Recent content by bollwerk

I've seen this story in a few places and the title is SUPER misleading. If you know anything about mining crypto, you'd assume this means it was using the car's CPU to mine, not the battery, as the battery doesn't generate power on it's own. The title feels very clickbaity.

The price per hash is gonna have to get a lot more competitive compared to gaming GPUs, if they want miners to pick these cards over gaming GPUs. Folks seem to be finding code to bypass the "LHR" code in newer gaming GPUs, at least in part.

There are some bugs with the game client regarding graphics and resolutions, but I agree that shouldn't kill cards. Hardware should be designed in a way to protect itself, and cards generally are. If cards are dying, then it's definitely faulty card design.

I'm genuinely impressed with their decision to release this video. It was informative and friendly. They seem to show a clear respect for their customers here. I hope the device is solid build quality and reliable.

I had assumed this was already self-evident. There is no way the new consoles can compete with a 3080 (et.al.) in 4k with ray tracing on.

Miners aren't going to buy these over standard video cards if the price per hash rate isn't competitive.

Assuming you're being cheeky here... =) Silicon, plastic and copper appear to the most common, but other materials are also used: Hafnium: A rare metal used most often in nuclear reactors. It speeds up CPUs. Tantalum: Used on GPU transistors along with palladium to increase chip storage space...

I'm not sure that's a good apples to apples comparison, but perhaps it's just not that big of a deal. I expect a site dedicated to tech to be more accurate/pedantic than casual conversation. It's not the end of the world, but I don't think it's out of line to hold the bar high for accuracy in...

There is an easy way to not be surprised by demand ... let people pre-order them. I get that not everyone who wants one will pre-order them, but I'm sure there is some data or algorithm you can use to extrapolate from pre-order data. This whole mess seems like it would be solved by letting...

As someone else mentioned, this article is slightly inaccurate in using the term "POSCAP", rather than "SP-CAP". Perhaps the article should be updated to fix this? POSCAP is a Panasonic specific brand, with an easily distinguishable white pattern on top, whereas SP-CAP is a more generic term...

I feel like a lot of the botting could be slowed down by having a limit of 1 card per: shipping address, billing address, IP, email, credit card, etc... (meaning each order has to have a unique version of ALL these items)

Yep. Got my email from Nvidia at 7:14am. Checked site at 7:30am. Already sold out.

I will be very surprised if that GPU can do 4k@60fps for any modern games.

Found a typo: " It is worth nothing that slower CPUs.." I'm assuming that should be "noting", not "nothing"

I agree. I have a PC and an XB1X. Both are great.