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Crypto Miners Are Dumping Tons Of GPUs, So Maybe You Can Finally Get One
23.6.2022
The crypto market is continuing to fall, which has led a ton of miners to exit the market or to downscale their operations, thus finding themselves in possession of valuable computer components that they now no longer need. Some such miners, many from China and South Asia (where electricity...
Good News! PC Gaming Prices Might Stop Being A Hellscape Soon
18.5.2022
With an ongoing chip shortage that’s impacting basically everything that requires silicon and, everyone’s favorite topic, cryptocurrency draining stock of GPUs, getting new tech toys lately hasn’t been as easy as it once was. At least, not without paying a premium. Fortunately, shifts in the crypto...
Modder Makes Ridiculous Upgrade To Steam Deck To Play Witcher 3 On Max Settings
13.4.2022
Want to get The Witcher 3 and Grand Theft Auto V running at 60 fps in 4K on the Steam Deck? You can, as long as you’re willing to spend a lot of money to Frankenstein Valve’s latest PC gaming device in the process.Read more
The Giant Gaming Leak That Keeps Getting Vindicated
11.4.2022
Last September, a massive list of potential PC games leaked through Nvidia’s GeForce Now video game streaming service and was posted online. At the time, no one quite knew what to make of it. Was it insider info or speculative placeholders? Now evidence is mounting that at least some of the leak...
Warehouse Employees Steal Over $35,000 Worth Of Video Cards
19.3.2022
Three men in Russia were reportedly arrested after stealing 20 Nvidia RTX 3070 TIs from a suburban warehouse. While they successfully made off with the video cards, a haul worth nearly $38,000 USD, they were arrested after trying to sell them to local pawn shops. Read more
Nvidia hackers selling software unlock for graphics card crypto mining limiters
2.3.2022
The hacking group is holding Nvidia to ransom demanding that it unlocks hash rate limiters on its high-end graphics cards
High-End PC Graphics Cards Get A Little Cheaper As Crypto Tanks
25.1.2022
The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 graphics card you’ve been after to complete your “Extreme Gaming PC” build is still in short supply but finally getting slightly cheaper. That’s thanks to a drop in crypto mining participation as the value of Bitcoin and other blockchain currencies plummet ahead of what...
Democrats Announce Bill Aimed At Stopping Bots From Buying All Your Consoles & Graphics Cards
1.12.2021
A group of Democrats are introducing the “Stopping Grinch Bots Act”, a proposal with an incredibly stupid name that is aimed at preventing (or at least curtailing) the use of bots to snatch up stocks of goods from online retailers. Something many of you trying to get PS5s and new graphics cards...
A Truck Full Of Precious PC Graphics Cards Has Been Stolen
4.11.2021
According to EVGA, one of NVidia’s primary manufacturers, a shipment of GTX 30-series graphics cards has been stolen from a truck in California. I do not care how badly you think you need more frames per second, you should not rob a truck to do it. The frames just aren’t worth it. I promise...
New World Still Bricking Expensive Graphics Cards, Say Players
1.10.2021
Amazon’s colonialist resource extraction MMO, New World, is currently the hottest new game on Steam, quite literally in some instances. More than a few players are reporting loud fans and high graphics card temperatures while running the game, and occasionally even just while queueing for it....
Golem releases laptop app to mine Ethereum … but turning a profit is tricky
24.9.2021
Mining Ethereum on a home PC can be done, but profits will be few and far between
Amazon's New MMO Is Killing Some High-End PC Graphics Cards
21.7.2021
Amazon Games’ oft-delayed MMO New World launched its closed beta yesterday ahead of its August 31 launch. Thousands of players clogged the servers of the historical fantasy game, causing long login queues across all game worlds. Some players got a lot more than they bargained for, however,...
GPU price inflation dips slightly as Ether downtrend continues
21.7.2021
With Ether sinking below $2,000, the price of graphics cards has seen a further decline from June to July
Rare Gundam Graphics Cards Wasted On Crypto Mining
14.7.2021
I can’t explain it. I can’t justify it. But I do get Gundam fans’ strange attachment to the special-edition GeForce RTX 3080 Gundam graphics cards. They’re beefy but elegant and come in a sleek titanium white. They’re also next to impossible to find, which is why some people might be crestfallen...
Bitcoin Crackdown Leads To Cheaper Graphics Cards In China
22.6.2021
With graphics cards seeming harder to get than ever, China’s stricter measures against Bitcoin mining have led to lower prices online in the country. Read more
It's Not That Hard Keeping Big Resellers Away From Graphics Cards
18.6.2021
While a Micro Center in Dallas was the scene of some depressing scenes earlier this month, when a huge crowd crushed against the store trying to get their hands on a new GPU, other stores in the chain have implemented far more stringent measures against scalpers and resellers.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 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