Best thing to do is buy a pre-built then sell all the other parts from it on ebay or some shit. Works out cheaper than buying current prices.
I am so glad I drove down to Scan.co.uk to buy mines on launch day, now that I look back at it.
Best thing to do is buy a pre-built then sell all the other parts from it on ebay or some shit. Works out cheaper than buying current prices.
I am so glad I drove down to Scan.co.uk to buy mines on launch day, now that I look back at it.
But then you don't have your own crypto currency wallet, just an account on the exchange with the "promise" that you do own some currency, right? Without the security provided by the blockchain. And then the exchange owner does that https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56865119 ?
I have enough of EA ruining great franchises and studios, forcing DRM and Origin on their games, releasing incomplete games only to sell day-1 DLCs or spill dozens of DLCs, and then saying it, and microtransactions, is what players want, stopping players from giving EA games poor reviews, as well as deflecting complaints with cheap PR tricks.
I'm not going to buy any game by EA as long as they continue those practices.
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Buy directly from AMD if you're in Europe, probably also works in the US.
MSRP pricing, restocks every thursday. Use a stock watch discord or similar to get notified exactly when the restock happens. You'll have to be fast but it's definitely possible to get a GPU.
https://www.amd.com/en/direct-buy/fi
If you're in the US it's probably also possible to buy directly from Nvidia, but I don't know the schedule and there's more demand and more bots checking for those stock drops so the chances of getting one is quite a lot smaller.
Ah right, forgot about that.
Same thing applies though, you can get GPU's for MSRP from Best Buy but it's quite difficult with so much demand and so many bots.
Easier to go with AMD right now, demand isn't quite as overwhelming since most people default to Nvidia and mining on the RX 6000 series isn't as profitable as on the RTX 3000 series.
It certainly doesn't look like this situation is going to change anytime soon, probably not for this year at least.
I find it crazy that the world has gotten its self into the situation where chips are produced by only a couple of manufactures in the world.
I needed to upgrade my system this year including my GPU, given the market my best option was to buy a pre-built PC rather than build my own. It still took about 6 weeks from placing the order to being delivered but that was better than paying scalper prices for a card.
There is/are better products. They buy those up too. GPU's are the scraps and remnants that are still profitable.
We have those. It doesn't help anything except make miners more money.
There are ASICS that keep up, or do better. The problem falls back upon fab, again. With like 5 locations in the world that can make these until 2025 or later, it's sort of moot, even if smaller fabs can put out 'a few thousand' which is closer to nothing.
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And hope that during the 5ish years (at best) it takes to get your plant up and running that there arent changes in the market that mean there will be no demand for your services. And therefore, all that infrastructure and investment is totally wasted. And this is risk is why youd never get the investment anyway. Because no one is going to give you Billions when there is a pretty high likleyhood itll be money down the drain.
The scalping IS kind of getting out of hand.. with PS5's GPUs and other tech.
ppl vulturously buying out companies and forcing supply to be ran through themselves at a higher cost is a clearly a dick move.
Like if i buy all the doughnuts from a bakery then sell them across the street for 10 dollars a doughnut.
We're getting more flexible in our manufacturing and I expect this to carry over into tech (if it hasn't already) as far as plants are concerned. The old way of tooling things with a bunch of dies and such is slowly going away in favor of things that don't need to be re-tooled just to change the design of the product they're making.
Eventually, all those risks and huge startup costs won't be a barrier.
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Problem is it is not illegal. Only way to counter it would be to make it personalized for internet selling like concert tickets in some places or plane tickets.
But that is not in the interest of the hardware producers as it will be harder to sell the stuff. If every producer gets scalped for mining and such there is no image hit.
You clearly have no idea how silicon-chip manufacturing works. We're talking nanometer scale production here. Silicon-chips aren't made with dies, they haven't since.. ever. Go read up on it, I don't have the patience or skill to explain it, but let's just say there's a reason it STILL costs billions per plant