Yesterday it became known that the Nvidia GeForce 470.05 driver does not contain an Ethereum mining limiter. Probably, Nvidia accidentally released the software, forgot to add the corresponding algorithms to it.
At the same time, it was previously believed that both a driver and a suitable BIOS are needed to remove the limiter, but, as we can see, the first is enough.
However, there is one caveat. As it turned out a little later, the specified driver removes protection only from the first video card in the system. That is, if we are talking about a farm, then only one card will show normal performance during Ethereum mining, which in most cases is also relatively efficient. At the same time, of course, miners can mine other cryptocurrencies, so in general, Nvidia’s protection does not help the situation.
As a result, even though no one really hacked the protection itself, Nvidia itself gave the miners a favor.
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