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Captain_Yuri said:

Some more hardware news. With the release of 3060 and resizable bar this week. It's gonna be a busy week gents!

An Update on USB connectivity with 500 Series Chipset Motherboards

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/lnmet0/an_update_on_usb_connectivity_with_500_series/

Sounds like they are taking the issue very seriously which is great to hear.


NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 graphics cards already available on second-hand market

https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-geforce-rtx-3060-graphics-cards-already-available-on-second-hand-market

Now I did a bit more digging with Nvidia and it's "Anti Mining" thing and... Just... lol. The TLDR is that while with ETH and maybe BTC, it's nerfed... The rest of the coins are still the same and in fact, it's a much better choice for mining for the alt coins than even the 3060 Ti due to it's lower tdp and efficiency! And because the value of eth/btc keeps going up, even at it's "half rate," it may still be worth it in the future.



https://www.reddit.com/r/EtherMining/comments/lp0rr3/rtx_3060_hashrates_for_ravencoin_conflux_ethereum/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

Now before anyone says I told you so. My problem with Linus video is that he didn't wait/do enough research. If he showed something like this in his video, I'd have no issues with it. Regardless, who's ready to get a 3050 Ti?

I think the problem Linus has is that what NVidia is doing does nothing at all to solve the problem, but instead cuts off gamers from a part of the hardware forever because the changes made for the mining cards pretty much ensures they could never be used a GPU as their I/O has been physically cut off. Meanwhile, the changes to the gaming gpus are not physical and can be changed again to normal. As a result, NVidia's action only shrinks the amount of cards available to gamers even further, not increases it.

I feel like it's more of a sort of kind of argument. Since the CMP cards are supposed to be based off of Turing with 1 SKU supposedly being a GA102 GPU that couldn't meet GPU validation, majority of the mining cards supply wouldn't directly affect Ampere Geforce allocation as most of the CMP cards would be TSMC. And if we take Nvidia's word for it, the Ampere SKU couldn't meet whatever Nvidia's validation requirements are so instead of throwing that away, Nvidia is rebadging that as a mining card.

Now how much of what Nvidia's says is the truth or a lie remains to be seen as they have done nonsense before but people should wait an see before jumping the gun and trash them with hard evidence instead of speculation imo. The main point is that because 3/4 are based off of Turing, those 3/4 cards won't affect Ampere Geforce allocation in any way. So instead of only having Samsung make GPUs, they can get both Samsung and TSMC which = more GPUs than right now = helping the overall supply problem as any of those gpus that go into a miners hand will increase the chances of a gamer getting a 3000 series gpu in theory.

But if it turns out they are all made from Ampere, then yea, fuck em. Not that it's gonna matter now if those hash rates are to be believed.