Rows of latest model laptops, very popular by the gaming community, have been spotted in China used to exploit cryptocurrency.
In tweets Posted on Wednesday, the photos show a room filled with several hundred gaming laptops equipped with Nvidia RTX 30 Series Graphics Processors (GPUs). WCCTech, a publication on computers and games, said the laptops shown in the tweets come from the Chinese manufacturer Hasse and are used to exploit crypto using the popular Nvidia cards.
Like something out of a gamer’s nightmare, it appears that some laptops have been stripped of their housing to provide optimal cooling for the hard – working GPUs.
High-quality GPUs are preferred by cryptocurrency miners because of the greater processing power of the cards to reduce the mathematical tasks required for mining. While bitcoin mining requires specialized processors, ASICs, cryptocurrencies like Ethereum’s ether can still be mined on GPUs.
Players also want such top-of-the-range cards, as it boosts graphics performance and is generally the easiest component of a computer to upgrade to keep up with the latest game titles.
Technical retailers and distributors usually place the limit on the number of highly sought after products to distribute evenly. According to the tweets, according to WCCTech’s report, there is an agreement between the retailer, the distributor or the laptop manufacturer and the mining company for a large order.
The entry-level laptops sell for $ 999, while the high-end models are expected to hit the shelves for a recommended retail price of $ 1,999, according to the report. If the images and videos are genuine, the value of the newly established mining industry could run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars at high street prices.
Nvidia recently said that it could potentially recharge the production of dedicated GPUs for cryptocurrency miners if demand is there. However, it made the possibility that miners would eat in its general stock less and said players had more than their stock.