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Not a fan of miners disturbing GPU availability and pricing but this is a bad move. It’s not an engineering move, it’s a marketing move, and I’m sure the first
by ianhanschen 6y ago
Not a fan of miners disturbing GPU availability and pricing but this is a bad move. It’s not an engineering move, it’s a marketing move, and I’m sure the first attempt at doing this will come down to something just as shallow like a PCI PID check or some resistor strap check. Someone will find it worth the cost to make an FPGA based PCIe bridge that responds to the right knocks in the right way.
- bserge 6y agoNot the first time they do this, either. They started limiting performance via firmware/software since Fermi iirc. Basically, nVidia's GTX and Quadro cards use the same exact chips but the latter have additional features and higher performance in professional applications.
- sneak 6y agoI think the EULA also says that you can't use the drivers for the non-expensive cards in multitenant/datacenter setups.
- nine_k 6y agoI suppose they recognize a specific algorithm. They already do special-casing for a number of game titles, and have been for a long time. Not a problem to match one more pattern, I assume.