> While I wholeheartedly agree that nvidia should do this, but bothers me is that they take functionality away without adding anything in or lowering the price.

> While I wholeheartedly agree that nvidia should do this, but bothers me is that they take functionality away without adding anything in or lowering the price. Vendors are selling cards at 10-50% above MSRP and scalpers are selling them at 200-300% of MSRP precisely because they're usable for mining. By breaking the mining incentive, they are dropping prices for consumers. Considerably.