It doesn't make sense to carry it forward. It's in there doing pointless checks it doesn't need to do, so it's active software that you want to have some test cases around. I'd get rid of it.
I was thinking the same thing, but unless removing LHR from the drivers improves performance elsewhere (and maybe it does), there's no financial benefit to NV removing it now, assuming miners aren't gonna buy more cards. Not sure how many suckers are willing to keep buying cards now that ETH mining is dead and ETC + ETHW are categorically failing to take up the slack.
I was thinking the same thing, but unless removing LHR from the drivers improves performance elsewhere (and maybe it does), there's no financial benefit to NV removing it now, assuming miners aren't gonna buy more cards. Not sure how many suckers are willing to keep buying cards now that ETH mining is dead and ETC + ETHW are categorically failing to take up the slack.
You would think, that possibly, if this were intentional, that they might make a (small) announcement somewhere, like on GeForce.com or something. Or maybe just a technical note that LHR is deprecated in current/future drivers going forward.LHR is a feature they are no longer supporting.
Getting really tempted by the $360 Asus 6700XT today at Newegg.
I was thinking the same thing, but unless removing LHR from the drivers improves performance elsewhere (and maybe it does), there's no financial benefit to NV removing it now, assuming miners aren't gonna buy more cards. Not sure how many suckers are willing to keep buying cards now that ETH mining is dead and ETC + ETHW are categorically failing to take up the slack.
People hang on to stocks for a long time praying that they will rebound. Some win, some lose.Crypto miners still buying graphics cards! Talking another 18 months plus now till trend is gone.
I'm wondering where they all went, too.This really amazes me there isn't a flood of used mining cards like we saw in 2014 once it became no longer profitable to mine on gpus.
I'm wondering where they all went, too.
Edit: In North America, at least, Winter is fast approaching, and many consumer / hobbiest miners are choosing to "keep mining" to heat their homes, rather than "lose money" by selling their GPUs.
That, and you've got YouTubers like RedPandaMining and Hobbiest Miner, to name a few, that "aren't selling".
Contrast to SonofaTech, who was tearing down his farm and selling cards, last I saw.
Edit: In North America, at least, Winter is fast approaching, and many consumer / hobbiest miners are choosing to "keep mining" to heat their homes, rather than "lose money" by selling their GPUs.
There wasn't a flood in 2014 either.This really amazes me there isn't a flood of used mining cards like we saw in 2014 once it became no longer profitable to mine on gpus.
Electricity is much cheaper in Texas. That 15MW would only cost me 1900 USD (~14341DKK.) Lots of people use electric heating here. (Then again we barely need heating, I turn mine on for maybe 2 months out of the year. It is currently 90F/32C where I am at.)For this to add up assumes free or cheap electricity. Because otherwise pure electrical heating is about the most inefficient and expensive way to heat your home.
I don't really want to think what it'd cost heating my home with wall panels right now, but some back of napkin math puts it at somewhere around 80-120.000DKK (~US$ 10.500 - 15.800). Assuming I'd need 10-15MW over winter.
Electricity is much cheaper in Texas. That 15MW would only cost me 1900 USD (~14341DKK.) Lots of people use electric heating here. (Then again we barely need heating, I turn mine on for maybe 2 months out of the year. It is currently 90F/32C where I am at.)