Is this the end of PC gaming? Bitcoin is below 9k and every time it looks like it's recovering it dips again...

Is this the end of PC gaming? Bitcoin is below 9k and every time it looks like it's recovering it dips again. Yet GPU prices are still astronomical. This means that miners are so delusional and retarded that they'll pay high GPU prices even if the coins they're mining aren't worth anything.

Other urls found in this thread:

nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/products/geforce-now/mac-pc/
twitter.com/AnonBabble

WUSO WUSO WUSO WUSO WUSO

because people aren't buying gpus to mine bitcoin, they're mining other currencies

>why are people investing during bear market????????????
fucking retard

they all follow bitcoin value

Everything usually follows Bitcoin's lead. If Bitcoin collapses the entire market does as well.

they might, but as we all can see, that doesn't discourage miners at all

Market price doesn't affect hashrate. The issue is ETH is worth half it's value as two months ago but GPU prices have almost doubled. That makes it harder to hit ROI.

I get what you're saying but in the long run that's not true. Many of these coins still accumulate value in the long run while bitcoin loses value.

>bitcoin starting to dip again
good, I'll start buying when it goes below 5k for the next cycle

its been like 4 days mate. i believe the gpu market will catch up.

GPU companies have to order chipsets from the main Chinese manufacturers months in advance. Current thinking is even if crypto performs well, prices will normalises within the next 3-6 months as factories are finally able to catch up to demand.

BITCONNEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEECT

The normie craze is over. It will most likely stop somewhere around 4-5k and never rise again. Normalfags realized that cryptoshit is one big scam and are fleeing from it. Hopefully that shit drops even further to around 1-2k so maybe a couple of miners kill themselfes.

Why don't more miners just buy the damn coins instead?

Eventually we'll have more cards dedicated to mining vs cards dedicated for gaming.

Until then, consoles will continue to be relevant. You can't get me to pay $4000 for a 1080 ti when I can just get a ps4 pro and have it look almost as good.

>Yet GPU prices are still astronomical.
GPU prices aren't going to fix themselves overnight. Gonna take a little bit for places to restock.

>Is this the end of PC gaming?
Fuck off retard we have this thread daily. According to Sup Forums PC gaming has died/will die a hundred times.

Because mining is LITERALLY having a machine that prints money.

If you just buy and hold, or trade, you're putting yourself at the mercy of the market.

Mining nets you money no matter what.

The ps4 pro may ''look just as good'' but since it's a shitty console it can barely handle 30 fps on most games still. As someone who's using a 144hz monitor, that shit is simply unacceptable. I can deal with 60fps but 30 and bellow is just pure eye cancer.

Thanks fuck my shitty gtx 970 handles 1080p/144hz just fine with adjusted settings and I can wait this whole mess out.

Except when your electric bill and the cost of the hardware is higher than what you profit

There's still electricity cost to be factored in. And the fact that the poor miners are losing to the ones that are rich and have a warehouse full of them.

GPU prices won't drop overnight, unlike the value of bitcoin. It'll take a little while for retailers to adjust their prices in response to demand.

bitcoin won't ever collapse simply because the tor black market exists. And alt-coins wont succeed it anytime soon because of its brand; a significant number of people think Bitcoin = all of cryptocurrency. If I had extra money, I would buy some now while it's cheap.

It sucks about the graphics cards though

>what is electricity cost

it's going to take time for the price of GPU's to catch up to the lower demand and price for buttcoins, especially because the people who mine buttcoins are still holding their GPUS

now, when miners start dropping their mostly functional GPU's for HUGE discounts the prices for new gpu's will HAVE TO fall to compete or else they just. wont. sell. Especially when some miners actually take care of their cards and keep them cooled and don't OC them.

Hopefully AMD's desktop Ryzen APUs are good enough for AAA games.

PC GAMING IS DEAD.
ETHERUM IS STILL AT$800 DESPITE THE BIGGEST CRASH OF CRYPTO.
THIS IS OVER YOU FAGGOTS DEAL WITH IT SONY WON

No, we move over to cloud based gaming.
nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/products/geforce-now/mac-pc/
However this does hurt the modding community because to hell with buying mods. Fuck you Todd.

HOW MANY CYRPTO THREADS DO WE FUCKING NEED? JUST WAITA COUPLE FUCKING MONTHS YOU GOD DAMN MANCHILD, THEY WILL GO DOWN AGAIN.

before the new cards drop and everyone buys those up

I get noticeable latency just streaming a game from another PC over my LAN with Steam, there's no way running it through the internet is going to make anyone but total casuals happy.

Your network might be shit for streaming. Also if you don't have at least 50 down than it would be an issue.

bitcoin dropped to 7500 and then went back up to 9000 2 days ago.

and now it's under 8 grand again, more cards will come, crypto will fluctuate and be retarded.

It's eth which matters you tard. It was at $200 when miners started to buy every gpu they could find. That means that video game on PC is dead.

>Invest directly in the currency
>Invest in GPUs and electricity costs to try and generate the currency

I have no idea how much mining it takes to make up enough to offset the cost of the GPUs and all that but it's not like it's a machine that appears in your room that prints money. If you have a $3000 machine and it only prints a dollar a day, it'd take ~10 years to make up the investment.

And in this case, the value of each dollar is dropping drastically over time.

Actually it's like having a machine that literally prints beanie babies.

The bitcoin crash will save PC gaming. Finally stock will reach the gamers who it was manufactured for, and there will be lots of cheap used high-end cards on eBay (do not pay more than $100 for a card used for mining though, even if it's high end).

>Buying cards that ere used 24/7
Have fun with your useless garbo, kids

Like I said, never pay more than $100, even if it's a GTX 1080. $100 for a card that lasts 2 years is not bad but you need to know the risks, and a used mining card will always be a poor investment in the long term sicne they've already had most of their lifetime wear and tear accumulated.

Even so, we will be back to that forgotten fairytale age where these things called "sales" and "rebates" once existed, instead of $800 mid-to-high range graphics cards. Dumbasses will still buy some used mining cards which means lower prices on new cards for those of us who are smart enough to hold out.

And as always, keep an eye open for the glorious crypto currency suicides.

APUs or Mobos with integrated GPUs would be the only way to not completely kill off pc gaming IF the mining hype won't stop and/or demand for deep learning related cuda paralell processing will further increase .. so yeah

This my man. Console framerates in some games like witcher 3 can hit 11 frames while raining. Thats a fucking slide show. Though too be fair I can handle 30 frames but It's gotta be double rendered without dips. Shit like gears 3 on 360 have double rendered frames and it is much better than 60 with hard frame drops occasionally personally. But thats also the beauty of PC... Choice

>implying gpu prices are going to dramatically change along with the crypto market

signs that the people here haven't gotten through highschool yet.

Leave.

But they already have very slowly? Over the last week with the drop in crytpo gpu prices also slightly went down. If crypto keeps going down the gpus will follow.