The obvious worry for buying a graphics card used for mining is that performance will be vastly degraded, and the GPU will fail sooner than expected. This is generally not the case, however.

Cryptocurrency mining is largely the arena of purpose-built machines, but GPUs remain a viable way to mine. Here's everything you need to know about GPU mining.

While there is still a shortage of AMD Radeon 500 series graphics cards, mostly the Radeon RX 580 and RX 570, the market should stabilize soon as these, and other mid-range graphics cards, have ...

Buying a second-hand GPU is a bit of a minefield (ahem) at any time, but with big mining operations closing up shop, if used cards need to be shifted, it’s obviously in their interest to do that ...

The price of midrange graphics cards like the RX 580 and GTX 1070 have exploded following a renewed interest in cryptocurrency mining. Nvidia is not happy with this new trend and has requested ...

(Image credit: Zoomik / Shutterstock) One thing several cryptocomplainers have messaged me is to argue that crypto mining has been proven – proven! – to not damage a graphics card. Poppycock.

A swarm of coin mining cards have hit online e-tailers over the past few days, as AnandTech reports. Most are based on AMD’s more mining-friendly Radeon “Polaris” GPUs, but you’ll also ...

When used for cracking passwords, a modern high-end graphics card will absolutely chew through “classic” hashing algorithms like SHA-1 and SHA-2. When a single desktop machine can run through ...

The dirty little secret in tech that is not really much of a secret at all is that the GPU shortage is partially a result of cryptocurrency mining. This depressing reality can be lost or ...

Just the PC you already use, and the AMD or Nvidia gaming graphics card inside of it. If you didn’t jump on the money train then, prepare to have your FOMO triggered.

Modern gaming PCs can be incredibly powerful, and incredibly power hungry. That shiny new graphics card pushing pixels onto your display might be fast, but it could also get hot enough to fry an ...