ngl I don’t even really know what a graphics card is, but this was a very fun article with this nerd just btfoing other nerds
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ngl I don’t even really know what a graphics card is, but this was a very fun article with this nerd just btfoing other nerds
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I have a degree barely relevant to the topic, let me condescendingly state this basic fact![:soyjakanimeglasses: :soyjakanimeglasses:](/e/soyjakanimeglasses.webp)
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What clown college did this idiot piss away his money at to graduate without knowing the difference betwen Computer Science and Electrical Engineering?
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he has an IT degree but reads tech blogs that vaguely mention semiconductor manufacturing so he knows the buzzwords to throw out.
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he never said he graduated, he just "spent years studying"
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Lmao women
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I don't send women hate mail because they're women. I just bring up that fact while berating them.
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when I learn an rdrama account is a woman
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correction: any business or nonbusiness
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LTT showed that used crypto mining cards were no worse than other used graphics cards. Whatever, keep spreading the FUDD, it'll make it cheaper to buy a graphics card for everyone else.
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How does it feel to be predicted by a fricking journ*list
The absolute state of dramneurodivergents
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Let's look at what the journo actually wrote:
This is what LTT showed was bull. A lot of FUDD.
And why not compare LTT's friend "who – assuming these cards were actually used to mine as claimed – took exceptionally good care of their cards" to some random "g*mer friend?" Oh sure, "g*mers abuse graphics cards too, sometimes even worse than miners," but it's in many cases when miners do it.
Long story short, journos gonna journo and lie. "I care about how long until that card stops working, period." - bull, he just wants to soak cryptominers, he doesn't give a shit about how long some chud g*mer's PC lasts.
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I think I'l trust the prodigy who invented Linux and started a tech media empire over some random pinkoid.
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This is excellent bait and I hope someone's taking notes
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Don't buy them then. I'll just follow common sense shit like, what G*mer's Nexus outlined. You can get a good idea of the condition of a used piece of tech is when you get it.
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I never said that cards degrade but also here's why he's wrong and cards still degrade
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yea that part really drove home how r-slurred and inconsistent this journoid is
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Makes sense. Consistent heavy usage is probably better than daily heat/cooling cycles.
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Plus cooling is usually easier when stuff is in bulk (like crypto mining)
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im sorry for your loss
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While this is true for the GPU core itself, the memory modules and VRM (power delivery) components do degrade over time even from regular use. Intense and repeat temperature fluctuations also create microscopic cracks in the soldering beneath the chips, this will eventually lead too microfractures that sever the connection between a solder pad and the pins, which in turn leads too catastrophic failure. This is most commonly seen in memory modules, where the process is accelerated due too flexing of the PCB.
Trans Lives Matter
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Crypto mining puts a steady load on the system, so no temperature fluctuations. From what I see, crypto miners tend to undervolt as well to save on power and cooling costs, so less strain on the VRM. And you can see most signs of damage (clogged fans, bulging capacitors, flexing PCB) when the card is delivered.
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Can't figure out if hes a climate cuck or just hates crypto like normal people and using the climate argument. Anyway pronouns in bio make it hard for me to accept this even though I agree 100%
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Even the mentally incompetent can tell you that the sky is blue
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Environmental crypto pearl clutchers need to be taken out back
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no
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Also that first sentence in the article.
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Based. Should be implemented to activate after 15 days of use (just past the 14 day deadline to return a product to the shop)
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I've got a better idea:
Limit their use to 2 hours per week once any video game executable is detected on the system.
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Journo with a slightly overinflated ego believes he controls market prices.
Just kidding!
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Very scalphobic rhetoric here.
@DrTransmisia what are you doing to fight this?
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0 sympathy for these people holy shit. If you can barely afford it don't piss your money away on it. My GPU is 7 years old and I still can play anything that comes out at medium/1080p.
Poorcels thinking they need to have raytracing are actually being protected from themselves by scalpers as far as I can tell because they can't be trusted with money.
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isn't it like pokemon cards
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I do enjoy watching crypto strags screaming about how they're losing all their money. Its worth a Gpu shortage.
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Only r-slurs are buying now due to FOMO thinking all the new ones will experience the same shortages once 4000s come out later this year. No reason not to wait for the new shiny thing.
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I am gonna upgrade but still gonna use my gtx970 on that sweet pcie5 slot
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Lol, people made tons of money mining crypto since 2009
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I wasn't gonnna read this cause idk what a graphics card is either but your comment made me realize i can enjoy it anyways. JHust wanna say thnaks is all
Secured my spot as a top 100 most memorable rdrama poster
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people who throw in random french phrases are the biggest douchebags in the nerd world
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I don't have a crypto fortune, so I don't see why anybody else should either, especially when it's bad for the environment. I don't like any grifters trying to run a scam without giving me a cut, and hurting those people is fun for me. That's why I enjoy making crypto fans feel bussyblasted.
Additionally, I really do care about the environment because I hope to take power someday and it's going to be hard to govern effectively when the entire planet is falling apart due to climate change triggering a wave of mass migration and then a crime spike due to a surge of r*pefugees. I suppose that ultimately there's no problem that can't be solved by automating border patrol and killing enough criminals, but I'm not a heartless monster and I'd like to minimize the number of casualties that we would need to cause while cleaning up the planet and restoring law and order to society. Crypto fans aren't really helping out with that, and in many cases they're making the problem worse, so frick em.
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Snapshots:
archive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
ghostarchive.org (click to archive)
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