Nvidia Rolls Out Cryptocurrency Mining Restrictions for All New RTX GPUs

Nvidia has revealed that it will apply cryptocurrency mining restrictions to any newly manufactured RTX GPUs. The announcement follows Nvidia’s existing cryptocurrency mining restrictions, first introduced with the RTX 3060 GPU earlier in 2021. The world’s leading graphics card manufacturer wants to put more new GPUs into the hands of gamers at a time when
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Nvidia Accidentally Disables Its RTX 3060 Cryptocurrency Mining Lock

Nvidia has unlocked its hash rate restricted RTX 3060 GPU. At least, it has temporarily. A beta update pushed live appears to have accidentally unlocked the GPUs, which Nvidia recently claimed were “unhackable.” It follows an earlier report that appeared to show the RTX 3060 GPUs being used to mine Ethereum—the very thing the cards
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Nvidia Set to Potentially Restrict Crypto Mining On All New Cards

Nvidia has dropped serious hints that more cryptocurrency mining restrictions could arrive on its other graphics processing units (GPUs). It’s a move to push back against cryptocurrency mining operations that are rapidly buying any new stock that comes to market. The news was revealed at Nvidia’s recent earnings call, where the GPU manufacturing giant also
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Will the Nvidia Jetson Nano Replace the Raspberry Pi?

It’s an exciting time for small factor computing. As if the Raspberry Pi wasn’t enough of an all purpose machine, more powerful boards capable of incredible feats keep appearing. The Jetson Nano from Nvidia is a recent addition to the ranks of super powerful machine learning enabled boards. What makes it special? Should you buy
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Nvidia BFGD vs. Gaming Monitor vs. TV: The Differences Explained

Nvidia has a new gizmo to make PC gamers sit up and take notice. It’s called the Big Format Gaming Display (or BFGD for short). But is this new type of TV actually an innovation or just some marketing gimmick? Nvidia Doesn’t Make BFGD TVs, It’s a Standard The first thing you should know is
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How to Set Up and Use Your Nvidia Shield TV

It doesn’t matter whether you’re trying to cut the cord or just adding an extra way of consuming content into your living room setup, you’re sure to find lots of set-top boxes and streaming sticks vying for your attention. The field can increasingly be boiled down into the “big five.” They are Roku, Android TV,
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