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Boxes Marked RTX 3080 Ti 12GB Seen Heading to Distributors



In what is more proof that a GeForce RTX 3080 Ti launch is around the corner, cartons marked "GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Ventus 3X 12G OC" were spotted on their way to distribution centers in the US, according to a photo leak by "Lok LOK" on Facebook, who reveals several pictures of such cartons with their shipping labels intact. The lot also included several other graphics cards, including the GT 710 and RX 580.

The Ventus 3X OC represents MSI's value-ended custom-design graphics cards based on a given GPU, while the top-end is covered by the Gaming and SUPRIM series. This leak reinforces the theory that the RTX 3080 Ti will max out the 384-bit GDDR6X interface of the GA102 silicon, arming it with 12 GB of memory—2 GB more than the RTX 3080, but half that of the RTX 3090. This SKU is expected to be NVIDIA's response to the Radeon RX 6900 XT. AMD, meanwhile, is getting its partners to release higher clocked versions of the RX 6900 XT based on the new "XTXH" variant of the Navi 21 silicon.

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According to the report, miners have seen this new cryptocurrency emerge and are going out and buying all the storage devices they can even though it hasn't been listed for trading yet.

The mining process of Chia requires a large amount of free space and runs many reading and writing operations. In this case, endurance is equally as important as speed, so consumer SSDs aren't the best choice for mining due to their lower endurance, and running these operations will significantly reduce the lifespan of an SSD. The target for these miners are hard drives and data center SSDs.

These miners have been purchasing massive amounts of hard drives ranging in capacity from 4TB to 18TB. In the Hong Kong area, this had led to an expected price increase ranging from 200 HKD (26 USD) to 600 HKD (76 USD). In a report by MyDrivers, Jiahe Jinwei, a big SSD manufacturer in China, has reported that all of its Gloway and Asgard high-performance 1TB and 2TB NVMe M.2 SSDs are out of stock. It also mentioned that is taking steps to prevent miners from buying large amounts of consumers SSDs while also increasing their supply and developing mining-specific drives.

If the new eco-friendly Chia Coin pans out, we could be facing a hard drive and SSD shortage. Even though SSDs won't be very effective, less informed buyers will buy them to capitalize on the new cryptocurrency. This may come into question later on when buying used SSDs as repeated read and write operations significantly reduce the lifespan of SSDs.

---- > ternyata beneran Q2 akan banjir vga dgn harga2 murmer ala MSRP, gan...... msi nvidia rtx 3080ti 12gb n radeon rx 6900 xtx 16gb akan rilis ke publik........... yihaaa.......

tp, sebagai gantinya, kedepan akan trjd kelangkaan HDD, SSD, dsb...... gara ulah kaum penambang koin maya, gan.........