Nvidia’s mining limiter has been hacked to be only 70 per cent effective

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Nvidia‘s mining limiter, meaning that the software is now only 70 per cent effective in restricting mining.An update to NBMiner, a tool commonly used to mine Ethereum cryptocurrency, has rendered Nvidia’s mining limiter far less effective.The changelog to the update states that the “new LHR mode for ETH mining” is able to get around “70 per cent of maximum unlocked hashrate”, however the developers suggest starting with a hashrate of 68 per cent “to be stable on most rig configurations”.As reported by Tom’s Hardware, the update makes mining on Nvidia’s RTX 3060 Ti card 35 per cent more effective than previously recorded.This is bad news for PC gamers who are still looking to get their hands on the next generation of graphics cards, as the.