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Nvidia's Latest Flagship Graphics Card Is The $1,200 RXT 3080 Ti
1.6.2021
On sale June 3 for a suggested retail price of $1,199, the RTX 3080 Ti is here to make older Nvidia cards look like hot garbage in comparison. Too pricey? The RTX 3070 Ti goes on sale next week for only $599. Read more
Home Crypto Mining Spikes in Brazil Amid Record High Unemployment
31.5.2021
With rising unemployment rates and rampant economic uncertainty, in the wake of the Covid crisis, a growing number of Brazilians are finding an alternative income source in cryptocurrency mining. GPU rigs have been spotted even in favelas as a relatively small investment can return more than...
Nvidia Makes $155 Million From Crypto Mining Chips in Fiscal Q1
27.5.2021
Graphics cards manufacturer Nvidia has earned $155 million in revenue from chips designed for cryptocurrency mining during the first fiscal quarter. The company admitted that crypto miners have also pushed sales up in the gaming products segment which remains its main market. Leading GPU Maker...
Nvidia reports record earnings, claims it's 'hard to determine' impact of crypto miners
27.5.2021
Despite the surging crypto market rally, Nvidia believes its record first-quarter earnings are the result of high demand from the gaming industry
18 Years Later, Microsoft Is Fixing Halo's Graphics On The PC
25.5.2021
Halo’s original PC port, released in 2003 and handled by Gearbox, was mostly fine, but it also had some weird issues, mostly related to funky textures. Fans have just kinda put up with them ever since, but in 2021 Microsoft is finally getting around to fixing them.Read more
Nvidia Aims to Get Its GPUs Back ‘Into the Hands of Gamers’ by Reducing Mining Capabilities on 3 Graphic Cards
20.5.2021
A major chipmaker keeps making efforts to calm down the gaming community’s anger toward cryptocurrency miners who are taking the lead in buying graphic cards massively, boosting its prices. Nvidia has announced that it will deliberately limit the capabilities for some of its newly graphic...
Nvidia Is Trying To Stop Crypto Miners Buying RTX 3000 Series Cards
19.5.2021
Earlier this year, Nvidia announced that their GeForce RTX 3060 graphics cards would ship with a “reduced Ethereum hash rate”, making them a lot less useful for crypto miners. They’re now extending that move to the RTX 3080, RTX 3070 and RTX 3060 Ti as well.Read more
Nvidia extends limits on crypto mining to newest gaming graphics cards
18.5.2021
The global head of GeForce marketing at Nvidia said that the reduced hash rate "only applies to newly manufactured cards," not to GPUs already purchased
Blizzard Doesn't Want Diablo Confused With A Cartoon Dog
4.5.2021
Seeking to protect its long-held trademark, Blizzard has filed a Notice of Opposition with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to block Fox from trademarking Diablo, one of the canine characters from the upcoming animated series Housebroken. Read more
Nvidia again limiting crypto mining on its RTX-3060 gaming graphics card
30.4.2021
After accidentally unlocking its own hash rate limiter in a driver update, Nvidia has announced it will lock new cards again by reducing the mining capacity by 50%
Why Video Game Loot Is So Addictive, According To The Creators Of Diablo
16.4.2021
Colors mean different things to different people, but very specific colors mean the exact same thing to everybody who plays video games. You know the ones: gray, green, blue, purple, and gold. You covet the latter and revile the former. Loot is a universal language at this point, but it wasn’t...
Our Man in Shanghai: Coinbase listing scorned, graphics cards seized, nostalgia coins rule
16.4.2021
Coinbase and cryptocurrencies viewed cynically on Chinese social media, and news of a large mining GPU smuggling bust in Hong Kong
I'm Finally Happy I Bought An "Old" Graphics Card
13.4.2021
Let me tell you about an emotional rollercoaster I’ve been on for the past eight months. It’s a cautionary tale, about the perils of obsessing over PC hardware, but also one of celebration, a triumph against the odds.Read more
What Are You Playing This Weekend?
9.4.2021
The weekend is for playing a 20-year-old action RPG classic with a substantial glow-up. Unless you’re not in the Diablo II: Resurrected alpha test. Then you should probably play something else. Read more
Smuggled Nvidia Cards Found After High-Speed Boat Chase
8.4.2021
Only a week after a Chinese bust involving cheat makers and luxury cars, authorities have seized hundreds of smuggled Nvidia cards after a speedboat chase in the waters near Hong Kong international airport.Read more
You Might Be Able To Play Diablo II: Resurrected This Weekend
6.4.2021
If you haven’t signed up for a chance to play Diablo II: Resurrected early, you should get on that: Blizzard just announced plans to hold a private alpha test on PC over the weekend.Read more
Disco Elysium: The Final Cut, As Told By Steam Reviews
5.4.2021
A free update to a masterpiece? That adds full voice acting, new quests, and a slew other of bonus features? Gee, I’m sure Steam users are hating that.Read more
Solo Players With Nivida GPUs Can Pause Always-Online Outriders
4.4.2021
Outriders is an always-online game that you can play entirely solo. Normally, you can’t pause it even when alone. But a clever PC player figured out a way to pause the game using their Nivida GPU.Read more
Report: Upgraded Switch Will Use New Nvidia Chip To Upscale To 4K
23.3.2021
Outputting native 4K graphics is hard. Upscaling to 4K is a little easier. According to a Bloomberg report posted early this morning, Nintendo’s long-rumored upgraded Nintendo Switch will leverage a new Nvidia system-on-a-chip to upscale its docked graphics to 4K.Read more
Global Chip Shortage, Affecting Everything From PS5s To Graphics Cards, Is Becoming A "Crisis"
23.3.2021
While anyone reading this will know it has been hard finding a PS5 lately, loads of other markets are experiencing shortages as well, thanks to a global “crisis” affecting the supply of semiconductor chips to, well, anything that uses them. And that’s a lot of stuff.Read more