The CPUs are now more coveted than an RTX 4090.
  • @mihnt@lemmy.world
    10•1 year 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•1 year 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•1 year ago

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

    • Anarch157a
      6•1 year 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.

    • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍
      1•1 year 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.