EVGA Has A Mining-Focused Graphics Card, Too

[Guest]

The company hasn't revealed many details about the card, known only by its 06G-P4-5162-RB part number, but it has shared preliminary specs for the otherwise mysterious device.

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[DookieDraws]

Lawd have mercy! How many times do we have to see that auto-playing Predator laptop ad? At least make it click-to-play.

And maybe the next major GPU releases will quickly follow with a version for miners. Current GPU prices are outrageously high right now.

 

[dudmont]

My hunch, these mining cards are coming out too late.

 

[10tacle]

There are some benefits for we PC gods to this mining craze: our previous generation GPUs are selling at a premium. Even the GTX 970s, 980s, and RX 470s and 480s are selling for way more on the used market than they were two months ago. I recently offloaded my two 970s for $480. Two months ago 970s were going for no more than $150.

So anyone who was pondering upgrading to a 1080 and 1080Ti and is sitting on 970s-980s or 470s-480s should seriously consider selling and making the move now before miners start driving up the 1080 and 1080Ti costs. I've noticed the 1080s are now being targeted by miners as the 1070s are out everywhere or near 1080 prices. Prices of 1080s are up $30-$50USD over the past four weeks on several Etailers like NewEgg.

 

[derekullo]

[quotemsg=19931083,0,34515]Lawd have mercy! How many times do we have to see that auto-playing Predator laptop ad? At least make it click-to-play.

And maybe the next major GPU releases will quickly follow with a version for miners. Current GPU prices are outrageously high right now. [/quotemsg]

http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm

For no more predator ads.

 

[Kennyy Evony]

yea i saw a comment several months ago and used block site addon and blocked the player website altogether so all i see on the webpage on my side is "Error loading playlist: Playlist load error: Error loading file" and a gray box but im sure if i really wanted to i could get rid of that as well. I dont have any videos or advertisement on tomshardware anymore so its much more friendly to readers.

 

[chaosmassive]

yo, the party is over and people start to disperse....

 

[Pixdawg]

@Derekullo posted a link to the MVPS HOSTS file--I've used one or another version of it for 15 years or more. I see someone complain about some ad and think "What ad??" Was unaware of Tom's having them. Same for many other sites. A good HOSTS file also helps block a lot of malware.

 

[warmon6]

[quotemsg=19931083,0,34515]Lawd have mercy! How many times do we have to see that auto-playing Predator laptop ad? At least make it click-to-play. [/quotemsg]

Agree.... I try not to run adblock on sites i visit often but...... This is the fastest way to make people use adblock Tom's....

Change the ad once in a blue moon (or at least have a variety of ad's that can be cycled though) and stop it from auto-playing!

Not everyone here wants a gaming laptop and if i really cared to see what the ad-video has to offer, i'll click on it and see it.

 

[thundervore]

[quotemsg=19934286,0,268765][quotemsg=19931083,0,34515]Lawd have mercy! How many times do we have to see that auto-playing Predator laptop ad? At least make it click-to-play. [/quotemsg]

Agree.... I try not to run adblock on sites i visit often but...... This is the fastest way to make people use adblock Tom's....

Change the ad once in a blue moon (or at least have a variety of ad's that can be cycled though) and stop it from auto-playing!

Not everyone here wants a gaming laptop and if i really cared to see what the ad-video has to offer, i'll click on it and see it. [/quotemsg]

I run adblock and its not blocking it. It beyond annoying. The other thing that pissed me off that made me stop visiting for a while was every time I clicked on a article it brought up that subscribe popup to put in the email.

 

[Odachi]

Thank god! Hopefully this will help to limit the collateral damage these Cryptards are having on the cost of gaming.

It will be especially annoying if any of the currencies sparking these 'goldrushs' end up dying like so many other crypto-currencies...

 

[vishnumrao]

Try pi-hole. So far its been great at blocking the annoying ads. https://pi-hole.net/

I agree, such autoplaying video ads are the fastest way to get people to block ads on their fav websites. I try not to block ads on sites that I read regularly. I like to support them. But autoplaying video ads are a strict no no!

 

[warmon6]

[quotemsg=19934312,0,627667] I run adblock and its not blocking it. It beyond annoying. The other thing that pissed me off that made me stop visiting for a while was every time I clicked on a article it brought up that subscribe popup to put in the email.[/quotemsg]

For the adblock i use on chrome, it wont block that video ad automatically but I can manually tell it to block the video and that block works on the entire site.

To bad though that I cant just block that ad and let the rest of the ad's on the site run (as they're no where near as intrusive as that video.) It's either all or nothing.

As for the subscribe popup, that is another thing that's still around and needs to be addressed.... Thanks for reminding me....