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Ethereum mining is going away, and miners are not happy
- mox1 4y agoI can’t wait to pick up a cheap GPU on ebay after the PoW switch.
- pengaru 4y agoJust one?
- mackatap 4y agoI see a lot of people wanting to avoid cards that were used for mining, why is that?
- omegalulw 4y ago24x7 heavy use decreases lifespan. It's not just the chip that's stress it's everything else on the PCB as well, fans,etc.
- emergant 4y agowhich is greatly exaggerated, as it's not constant use that decreases the lifespan, it's disjointed cooldown and heatup. If you leave a card on 24/7 theres not much of a heat gradient in regard to time. Is it getting stress? Sure. Is it killing the card? Not really.
- ChrisRR 4y agoAll use stresses the card, whether constant or periodic usage. I'd still rather buy a card that has been used 2 hours a day for gaming than 24 hours for mining.
- tiluha 4y agoI'm not so sure about that. Mining cards are often undervolted to run at cooler temperatures and consume less power, while gaming cards are pushed to 100% and might even be overclocked. The fans might become problematic, but i think overall a mining card receives less stress in its lifetime
- grozzle 4y agoThe ramp up and down is more important than cumulative heat exposure for solid state components, but not for moving parts in the cooling system, and also electrolytic capacitors age much faster in a hot environment.
- RealStickman_ 4y agoMiners usually underclock their cards to get higher efficiency out of them. Fans are very easily replaceable.
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- rkagerer 4y agohttps://archive.ph/saZLY https://archive.ph/saZLY
- tmp538394722 4y ago> Petzold is considering using his rigs for an aspect of digital video production known as rendering, which can require significant computing resources. “There are other uses for the cards” This is an incredible quote. People have realized that there are other uses for graphics cards than mining crypto currency - like, oh I don’t know, I guess graphics.
- pcthrowaway 4y agoThat's pretty funny. I assume this is in reference to the render project: https://rendertoken.com/ https://rendertoken.com/ Basically a distributed rendering blockchain, where participants perform actual useful rendering in order to earn the token. I don't know too much about it though, or whether there's actually much demand for on-demand rendering. I'd assume most potential "customers" would have concerns about their workloads being accessible to the public if they're working on something proprietary.
- bergenty 4y agoIs it possible to render an encrypted version of pre rendered data that outputs the rendered file in that same encrypted format that can only be decoded using the original private key it was encrypted with?
- pcthrowaway 4y agoIt seems like you'd have to know who is going to be rendering your pre-rendered source in order to encrypt it to them. Also, the render nodes would have to be trusted (to not redistribute the content); I doubt this is what render token is doing.
- bergenty 4y agoNo I mean the renderer has no ability to decrypt. Can you turn encrypted pre rendered data into finish encrypted rendered data without decrypting it. Then only the owner could decrypt it back to a useable form.
- citizenpaul 4y ago> running computing hardware on his balcony to earn cryptocurrency so he can buy clothing and other necessities. With his tens of thousands of dollars of GFX cards....... I go to work every day to buy clothing and other necessities. I trade currency from my yacht to buy clothing and other necessities. I rent my fleet of Ferrari's to buy clothing and other necessities. Why does everything have to have some sob story attached to it these days? Seems like there just cannot be news anymore. Hey lets exploit the Ukranine war for clicks.
- benj111 4y ago>who’s been mining for a year, has earned only about $5,000 worth of crypto on his initial $30,000 hardware investment; he also pays about $650 in monthly electricity costs. So he's spending more on electricity than he's making in crypto...