which is greatly exaggerated, as it's not constant use that decreases the lifespan, it's disjointed cooldown and heatup. If you leave a card on 24/7 theres not much of a heat gradient in regard to time. Is it getting stress? Sure. Is it killing the card? Not really.
I'm not so sure about that. Mining cards are often undervolted to run at cooler temperatures and consume less power, while gaming cards are pushed to 100% and might even be overclocked. The fans might become problematic, but i think overall a mining card receives less stress in its lifetime
The ramp up and down is more important than cumulative heat exposure for solid state components, but not for moving parts in the cooling system, and also electrolytic capacitors age much faster in a hot environment.
> Petzold is considering using his rigs for an aspect of digital video production known as rendering, which can require significant computing resources. “There are other uses for the cards”
This is an incredible quote.
People have realized that there are other uses for graphics cards than mining crypto currency - like, oh I don’t know, I guess graphics.
That's pretty funny. I assume this is in reference to the render project: https://rendertoken.com/
Basically a distributed rendering blockchain, where participants perform actual useful rendering in order to earn the token.
I don't know too much about it though, or whether there's actually much demand for on-demand rendering. I'd assume most potential "customers" would have concerns about their workloads being accessible to the public if they're working on something proprietary.
Is it possible to render an encrypted version of pre rendered data that outputs the rendered file in that same encrypted format that can only be decoded using the original private key it was encrypted with?
I'm wondering if something similar could be done but for ML, using a distributed network of GPU to train a ML model in exchange of a payment for using the resources.
> running computing hardware on his balcony to earn cryptocurrency so he can buy clothing and other necessities.
With his tens of thousands of dollars of GFX cards.......
I go to work every day to buy clothing and other necessities.
I trade currency from my yacht to buy clothing and other necessities.
I rent my fleet of Ferrari's to buy clothing and other necessities.
Why does everything have to have some sob story attached to it these days? Seems like there just cannot be news anymore. Hey lets exploit the Ukranine war for clicks.
Bloomberg has taken this to another level. It use to be a straight financial news source.
I would imagine it is the effect of Twitter on the news in general.
>who’s been mining for a year, has earned only about $5,000 worth of crypto on his initial $30,000 hardware investment; he also pays about $650 in monthly electricity costs.
So he's spending more on electricity than he's making in crypto...
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 65.3 ms ] threadI'd still rather buy a card that has been used 2 hours a day for gaming than 24 hours for mining.
This is an incredible quote.
People have realized that there are other uses for graphics cards than mining crypto currency - like, oh I don’t know, I guess graphics.
Basically a distributed rendering blockchain, where participants perform actual useful rendering in order to earn the token.
I don't know too much about it though, or whether there's actually much demand for on-demand rendering. I'd assume most potential "customers" would have concerns about their workloads being accessible to the public if they're working on something proprietary.
Also, the render nodes would have to be trusted (to not redistribute the content); I doubt this is what render token is doing.
Then only the owner could decrypt it back to a useable form.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption
With his tens of thousands of dollars of GFX cards.......
I go to work every day to buy clothing and other necessities.
I trade currency from my yacht to buy clothing and other necessities.
I rent my fleet of Ferrari's to buy clothing and other necessities.
Why does everything have to have some sob story attached to it these days? Seems like there just cannot be news anymore. Hey lets exploit the Ukranine war for clicks.
So he's spending more on electricity than he's making in crypto...