Quote from: Morgahl on February 12, 2014, 08:06:58 PM

Quote from: Wipeout2097 on February 12, 2014, 06:25:49 PM

Quote from: cbuchner1 on February 12, 2014, 05:36:21 PM

Anyone here in my thread mining not just for fun, but seriously for profit as well? Having a farms of AMD cards in your garage or basement?

nVidia is looking to get in touch with miners to interview them about their expectations for mining related products. Just be aware that you would be helping nVidia with your information and not your favorite GPU manufacturer AMD Wink

PM me with a brief summary of what you're mining and how and I can get you in touch.

If nVidia is really looking to miners, please tell them to get drama out of the way.

Nobody here fundamentally cares about marketing, drama, fanboyism, "favorite GPU manufacturers", divide and conquer to put people into camps and everything Nvidia is used to. I could go on saying that yes, so does AMD and Intel, Ubuntu vs Windows is equally idiotic and much more. The fact that "so do others", does not invalidate the point.

Coin mining is not about NVidia, PC gaming or Ubuntu. What matters is the point of view of the miner: ROI, hassle-free, getting out of the way, etc... I will buy Nvidia devices if it's the best for me, not for them.

Your last points here are exactly what they would want to hear from you and are probably the entire basis of this attempt to reach out in general.

It would let them decide if an update to CUDA 4.0+ would be the best approach or if they should look into more miner specific hardware designs tha can retain a level of flexibility to run different algo's.

Your concerns mentioned earlier are worth mentioning to them as well. They are valid points and can really assist NVidia in marketing this in a manner best for all miners. That said, there IS going to have to be a "Look what we can do!!" approach to things... if they don't do it no seriously invested miner is going to take them seriously. This means you WILL see an "NVidia is better campaign" it's inevitable when entering a market you are not a big player in yet.

Yes, of course there is going to be a "the way it is supposed to be mined" campaign and they want to be profitable shovel sellers. However I expect to pay for substance, not for marketing.