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Pemalite on 19 February 2021
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haxxiy said:
Pemalite said:

Honestly shouldn't be hard to spoof what ever ID the silicon spits out and roll back the drivers and edit the bios.
Done a fair amount of BIOS editing in my past for GPU's (I.E. To unlock shader pipelines) and it's not as hard as people think.

The other way is to approach it from the other direction and trick the GPU into thinking it's not a mining workload.

Either way, I don't see this restriction actually stopping miners for any length of time, but it is good PR for nVidia...
Hopefully it will mean a slight relaxation on GPU supplies too, if for a short time.

It's going to be extremely hard to bypass because it's baked into the silicon and BIOS level from the start. You might as well try to hack the next generation consoles to mine... theoretically, that's just as feasible.

Now, I'm not sure to which extent the same setback is going to apply for the rumored future anti-mining versions of the RTX cards that are already released. But if Nvidia has an entire line of mining cards set to release for, presumably, juicier profits, I assume they have more on their sleeve than they're telling.

The BIOS and Driver isn't hard to bypass or crack or modify. PC gamers have been doing it for decades now. (Myself included.)
The silicon aspect is where things get interesting as we don't know what kind of scheme nVidia has cooked up here.

The older already-released cards will be driver only... And no one is ever forced to upgrade drivers.

There are plenty of ways to "trick" the GPU into thinking the workload isn't mining as well, making the handshake entirely redundant.

Captain_Yuri said:

Wow, this has to be one of the worst Blizzcons ever....

Not even Overwatch made it!

Diablo 2 remaster was definitely the highlight for me.


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