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Processor | Intel 13700K |
Motherboard | ASRock Z790 PG Riptide |
Cooling | Arctic Liquid Freezer II 420 |
Memory | Corsair Vengeance 6400 2x16GB @ CL34 |
Video Card(s) | PNY RTX 4080 |
Storage | SSDs - Nextorage 4TB, Samsung EVO 970 500GB, Plextor M5Pro 128GB, HDDs - WD Black 6TB, 2x 1TB |
Display(s) | LG C3 OLED 42" |
Case | Corsair 7000D Airflow |
Audio Device(s) | Yamaha RX-V371 |
Power Supply | SeaSonic Vertex 1200w Gold |
Mouse | Razer Basilisk V3 |
Keyboard | Bloody B840-LK |
Software | Windows 11 Pro 23H2 |
I know Nvidia just announced a call to arms to retailers to help combat unstable availability and pricing by limiting purchase quantities, but it seems to me that is not going to get it done. The only way out of this I see is the manufacture of an affordable tier of workstation cards, combined with global legislation requiring bit coin mining data be encrypted with a special code that only these GPUs can unlock. Otherwise just make bit coins illegal and thus worthless, which I think is the best option since bit coin mining seems to be as damaging to the economy as piracy, if not worse.
After some chat and articles I've read recently, I thought CPU and RAM prices were as much out of control, but the 8700k is steadily dropping in price to now $380, and 16GB of 3200 DDR4 is regularly on sale, sometimes for $186. Mining is the one ugly scar on the face of the gaming economy that is in desperate need of legislation.
Thoughts?
After some chat and articles I've read recently, I thought CPU and RAM prices were as much out of control, but the 8700k is steadily dropping in price to now $380, and 16GB of 3200 DDR4 is regularly on sale, sometimes for $186. Mining is the one ugly scar on the face of the gaming economy that is in desperate need of legislation.
Thoughts?