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AMD’s R9 Graphics Cards Too Hot: Selling Out Due to Litecoin Mining

The card is intended as a lower-priced option relative to other R9 series cards. It is a scaled-down version of the R9 280X launched in October. Interestingly,its price is $279- only $20 less than the 280X. In terms of features,the differences are also fairly negligible: The quantities of texture units and stream processors,and its boost clock speed,are all lower by roughly the same proportion of around 10%.

The question is: what gives?

The company had experienced supply problems due to surging demand for cryptocurrency mining,especially for Litecoin for which the cards are ideal and have greatly outperformed competing cards from the likes of Nvidia. Prices were way above the MSRP. In a press release,the company said:

“Following the exceptional demand for the entire R9 Series,we believe the introduction of the R9 280 will help ensure that every gamer who plans to purchase an R9 Series graphics card has an opportunity to do so.”

Source: dcmagnates.com June 3, 2014 – 13:00

Yeah

2014-01-20 21:29:20 by neuronsoup

I didn't buy all of it at once. Haven't had a reason to upgrade the CPU in a few years.
- i7-3930K 6-core CPU
- Asrock X79 Extreme9 MB
- 32GB RAM
- 2x AMD R9 290X GPUs - would be good for bitcoin mining, but because of AMD's crummy drivers, it still crashes in SLI.
- 1050W PSU
- 256GB SSD, 512GB SSD, and a 2TB storage drive.