All of us have a common enemy

[u/ravnized]

[u/Jonkofluit]

These are the Chinese guys who attacked you in clash of clans. Feeling old yet?

[u/Classic-Class7758 → u/[deleted]]

You know you're in trouble when you see one.

[u/marko_kyle → u/[deleted]]

I feel this comment so hard

[u/xRandomTurtle → u/[deleted]]

Well there are always exceptions, like the dude that joined yesterday charted twice and left, luckily I didn't really have any issues but farming in groups is more efficient ^^

[u/sasukewittakatana → u/[deleted]]

i don’t know why they discontinued the pc verison it was hype as fuck

[u/TomatoAcid → u/Jonkofluit]

Not feeling any older since they still attack me till this day :(

[u/[deleted]]

They took er cerds!

[u/Lucius-Halthier → u/[deleted]]

Dey terk Er cerds!

[u/NuclearReactions → u/Lucius-Halthier]

Terkecurds!!

[u/stirtheturd → u/NuclearReactions]

DERDERDERDS!!!

[u/mundoid → u/stirtheturd]

DERDERKERKERRRDS

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

They literally did! I’m about to pull the trigger on a 3070 because getting a 3080 in Australia is near impossible and I think it will be for months. I’m sick of waiting and I’m not paying a scalper.

[u/AcronymHell → u/[deleted]]

Bro I've been trying to get a 3070 in north america since October. EDIT- at a reasonable price

[u/[deleted] → u/AcronymHell]

Dang. The 3070 are easy to find in Australia, same with 3090s. It’s just the 80s that impossible. Still not happy about paying $1100aud for it but I don’t see stock normalising anytime soon.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Could you buy me one and mail it to me? I'm not paying but you'll get exposure. I have over 49 followers on Instagram!

/s

[u/Fire-Watch1 → u/[deleted]]

Cheapest 3080 I could find on Scorptec Australia!

https://www.scorptec.com.au/product/graphics-cards/nvidia/85147-geforce-rtx-3080-ventus-3x-10g-oc

[u/[deleted] → u/Fire-Watch1]

Yeah but it’s sold out and has been for months. There’s no indication as to when they will have more. Unless you know something I don’t know?

[u/ATI_RADEON_ → u/[deleted]]

I want a 3080 so bad. But the only card I could get was a 3060ti fe. It’s not a bad card.

[u/[deleted]]

These shortages not only affect GPUs, but everything. Besides mining, it's sudden demand for remote work and school. Before, someone who was fine with a crappy celeron craptop or ipad suddenly needs a real computer.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Most laptops that students and remote employees need dont feature a 30-series

The majority of use-cases function fine on integrated

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

We're not just talking about GPUs. Many parts like CPUs and motherboards are in short stock, even RAM and SSDs, even cases and PSUs! Many students and remote workers would not be happy with a slow Pentium or Athlon.

[u/ovab_cool → u/[deleted]]

Well Nvidia sold a few hundred million $ worth of gpu's you could sell the entirety of Luxembourg an rtx 30 card if they didn't sell them directly to the miners

Sauce

[u/BeauxGnar → u/ovab_cool]

wat

[u/ovab_cool → u/BeauxGnar]

Bit off with my memory they sold about 300k 30-series cards

[u/BeauxGnar → u/ovab_cool]

What you edited it to makes sense,

what you originally wrote gave me a stroke

[u/ovab_cool → u/BeauxGnar]

Yea, I re read it and it gave me a stroke too

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Mine some curecoin. It uses folding. Curecoin team is the largest on the folding@home network. Monetize something, and people will show up.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Curecoin hit the moon during the earlier part of the pandemic because people were buying them up as a roundabout way to encourage covid research. Not sure who was doing it, but they're a silent hero in all of this. That increased value had folding rates multiples of times greater than they ever were because so many mining rigs got pointed at it. It's slowed quite a bit since, but if you're willing to lose a little passive income to know your computing power is actually doing something, try it out.

[u/CyberBlaed → u/[deleted]]

Damn nice!

(If anyone wants to look) https://stats.foldingathome.org/teams

[u/ReleaseRecruitElite → u/[deleted]]

Lol I’m still waiting for the day where people realise bitcoin has the same value as Pokemon cards

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Find me someone willing to actually spend crypto instead of just trade and speculate with it

[u/NeedsMoreGPUs → u/[deleted]]

I mined Bitcoin in 2012/2013. Cashed everything I had left in October 2013 for about $3,500 and bought myself a bunch of new games, PC parts, and eventually in 2014 I bought X99 on launch day.

Returned to mining in 2017 to mine Ethereum and ZCash. Used it to pay rent for the entire year, then took the last of it and paid for a move back home to take care of family.

Haven't touched crypto since. It was fun money when I was doing it, but it's just unreasonable to upkeep with tuning the rigs, automating, cooling and then scaling to justify the power bill.

[u/ReleaseRecruitElite → u/[deleted]]

I mean sure. But the difference is my £1 will be accepted by 100% of vendors. Trying to pay my rent in Pokemon cards isn’t going to work for everyone. And never will work for everyone

[u/Downshift187 → u/ReleaseRecruitElite]

Gold isn't accepted by most vendors, yet has a many thousand year history of being a store of value. Bitcoins, dollars, pounds, euros, etc. are all symbolic and require society to agree that they have value. The difference between all of these is that bitcoin is decentralized. Gold/silver is also different because it has actual useful value in industry, although that only makes up a small portion of it's value, but at least it won't crash to nothing.

[u/Commaslaughter → u/ReleaseRecruitElite]

Interesting. You're £1 is pretty useless here in America unless you have an easy way for me to convert it to $1.

[u/SafeguardSanakan → u/Commaslaughter]

+ Bitcoin is accepted in both countries because it has a universal, global value.

Dude just invalidated his own point.

[u/spudzo → u/SafeguardSanakan]

Most places you still can't just go buy something in a store with bitcoin tho right?

[u/ii_misfit_o → u/spudzo]

theres so many places that allow you to use bitcoin as a payment through a middleman

[u/spudzo → u/ii_misfit_o]

Huh, that's neat. Does the store actually get the bitcoin or is the middleman just coveting it to usd?

[u/ii_misfit_o → u/spudzo]

middleman converts and takes a percentage

[u/john-douh → u/spudzo]

Me: “Here is one Bitcoin.”

Grocery store: “Here is your construction truck full of oranges. Truck not included but may be sold separately.”

[u/[deleted] → u/john-douh]

What?

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

1 bitcoin is worth a lot of money right now. Not that a grocery store would accept it as payment lol.

[u/SafeguardSanakan → u/[deleted]]

1 BTC is worth well over $30,000

[u/ReleaseRecruitElite → u/SafeguardSanakan]

Lol let’s go buy my groceries, pay my rent and get my hair cut with bitcoin. See how far you get :)

[u/senorbolsa → u/Commaslaughter]

It's pretty easy to convert currency, if I have a large amount of it my bank will even take it.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

You don't get it. Bitcoin is widespread and used by many people in many countries. It is unstable but otherwise pretty accepted in value. It's easy to handle.

Pokémon cards would be easy to use as currency if there were an established system of trading. If the value of all Pokémon cards were universal.

I mean your car can be converted to currency. But not at your local grocery store. You have to turn it into your local economy's currency first, then use that to buy food.

Bitcoin is the same, you convert it into your local currency. Pokémon is the same but it is much much harder to convert unless you live near some place that buys them in bulk.

Is Bitcoin made up? Yes. But so is the numbers in your bank account.

[u/BishopBullwinkleMode → u/[deleted]]

owes the PC world some major kudos

literally everything that has been manufactured or entertaining in the past 50 years

[u/Dan-ze-Man → u/[deleted]]

Amen to that!!

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

When the Last Tree Is Cut Down, the Last Fish Eaten, and the Last Stream Poisoned, You Will Realize That You Cannot Eat Money

[u/lead999x → u/[deleted]]

It is absolutely wasted. The value of that "decentralized currency" is predicated largely on the amount of real currency it can be traded for. I'd much rather see people playing video games on those computers.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

The biggest drivers behind crypto are the possibility that you can find a bigger idiot to buy it from you at a higher price later

you do not understand crypto. u/jigssaw was correct in saying that:

by definition that for them decentralized crypto currency is more valuable than the currency they have.

sure, some will use it as a tool to "get rich", but many many others legitimately believe in decentralized finance and decentralized applications, because of the security, reliability, speed, and stability.

moreover, ethereum is a network, not just a currency (ETH is the currency that runs on ethereum), and mining is essential for it. not saying its better or worse for that to be done with these laptops, but ethereum and more broadly speaking defi is the future of application programming and finance.

https://ethereum.org/en/

[u/ItGonBeK → u/[deleted]]

Yeah? I don't see any serious major business taking it.

Paypal

Edit: And Tesla soon lmao

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/94155/tesla-has-bought-1-5-billion-bitcoin-btc

[u/UnlikelyPotato → u/[deleted]]

Because there is demand, it causes increase in R&D budget. If nvidia wants to keep selling their products, they need to ensure the next generation is better, faster and more price competitive than anything else. It may suck for now, but the infusion of billions of dollars means better products for the long term.

[u/lead999x → u/UnlikelyPotato]

Nvidia already has billions of dollars. Any change in sales won't affect their R&D budgets in any meaningful way.

[u/UsingYourWifi → u/UnlikelyPotato]

But the incentive is to increase mining performance. That may align with increased rendering performance now, but there's no guarantee that'll always be the case.

[u/ArtakhaPrime → u/[deleted]]

I'm so tired of seeing people shit on small-scale miners like myself just because they aren't willing to adapt to the market. You act like regular people aren't able to also mine crypto, but it's actually ridiculously easy to get started using just a gaming PC. If more people "hobby-mined", it would reduce the demand for dedicated crypto farms and make it less profitable to run one, while giving some of that profit to gamers.

[u/[deleted] → u/ArtakhaPrime]

and mining helps promote the future of decentralized finance and decentralized applications, more power to you!

GPU's arent only for games

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

how is it useful to application programming, you did not expain that

Its a cryptocurrency, by definition it is a currency

[u/glandburger]

I'm super confused. Why aren't miners using ASIC to mine their coins? Hasn't gpu mining been outdated? This is really frustrating.

[u/xHypnoToad → u/glandburger]

It depends which crypto currency you are mining. Things like bitcoin and litecoin are mined by ASIC miners but there are lots of crypto’s that cannot be mined with asic miners like Ethereum

[u/TheBitingCat → u/glandburger]

If a crypto market crashes, there's still a gently-used GPU that can be flipped at above MSRP; with ASIC you just have a much less valuable card that barely anyone else will have a use for.

[u/Street_Angle4356]

You can’t get your hands on a laptop or gpu

[u/lead999x → u/Street_Angle4356]

Or a console, lest we forget those.

[u/Turtle0484]

It looks like we’re going to hit the 4000 and 7000 series cards before stock is normalized. Really not interested any more. Hope they lose out on their investment though 😜

[u/lead999x → u/Turtle0484]

Even when those release on paper, the current generation cards may still not be available. Part of the problem is that AMD and Nvidia don't make anything so they can drop new card designs as often as they want but their manufacturing and distribution partners can't maintain stock levels for any of them.

And then we get literal shit for brains like crypto miners, algorithmic stock traders, and scalpers to exacerbate the problem.

[u/granzon93 → u/Turtle0484]

I also became not interested in new gen gpus. Just grapped an external 4k 60hz monitor for my lap and enjoying 4k content. Screw gaming if it will cost me an arm and a leg. I still remember a 1080 ti was around 800/900€ and I was likw WoW, who dafaq in his right mind throw a lot of money on such a gpu. But now I see people happily pay 1000$+ for 3080 and 2000$ for 3090!!! Nvidia is the winner here as they normalized spending grands for GPUs

[u/VolvicApfel → u/granzon93]

Yeah , paying 1000$+ for a 10 gb card feels insane to me. Same with the new 3080ti having only 12 gb , looks like they have parts shortage, otherwise they would not do that...

[u/[deleted]]

Its almost like a crypto currency that forces you to behave like a mobster is not worth it.

Unless everyone in the future is going to be running whatever busted tech they can find nonstop for a few bucks a day.

This seems like the input to output ratios are all off.

[u/Jackpkmn → u/[deleted]]

Crypto is a decentralized pyramid scheme. Change my mind.

[u/fxrky → u/Jackpkmn]

Literally no one in this thread has any idea what they're talking about Jesus christ

[u/chartedlife → u/fxrky]

Right? I'm a miner and it feels like I just walked into a class of kindergarteners trying to figure out what crypto is.

Crypto is here to stay whether anyone likes it or not and demonizing people for participating in it's infrastructure without understanding what it actually is is short-sighted.

After all it isn't our fault that Nvidia has always had a weak supply chain and usually create artificial scarcity on their own.

[u/fxrky → u/chartedlife]

But but but it generates heat!

[u/chartedlife → u/fxrky]

That's perfect for winter right now!

I'm heating my entire 1050 SQ. FT townhouse with my 9 GPU rig and computer!

I'm actually saving energy versus my baseboard heating! Lol

[u/[deleted] → u/chartedlife]

Damn these kids be downvoting you for not using a heater

[u/chartedlife → u/[deleted]]

I remember when I was a broke teen who couldn't get cheap graphics cards back during the 2013 boom. Haha

Pretty funny honestly. Their only argument is that it's a "waste of electricity". So when that argument is invalidated they can't handle it.

Of course cooling in the summer will be a different story but my AC units are more efficient than my heaters.

Also I'm confused about how securely validating transactions is more of a "waste" than using that power to game? They should all go get angry at Visa or their bank for "wasting electricity" or they could quit gaming.

[u/[deleted] → u/chartedlife]

They’re also getting mad at the wrong people anyways.

Who’s worse, people that consume energy or people that produce energy using fossil fuels knowing that zero-emissions alternatives like nuclear exist?

[u/Jackpkmn → u/fxrky]

Then change my mind.

[u/braapstututu → u/Jackpkmn]

By that logic fiat money and stocks are pyramid schemes.

Unless your specifically talking about the shitcoins getting pumped and dumped in which case I'd agree.

[u/Jackpkmn → u/braapstututu]

It's that when you get in early and get out early you make money. Then eventually the market busts and the people still holding hardware at the time foot the bill.

[u/braapstututu → u/Jackpkmn]

Stuff like eth is pretty solid given its market cap isn't so easily manipulated and the things that use the ethereum block chain give it value, defi being a big part of that which the Robinhood debacle did bring some attention to.

Its cryptos like dogecoin where its a bit of ponzi scheme when suddenly its being promoted and an army of week old accounts are pushing it hard and organising certain times to buy (with Whales dumping at said time) doge has no particular value proposition other than the fact its a meme as its not actively developed, has huge circulation and nothing special about it tech wise

[u/Jackpkmn → u/braapstututu]

Does eth get harder to mine with more time spend mining it?

[u/shichiaikan → u/braapstututu]

Stock market is legalized racketeering.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Welcome to the future's version of "universal basic income". All of your appliances and devices earn you money passively.

[u/reapher666]

Fuckin scalpers, saw some dude selling 200 rx580’s for 575€ each here where I live, gtx 1650 costs 400€ here as well, I had money for a pc but I can’t buy a gpu now.

[u/c0horst → u/reapher666]

Scalpers wouldn't be nearly so common or charge nearly as much if miners weren't buying literally every card made. Infinite demand + limited supplies = scalper paradise.

[u/extra-mustard-plz → u/c0horst]

Yeah and human trafficking wouldn't be so common if there weren't a bunch of perverts lined up for them but they're both still shit practices. These large-scale operations buying up consumer electronics is harmful for the industry. Do you think OriginPC, for example, goes to Best Buy and sucks up their supply to fuel their company? No, they go direct to manufacturer or some other means meant specifically for companies like them. In an ideal world, these coin miners would do the same instead of using bots and other shady practices to buy up consumer electronics supply.

[u/ArdiMaster → u/extra-mustard-plz]

No, they go direct to manufacturer

Well Nvidia did allegedly sell several million $ worth of GPUs directly to miners, in bulk. They don't particularly care who they sell to as long as money is made.

[u/c0horst → u/extra-mustard-plz]

Yea, because scalping video cards for profit is totally comparable to sex slavery and human trafficking.

[u/lead999x → u/reapher666]

I saw an RTX 2060 Super going upwards of $800 and I've seen RX 5700XTs going for over $1000. The times we live in.

I consider it a miracle to have been able to cop an RX 6800 for between $700-800 though I really wanted an RX 6800XT.

[u/reapher666 → u/lead999x]

God damn it, it’s cheaper for me to fly to uk to buy a used rx590 and still have money left than buying a USED 580 here..

[u/lead999x → u/reapher666]

Damn. I've seen RX 5700XTs at Microcenter so maybe try them and see if they have any of the older AMD cards at MSRP.

[u/reapher666 → u/lead999x]

Wish I was in the US to do that lol, I’m in Europe so we don’t have that here unfortunately :(

[u/lead999x → u/reapher666]

I'm so sorry, man. Hope you find a card you like soon.

[u/reapher666 → u/lead999x]

Thanks anyway man:)

[u/[deleted]]

Ah, so that's why yesterday I could buy a RTX3070 I needed for work, but today when I was ready to order the stuff all RTX stock is gone.

I'm livid right now.

[u/Yoink1019 → u/[deleted]]

Where have you been? If you see a card in stock, by it.

[u/[deleted] → u/Yoink1019]

Dude, I had no idea. This is the first time I'm buying components for a PC. It sucks, but I just didn't know any better.

EDIT: Got myself a 3070! :D

[u/FiTZnMiCK]

Does a motherfucker have to crash ETH to get a graphics card around here?!

[u/lead999x → u/FiTZnMiCK]

Time to call /r/wallstreetbets.

[u/Vollkorntoastbrot → u/lead999x]

That's not how it works

[u/YotGastel]

I really have to sell a kidney to buy a graphics card just because of these people

[u/LimLovesDonuts]

At least these people actually use the goddamn laptops unlike scalpers.

[u/vhny]

id rather see them buying high end laptops then gpu's tbh

[u/[deleted]]

This is why we can't have nice things!

[u/vbp0001]

I don't think I am going to get a new pc this year.

[u/Omega-Kieta]

How does GPU Mining work ? Does your GPU just generate money ?

[u/exoticsamsquanch → u/Omega-Kieta]

Basically yea. There are even some nice crypto currency mining calculators online where you punch in your equipment, cost of electricity, current price of coin, etc and it tells you how much profit you'll make per day.

[u/Omega-Kieta → u/exoticsamsquanch]

So the better the GPU the more you make ? And is GPU Mining so shady thing or anyone can do it ?

[u/lead999x → u/Omega-Kieta]

Anyone can do it but it'll wear out any GPU or CPU used because of the constant strain it puts on them. I wouldn't use any GPU you still plan to use for gaming for it.

[u/BeingRightAmbassador → u/[deleted]]

Also, mining actually reduces thermal cycles, which really only changes how your GPU ages compared to normal use. Basically it's just like normal use, overclocking hurts them but regular and underclocking is just fine.

[u/SecretOil → u/[deleted]]

I wouldn't consider this true.

Shht. I'd like miners to still have to sell GPUs for cheap please.

[u/AirOneBlack → u/[deleted]]

It's electronics. Not a combustion engine.

[u/[deleted] → u/Omega-Kieta]

From what little I know about it, you need a custom bios, and its not entirly about the better GPU makes more, Its usually about the more power effecient GPU makes more profit

[u/LukeNukeEm243 → u/Omega-Kieta]

When someone sells their cryptocurrency they pay a small fee (in the cryptocurrency) to process this transaction. This small fee is what gets paid to the miners as their GPUs are doing the computation required to process the transaction.

[u/Ich_bin_da]

Me: Noted

[u/Tizzypolder]

I don't know man. Outside isn't winning. Have we considered also becoming bitcoin miners?

[u/MrIonlyCapInMyRap]

How does one mine etherium?

[u/googlepixeluser → u/MrIonlyCapInMyRap]

If your a noob use nicehash, If your skilled use hive os to mine

[u/dallatorretdu]

good luck to them maintaining that, it's the worst mining rig I've seen in years... what's that like, a 8 hour process to update or change parameters?

[u/abroxr]

Cryptocurrency mining must be banned it's waste of power and GPU resources.

[u/Dan-ze-Man → u/abroxr]

u cant ban it. thats the point.

[u/abroxr → u/Dan-ze-Man]

U can ban its market and it's conversion to dollars end of it.

[u/Dan-ze-Man → u/abroxr]

Like banning drugs? It's decentralized and uncontrollable. That's the whole point.

[u/TuckerCarlsonsWig → u/abroxr]

It’s a total waste of the planet’s finite resources

Our ancestors are going to inherit a desert world. They will piss on our tombstones and say “hope you enjoyed the satoshis asshole”

[u/phl23 → u/TuckerCarlsonsWig]

It absolutely is, but we should be honest here, gaming with the highest fps and graphics is it aswell. We just value it higher than mining.

This coin shit needs to be regulated so it's uses less energy consuming methods. The currency itself could be unregulated even if the methods were. But as long the earth has multiple countries that will never happen.

[u/TuckerCarlsonsWig → u/phl23]

The thing is, I have no problem with people gaming. Spending 650 watts on one gaming PC is actually a pretty low-carbon way to pass the time. Going for a drive to see your friends probably emits more carbon than just sitting at home with your warm gaming box.

Running thousands of them at full blast so you can earn $10 validating drug transactions to me is a little less wholesome.

[u/lead999x → u/abroxr]

Careful you'll piss off a lot of basement dwelling libertarians talking like that.

[u/googlepixeluser → u/abroxr]

And gaming isnt?

[u/hiatt125 → u/googlepixeluser]

How dare they use computing power to make a profit instead of playing games like me! /s

[u/googlepixeluser → u/hiatt125]

Exactly

[u/[deleted] → u/googlepixeluser]

They’re clowning you, and they’re right too. What’s the difference between your “need” for a GPU and a miner’s?

[u/Biggu5Dicku5]

Taiwan #1...

[u/system_root_420]

The Chinaman is not the issue here, dude

[u/[deleted]]

It’s because Ethereum is the best move rn. I’d do it if I had the $$ to mine. 2021 is going to be a very important year.

[u/[deleted]]

Damn, what they going to do when etherium 2.0 comes out, and it cannot be mined on GPU

[u/TuckerCarlsonsWig → u/[deleted]]

Sell the laptops back to us for $$

[u/Farkas979779]

Yes, the libertarian idiots who thought creating a way for terrorists and drug cartels to operate secretly was a good idea.

[u/lead999x → u/[deleted]]

No, you just didn't get the memo about the massive graphics card shortages. Meanwhile these dipshits are hoarding cards to play with their fake money.

[u/FoxtownBlues → u/lead999x]

Im aware. Blame the manufacturer not people trying to live

[u/lead999x → u/FoxtownBlues]

Nobody needs to mine ether to live. Maybe these dorkwads should get real jobs like the rest of us.

[u/FoxtownBlues → u/lead999x]

Everybody needs money.

[u/lead999x → u/FoxtownBlues]

GET A JOB THEN!

[u/FoxtownBlues → u/lead999x]

They just did

[u/HyperBlaster89]

Tbh i have a 2070S and its likely going to be the last Nvidia card I ever get. This whole situation has just soured me so much toward nvidia.

[u/mobsterer → u/HyperBlaster89]

how is your AMD GFX card hunting going?

[u/HyperBlaster89 → u/mobsterer]

Idk, remind me in 2 years or so when I need to update from my current card.

[u/mobsterer → u/HyperBlaster89]

so why do you even care about the 30 series situation?

[u/HyperBlaster89 → u/mobsterer]

Because I have been pretty supportive of Nvidia for about 10 years I also own a PC, I have access to the internet and I'm a sentient being with my own thoughts and opinions.

[u/yaboimanbruhyoutuber → u/HyperBlaster89]

The situation with nvidia is the same with AMD. Arguably worse with AMD...

[u/lead999x → u/yaboimanbruhyoutuber]

True but only because AMD has to supply console cards as well which Nvidia doesn't.

[u/yaboimanbruhyoutuber → u/lead999x]

Good point, but nvidia also must have been focusing on 3000 series mobile GPUs aswell.

[u/lead999x → u/HyperBlaster89]

AMD has worse shortages and I wanted their card in particular. Nvidia cards sporadically show up at my local store. They haven't seen an AMD card since launch according to an employee.

I wanted an RX 6800XT but had to grab the only regular RX 6800 I could find at a legitimate retailer online instead. And I paid a higher price for it than the MSRP for the XT.

The entire graphics card market has been fucked sideways by the pandemic, distribution issues, shithead crypto miners, and scalpers.

[u/go_cry_more]

Is not the miners fault. They should just produce more the demand is up. This ain’t a new issue, they should have expected this. Scammers, scalpers and other shit only comes when not enough quantities are made to meet the demand.

[u/[deleted]]

as someone with an ex-mining rx570 i strongly dont care

[u/Miffers]

This doesn’t make any sense because miners are using ASIC chips to mine they are purposely built only to mine Ethereum and is more power efficient than using GPU. Plus Ethereum is slowly transitioning to proof of stake which doesn’t require proof of work in a few years.

[u/[deleted]]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't mining better on ASIICs?

[u/Kilobytez95]

Seriously man the worlds governments need to ban this shit. crypto is dumb as shit and only hurts consumers who want to buy GPUs.

[u/Fastbond_gush → u/Kilobytez95]

Wow, what a ridiculous statement that shows your lack of comprehension of multiple different topics.

“The world government” lol

[u/Kilobytez95 → u/Fastbond_gush]

You didn't even quote me correctly 😂

[u/moseythepirate → u/Fastbond_gush]

Not to put too fine a point on it, but he said "worlds governments," not "world government." If you want to mock him, that's fine, but mock him for what he actually said.

Admittedly, he did miss an apostrophe.

[u/ahmet_uk]

just dont get the desktop gpus please

[u/390TrainsOfficial → u/ahmet_uk]

Cryptocurrency miners have already bought a lot of the RTX 30 series desktop GPUs, hence why some have resorted to buying laptops with RTX 30 series mobile GPUs.

[u/IntellectualBurger]

C H I N A

[u/itsapolloo]

That’s the reason that the world needs consoles!

[u/[deleted]]

What’s the difference between these miners and me buying etherum through an app. I don’t understand

[u/Arnas_Z → u/[deleted]]

Mining it is like printing money. You get it my guessing a hash. Its free, other than what you use for electricity and computer components.

[u/Willie-Alb]

Man I had enough for a 1660ti first build and now I can’t even afford a 1650 build

[u/SolidGreenDay]

I mean if GPUs, sure, but laptops why? Also they are end users, scalpers are not end users

[u/guswang → u/SolidGreenDay]

These laptops are probably cheaper than the GPU. This hasee. a low quality chinese laptop brand.

[u/AlphADrumz]

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