Big news for all the crypto bros speed running climate change…
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.
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!
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.
I mean, it’s fun, and I’m sure the guy got a cool Youtube video out of it
That’s basically it. It’s a stupidly fun idea, why not
Yeah, sure. I’m not ragging on the guy or the idea. It’s just seeing it done, fun and cool as it is, made me think of how it no longer makes sense even as an overkill thing. It’s a point about the hardware market, not this project.
This is a genius idea.
This is fantastic
