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Anyone just given up on looking for a new GPU?

Twinz said:
I'm no crypto expert but I think decentralization is one of the main selling points.
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For people
* with a pathological hatred of banks
* who love zero regulations or accountability
* think safeguards to protect against fraud, etc, are for wimps

They've got what the wished for. Mass adoption any day now... aaaaand your money is gone.
 
FoxEye said:
For people
* with a pathological hatred of banks
* who love zero regulations or accountability
* think safeguards to protect against fraud, etc, are for wimps

They've got what the wished for. Mass adoption any day now... aaaaand your money is gone.
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I wouldn't put anything in that I couldn't afford to lose, but then I don't expect "regulation" to protect my money in the stock market either. I could lose all the money I put into either one.
 
FoxEye said:
For people
* with a pathological hatred of banks
* who love zero regulations or accountability
* think safeguards to protect against fraud, etc, are for wimps

They've got what the wished for. Mass adoption any day now... aaaaand your money is gone.
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Not really, I mean im a 50+ year old, don't have a problem with banks or regulations proper straight shooter but my mate suggested Nicehash so I used it, in the space of 4 or 5 months it's paid for the new gfx card I bought and sitting mining on a night when I'm asleep. Now the money I saved on the card I've been able to spend on other stuff so if it makes sense to do it to this old fart I can understand whey every youngster and his dog is going it. I haven't used cash really for years these days anyway.
 
Twinz said:
I'm no crypto expert but I think decentralization is one of the main selling points.
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Absolutely but it does come with additional risks. I'm very behind the curve and only learnt about the OneCoin scam recently. Obviously there's some more recent examples of fraud as well and it'll likely only get worse from now on.
 
silversurfer said:
Hoping Elon can please continue to do his thing and flush these gpu into open market via a crypto sell off and let me buy a nice RT card. A prior multi year high is surely fair game for the worlds most volatile trillion sized asset. Sooner or later every free market tests the boundaries so I advise caution when paying premiums, I dont think asset price inflation in any sector is linear and so reliable that we have seen the last of any lower pricing.
On the other hand Taiwan has a problem with rising cases, a very important area for chip production so I'd guess effects supply also
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It could go that way 50/50 at this point in time wish i had a crystal ball. :D
 
shamus21 said:
https://www.techpowerup.com/282376/...g-months-reducing-energy-consumption-by-99-95
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Aren't cryptocurrency algorithms all artificially hard (and thus power consuming) anyway?

Wouldn't mind if they were curing cancer with all those GPU cycles, but it's just wasted on a false problem :(

On topic; yes I've given up looking for a GPU. Would like a humble 3060 for the next couple of years, but I'm not prepared to pay a grand for one. Guess I'll wait on a 4060 instead...
 
eddiew said:
On topic; yes I've given up looking for a GPU. Would like a humble 3060 for the next couple of years, but I'm not prepared to pay a grand for one. Guess I'll wait on a 4060 instead...
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Hopefully that won't be a grand as well. This may be the way every gpu cycle goes.
 
Just seen an offer for a 6800xt red devil and a gaming chair for slightly over 1200, which is slightly more palatable. Especially as my chair went wonky last week and the back refuses to sit up straight now. :mad:

ed: now sold out
 
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Gerard said:
Just seen an offer for a 6800xt red devil and a gaming chair for slightly over 1200, which is slightly more palatable. Especially as my chair went wonky last week and the back refuses to sit up straight now. :mad:

ed: now sold out
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I see that deal yes, I guess given the current climate not terrible, it's still a lot of money for a graphics card.

If my current GPU was broken maybe, but my 1070 is still going and I'm not paying that to upgrade.
 
BUDFORCE said:
I see that deal yes, I guess given the current climate not terrible, it's still a lot of money for a graphics card.

If my current GPU was broken maybe, but my 1070 is still going and I'm not paying that to upgrade.
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I ended up jumping on it, not ideal but with the chair (which is actually meant to be a good chair and costs around £220 alone) i caved in. :o
 
Gerard said:
Just seen an offer for a 6800xt red devil and a gaming chair for slightly over 1200, which is slightly more palatable. Especially as my chair went wonky last week and the back refuses to sit up straight now. :mad:

ed: now sold out
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Back home where you belong. :)
 
I will say its interesting on how fast an order goes through for a card that's not an nvidia fe, picked packed and dispatched in 20 mins.
 
it is crazy times on buying any GPU:), by the time the covid-19 pandemic finally over it will take a long time to get the product back in stock on the 30 series cards. Unless you wait for 2022 Nvidia new GPUs RTX 40 series
 
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