The CPUs are now more coveted than an RTX 4090.
  • mihnt@lemmy.world
    151·
    8 months ago

    They are in stock on Amazon?

    Don’t see a SKU for them on microcenter’s site.

    In stock on newegg (ew) as well.

      • mihnt@lemmy.world
        11·
        8 months ago

        Were originally at the trust levels of Microcenter, they sold out to some Chinese holdings company which was around when they decided to add the “marketplace”. It’s now a shadow of it’s former self and I wouldn’t trust them to send me a pack of M&Ms, let alone expensive PC parts.

        • Revan343@lemmy.ca
          3·
          8 months ago

          Well shit, I didn’t know that. I suppose it has been about a decade since I ordered any PC parts.

      • frezik@midwest.social
        52·
        8 months ago

        They enshittified a long time ago. Got into a race to the bottom with Amazon and lost.

    • GrindingGears@lemmy.ca
      81·
      8 months ago

      I’ve got a cousin who’s perpetually bankrupt. He’s super into Crypto. He’s a self-crafted crypto investment professional in fact.

      • towerful@programming.dev
        6·
        8 months ago

        That was all thanks to me.
        I finally dumped what i had because i came to the conclusion crypto isnt really a part of the future and doesnt do anything… Finally got round to selling it, so of course it hits a record high.

    • Anarch157a@lemmy.world
      8·
      8 months ago

      Not anymore. Bitcoin now requires dedicated hardware (ASICs). Other coins were designed to make use of ASICs impossible or impractical, requiring GPUs, but those still require a CPU to drive them.

      New developments, such as Ethereum moving away from proof of work to proof of stake made GPUs unnecessary, but you still need a computer with a CPU to validate the blocks on the block-chain.

      Edit: Even with ASICs mining bitcoin, you still need servers to distribute the work to them.

    • Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip
      5·
      8 months ago

      you have different methods of calculations for different types of crypto. most use gpu calculations, some may favor cpu calculations. there are a handful that do so using hard drives for instance.

    • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
      21·
      8 months ago

      Hah. I stored mine in a password less local wallet; I honestly can’t remember if encrypted wallets were available when I got mine - at the time, Satoshi was still giving out coins for free if you emailed them. Really, really lucky choice, because I then completely forgot I had any for 10 years until they popped up in the public news. I’d been copying ~ from computer to new computer reflexively for that entire time… it was utter luck that, when I went to check, sure enough ~/.bitcoin was there, with a positive wallet balance. Not enough to retire, but enough to be able to retire a couple of years early.

      It’s encrypted now, and I unlock it every once in a while to ensure I can, but I’m otherwise still ignoring it. As an investment, it’s done far better than any other of my $ invested in the stock market, bond, IRA, or 401k… but I think as a get-rich-quick scheme, it’s been over-rated.