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are miners even really a factor anymore, for bitcoin ASICs have been the only game in town forever and AFAIK the ethereum POS switch absolutely gutted the profitability of GPU mining other coins
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repiv posted:are miners even really a factor anymore, for bitcoin ASICs have been the only game in town forever and AFAIK the ethereum POS switch absolutely gutted the profitability of GPU mining other coins I don't think they're a major factor any more, but you do see people still chasing that dragon by using GPUs to mine volatile shitcoins and then convert that into BTC. They're always losing money by the time you do the math on hardware + electricity, but the idea is that they're getting coins at today's prices and they're inevitably going to appreciate to infinity so a loss today doesn't matter because it will be swamped by market gains tomorrow. Yes it would make way more sense to just buy BTC at market prices today if you believe that. If you spotted that hole congrats, you're smarter than the sort of person who is still trying to mine today. (another answer is that your mining costs are much lower if you're stealing electricity)
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They can crypto mine deez nuts, that era sucked, I mean it's always something that sucks now but you get me, that was a particularly lovely reason not to be able to get any GPUs for years. I'm just mad because I made fun of buttcoin instead of paying pennies for it and now look, I can't even get a 5090, what the gently caress That RTX Pro 6000 card with 92GB of VRAM sure is something. I guess that's the AI training daddy of this lineup? What a modern "workstation class" top end GPU looks like? Agreed fucked around with this message at 04:18 on Mar 16, 2025 |
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Mar 16, 2025 04:16
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repiv posted:are miners even really a factor anymore, for bitcoin ASICs have been the only game in town forever and AFAIK the ethereum POS switch absolutely gutted the profitability of GPU mining other coins even with free electricity the most you can make with a 5090 mining altcoins is like a dollar a day or something like that, it would take decades to pay off edit: yup, just checked and even with zero electricity costs you're mining some shitcoin (redundant, they're all poo poo) called QUAI for $1.01 a day
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Mar 16, 2025 09:49
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That pic of the GPU BTC RIG isn't even what he is supposedly selling. Just "an example of my work" Lol, just give me 400k and I'll be back with your 80 gpus later.
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Mar 16, 2025 10:11
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I like how best buy sends me dozens of alerts and emails about how if I still want a 5080 or 5090 founders edition I should just hop on the store and buy one. It's only been "available" I think 3 times, including launch, and only for milliseconds. Had it in my cart twice but no luck actually purchasing
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Mar 16, 2025 15:15
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Any possibility that RX 9070 XT will actually be broadly available within a couple of months? I'd like to buy one but I am uninterested in following lists or joining discords or lovely vendor programs or putting any more effort into it than just pulling up a link after work and buying one normally.
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Mar 16, 2025 16:26
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biceps crimes posted:Any possibility that RX 9070 XT will actually be broadly available within a couple of months? I'd like to buy one but I am uninterested in following lists or joining discords or lovely vendor programs or putting any more effort into it than just pulling up a link after work and buying one normally. Available at all? Yeah, I think it might. For $599 though? Very unlikely. The $599 "MSRP" has turned out to be a special promotional price that will only be available when AMD is feeling gracious enough to offer it. Most models will start at around $719 it seems.
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biceps crimes posted:Any possibility that RX 9070 XT will actually be broadly available within a couple of months? I'd like to buy one but I am uninterested in following lists or joining discords or lovely vendor programs or putting any more effort into it than just pulling up a link after work and buying one normally. If the Best Buy 5080 comes thru and I can pick it up this week as claimed on the order page, I have $851 in my 9070 XT and would sell it to recoup my expenses + cost of shipping to the buyer. I have not yet registered it or anything like that, basically an "Open Box" 9070 XT (Hellhound by Powercolor) and it works real well in games with great capture quality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIR__wguNxs Now, AMD has committed to restocking and claim restocking AT MSRP is a top priority, so it could be that skipping mine would get you a cheaper one down the line. But with the trade war still heating up and tariffs in play, I dunno if low prices will actually be able to persist or not, I've seen the drat nVidia cards shoot up and up over the last couple weeks with no end in sight yet. But if prices do hold and restocks happen apace, you might save some over this price buying what you want new from Newegg or whatever, pending availability. With all that in mind, if nobody here wants to buy mine, I may just send it back to Newegg for refund minus shipping, to avoid hassles of selling on EBay or whatever and taking my chance with shitbag scammers. Agreed fucked around with this message at 17:38 on Mar 16, 2025 |
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Mar 16, 2025 17:34
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Is there a utility to override fan curves for older Radeon cards? I have a Powercolor 6800XT Red Dragon which seems to be using a curve from the factory set to "gently caress you" because the fans don't get moving until 90 C and it's usually not until the temp has been sitting there (or beyond) for a bit. The card is ignoring whatever manual settings I try in the AMD driver software. The card comes with a dual BIOS switch which is currently set to the "OC" position. I want to disable zero RPM mode and have a fairly aggressive ramp and if things hit 90 C go hog wild I don't care if the case starts hovering as a result. Fabulousity fucked around with this message at 20:47 on Mar 16, 2025 |
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