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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Number 9! Ninth altcoin thread. Back to the moon Baby!
by
vapourminer
on 02/05/2021, 02:54:58 UTC
So I read an article last night, saying that Nvidia was re-nerfing the 3060's.  I hadn't followed this super closely since none were available to buy, but I think my understanding was this:
 - They came from the factory nerfed for mining.
 - They accidently released a driver update that didn't have the nerfification applied, and tried to retract it, but ooops, too late - it's out in the wild and everybody downloaded it to bypass the nerf. 
 - Now they plan to release all new GPUs with another update that re-nerfs the boards. 

So my question is, can we all still just re apply that accidental driver update to bypass again?  I know nothing of modding or updating GPUs yet, I'm not messing with the rig I bought unless I have to.  Just leaving everything running as is.  But I am curious for these future boards.  Will we be able to override them?


seems like they will prevent that. heres an article from anandtech explaining it. a small quote below.


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In short, NVIDIA has tweaked future RTX 3060 cards to require this driver (or newer), which will prevent them from using older drivers that can bypass NVIDIA’s hash limiter. As a result, RTX 3060 cards shipping starting in mid-May will once again be fully locked down against running Ethereum at full (native) speed.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16648/nvidia-updates-geforce-rtx-3060-ethereum-throttle-updated-drivers-required-for-future-3060s