there is some REALLY good news and it's
finally come in the form of
a blog post which i got alerted to this
morning when i woke up about an email
from nvidia and that is with the rtx
3060 which is right around the corner
it's only another six days away from
release this card
has got nerfed cryptocurrency hash rates
mainly for ethereum and
of course with ethereum if you guys
didn't know that's the main
cryptocurrency
that people are mining right now with
gaming graphics cards because it's the
most profitable
and in the ways it can something like
even an rtx 3080
that can bring you in ten dollars a day
profit and that's usd
i've got a video coming out on that
tomorrow with an rtx 380 review that i
had to do for colorful
where they uh sent me an email they're
like look we want you to review the 3080
and then when i got it in i'm like well
this whole crypto thing's gone really
bad to the point where
it's going to be a very different review
but this is some
really good news and it's really
welcomed finally
in the industry where people who have
seen all the rtx announcements they're
enthusiastic about pc gaming
they can finally get their hands on one
of these graphics cards and know that
miners
aren't going to buy them up so some of
you guys might be a little bit skeptical
where this is sometimes just news and
there's actually no truth to it
but i've actually got someone in the
scene and i'm not going to say their
name
they were using the graphics cards for
cryptocurrency mining they got their
hands on a 3060 and they sent me some
screenshots that showed
that the ethereum hash rate actually
starts off around
47 ish mega hash and then it drops down
into the 20s
so what nvidia have implemented in the
driver set here for the rtx 3060s
is something that will drop around 50
indeed
let's talk about some of this good news
and what it means for gamers and how
much you can realistically expect to pay
for one of these things
based on some of the research i've done
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description below so straight away let's
get this blog post out the way we'll
read it for you guys read it back with a
bit of more enthusiasm
because it's something finally to get
enthusiastic about and here it is
we are gamers through and through we
obsess
about new gaming features new
architectures new games and
tech we design geforce gpus for gamers
and gamers are clamoring
for more yet nvidia gpus are
programmable
and users are constantly discovering new
applications for them
from weather simulation and gene
sequencing to deep learning and robotics
mining cryptocurrency is also one of
them with the launch of the geforce rtx
3060 on february 25th
we're taking an important step to help
ensure geforce gpus
end up in the hands of gamers so let's
quickly pause before we read the rest of
this and talk about
getting gaming graphics cards in the
hands of gamers because i know there's
going to be some people out there and
they're going to argue with me they're
going to say
it's a free market brian doesn't matter
if it's a gaming graphics guard
if i can buy it and use it for what i
want to use it for therefore i should
use it for what i
want to use it for and from my research
no you should be going out and buying an
asset miner and there should be much
more asic miners available
these are application specific
integrated circuits and they are
designed
to mine cryptocurrency much better than
a gaming graphics card
and they're also more efficient which
means they're going to be using
less power they're going to be better
for the environment and they should be
making you more money
so that whole argument of it's a free
market
yes if the gpu was the most efficient
choice
i wouldn't disagree with you but since
in the world of cryptocurrency
we've got two different ways where
cryptocurrency is the future some are
saying
we've also got that other path where
there is a lot of corruption
within cryptocurrency itself and for me
personally when a lot of these
cryptocurrencies made
their algorithms acid resistant that's
when i started to disagree with it and a
lot of the arguments made for the acid
resistance
really in my opinion when you look at it
logically it falls flat
and so gamers have suffered in 2017
they've suffered in 2018
and they've had yet again to suffer in
2020 and 21 but let's keep reading this
blog post here with halving the hash
rate rtx 3060 software drivers are
designed to detect
specific attributes of the ethereum
cryptocurrency mining algorithm
and limit the hash rate or
cryptocurrency mining efficiency
by around 50 percent that only makes
sense our geforce rtx gpus
introduce cutting-edge technologies such
as rtx real-time ray tracing dlss ai
accelerated image upscaling technology
reflex superfast response around yeah
okay
nvidia we get it you're doing a quick
marketing plug here within this uh text
but
it's all good it's all good let's
continue on with the news to address the
specific needs of ethereum mining we're
announcing the nvidia cmp
or cryptocurrency mining processor
product line
for professional mining cmp products
which don't do graphics
are sold through authorized partners and
optimized for the best mining
performance and efficiency they don't
meet the specifications required
of a geforce gpu and thus don't impact
the availability
of geforce gpus to gamers for instance
cmp
lacks display outputs enabling improved
airflow while mining
so they can be more densely packed cmps
also have a lower peak core voltage and
frequency
which improves mining power efficiency
creating tailored products for customers
with specific needs
delivers the best value for customers
with cmp we can help
miners build the most efficient data
centers while preserving g-force rtx
gpus for gamers
so first things first the by around 50
that is looking very true from the shots
that i've seen here and i'm showing you
guys
the next thing is the uh cmp line the
nvidia cmp line
looks extremely interesting because of a
few things and that is
first of all with the lower core
voltages and lower frequencies
that means that they can use a lot of
gpus for example a lot of yields that
didn't make the cut
for the rtx gpus they can now use them
and sell them to crypto currency miners
so that looks like it's a big win for
nvidia
from not only in the fact that they can
now get a lot better yields on
utilizing their product stack but also
the gamers can get the gpus that were
designed for gaming
so let's look at these specs right here
we've got four different gpus that
they've announced
for cryptocurrency mining and first of
all the 30 hx
this is 26 mega hash and it's 125
watt one eight pin and six gigabytes of
vram
and it's available pretty soon so this
honestly looks like
similar to the numbers that we just saw
here on the rtx
3060 that with a 12 gigabyte that
someone sent us over with the
screenshots
and honestly the power consumption on
that i think it was like a 118
watt that they were burning up this here
looks like the vram's been halved
and the mega hashes are coming around
the same after the driver nerf
anyway so either they're using an older
say for instance like a 1660 super
uh gpu die for this or they're
using the newer stuff but they're making
it severely
lower in performance to the point where
it's performing the same as an rtx 3060
i mean
hopefully if they release this 30 hx the
price reflects that and doesn't push
people
to buy an rtx 30 60 12 gig anyhow though
next up here we've got the 40 hx which
the mining hash rates don't really make
any sense from the uh rated power of 185
watt so for instance i know the 30 60
tis they do around like 60 plus
mega hash and you can get them down to
like 120 watt
and they've got eight gigabytes of vram
too so 3060 ti is definitely going to be
looking like
miners will still buy that card up if
these hash rates
are true for ethereum hashing next up
here we've got the 50
hx and that is again looking like
it's inferior to the rtx 360 ti yet
again with higher power consumption
it's got 28 pin requirement 10 gigabytes
of vram which does suggest
that it is based off of the rtx 3080
uh gpu in that they're using that same
die
and they're using the same memory
interconnect and the boss on that
but the hash rates do look awfully low
compared to what an rtx 3080 is capable
of doing
where i know that that's capable of
doing 90 mega hashes because i just
tested that yesterday
where i'm doing that and i'm going to be
talking about how bad it is for gamers
right now to buy a graphics card but
next up is the 90 hx which this is
falling right in line with an rtx 3080
and that's got a 320 watt uh power rated
power here suppose with the rtx 3080
they should be using around 220 watt
and they're getting around 90 mega hash
so their rate of power
consumption numbers here are probably a
worst case scenario
but they should use a lot less power if
these numbers are anything to go by
compared to what the rtx graphics cards
are already getting
in terms of hashing as we can see here
we've got 10 gigabytes of vram again
so what they intend to do with these cmp
lineup of cards remains to be seen until
someone actually gets one in their hands
and takes the cooler off and takes a
look at what they've done
versus the rtx 3000 cards that are
already out there on the market
but regardless of the cmp lineup one
thing that we can be certain is the rtx
3060 is finally going to be the first
card that's come out in the rtx 3000
stack
that isn't going to be appealing for
cryptocurrency miners
at least in terms of what gamers are
going to be prepared to pay for it
versus what a cryptocurrency miner is
going to be prepared to pay for because
around 25 mega hash versus the 60s plus
on the 360 ti
a lot of cryptocurrency miners will go
for the 30 60 ti and especially having
better power efficiency
what this means for the rtx 3060 is this
is going to be the first time
in 2021 that we're going to see the raw
demand from gamers
determined the prices of this rtx 3000
series card
versus the previous four that have been
released from nvidia
where the miners lately have just been
going on a
binge buying up all these graphics cards
and paying stupid
prices from where i went on ebay the
other day and it's two thousand dollars
these are
the bids well these are the buy now
prices that these cards are actually
going for 2 000 us
for a car that's meant to come in around
700 us dollars
that is insane markup i've never seen
that before even in the 2017-2018 boom
i did not see anything like that and so
hopefully with the rtx 3060 it doesn't
go
above 500 us i'm hoping it stays below
that line because i know a lot of people
have been messaging me like brian i just
want to get a graphics card like i want
to get something decent
and play games in the curved pandemic
and i know i've got to overpay for it
what should i do and so the rtx 3060 is
finally looking like a card that will
come
closest to msrp versus the others in the
bunch
and now we've got that question of the
329 usd
what are these cards are realistically
going to come in at and looking at
all the demand out there all the gravis
cards are getting bought up at
overpriced prices because people just
want to play games they want to
build a gaming pc and then they've got
the demand from the crypto miners coming
in
so i think these cards will go anywhere
from 400 us to around
500 us that's just me being realistic
with you and seeing
what's going on in the market right now
hopefully the retailers and also mainly
the distributors i'm looking at you guys
when i talk about the distributors
hopefully they don't raise the prices
too much on these cards because i have
heard some crazy stories even in the
last few days
of apparently under 100 units of rtx
3080 cards coming into australia
like that's for all of australia for all
models 100 rtx 3080s
which is ridiculously low and so you can
see
where those uh distributors are sending
those cards
before they even hit retail shelves
anyway guys that's about it for this
main piece of news here i thought i'd
make a dedicated video on it because
it is a big topic of discussion right
now where crypto is just making this
insane amount of demand on top of
already
highly demanded products during the
worldwide covert pandemic and i think
it's just a
breath of fresh air for gamers who just
want to get a card
and just want to play some games they
don't want to get involved
in any of this other cryptocurrency
stuff and
bitcoin to the moon and dogecoin they
just don't want to bother with it
because it doesn't really interest them
what interests them
is actually not going out of their
brains because they can't go outside
and do what humans were intended to do
and that's move around
anyhow guys if you enjoyed today's video
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think
about this news right here one thing for
certain is that nvidia as a company
i'm pretty certain that they do not want
to repeat anyway themselves
of 2018 because that really hurt them as
a company where
there was all these cards that were
getting bought up back then for crypto
mining
and then once crypto mining went bust
all those graphics cards came back on
the market
and that actually hurt nvidia's stock
price as well as them getting i think a
filing as a
lawsuit against them so they definitely
don't want a repeat of that and this
news
definitely correlates to them doing the
right thing for gamers but also them
doing the right thing as a company for
themselves
and i think having these two things
co-aligned finally means a win for the
gamers though in terms of the previous
cards that have already been released
the 360 ti the 30 70 30 80 3090
i don't think they're going to get any
similar driver nerfs mainly due to the
fact that again that could probably put
nvidia up for a lawsuit if they've sold
previous products
that were working as intended in a
particular way but then they don't
longer work
in a particular way so that's some bad
news for the
previous four cards that are released
but at least for the future cards being
released here on in
there is a solution and hey a 30 60 12
gigabyte
is going to be nothing to complain about
if you're going to be able to game on
one of these things
you're going to have a really good time
anyhow guys we got the question of the
day here which comes from msi max
overclocker
and they asked quick question is this
mod just for those cpus listed i was
looking
at a 2699 and also if i can use
this with an azus board with b clock
adjustments to be applied
thanks for the video and they're talking
about the x99 xeons which you can get
for really cheap off aliexpress we did a
video
where you can unlock the turbos to the
max multiplier and that just gives you
extremely good value so to answer that
question directly yes you can unlock
all the xeon skus in that fourth
generation
lineup though do be careful because
you've got to make sure they're not
engineering samples
and they're the actual retail samples
with a certain micro code so do watch
that video
do look out for that because if you buy
an es you can't do it and talking about
the
zeus board i believe you can do it but
you have to unlock the bios
first with a bios modding program and
then you have to actually use the
flashback utility on the back of the
board instead of trying to update
within the azus motherboard bios itself
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