Vid Card question

[BoilerDown]

Hopefully the upcoming 1070Ti uses the 1080's memory then.

[jskibo]

1070ti reported to use same GDDR5 as the current 1070

[zack1234]

Sort of. It's kind of solving gazillions of mathematical formulas in hope to be the first to solve a certain one and be rewarded. Like finding a needle in a haystack on a country fair. Find it and get the prize.

The reason video cards are being used instead of just the processor of the computer is that a high end video card has much more processing cores to do the calculating than a CPU has. A CPU consists of a few cores optimized for sequential serial processing while a GPU has a massively parallel architecture consisting of thousands of smaller, more efficient cores designed for handling multiple tasks simultaneously. So if a quad core processor can simultaneously calculate four tasks, a video card can do four thousand.

Not too long ago I read an article where they set a high end gaming rig to mine Bitcoin for a month. The result was, that the investment wouldn't pay itself in due time unless they'd hit a jackpot which is as rare as winning the first price in Lotto. As jskibo said, ETH seems to be more profitable at the moment until they mine it empty, too.

Still no idea what bit mining is about

[Bizman]

Still no idea what bit mining is about

If you think about mining gold, getting a fraction of it involves breaking and sifting a ton of stone. So although anyone using a spade and a hack could become a successful gold miner, the odds for finding enough to make you rich are minimal. However, it's possible to find the mother of all gold nuggets and become a millionaire in one day which was the cause of the rushes back then.

Now some people found out that there's "nuggets" as few and far between as gold in the digital world so they decided that those rarities should be worth something. Since browsing through the resources in the Internet is even easier than making a claim in Klondike it's no wonder that so many regular Joes try their luck.

And just like ordinary money isn't any longer tied to actually existing gold reserve, the value of bit money also depends on supply and demand.

[Bruv119]

hey max I went with the 6gb 1060 card in my rebuild and have to say I'm very impressed, it uses less power is smaller and quieter than my old card.

Runs most games maxed out at the resolution of my single monitor.  Hopefully will get a larger screen for christmas to maximise my benefit.

Not sure whats happened to the prices though because I looked the other day and it seems to have gone up in price from 5 months ago which is odd for computer hardware.... 

[Skuzzy]

Video card prices are going up, along with RAM prices.  Video cards are being sucked up by the crypto-currency (Bitcoin, Etherium....) miners, which is driving and holding the costs of video cards much higher than they should be.

No end in sight.