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GPU price war
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Given that most forecasters are expecting Eth to climb well into next year I can't see this happening
Spot on. People have been saying this for a year now. Meanwhile the price of a 3090 has doubled. Glad I got my EVGA 3090 the other month for £1500.
Exactly, history clearly shows no fure sale of gpus, do why predict it will happen....Be wary of these 'experts' and their terrible predictions/advice!
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Nobody wants to be accountable but like to appear to have the wisdom. Its the News of the World standard headline reading then passing it off like its accurate information. Then when it doesn't play out they blame something else as they never digested the facts in the first place.
The same can be said for these fools that think when intel bring their line-up to the scene suddenly the prices of all the GPUs will drop! Pure fantasy. They are in it to make profits and care about no 'gamer'.
There are limits to what can be charged, otherwise, the prices would be higher than they are now.
The things that limit prices change...so prices change.
When GPU's can print money, it increases demand. When more GPU's mean more money can be printed, it means there's no way to make enough GPU's because demand will never be satisfied.
The "businesses want to make money" argument applies to miners too. Miners want all the GPU's their electric situation can handle.
The things that limit prices change...so prices change.
When GPU's can print money, it increases demand. When more GPU's mean more money can be printed, it means there's no way to make enough GPU's because demand will never be satisfied.
The "businesses want to make money" argument applies to miners too. Miners want all the GPU's their electric situation can handle.
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There are equally limitations to your satisfied statement. Most bedroom miners and small scale operations would be limited to their wiring and could be on something as low as a 60amp mains fuse. It doesn't take too long for the point where your no longer a small time pocket money gamer type where scaling up has its ceiling.
Not sure on how many cards it would take to do this but you cant just assume people can keep adding forever, which is where most blanket statements seem to become woolly.
Not sure on how many cards it would take to do this but you cant just assume people can keep adding forever, which is where most blanket statements seem to become woolly.
Maybe you posted before I added "Miners want all the GPU's their electric situation can handle."?
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Likely, if you added it! It is also limited by what they can get hold of, as we know retailers have limited one per card/household, then there's GPUs being overpriced which maybe gamer/miner types still purchase over, but even hardcore miners wont be paying over the odds for cards that are 150%+ over their msrp.
Most regular folk wont be buying 10x gpu's in one order, they might add one or two here and there but the 'offers' have been sparse and rare tbf.
60 amps at 220V is about 13kW. Could potentially run 100 3060ti off that (with nothing else running) give or take.
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UK voltage is normally 230v for calculations. You cant run flat out at max capacity anyway lol. In a regular house you have to account for shower, kitchen appliances, other appliances so would assume a % of that would be reserved to call it a home (and use diversity).
Thats a good price and for a EVGA.
Given that current games and future games almost require you to have a high end GFX card to even play over 30fps on decent quality settings, I can't see them being overly happy when gamers stop throwing money at the big corporations (EA etc) because they just can't afford to spend £1k on a GPU.
Could be a problem? Because with the consoles, they have a lack of games, they are basically just selling PS4 remakes on the PS5, and no real AAA next gen games apart from Spiderman, almost a year since release, the other games are cross platform, I don't know why ?
But it looks like PC gamers are getting a better deal for games. X Box Series games are mostly all released on PC as well and PS5 have very few good exclusives not worth purchasing a console for.
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The reason for the lack of "next gen games" was due to the pandemic shutting most of the world down and bringing in WFH rules for most offices, meaning that development on games ground to a halt for a very long period of time. Some aren't even fully back in their office/studios etc yet, and trying to work together on producing a game when everyone working from home means very little gets done. Hence the delay to new games that aren't remasters.
Can't remember which game but they are releasing an old PlayStation exclusive on PC. You can also use PlayStation now (think I paid £25 for a year) to play PlayStation exclusives such as the Last of Us
Source?