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Re:Notice of Stolen EVGA GeForce RTX 30-Series Graphics Cards by Strom on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @07:00PM (#29101614)
Two reasons why this won't work:

1) The GPU probably already comes with a driver CD that can't have this serial number marked as stolen.

2) Even if you use a downloaded driver, you can just use the last version that didn't contain the serial.

You'll be left out of future driver updates, but that is of no concern to miners.

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Re:Notice of Stolen EVGA GeForce RTX 30-Series Graphics Cards by hn_throwaway_69 on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @11:50PM (#29103531)
At least in theory, Windows Update would be used to force an upgrade to the newest driver. Which in turn could implement serial number blocking.
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Re:Notice of Stolen EVGA GeForce RTX 30-Series Graphics Cards by code_duck on Thursday November 04, 2021 @03:17AM (#29104271)
My recent GPU did not come with any sort of CD. They expect you to get drivers from the internet.
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Re:Notice of Stolen EVGA GeForce RTX 30-Series Graphics Cards by google234123 on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @07:32PM (#29101900)
A serial number is independent of the driver while the past drivers could have a network check.
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Re:Notice of Stolen EVGA GeForce RTX 30-Series Graphics Cards by rappatic on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @07:47PM (#29102026)
Personally I wouldn't love if my drivers phoned home to get the serial numbers of stolen cards.
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Re:Notice of Stolen EVGA GeForce RTX 30-Series Graphics Cards by AshamedCaptain on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @08:51PM (#29102483)
And yet I would bet they already do phone home and send shittons of information.

But to use that to self destroy if stoken or the like would likely generate way too much negative PR to nvidia and bring unwanted attention, so they wont.

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Re:Notice of Stolen EVGA GeForce RTX 30-Series Graphics Cards by TheDong on Thursday November 04, 2021 @02:10AM (#29104003)
I know for a fact my drivers do not phone home. The only GPU driver I've used for years is the one that comes in the linux kernel. It's open source, I haven't read all the code, but I know I could and I know the developers wouldn't be phoning home.

I'd bet a large number of linux users are in this situation since nouveau (nvidia), intel, and amdgpu drivers all exist in the linux kernel and work well.

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Re:Notice of Stolen EVGA GeForce RTX 30-Series Graphics Cards by AshamedCaptain on Thursday November 04, 2021 @08:42AM (#29106411)
I'd also bet that whoever buys this type of nuclear-powered graphics card does not plan to use a driver that will not allow 3D gaming or bitcoin mining.
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