarcasm
     
    lazard, Aug 19, 2011
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    alexUW Notebook Virtuoso

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    I'm guessing small supply
     
    alexUW, Aug 19, 2011
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  5. WhapAChow

    WhapAChow Notebook Geek

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    I can understand small supply and even the principles of economics, but when your major computer parts retailers (newegg and TD) pull them from their website, and not even the "auto-notify" option, makes me think there's something else going on.
     
    WhapAChow, Aug 19, 2011
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  6. aintz

    aintz Notebook Evangelist

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    nobody smart buys the desktop 6990 and the 6990m has just been released and supply < demand because theyve got good performance and are half the price of their nvidia counter part 580m
     
    aintz, Aug 19, 2011
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    jeremyshaw Big time Idiot

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    It's more than that. Ever heard of bitcoin/bitmining? The easiest way to say it, is AMD (GPU) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>nVidia>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Intel>>AMD (CPU) in bitmining.

    HD6990 is the king supreme card in this. HD5970 would of been, but it has a poor second GPU power phase cooling design (bitming loves sheer ALU count, in addition to AMD GPU having certain math optimizations that allow them to do some heavily used bitmining ops in one clock, while nVidia GPU need at 2-4 clocks to do the same operation, further widening the divide between AMD and nVidia GPU in bitmining). As such, HD6900 series cards are being bought in group buys directly off the docks - before Newegg, Amazon, Tigerdirect, etc, can even get to them.
     
    jeremyshaw, Aug 20, 2011
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  8. svl7

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    Yeah, bitcoin miners.... that's a possible reason for the shortage, lol, check this out :D:

    [​IMG]

    Source
     
    svl7, Aug 21, 2011
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  9. Xerloq

    Xerloq Notebook Evangelist

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    How long does it take for you mine anything of value? I'm thinking I need to put my 6990 to task.
     
    Xerloq, Aug 21, 2011
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  10. lazard

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    By the time you earn $1 in bitcoins, you'd have spent like $3 in electricity.
     
    lazard, Aug 21, 2011
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  11. svl7

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    You won't really get a lot of money with a single card... only huge rigs will allow you to make profits. And alone with only one card you don't get anything, you'd need to join a community.
     
    svl7, Aug 21, 2011
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