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Guru3D.com » News » Cryptocurrency mining makes a move to RTX 3000 Series Laptops

Cryptocurrency mining makes a move to RTX 3000 Series Laptops

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 02/10/2021 10:55 AM | source: harukaze5719 (Twitter) via Videocardz | 130 comment(s)
Cryptocurrency mining makes a move to RTX 3000 Series Laptops

Personally, I am not a supporter of Cryptocurrency mining. The amount of energy used for your digital currency is a plague concerning energy and power consumption. The amount of energy used is bigger than an entire country like Switzerland uses.

And that last example is Bitcoin alone. For just that reason, I feel cryptocurrency should be forbidden in a world where energy often made out of fossil fuel is simply immoral and just wrong. However, as long as governments do nothing about it, greed will take the upper hand.

 

if you wonder where GPUs end up ... the above charts are from the University of Cambridge, showing exactly that

 

The same greed is partly responsible for the shortages of graphics cards, as mining farms can have hundreds of cards in countries where energy is cheap. However, a new trend is laptops with a powerful GPU, and in this last case, the RTX 3000 empowered laptops from NVIDIA are now being bought and used to set up cryptocurrency mining farms.

 

 

A group dedicated to cryptocurrency mining uploaded a video showing its mining farm made up of hundreds and hundreds of notebooks equipped with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3000 graphics cards. The Chinese manufacturer Hasee, in charge of assembling these computers, does not seem to care in whose hands they finish their new notebooks. In the absence of stock of desktop GPUs, crypto mining decided to move over to the mobile segment.

Some might find the image below attractive, and I look at it with awe and disgust.



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Truder
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#5885945 Posted on: 02/10/2021 11:06 AM
And this is why we can't have nice things....

CrazY_Milojko
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#5885947 Posted on: 02/10/2021 11:16 AM
2017 GPU mining craze is happening again, but this year it's going to be even worse, wish that I'm wrong but... :( Long term looking this doesn't looking good for PC as a platform, many will abandon PC as a entusiast/gaming hobby and find something else, many will never come back again even when situation returns to normal and guess some of those who were using PC for productivity workloads willing to upgrade to something more powerfull will turn their heads to the newest Apple products. Really hope that this cripto bubble is going to burst as soon as possible...

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#5885948 Posted on: 02/10/2021 11:21 AM
Gaming laptops?!
What comes next?Smart watches?Smart appliances in the kitchen?
This will end up very bad this time...

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#5885951 Posted on: 02/10/2021 11:24 AM
I understand now why video cards are so hard to purchase for anyone outside of China..... because they aren't leaving China.

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#5885952 Posted on: 02/10/2021 11:25 AM
Very sad, i wish they banned this fake money business already.

I guess sooner or a later it's gonna be a huge issue anyways due to power consumption, and more people have electric cars that need charging as well. The powernet won't be able to handle it anymore.

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