This feels solid. This was good work. Nice job.
Oh, geeze. I totally missed that. I think Larry's Law has some decent meme potential within tech forums. I'll frequently refer to it as if it's a thing until it becomes one. Come to think of it, I actually do think it's probably a real thing these days. Anyone these days who cares enough about GPUs to even talk about them also knows about mining, and yes, the discussion will definitely go toward mining. It's definitely a law.
-Ok, Modification on Larry's Law: All internet discussions regarding GPUs, given enough time, will decay into a discussion regarding mining.
Added the time element. Signed, sealed, delivered.
There's nothing worse in life than a forced meme. It's enjoyable here because of the community and all of the people who understand the joke and will have a good chuckle over it.
The rest of the internet wouldn't and trying to ram it down their throats is pointless. So quit trying to make "fetch" happen.
Well, the card in the OP only has 4GB, so it CAN'T MINE ETH, the currently most-profitable coin. So these are not really the object of the miner's eye, as far as card purchases go. (*)
It can mine RVN, so that's probably why, I didn't notice the "Super" originally, the card that I purchased for $255 a few months ago was the GTX 1650 Gaming X (non-Super) variant. Apparently, the "Super" can mine RVN a little bit better than the regular.
There was a YT video put out, about the best cards to buy and the best method to spec-mine RVN, in order to become a millionaire in two years, if the coin went from $0.10 to $10.00 (which it well may, I hope that it does). The procedure essentially involved buying like 6-8 GTX 1650 Super cards, and building a rig, and letting it sit on RVN for two years.
I have a server chassis with five GTX 1660 ti cards, which can also mine RVN fairly well, I've been temped to go that route with them (spec-mine RVN directly), rather than mine ETH with NH for BTC. It would reduce my short-term earnings by a bit, but it might be really profitable down the line.
(*) Edit: To add, getting a few RX 6600XT cards at release, for $400-500 would seem to be a nearly infinitely-better choice of cards to buy. Roughly the same price as these GTX 1650 Super cards,. mines better / more efficiently, and games better, for around the same price point.
Although, the GTX 1650 Super IS AVAILABLE, which is more than can be said for some cards.
Soo.... basically you're complaining about the price spike in video cards while simultaniously being the primary reason WHY these video cards are overpriced. Weird.
There's nothing worse in life than a forced meme. It's enjoyable here because of the community and all of the people who understand the joke and will have a good chuckle over it.
The rest of the internet wouldn't and trying to ram it down their throats is pointless. So quit trying to make "fetch" happen.
Dunno man. This is a pretty solid meme even if I didn’t know Larry.
One of my favorite memes is NEDM.
Dunno man. This is a pretty solid meme even if I didn’t know Larry.
Newegg is now asking $1,900 for 3080 Ti's in their daily shuffle. That's matching the scalper pricing for those cards on EBay! Insane!
Shuffle kind of sucks because you have to enter to win a chance to buy something which makes it suck more however you can get an unbundled card at retail. I scored a 3060 for a friend a few weeks ago.But the question becomes, why participate in the Shuffle? You can buy it at ebay, and you're guarantee to get it if you want it at that price.
I think GPUs are not for gaming any more. It's for mining. If you want to game you use a console. I blame Vitalik Buterin.
But the question becomes, why participate in the Shuffle? You can buy it at ebay, and you're guarantee to get it if you want it at that price.
I think GPUs are not for gaming any more. It's for mining. If you want to game you use a console. I blame Vitalik Buterin.
But the question becomes, why participate in the Shuffle? You can buy it at ebay, and you're guarantee to get it if you want it at that price.
I think GPUs are not for gaming any more. It's for mining. If you want to game you use a console. I blame Vitalik Buterin.
Yep, clearly. The nature of the devices has changed from an entertainment device to a financial device. They are more important now and worth more than before. They are in greater demand now because they are digital money printers. Getting a parallel processor for 1/3 of what it's worth just to play games with it is a pipe dream. Those days are over. That's like your kid wanting a real bobcat for $20.00 so they can build really cool sandcastles in the backyard. Yeah, that would be cool, but that's just not happening. Maybe a few rich people can afford to do that, but not enough for it to really be a popular thing, just like gaming with a parallel processor ad-in card is no longer a thing.
-GPUs are going to become a durable good, like a car. You buy one every 10-15 years, maybe take out a loan for it, keep it serviced so it runs smoothly.
Holy **** I need to get on that business case for a GPU tune up shop. Bring your GPU in, we'll repaste it, swap out the thermal pads, give it a solid disassembly and dusting. For the whales and the clueless we'll give it an hour long immersion bath in non-reactive, non-conductive solvent for a few hundred bucks more.
Slap a reminder sticker on the top right of the card for the next 6 months/1200 hours of uptime to bring it in again.
In several years time if my kids happen to find your post by the time they're teenagers, they would likely detect humor and quality in your post. However, they won't find it as funny as they ought to and there's one reason for that: they won't know what the hell a GPU is.
You know, taking a "historical perspective" - THIS is EXACTLY what was PREDICTED, with the "rise of APUs" - that discrete GPUs would SHIP LESS and COST MORE. (Note: NO mention of "miners" involved, as none need be, for this to happen.) If anything, the existance of GPU mining has actually slowed down the process of GPU price rises due to this APU factor, by still allowing discrete GPUs to be shipped in larger qty's, and thus lower prices per unit, than they would have otherwise, had mining not been a "thing".Yeah, high end GPU's are now unaffordable to mainstream gamers. This is also going to limit game developers in their ability to improve graphics in the next generation of games, because the hardware target is going to be some AMD or Intel APU that people can actually afford.
In several years time if my kids happen to find your post by the time they're teenagers, they would likely detect humor and quality in your post. However, they won't find it as funny as they ought to and there's one reason for that: they won't know what the hell a GPU is.