Tom's Hardware is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .With the emergence of the cryptocurrency, miners in China are reportedly frantically snatching up every hard drive and SSD they can find. Unlike other cryptocurrencies, you don't mine Chia with a processor, graphics card or ASIC miner. Instead, you farm Chia with storage space, which is where hard drives or SSDs come in. Chia isn't officially available for trading yet, therefore, it's too early to start hoarding hard drives or SSDs.Unlike Bitcoin, which is based on...…Tom's Hardware is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .With the emergence of the cryptocurrency, miners in China are reportedly frantically snatching up every hard drive and SSD they can find. Unlike other cryptocurrencies, you don't mine Chia with a processor, graphics card or ASIC miner. Instead, you farm Chia with storage space, which is where hard drives or SSDs come in. Chia isn't officially available for trading yet, therefore, it's too early to start hoarding hard drives or SSDs.Unlike Bitcoin, which is based on...WW…

Tom's Hardware is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .Graphics cards, more specifically Nvidia's (CMP), are the new commodity among Chinese smugglers. reported that the Hong Kong Customs and Excise Department busted a smuggling ring and recovered up to 300 CMP 30HX graphics cards.The story seems like it came out of a movie. The Chinese authorities detected a suspicious fishing boat anchored just outside the Hong Kong International Airport. The sea smugglers were loading boxes from the fishing boat to a speedboat at 2...…Tom's Hardware is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .Graphics cards, more specifically Nvidia's (CMP), are the new commodity among Chinese smugglers. reported that the Hong Kong Customs and Excise Department busted a smuggling ring and recovered up to 300 CMP 30HX graphics cards.The story seems like it came out of a movie. The Chinese authorities detected a suspicious fishing boat anchored just outside the Hong Kong International Airport. The sea smugglers were loading boxes from the fishing boat to a speedboat at 2...WW…

Tom's Hardware is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .Update 5/4/2020 8:30am PT: Linux publication has carried out preliminary testing on the impact of disabling Predictive Store Forwarding. AMD hasn't provided any patches, therefore, the author compiled his own kernel with the feature disabled.Phoronix's results revealed a negligible performance hit when disabling Predictive Store Forwarding. Across a suite of 100 tests, the geometric mean was less than a half percent in terms of performance loss.We've reached out to...…Tom's Hardware is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .Update 5/4/2020 8:30am PT: Linux publication has carried out preliminary testing on the impact of disabling Predictive Store Forwarding. AMD hasn't provided any patches, therefore, the author compiled his own kernel with the feature disabled.Phoronix's results revealed a negligible performance hit when disabling Predictive Store Forwarding. Across a suite of 100 tests, the geometric mean was less than a half percent in terms of performance loss.We've reached out to...WW…

Tom's Hardware is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .It's true that nothing lasts forever, but Nvidia's anti-mining limiter on the didn't last long at all. Cryptocurrency miners have circumvented the algorithm in a little over one month since the .Intentional or not, Nvidia played a huge role in helping cryptocurrency miners crack the anti-mining limiter. The chipmaker released a that partially disabled the algorithm, and everything just went downhill afterwards. Some may argue that it was just a matter of time...…Tom's Hardware is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. .It's true that nothing lasts forever, but Nvidia's anti-mining limiter on the didn't last long at all. Cryptocurrency miners have circumvented the algorithm in a little over one month since the .Intentional or not, Nvidia played a huge role in helping cryptocurrency miners crack the anti-mining limiter. The chipmaker released a that partially disabled the algorithm, and everything just went downhill afterwards. Some may argue that it was just a matter of time...WW…