ASUS: Demand for GPUs for crypto mining is falling – Computer – News

But keep those lower prices coming. I’ve been using my PC for a really long time (i5-4670K with GTX770) and I really need an upgrade, but man, that stuff has become expensive. Fortunately, the prices are falling, but it is still far from the level that I am acceptable. In the meantime I’m looking at used cards, one year old, but they also go for the top prize. Same with refurbished laptops, you sometimes buy them for the price of a new one, why would you if the specs aren’t much better?

You spend even longer with your PC than I do at the moment; I have an i7-6700K, with 32GB RAM and a GTX 1070… I bought that graphics card to play The Witcher 3 properly, but I’ve never played that game because I haven’t had the time since 2017 to play games of that length…

For me at the moment a high core count with _all the same_ cores is the most important. So my money goes to the CPU with the highest core count, and then the E-cores don’t count. Those are bullshit for my use cases.

So it could well be that my now 6-year-old GTX 1070 just goes with it to a new system, which is scheduled to be built in August 2023. (After the release of Debian 12.)

If I later play something that is actually heavier than TW3, I’ll look further. However, I think the GTX 1070 may be 8-10 years old here.

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