It has begun. Video card companies STOP offering warrenties on their video cards

[cryptodunno]

mining? Never heard about it.
I was just playing GTA 5 24/7 

[Agozyen]

well, I think it is easy enough to do for them
they can add into bios a counter which count how many hours gpu is working of full speed
so once its value become like 2 month 24 hours  of non stop activity of GPU- they will declare this card - a mining card and hence refuse to honor the warranty
sad.

Can't check the BIOS if the BIOS won't load!  People will find away around this.  What's happening is gamers are getting pissed off because graphics cards are going up in price because of demand.  They cannot make enough to satisfy the market so they are trying to make it toxic for miners to buy their cards.  This won't happen.  As long as there is money to be made and coins are profitable there will be a huge demand for the cards.

[crocozino]

well, I think it is easy enough to do for them
they can add into bios a counter which count how many hours gpu is working of full speed
so once its value become like 2 month 24 hours  of non stop activity of GPU- they will declare this card - a mining card and hence refuse to honor the warranty
sad.

Can't check the BIOS if the BIOS won't load!  People will find away around this.  What's happening is gamers are getting pissed off because graphics cards are going up in price because of demand.  They cannot make enough to satisfy the market so they are trying to make it toxic for miners to buy their cards.  This won't happen.  As long as there is money to be made and coins are profitable there will be a huge demand for the cards.

it depends, you know. manufacturers or service centres might have special equipment which can read bios in different way then user can do.
or. they may install some different controller for that, which could count the load of GPU and timetable  when this load is apply.
Actually we know that that games and mining creates different load for gpu

[matthewy159]

I think the biggest problem is that the GPU manufacturer will not know if the card has been used for mining or not.
You can easily say that you are a reseller of the cards and that you getting them RMA'd for your current customers.

Although I think that they will figure something out to add onto the newer gfx cards to check how many hours it has worked hard for ect.
Just like how manufacturers put into ssd's on what the power on time is, how many times it has been powered on, the amount of times its been written to ect. So I wouldnt imagine it would be hard to do.

[philipma1957]

Nothing new. if you mine you void the warranty on your card. Is stated by several gpu manufacturers. This doesnt mean they'll stop offering warranty coverage altogether for normal use. As they'll face legal issues for it.

How the fuck can a company say what you did with your video card? Fans break, things over heat ect 100
The fact that wording is there makes me want to stay away from that company.

I predict they will start offering 6 months now. Stores won't put extended warranty on it either because of the shortage

Its legal jargon for the most part. they must state it so if they do deny you warranty coverage they can show you where they stated it.
If you mod your bios e.g they'll know obviously. I think prevention is better than the cure so take care of your cards dont run them at 100% fan speed and clean them off with compressed air often. General pm goes a long way. To be honest mining cards have 3 months warranty and its to cover those who torture their cards. So as far as theyre concerned use case matters.

If you run fans at 100% and push cards to the max you should get your warranty void.
Maybe the pedal to the metal guys will be smacked like they should be.

I know many miners max cards til they burn out and then rma gear. Fuck them.

Btw op this news is very old pny mentioned it a while back

[Turkish88]

If I were a manufacturer, would have long canceled warranties.
Many miners know about warranty and start GPU at abnormal high frequences, and after gpu dead going to rma and say i am only play Crysys

[Signaturan]

What we will start seeing is a type of BIOS fuse like some Android manufacteurs have to see if a phone was rooted before.

SO if you flash your bios, you blow the fuse and they can tell you bios modded it to mine with it.

Because right now as far as I know, its impossible to tell if it was used by mining.

And honestly mining uses less stress than people who overclock/overvolt their GPU inside a computer case without any intake/exhust fans.

That is right. I mine only with 70% of the maximum rating due to under volting to get high efficiency.

[flipflop.0]

They should check out the legal systems (e.g. EU) before writing something like this... Or just bet that enough people are stupid enough to believe this BS and not claim their warranty

[btcprospecter]

So will it just be a case the they deem that the card has been used for mining. In a way I think it would be hard for them as we now have some cards made specifically for mining.
I'm more surprised gpu producers are not making their own mining operations. 

[kilo_rigger]

GPU manufacturers make so mush money on this "Gold" mining rush. Now they will stop offering warranty. Mining is the reason their profits are through the roof. Everyone benefits: chipset producers, cards manufacturers. They just need to make their cards better and design better cooling systems. So you wouldn't need the warranty. It is rare for GPU to fail if don't overheat it.    

[LiamO]

It is kind of mystifying to me why the manufacturers aren't jumping all over this to sell more cards and service their customers better rather than waging some kind of war with people who are hungry to buy their product. Some folks need to be brought kicking and screaming into a new paradigm. I can't imaging that there are hordes of miners claiming that their GPU cards have gone bust inside of warranty and that they are down on profits, but maybe I'm wrong. If they are as smart as I imagine they must be to be in IT hardware manufacturing, surely they would come out with a robust product aimed specifically at the mining community.