News NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti flashed with RTX 3090 BIOS to achieve a staggering 110 MH/s mining Ethereum

Awesome but what about VRAM size. As per my knowledge, and some research on fake GPUs that are as old as GTX 560Ti being sold as 1050Ti cards have fake BIOS flashed and due to that the original 1/2GB of VRAM is shown as 4GB to the OS but when the OS makes an attempt to use that portion of memory (beyond the original size) driver crashes or system freezes up.

Now I wonder if the same thing would happen with these. While mining they won't be making use of anymore than 5-6GB of VRAM so it might not crash but pretty sure this would **** up if loaded with 12+GB of data.
 
tech.monk said:
Miners evaded the so-called protection/mechanism from Nvidia. Guess it was just a marketing gimmick.
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It most certainly was not a marketing gimmick.
Let me be clear, nvidia didn't introduce lhr cards to help gamers but to deter miners from buying their regular GPUs and push them towards cmp GPUs. Once mining is dead those cmp GPUs won't be attractive to buyers looking for a GPU for gaming where as if the second hand market is flooded with gpus that will hider the sale of nvidia's 4000/5000 series GPUs then that would be a problem for nvidia.
 
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enthusiast29 said:
Awesome but what about VRAM size. As per my knowledge, and some research on fake GPUs that are as old as GTX 560Ti being sold as 1050Ti cards have fake BIOS flashed and due to that the original 1/2GB of VRAM is shown as 4GB to the OS but when the OS makes an attempt to use that portion of memory (beyond the original size) driver crashes or system freezes up.

Now I wonder if the same thing would happen with these. While mining they won't be making use of anymore than 5-6GB of VRAM so it might not crash but pretty sure this would **** up if loaded with 12+GB of data.
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In mining of eth dag size is 4gb+ only so no problem in that regards so it would work perfectly for a miner
 
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