SO a LOT of people including myself have been hearing about mining and while I don't take it SERIOUSLLY, It does interest me as someone who went to school for electronics, and then programming. probally very similiar to a lot of readers of this site whether we sign up on the forums or not.ĪLSO, I am a fan of a FREE market economy, and when I buy something, I can DO WHATEVER I WANT WITH IT, within the law and reason of course. Overclocking, tinkering with rasberry devices, yeah I am a tech geek or whatever you want to call us. and I love gaming and playing wow, COD, and many other games. I have been for 15+ years and will continue to be a PC GAMER first and foremost. and I am sick of seeing these articles, Linus comments, reviewers comments, etc. I signed up literally so I can respond to this 'news article'. “So developing a mining-only card isn’t necessarily a great idea because it doesn’t solve the issue for the gamers.”įor the full discussion, see the video above or check out The Tom’s Hardware Show on YouTube, Facebook, Twitch or as a podcast. First, you just pulled from the GPUs that are available for gaming cards … Second, when you sell out of the mining cards, they're just gonna go buy the gaming cards,” he said. But Crisler doesn’t believe making cryptomining graphics cards is the answer. Sapphire itself has released some mining-targeted cards in the past, like the RX 570 16GB HDMI Blockchain Graphics Card and RX 470 Nitro Mining Edition. For its part, AMD has said it won’t be limiting its cards’ mining prowess, PC Gamer reported. We recently saw Nvidia attempt to deal with the crypto-craze for gamers by limiting the hashing abilities of its RTX 3060, only to accidentally break the anti-mining lock on its own. It’s that everything changed, and the market is still trying to figure out how to deal with this,” Crisler said. Ed added that many PC gamers today feel abandoned by the graphics card market but argued that that’s not the case.

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