Last year was a big one for cryptocurrency mining...

>Last year was a big one for cryptocurrency mining, and it culminated with a shortage of graphics cards and grossly inflated prices. According to a new report by Jon Peddie Research (JPR), miners purchased over 3 million add-in board (AIB) graphics cards worth around $776 million in 2017, with AMD emerging as the primary benefactor of those sales.
>In the short-term, prices are likely to stay high, unfortunately. Dr. Peddie says "gamers can offset those costs by mining when not gaming, but prices will not drop in the near future." So that's a bit of a bummer.

How the fuck do we make graphics cards affordable again? I want to upgrade my 970 but can't because every good card is over $1,000 now.

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>gamers can offset those costs by mining when not gaming
I'm not doing that stupid shit are you kidding me?

Just get an Xbox One X

>hurr durr I won't use my car to do some Uber rides during my free time to offset the cost of my car

that's how retarded you sound like right now

By making a gaming only line. Expect some kind of Maxwell tier refresh without cuda support soon.

This, at this point mining isn't profitable at all unless you're in a situation in which you don't have to pay for electricity.

>cuckbox
No thanks

>How the fuck do we make graphics cards affordable again?
get rich on crypto

I just went ahead and ordered a fucking prebuilt pc for the first time in my life, I don't give a fuck anymore

>hurr durr I won't let Jamal fuck my wife while I'm at work to offset the cost of paying her credit card debt

that's how retarded you sound like right now

>Sup Forums is now anti-capitalist

Fuck you commie faggots. If demand exceeds supply, then the price will increase. Either pay up or fuck off

Ryzen APUs are our only hope

>instinctively thinks about interracial cuckoldry

See a psychiatrist

That's exactly what I'm saying. I don't turn into an amateur taxi driver just because I have a few minutes to spare. I costs gas, and it puts wear on my car which I will have to get maintenance for sooner.

You might as well try to ridicule for me for not whoring out my asshole whenever I'm not taking a shit.

It's not profitable like that you retard

>hurr durr I won't use my solar panel to power a lamp to shine on itself to offset the cost

>putting unnecessary wear and tear on your car when you don't need to

>have 7850
>it dies
>have to get another preowned because GPUs are so expensive
when this card dies, i'm really fucked

>buying three million video cards ruins the entire PC market for a year
Don't more than three million consoles get sold every month?

See a financial planner instead of investing in meme ponzi schemes

>580 died
>picked up a new 980
>before all of this crypto shit blew up

>wear and tear

The amount you get paid for the ride is enough to cover gas, maintenance, and still leave you a profit. If it didn't, then no one would be doing Uber you fucking retards.

exact same card, but I ended up getting a $130 560 pulse.

i'll just wait it out for when 580s come back down to earth.

console parts are secured using fixed-price contracts

>everyone's time is as worthless as mine
I have a job that handles all of that shit AND I get time to relax which is just as important for your state of mind. If you thinking working 18 hours a day is what you SHOULD be doing just to mitigate some of the shitty decisions you've made in your life you're living your life completely wrong.

Sure just let me quit my job and become a taxi driver you stupid fuck

If you lived in nothing but flatland maybe

>my time is valuable!
>says the guy posting on Sup Forums

Kill yourself

Which pre-built?

>people saying to just start mining yourself
>mfw those people don't realize the small amount of gain from 1 card is not worth it when you factor in the electricity cost and time it would take to break even
if you not set with at least 4-5 cards, don't bother.

Yes. My free time is valuable to me because I get to choose how I spend it, or waste it. Giving myself no time to do nothing is a terrible fucking idea. Come back after you've grown up.

So you're posting while you're playing taxi driver then? You really are a failure.

what

>wear down your breaks, use up gas, and add miles to your car for minimum wage
Hahahahahahahaha

Uber ads are an IQ test, and their drivers failed.

Not to mention you can't use your computer for shit while you're mining and your PC is going to be generating a fuckload of heat running at 100% 24/7 so unless your computer is in the basement your room is going to be hot as fuck or you'll be turning on the AC and burning even more power.

>offset the cost of my car
My car is a classic with appreciating value so why the fuck would I use it faggot

I will.
Only for RDR2 though.
Gonna grab one of those new TCL budget 4k HDR10 tv's releasing next month as well. Gonna be an expensive summer for me but oh well it's a long term investment anyway.

Dr Peddie is a fucking retard, mining is nowhere near profitable now that bitcoin isn't hyper inflated. Like it hasn't been for ages unless you have a super efficient setup. How the fuck do tech "professionals" constantly say the dumbest shit? Oh wait it's because nobody who reads their shit actually has any clue so they never get called out.

No kidding. These little kids bit mining with off-the-shelf graphics cards are deluding themselves.

>have my car for 6 years
>only put 20,000 miles on it
It's basically just for cross-country road trips and store runs.

found the no coiner. shouldn't you be at work, wagecuck?

why don't humans understand how retarded bitcoin mining is?

literally 3 million graphics cards and all the energy it takes to run them, all so they can run pointless virtual calculations. these people are getting paid to throw resources into a void.

the sheer amount of heat that must generate, good lord

ma nigga.

Human psychology is wired to fall prey to pyramid schemes because we lack the foresight to see the bigger picture.

brainlet

When they notice nobody is mining any more and their sales plummet, so will the prices

>Not to mention you can't use your computer for shit while you're mining
that's probably okay with Sup Forums, since a lot of people here seem to hate games and do nothing but shitpost from their mobile.

dude, there's a fan in the room. it's fine

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Because less than 1% of miners actually know how it works
People just see this shit in the media after it's already exploded, think it's a new get-rich-quick scheme and invest all their savings for something that will take years before seeing a minuscule return.

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this one, not from that shop though.

>Literally have to mine crypto just for PC gaming to be affordable

>actually believing bitcoin is a pyramid scheme
hahahaha

that fan is literally doing fuck-all

you are a literal retard

I AM going to ridicule you for not whoring your asshole out while not shitting. Get your fucking shit together user and make some god damn money.

The people who get in on it early or brute force their way to the top of the pyramid are the only ones who can turn a profit. The amount you get for your effort goes down over time, so new people have a more difficult time getting the same results as the earlier adopters.

This mirrors pyramid schemes 1:1. Do you need a diagram?

>plays at console settings
what's the point?

I just ended up getting a beefy laptop. It's more or less the same specwise and it cost me the price of one gpu.

you're retarded

>nividia becoming expensive for anyone but fps autists
>ati becoming expensive because bitmeme autists
Why the fuck does everything get ruined by autists

Why don't humans understand how retarded paper money is?

Literally trillions of these things are printed, and all the goverments and laws it takes to uphold them, all so they can have a pointless slip of paper.

>what's the point?
APU can do fortnite, LoL, overwatch, CS:GO, rocket league and all those e-sport titles. If you're big into those games, you might as well do it on a PC. and APU is a decent option until prices come back down.

Okay, my friend. Just buy $50,000 worth of this herbal weight loss drug and the more you sell to your friends and family the less the subsequent weight loss drugs will cost you. It's infinite money.

sauce plz

because paper money is more secure than digital money.

I hope you didn't pay that price for a 1060 and 16 gigs of ram

>stuck with a 640 for years
>finally get enough money to upgrade
>"lol that'll be 800 bucks for one part"

I just want framerates that aren't dogshit at Ultra Low

what's even the point of those coins? what can you buy with this shit?

literally nothing to do with bitcoin

>640
Why the fuck are you buying cards meant for laptops?

How is an Xbone a long term investment?

drugs. other than that, it's nothing but speculation

This, gaming laptops have come a hell of a long way spec wise.

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I don't get how 4-5 cards can earn themselves back when 1 cannot. Is there somehow a greater return in mining if cards work together, compared to them working side by side? If not, your comment is retarded.

how is it different?

But it is. Ditigal money is not secure because it doesn't exist. This is why Wall Street has gotten away with so much shit over the years.

lmao investing? oh it makes sense now you're a redditor so its always cuck this and meme that

Thanks a lot Soyboys! Thanks to soytendo buying up graphic cards for curpto currency to force people to buy shit systems like switch. We would never be in this mess. Only Sony can fix this shit now.

it's that or a 680, too lazy to check. I didn't buy this piece of shit computer

I never understood this either, you still need to make up the cost of the cards

Legitimately retarded

>lmao investing
You guys are a riot.

you obviously don't know a single thing about bitcoin or blockchains

Plus 5 cards require 5x the electricity. I really don't get why more cards would net you a faster return, unless they somehow can work in conjunction, making the whole greater than the sum of the parts. In that case I understand.

Your inability to see the functional similarities is unsurprising. A ton of people are getting fooled because they either do not understand how crypto currencies work or they do not understand how the model is not sustainable. It's why you see a thousand different crypto currencies popping up all over the place. Some people figured out that the best way to turn a profit is to be the original creator of a currency that other people buy into, and then cash out as soon as their ROI hits astronomical levels.

Idiots like you are turning predatory assholes into multi-millionaires because you're hoodwinked into thinking "this" crypto currency will be the one!

Open your fucking eyes and realize I'm trying to help you here. But you won't. Not until you've wasted your time and money.

>I won't use my car to do some Uber rides during my free time to offset the cost of my car
>Time

By putting time into it you are increasing the cost you paid for the car if the goal is only to pay off the cost of the car.

Fuck it. Have $1450 to spend. What's a good Gaming Laptop?

I can't wait for normies to realise crypto is worthless monopoly money, the rest of the insiders cash out and all the budding wall street wannabes are left holding the bag

something happen on /biz/?
usually those faggots branch to other boards when something retarded happens with their fake money

The same could be said of the value behind the dollar, running on nothing less than the "full faith and credit of the US Government".

If crypto could easily be dismissed as benign and valueless, then major world governments wouldn't be scrambling right now to ban or regulate it like China and Worst Korea right now.

retard

>The amount you get paid for the ride is enough to cover gas, maintenance, and still leave you a profit

What? No it doesn't? Profit would be minimum wage PLUS enough to cover gas, down time, diving to pick up locations, maintenance, phone data connection to maintain contact with uber and/or lyft.

Drivers don't get paid nearly enough to cover all that.

Kill yourself, cryptocurrency is a useless pyramid scam that will never amount to anything useful ever.

Enjoy losing all your money to scammers .

>the gtx 10 series graphics cards are the most successful product NVidia has ever manufactured
>in celebration of the cards' success, NVidia has released a special edition 1080 ti set to come out at the end of 2018 that will be half the cost of the card at its initial release date
>this card will be released alongside its brand new big brother, the 1200, which boasts a staggering 24 gb of vram

too bad you won't be able to get any of them

Basically nothing. It's not a currency and it never will be, it's a gambling commodity.

Crypto has never made any sense on a macro level, it was at best some novel idea from a few computer scientists. Blockchain has a couple of interesting potential uses, but for currency? nah. Crypto inherently lacks of a lot of the tools that governments use to deal with economic bumps in the road.

retard

>drivers are working at a loss

I can play all my 360 games and og Xbox games at 4k forever. It will be the best place to play timeless classics like ninja gaiden or lost oddysey