UltraTaco
Limp Gawd
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Pls help clarify, conflicting answers have been noticed. Thank you.
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Even though starting your car and holding max revs for days at a time is most likely not ideal for your car, somehow doing the equivalent to a computer isnt as bad
Remember when you couldnt even call an OC stable until it passed AT LEAST 24 hours straight of P95? This is like that, except everyone is just testing the factory clocks.
Mine wasn't designed for that use.....you can stuff it up your ass and its not an exploit.
GPU is designed for graphics processing, mining is not graphics processing. So I'd say it's unintended usage. I'm not sure the word "exploit" applies, though.
They have plenty of compute cards that are not called GPUs that are made specifically for compute purposes.
hung up on a word choice. mining is exploiting the compute functions. they were not designed for it, it was found that you could mine, now everyone wants free money....I went with the 2nd option although I don't feel like the word "exploit" is really a perfect match for what is going on.
Why is there an option in NVidia Control Panel called "Optimize for Compute Performance?"
Just because it *can* be used for compute does not mean the card was intended for mining. Again, there are compute cards designed to do nothing but compute. For a GPU it's a bonus.
I'm not arguing that you can't mine or run compute on a GPU, that would be silly. But it's clear they were not designed nor intended for mining in the first place.
Did you forget the /S?Yep, NVidia had no idea their cards would be used for mining. I would be surprised if anyone at NVidia even knows what cryptocurrency is. They're probably baffled as to why they're making so much money this year.
Yep, NVidia had no idea their cards would be used for mining. I would be surprised if anyone at NVidia even knows what cryptocurrency is. They're probably baffled as to why they're making so much money this year.
I was being sarcastic AF.Did you forget the /S?
Of course Nvidia knew their cards could mine, they probably figured that out before anyone. Jensen probably has a secret lair laden with leather jackets and GPU farms.
what are you on about? OP's bad grammer and spelling aside, its just a question about intended use of GPUs.
This is why cryptobros are a bit of a joke, you are all so thin skinned. If your making that much money, why does it matter if people on the net are complaining?
At the end of the day if you own it it is yours to do what you like with. Was mining an intended use, no, does that make it illegal, no. Once you own it, you can cram it up your ass as Specter stated, its yours to do as you wish.
well someone got upset over my post, which kinda proves the point.I got into it in another thread just before this one and had a few drinks in the meantime .
You mean gaming right?Not an exploit. It's basically just a colossal waste of electricity, hardware with the added bonus of causing waste, chip shortages, and coal pollution.
Considering there's many other applications outside of gaming that utilize and are optimized for GPU usage (video encoding/transcoding functions in Premier, Plex, VLC, etc.) and other distributed computing applications similar to mining (F@H), mining is just another valid form of utilizing the GPU. To disagree with that and say that GPUs shouldn't be used for mining, is to say that you shouldn't use the GPU for any of those other applications outside of gaming, and that is incredibly wasteful and inefficient. Which is why I disagree with Nvidia's manufacturing of mining-only CMP cards, as those cards could be used for gaming in addition to those other computational functions, creating more e-waste and less availablity of GPUs on the market for gamers to use, esp. after a crypto crash when miners are offloading GPUs and gamers could be getting deals on them and using them for their "intended" purpose.