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Seeing as how it's "a thing" to buy pre-built PCs and "harvest" the advanced GPUs that come in them, and re-sell/discard the pre-built PCs...
What if, like the mining limiter, NVidia work with mobo vendors, to include some sort of "key string" in the mainboard's BIOS, that acts like a "key" to "unlock" the GPU, and that GPUs would be "paired / locked" to the mainboard in question, such that... if separated, they would no longer function, or the mainboard would only function with whatever iGPU it had, and would not function with another GPU, nor would that other GPU that was separated, function on it's own in another system.
Scary thought, isn't it.
NVidia, for their part, could claim that this is part of their "pro-gamer / anti-mining" initiatives, to prevent "gamers" from losing GPUs from "gaming" pre-builts, to miners just trying to accumulate GPUs.
I think that vendors would go along with it, too, such that it would prevent re-sale of individual GPUs and individual PCs sans GPUs.
What if, like the mining limiter, NVidia work with mobo vendors, to include some sort of "key string" in the mainboard's BIOS, that acts like a "key" to "unlock" the GPU, and that GPUs would be "paired / locked" to the mainboard in question, such that... if separated, they would no longer function, or the mainboard would only function with whatever iGPU it had, and would not function with another GPU, nor would that other GPU that was separated, function on it's own in another system.
Scary thought, isn't it.
NVidia, for their part, could claim that this is part of their "pro-gamer / anti-mining" initiatives, to prevent "gamers" from losing GPUs from "gaming" pre-builts, to miners just trying to accumulate GPUs.
I think that vendors would go along with it, too, such that it would prevent re-sale of individual GPUs and individual PCs sans GPUs.
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