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NiceHash defeats Nvidia’s GPU crypto-mining limits, does not appear to be a scam

Enlarge (credit: BTC Keychain ) Nvidia began releasing LHR (or “Lite Hash Rate”) graphics cards last year to slow down their cryptocurrency mining performance and make them less appealing to non-gamers. Late last week, crypto-mining platform NiceHash announced that it had finally found a way around those limitations and released an update for its QuickMiner […]

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Things aren’t “back to normal” yet, but GPU prices are steadily falling

Enlarge / The RTX 3080 Ti. (credit: Sam Machkovech) Graphics card prices remain hugely inflated compared to where they were a few years ago, but the good news is that things finally, consistently seem to be getting better and not worse. To quantify this, Jarred Walton at Tom’s Hardware and analyst Jon Peddie have both pulled together data […]