[News] Inno3d does not like miners for customers(GTX1060 6GB Ichill x3 V2)

[StyM]

https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comm...tomersgtx1060/



good luck... lol

[AliG]

Doesn't surprise me, mining puts a tremendous amount of stress on the VRMs. Most aftermarket coolers entirely avoid putting heatspreaders on them to save costs (if they even provide RAMsinks). You can clearly see in photos they did provide a heatspreader for the main chips - but not voltage regulators.

I bet they were dealing with a lot of warranty claims, and finally decided to put their foot down. IMO they should have just done a better job cooling the VRMs, but that's their prerogative.

[StAndrew]

How do they know a RMA was from mining?

[AliG]

How do they know a RMA was from mining?

I'd be willing to bet the bios stores some sort of temperature and voltage profile data. While you can't explicitly prove it from that, I have a hard time believing that a gamer or someone that does GPGPU workstation application has their GPU running at 100% for months on end.