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I just wanted to be able to buy a GPU without paying exorbitant prices because miners.
by sulunia 5y ago
I just wanted to be able to buy a GPU without paying exorbitant prices because miners.
- sva_ 5y agoI think there's a realistic chance that you'll soon be able to get them at a nice discount on ebay.
- kevingadd 5y agoEthereum switching to PoS seems like it would definitely reduce the incentive to buy truckloads of gpus
- sarabad2021 5y agoMining prices are skyrocketing right now - Still extremely profitable even in a bear market
- cheaprentalyeti 5y agoI only say this about 1% of the time I read stuff like this, and it's still too much: _Bitcoin doesn't use GPUs to mine with_. It's been custom ASICs for the last eight years or so. I think.
- dougmwne 5y agoASICs presumably take up valuable chip fab capacity at a time where we are going through a lengthy chips shortage that has real-world manufacturing impact on real goods people use to perform useful work.
- cheaprentalyeti 5y agoA lot of that particular shortage happened because everyone cancelled their preexisting contracts and now they have to renegotiate at a new cost basis, after the government has thrown trillions of new dollars into the economy.
- sva_ 5y agoEthereum does though e: Take a look at this https://www.reddit.com/r/EtherMining/comments/nfppnv/120_rtx_3070s_7500_mhs/ https://www.reddit.com/r/EtherMining/comments/nfppnv/120_rtx... There are countless people like that
- ssully 5y agoHow do people get that many cards? Myself and about 3 friends have all been trying to get a 3060 or better for the last 3 months to build new computers and none of us has gotten a card yet. This is a mix of following discords, knowing site stock times (or trying their ridiculous lotteries), and one friend has tried bots.
- defaultname 5y agoBitcoin is the high water that floats all the other boats in crypto. When BTC drops, they all drop. So their core point is certainly valid. Not to mention that BTC-specific ASICs are a big reason there is a chip manufacturing squeeze. Millions of completely useless, power gobbling devices.
- theandrewbailey 5y agoIf it was like last time (2018), prices remained higher than what they should have been for months after. Then Nvidia got the message about how much people were willing to spend on GPUs, and overpriced their RTX 2000 cards.
- sulunia 5y agoEven if the big crash that kills GPU prices happen, I'll probably still have to go second hand, since a brand new, better GPU than the one I have will still go for (albeit less) ludicrous prices.
- christiansakai 5y agoGPU prices going down wont' happen. Just take the hit, or queue.
- abledon 5y agonext 3070s are going to crippled for EtherMining so you'll be good.... gonna pick a 3080Ti up myself to run some Yolo4 models https://videocardz.com/newz/msi-confirms-geforce-rtx-3080-ti-12gb-and-rtx-3070-ti-8gb-suprim-series https://videocardz.com/newz/msi-confirms-geforce-rtx-3080-ti...