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                                                   Image Source - Forbes Crippled the mining efficiency of the upcoming RTX 3060 graphics card and announced the new CMP GPU's specifically designed for mining. This was supposed to ensure that gamers could actually get their hands on gaming GPUs before miners bought up all the stock. And that would have been a smart move if it wasn't actually a really dumb move.  Oh.- Because a YouTuber named Crypto Leo has already shown that the 3060 can still mine cryptocurrency and make a profit.  I'm shocked.- Nvidia's unhackable limiter only kicks in when it detects the 3060 is being used to mine Ethereum, but it does jack squat when mining other crypto coins. (man howling) - [Man] This is so stupid, okay, okay. - You're like one of three, got it. - Like Octopus and Cortex, which honestly sou...

       Image Source -  © Nvidia  | Image By-  © Nvidia You don't know what this GPUhas been through to get here, nor do you know how manyof them didn't make it, but here it is, the GeForce RTX 3060 Nvidia long awaited premium mid range Ampere architecture GPU. This, this is the one that destined to top SteamCharts for the most popular gaming card on the freaking planet for at least as long as it's forefather or fore grandfather the GTX 1060 did. But that assumes a couple of things doesn't it? One, that it's actually any good. And of course number two, that Nvidia can make enough of them.  That's how long it's been sinceanything has even come close to the level of bang for the buck that this card represented. It beat out the contemporaryPolaris-based RX 480 and AMD's hey at leastyou tried RX 580 Refresh, then Nvidia themselves tried to make the magic lightening strike again. First with the RTX 2060, thenwith their GTX 1600 series.  I mean thos...