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NVIDIA RTX 50 SERIES - Technical/General Discussion

Rawr said:
Eh, nah, that's not actually the real story. They shut subscriptions because they've been forced to migrate their payment processing due to digital river shutting down. Apparently everyone who was signed up before they took it down is getting free Geforce Now for like a month+ until they complete the swap. Wish I'd have known so I could have bought some subscription time before, haha.
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Fair enough, not seen that on their website when I checked today, but maybe it's some small print somewhere there.
 
Am I wrong or is there a little bit of the below sentiment here... esp the folks who didn't manage to successfully pre-order a 5090...

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Esp folks who sold off their 4090s too early before securing a 5090 for sure.
 
Sin_Chase said:
You need to use an API to get stock drop alerts. If you are relying on manual refreshing you are unlikely to succeed.

I ordered almost an hour after launch via an API and got an FE. I was hoping to get an AIB then 45 minutes later saw that there was 0 stock of AIB cards so casually tried for an FE. I didn't even rush through the checkout. I only made sure that all my address, card details etc were available in Firefox autofill and my bank transaction 2FA was to hand to use ASAP.
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Save anyone else having to hunt it down.

 
Adrian1976 said:
Why? Power limited and ran far cooler than it did while gaming.

And you know as the saying goes if you can't beat em join em and that's for Nvidia for ripping us off for god knows how many years.
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Because a GPU setup and undervolted and power limited for mining is still running 24/7. It rarely ever hits idle and very likely had significant constant load on the VRAM chips, was run at constant fan speed, constant power draw and temperatures for many months on end. A gaming GPU will hit higher temperatures for a few hours every night or two at most and will be powered off and or idle for the significant majority of the time.

Setting a power limit means nothing IF you are one of those typical miners who also set a large VRAM overlock. Your mining GPU chip may not have been at full utilisation for potentially months on end, but your VRAM was.

So while your typical miner may believe this “myth” that an undervolted and power limited mining GPU is “well looked after”. The rest of us just roll our eyes out loud and laugh at the utter ignorance of such a statement.

That’s not to say a mining GPU is a massive risk of failure, but it does have a higher risk of failure.
 
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Dave2150 said:
It's really bizarre. I can't think of any other product where so many feel the need to judge and criticize the purchasing choices of others.
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Paying well above MSRP is enabling scalping, whether its retailers or resellers doing it the end user is the one whose losing out.
 
ICDP said:
Because a GPU setup and undervolted and power limited for mining is still running 24/7. It rarely ever hits idle and very likely had significant constant load on the VRAM chips, was run at constant fan speed, constant power draw and temperatures for many months on end. A gaming GPU will hit higher temperatures for a few hours every night or two at most and will be powered off and or idle for the significant majority of the time.

Setting a power limit means nothing IF you are one of those typical miners who also set a large VRAM overlock. Your mining GPU chip may not have been at full utilisation for potentially months on end, but your VRAM was.

So while your typical miner may believe this “myth” that an undervolted and power limited mining GPU is “well looked after”. The rest of us just roll our eyes out loud and laugh at the utter ignorance of such a statement.

That’s not to say a mining GPU is a massive risk of failure, but it does have a higher risk of failure.
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I mined on my 3080, it still works now, its just been moved in to my sons PC, aswell as my 2080ti, just been moved from sons to daughters PC, also still works
one of my old 1060's I gave to a friend, also still works

the bitcoins I mined on them, now worth considerably more than any GPU lol
 
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Well great for you, now show me where I said mining GPUs will fail, rather than just more likely to fail. As such someone buying (you know with real money and not gifted) are perfectly reasonable to decide it is not worth the increased risk.
 
ICDP said:
Well great for you, now show me where I said mining GPUs will fail, rather than just more likely to fail. As such someone buying (you know with real money and not gifted) are perfectly reasonable to decide it is not worth the increased risk.
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Because for it to be a realistic concern then at least one of the 20 or so mined on GPU's that I know of should have failed. Any card bought 2nd hand can be overclocked and mistreated, it's not mining specifically that does it.

What's the real money not gifted thing about?
 
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