Finally Someone Decided To Do Something About Miners

[Shreyas1]

14 hours ago, Zodiark1593 said:

Thankfully, Nvidia is much more interesting in keeping CUDA going.

Who's to say the mining cards won't have CUDA. Nvidia might just rebrand the cards they have now then

[Ithanul]

17 hours ago, Jito463 said:

That's not terribly surprising, given that the Titan cards are geared more towards professional (or at least "prosumer") use, so it's not like running heavy compute loads would be antithetical to its intended purpose.  While it's often advertised for gaming, and many people buy them for gaming, Nvidia themselves have stated that they're not actually gaming cards.

True the Titans are suppose to be prosumer.  Though, EVGA gives that warranty policy to all their cards.

Would kind of suck if a company like EVGA starts restricting the warranty to just that one section of GPUs.  Ugh, I would not like to drop a grand plus on one card, especially considering the Tis are near similar to the Titans in Folding and BOINC.

[Zodiark1593]

51 minutes ago, Shreyas1 said:

Who's to say the mining cards won't have CUDA. Nvidia might just rebrand the cards they have now then

At the moment, CUDA is in Nvidia's entire product stack, and has been since the 8800 GTX. Whose to say that Nvidia will change that anytime soon (if ever).

 

Even on the gaming cards, CUDA is advertised pretty heavily, meaning that it was an intended feature for gaming/consumer cards as well and not just restricted to workstation cards.

[JCBiggs]

why do you have a problem with mining?  they have rights just like you do. if they want to buy a card and use it for cooking eggs, thats their business.  if you mad cuz they driving the price up and you cant afford it... well to bad son.. supply and demand. get your money right and stop beating your gums complaining. 

 

[PocketNerd]

On 8/25/2017 at 11:34 AM, Ben Quigley said:

I guess you haven't folded in a while? Folding at home just like mining has mostly moved over to GPU useage these days. 

Huh... you'd be correct in your assessment. I knew mining was directed at the GPU but last I had checked folding was CPU.

The more you know!

[GOTSpectrum]

6 minutes ago, PocketNerd said:

Huh... you'd be correct in your assessment. I knew mining was directed at the GPU but last I had checked folding was CPU.

The more you know!

Yeah, I agree. You'd be surprised at the PPD achievable these days. I've heard GTX 1080tis getting over a million PPDs. 

[Lewellyn]

On 8/25/2017 at 9:44 AM, pas008 said:

read my other statements

heres the tdlr

supply and demand

miners are customers too

you arent entitled to shit

quit crying about miners

blame amd/nvidia

what people do with their gpus are none of your business

Miners aren't entitled to RMA's

[Lewellyn]

On 8/25/2017 at 11:13 AM, dizmo said:

not the people using abusing their contractual rights

 

[dizmo]

47 minutes ago, ThatGuyWhoTwirlsHisPen said:

not the people using abusing their contractual rights

It's not abuse if they don't outline it in their warranty. Warranty write ups are long, and this isn't the first time mining has been wide spread. If they wanted to, they could have written it in. They didn't. Therefore, it's covered.

[rn8686]

1 hour ago, ThatGuyWhoTwirlsHisPen said:

Miners aren't entitled to RMA's

How arent they? If a component fails when it shouldn't within contract, that is the fault of the company. You cant void warranty for an intended use (Compute is an intended use). 

[Drak3]

50 minutes ago, ThatGuyWhoTwirlsHisPen said:

 

Putting a GPU under 100% load after taking steps to reduce power consumption and heat output isn't abuse. That IS one purpose for these highly parallelized processors.

Believe it or not, a GTX and a Quadro differ only by driver and firmware validation, driver and firmware stack, VRAM capacity and type, clockspeed, and the lockout of 3rd party cooling on Quadro.

Nothing differentiates their capability of 24/7 loads.

 

Nada. Zilch.

 

 

Only cards that really stand to die from mining more so than gaming are inferior product.