Graphic Cards Galax GPU and warranty issues?

[thomasjude47]

Some things i can think of is ,(THEORETICALLY)

1. They might have put some firmware code to record the UNINTERUPTED RUNNING HOURS .gamers cannot game 24x7, but a mining rig will run 24x7.

2.Usually companies study silicon/ chip/ component degradation with age of product.
Under microscope they might be able to see if a chip and memory is abused over time and compare it with normal gamming chip to verify the difference.

.....................

add if you think of something

Still a gamer can argue that he is playing 24x7 or running some renderer.
Also don't think the rma handlers have the facility to inspect a gpuat a microscopic level.
There is no such firmware running in GPUs.. atleast no evidence of such a thing so far. People were using GPUs for mining for close to a decade now.. so if they were concerned such warranty terms should have been in place long ago.

 

[samiryadav]

There is no such firmware running in GPUs.. atleast no evidence of such a thing so far.

HDDs record S.M.A.R.T data (power on hours, errors etc are recorded. ), who knows they have something in place similar to that.

 

[rockyo27]

Is there anyway to prove that a particular GPU was used for crypto

Nope

HDDs record S.M.A.R.T data (power on hours, errors etc are recorded. ), who knows they have something in place similar to that.

Nothing as such is there. If it had been it wud have been known already