OT: Bitcoin insanity

Den tirsdag den 13. februar 2018 kl. 00.57.11 UTC+1 skrev bitrex:

here several of the big stores have put a limit of maximum two per customer they had foreign miners ask to buy +1000 but that would just mean 1000 disappointed costumers

What vid card do you have in your real work box?

Is it a $1000 version?

Does the $1000 vid card do 3D CAD better than the $350 version? Or are you crying about rendering times?

Noticably better, or just nit picks once a certain plateau was reached.

I have yet to set up a dual or quad video card machine. My CAD work, including render times has not ever been anything I would call too slow. One card has always been enough and that a couple years ago's hot card is fine. I do not need to stay on that 'cutting edge' because the only edge it cuts is the edge of my wallet.

I doubt the couple with the pic will ever make their money back, even with ~40 GTX 1080 Ti's.

Nah, I don't need one of those cards, specifically. But even the prices of many mid-range/budget cards has been pushed up, some nearly three times.

e.g. the Radeon RX 580 had an MSRP of around $229 as of early fall last year, it's selling for $699 on Newegg as of this evening:

yeh, it doesn't make much sense anymore unless you can steal the electricity or need a noisy space heater

Unless they bought them with the proceeds from the sale of several of their already collected 'harvest'.

I think that quads of ZWDs might be a better venture.

It is pretty lame and my great wish is that folks delving in it lose everything they venture, just not to some illicit faction somewhere.

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The insanity goes a lot further than cornering the market on GPUs.