Is mining still a thing?
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Is mining still a thing?
in china its huge apparently
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Has always been, never more so last 3-4 months.
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Was the 3070 5am for the Founders edition?
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Unfortunately, and it's ruining PC gaming without a shadow of a doubt. The sooner that particular market crashes off the side of a cliff the better!
Apparently thats where most of the cards are going, BTC is doing well so mining is worthwhile again.
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Surely the mining diffilcuty of BTC thesedays requires dedicated ASIC'S only ?
Might be Alt coins that use GPUs still?
Might be Alt coins that use GPUs still?
Pretty much, I don't think BTC mining has been done on GPUs since like 2010.
When BTC goes up so do all altcoins, quite a few are worth mining.
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3060ti just appeared. MSI £500 and ASUS TUF £611 both say available from 02/12/20. Must be a mistake from the company that usually makes such mistakes.
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^ this, its pointless trying mine BTC unless you got ASICs, but there a pools where you mine alt coins and get paid out in BTC, can be very profitable.
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Yeah but would you pay £500-£600 for a card that sells more than the RRP of the 3070 ?
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When are review due out? 2 days before release?? So tomorrow??...
Yeah, no way it would be that high. May as well spend an extra £40 and try for a 3080 FE when available.
There’s nothing official about the cards existing though is there?
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3060ti just appeared. MSI £500 and ASUS TUF £611 both say available from 02/12/20. Must be a mistake from the company that usually makes such mistakes.
Who would pay those prices.
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we will have to see but if there is more stock available at release it will not not last long unless pricing gets jacked up by the box shifters.
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the fe will be £369. At this point I don’t understand why people would pay such a premium for ANY of the aib’s. 3070 and 3080 included. The 3070’s aren’t super hard to get, regular stock drops now.
Hmm... Sort of interesting to see what kind of GPU you can get for a bit more than what I payed for my R9 390 5 years ago (including inflation).
If it's anything like the other founders edition GPUs, they might only produce them for 2-3 weeks, then get AIBs to produce the rest (speculation).
AMD will probably release the 6700 GPUs shortly after, priced similarly to the last gen 5700 XT and 5700.
The 6700 is likely to be very similar to the PS5 GPU in performance, since it will probably have the same number of CUs (36).
If it's anything like the other founders edition GPUs, they might only produce them for 2-3 weeks, then get AIBs to produce the rest (speculation).
AMD will probably release the 6700 GPUs shortly after, priced similarly to the last gen 5700 XT and 5700.
The 6700 is likely to be very similar to the PS5 GPU in performance, since it will probably have the same number of CUs (36).
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