byusinger84
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I think miners have every right to buy up the cards for their uses, but damn does it suck to have to be considering used 4-5 year old graphics cards off of craigslist for $200 to be "budget" these days.
Agreed completely.
I think everyone's looking at this the wrong way round. What they need to do is release a version of their product that's better for mining than graphics cards. Tweak the memory and CPU to give better hash rates. Perhaps research into models that can help streamline the process of buffering blockchains. Sell them with specific coolers and fans that last longer. Charge a modest premium and at the same time decrease the ROI time sufficiently so that the cards are more efficient. Make interesting features, like "profiles" for specific algos. There's a million ideas that could be used.
How about selling GPU's with PCIe 1x interfaces on them. Sufficient for mining and MUCH simpler to implement on bigger rigs
Include a single display port. Then, when they're resold, cheap gaming GPU's are available.
At the moment they're charging an extortionate premium for their compute GPU's, even though they're the same cores. The supposed "mining cards" aren't available anywhere in any decent numbers, have no display port, so no resale value, and they're based on the entry level models only.
Yes there's a finite number of GPU's made, but at least then they would be two separate products and people would stop whinging like babies that they can't play games.
But for all this at the end of the day the will has to be there, and it's not. Nvidia and AMD don't give a crap about your gaming. They care about selling as many of their cards as they can. ROI.
Also completely agree. I've thought a lot about this too. I think this is a much better idea than trying to gimp normal cards. Companies tried making mining only versions of cards, but they cost as much as the cards that were full fledged cards. So given the choice, obviously, people will choose the ones they can resell.
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