AMD Ryzen 9 7950X CPUs Are Out of Stock Thanks to Crypto Mining
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X CPUs Are Out of Stock Thanks to Crypto Mining
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AMD Ryzen 9 7950X CPUs Are Out of Stock Thanks to Crypto Mining
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Aren't GPUs better at mining?
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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.
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need a computer with a CPU
So, like... a computer.
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Analog computers don't have CPUs as we understand them...
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so the calculations are done on the cpu now?
is that why the powerful chips are being bought?
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It depends on the coin, but basically, yes.
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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.
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It's for things like Monero, I think.
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