Unlikely... It is slightly better than gtx1060, so it wont be priced below RM 550 if card age below 4 years.

This post has been edited by mbr: Sep 14 2018, 10:17 AM

Prices until March was pretty high as ASIC miners for Etherium were not widely available and not sure on RTX release, so value and resale of older cards were pretty good. Things are kinda different now... 980Ti is 2 gens ago... Even GTX1070 is closer to RM1600 now than last year's RM2200 price

Good deal for you! Which model was it?

RGB costs lol

I see it on Amazon for USD 410 (used) , so roughly RM 1650, so I guess people feel RM1.4k is a good deal

I just jumped to 1070ti too, which is kinda overkill since I am using 1080p anyway. Will wait and watch the RTX hype, and plan for 1440p monitor first. Am not doing first player shooter so not aiming for 200+ frame per second.

I know, right? Forget about recommended specs! We go above and beyond, and we want to run a ton of mods at a bazillion FPS.

If you can then just wait for Black Friday
By then, the RTX cards would be well in place and GPU prices would adjust a bit

Problem is the unsure pricing on the market (not the msrp)... Whether rm1800 or rm 2400?
And it will take a whole before stocks come enough for prices to be stable, maybe earliest before Christmas?

Just wait for the deals for GTX 1070 Ti (below rm1600) or GTX1080 (below rm2000), hopefully in the next 2-3 months. But don't wait too long in case no more new stock. We have a bunch of people that had been waiting since before Pascal to upgrade, due to inflated prices thanks to cryptomining with GPU.

As for ex mining cards... I would consider them worth the investment only if

A) no OC, prefer undervoltage
B) less than 2 years old, with receipt available for warranty claim
C) Priced less than half of a new card.

Just the other day, Zotac 1070Ti mini was on promo for rm1699, probably to clear old stock without sst. Look out for deals la. It will come down eventually.

Hmm... 2080 not that much faster than 1080Ti. But that is likely to change with further driver optimization. Many say that RTX is just slightly better GTX with raytracing, which has not been much adopted. Much like Physx, Nvidia tries hard to sell a tech that not many people can appreciate or afford at first. Just wait till raytracing is actively used in games...

Depends on what games and resolution also la. Not pair with 1080p 60Hz lol. Or G5400

This post has been edited by mbr: Sep 19 2018, 10:09 PM

Comparing with Titan XP (https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gpu-hierarchy,4388.html), and assuming RTX2080 is 10% better and RTX2080Ti is 25% better (not really, depends on games and settings), and taking some local prices into consideration, looks like GTX1070Ti is in the sweet spot for value


This post has been edited by mbr: Sep 20 2018, 01:05 PM

Ask the right questions. Often they will tell you how they use the cards, including gpu settings while mining. The pics of card their PC rig would also be a favourable clue that it is there for gaming mainly and not as part of a mining farm, but can be borrowed image from elsewhere. Also other tell-tale signs, but too many to explain here and not 100% foolproof. You just have to ask enough questions to satisfy yourself that the card is not over stressed, and still have warranty as backup.


Someone shared it in Lowyat around end of Aug, maybe to clear stock before SST. I managed to get one.

If 1080Ti at 2k, then 1060 will be RM 600 only.

Nice price, right? But mini has less cooling and will not OC as good.

If you are still on 1080p 60Hz, then... sort of wasted. If you have 1440p 144Hz then ok

970 only a bit better than 1050Ti. So RM 520 la

It depends on budget and expectations

Imagine for same model, eg 1070Ti

Zotac AMP RM 2100, not great at overclock, a bit warmer if only 2 fans, performance say... 85 points

MSI Gaming RM 2500, can OC a bit, cooler than zotac, performance maybe 89 points after OC

You get extra performance for the extra money spent. But which one is more worth it, you decide.

Go ahead and SLI and tell us whether can get crazy jump in FPS with RTX on!