Assuming it takes a while to crash (regulation isn't going to be bought out overnight) I will have made a fair chunk of change from mining the stuff already, so the components wouldn't need to fetch their purchase price. Additionally, there will always be idiots who are behind the curve. The key to this I think is keeping a close eye on things. That's not to say I may not fall into camp idiot. However, I don't think the market is ever going to entirely die.
Also, if I had ploughed that £2k into ETH or BTC before the drop, i'd be crying now. At least I have something tangible in my hands which is errr..... generating the un-tangible stuff... We'll gloss over that. Helps me sleep at night.
Does the warranty cover burn out from 24/7 maxing out/overclocking
Safer to get a part time job as sys admin for a company or university with lots of servers currently under utilised.
Even if the cards have been overclocked they are covered under warranty, the only exception being that if you damage the PCB by over volting them. If you do that they'll easily be able to detect you've been mucking about. I've not changed the voltage of my cards. The other exception may be that if you melted them.. But I've got sensible power and fan settings.
Have you seen some of the enormous farms? Find it hard to believe these aren't being run by people within the GPU manufacturing business.
hashrate difficulty is determined per coin - which coin do you mean? Eth?
Cards have gone up in price approximately 25% everywhere - now would be a good time to buy some shares in NVIDIA, wouldn't touch AMD cards with a barge pole, too power hungry. Team green are on top from what I can see in terms of coin returns per watt of pulled power.
