Nvidia 3000 Series Tonight

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HM-2

12,467 posts

168 months

Wednesday 21st April 2021
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LimaDelta said:
HM-2 said:
One of the tech YouTubers reviewed them, I think they were pretty good IIRC if a bit loud.

One thing to be careful of is that, if the earlier Dell/Alienware stuff is anything to go by, they don't use FE or partner cards but have their own versions of the Reference PCB cards with their own design of cooler on them. Usually these coolers are absolutely ste and will run hotter and be significantly louder than an FE or partner card; judging from the numbers that turn up on eBay as spares or repair with cooler issues I also think they're much less reliable.
The fan noise doesn't bother me, but the reliability issues do. They are claiming better cooling with the latest model however. I am used to throttling as my 1070 equipped Aorus laptop has no less than four external fans 'helping' keep the temperatures in check. Surely they can't be any worse than that?
You're speaking to someone who has a water cooled system with none of his 7 fans running at more than 750RPM, I'm probably not the best person to make judgements on "tolerable" levels of noise wink

knitware

1,473 posts

192 months

Friday 23rd April 2021
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I have an MSI rtx 3090 ventus 3x now surplus. I bought it in Dec, pm if interested. I'd rather deliver,due to the cost of the card,so if your near Oxford. I may be braking rules so mods delete if so.

Digby

8,230 posts

245 months

Friday 23rd April 2021
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knitware said:
I have an MSI rtx 3090 ventus 3x now surplus. I bought it in Dec, pm if interested. I'd rather deliver,due to the cost of the card,so if your near Oxford. I may be braking rules so mods delete if so.
How much matey?

Steven_RW

1,727 posts

201 months

Friday 23rd April 2021
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Digby said:
knitware said:
I have an MSI rtx 3090 ventus 3x now surplus. I bought it in Dec, pm if interested. I'd rather deliver,due to the cost of the card,so if your near Oxford. I may be braking rules so mods delete if so.
How much matey?
Whatever he offers, im offering £10 more.

You do deliver to Scotland right? ;-)

cadmunkey

447 posts

88 months

Friday 23rd April 2021
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knitware said:
I have an MSI rtx 3090 ventus 3x now surplus. I bought it in Dec, pm if interested. I'd rather deliver,due to the cost of the card,so if your near Oxford. I may be braking rules so mods delete if so.
If you're not playing the scalping game, I'd be interested.

FourWheelDrift

88,375 posts

283 months

Thursday 29th April 2021
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Potentially good news for gamers -

FourWheelDrift

88,375 posts

283 months

Thursday 6th May 2021
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More confirmation of Etherium slow down, less profitability and V2.0 towards the end of year killing off GPU mining.



And there's not really an alternative to switch to that is worth it.

halo34

2,427 posts

198 months

Thursday 6th May 2021
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FourWheelDrift said:
More confirmation of Etherium slow down, less profitability and V2.0 towards the end of year killing off GPU mining.



And there's not really an alternative to switch to that is worth it.
Not yet, but I suspect there will be. The real problem first is the silicon shortage, whether another coin may then come in and keep people mining for less marginal gains will be interesting.

Raven for example might just start to swing into profit then, but who knows.

FourWheelDrift

88,375 posts

283 months

Thursday 6th May 2021
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halo34 said:
whether another coin may then come in and keep people mining for less marginal gains will be interesting.

Raven for example might just start to swing into profit then, but who knows.
Bryan in the first video I posted did a big analysis of other crytpos and there isn't enough profitability of others to sustain a large number of miners the way Etherium has and they would get overwhelmed, just here - https://youtu.be/us5gyJVuTf8?t=208 And found that Nvidia has shipped more 30x series cards than they every shipped 20x series or older series. There is no lack of cards being made, they are being taken early in the process by cryptominers who have created and registered their own company, contacted distributors and bought direct from the distributors in bulk. See the 72 3060Ti Ebay advert top of this page.

Edited by FourWheelDrift on Thursday 6th May 20:47

bloomen

6,843 posts

158 months

Thursday 6th May 2021
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For some reason I enjoy reading about hard drives every now and then. r/datahoarder is dedicated to that. Some stcoin is now 'mining' with hard drives so their prices are now going through the roof too.

Let's hope the next one doesn't latch on to MRI machines or defibrillators.

Durzel

12,232 posts

167 months

Friday 7th May 2021
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bloomen said:
For some reason I enjoy reading about hard drives every now and then. r/datahoarder is dedicated to that. Some stcoin is now 'mining' with hard drives so their prices are now going through the roof too.

Let's hope the next one doesn't latch on to MRI machines or defibrillators.
We’re through the looking glass.

It’s debatable whether mining had any permanent degrading effect on graphics cards, but that new stcoin that (ab)uses hard drives most definitely will.

If MRIs/defibs did actually become the gold standard of mining ROI, somehow, you can bet people would be breaking into hospitals or breaking their own bones so they could get close to them, such is the insanely selfish gold rush that exists now.

halo34

2,427 posts

198 months

Friday 7th May 2021
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FourWheelDrift said:
halo34 said:
whether another coin may then come in and keep people mining for less marginal gains will be interesting.

Raven for example might just start to swing into profit then, but who knows.
Bryan in the first video I posted did a big analysis of other crytpos and there isn't enough profitability of others to sustain a large number of miners the way Etherium has and they would get overwhelmed, just here - https://youtu.be/us5gyJVuTf8?t=208 And found that Nvidia has shipped more 30x series cards than they every shipped 20x series or older series. There is no lack of cards being made, they are being taken early in the process by cryptominers who have created and registered their own company, contacted distributors and bought direct from the distributors in bulk. See the 72 3060Ti Ebay advert top of this page.

Edited by FourWheelDrift on Thursday 6th May 20:47
Interesting - and in relation to the other posts, CHIA farming seems to be swinging people into action in a different way now. Don't get me wrong, am all for the GPU market getting better, hell might even bag a 3090 and sell my 3080 then.

I started mining mostly to pay off the cost of the card, but its become a bit of an obsessive hobby.

I guess long as its paid off, each month I make a little on Eth am happy. I would probably even mine to break even on RVN for example just in hope that it pays off long long term.

I have now filled every spare TB with CHIA mining - just for fun. PC is on anyway so makes sense.

Lucas Ayde

3,541 posts

167 months

Friday 7th May 2021
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FourWheelDrift said:
More confirmation of Etherium slow down, less profitability and V2.0 towards the end of year killing off GPU mining.



And there's not really an alternative to switch to that is worth it.
The Etherium price keeps increasing - every day marks a new record price right now, no sign of when it might fall back.

The best hope is that you are now seeing dedicated Etherium mining chips/rigs (as with Bitcoin) which offer better bang for the buck than using GPUs so miners might switch over to those. But they are massively expensive so there will likely still be a demand for GPUs for their lower cost of entry.

Steven_RW

1,727 posts

201 months

Friday 7th May 2021
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You can take my freedom but you will never take my GPUS!!!!

Said a Scottish Ethereum miner.

Lucas Ayde

3,541 posts

167 months

Monday 10th May 2021
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Another Scan drop this evening (All four FE models) at about 6:15pm or so ..... Managed to JUST get one but only on the 'second wave' ... got to the computer about 4-5 mins after getting the alert and the 3060Ti/3070 and 3080 were all showing web pages but no order button (ie. all gone and in the process of going through).

Amazingly, managed to get a 3070 when I kept refreshing everything and the 3070 page suddenly let me order, some unlucky sod must have had their CC declined, website crash on them or maybe got disqualified for a previous purchase.

Total madness.

halo34

2,427 posts

198 months

Tuesday 11th May 2021
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Pulling about £18 a day over the last few days with a 3080 - my hashrates dropped a little tho, some weirdness going on with Riva tuner and precision (the EVGA tool)

Bullett

10,873 posts

183 months

Tuesday 11th May 2021
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My rate has doubled over the last few days, only pottering about with a 1080 until the new rig is delivered but it jumped from £1.60ish to just over £3 with peaks at £5 a day.

halo34

2,427 posts

198 months

Tuesday 11th May 2021
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DDg said:
Is that gross or nett (i.e. before or after you've paid for electricity)?
I meant to post on the Eth mining thread sorry - electrics about £1 a day but yes thats after. It does vary hour by hour tho in fairness.

thatsprettyshady

1,819 posts

164 months

Tuesday 11th May 2021
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I get around 3.50 for 4 hours on my 3090 lately, 10% is electric roughly

Lucas Ayde

3,541 posts

167 months

Tuesday 11th May 2021
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I got my shipping confirmation from Scan so shortly will be going RTX ..... at last. Pretty much two months of jumping on notifications on my phone to try to give a vendor a lot of money for a GPU and just constant non-availability. What is the world coming to?

At last, I can actually do some useful gaming on my new G9 monitor....