trouble is people (inc myself) have been saying this about Bitcoin for years, people were called mad for buying in at £10, £100, idiots at £1000, mental at £10,000 etc. Someone once bought a pizza for 10,000 BTC which is 280 million quid at today’s value. Every time in its history the price shoots up everyone warns against it saying it’s gonna fail any day now, then smugly says I told you so when there is a crash, but then it goes up to new heights. I nearly put £5k into it in 2020 when I started my new job as felt it would go up in the pandemic but decided against it, could have sold it at £40k and made a huge wedge.
The offset monitor stand works for me as if it was in the middle my stream deck would have to be further forward. The desk would also need to be further from the wall as the mount is free motion so I can move it in any direction, but to have it installed dead centre the arm needs to go straight back in a > shape towards the wall, and I don’t want to have a desk that’s about a foot away from the wall
I’d also have to redo the support leg on the desk as the mount arm would not fit under the desk due to that being right at the back, so would be an all round ball ache to sort out
anyone getting into mining wouldn’t need to spend anywhere near that much, these are all high or top end components, and a lot of cosmetic stuff like my water cooling unit has an lcd display that will display either animated gifs or custom data like system temps. Water cooling makes very little noise, it still has fans for the radiator, but they’re very quiet, and the case still has fans but they are very quiet also. The gpu has fans but again set to low, overall the system makes very little noise. It’s all set to run on a curve depending on core temps so unless it skyrockets in temps fans are set to run silently. When i game they spin up, but beyond that Its pretty quiet. You can water cool gpu’s but it’s a bit of a bother and the cards are rarer to get hold of.
CPU doesn’t really benefit mining, you can mine with it but it’s pence per day and you probably lose money with energy use. It’s all done using the gpu and it’s specifically the vram/rendering part doing the work. Energy impact isn’t ideal but at about 70p per day it’s hardly the end of the world. People have water features, ponds, hot tubs etc that cost them money instead of making them money and they probably cost similar. I don’t travel for work personally except in very rare circumstances so I’ve definitely offset any extra impacts
GPU prices would take a while to crash because beyond mining, the true target market is still not saturated and supplies are extremely low due to competition from multiple sources for the same parts - Ps5, Xbox, pc vendors, gpu market etc all vying for the same DDR ram and silicon facilities and there is only so much output, it’s all heavily botted so even when stock does arrive it’s bought instantly unless very lucky.
worst case if a card is bought for £650 (Nvidia FE), and a barebones system for say £350 for psu, ram, cpu, psu and case, cheap used monitor, you have your investment back in 4 or so months depending on prices. Anything after that is profit, and you have a saleable asset. Even if prices dropped on gpu’s, you would roll be able to sell that gpu alone in 2 years time for £400ish based on historic prices. People wouldn’t be aware the card had taken a beating, there is nothing to say that a card has been used for mining and if it’s well maintained it will be working perfectly - it’s akin to doing a load of motorway miles in a car, as long as it’s been looked after and not gunned in first gear, it will have been operating as designed within spec temps and will perform as expected in benchmarks - this has been shown repeatedly with previous generation cards sold on once miners are finished with them.
I cba building a mining rig and filling it with cards, besides cats would probably just sleep in it and mess it up, but can totally add why people would
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