techradar How Nvidia is tackling cryptomining so more gamers can get RTX cards

[ENTERPRISE]

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It's no secret that it's almost impossible to find an RTX 3000-series graphics card right now. An army of bots is scouring the internet retailers buying up a lot of the available stock while desperate gamers fight over what's left behind or trying their luck with systems like Newegg Shuffle.

 

While profiteers online are a much bigger problem than cryptominers - and there is obviously overlap between profiteers reselling cards to miners, so the boundary between the two is pretty hazy - it's still enough to have caught the attention of Nvidia.

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[schuck6566]

And meanwhile,the average person has gotten creative to fight back at the scalpers.... 

Note that 44 "people" have actually bid on this picture of a video card and the price is now $280.00 with a couple of days to go.

[ENTERPRISE]

  On 01/03/2021 at 16:30, schuck6566 said:

And meanwhile,the average person has gotten creative to fight back at the scalpers.... 

Note that 44 "people" have actually bid on this picture of a video card and the price is now $280.00 with a couple of days to go.

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Ha, I should have saved it. Myself and @Sgt_Swanny saw an eBay listing for a 2080Ti I think it was, it was like a some sort of felt tip/water colour drawing of the card...sold for £6..Not a bad return for a piece of A4 paper with a 5 min drawing.

[Snakecharmed]

  On 01/03/2021 at 17:53, ENTERPRISE said:

Ha, I should have saved it. Myself and @Sgt_Swanny saw an eBay listing for a 2080Ti I think it was, it was like a some sort of felt tip/water colour drawing of the card...sold for £6..Not a bad return for a piece of A4 paper with a 5 min drawing.

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Oh, this is precious.

 

[mouacyk]

I hope it's also bots putting up these sales posts.  Otherwise, it's also a waste of human potential and time... 

[Sir Beregond]

  On 02/03/2021 at 00:02, Snakecharmed said:

 

Oh, this is precious.

 

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Been seeing a lot of these on eBay (usually just printed pictures of GPUs though). Descriptions usually clearly state its a picture only so gotta wonder if its the bots bidding on these things.