I agree with you, but car dealerships regularly jack up prices on desirable vehicles. It is happening right now with the new Bronco.
As for hoarding, beanie babies over twenty years ago. Dealers would buy them, then leak them out at 2-20 times their MSRP.
The web is replete with secondary sellers for just about everything. Shows have gotten to be a ridiculous. good tickets for prime shows fetching hundreds if not thousands of dollars
I had my eye on the Asus 17" Strix 5900hx/3080m but could never find it available, save for the scalpers and those who promise it in a couple of months.
The M17 and Prometheus VII look interesting save for the Watts going to the GPU. I might go with the M17 just for the metal chassis. My...
Agreed, only I have seen nothing from my investment, and I could use the drives somewhere else and just buy Chia at 280 USD.
I have considered Monero... But is it really worth it at this point? I might as well buy some shit and see if it grows.
So, chia coins are at the value of a 12TB drive.
40TB for about a month and no hope for 6 month to get a coin.
I think it is better to just buy the coins at this point... set up took me too long,
It has been 3 weeks and thanks to crashes from my optimizing attempts, I only have 12TB farmed. Hence my thought of trying linux, which fought me on drive permissions. Not a Linux expert. Feels like the cli on the Amiga, but I do not know the codes
meh... I'll keep plugging away.
I got it set up in linux , entered the 24 word code, but is asking for backup.... moving drives over is going to be a pain.
Must say, I am impressed with the way some of you guys are getting plots going.
To be honest I am about 5 years out of touch with pc building.
Congrats on the the block.
From what I see on Reddit, I came in a little too late and a lot to slow.
I started at the beginning of the month and have had too many lock ups trying to maximize my farm. Simple to say, May 1st, chia is seeing its first EiB. Now, it is screaming toward 11EiB...
I saw this as a less expensive replacement for ssds
Chia is a bit of a pain to set up on linux, and I already have it started on windows with two machines.... Oddly I entered the same account on the separate machine but they do not see eachothers farms
I bought an old HP z640 workstation with a 14 core Xeon CPU to run the plotting in Linux (hoping that I can move the disks over without losing the plots and thinking that at least I can use it to replace my office server in the future.)
Yeah... I got into this too late.
I purchased a pair of 12 TBs and an 18TB just as the crush was starting. In fact two sellers reneged as the prices jumped.
Problem I have is I cannot plot fast enough. I am using windows 10 and a 9900k with 48gb ram, and I crash plots almost 40% of the time.
I started before chia hit 2EB...
Thanks for the reply.
From what I am reading, indeed plotting takes up a great deal of time. It took days to get my first TB online, and I have at least 50 to go. The temp files on my ssds seem to be a limiter. I read that it writes a temp file 10 fold before copying to the HD. Is that part...
I trying my hand at Chia, buying into some overly hopeful crypto sites/. It takes to damned long to plot and chews through my SSDs. Cannot say it seems worth it.
There has to be a better way to set up HDs to run this program. It is like in the old days of setting up a Novell server.
thank you
I could spend a little more for something more recent. The chief use for the system is to view CT scans, so it does not need to be a powerhouse, just display 2560x1600 via DVI-D
I have a very serviceable dell 3007 which I wish to use with a Dell box that uses half heights. The 200 series ATI card cannot do 1600p on its DVI-D port. I am looking for a reasonably priced recent card that would do the job.
Thanks in Advance
I opted for the 40" Samsung 7100.
The TCL was comparable, but I genuinely want a slightly smaller monitor, between 37 and 40,inch for my work space.
So far, I am fairly satisfied with the results. Spreadsheets are so much easier to read than on the 15" 4k laptop screen, and gaming is...
The TCL was the 43S405 which had been mentioned in this thread. Also the 43s515 is available for 20 dollars more,
The Insignia, NS-43DF710NA19
And the Toshiba 43LF621U19
Samsung has a NU6900 for 299 at BB.
I have a 28" Dell 4K monitor, but wanted to go for a 40-43" model for work purposes (spread sheets).
Best buy had sales on their insignias, tcls and now Toshibas. I want to keep it under 300 if possible. I read good things about the TCL (for the price point...it is no Sony 720 series), what...