Soldato
I had to bite the bullet to get a 3080 as the backup card I had 780 didn't work in games as it kept crashing them and now the 3080 I got has gone up £200+ this is getting ridiculous.
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I had my eye on the Asus 6800XT TUF on this site, but it's gone up by £50 since last week (actually it's gone up in price twice today..).
Looks like I'll have to set my sights lower (or stick with my venerable GTX 1070ti a bit longer).
Looks like PayPal is jumping on board the Crypto bandwagon in the UK and Bitcoin back to $50000 and now you have FE`s cards being jack up by £200 on the Bay. Nothing changes
https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/paypal-launches-crypto-buying-selling-230407704.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SatyrI was being Satyrical
I keep expecting it to end like the last times: a crash or decline while difficulty keeps going up. Good thing I didn't hold my breath as we're almost in September now and I had expected it all to be over by April or so. April 2021, that is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyr
I'd link to an image, but the Greeks and Romans didn't believe in family-friendly satyr depictions.
I keep expecting it to end like the last times: a crash or decline while difficulty keeps going up. Good thing I didn't hold my breath as we're almost in September now and I had expected it all to be over by April or so. April 2021, that is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyr
I'd link to an image, but the Greeks and Romans didn't believe in family-friendly satyr depictions.
Looks like PayPal is jumping on board the Crypto bandwagon in the UK and Bitcoin back to $50000 and now you have FE`s cards being jack up by £200 on the Bay. Nothing changes
https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/paypal-launches-crypto-buying-selling-230407704.html
GPUs used for crypto mining lose 10 per cent in performance every year
Something I found,could mining be killing your GPU performance, frying the memory chips
https://www.nme.com/news/gaming-new...10-per-cent-in-performance-every-year-3007597
Speaking to Benchmark.pl (thanks, PC Gamer), the company explains that cards used for cryptocurrency are used at much higher temperatures than normal, which leads to “problems with the cooling systems” and “accelerated oxidation of soldered joints, which can lead to a failure of the graphics processor or memory chip”
"Problems with the cooling system", that is fans wearing out makes sense, but "accelerated oxidation of soldered joints, which can lead to a failure of the graphics processor or memory chip” is snake-oil salesmen type nonsense.
In fact, heat & cool cycles were what killed all those millions of Nvidia bumbgate parts back in 2008(ish) and that is something normal users and gamers are far more likely to do unless they game 24/7. Even those who leave their PC running idle when not in use and only game a few hours are likely to cause the issue as it's the heating up and then cooling down which stresses solder joints.
Whereas miners will be running 24/7 although aside from GDDR6X which gets crazy hot, their GPU temps are likely to be far lower than gamers. ETH is very memory intensive after all.
LTT pretty much proved that's nothing but FUD being spread by Palit so they can sell more new cards. (YouTube Link)GPUs used for crypto mining lose 10 per cent in performance every year
Something I found,could mining be killing your GPU performance, frying the memory chips
https://www.nme.com/news/gaming-new...10-per-cent-in-performance-every-year-3007597
LTT pretty much proved that's nothing but FUD being spread by Palit so they can sell more new cards. (YouTube Link)
Despite Nvidia's record figures the share price dropped over fears of oversupply in the GPU market in the coming months. Nvidia will be reducing production if they want to artificially keep prices high and availability low due to the end of the crypto boom. Pretty much all cards are in stock somewhere even if retailers are still charging scalper prices. If there's a shortage of Nvidia cards next year that will be due to Nvidia restricting supply NOT excessive demand.
Watch Nvidia's tune change when Intel comes to play.
I think Nvidia are overegging it a bit
I hope Intel come in like a boss with a £450 RTX 3070TI and 5 million available on day 1 of release.
I'm so sick of people like Nvidia telling us there are GPU shortages while selling thousands of Crypto miners literally pallets of GPU's at a time.