*gasp* You mean to say that Nvidia didn't actually care about gamers, made a weak attempt to make it look like they did and "unintentionally" released a "beta" of their drivers back during the original announcement so hashers who have never picked up a mining axe in their life could continue their combined two-front assult with scalpers against allowing people to relax at the end of their day?

"Wow, I never saw that happening!"
Said by no one ever. Lol.

Not a scam this time?

ExcuseMeWtfNot a scam this time?

nope this seems legit.

But f*uck nvidia seriously. They did nothing to get cards to gamers (atleast AMD sold reference models directly from their website) but now that prices are falling and cards are sitting on shelves they did a promo for their cards.

JAB Creations*gasp* You mean to say that Nvidia didn't actually care about gamers, made a weak attempt to make it look like they did and "unintentionally" released a "beta" of their drivers back during the original announcement so hashers who have never picked up a mining axe in their life could continue their combined two-front assult with scalpers against allowing people to relax at the end of their day?

To be fair, most of us didn't expect this lock to last so long. I agree with the rest.

ExcuseMeWtfNot a scam this time?

Nope, it actually works.

On the plus side; if you do own an LHR card, your card has now increased in value, like my RTX3070Ti, yay! Everyone says ETH 2.0 will go Proof-of-Stake, blah blah, but that isn't going to happen, they have said that since 2017 and besides, there are other coins to mine. Meaning when the new crypto boom does happen at the next Bitcoin Halving, these cards will again go up in value on the second-hand market, even now.

Legacy-ZANope, it actually works.

On the plus side; if you do own an LHR card, your card has now increased in value, like my RTX3070Ti, yay! Everyone says ETH 2.0 will go Proof-of-Stake, blah blah, but that isn't going to happen, they have said that since 2017 and besides, there are other coins to mine. Meaning when the new crypto boom does happen at the next Bitcoin Halving, these cards will again go up in value on the second-hand market, even now.

I haven't seen any LHR cards go up in price yet but that makes sense given the state of ETH mining. Price is dropping and difficulty keeps going up.

Sad there is no cure for this new cancer disease called Crypto.

Legacy-ZANope, it actually works.

On the plus side; if you do own an LHR card, your card has now increased in value, like my RTX3070Ti, yay! Everyone says ETH 2.0 will go Proof-of-Stake, blah blah, but that isn't going to happen, they have said that since 2017 and besides, there are other coins to mine. Meaning when the new crypto boom does happen at the next Bitcoin Halving, these cards will again go up in value on the second-hand market, even now.

Yeah, the switch just takes way too much time and I guess they don't really want to do it.

tinfoilhead says this is kinda sus,
now that they are trying to move the produced cards quickly before the next gen comes out, hence that disgusting sales thing earlier, and now suddenly its hacked......

Just when cards started to appear back on store shelves... :banghead: :cry:

Well crap.

I hope everyone enjoyed the near-MSRP prices, say goodbye to those opportunities, hello a return to scalping prices.

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DeathtoGnomesI hope everyone enjoyed the near-MSRP prices

Prices have gone down but they were still far from MSRP.

I tried my 3080 10GB, i didn't make any changes, just setup Nicehash and let it run. After about 10 minutes the hash rate went from around 55mh/s to around 65mh/s. I let it run for another 60 minutes and that's as high as it ever got.

Either I was doing something wrong (need to do a lot of tweaking) or....whatever. I don't really care. I was just curious if things actually worked like they said it would.

neatfeatguyI tried my 3080 10GB, i didn't make any changes, just setup Nicehash and let it run. After about 10 minutes the hash rate went from around 55mh/s to around 65mh/s. I let it run for another 60 minutes and that's as high as it ever got.

Either I was doing something wrong (need to do a lot of tweaking) or....whatever. I don't really care. I was just curious if things actually worked like they said it would.

From what I understand, you have to use the "Nicehash Quickminer" and you have to run it with admin privileges, same for the recently released NBMiner 41.0 that also unlocks the full mining potential. The RTX3070Ti gets around 79-81MH according to whattomine, so you should see way more.

Legacy-ZAFrom what I understand, you have to use the "Nicehash Quickminer" and you have to run it with admin privileges, same for the recently released NBMiner 41.0 that also unlocks the full mining potential. The RTX3070Ti gets around 79-81MH according to whattomine, so you should see way more.

I'm not at home to try again, but that's what I did last night. Downloaded the most recent release and just running the quickminer, it was using daggerhash, says unlocking LHR as it's running. Never exceeded 65mh.

I'm not looking to run my card 24/7 since I don't think it's really worth it, I was just curious if it was true. I find this stuff interesting to follow with mining and crypto, but I've never been much of a miner. Mined some zcash around 6 years ago and a little raptoreum, but that's been the extent of my mining experience.

neatfeatguyI'm not at home to try again, but that's what I did last night. Downloaded the most recent release and just running the quickminer, it was using daggerhash, says unlocking LHR as it's running. Never exceeded 65mh.

I'm not looking to run my card 24/7 since I don't think it's really worth it, I was just curious if it was true. I find this stuff interesting to follow with mining and crypto, but I've never been much of a miner. Mined some zcash around 6 years ago and a little raptoreum, but that's been the extent of my mining experience.

Try using the latest NBMiner, maybe that will work for you, I see a lot of people on r/EtherMining having success, gonna miss my trolling posts now that LHR is unlocked, but meh.

I am very tempted to try it on my ASUS RTX3070Ti, but, ASUS in their "infinite wisdom" decided to move the VRAM modules closer to the GPU on the RTX3070Ti, while still using the same cooler layout that can be found on the RTX3080/Ti, thus, the memory modules are not 100% aligned with the heatsink, half of the VRAM chips are not covered with thermal pads and make no contact with the heatsink, temps are still good though, but I won't risk it.

We don't have a "right to self-repair" law in South-Africa, so, if I remove my warranty sticker and later down the line the card gets damaged, I won't be able to use my warranty. This is annoying and ironic because if I do re-pad on my GPU, the components will last longer. I read you can drop your VRAM temps by up to 15 Degree Celcius. I so love to tinker, I wanna do it, I wanna do it, but but but... *sigh*

TheDeeGeeSad there is no cure for this new cancer disease called Crypto.

There is, it's just governments of the first world nations have become so corrupted from lobbyists we no longer live in a world for the people by the people, just as Socrates and Plato predicted would become of Democracy.

Tomorrownope this seems legit.

But f*uck nvidia seriously. They did nothing to get cards to gamers (atleast AMD sold reference models directly from their website) but now that prices are falling and cards are sitting on shelves they did a promo for their cards.

Just to comment on this Nvidia FE sold from their website at MSRP with heavy purchase restrictions, far heavier than any retailer done, whilst AMD in UK is AIB only.

In UK more than half of amperes in a poll of owners were FE.

chrcolukJust to comment on this Nvidia FE sold from their website at MSRP with heavy purchase restrictions, far heavier than any retailer done, whilst AMD in UK is AIB only.

In UK more than half of amperes in a poll of owners were FE.

Nvidia never sold MSRP direct cards, not for years now, they go through Best Buy in America, only a 14 day return policy with Best Buy as well if anything goes wrong, AMD direct offers 30 day returns...

We can do this all day lad...

chrcolukJust to comment on this Nvidia FE sold from their website at MSRP with heavy purchase restrictions, far heavier than any retailer done, whilst AMD in UK is AIB only.

In UK more than half of amperes in a poll of owners were FE.

From what i remember Nvidia removed direct sales from their website sometime during the boom and even in the US it was handled trough BestBuy. Seeing FE cards in Europe was even more uncommon as time went on. I very much doubt in the results of this poll as FE was never a high volume product.

Tomorrownope this seems legit.

But f*uck nvidia seriously. They did nothing to get cards to gamers (atleast AMD sold reference models directly from their website) but now that prices are falling and cards are sitting on shelves they did a promo for their cards.

Yes, but also no. I literally bought 3 founders edition cards at msrp through the German retailer, when I really wanted to get an AMD... never had a chance.

You don't need Nicehash anymore.
They weren't the first with the original LHR unlock either. I thought it was MiniZ.

CallandorWoTNvidia never sold MSRP direct cards, not for years now, they go through Best Buy in America, only a 14 day return policy with Best Buy as well if anything goes wrong, AMD direct offers 30 day returns...

We can do this all day lad...

They sold by an authorised retailer but Nvidia controls the access to buy the product, so to order you have to click buy on Nvidia's own website for a authorisation link, they also impose restrictions on the retailer to stick to MSRP and prevent people buying more than one card at same address or payment card.

Not sure why you want to pretend Nvidia dont sell at MSRP, but it is what it is, and in the UK they have handled it far better than AMD who have only sold over priced AIB cards here.

You are right though that Nvidia dont handle the full transaction, you have to start the order process through them and they control the retailer's management, but the retailer processes the payment and ships it. so I am not disagreeing with you on that. :)

TomorrowFrom what i remember Nvidia removed direct sales from their website sometime during the boom and even in the US it was handled trough BestBuy. Seeing FE cards in Europe was even more uncommon as time went on. I very much doubt in the results of this poll as FE was never a high volume product.

Check overclockers uk forum, there is the poll, and the FE thread is massive with people posting every time they successfully get a FE card on a FE drop. There is also telegram and discord servers that announce FE card drops in europe. The proportion of FE to AIB seems much better in Europe as the AIB seems to pushing the bulk of their supply to America, e.g. its practically impossible to get an EVGA card here.

Overclocker's itself is a uk retailer, they realised the AIB stock situation was so bad they let the thread continue as well to help people get Ampere cards, so yes FE owners in the UK are quite a big % of gamers.

Nvidia on average have been doing restocks every 2-4 weeks since Ampere started.

There is also a thread on the forum where OCUK retail staff were posting updates about AIB stock deliveries, two of the AIB delivered ZERO for over 3 months.

Granted I do accept the situation is much different in America, now days things are done regionally so can be huge variances.



Thats the screenshot, you guys wont see this as the website checks region of IP accessing it.

The top one is the FE, note it says £649 which is MSRP and out of stock as thats an actual buy link when in stock, whilst the others that say check availability are AIB's sold at third parties like Amazon etc. The order link is randomised on every drop, so you can never get to it direct from the authorised retailer, you have to click buy on Nvidia store page to be forwarded and beat a high level captcha game as well. Us UK peeps have been very grateful for Nvidia's handling of the FE as not only have they honoured the MSRP but also the very strict order process has made it as hard as possible for scalpers.