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How does this solve anything? They're still making "CMPs" for mining. The silicon is still the same. The card still needs to be produced the same way.

They're only saving a few dollars off the BOM on the HDMI/DisplayPort connectors.

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It's rather hard to resell these cards, so this is clearly better for nVidia. (not so good for everyone else)

Good for people who can't buy these cards because of miners.

Neeh. This will lead to far more junk down the road once ETH goes PoS. It's just anti consumer all the way masked as consumer protection. They should just produce more cards, but they are afraid current sales will eat into future sales _heavily_.

How are they supposed to just increase production right now? There's silicon shortages across most industries. In theory, lowering demand by limiting crypto mining efficiency should help give more people access to these cards.

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