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I'll save a bit of cash
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I'm hoping retailers aswell as Nvidia limit the next round of GPU's to 1 per household once per week to curb people buying 2, 3 or 4 at a time.
It is easy to get 4 GPUs of the same SKU out of NVidia but not in a way that miners could use.
I'm hoping retailers aswell as Nvidia limit the next round of GPU's to 1 per household once per week to curb people buying 2, 3 or 4 at a time.
People have contacts in the trade, they are buying 50-100 at a time. The people buying 2 or 3 are the small fry really.
Perhaps boycotting Nvidias next generation would be a better idea?
If you think Nvidia really care about who is buying their hardware, well..
People have contacts in the trade, they are buying 50-100 at a time. The people buying 2 or 3 are the small fry really.
do you think shops do either ? all that matters is the pounds. people dont love in business.if you think they do you being fooled.anyone in business sells or provides a service for money.not for love.
what wil be interesting is if mining does drop out big style and modern cards flood the market.that could actually be good for us.there will be loads of cheap cards so new cards will have to be priced low or lower to sell.
Correctdo you think shops do either ? all that matters is the pounds. people dont love in business.if you think they do you being fooled.anyone in business sells or provides a service for money.not for love.
what wil be interesting is if mining does drop out big style and modern cards flood the market.that could actually be good for us.there will be loads of cheap cards so new cards will have to be priced low or lower to sell.
It is easy to get 4 GPUs of the same SKU out of NVidia but not in a way that miners could use.
Problem is you can't really do that without also penalising compute use in video games, etc. and any kind of arbitrary software lock out would be just worked around with a new release of the mining software so AMD/nVidia would constantly be playing catch up and spending a lot of resources on blacklisting software.
Also unfortunately this kind of compute functionality is increasingly becoming a factor in future games so there are limits to how much they can reduce the performance on that side to make them less attractive as mining cards.
Well, I have to say that I don't know what they should do, I am assuming they could could come up withe SOMETHING! There won't be a future if they do nothing. I mean I for one will not be buying a new graphics card until this madness ends. I absolutely refuse to pay 100% more than I should be paying to satisfy someones greed. The latest releases are still interesting to me, but the market is so frustrating because for the first time ever I know I will not be buying one of the new cards.
And the stagnation may not be serve. Console keep fixed hardware for + years but due to better and better optimizations graphics gets better. the PC gaming could see similar improvements. PC devs tend to spend less resources optimizing because PCs are faster, and during the life cycle of game development GPUS get much faster. If those factors are removed there are much greater rewards for devs that put more focus on optimization. DX1/Vulkan might see an uptick in popularity because the additional work and costs required will result in better graphics.
TBH I suspect we'd see stagnation in the console development cycle if this comes to pass - only updating and probably more incremental instead of the bigger jumps they've had - when a stimulus is needed due to declining sales.