Ever since its release of the NVIDIA RTX 3060, miners have been trying their best to bypass the Hash limiter NVIDIA has enforced on the card which limits the card’s mining capabilities. Miners have found additional ways into bypassing the GPU / Driver handshake using dummy HDMI adapters with the latest miner showcasing how he is really using the new Nvidia RTX 3060 GPU.
In the latest instance, a miner has posted his rig on QuasarZone in which he is running 7 RTX 3060 GPUs using PCIe Risers and Dummy HDMI plugs. Ever since the leak of the development driver by NVIDIA, miners have found many different ways to utilize the RTX 3060 for mining.
NVIDIA accidentally leaked out a GeForce driver on its website developer page, which completely removed the hash limiter from the RTX 3060 and enable the card to mine at full capacity. As soon as the driver became known to enable the full cryptocurrency mining rate of Ampere GPUs, it spread like wildfire and is currently available to download everywhere in public domains.
The miner who posted his rig on QuasarZone was able to do bypass the hash rate limiter with dummy HDMI plugs and a PCIe riser. The dummy HDMI plug functions by tricking the driver into sending a display signal to the monitor which did not exist. There was one more issue the miner had to overcome before being able to mine on the RTX 3060.
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Using the PCIe risers and dummy HDMI plugs, the user is able to mine on multiple RTX 3060s. The entire rig is fully functional with all 7 RTX 3060s mining at full capacity which uses about 1020W of power. The 50 MH/s allows the miner to generate $32 a day with power costs included and will recover his investment in approximately 105 days assuming that he paid the MSRP for the Zotac Gaming GeForce RTX 3060 Twin Edge OC 12GB which is $479.99.
So far, the hash limiter has been a big fail from NVIDIA. We will have to wait and see what lies for future cards, as NVIDIA has announced that it will implement the hash rate in all future gaming cards as well.
