By: James (no.delete@this.thanks.invalid), September 24, 2021 1:34 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
Captain Obvious (lost.delete@this.in.a.cave) on September 23, 2021 11:30 am wrote:
> Except that when nvidia wants to "cripple their own chips", they typically do it (like anybody else)
> in a way that prevents you from unlocking the thing back (virtualization is an exception). Don't
> tell me miners are going to have any difficulty locating an old driver and installing it.
You're missing one key step: "and have the old drivers work with the new chip". As I understand it, all the drivers that supported the new model were supposed to have the limit in place. Certainly the excitement when Nvidia (presumably) slipped up and released a beta driver with the limit removed suggests that a large part of the market hadn't found a way around the limit.
> Except that when nvidia wants to "cripple their own chips", they typically do it (like anybody else)
> in a way that prevents you from unlocking the thing back (virtualization is an exception). Don't
> tell me miners are going to have any difficulty locating an old driver and installing it.
You're missing one key step: "and have the old drivers work with the new chip". As I understand it, all the drivers that supported the new model were supposed to have the limit in place. Certainly the excitement when Nvidia (presumably) slipped up and released a beta driver with the limit removed suggests that a large part of the market hadn't found a way around the limit.
