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NVIDIA doesn't care about you they don't care about gamers and they don't care

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about the environment the truth of the matter is that to basically any company

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that's beholden to its shareholders you are nothing more than a living wallet on

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legs if you imagine it any other way then congratulations

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you played yourself no while NVIDIA employs some very good

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people talented engineers passionate gamers

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the top priority for NVIDIA the company is their stock price and the move they

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just made demonstrates this perfectly i'm talking of course about the launch

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of their cmp or cryptocurrency mining

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processor a product NVIDIA claims was inspired by their obsession with gaming

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yeah i don't think that's going to be hard to debunk so let's get started

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for the uninitiated this isn't the first time NVIDIA has created a product

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specifically for cryptocurrency mining remember the gp 106 that we gamed on

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using a hacked driver back in 2019 that was basically the same idea it was a gtx

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1060 but with a cheap cooler no display outputs and a locked down driver that

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served only to ensure that once its usefulness as a mining card had run its

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course no gamer could ever enjoy it the

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difference is that last time the program was run quietly through board partners

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and then just as quietly faded into the shadows when crypto crashed in 2018

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it was that crash along with unexceptional performance that meant

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that miners didn't care about the rtx 20 series so we got an entire generation of

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relatively sane pricing and availability we thought the worst of it was over we

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were wrong now GPU mining gets a full fat products page on NVIDIA.com and a

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blog post announcing new cards dedicated to it if you want a good laugh you can

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go ahead and read the blog post but here's the highlights starting with the

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upcoming rtx 3060 g-force cards will be

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locked to deliver only half of their true hash rate in cryptocurrency mining

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operations cmp cards by contrast will be fully

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unlocked NVIDIA then goes on to talk about what a win this is for gamers

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because crypto miners will certainly find no way around the unhackable driver

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that limits performance on what will probably be their best selling GPU of

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the generation but we've got a problem here that is

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aside from a software lock being unbeatable NVIDIA's claim that they care

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who buys their gpus they are still gpus by the way they are not cmps are just

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words let's look instead at NVIDIA's actions if they really didn't want

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miners buying these things like for realsies they would have just left it at

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a driver block and sold the chips exclusively to gamers under the GeForce

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banner but no within the perfect storm we find ourselves in what with the

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global chip shortage scalpers and bots with nothing better to do and a mining

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boom thanks to surging cryptocurrency prices what clearly happened is NVIDIA spotted

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an opportunity for profit first and then came up with a story later to make it

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look like they're doing something to improve the situation for gamers

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here's a couple of holes we can easily poke in NVIDIA's story

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number one silicon production is finite so every

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mining GPU they make has the potential to be a gaming GPU that they didn't make

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number two these gpus will have practically zero value in the second

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hand market depriving future gamers of what otherwise might be a great deal on

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ebay a couple years down the road this accelerates the race at which these

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cards will turn into worthless e-waste let's go into these in more depth then

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we are in the midst of a worldwide silicon shortage that is so severe that

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even car manufacturers are suffering let that sink in for a second

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car manufacturers are having trouble keeping up with their production because

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they can't get chips and yet NVIDIA claims to be doing gamers a solid by

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setting aside a stash specifically for a task that they'll become obsolete for as

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soon as the next crypto slump we reached out to NVIDIA about this and their

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response was that these new gpus will in no way impact GeForce production because

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cmp gpus are optimized for mining and

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don't meet the g4 specification anyway

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well that actually sounds okay in theory but

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how can we know that history has taught us time and time

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again that even products that were specifically created to make some kind

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of use out of silicon that otherwise wouldn't have made the cut

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eventually because of demand will get filled with otherwise fully functioning

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silicon i mean just look at AMD's triple core cpus from back in the phenom days

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within a matter of months practically all of them were unlockable with a BIOS

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hack to quad core and heck we even did a

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video about an NVIDIA product that could be unlocked the MSI GeForce gtx 465 twin

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frozer2 golden edition that's a mouthful could actually be turned into a gtx 470

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with a simple BIOS mod the success rate for those wondering i flashed over 100

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of them personally was about 75 now the reason for this phenomenon is

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that as manufacturing matures the number of defective samples actually drops and

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eventually in order to keep making your value products you need to start

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artificially cutting down your premium ones

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so for that reason even if we take NVIDIA's word for it 100 percent that no

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GeForce gpus are going to go into cmp cards it's a foregone conclusion that

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good gpus will end up in these mining cards eventually

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and that's not even considering the fact that in simpler times these

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semi-defective gpus probably would have ended up in a cheaper ko sku or

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something like that that would have benefited gamers

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rather than participating in environmentally devastating levels of energy consumption in the pursuit of

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free cash bringing us to point number two these gpus will never make it into

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gamers hands no matter what compromises gamers would have been willing to accept

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i mean it's pretty unrealistic to think that another gp 106 like driver hack is

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going to delay their trip to the landfill and furthermore i think given the

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literal billions of dollars at play here it's far more likely that a driver mod

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to bypass the hash rate restrictions on GeForce products or some other kind of

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work from the crypto community to make hashing on them harder to detect will

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happen and all cmp is going to do is guaranteed GPU supply for miners

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which at the end of the day is just fine by NVIDIA because the fewer low-cost

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alternatives exist for consumers the more likely it is that people will go

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buy a shiny new GPU rather than look to facebook marketplace or to craigslist

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because don't kid yourself NVIDIA remembers what happened with the rtx 20

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series launch the recommendation from most reviewers including us by the way

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was to ignore rtx 20 series and just go buy a used gtx 1080 or 1080 ti instead

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and there were plenty of used 10 series gpus to be found because of

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that's right the crypto boom and bust that had just occurred but Linus you

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might say no gamer wants a crypto card anyway it's

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all worn out well that's where you're only sort of right i mean yeah some of

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them died of course but many of the cards that were mined on for years still

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had plenty of life left in them because most knowledgeable mining operators

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actually undervolt the cards both to reduce their heat output and to reduce

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their power consumption so NVIDIA is actually playing a pretty

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clever game here covering their bottom line both today and tomorrow by ensuring

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that when this mining boom ends which it inevitably will these cards don't end up

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flooding the secondhand market and incentivizing people to buy used which

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leads us to the subject of the predictable final resting place for

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these cards the landfill with no way to recoup some of their cost

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by selling their used cards the best possible outcome is that crypto miners

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will send them to an electronics recycler but here's a dirty little secret

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very little actually gets recycled from a product like this i mean even if you

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could economically pull all the gold and other precious metals from a fully

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manufactured product like this and by all accounts you realistically can't

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you're still left with a pile of ceramics pcbs and plastics that aren't

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going anywhere anytime soon the problem of e-waste and the wider environmental

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impact of the tech industry has been growing for long enough that we are now

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rightly scrutinizing companies for things as small as single-use plastics

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packaging but before you get upset steve and i love

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gaming just as much as you do we're not saying that you need to feel bad for

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enjoying your life and stop buying video cards altogether we're just saying that

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of the three r's reduce and reuse come

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before recycle for a good reason and NVIDIA is intentionally ignoring both of

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them these are single-use gpus designed to be

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discarded this is 100 a move by NVIDIA to cover their own asses and there are

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zero facts given about gamers no matter how hard they scream that their focus is

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g-force the p106 100 changed absolutely nothing

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about the short supply last time and it won't change anything today NVIDIA is

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not your friend and you shouldn't defend this bull the good news though is that

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i'm going to tell NVIDIA right here and now how to fix this for gamers

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let's see if they do it NVIDIA you need to unlock the 3060 driver and hold on

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i'm sure someone is going to throw this up on r slash unpopular hot takes or

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whatever but gamers think about the bigger picture

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here for a second we just explained to you how

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realistically crypto miner is going to crypto mine it's not gonna have any

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impact on pricing or availability today and at least it ensures that as crypto

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falls and miners start losing money and liquidating their assets patient gamers

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will reap a veritable bounty of cheap GPU attendees so diamond hands gamers

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diamond hands not that it matters anyway because the truth is NVIDIA is too

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greedy arrogant or both to actually do it that's probably a separate video

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maybe have a look at the one we did actually gaming on that previous p106

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mining card it demonstrates pretty well why we are so upset about these

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arbitrary and artificial restrictions i shouldn't say arbitrary it's not

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arbitrary it's got a clear it's got a clear intent