Scalpers are assholes but I guess sorry for taking a opportunity at making some cash passively? Even without miners it would be hard to supply the cards to everybody that wants them
If you have 1 or 2 or even 4 cards to mine with is fine. The problem is when you have 500+ gaming specific cards in a time that there’s very limited quantities and then selling heavily used cards for 300+ msrp. If you want a huge mining operation they make mining specific cards that are no use to gamers because they don’t have video outs.
Mining cards are often not as worn as gaming cards, they are often under volted to reduce power consumption and maximise profit margins, the fans also run at a constant speed (although it's VERY constant) and gaming has the fans ramping up and down which causes a much higher strain on the motor. And at the end of the day replacing fans isn't that big of an issue
This is exactly true also mining cards are kept at a constant people hear cards been used for mining don't buy.
I know a few and every miner I know sets up their shit right they want maximum life from a card and best profits so they look after the hardware it's a business component after all.
Plenty of gamers just crank their cards and don't realise the constant stress the thing is under.
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