Initial tests on a 13900K plus RTX 4090 PC system are positive. RTX 5090 is waiting for a water block.
    • RaoulDook@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      11 days ago

      Crypto mining on GPUs is pretty much dead. According to the “What to mine” charts a 4090 can only make about $1/day on the best shitcoin available to mine on GPUs. Factoring in the cost of those cards, it’s like 20 years to break even on that.

      I think the big deal with GPUs now is AI processing. AI is burning down the rainforest now with megawatt hunger instead of crypto.

      • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        11 days ago

        Give it long enough; and some Crypto bro will figure out a way to pool GPU resources and on-sell the capacity via a marketplace and voila; we could have the capacity to burn down the Amazon in under a week!

  • MudMan@fedia.io
    6·
    11 days ago

    This stuff feels like such a pointless, almost nostalgic instinct.

    I mean, it’s fun, and I’m sure the guy got a cool Youtube video out of it, but these days you’re not roasting hardware by overclocking a flimsy chip barely aided by a heatsink. Instead, this guy took a small space heater burning the power of a half-assed microwaving session and turned it into a proper toaster over for the benefit of doing the exact same thing at mostly the same speed, just colder.

    The 4090 is already typically strapped to a massive heatsink with a bunch of fans and runs at 50-60C under load in most competent builds. I want it to not trip my breaker, not to keep it cooler, boring as that may be by comparison.