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Mining may void warranty on Inno3D GPUs

I suspect sooner or later you'll have to buy professional cards for compute, gaming GPU's today aren't really built for 'extreme' loads and they're generally clocked/volted to the limit (particularly in AMD's case) to provide the highest possible game performance. In terms of load mining lies somewhere between games and apps like Furmark, cooling and VRM's are put under more stress than gaming and it's 24/7. I said this when people were arguing that things like Furmark were 'power viruses' but the problem is not really the app itself or what it does it's the fact that GPU's are being clocked to the limit for 'light' gaming loads. If they were designed around worst case scenarios (ie. theoretical max load, Furmark type loads) benchmarks obviously wouldn't be as impressive but you'd have a far more robust graphics card.
 
My car has a use based warranty. 3 years or 60,000 miles.

My SLR has a click count so that the manufacturer or other buyers have an idea of total use.

If mining continues long term cards will have chips on that monitor use. Which is a good thing. My 1080ti gets used a few hours a week for gaming and when someone buys it from me for 500 quid they should be reassured of that.
 
And to continue that analogy furmark is like sitting in neutral bouncing off the Rev limiter for all day just to see what happens :)
 
ver01@ said:
As long as the warranty is transferable. Evga does this but what about other manufacturers?
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I'm just going through this process with a Gigabyte card:

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As it happens the card is out of warranty (I didn't know that until tonight), so I can't update with how Gigabyte deal with it. However, I'm a bit dubious as to how much effort or money Gigabyte would invest when they could just deem the card unable to be repaired.

To my knowledge, EVGA are the only manufacturer with a solid policy of transferable warranty. This is why I try to buy only EVGA when it comes to GPU's.
 
that threat isn't worth the sticker it's printed on. Not in any jurisdiction would a rejection of warranty be upheld, not that they could prove use unless the purchaser was a company called crypto's r us and even then it'd be fraught.
 
Geck0 said:
that threat isn't worth the sticker it's printed on. Not in any jurisdiction would a rejection of warranty be upheld, not that they could prove use unless the purchaser was a company called crypto's r us and even then it'd be fraught.
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This, a manufacturer can say what they want, but it does not override the law in each country.
 
Psycho Sonny said:
Why not? They are run at very low power draw and clocks it's the memory that counts.

It's likely had an easier life than that of a gamer that overclocked it
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Bought 2 ex mining 1070's for the cost of one new one. Wouldn't have done so without a receipt. At least I know the cards were abused for 3 months only ;)
 
ver01@ said:
Bought 2 ex mining 1070's for the cost of one new one. Wouldn't have done so without a receipt. At least I know the cards were abused for 3 months only ;)
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Where they upgrading to more powerful options or getting out of mining?

Because the 1070 is the most efficient miner in terms of everything, cost, power, electricity usage and heat produced. Odd to do so after 3 months
 
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