GPU prices more than double as cryptocurrency craze accelerates

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numberwang said:

But le crash

That has the effect that other cryptocurrencies are taking off when bitcoin is tanking, most notably etherium.

Also, CPU mining is coming more and more, and Threadripper absolutely demolishes Intel's Chips here - Even Ryzen 7 can almost keep up with Intel's 18-core beast 7990X due to the latter's biggest problem in this domain: lack of cache. Coffee lake, on the other hand, isn't far behind Ryzen since it does't have the same cache weakness Intel's xeon-based chips

This might be affecting the CPU and RAM prices in the future, because if these get more widespread, then certainly Miners will buy much more big CPUs too

Last edited by Bofferbrauer2 - on 14 February 2018