Do manufacturers really like to sell graphics cards to "mining" bosses?

time:2023-04-02 10:01:02 source:scripttoolbox.com author:Hard disk
Do manufacturers really like to sell graphics cards to "mining" bosses?

In fact, the concept of manufacturer is too broad. Does it mean that Nvidia is a GPU manufacturer? Or do you want to talk about a group of AICs, that is, buy core and memory particles, and come back to be a graphics card manufacturer? Or is it a terminal agent that eventually sells graphics cards to consumers? But when it comes to graphics cards, the GPU produced by Nvidia’s foundry is just a chip, obviously it can’t be called a card. Although there are also Nvidia public cards, but the production is very low, low enough to be ignored. Graphics card manufacturers are reluctant to give their cards to miners. The reason is very simple. Mining is a one-shot deal. For the miners, offending a lot of players and offending long-term parents, is it worth it? The failure rate of the mining card is very high, which is obviously a big burden on the warranty. Some people will definitely say, whoever gives me more money and who I sell, won't let me be short-sighted? Not really, because graphics card manufacturers have little say in front of core manufacturers like AMD and Nvidia. This is why very few graphics card manufacturers produce AMD cards and Nvidia cards at the same time, and even if there are, they are dominated by one of the core manufacturers. You have disrupted the market plan of the core manufacturers. Sorry, I will reduce your core supply, and I will cut off your goods. I will not give you priority to the next generation of cores, so that your products will be delayed, or even not cooperate with you. For AMD and Nvidia, the price shipped to graphics card manufacturers is fixed, and it will not fluctuate rapidly with the market. Anyone who knows the supply chain will know this. Only in this way can someone dare to use your core and stabilize it. The core supply is the basis for mass-produced graphics cards. Your graphics card manufacturer is short-sighted. As the younger brother of the core manufacturer, you have stinted the brand of the boss. How can the core manufacturer be mixed up? It can't kill you. At the same time, there is no effective detection method for mining cards so far. What graphics card manufacturers can do is to raise the warranty threshold. For example, they do not support personal insurance, and intentionally extend the warranty period (the law stipulates that if the repair cannot be done within one month, a substitute must be provided, and I will send it back to you within 29 days). ), improve the standard of non-artificial damage (for example, it is stipulated that damage to certain parts will be regarded as man-made or mining). These measures have a great impact on the consumer experience, but have little impact on the miners. However, there is a saying that the wicked understand the law better than the good. If the big miners use this game graphics card to mine, they will come directly after the mining boom. Do you believe that Bo "renews"? The method is to wait a few years for the old card that has been eliminated (the game card is generally guaranteed for 3 years), break it on purpose (not visible on the surface), and then take it for warranty. Graphics card manufacturers have long since discontinued this model, and can only replace it with a new model of good (repaired) or new. The amount of warranty is so large (in 2018, someone guaranteed thousands of copies at once, and after the refusal of warranty, a lawsuit was brought, the manufacturer lost the lawsuit, and finally it was discounted and lost money). Individual users, you can prevaricate, who will sue for a card? Big miners, people have time and resources to spend with you. The law pays attention to whoever advocates will provide evidence. The miners have the products, packaging, and invoices, which can prove that they bought them from you. How do you prove that someone was damaged by mining? How do you prove it was man-made damage? Please find an appraisal agency recognized by the court. At this time, the graphics card manufacturer is the defendant who cannot identify itself. Even if it does, the credibility is extremely low. Obviously such a mechanism does not exist, or there is no way to identify the specific cause of damage. After 2018, graphics card manufacturers have learned a lot, they will record sales channels in detail, and continue to put pressure on lower-level agents. You can try JD.com, no matter what model, when you buy multiple graphics cards over a period of time, you will no longer be able to place an order for graphics cards. The same is true for other channels. Supply is limited. There is even a legend of "fishing law enforcement". Manufacturers find people to buy cards at high prices in your store. If you sell them, you will not be punished. Therefore, from the perspective of economic interests, even if you are short-sighted, your interests will be damaged. Let's talk about it from the miners' point of view, big miners don't bother to use game graphics cards for mining, because it's too expensive. The length of the game card can't wait to be a sword, the thickness can't wait to be a hamburger, and what kind of "IQ lamp", it's all money. Miners generally obtain GPU and video memory directly from various channels, and change the design of the official public version to make a short, compact and powerful custom card. see it? Extremely streamlined, designed for mining, power saving and efficient, with a dedicated BIOS for mining, the computing power is at least 15-20% higher than the game card, and the cost is only half of the game card. Secretly tell you, that HDMI port is not actually used for video output, but is used to detect whether the card is faulty, if you flash back to the original BIOS, you can also output video. Is what I said different from what you see? Since big miners don't use game graphics cards to mine, why has the price of cards increased? Why are so many cards out of stock? Because they were hoarded. This is not done by manufacturers, nor by core manufacturers, but by agents and scalpers at all levels. This year's epidemic + mining boom, there are good reasons for you to believe that the supply is in short supply, isn't it impossible to sell to miners? Then I will stock up and increase the price slowly? Anyway, everyone believed that the pot belonged to the miners. Agents saw business opportunities, and scalpers also saw it. They also began to sweep goods from the market, and artificial manufacturing was in short supply. Some small retail miners have also paid the IQ tax to enter the industry, which further exacerbates this shortage (there are really not many small miners who can buy such expensive game cards and enter the industry. A small miner came to consult a few days ago and got a return. After the hopeless result, I want to cry without tears) A friend mentioned the P104 and P106 mining cards launched by Nvidia during the 2017-2018 mining boom, thinking that this is evidence that manufacturers like to sell graphics cards to miners. P104 and P106 are indeed dedicated mining cards. Compared with game graphics cards, they directly castrate the video output function and only have a three-month warranty. However, this does not mean that the manufacturer supports mining, but a helpless move. Since I can't prevent game cards from flowing into the hands of some miners, in order to reduce the impact on gamers and reduce after-sales pressure in the future, I have to produce mine cards that are different from game cards. (Later graphics card manufacturers and core manufacturers all want to understand that our game cards will rise in price when they leave the factory, and use economic means to persuade miners to quit.) In fact, there are similar examples of ashtrays on planes. Smoking is not allowed on the plane, but there are ashtrays in the toilets on the plane. Can you say this is evidence to support smoking? Obviously not, but a kind of helplessness, you can't be 100% non-smoking, in case someone smokes it, it is better to have an ashtray than to throw cigarette butts and cause a fire.

(Responsible editor:CPU)

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