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Guru3D.com » News » ZOTAC enrages PC gamers by promoting GeForce RTX as mining GPUs

ZOTAC enrages PC gamers by promoting GeForce RTX as mining GPUs

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 02/17/2021 05:13 PM | source: Zotac (Twitter) via Notebookcheck and HWI | 32 comment(s)
ZOTAC enrages PC gamers by promoting GeForce RTX as mining GPUs

The new cryptocurrency mining trend is unquestionably agitating the PC Gaming community. ZOTAC just got their ass handed back to them. On social media, ZOTAC USA posted a photo with a mining farm of ZOTAC cards; with the text An army of #ZOTACGAMING GPU's hungry for coin!

As anybody with a little sense could have anticipated; that tweet did not sit well see ... many gamers are paying double the price for a graphics card these days (if they even can get a hold of one) due to, amongst others, cryptocurrency mining. It seems ZOTAC grew a soft spot for miners, as well .. each card sold is a card sold, right? 

Once the tweet got posted, ZOTAC received an avalanche of criticism for evangelizing cryptocurrency mining. Shortly thereafter, the tweet was removed. 



ZOTAC enrages PC gamers by promoting GeForce RTX as mining GPUs




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cucaulay malkin
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#5888286 Posted on: 02/17/2021 07:49 PM
this is all down to fab capacity
even if someone decided to make separate,dedicated mining hardware,who's gonna take the order ? tsmc is already booked 2 years in advance,if not more,and so is samsung probably.


I like the look of those white cards btw
and the triple fan one too



KissSh0t
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#5888311 Posted on: 02/17/2021 09:55 PM
Video card brand to ignore.

Agonist
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#5888333 Posted on: 02/17/2021 11:05 PM
Zotac sucks anyways. Just when I thought MSI was doing the stupidest crap lately.

Yogi
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#5888346 Posted on: 02/17/2021 11:46 PM
How long before no one sell cards anymore as the card makers just end up making more money using their own stock to cryptomine. lol


Unlikely as Bitcoin and it's ilk will crash again within a month or two.

m4dn355
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#5888360 Posted on: 02/18/2021 01:01 AM
Looking forward to #ZOTACMASSIVERMA :mad:

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