So now you might say "oh, so it only affect defective chips", but all chips have small defects, if you look at pictures of silicon traces they are not clean and straight lines, but more like crayon drawings that is somewhat straight, but full of jagged edges. It's like if you take a commuter car rally racing, small issues that don't matter before will now wreck you. So the real question is, does mining "kills" GPU so much that the GPU will die within a few months? Theoretically no, but practically many cards with small defects will die way earlier due to constant stress, and those defect will probably never rear their ugly head if the card is only used for regular gaming. Hell, even if you just box a card up the capacitors and resistors deteriorates naturally. It takes years to design those chips, back when Pascal (and probably Volta) was designed mining isn't even a thing.īut again, everything "kills" GPU, if you use a chip you decrease its lifespan, even gaming. The fact that mining tools run on CUDA doesn't mean anything, CUDA is not some kind of magical "safe" language that doesn't stress GPUs.Īgain, certain part of the GPU die is not designed to be fully utilized for extended period of time, because gaming usage doesn't hit those die areas heavily Nvidia engineers didn't test and account for those type of usages. Some things you can't protect against, doesn't mean it's within design parameters. And I 100% stand behind this sticker and hope it denies at least a few fuckheads warranty work on their dead GPUs. This is exactly the same thing as those "warranty void if removed" stickers OEMs put on screws you need to remove to take off the cooling components from the GPU. All they can do is just ask "was this card used for mining?" and if the person is dumb enough to say yes, whoop whoop you just invalidated your warranty. The problem is there's no way for them to verify if a card was used for mining or not. When some fuckhead mines on his GPU 24/7, the chip is more likely to die a premature death. Warranties are built around these standard gamer use cases. They mean it because people mining are putting a substantial load on the GPU that your average gamer, who these cards are actually meant for, will need 3 years of typical usage to match what a miner can do in a couple months. They genuinely mean it and not for public relations. Everyone saying this is a PR stunt, wrong.
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