Hi CryptAtomeTrader44,
Samsung stopped producing 2GB GDDR5 memory chips (at least the ones compatible with the GTX1060), and upgraded the fab to produce more profitable components. Therefore finding a GPU with Samsung chips is going to be more and more difficult. The gap has been filled in by Micron Technologies. Their chips are pretty good almost comparable to Samsung... the other manufacturers are crap.
Now then... in Europe, finding a GTX at a reasonble price is more and more challenging, In january there was a turning point and a dramatic increase in prices that where already very high. This at the same time than the crash in all cryptocurrencies, which is strange, since with lower coins value, mining should be less attractive.
In summary if I find a reasonably priced GTX 1060 6Gb, I buy, regardless of the memory manufacturer... so if you want to selll, I might buy :-D
I live in France and i agree with you about prices ...i wanted to buy GTX1070 before massive increase price. I was already to pay 500 per card, but finally, price climb over 600 one week just before i decide to buy ...So, i finally decide to buy GTX 1060 Aaurus in "la boutique du mineur", a french website from Paris for crypto miners. IMO, His prices and fiability are reasonable.
I Stop minning Neoscrypt Coins like GBX, CRC, VIVO, TZC, but i continue to mine FTC because it is on MPH and IMO has been pretty profitable since i mined it.
I will sell theses cards when I had succeeded to put 12 cards that my BIOSTAR allows me to install. I have only 7 cards now Undecided Sad
Moreover, it seemed to me on a few sites that Nvidia is preparing other special minning cards for trying to separate minning market and gaming market (their core job).
I think in the next two or three months we will have opportunity to buy new specials mining cards. And they know that the minning is now here to last a very long time.
In fact, the real problem is that of international competition in manufacturing of GPUs is so much low. It is much too weak and cotnroler by the Americans who negotiate without saying world news with Canadian AMD so that it is profitable for both manufacturers whose courses and business gains were multiplied by two in less than two years due to minning GPU massive increase.
About samsung and micron brand memory chips, I want to trust you, but that's not what I read. If you have links that talk about this subject and comparisons, I'm interested.
In any case, I think this fact should be clearly stated on the technical specifications when we buy them. Even for the players, this case is important. This mass minning market has therefore raised a problem in this trade of micro graphics controllers. Promises are not always kept in the right way because nothing guarantees that the price paid will reflect the performance of the memory chips installed on the cards.
There is another problem with the graphics cards components : the coils. Some are bad and whistle (Coil Whine) quite audible for my honey cages (ears), and very unpleasant at first.
I think it will be necessary that this case is cleared or denounced. But as I said, they are only two very big GPU manufacturers on this globe and therefore, they have nothing to do complaints of minors or players as the purchases are growing ...
I used gg translate and edited.
