Recent content by Jinto

In winter the electricity cost is offset by the savings in heating. Where I live the heating is electric only, so the mining electricity cost is practically free. You won't be gaming on it 24/7, mining is practically a no-brainer to offset the cost. Even if it were to fail it will be under warranty.

It can definitely be more efficient if you are used to it since you don't have to move your hands off the keyboard to move the mouse.

Lots of 2 in 1s with Ryzen but cant think of one with a greater than 1080p screen. You need to pick and choose what is important to you.

I think they get volume and preorder discounts. ASIC miners are mostly for large-scale miners, not for us small potatoes. There may also be some tax shenanigans going on between business expense, depreciation, and how easily capital gains on the coins are avoided.

As long as fab capacity is constrained Intel is not going to make any difference. Intel is using TSMC, not its own fabs for GPU.

Apple (and others) manufacture in China and India for very different reasons. China's labor cost is lower than the US but it is expensive now in comparison to Vietnam, India etc. Even environmental regulations are much more stringent than before. The advantage is mostly in the scale of...

No issues with usbc.

I'd price out the systems and see what the actual difference is. Within $100-200 Alder Lake seems to be a better choice if keeping for 5 years.

Check if there is any BIOS update? Some boards required updates to run 4x 32gb. That said pretty sure your board supports 256.

Zephyrus G15? It is periodically on sale for a bit over $1.5k

Hard to bet against Apple at this point. They have a ridiculous amount of resources to throw at talent and tech. Apple is like double the market cap of Nvidia, Intel and AMD combined.

China doesn't care about ARM, they just want to be able to license. I'll bet you money that ARM China is not going to make any difference in this and certainly won't be buying its parent...

Buy/borrow replacement parts and swap them in one by one to isolate the problem. Start with the motherboard.

Good deal. A bit tempted but just got the MSI deal as well.

Doubt there will ever be a shortage. Makes more sense to mine with Epyc rather than Ryzen for Raptoreum. The parts to build a computer add up pretty quickly. Also Raptoreum care only about L3 cache. Doesn't make sense to get Zen 3 when Zen 2 gets the same hashrate.