Nvidia RTX 3060 GPUs are cryptomining despite the ‘unbreakable’ hash rate limiter

Despite Nvidia’s best efforts to prevent the GeForce RTX 3060 – its budget-friendly ray tracing graphics card – from being used to mine cryptocurrency, miners have found several ways to bypass preventative measures regardless.

The latest instance of this is a mining rig that was posted to the Korean tech forum QuasarZone, utilizing seven of the elusive GPUs to mine Etherium.

The rig was created using dummy HDMI plugs and a PCIe riser to bypass the hash rate limiter by connecting a card directly into the PCIe slot.

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