Hi everyone!
In case you have been looking around for *any* of the AMD Radeon R9 280x or 290x GPU's, you'll have noticed by now that no one has them. And anyone that does find one, will find it 25% or more than its original cost!
Well, after months of poking and prodding, I was finally able to get some information on the shortage.
The first run of cards in November were bought up quickly, mostly by LiteCoin/BitCoin miners and the like. The second run was also bought up quickly in early December, though they couldn't ship as many cards as they wanted to.
The current problem, and the problem that has plagued them since end of December to now, is memory chip problems. They found problems with almost every batch of chips up until recently.
We can hope for some cards to ship around February 20th, though a date of around March 15th for general availability was given to me (Though, keep in mind this all comes from a 3rd party card manufacturer, and not AMD.)
If anyone else has any information on this topic, please say so! AMD and the card manufacturers have been silent this whole time, while NewEgg and others drove up their prices when they knew more cards wouldn't be available in bulk for a long time. Time for shenanigans like this to end!
In case you have been looking around for *any* of the AMD Radeon R9 280x or 290x GPU's, you'll have noticed by now that no one has them. And anyone that does find one, will find it 25% or more than its original cost!
Well, after months of poking and prodding, I was finally able to get some information on the shortage.
The first run of cards in November were bought up quickly, mostly by LiteCoin/BitCoin miners and the like. The second run was also bought up quickly in early December, though they couldn't ship as many cards as they wanted to.
The current problem, and the problem that has plagued them since end of December to now, is memory chip problems. They found problems with almost every batch of chips up until recently.
We can hope for some cards to ship around February 20th, though a date of around March 15th for general availability was given to me (Though, keep in mind this all comes from a 3rd party card manufacturer, and not AMD.)
If anyone else has any information on this topic, please say so! AMD and the card manufacturers have been silent this whole time, while NewEgg and others drove up their prices when they knew more cards wouldn't be available in bulk for a long time. Time for shenanigans like this to end!
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