Forget GPUs, Crypto Mining Is Suddenly A Threat To AMD Ryzen 9 7590X CPU Supply


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In case haven't noticed, the cryptocurrency market is on an upswing led by Bitcoin's surge to record highs over the past couple of weeks—it's now trading at around $73,000. Historically speaking, as Bitcoin goes, so does the entire crypto scene. Fortunately, miners don't pose a threat to the supply of graphics cards this time around, but we could end up seeing a shortage of AMD's flagship non-X3D processor, the Ryzen 9 7950X Over on X, the site formerly known as Twitter, notable leaker MEGAsizeGPU (@Zed__Wang), posted an observation and question last week: "7950X is out of stock everywhere. What happened?...