29 May
2018
29 May
'18
2:18 p.m.
Well, it's supply and demand. I think bitcoin has been more of a factor in trebling graphics card prices, for some types of card, it's that GPU power they're after as opposed to memory.
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Alan Bourke
alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm
On Tue, 29 May 2018, at 1:40 PM, Kurt at VR-FX wrote:
> That's an interesting reason for the price fixing! And, there is also
> now this whole Bitcoin farming stuff - besides tradtional server farms
> used for things like 3D Animation rendering. All this besides the
> increased capacity/need for desktop computing in the corp. biz world!
>
> -K-
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> On 5/29/2018 4:22 AM, Alan Bourke wrote:
> >> Something's not right here. Seems like priced fixing/cartel.
> > Huge demand from server farms, mobile devices and a lack of fabrication capacity.
> >
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