NVIDIA: Founder Edition Cards will not get a Lite Hash rate Limiter SKU

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 05/20/2021 04:00 PM | source: pcgamer | 8 comment(s)

In the past week or so you've been able to see NVIDIA board partners release their LHR edition of the existing product line. The LHR version has limited cryptocurrency possibilities due to hash rate restrictions.

That leaves open a discussion of the actual Founder edition cards from NVIDIA themselves. That question is now answered, NVIDIA will not release a separate edition of the FE products.

A spokesperson from Nvidia told PC Gamer that there will be no Founders Edition cards from the LHR variants. The Ti versions of the 3070 and 3080 that are expected on May 31 might probably see a Founders Edition again (yet that is unknown). The RTX 3060 non-Ti and the 3090, both of which do not have an LHR card, also have an FE card, although these are also extremely poorly available currently.

"Founders Edition is a limited production graphics card sold at MSRP," Nvidia stated, "and at this point, we don’t have plans to make versions with LHR."

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ThEcLiT
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#5913921 Posted on: 05/20/2021 05:49 PM

This must be a joke...

rl66
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#5913950 Posted on: 05/20/2021 08:21 PM

Well... The LHR is also a joke in itself...
NVidia do a lot of joke in this time... But it doesn't make us laugh

More good news: with the bitcoin and etherum falling in value since few day, the late "trader billionary farmer" and "scalper" have started to sell 2nd hand at really good price to not loose much.
I have bough today a RX 6700 XT for 500 Euro and a friend buy from the same guy a RX 570 ITX 8g for 200 Euro... May it continue this way.

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#5913952 Posted on: 05/20/2021 08:27 PM

Makes sense. You were never able to buy Founders Edition cards in bulk anyways, and Best Buy will be the only retailer.

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#5913955 Posted on: 05/20/2021 08:34 PM

so could i flash a limited 30 series with a FE bios?

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#5913974 Posted on: 05/20/2021 09:59 PM

so could i flash a limited 30 series with a FE bios?

Maybe (in theory yes), but it might need some mod bios skill.
Exept GPU anything might have changed and protection might have been put.
And so, might make the flash fail...

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