We sell more cards while decreasing the used market without eliminating it all together, upsetting both miners and gamers. While they will work for gaming, they'll be slightly less attractive on the used market which means more new sales but Miners can still sell some their stock to the more technically savvy gamers so miners can make back some of their profit margin. If miners hack it great but if not we 'accidentally' release a driver that breaks our own lock so we can keep selling these cards to miners," starts exec B, "Then as the crypto boom slows down we release a work around for mining only cards much like what happened in the last boom allowing users to tunnel display information out via their motherboards display port(s) so miners can sell their cards on the used market. "Well sir we wait a few weeks to see if our lock is foul proof. "How does this not piss off miners?" responds exec A "The way I see it sir is we release an unhackable handshake between the driver and the bios for new cards so they can't mine and we release old cards without display ports saying these will be for miners only.", says random exec B "How do we buy some good will from gamers during this crypto boom without selling the good will of miners?", says random exec A I can almost hear the meetings break down in my head. For a company like Nvidia who's greed comes off as immense, I find it far more likely this was all a PR stunt and intentional. I honestly don't know if this is true, it could just be a goof. Sorry."īefore I even started reading posts I was thinking the same thing. "Oops, we accidentally posted a development driver that nuked our mining limiter. JarredWaltonGPU said:There's the alternative view: Nvidia did it on purpose, because it has a bunch of mining customers that wanted this fix.
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