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Dan Neely22-Feb-21 2:35
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NewsMicrosoft announces Office 2021, available for Windows and macOS later this year Pin
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NewsNvidia launches CMP, cryptocurrency mining processor, may alleviate gaming chip shortages Pin
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Dan Neely19-Feb-21 3:14
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It's almost all smoke and mirrors unfortunately. The biggest miners buy bare chips, build their own boards, and write their own drivers/firmware with the help of engineers poached from NVidia.

The next tier down won't be interested unless the cards are really cheap; they buy a few dozen to few hundred consumer gaming cards at a time (mostly from the same distributors who supply consumer facing retailers; meaning they're paying below sticker price) and resell them for near full price on the used market after about 6 months, so their actual price/card is close to zero.

Then at the lowest level you've got people who're mining on their gaming card to help pay for it. Mining only cards are useless to them.

Unless NVidia has a lot of dies with too many failed non-compute cores to make down-binned consumer models this isn't going to increase the total number of cards on the market; and with Etherium mining being profitable enough that buying gaming laptops for the embedded GPU is a thing, gimping consumer 3060s won't stop miners from buying them even if they can't hack the firmware throttle.

TSMC and Samsung are badly capacity limited so getting enough more cards/month soon isn't likely to happen. The supply situation's likely going to remain a clusterElephant | [mastadon] until there's either another broad crash of ponzicoin prices; or etherium successfully migrates from proof of pollution to proof of plutocracy mining without a high value GPU mined fork splitting off.

At least in the US the least awful ways to try and get a card are via Bestbuy (dribbles new cards out over 1-2 hour windows so in stock alerts have enough reaction time for human buyers), Newegg (doing free raffles for the right to buy a card, unfortunately often bundled with something else of questionable value), or if you have on close enough you can stop buy every morning to see if anything is in stock a Microcenter retail store. My 3070 came from Bestbuy about a month ago.
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NewsMicrosoft kills broad entry-level IT certifications, replaces them with all-Microsoft curriculum Pin
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NewsThe world’s second-most popular desktop operating system isn’t macOS anymore Pin
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NewsBlazor on desktop Pin
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NewsMicrosoft announces Windows 10 version 21H1 with security and quality improvements Pin
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