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Hi. Dunno if this is the place to put this thread but here goes. And this may or may not be a little bit of a rant...
Something has to be done about this Crypto currency mining craze. Graphics cards meant for gamers are simply being bought up in their hundreds and prices going through the roof as a result. This is not fair on the intended audience of these video cards. How long will this last? If it lasts for too long PC gaming will essentially die unless you wanna game on a 1050 Ti forever. (Well that isn't THAT bad, but still). I was an idiot and sold my GTX 1070 Ti on ebay hoping to get a massive profit to pay for 'real life' things. (Ugh). Will find out tomorrow what it makes, but even so, I'm now stuck on a GTX 1050 (non Ti) for the foreseeable future.
Will Next-gen video cards (thinking 20 series) be priced through the roof or will the stock simply vanish into thin air as more and more people want free money they haven't worked for?
Can NVIDIA or AMD implement bios/firmware locks in GeForce and Radeon RX gaming cards to prevent mining on them? And then allow bulk sales of the special purpose mining cards? Or can retailers implement a 1 or 2 per customer rule like NVIDIA does already?
Because this is just not fair. I am beginning to really hate mining and miners in general.
/rant
Something has to be done about this Crypto currency mining craze. Graphics cards meant for gamers are simply being bought up in their hundreds and prices going through the roof as a result. This is not fair on the intended audience of these video cards. How long will this last? If it lasts for too long PC gaming will essentially die unless you wanna game on a 1050 Ti forever. (Well that isn't THAT bad, but still). I was an idiot and sold my GTX 1070 Ti on ebay hoping to get a massive profit to pay for 'real life' things. (Ugh). Will find out tomorrow what it makes, but even so, I'm now stuck on a GTX 1050 (non Ti) for the foreseeable future.
Will Next-gen video cards (thinking 20 series) be priced through the roof or will the stock simply vanish into thin air as more and more people want free money they haven't worked for?
Can NVIDIA or AMD implement bios/firmware locks in GeForce and Radeon RX gaming cards to prevent mining on them? And then allow bulk sales of the special purpose mining cards? Or can retailers implement a 1 or 2 per customer rule like NVIDIA does already?
Because this is just not fair. I am beginning to really hate mining and miners in general.
/rant