you show the hashrate the same, but that's not out of the box, right?
that's tweaking clocks/voltages with some closed source, windows bloat/spyware? That's not an acceptable option for me.
also, i don't know if potential lost resale value matters much to me. i'm not a gamer. i'm not going to want to upgrade because a new card/game comes out and need to sell my card(s). i'm going to use the card for mining until it dies.
i see a lot of hand-wringing from gamers about these mining cards, when gamers should be happy, as miners can buy mining cards and gamers can get cards that are clocked differently and might not be sold out due to mining. It also makes dedicated mining cards easily identifiable in the second hand market. Win-win.
I have only read that the hashrates will be about the same so yes, there would be
some tweaking involved. I think that potential resale value would still come into
consideration for a lot of miners though when calculating a break even point.
As long as Sapphire Etc can keep up with the production, it may help everyone
out but I think the jury is still very much out on these cards. It would make me
think twice. Still, some gamers would probably look at ex-mining cards anyway
if they have been modded as I have heard that some games do not like that.
So there is that too.
Yes, I imagine that would be with tweaks, etc.
A lot of people seem to factor in resale value when determining ROI.
If you plan to mine till they die, you're ROI will be longer.
As long as AMD can produce the same amount of both mining a
non-mining cards, it is a win-win.