• Welcome to TechPowerUp Forums, Guest! Please check out our forum guidelines for info related to our community.
  • The forums have been upgraded with support for dark mode. By default it will follow the setting on your system/browser. You may override it by scrolling to the end of the page and clicking the gears icon.

Is Crypto about to wreck consumer CPU availability?

Is Crypto about to wreck consumer CPU availability especially for the new AMD series coming soon?

  • Yes

    Votes: 2 9.1%

  • No

    Votes: 16 72.7%

  • It doesn't matter. Normies were never meant to have that many cores in the first place.

    Votes: 2 9.1%

  • What is a CPU?

    Votes: 2 9.1%
  • Total voters
    22
  • Poll closed .
A

A Computer Guy

Joined
Jul 30, 2019
Messages
3,819 (1.78/day)
System Specs
System Name Still not a thread ripper but pretty good.
Processor Ryzen 9 7950x, Thermal Grizzly AM5 Offset Mounting Kit, Thermal Grizzly Extreme Paste
Motherboard ASRock B650 LiveMixer (BIOS/UEFI version P3.08, AGESA 1.2.0.2)
Cooling EK-Quantum Velocity, EK-Quantum Reflection PC-O11, D5 PWM, EK-CoolStream PE 360, XSPC TX360
Memory Micron DDR5-5600 ECC Unbuffered Memory (2 sticks, 64GB, MTC20C2085S1EC56BD1) + JONSBO NF-1
Video Card(s) XFX Radeon RX 5700 & EK-Quantum Vector Radeon RX 5700 +XT & Backplate
Storage Samsung 4TB 980 PRO, 2 x Optane 905p 1.5TB (striped), AMD Radeon RAMDisk
Display(s) 2 x 4K LG 27UL600-W (and HUANUO Dual Monitor Mount)
Case Lian Li PC-O11 Dynamic Black (original model)
Audio Device(s) Corsair Commander Pro for Fans, RGB, & Temp Sensors (x4)
Power Supply Corsair RM750x
Mouse Logitech M575
Keyboard Corsair Strafe RGB MK.2
Software Windows 10 Professional (64bit)
Benchmark Scores RIP Ryzen 9 5950x, ASRock X570 Taichi (v1.06), 128GB Micron DDR4-3200 ECC UDIMM (18ASF4G72AZ-3G2F1)
I noticed today 7950x can't be found in stock on Amazon or NewEgg after watching this video below. In the past few weeks I've been pondering getting a 7950x for an upgrade as it was approaching an all time low of $550 USD. Looks like I waited too long!

 
Another shitcoin to hit the market. Remember when the HDD plotter coin came around and tripled HDD prices? Yeah it crashed within months. People had 5k in HDDs and couldn't sell them.

So just like all shitcoins, grab it cheap, ride it until it's time to dump. Just don't be holding the bag.
 
Straight to the point: Nope. t won't, there's no cryptocurrency with the support to withstand the selling pressure. The reason Ethereum mining has had such a massive effect is its enormous support and DTV of billions of dollars
 
Anyone considering to mine this, make sure to sell coins daily. Otherwise in 6 months, it probably won't be $3, but completely dead.

Only way to ensure you recoup money is selling every day.
 
I wonder if these crypto mining is secretly promoted by the CPU and GPU manufacturers to increase sales
 
Hi,
Well on the good side amd sold some chips
Bad side mining is why.
Have to wait and see if they clear shelves again..... right now it's just a maybe but also looks like just the 7950x is wanted.
 
joemama said:
I wonder if these crypto mining is secretly promoted by the CPU and GPU manufacturers to increase sales
Click to expand...
My hunch it's always pyimid scheme type setup. Someone with a few million in cash flow. Picks a thing to mine, has a lot of it for mining. After putting up the money to get it listed on exchange sites, dump coins and make money. Repeat, repeat, repeat.

Like I said, shitcoins. Seen this over and over for 10 years now.
 
ir_cow said:
Anyone considering to mine this, make sure to sell coins daily. Otherwise in 6 months, it probably won't be $3, but completely dead.

Only way to ensure you recoup money is selling every day.
Click to expand...

Anyone considering mining this (or anything else) ought to heavily reconsider their priorities... like not wasting the earths resources on absolutely nothing...
 
Hi,
Not many people care to much about AI mining user and internet data on their hardware bandwidth without getting any coin out of the deal
Seems a bit hypocritical if one is in favor of AI and against mining :rolleyes:
 
I have been CPU mining since late last year. If you are worried about a pyramid scheme, just get Nicehash. With that you are renting your equipment and paid in Bitcoin (by default) for it.

kapone32 said:
I have been CPU mining since late last year. If you are worried about a pyramid scheme, just get Nicehash. With that you are renting your equipment and paid in Bitcoin (by default) for it.
Click to expand...
I am drinking and off tomorrow so it may have been 1 too many already. Funnily enough even though there is news about CPU mining AMD CPUs have been shedding price. You can regularly get a 7900 CPU for $499 CAD. The X3D are actually the best at mining on AM5 and the more cores you have the better the hash rate.
 
ir_cow said:
Another shitcoin to hit the market. Remember when the HDD plotter coin came around and tripled HDD prices? Yeah it crashed within months. People had 5k in HDDs and couldn't sell them.

So just like all shitcoins, grab it cheap, ride it until it's time to dump. Just don't be holding the bag.
Click to expand...
It isn't even tradeable in any exchange... I wonder who even buys that
 
idkidk said:
It isn't even tradeable in any exchange... I wonder who even buys that
Click to expand...
HiveOS is fully integrated. It goes into your Crypto wallet. Then you can transfer it to your TFSA and buy some nice Dividend stocks. Or risk a heart attack by trading in Crypto without using a bot or AI
 
Maybe but due to the nature of chiplets AMD can dynamically allocate chiplets to their most popular products. The only scenario where that isn't possible is if AMD is already selling through them in more popular products that it can't allocate more.

Zen 5 is also right around the corner, which is supposed to be 3nm. If this has any staying power AMD could leverage both 5n and 3n nodes to produce as many chips as possible (possibly even an older 3rd node if AMD keeps the IO die the same as well).

I'm not as worried for CPUs as I would be with GPUs. CPUs are smaller and inherently have higher yield and chiplet architecture only furthers that.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top