Nvidia's profits so far this year are GPU-ge Graphics chip and ARM systems-on-chips hardware slinger Nvidia says its gaming, datacenter, and automotive groups were to thank for a quarter that saw its profits more than double. The GeForce and Tegra chipmaker reported, for the three months to April 30 aka its first quarter of fiscal 2018 [PDF]: Revenues of $1.94bn were …
In the UK, it almost feels like a Ponzi scheme, when you look at the historical bids regarding popular Graphics AMD R9 280X, GTX970,980,1060,1070 & Titan cards on ebay. Every single sale has at least one bidder that quietly ups the price, but has a history of only ever bidding for GPU cards. They also never seem to get feedback for the sales they do win. There seems to be a whole market of "Companies?" buying up/bidding up second hand cards - to keep the new card market afloat?
Seems so.
P.S. Applies to Apple products too.
Just a curious observation but I like little details, I call them fulcrums, that are seeminlgly harmless, yet have huge consequences.
No, I've sold a good few Nvidia cards on ebay 1060 / 1070 especially and can safely say they go everywhere. Especially since the £ has had a beating I've even sold one back to China. That's how ebay works though, some people bid early trying to get a bargain everyone else leaves it to the last second.
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