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Re:AMD refuses to limit cryptocurrency mining: We will not b... by Shared404 on Saturday March 20, 2021 @02:39PM (#26525060)
My understanding is that Nvidia's move was universally condemned.

AMD's just taking advantage of Nvidia's blunder.

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Re:AMD refuses to limit cryptocurrency mining: We will not b... by ttt0 on Saturday March 20, 2021 @03:27PM (#26525453)
Until today I was convinced that not breaking your products was just an industry standard.
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Re:AMD refuses to limit cryptocurrency mining: We will not b... by rrss on Saturday March 20, 2021 @03:56PM (#26525673)
nope, hardware vendors have been introducing artificial restrictions in some products for market segmentation for decades

e.g. ECC support in CPUs, mods to turn radeon into firegl / geforce into quadro, fused off cores

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Re:AMD refuses to limit cryptocurrency mining: We will not b... by mancerayder on Saturday March 20, 2021 @04:28PM (#26525861)
486 DX versus SX, wasn't it? That was my childhood intro.
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Re:AMD refuses to limit cryptocurrency mining: We will not b... by seaourfreed on Saturday March 20, 2021 @06:18PM (#26526457)
Why did Nvidia work to block crypto mining on their video cards? (I don't buy "because gamers couldn't buy them")

Can someone explain why they think nvidia really did this?

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Re:AMD refuses to limit cryptocurrency mining: We will not b... by proce55ing on Saturday March 20, 2021 @06:22PM (#26526493)
The cards that have access to mining lack a video output. Once they become unprofitable to mine with they won’t impact the gaming market on resale.
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