At the onset of cryptocurrency mining, CPUs were the primary way to conduct mining operations. Today, unless you’re using application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) to mine a currency, the next ...

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Even with NVIDIA removing the ETH mining gimp from the GeForce RTX 3060 with its new drivers, this wasn't a one-fix solution... rather crypto miners had to do some work. For single-GPU mining ...

In the midst of a crypto meltdown, GPU mining operations are shutting down and liquidating their most valuable asset: desktop GPUs. Although new GPUs are selling for close to MSRP for the first time ...

Should you buy a used mining GPU? Usually, you may want to avoid graphics cards that were used around the clock to mine cryptocurrency. But now that the market is being flooded with used GPUs after ...

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The GPU mining days aren't over, but the gaming graphics card industry isn't as vulnerable as it was 12 months ago. It was this time last year when I sat down with Sapphire at Computex to talk about ...

When used for cracking passwords, a modern high-end graphics card will absolutely chew through “classic” hashing algorithms like SHA-1 and SHA-2. When a single desktop machine can run through 50+ ...

When I was selling my GPU, a lot of people were asking whether it was used for crypto mining. Likewise I am now seeing GPUs on sale that were used for mining 24x7 for about 3 months. Why are people ...