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NVIDIA Executive Thinks Cryptocurrencies Add Nothing Useful to Society
The Crypto Mining boom has somewhat died down with the transfer of Ethereum to proof of stake and its no secret that the graphics card manufacturers profited enormously from crypto, though apparently, NVIDIA has changed their stance on crypto. NVIDIA Executive Against Crypto Michael Kegan, Chief Technology Officer at NVIDIA…
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Gamers Are (Again) Warned to Be Vigilant Against Cheap Ex-Mining Graphics Cards
With graphics card-based Cryptocurrency mining effectively dead now following the switch of Ethereum to its new ‘proof of stake’ standard late last year, this has seen the second-hand market absolutely flooded (in some regions at least) with relatively cheap, and by proxy, highly attractive GPU models. – With this in…
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Nvidia Taiwan Has Their Twitter Account Hacked – Starts Promoting Dogecoin!
While Nvidia certainly fell in for a lot of criticism when it was found that they were directly selling and shipping 30XX graphics cards to cryptocurrency miners (and rightly so!), I think it would be fair to say that this was about the full extent of their involvement with things…
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Nvidia Removes Lite Hash Rate (LHR) Restrictions in its Latest GPU Driver?
On the surface of things, the latest graphics card driver release by Nvidia was fairly easy to understand. It brought official support for their new 4090 GPU and it also allowed for some RTX optimisations in DirectX12 gaming. – Over the last few days, however, a harder look into the…
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AMD Blames Poor PC Sales For $1.1BN Drop in Q3 Revenue (Doesn’t Mention Crypto)
Typically speaking, most publically traded companies tend to reveal their Q3 revenue results on November 1st (or very shortly after). AMD, however, dropped a little bit of a surprise on the market yesterday by announcing their performance figures early. – Now, for those of you unaware, when revenue figures are…
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Ex-Mining GPUs Get PRESSURE WASHED Ahead of Second-Hand Market Sale – Video!
Following the transition of Ethereum to the new Proof of Stake standard earlier this month, this has effectively resulted in the near-total death of GPU cryptocurrency mining. – As such, with it well known that there are masses of huge mining operations around the world, many of these will now…
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Ethereum Finally Switches to Proof of Stake – Is GPU Mining Now Dead?
It’s been known for quite some time now that Ethereum was looking to apply a pretty dramatic change to the manner in which the cryptocurrency could be mined. – Although we will look at this in more detail shortly, the key distinction was a transition from a ‘Proof of Work’…
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New (Possible) Bitcoin Slump Continues to Spell Good News For Graphics Cards!
One of the biggest factors in the overall improvement in the consumer graphics card situation over the last 9 months has undoubtedly been intrinsically linked to the drop in the value of cryptocurrency and specifically Bitcoin. – With mining operations pretty much wiped out due to Bitcoin losing over two-thirds…
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MSI 3080 Graphics Card with 20GB of VRAM Appears Online!
It’s not exactly a secret that while we humble consumers were struggling to get graphics cards throughout 2021, many were ultimately ending up in the hands of cryptocurrency mining organisations (often being sent there direct from the manufacturer). By and large, though, I think most would rightly assume that while…
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Intel Arc A380 is Now Mining Compatible (But it’s Pretty Crap At It!)
With Intel Arc A380 graphics cards finally arriving in Western markets (well, North America at least) it was clearly only a matter of time before someone was going to see what its cryptocurrency mining capabilities were like. – And following a report via Videocardz, we have our answer and it’s…
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HDD Sales See a Huge 33% Drop in Sales!
As more and more consumers make the transition or upgrade to SSD storage devices, it’s hardly surprising that older standard HHD devices are falling in popularity. – Following a report via TechSpot, however, based on YoY (year on year) comparisons, HDD sales have plummeted by over 33% suggesting that the…
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Cryptocurrency Crash Sees Panic Live Stream Sales From Chinese Miners!
Within the space of just one month, the value of Bitcoin has nosedived, and with it, it’s taken many other cryptocurrency coins down with it too! – With its value currently floating around the region of $20,000, while this might still sound like a substantial sum, it shouldn’t be ignored…
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Crypto-Miners Spent $15BN on Graphics Cards Over the Last 2 Years!
It’s hardly any secret that following the boom of cryptocurrency prices throughout 2020 and 2021, this has been a primary factor in why general graphics card prices, and stock levels, have been so poor for general consumers like you and me. – Did you ever wonder though, if we’re not…
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Coinbase Redundancies as ‘Crypto Winter’ Predicted (Why This is Important!)
The last major growth spike in the value of Bitcoin couldn’t have come at a worse time for gaming PC consumers. Beginning its near-vertical trend in March 2020, and coming just months after the launch of AMD and Nvidia’s latest graphics cards, while certainly not the only reason for the…
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New Ransomware Asks for Acts of Kindness to Get your Files Back!
I daresay that many of you reading this are familiar with the general concept and application of ransomware. – For those of you who aren’t, however, the overall premise is pretty simple. Ransomware is a virus that installs itself on your system (usually due to the user ill-advisably clicking and/or…
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