Ahhh... My trusty old graphics card. Served me well it has, but alas, a replacement may be soon on the horizon. In the form of the Geforce 11-series. Even though the specs are still quite vague as to how it will perform, I quietly confident that it'll be a damn beast!
And yes, as the title says, you only needed one of these working away in the background to be a BTC miner back in the day. And here was I, playing games for hours at a time and missing out on one of the most "golden" opportunities of a lifetime. Oh well, I guess that puts me in the same position as almost everybody else, lol. And the irony of fate is that now we all "know" the possibilities of GPU crypto mining in general, the companies selling new cards are also positioning them with a hefty price premium attached! It's like "Oh No! You're not gonna get a free ticket making money off of our equipment!"...
Such is business and the cost of manipulating new technology. But anyways, my eye is firmly on purchasing one of these next-gen beauties (although my 970 still chugs out a decent enough frame-rate) and I'm sticking to pure gaming. So Nvidia, pull your finger out and let's help give this silicon monster a new home! :)