Items tagged with cryptomining
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Jeff Butts - Thu, Dec 16, 2021
If you’ve been maddened by the difficulty buying a new GPU, this may make it worse. One full-time cryptocurrency miner has offered a peek into his mining server farm, and it’s made up almost entirely of Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070...
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Brandon Hill - Thu, Sep 02, 2021
There is a lot of blame to go around for the current dearth of graphics cards available in the retail channel. Despite companies like NVIDIA and AMD pumping out record numbers of GPUs, incredible demand still results in shortages that...
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Brandon Hill - Thu, Aug 26, 2021
NVIDIA addressed the Ethereum market earlier this year with the launch of Crypto Mining Processor (CMP) HX Series cards. The company also locked down its latest mainline GeForce RTX 30 cards with a Light Hash Rate (LHR) mining limiter...
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Brandon Hill - Wed, Jul 14, 2021
It would be an understatement to say that it has been a rough nine months for gamers looking to purchase new gaming hardware. While the availability of high-end, current-generation processors has, for the most part, stabilized, graphics...
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Nathan Ord - Sat, Jul 10, 2021
It appears that illegal electricity theft and cryptocurrency mining go hand in hand, as the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) reported that it has shut down a massive crypto-farm stealing electricity. Comprised of thousands of consoles and...
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Brandon Hill - Fri, Feb 19, 2021
On Thursday morning, NVIDIA made two big announcements regarding GPUs. The company revealed that it will be launching the Crypto Mining Processor (CMP) HX GPU Series specifically for the mining community. According to NVIDIA, the GPUs used...
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Shane McGlaun - Wed, Nov 27, 2019
Microsoft has detailed a new malware strain that's been infecting computers globally since October 2018. The malware is called Dexphot, and while it isn't trying to steal data, it is robbing hardware resources of the infected machines. The...
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Brandon Hill - Mon, Nov 11, 2019
Last week, AMD announced the first of its new third-generation Ryzen Threadripper processors. These latest Threadripper processors are based on 7nm Zen 2 architecture with the Threadripper 3960X offering up 24 cores/48 threads and the...
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