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Biostar Risks Criticism After Unveiling iMiner A588X8D2 Pre-Built Mining System
Getting a graphics card continues to remain an exceptionally difficult and (generally) expensive task. – While there are, of course, many factors that have led to this situation, it’s hard to deny that the growth in cryptocurrency mining has undoubtedly played a significant role. – In something that may represent…
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Tool That ‘Removed’ Nvidia 30XX LHR Restrictions Was Actually Just Malware!
Earlier this week, you may recall reading about a new piece of software that was reportedly capable of completely removing all of the LHR restrictions found within the Nvidia 30XX series of graphics cards. A mildly concerning piece of news as, with their mining potential possibly being fully restored, this…
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Sapphire’s GPRO X080 Mining GPU Retail Price Plunges 40% in Just One Month!
Ever heard of the Sapphire GPRO X080 graphics card? For the majority of you, we daresay that the answer is no. And no fault of yours either. Just to quickly bring everyone up to speed, this is a GPU that has been specifically designed and targeted towards the cryptocurrency mining…
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Biostar Launch its TZ590-BTC Mining Motherboard
BIOSTAR has announced the launch of a brand new TZ590-BTC motherboard. Designed based on the Intel Z590 chipset that runs Intel 10th and 11th gen processors, BIOSTAR’s new TZ590-BTC motherboard targets the mid-range audience of casual gamers, content creators, and users looking to build an HTPC for casual-content consumption. The…
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Spanish Police Raid Property Expecting Drugs – Find Crypto-Miners Instead!
With the growth of cryptocurrency mining operations, in order to boost their profitability, a portion of their (less ethical) owners decide that it would be a lot more cost-effective to, you know, not actually pay for the masses of electricity they are using. In something of an interesting coincidence, however,…
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Malaysian Police Seize 1,720 Bitcoin Mining Machines in Power Theft Crackdown
Over the last year, it seems pretty clear that the Malaysian government’s patience has run out in regard to illegal cryptocurrency mining operations. A great example of this was seen last July when a police video was posted online showing them publically crushing over 1,000 ASIC machines. – What’s their…
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Revised Nvidia 3080 (12GB) Reportedly 20% Better at Mining than the Original!
Although the exact launch/release date has seemingly fallen back into the realms of speculation, at some point in January, or now more likely, February, Nvidia will confirm its newly revised 3070 Ti (16GB) and 3080 (12GB) graphics cards. – Now, with them apparently featuring some nice performance boosts, as well…
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EVGA BIOS Update Accidentally(?) Makes Their 3080 Ti’s Better at Mining
While it would certainly be unfair of us to blame all of the graphics card shortages over the last year on cryptocurrency mining demand, at the same time, it’s impossible to deny that it has certainly played a significantly huge factor. – One of the more frustrating aspects of this…
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Sapphire GPRO X080 & X060 Crypto GPU Leaks Online
Although we daresay some of you are probably already aware of this, many AIB partners to both AMD and Nvidia are currently, and exceptionally quietly, we might add, selling cryptocurrency mining-specific graphics cards. These are often both touted and sold directly to mining organisations and, in most instances, never officially…
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Intel Confirms Arc Graphics Cards Will NOT Have Mining Restrictions
With the launch of Intel’s dedicated gaming graphics cards (Arc Alchemist) expected to be made possibly at CES 2022 (which kicks off in January), there is certainly a lot of buzz surrounding a long-overdue third player finally entering the GPU market. With one of the biggest hopes from consumers being…
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Crypto Mining Company Buys Power Plant to Solve Energy Problems!
While Cryptocurrency mining can be an exceptionally lucrative industry, it does generally come with two notable problems. Firstly, you need to source all of the graphics cards and/or ASIC machines (and a lot of them!) to start generating some notable amounts of income. And secondly, you need a hell of…
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GPU-Z Can Now Tell You if Your Nvidia 30XX is LHR!
Following Nvidia’s initially botched attempt to restrict their graphics cards mining performance through its drivers (despite their insistence that it went far beyond that – it didn’t!) earlier this year Team Green decided to revise its entire 30XX line up to implement its new LHR (Lite Hash Rate) anti-mining technology.…
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GPU Supplies Could Improve Thanks to China’s Continued War on Mining!
Despite signs back in June that GPU supply levels and prices were improving, it seems pretty clear now that, based on all the evidence seen over the last couple of months, that this is sadly (and almost certainly) not going to be the case. Put simply, stock levels seem to…
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AMD Denies its Prioritising GPU Sales to Cryptominers
While certainly not the only factor at play, because, quite frankly, there are a lot of them going on at the moment, the recent boom in Cryptocurrency mining over the last year has definitely placed a strain on the number of graphics cards available for the general gaming consumer to…
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NBMiner Update Finds ‘Workaround’ To Nvidia LHR Mining Limiter
Following the launch of the GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card at the start of the year, Nvidia introduced its very first GPU that featured anti-mining technology. The main concept of the design was that this would hopefully result in the 3060 going to gamers rather than being sat in a…
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