Nonimportantuser

enewt

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enewt
In case there was any question as to which company is the de facto mustache twirler in this whole thing, NVIDIA is now releasing a dedicated crypto-mining product...a budget-priced 3060. While I appreciate the argument that they are trying to draw miners away from the mainstream cards, I would argue that it will have the net effect of just making more cards available to miners (both their dedicated cards and mainstream gaming cards)...and will do naught to help us with our plight.  I would much prefer that they produce 3090, 3080, 3070 and 3060ti silicon for those of us that have been waiting since September....  ARGH!
 

At the same time NVidia is deliberately reducing the hashrate by 50% on the 3060s.

 
But not the 3060Tis, 3070s, 3080s or 3090s...nice talking point, eh?

Which is the annoying part, since I am after a 3070 to replace my 1070. 

enewt

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enewt
In case there was any question as to which company is the de facto mustache twirler in this whole thing, NVIDIA is now releasing a dedicated crypto-mining product...a budget-priced 3060. While I appreciate the argument that they are trying to draw miners away from the mainstream cards, I would argue that it will have the net effect of just making more cards available to miners (both their dedicated cards and mainstream gaming cards)...and will do naught to help us with our plight.  I would much prefer that they produce 3090, 3080, 3070 and 3060ti silicon for those of us that have been waiting since September....  ARGH!
 

At the same time NVidia is deliberately reducing the hashrate by 50% on the 3060s.

 
But not the 3060Tis, 3070s, 3080s or 3090s...nice talking point, eh?

enewt
FYI, the NASA channel is showing the landing on Mars right now...slightly more interesting than the r/wallstreetbets hearing.
 

jehoffman1
Is there anywhere to pre-order a 3060? If so, I'd be grateful if someone would give me the link(s). While I'm a long-term EVGA customer and I'd much prefer an EVGA card, at this point, I'll take any brand.
 
I only need ONE GPU, so I'll be removing myself from EVGA's queues for a 3060TI or a 3070 if I can get a 3060.

retep88
 
A large air cooler wouldn't leak water over your components if it failed*
 
*says the guy running two 240 AIOs

SyntaxTurtle

Dabadger84Speaking of selling stuff, I gotta get rid of this eVGA Z10 walmart-keyboard-quality garbageo... Gotta ask around & see if anyone needs a keyboard, I'm not charging anywhere near what I paid for it ($72) because it's not freakin' worth that much.  It'd be a fine keyboard if it cost like $40, but for $72 or what the full price was on eVGA's website ($199) - Yikes.

I've been happy with mine but $40 is what I paid for it (current price on Amazon).  Personal reviews seem hit and miss and setting aside silly things like "One star because I wanted full RGB!", it does feel like some people got a lemon or have systems that the software just won't play nice with. 
 
Volume slider is trash but I never use that anyway.  Screen contrast is dark for most colors but the green shows up well enough so that's what I use.  But the key quality feels fine to me, I like having my AIDA64 stats on the screen and the USB hub function works for me (common complaint is that it doesn't for some).

subdude

enewt
FYI, the NASA channel is showing the landing on Mars right now...slightly more interesting than the r/wallstreetbets hearing.
 

Just tuned in to hear/see the announcement that it landed safely....woohoo!
 
I wonder what the xfer rate is like for data lol

jehoffman1

subdude

enewt
FYI, the NASA channel is showing the landing on Mars right now...slightly more interesting than the r/wallstreetbets hearing.
 

Just tuned in to hear/see the announcement that it landed safely....woohoo!
 
I wonder what the xfer rate is like for data lol

The Mars lander was made about 5 miles from my home at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Canada Flintridge, California.
If you hear some reporter saying he or she is at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, treat whatever they are saying with a grain of salt. If they don't even know where they are, they probably have much of the rest of the story wrong too. (JPL has a Pasadena mailing address because the La Canada Flintridge post office is too small to handle the volume of mail JPL gets, but the facility IS in La Canada Flintridge, just across the City limits from Pasadena.)
 
A few years ago, when I was taking a Photoshop class at Glendale Community College, I got to retouch some photos from the earlier Mars landers for a video JPL was creating showing the landers. Because of the transmission distance, there were a lot of blank pixels that needed to be filled in using the colors from adjacent pixels. It was tedious work, which was why they used a lot of student labor, but seeing the finished video was one of the best events in my life. The GPUs we were using back then were nowhere near the power of today's GPUs, but one doesn't need much power to color in missing pixels. Maybe today with AI and modern GPUs, much of the work could have been automated.

SirKronan

jehoffman1

subdude

enewt
FYI, the NASA channel is showing the landing on Mars right now...slightly more interesting than the r/wallstreetbets hearing.
 

Just tuned in to hear/see the announcement that it landed safely....woohoo!
 
I wonder what the xfer rate is like for data lol

The Mars lander was made about 5 miles from my home at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Canada Flintridge, California.
If you hear some reporter saying he or she is at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, treat whatever they are saying with a grain of salt. If they don't even know where they are, they probably have much of the rest of the story wrong too. (JPL has a Pasadena mailing address because the La Canada Flintridge post office is too small to handle the volume of mail JPL gets, but the facility IS in La Canada Flintridge, just across the City limits from Pasadena.)
 
A few years ago, when I was taking a Photoshop class at Glendale Community College, I got to retouch some photos from the earlier Mars landers for a video JPL was creating showing the landers. Because of the transmission distance, there were a lot of blank pixels that needed to be filled in using the colors from adjacent pixels. It was tedious work, which was why they used a lot of student labor, but seeing the finished video was one of the best events in my life. The GPUs we were using back then were nowhere near the power of today's GPUs, but one doesn't need much power to color in missing pixels. Maybe today with AI and modern GPUs, much of the work could have been automated.

Now this is the kind of interesting stuff that brightens my day to read here! Thanks for sharing, sir.

Moxiesan
I wonder if they've been dropping 3885's but we just haven't heard from the people buying them. My notification queue is only for 3885, and i'm really depressed there's been no word or movement on it for a long time now. @EVGA if you're not going to make more of this card, can you put my spot in another queue so I can buy a card? =/

enewt

jassilamba
Got the email letting me know that 3070 XC3 is in stock, click on the link (already signed into my EVGA account), takes me to check out but I can't update the quantity from 0 to 1, or continue with checkout. Contacted support, they asked me to email [link=mailto:order30@evga.com,]order30@evga.com,[/link] hopefully, they can help me before my 8 hours are over (started at 1:53 PM CST/11:53 AM PST). Anyone else experience a similar issue? My EVGA account has the same email that I got my notification on. 
 
Added myself to the queue on 11/2/2020 1:59PM. 

 
This is a periodic issue that occurs. Even if they cannot solve it during the 8 hour window, they should be able to help you out. Please let us know if you complete your purchase.  Best of luck and congratulations on getting the email!  Your watch is almost over.

dcell
In Texas, it's so cold in people's apartments and houses that the water in their toilets have been freezing.
Can you imagine having to sit on that in the morning?
Glad I can stand!

Hearing about other people's misery makes waiting for an RTX-3080 less distressing.