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expiredSuryasis posted Feb 2, 2021 1:56 PM
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GenTechPC has Gigabyte A5 K1 Gaming Laptop Pre-Order (K1-BUS2130SH) for $1260.06 when you follow the steps below. Shipping is free.
Thanks to community member Suryasis for finding this deal.
Steps:
Thanks to community member Suryasis for finding this deal.
Steps:
- Click here then click on Build Yours
- Under 2021 New Year Sale 1:, select one of the below options (+$0.01)
- GELID GC-Extreme on CPU/GPU
- IC Diamond on CPU/GPU
- Coollaboratory Liquid Ultra on CPU/ IC Diamond on GPU
- Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut on CPU/ Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut GPU
- Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut on CPU/GPU
- Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut on CPU/ IC Diamond on GPU
- Under 2021 New Year Sale 2:, select Free 30 Day No Dead Pixel Warranty (+$0.01)
- Under 2021 New Year Sale 4:, select Fujipoly Ultra Extreme Thermal Pads on necessary area for optimal cooling performance (+$0.01)
- Click on add to cart
- Apply coupon code CASH for a final price of $1260.06 + free shipping
- AMD Ryzen R7-5800H 8-Core Processor
- 15.6" FHD 1920x1080 240hz IPS-Level Display
- 16GB DDR4 3200MHz Memory
- 512GB PCIe NVMe SSD
- NVIDIA RTX 3060 6GB GDDR6 Max-P
- 2x USB 3.1 Gen 1
- 1x USB 3.1 Gen 2
- 1x Thunderbolt 3 Type-C USB 3.1
- 2x DisplayPort 1.4 Type-C USB 3.1
- 1x HDMI 2.0
- RGB Backlit Keyboard
- Intel WiFi 6 AX200 + Bluetooth 5.0
- Windows 10 Home 64-Bit
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GenTechPC has Gigabyte A5 K1 Gaming Laptop Pre-Order (K1-BUS2130SH) for $1260.06 when you follow the steps below. Shipping is free.
Thanks to community member Suryasis for finding this deal.
Steps:
Thanks to community member Suryasis for finding this deal.
Steps:
- Click here then click on Build Yours
- Under 2021 New Year Sale 1:, select one of the below options (+$0.01)
- GELID GC-Extreme on CPU/GPU
- IC Diamond on CPU/GPU
- Coollaboratory Liquid Ultra on CPU/ IC Diamond on GPU
- Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut on CPU/ Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut GPU
- Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut on CPU/GPU
- Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut on CPU/ IC Diamond on GPU
- Under 2021 New Year Sale 2:, select Free 30 Day No Dead Pixel Warranty (+$0.01)
- Under 2021 New Year Sale 4:, select Fujipoly Ultra Extreme Thermal Pads on necessary area for optimal cooling performance (+$0.01)
- Click on add to cart
- Apply coupon code CASH for a final price of $1260.06 + free shipping
- AMD Ryzen R7-5800H 8-Core Processor
- 15.6" FHD 1920x1080 240hz IPS-Level Display
- 16GB DDR4 3200MHz Memory
- 512GB PCIe NVMe SSD
- NVIDIA RTX 3060 6GB GDDR6 Max-P
- 2x USB 3.1 Gen 1
- 1x USB 3.1 Gen 2
- 1x Thunderbolt 3 Type-C USB 3.1
- 2x DisplayPort 1.4 Type-C USB 3.1
- 1x HDMI 2.0
- RGB Backlit Keyboard
- Intel WiFi 6 AX200 + Bluetooth 5.0
- Windows 10 Home 64-Bit
Editor's Notes
Written by johnny_miller | Staff- About this deal:
- Refer to the forum thread for additional information & offer discussion.
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1. Horrible customer service. The owner, Ken, seems to just run everything himself. He is not cordial, or prompt in his responses (often had to email 2-3x before a response). He falsely advertised a fingerprint reader in my current laptop, and when I said it doesn't have one, his response was essentially, "oops, typo."
2. It took over a month to get my computer when there were not parts shortages. Expect to wait a while even once this computer becomes available.
3. I tried using the cash discount and paying by CC last time. The order went through, but Ken contacted me asking, "so you're going to send me a wire transfer or money order?" even though I had clearly already paid, and forced me to cancel my order and re-order.
Edit: This is all to say, while not the ABSOLUTE worst experience one could have, I'd be pretty hesitant to order from GenTech again.
Pros don't do this on a small scale basis for a reason. They do it on rigs with multiple GPUs per motherboard. They just care about yields, not the longevity/condition of the parts. If you're going to be using this laptop for personal use + maybe even some business, mining on it for the entirety of the time it's not in use otherwise maybe isn't the best idea...
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Almost every paste on the market will have better performance than the stock paste, but almost every paste on the market is designed for IHS use, NOT bare die on laptops.
What happens with kryonaut is it gets squeezed out and the performance drops within 2-3 months of use. The stock paste has poor performance upfront, but it's gummier and stays put for longer 2-3 years without degrading in performance.
Conductonaut is liquid metal, which doesn't have the pump out problem, but will stain the heatsink.
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If you're more technically inclined, I have one of my systems running Ubuntu instead of hiveos so I can also dual use it as a Plex media server and a couple other things as well, and the easiest solution there I hear is using nanopool and nanominer - which is also what you should use if you're on windows as the easiest solution.
What I ended up using on Ubuntu was ethminer, which normally works the best with no dev fees, and I joined the ethermine pool (1% fees) from there. This was more involved as ethminer's latest binary release from 2019 doesn't support CUDA 11.1, which is what the new rtx 3000 cards are on. However, a few months ago a pr was merged to master in the github repo that adds CUDA 11.1 support (a trivial thing, actually) - so all you have to do is build ethminer from source on the latest version of the master branch and it'll work flawlessly. Pretty easy on Linux, a little more involved on windows.
If you don't mind not using your machine for anything else while mining and dual booting, I'd recommend going with hiveos.
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Which debit card did you get 8% back on?
Somewhat agree with laptop mining, but I'm sure you can fiddle with the settings such that the heat isn't too overwhelming. It doesn't seem there is as much power going into the mobile cards? It'll at least be a neat project for me, but there are certainly risks associated with it.
Regarding desktop mining, I run a 3090 without issue 90% of the day and don't have any problems with it. I understand the fears, but I've done mining in the past with AMD/NVidia with cards I kept for years and no issue. The $8k in BTC/BCH earned from trading in LTC that was mined over 4-5 months years ago was worth the first foray into mining. IF ETH ever did jump in price to something crazy like $10k, a month and a half of mining would cover the laptop. If you just ran a miner while surfing the net or doing some other tasks that didn't require much from the card, there is some value there.
I got it when it was only a 1,000,000 CRO requirement and only about ~$85,000 at the time. It's a truly nuts card being a debit card and can earn a maximum of $24,000 cashback a year at the max topup spend of $25,000 a month. Being a debit card, literally almost anything counts for the cashback...including things like money orders at Walmart 🤷 ♂️.
So sadly not remotely worth it anymore, but at the time, it was a uniquely valuable card to get. Still not really justifiable on that alone - really, the 100,000 CRO / 5% card is the only one really worth getting (now sadly 500,000 CRO), and only then if you were investing millions on the Crypto.com earn service because the 5/8% cards give an extra 2% interest on crypto.com earn, which comes out to 20,000 on the 1 million max cap in Crypto.com with the 5% card and 40,000 on the 2 million max cap on the 8% card.
So the 8% card basically only makes sense if you could have gotten it for ~$85,000 and you max out the 8% every month for a total annual cashback of $24,000 + $40,000 extra interest on $2 million in crypto deposited in crypto.com earn - $64,000/year return, plus you don't really lose the CRO you invest and as long as CRO doesn't fall dramatically you still have all your principal and they give you 12% interest on all the CRO you stake for the card, so overall, not the worst proposition in the world.
The 5000 tier is the most worth it to start with imo. Only an upfront $335 investment that you can likely recoup later, and they pay for $13/mo of free Spotify, and give you 2% cashback on everything, meaning you get $156/yr in free Spotify back plus solid cashback on everything from a debit card (including, again, money orders and cashback when checking out at supermarkets/etc) - 50% annual return on your initial investment guaranteed. Pretty impossible to lose if you normally pay for a Spotify duo plan anyway. Start there, and see if you're interested enough for the higher tiers to make sense.
Should I buy this one
or lenovo legion 7 https://www.walmart.com/ip/Lenovo.../390550133
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