KFA2 (GALAX) P106-100 is out! without DirectX Support?

[qts601]

- not more than 6months warranty
- DirectX Support is physically locked
- no video output
- already shipped in China, but only by order

http://ezone.ulifestyle.com.hk/article/1836542/

 

[FR@NK]

Why would it need directx? It doesnt have any video outputs....

 

[jboydgolfer]

 

[Fluffmeister]

Indeed, it's aimed at miners, and I don't mean real men that actually worked hard for their money.

 

[R-T-B]

Indeed, it's aimed at miners, and I don't mean real men that actually worked hard for their money.

Mining is a job if you don't want your house or facility to burn down. I speak from experience. If you want to make anything meaningful at it, you will work, just like any other human being. Parts fail daily in large farms and locating and replacing them without bringing other facilities down is its own art. Heat managment becomes difficult, and if you understand thermal dynamics as well as many of our members here recently demonstrated by thinking their heatsinks actually lower their room temp, you will have a fire.

Unless of course, you are basically implying IT and high end thermal management is not a legit line of work.

EDIT: Somehow I missed the "hard" word in your post. Appologies in advance, yeah, it's not as "hard" of labor as a coal miner, I'll hand you that.

 

[FR@NK]

 

[qts601]

Mining is a job if you don't want your house or facility to burn down. I speak from experience. If you want to make anything meaningful at it, you will work, just like any other human being. Parts fail daily in large farms and locating and replacing them without bringing other facilities down is its own art. Heat managment becomes difficult, and if you understand thermal dynamics as well as many of our members here recently demonstrated by thinking their heatsinks actually lower their room temp, you will have a fire.

Unless of course, you are basically implying IT and high end thermal management is not a legit line of work.

EDIT: Somehow I missed the "hard" word in your post. Appologies in advance, yeah, it's not as "hard" of labor as a coal miner, I'll hand you that.

it's good in winter

 

[R-T-B]

it's good in winter

My 90 F garage in winter was... weird, not good, honestly.

 

[jboydgolfer]

our members here recently demonstrated by thinking their heatsinks actually lower their room temp

Stupid notions are like belly buttons apparently. but seriously, if anyone actually believed that , they may need to invest in a helmet.

 

[StefanM]

- DirectX Support is physically locked

Why would it need directx? It doesnt have any video outputs....

Oddly, the GPU-Z screenshot exposes DirectCompute support at the bottom, which is part of DirectX

@W1zzard should look at that

 

[RejZoR]

The point of using normal cards for mining was that at the EOL, people sold them on used goods markets as any other graphic card. And they sold quickly since you can't tell which one was for mining and which one wasn't. With these, I don't know, they lack this thing and they'll imo be hard to sell afterwards, meaning people won't really decide for them in the first place.

 

[StefanM]

The point of using normal cards for mining was that at the EOL, people sold them on used goods markets as any other graphic card. And they sold quickly since you can't tell which one was for mining and which one wasn't. With these, I don't know, they lack this thing and they'll imo be hard to sell afterwards, meaning people won't really decide for them in the first place.

If they ain't destroyed from accelerated electro migration you can buy the used ones then for a few bucks and use them for any other CUDA application, e.g. Folding@Home

 

[RejZoR]

But how many use them for gaming and how many use them for such specific tasks? Meaning they'll still be hard to sell, even if ridiculously cheap. With no video outputs, they are no use to 90% of people.

 

[StefanM]

But how many use them for gaming and how many use them for such specific tasks? Meaning they'll still be hard to sell, even if ridiculously cheap. With no video outputs, they are no use to 90% of people.

I looked around a bit

About 19 million F@H users, app. 1 million with NVIDIA GPUs
http://folding.stanford.edu/stats/os

There are even enthusiasts with folding farms (instead of mining farms)
https://www.google.com/search?q=folding+farm

List of CUDA apps
https://www.nvidia.com/content/gpu-applications/PDF/gpu-applications-catalog.pdf

 

[RejZoR]

But how many millions of gamers are there? I don't have the numbers, but I bet gamers are a lot bigger %.

 

[Caring1]

Looks like most manufacturers are getting in on it.
https://videocardz.com/nvidia/geforce-1000/nvidia-p106-100

 

[therealmeep]

If somebody would come up with the genius to do low budget dual GPU card like a cheaper pro duo or something of the like but with 2 480/580s as standalone GPUs as mining cards it'd fly off shelves.