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WoodenPints said:

JEMC said:

If anyone needs a(nother) reason to hate Zotac, here you have it:

ZOTAC publically endorsing GPU mining farm, tags it #PcGaming
https://videocardz.com/newz/zotac-publically-endorsing-gpu-mining-farm-tags-it-pcgaming
ZOTAC appears to be switching its business to a mining supplier. On Twitter, the company has published a photo showing a mining rig featuring GeForce RTX 3070 Twin Edge graphics cards. The company even had the audacity to tag the photo #PcGaming, as if this setup had anything to do with gaming. This all happens at the same time as ZOTAC graphics cards are nowhere to be found at MSRP.

I hope Nvidia cuts their chips supply in half, f*cking b*stards.

Nvidia don't care about AIB partners selling massively above MSRP or legit retailers "scalping" consumers by adding a further £100 onto the cards so I can't see then caring one bit about AIB partners supplying Miners instead of gamers. It's sad but until some other tech can mine faster than GPU's were are stuck in a world where millions of cards are sat in server farms doing nothing but waste electric.

I know that Nvidia "doesn't care" who gets their cards, but they do care about their brand image and the PR consequences of this move from Zotac. After all, Nvidia has publicly complained about the problems that mining is causing (another thing is what they think or say in private, probably happy to be able to sell every single chip they make. Same for AMD), and so if now they don't do anything, the pointing fingers will go from Zotac to them, and Nvidia doesn't want to be seen as the bad guys here.

Because of this, I expect Nvidia will come out and say something about this, even if it's a lot of nothing like "we'll revise our agreement with our partners to make sure that supply goes to our primary consumers, the gaming community" or something similar.