AngryBeaver

Exactly. My 3080 if used 24/7 to mine pays for itself in 2 months... then it is all profit. That is also at current rates which are likely to continue climbing with occasional crashes thrown in.

He was just giving the 3090 as a form of measurement. For etherium for example any card under about 5gb of vram (probably 6 in a day when difficulty increases) will be unable to mine it. So then you have the fact that eth mining is more memory speed dependent. So for example a 2070s would only get about 37mh/s where my 3080 can pull 100-105 mh/s. Then you have to look at how much power is consumed for that hash rate. For a 2070s I would guess it is in the ballpark of 150watts, vs my 3080 using 207w. Anyways the point is that of the gpus you gave as examples some of them cannot even mine Etherium. The others will do so, but the cost effectiveness would be much lower as well as the actual hash rates. Then you will just give people a taste of mining which will just lead to more miners lol. When I can pay for a 3080 in about 2 months worth of mining it becomes very tempting to just keep adding cards.

Yes and no. I cannot walk up to the federal reserve and trade my cash for gold. Cash no longer has the same value it use to. The amount of money circulating is much higher than the gold reserves it represents and this doesn't even dive into trade deficits and the like. So while I can buy gold from private parties... I cannot just walk down to the federal reserve and trade cash for gold that is because in 1971 most governments moved away from the "gold standard." So money is just paper with a value derived by the government that we have chosen to accept and use. So again, you don't need a government backing to give something a value or use it as a form of currency. You need a government backing if you want some type of guarantee that the currency will hold value, but with how the world market is that value, even of the dollar, fluctuates compared to other currencies... just not as drastically.

Which is the risk people who use it have to accept. It only takes 2 people agreeing on something as a form of currency to make it legitimate (barter). The whole point of crypto currency was to decentralize currency. So crypto doesn't have a value derived from any one government.

Except it isn't counterfeit? They aren't trying to make a copy of the Dollar, Euro, or any other currency. Crypto also has a value which is created by the resources required to generate (mine) it. Using it as a form of payment is no different than any other type of barter and the government trying to control barter becomes a pretty iffy area. I mean if crypto being digitally mined means it has no value... then maybe gold, oil, and other precious resources shouldn't be tradable for money as they are just physical extensions of this. Barter is barter... there shouldn't be exceptions to this.

and every time you power it on or move the laptop you risk killing it.

No. The difference is USD and other currency is backed by a country/bank. With bitcoin there is no physical backing in the same way... the Currency gets it's value from the resources required to mine it and the value people place on it. As long as people use it as a currency it will still be a viable source. So while etherium for example doesn't have a country backing it... that doesn't mean I can't exchange it for a currency that does.. and as long as others see it that way it will continue to have a value. I mean currency was originally a physical representation of how much gold a country had. Which is why some currency is worth more than others, but that pool has been so diluted and gold is no longer the much coveted resource it once was.

Try running a few benchmarks and comparing it with other similar setups. It might just be an issue with the game after an update. One game just isn't a good judge of whether or not a problem exists with your gpu.

I have an aging set of the Logitech z906 speakers, and I also had a pair of the Klipsh Promedia. They both sound just fine, but truthfully I feel headphones are just better for most pc applications these days. Dolby atmos works flawlessly on most headsets and produces a much better 3d effect than anything other than an actual atmos speaker setup. They muffle all the other noise so you aren't losing emersion to random sounds. So for me I think any of the three solutions you listed can sound good given it has a power sub in the mix. That is not as needed for good bookshelf or floor standing speakers, but it still does a lot to improve sound. I just think that when it comes to games, music, even movies being watched from a pc... that the headphones are extremely hard to beat.

2022 is a long time to still have the issue. It would mean that numerous companies have completely failed. They have more than enough time to increase their production capabilities in that time. To work around the current supply line issues due to covid. For retailers to come up with solutions to allow gamers to get cards despite bots and miner demands. We are already seeing places that have done this... this should only improve going forward. Like I said I was able to get a 5900x and 3080 in a single week at their current msrp (3080 was at tariff price msrp though). I can walk into my local microcenter today and get an Asus EK 3090 (due to many being unwilling to pay the price lol). Now I live in the USA with quick access to a microcenter, but even outside of microcenter the USA has a much better chance to get these cards than some other countries. Those are the ones I feel for the most.

Only if every government in the world had the exact same stance. Which will not happen in any of our life times. Not only that since they government has already basically acknowledged it as a form of currency that can be taxed... they would be on the hook for any losses caused if they did kill it off. That all aside the way block chain works would make it incredibly hard for a government to "kill it." They could make it illegal, but that wouldn't stop it. They could try to shutdown the parts of the chain in the USA, but that still wouldn't stop it. It would just lead to more secure exchanges that would be more inclined to completely go anonymous.

I think that ship has already sailed. We are past the point of it just dying and going away. So we are already past the event horizon and are doomed to watch how crypto evolves going forward. Heck, I have been mining again with just my gaming pc when I am not playing on it which has already netted me about .60ish of a coin. I doubt I will even sell any time soon. I mean as it stands this gpu will pay for itself in about 2 months

@carl010010Do you have a microcenter near by? If so getting a 30xx series gpu and a 5xxx series cpu aren't that difficult.

I would go with a higher watt PSU. If he goes with a new gpu for example a 3080 then that power supply will have a hell of a time trying to keep up with it all under load. My 5900x and 3080 when running full out can pull over 600 watts alone before adding other items into the mix.

For laptops it will need to be windows. I don't really have brand loyalty, but go off of reviews and find the one that best fits my use case. Phones I am pretty much a Samsung galaxy only person these days. They have been rock solid for my needs. For pc... I again do not pigeon hole myself into a particular brand, but I do mostly own nvidia when it comes to GPUs. They have been leading high end performance which is normally the segment u purchase in. As for TV... when u do upgrade I normally go for something high-end, but sensible in cost. So in general I will have a main entertainment TV that is 72+ inches and within 0-2 years old and then my other TV are just hand me downs from upgrades lol. I probably won't upgrade my main TV again until 8k is more the norm.

You can use the pci-e 3 riser cable if you manually select pci-e 3.0 mode for that slot in your bios. If you leave it on auto you will more than likely have issues. If you want to run pci-e 4 then you will need a pci-e 4 riser cable. I picked one up from linkup for around 65-70ish and it has worked 100% without issues.

This just isn't true. Most people think they need much more Vram than they really do. If you aren't running extreme resolutions like 8k or using the card for content creation where you need massive amounts of vram then again no need for it. When it comes down to say the 3080 the speed of the ram make it much better than say the 3060 with 12gb of ram. Having more ram when you don't have speed to utilize it doesn't really help do anything other than make it look better than it is. Lastly, moving forward Dlss with give these cards a lot of future proofing due to the effect it has on vram usage and fps.

So rpm imo isn't the best gadget, but instead lpm or gpm. There is a point with flow rate that you start hitting diminishing returns. I have forgotten the magic number for it atm, but that should be the aim instead of a % of pump speed. There are a lot of factors that go into flow rate so rpm wouldn't be a good one size fits all setting.

Imo function is more important than a slight difference in anesthetics. That being said 3600 cl16 would be my aim. For the 1x1 infinity fabric. So if 64gb of the royal 3600 is to expensive then go with 8x4 for 32 gb of it. Outside of extensive VMs there isn't any real need for that amount of ram.

I'll post mine in a bit, need to heat up my loop anyways since I am running system reboot through it. Anyways off the top of my head game temps are mid 50-60c and my mining temps with a hefty memory overclock are in the 78-86c

If you don't need rgb pickup a pack of arctic p12s

The loop flow rate will always be = to most constrained point unless you run a splitter, but that will mean water tends to take the easier path. Also while your AIO test does basically match up with the video I posted... there is a big difference in aio flow rate which maxes out at around .2-.3 gpm and a custom loop where gpm can be over 2+.

If you have a microcenter close by then I would say the 5000s is easy to get and the 30xx series is too. Otherwise you need to watch the best buy drops and/or get in on the Newegg lottery.

Password vaults are the only way forward. Just make sure you have a good vault password lol.

Another path in IT to look in to is Infosec. Anything in IT security is highly paid and in tremendous demand. Since you don't have a degree I would aim for thr comptia trifecta (A+, Network+, and Security+). Now depending on state/country an entry level Infosec analyst normally start in the 60-70k range on average. Get 5+ years of experience and that pay can easily break 6 figures. I am throwing this out there because while IT professionals are a dime a dozen when it comes to Information security there is a huge worker deficit.