As a gamer who also has multiple mining rigs, first let me say **** Nvidia. First the slap in the face with the pathetic CMP parts, and now it's LHR... What, my money ain't as good as everyone elses? I buy parts and I use them, I'm not a scumbag scalper... I hate 'em just as much as y'all do. I don't bot and have just as hard a time finding GPUs as y'all...
Secondly, I'm glad to see that some of y'all are showing some common sense and not falling for the 'OMG those evil minerz are taking all of our GPUs' B.S... Scalpers using bots to buy for resale is the problem, and they're enabled by the limited supply which is caused by the global silicon shortage combined with unprecedented demand. Granted, mining doesn't help the situation, but it's not the primary factor. Gimping new GPUs does nothing to stop scalpers from using bots to buy for resale. Nvidia's either 1) smoking crack if they think these LHR parts are going to make it easier for gamers to buy GPUs at MSRP, or 2) they are completely aware that LHR parts won't fix jack and they're a) just making noise like that's what they're trying to do in order to score points with gamers and b) hoping the gimped LHR parts makes the pathetic CMP parts seem more reasonable in comparison. My money's on #2, it's a propaganda campaign and a money grab. It's sad to see that so many gamers don't realize this.
The solution is to either make enough enough cards to satisfy demand, or to crack down on botters. I'm sure Nvidia could throw their weight around and mandate that retailers do something about bots if they want any more cards to sell. But yeah, keep on hating on us evil miners, gamers... You're being played. Nvidia doesn't actually want to fix things. They love the current situation, they're making bank...
One last note, I mined part time on my gaming rig before I started building mining rigs. These LHR parts are a big F.U. from Nvidia to any gamers who are thinking about mining part time in order to recoup some of the money they paid for their ridiculously priced GPUs. Even at MSRP these new GPU prices are obscene. I remember when $250 would get you a serviceable, mid-range GPU. Hell, during my 2 decades of gaming prior to starting mining I was even too cheap for mid-range and was budget all the way, never spending more than $150 on a GPU.
