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Chinese OEMs to Blame For Overpriced Nvidia 3060/3070 Laptops?
While the desktop graphics card situation has improved quite notably over the last 6 months, I daresay that many of you are more than a little aware that the laptop situation hasn’t been quite as positive. – Stock is definitely out there, but it’s hard to ignore the fact that…
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Nvidia 30XX LHR Mining Restrictions Have Finally been 100% Beaten!
Although the Nvidia 30XX series of graphics cards have seen a number of moderate changes since they were first released back in late 2020, one of the most substantial revisions the designs saw was the introduction of their Lite Hash Rate (LHR) anti-mining technology. Rolling out to the vast majority…
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Nvidia Fined $5.5M For Deliberately Blurring GPU Sales to the Crypto Market!
It has widely been speculated for quite some time now that when it has come to Nvidia’s end-of-year financial reports, they have always been somewhat deliberately vague about how much money the company has earned through the direct sale of graphics cards to cryptocurrency mining organisations. – This issue first…
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Biostar Launches its TB560-BTC PRO MINING Motherboard
BIOSTAR has announced the launch of its latest TB560-BTC PRO mining motherboard. Designed to support Intel’s 10th/11th generation processors in the LGA1200 package, the new TB560-BTC PRO mining motherboard brings outstanding utility to your next mining station. Biostar TB560-BTC PRO MINING Motherboard Capable of supporting up to 12 graphic cards,…
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Bitcoin Donors Send Over $13.7M to Ukraine! – But Scams Also Appear!
Following Russia launching its invasion of Ukraine last week, the situation in the region has clearly been more than a little distressing. Admittedly, it’s significantly more so for the people actually living there, but the international community is generally appalled at what they mostly view as an unprovoked act of…
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Biostar Risks Criticism After Unveiling iMiner A588X8D2 Pre-Built Mining System
Getting a graphics card continues to remain an exceptionally difficult and (generally) expensive task. – While there are, of course, many factors that have led to this situation, it’s hard to deny that the growth in cryptocurrency mining has undoubtedly played a significant role. – In something that may represent…
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Tool That ‘Removed’ Nvidia 30XX LHR Restrictions Was Actually Just Malware!
Earlier this week, you may recall reading about a new piece of software that was reportedly capable of completely removing all of the LHR restrictions found within the Nvidia 30XX series of graphics cards. A mildly concerning piece of news as, with their mining potential possibly being fully restored, this…
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New Software May Unlock LHR Restrictions on All Nvidia 30XX/Ampere GPUs
One of the key features of the Nvidia 30XX series (since their early 2021 revision for some models at least) was the inclusion of their LHR (lite hash rate) technology. What is it? Well, in a nutshell, it was designed to restrict the cryptocurrency mining performance of the GPU by…
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Sapphire’s GPRO X080 Mining GPU Retail Price Plunges 40% in Just One Month!
Ever heard of the Sapphire GPRO X080 graphics card? For the majority of you, we daresay that the answer is no. And no fault of yours either. Just to quickly bring everyone up to speed, this is a GPU that has been specifically designed and targeted towards the cryptocurrency mining…
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Biostar Launch its TZ590-BTC Mining Motherboard
BIOSTAR has announced the launch of a brand new TZ590-BTC motherboard. Designed based on the Intel Z590 chipset that runs Intel 10th and 11th gen processors, BIOSTAR’s new TZ590-BTC motherboard targets the mid-range audience of casual gamers, content creators, and users looking to build an HTPC for casual-content consumption. The…
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Spanish Police Raid Property Expecting Drugs – Find Crypto-Miners Instead!
With the growth of cryptocurrency mining operations, in order to boost their profitability, a portion of their (less ethical) owners decide that it would be a lot more cost-effective to, you know, not actually pay for the masses of electricity they are using. In something of an interesting coincidence, however,…
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Nvidia 3050’s Awful Mining Performance Might Spell Great News for Stock!
Following the recent release of the AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT, you may recall that one of the key reasons this was limited to only 4GB of VRAM was specifically to make the GPU effectively useless for cryptocurrency mining. With the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 set to feature 8GB, however,…
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As Bitcoin Plunges, Is This Finally Some Good News for PC Gamers?
I barely bother to keep up with the latest news surrounding the value of Bitcoin anymore. Admittedly, I’ve never once professed to be any kind of cryptocurrency expert, but with it seemingly going up and down like a lady of the night’s underwear, the bottom line is that nobody seems…
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Malaysian Police Seize 1,720 Bitcoin Mining Machines in Power Theft Crackdown
Over the last year, it seems pretty clear that the Malaysian government’s patience has run out in regard to illegal cryptocurrency mining operations. A great example of this was seen last July when a police video was posted online showing them publically crushing over 1,000 ASIC machines. – What’s their…
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Mikes Rant Christmas Edition – The Craziest News from 2021!
I’ll freely concede that here at eTeknix if something a bit bizarre crops up in the news it’s usually passed onto me for my expressed attention. Yes, I make no secret about the fact that while I love technology, I have a particular passion for some of the more weird…
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