GPU hardware firm riles gaming community by flirting with crypto miners

GPU hardware firm riles gaming community by flirting with crypto miners

Hungry for coin? A computing hardware firm has angered gamers after apparently marketing the already scarce Nvidia RTX 30 series to cryptocurrency miners. Computing hardware manufacturer Zotac angered a customer base of loyal gamers on Feb. 16 after it posted a tweet apparently marketing its new Nvidia 30 series graphics cards to cryptocurrency miners.Zotac’s post showed a stack of what looks to be GeForce RTX 3070 White Edition GPUs, along with the caption, “An army of ZOTAC GAMING GPUs hungry for coin!"An army of #ZOTACGAMING GPU's hungry for coin! IG: @pc.lad#ZOTAC #PcGaming #Gaming....


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