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Re:Are cryptocurrencies to blame for high GPU prices? by 1-6 on Saturday January 01, 2022 @12:02PM (#29760277)
It still doesn’t help that the Ethereum hashrate limiter is not imposed on the highest-end card (it’s FHR not LHR). The 3090 (aka 30-series Titan cards) are still really hard to find. The the 24GB of double-sided GDDR6x gets super hot though and all implementations of the card did not take that into account.

The 3080ti’s are easier to find as they’re LHR and price per hashrate ratio isn’t good. What I mean by easier is that bots have a tendency of going after cards with price/ratio.

It doesn’t help either that DDR5 RAM is also highly scalped. PC memory is in direct competition to GPU memory and vice versa.

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Re:Are cryptocurrencies to blame for high GPU prices? by ShamelessC on Saturday January 01, 2022 @12:08PM (#29760351)
Please don't buy GPU's to mine cryptocurrency, you're contributing to a global chip shortage and I really want to play Halo Infinite in 4k.

For real though, cut that out.

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Re:Are cryptocurrencies to blame for high GPU prices? by legulere on Saturday January 01, 2022 @02:34PM (#29761809)
You’re also contributing to global warming with mining and contribute to a scheme that allows criminals to transfer money. If your local hospital has to shut down because of ransomware you are making that possible.
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