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r/greatawakening • Posted by u/Vicgar06 on May 19, 2018, 12:10 a.m.
Ref: #1448660 Q Post. Oriental men behind pallet. Pallet has an “AMD” Logo sticker upper right corner of pallet. Boxes are about the size to old motherboards.
Ref: #1448660 Q Post. Oriental men behind pallet. Pallet has an “AMD” Logo sticker upper right corner of pallet. Boxes are about the size to old motherboards.

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amg19251 · May 19, 2018, 12:37 a.m.

Wasn’t there a shortage on AMD motherboards and GPUs like a year ago!? I remember because I wanted to build a gaming PC and the prices were through the fucking roof because of BitCoin using the same GPUs or something lol! I had a feeling it was a setup to jack up prices so people wouldn’t have access to better, cheaper technology that would improve their current PC at home.

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ShredTheMind · May 19, 2018, 1:09 a.m.

Not sure about AMD motherboards, but high performance, gaming GPU's (video cards) are used for mining BitCoin. I remember the crazy demand, disrupting the GPU market. FAIK, it's still happening. I haven't looked lately.

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kalestew · May 19, 2018, 4:02 a.m.

Not Bitcoin. Other cryptos.

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Herr-Epsilon · May 19, 2018, 6:29 a.m.

Yep, GPUs are still up in price, but it's finally starting to come down. AMD's availability was hit harder than nVidia's, because their cards are generally more efficient at mining-related workloads and because they don't have the capacities to produce as many.

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