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It's great. Once ethereum etc. crash we can buy used high end graphic cards cheap.
What is the basis for an overwhelming assumption on HN that Cryto will crash? I am genuinely curious. What specifics indicate that it will crash?
Interestingly the French market (and more generally the European Market?) seems to have been spared from that trend, at least for now. The prices have remained steady during the last year and there is still stock available for a large choice of card flavors. See for example https://www.materiel.net/achat/gtx-1080/catNom-cartes+graphi...
Perhaps electricity costs there are higher than in the U.S. so mining is less profitable? Although I don’t have these issues in Ohio, either. You can find any NVidia card you want easily, and only AMD Vega is in short supply at the moment. Still doable though, if you’re willing to put in a bit of effort.
Interestingly the French market (and more generally the European Market?) seems to have been spared from that trend, at least for now. The prices have remained steady during the last year and there is still stock available for a large choice of card flavors. See for example https://www.materiel.net/achat/gtx-1080/catNom-cartes+graphi...
They are constantly sold out as well. From my experience, there are only the overclocked/premium editions left and they charge a lot more than the RSP.
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Perhaps electricity costs there are higher than in the U.S. so mining is less profitable? Although I don’t have these issues in Ohio, either. You can find any NVidia card you want easily, and only AMD Vega is in short supply at the moment. Still doable though, if you’re willing to put in a bit of effort.
France famously derives >70% of it's energy from nuclear energy and has vastly lower prices than neighboring countries.
It's more than China and USA cities with hydro. It's less than some other places.
We may have lower production prices but it's either not significant or not passed down to the consumer.
I'm legitimately worried about the long term future of my hobby (PC gaming) at this point. Prices like this have a cascade effect because when less people can afford to build a PC and/or upgrade there's less incentive for developers and publishers to spend time on the platform. Consoles are shielded by the ability of Sony and Microsoft to take losses which will be absorbed by online fees and higher game prices but no…
Most PC gamers aren't using high-end machines and don't upgrade very often. The Steam Hardware Survey shows that the majority (74%) of PC gamers have a 1080p monitor and a plurality (37%) have a video card with 2GB of VRAM and 8GB of system RAM (47%). The GTX 1060 only recently overtook the GTX 750 Ti as the single most popular video card. Pricing of high-end hardware is largely irrelevant to the success of PC gaming…
see: http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/directx/
windows 7 having a huge uptick from aug-oct, and high end graphics cards' market shares dropping in the same time.
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You'd trust your business to a bitcoin exchange?
Futures are sold on CME/CBOE, not on bitcoin exchanges.
Interestingly the French market (and more generally the European Market?) seems to have been spared from that trend, at least for now. The prices have remained steady during the last year and there is still stock available for a large choice of card flavors. See for example https://www.materiel.net/achat/gtx-1080/catNom-cartes+graphi...
Cards in French retailers are 20 to 40% more expensive than the American retailers. They are constantly sold out as well. From my experience, there are only the overclocked/premium editions left and they charge a lot more than the RSP.
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You should be glad those people exist, because they subsidize the R&D for people who buy older/cheaper cards.
Enh, honestly, if graphics somehow stopped advancing forever right now, it wouldn't bother me that much as a gamer. The era where good game concepts just couldn't be made because the hardware couldn't handle it are long over. We're just adding successive layers of polish now. That's nice, but it doesn't add much to gameplay or fun.
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Cards in French retailers are 20 to 40% more expensive than the American retailers. They are constantly sold out as well. From my experience, there are only the overclocked/premium editions left and they charge a lot more than the RSP.
20% is because of VAT, so you have to discount that from comparisons.
The $500 card becomes > €600 because of adding the VAT and skipping the exchange rate.
I'm legitimately worried about the long term future of my hobby (PC gaming) at this point. Prices like this have a cascade effect because when less people can afford to build a PC and/or upgrade there's less incentive for developers and publishers to spend time on the platform. Consoles are shielded by the ability of Sony and Microsoft to take losses which will be absorbed by online fees and higher game prices but no…
"... ML is at least useful to humanity (sometimes), smartphones and tablets are tangible products, and price fixing can be investigated and punished." I'm amused that you're qualifying the worthiness of a project by its usefulness to humanity. In comparison to PC gaming, to me, revolutionizing the financial world seems a lot more "useful to humanity".