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How Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies are hurting gamers

Psycho Sonny said:
i won a game and where i only got 1 kill at the start. you can play aggressive or passive. it's not like your typical fps.

when i was at the end i just stayed hidden in some foliage, there was a guy on the roof of a building nearby. everyone was going towards him as he was firing shots all the time. nobody saw me. they all ended up in a firefight and i stayed there watching it. they were so caught up the zone closed on them and i was the only one in the new circle.

it involves a bit of luck too. it also might look like poo because it requires a mid-high end GPU to play on decent settings. fatality surprised he is still about. you want to watch some twitch streamers rather than youtube
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Heh, nice!


Fatal1ty and GamerMuscle was on twitch when I was viewing them playing PUBG.



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AMD are getting a good bit of money out of this, and so invidia might have been hurt in sales by it :p
 
It should be easy to solve though, no?

Can they not do something like- Alter the driver so as it gimps mining performance on gaming cards, then release mining only cards and driver, or is that more difficult than it seems?
 
Telecaster said:
It should be easy to solve though, no?

Can they not do something like- Alter the driver so as it gimps mining performance on gaming cards, then release mining only cards and driver, or is that more difficult than it seems?
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If your local garage sold you a tyre, they wouldn't care of you put it on your car or used it as a swing... So why would Nvidia or AMD care what you did with the GPU you bought?
 
jabbz said:
AMD are getting a good bit of money out of this, and so invidia might have been hurt in sales by it :p
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AMD selling extra GPU's for a non gaming purpose in no way "hurts" nvidia... the fact is miners are also snapping up nvidia cards so it is extra revenue for both of them anyway
 
I am glad didn't sold the R9 Nano on the MM 3 months ago. Today sold it for £550, while bought it £384 (new) on January 2016.
Apparently is great card to mine Etherium :D

And looking my FuryX atm sitting in the system, and I bet it feels uncomfortable to the idea of going to a cryptocurrency system also....
 
String said:
If your local garage sold you a tyre, they wouldn't care of you put it on your car or used it as a swing... So why would Nvidia or AMD care what you did with the GPU you bought?
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Because there's more to it than straight out GPU sales. Peripherals is a big market, miners aren't going to be buying that branded mouse/kb, case and freesync/gsync monitor with their GPU purchases, plus they're more likely to abuse the RMA process if the market crashes and they're left with a boat load of unproductive GPUs.

It all has a knock-on.
 
Telecaster said:
It should be easy to solve though, no?

Can they not do something like- Alter the driver so as it gimps mining performance on gaming cards, then release mining only cards and driver, or is that more difficult than it seems?
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People would just use the mining driver on their gaming cards.

As Ethereum gets harder more people will drop out and prices will stabilise until the next GPU coin happens
 
Telecaster said:
Because there's more to it than straight out GPU sales. Peripherals is a big market, miners aren't going to be buying that branded mouse/kb, case and freesync/gsync monitor with their purchases, plus they're more likely to abuse the RMA process if the market crashes and they're left with a boat load of unproductive GPUs.

It all has a knock-on.
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I doubt the major players with 100's of gpu are going to RMA them if the market crashs and it would look pretty odd if one person did RMA 1000 gpu's
 
V F said:
Hmm, mining motherboard?

https://www.neowin.net/news/this-new-140-asrock-motherboard-supports-up-to-13-graphics-cards
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the problem you have with 13 cards is you need 1 very expensive power supply to be able to run 13 cards efficiently. your better off going with 2 much cheaper but still efficient power supplies as the costs are stupid at that end of the market. then you have to take redundancy into account. if that motherboard dies. you have 13 unproductive cards until you get a replacement. your better off just going with a cheaper motherboard which supports 5-8 cards as you need 2 PSU's anyway.

i'm just hoping this market crashes sooner rather than later. too risky buying second hand cards with no warranty, that may have been abused. will probably end up going brand new for next GPU.
 
Psycho Sonny said:
the problem you have with 13 cards is you need 1 very expensive power supply to be able to run 13 cards efficiently. your better off going with 2 much cheaper but still efficient power supplies as the costs are stupid at that end of the market. then you have to take redundancy into account. if that motherboard dies. you have 13 unproductive cards until you get a replacement. your better off just going with a cheaper motherboard which supports 5-8 cards as you need 2 PSU's anyway.
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Anyone running 13 GPUs in their frames isn't going to be running consumer PSUs anyway (or shouldn't be).

These boards are aimed at full on miners not hobbyists who want to run four/five RX480s on their Supernova.
 
humbug said:
Apparently something in the Ether block algorithm prevents ASIC's from working.....

Or as i admittedly understand it: ASIC -nope, 'reasons' :D
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They are made to be resistant to ASICs, but given the money involved in some of these now, someone will find a way.

Bitcoin also didn't have ASICs for a long time.
 
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