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Recent content by LeftSide

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    RTX 5xxx / RX 8xxx speculation

    At this point commercial cards are selling for so much more than graphics cards, Nvidia would make more money by abandoning the gaming market. I wouldn’t be surprised if it happens.
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    Checking in with my Ender3 pro

    I’m sure you have figured it out by now, but just for reference for anyone else reading, your issue was probably the minimum retraction count settings. This setting sets how many times the extruder will retract within the Minimum extrusion distance window. So you were setup for 10 times within...
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    Trying to decide on an inexpensive, secondhand 1080p solution

    The trick is to find cards that can’t be mined with anymore. The 3gb 1060 or a 4gb AMD 580 are hundreds of dollars cheaper than their 6/8gb counterparts.
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    Visual and Performance issues after 4 different PC builds with different parts over 4 months (Need Help!)

    A few thoughts. 1) Bad CPU RAM will almost always end with BSODs. The PC will eventually get bad data back from the memory and it will crash the PC. This is done by design of the x86 system. 2) Bad GPU RAM will not always crash the computer. The memory is primary used for output to a screen...
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    What's the truthful reason(s) for the GPU shortage?

    I have the weirdest notion that I’ve read this before.
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    I microwaved a R9 390X gaming and now my pc won't run after 3rd time

    princeboy47 I’m really interested in what your local computer repair shop said. Were they able to salvage anything?
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    Identify a used GPU card that was used in mining?

    If every gamer started mining tomorrow, there would be a significant drop in profitability. Miners would lose money, and stop buying video cards.
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    What's the truthful reason(s) for the GPU shortage?

    I can’t speak for anyone else, but I didn’t stop buying graphics cards after my TNT2. In fact, I can’t think of a single example of someone who bought a gaming card and has never upgraded since. Gamers are some of the most loyal repeat customers out there. I can’t think of any other industry...
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    What's the truthful reason(s) for the GPU shortage?

    Oh I'm sure Nvidia is doing it mainly to push professional miners into the more profitable CMP cards, but they would be wise to try and get product into actual customer hands. Warning the following is just anecdotal, I have no evidence only than personal experience: Both AMD and Nvidia would...
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    What's the truthful reason(s) for the GPU shortage?

    https://www.coindesk.com/bitmain-antminer-e9-asic-ethereum-mining TLDR: An ASIC that mines ethereum will be released this year. A combination of ETH 2.0, this ASIC, and Nvidia lowering the hash rate of their cards should make gfx cards available again by the end of the year.
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    What's the truthful reason(s) for the GPU shortage?

    We will see the same effect happen in our lifetimes with vehicles. As soon as fully autonomous vehicles are produced, the ability to make profit on a vehicle will become standard. Making your car do taxi service while you are at work, or when you are not using it during the weekends will pay for...
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    What's the truthful reason(s) for the GPU shortage?

    I disagree. The most I spent on a card was $300 before the mining boom. I just bought a 3070 for $750 retail, and it didn’t even bother me, because in 4ish months I’ll have a free kick ass video card. Price is irrelevant when these cards make so much money mining. I have several friends doing...
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    What's the truthful reason(s) for the GPU shortage?

    Sorry, I guess I did ramble on a bit. I was trying to say that yes it applies to AMD cards as well, but they are not mining at the same hash rates as their nvidia equivalent. Also, it’s true that the GPU is underclocked and undervolted to save power, but the memory will be overclocked to the...
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    What's the truthful reason(s) for the GPU shortage?

    The 6x00 series is not good for eth mining because of the memory architecture. Eth runs random calculations across a 4gb file. The small cache of l3 memory on the latest Radeon GPUs is great for gaming, but impedes the random nature of eth compute. Most miners turn the gpu voltage down to save...
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    What's the truthful reason(s) for the GPU shortage?

    https://wccftech.com/nvidia-calls-ampere-geforce-rtx-30-series-graphics-cards-their-best-launch-ever/ “In the charts published by NVIDIA, the company shows that Ampere GPUs were its fastest ramping architecture to date, resulting in twice the number of end market sales of GeForce RTX 30...
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