@IAMAL_PHARIUS @PopulistRight @RustyCrab @Inginsub I have been a violently anti-Jargon human being for my entire time in the Computer Guy hellmouth.

For DeepSeek, it's possible there are other restrictions on the H800s but I'm not aware of anything that Nvidia would be able to do other than refuse to sell further hardware if they found out.

I saw rumblings (with no proof) that they did some driver unlocking and a few other things that are fairly common for overclockers to do, but can void warranties. Nvidia is famously shitty about keeping their drivers locked down to the point that even board partners like ASUS and EVGA had to crack/reverse engineer their drivers to be able to build their own overclocked official cards.

As a tech guy who has some understanding of the stuff going on, to me this looks like literally big tech being outcompeted by a plucky company that got lucky with their model. But since that company is Chinese, they're losing their fucking minds and trying to find reasons they cheated and China could NEVER. It's pretty embarrassing to watch.