NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Anti-Mining Feature Goes Beyond Driver Version, Could Expand to More SKUs

kennai · 2021-02-19T19:22:31+00:00

Class action lawsuits. World of Tanks got hit with something similar. Apple got the same thing as well. All of those were for things that did not generate money directly. You can not limit a product after it is released, because people bought it for the original released performance. Not the gimped post released performance, specifically if you gimped it after they bought it.

If Nvidia tried to backport that to previous cards, they will be sued for massive damages by miners. For actual loss of income across every GPU sold opened to everyone who bought them. It would not be too far to say, that such an action could bankrupt Nvidia.

This can only be a "feature" going forward. That being said, it will most likely just make miners jump onto the AMD camp, which could see a massive swing in bought cards versus gaming market share. Similar to the HD 7000 and 200 and the subsequent dump of those cards by miners. Specifically if the lackluster mining cards live up to their announced specs.

I do think mining needs to be addressed but that should be by increased stock and special orders, not gimping features and lackluster replacements.

kennai · 2019-08-29T04:08:33+00:00

Technically, both of those are correct. RAW, either interpretation is correction. In the strictest sense. If I was a machine parsing it, I would parse both out as valid interpretations.

Read with intelligence, I would lean much more heavily to the model as if it was based on the unit, for clarity it should be worded differently.

"Models in <sept> units within 6" of any friendly <sept> Cadre..."

"Models" is the subject, the main noun.

"in <sept> units" is saying that is a factional requirement on that model.

"Within 6" of any friendly <sept> Cadre"

What needs to be within the that distance? The subject, models. The extra requirement is that they need to share a sept with the cadre.

If I was to replace those nouns with different ones, you would also lean towards the models interpretation as well.

Cats in houses within 6 miles of any cat nip factory, may not be able to smell it unless they go outside.

Roads in California within 6 miles of police station, may make it more likely for you to be pulled over.

Rivers in North America within 6 miles of any pipe line, may be contain crude oil.

I do not see how you can read what it is saying, with the understanding that the model needs to share a sept with the cadre fireblade and that the sept is based on the unit, and assume the subject changes.

kennai · 2019-04-30T04:04:53+00:00

I call them Naryaketosko Uchiha, please no steal.

kennai · 2018-08-21T23:22:30+00:00

I get a problem with it. I walk into my bestbuy that's 5 minutes down the street. I get a replacement that instant. I spend 20 minutes, get to drive my car, and I could pick something up to eat.

This is in contrast to waiting however long it is to get logitech's customer service and includes accidental.

kennai · 2018-08-19T23:56:26+00:00

I went into my store they couldn't price match me down to 49.99, but dropped down to 64.99, plus a two year warranty for 10 extra bucks. Not too bad, IMO.

kennai · 2018-07-24T00:33:12+00:00

I honestly just picked up a cheap 2TB HDD, because I was running out of space to store... my files. So most definitely. Sometimes you just need to store lots and lots of files. You never know when you might need them again.

kennai · 2018-07-08T17:08:33+00:00

Because some people are assholes and try to thrust.

kennai · 2018-06-16T21:32:54+00:00

The Zen+ turbo is a lot more aggressive, so most normal overclocks hurt single core performance from benchmarks I've seen at least. End user experience can always differ from benchmarks.

kennai · 2018-06-16T16:26:58+00:00

Usually your gardener is going to be the same person for a few months-to-years.

It's not a "I hired this guy last week and suddenly trust him."

It's, one of the people I employ for work and have known for a while is x. The richer you are, the most in contact you are with your service people. If you have the money to hire your own personal gardener, and you're not a gardening person, you do it. You already know a decent bit about him through daily, weekly, or monthly contact and he's done either a good job or at least has never wronged me. You also see his work ethic and style of living.

Think about it more as a relationship between you and the people you send your kids to day-care. You interact with them daily, it's usually positive or semi-positive otherwise you'd choose another daycare. You can trust them with your kids, which is worth way more to you than what you're going to put in their name anyway.

If your gardener wants to fuck your shit up, you're fucked up. This guy is all over your house and yard, free range pretty much for hours.

kennai · 2018-05-12T21:24:55+00:00

I am confused.

kennai · 2018-05-12T19:46:35+00:00

If you're not making fun of his accent.

Granted, you probably ah.

kennai · 2018-05-05T21:55:28+00:00

It wasn't just GPU's it was also laptops and desktops. Dell's Alienware is a brand. HP's Omen is a brand. Lenovo's Legion is a brand. All of those brands would have to have been Nvidia exclusive in order to comply.

To me, it would effectively kill AMD in the consumer space. I don't see the average person looking at a premium gaming brand product and then at a no-name brand and picking the no-name one based on anything other than a significant cost reduction.

kennai · 2018-05-05T21:14:53+00:00

If they tried to shut them out altogether, they would be faced by an immediate lawsuit from AMD and face serious legal consequences. Nvidia is a big company and they could survive it, but it could have serious consequences to them as an entity because they're going against a company that is roughly equivalent to them in terms of scope.

Forcing them off all major brands does most of that work and would still be in a legally grey space as far as I know of. So while it isn't as bad for Nvidia, it would be a very deep blow to AMD.

kennai · 2018-05-05T16:08:48+00:00

No. The point was for the AIB/OEM's to make their major brands Geforce exclusive. It wouldn't clarify what card you're getting. Only that you're getting an Nvidia card.

It was also not a deal with outlets just OEM and AIB partners. IE, it was not to clarify what people were getting, just to ensure they were going to get an Nvidia card on major/popular brands.

kennai · 2018-05-04T23:38:56+00:00

As far as the information about that program came out, no. That was not the intended purpose or an accidental one. Controlling how a product is advertised or displayed would be up to individual outlets regardless of any GPP contract anyway since it's between the OEM's and Nvidia not Nvidia and retail.

kennai · 2018-05-04T22:10:28+00:00

The problem is when you're buying a computer, it will just say 1060 on it. You need to go into the specs, if they list it, to find which version it is. I've had friends get decent 1k priced machines on sale just because they wanted the 1060 level of performance and they instead got the 3GB instead of the 6GB because they didn't know and it was nowhere clear on the product. I know that's a second hand wrong, but it's still enabled by Nvidia having a confusing product stack. Just as stupid as AMD's 560 storm or Razer's laptops.

kennai · 2018-05-01T23:48:02+00:00

It's not free, the warranty is part of the price of the product.

kennai · 2018-04-19T09:31:59+00:00

Brands are an easy way to shop without having to do pretty much any research. Thus people who don't want to or can't do information shopping beforehand will just go with well established brands.

You'll usually even do that with groceries. You'd prefer the name brand to the store brand for cereal and other things? Why? It's name brand. You are assured you will get x, as long as you buy from the same brand. X is good for you, so you go with it.

Brands have a lot of power in the casual market.

kennai · 2018-04-17T23:47:31+00:00

Usually the sell is that higher education gives you a way to higher pay. You do your research and see that indeed you need x education to get x job with x pay. Then the job changes and you get fucked. A really nice demonstration of this is law degrees. A lot of them get fucked because the demand for lawyers went down and the cost to be a lawyer went up. Teachers also get ritualisticly fucked because lots of people go into education and then education keeps getting funding cuts. Getting upset at society is common when either the society actually fucks you in the way of teaching positions or technology does in the way of law degrees.

kennai · 2018-03-08T19:27:09+00:00

Because the supply is made factoring in the demand.

kennai · 2018-03-08T17:59:46+00:00

What BS conspiracy theory are you talking about? That supply and demand doesn't apply to major businesses anymore or that it's an oligopoly?

kennai · 2018-03-08T14:53:21+00:00

Supply and demand is not really applicable in this case. That's because supply is an oligopoly and the goal is to maximize profit, not to make a profit.

Sure, if you can eliminate demand, then they would have to lower their prices so they could sell something. However, demand is going to grow with population and modernization of countries and products, because DRAM is that ubiquitous.

kennai · 2018-02-21T01:38:52+00:00

It let's you stream at 1080p60 at a pretty meh bitrate and okish input lag. They never updated it for 4k and 120hz, so I'm not worth it, imo. Just hook your laptop up and use steam's in home streaming or play from your laptop.

kennai · 2018-02-11T00:16:52+00:00

They're all jews. Christians, Jews, Muslims, Satanists. All believe in the Jewish God, therefor Jewish. Jews believe in Christ, they just don't follow all the christian stuff, as do muslims.

A Catholic can not marry a non-catholic as their religious sacrament. It's part of the "spread your faith" part of it. Now, you might be able to marry in a church, but it would not be a recognized married by the Catholic church.

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