Remember when you could go to your local electronics store and plunk down $300 for a graphics card that could play all of the latest titles at Max settings with a decent frame rate? Pepperidge Farms remembers.
-Egghead Software.
There, I just sent a dozen oldies down memory lane.
With that much invested, I bet they run a clean room env, like most data centers have.I bet the big mining companies who run these cards 24/7 actually do something like that. At some point the fans must get clogged up with dust and they would need to be serviced on a regular schedule to avoid failures.
I was thinking Fry's Electronics, the recent death of which still saddens me.
Ah - Bin # 34,205 - row 1,954 + column 13,504 - that's where the 3080 went that I was going to buy for my son at retail...nah the cost of eletricity would kill them.
They usually pick smart locations where its cold most of the time, so they can expose them to outside like this.
Nvidia sales for fiscal year 2022 are up ~50% over last year, and last year they saw a similar growth over the previous year. People are not only buying video cards, they do as at a record rate.
Ha, he probably was though.I was never good at making money