Hey Rigel,
T-Rex has a great option: "--keep-gpu-busy". Means, he continue the mining even with no internet connection.
Especially in the winter months that option keeps the GPUs warm and not freezing to death, it's a great safety feature just for the case. Is it possible to get that same option for your miner? Thats the only reason using T-Rex over Rigel.
(And maybe also add ProgPowZ to mine ZANO, would be awesome)
Thanks!
Freezing to death? Colder = better = less power consumption
Some of my rigs running in a room with a negative temperature for years and nothing died because of cold temperature. I don´t why people think hardware die in cold environments. You know about LN2 cooling for CPU or GPU in extreme benchmarks? You know that this parts running at -50C or more negative temperatures and the hardware is fine.
Easy too cold doesn´t exist for pc parts -> the only problem can be condensation formation, but never happend to me.
So keep busy was stupid at T-Rex miner times and is still stupid.
Try to read and understand how condensation works...
Cold is good, yes, if the cards have work.
But with no internet connection, or something with the pool, or any bugs, or whatever other reason the cards could have no work,
condensation occurs and they can die fast. Especially watercooled cards in any variant can die in minutes. Even the best rules in Awesome Miner or Hive wont work if the connection is lost for any reason. That simple option is the only reason me and my friends with hundreds of cards, and i think many others too, are using the old T-Rex for some coins in the winter to keep the space heated.
If you dont want to use such option, dont use it, simple. But it would be great to have such option in Rigel too, to protect very expensive hardware. And less T-Rex means more cash for Rigel. So thank you Rigel for considering this
Don´t try to explain how condensation works to me, and now why condensation? you talked about freezing to death
But condensation I know it and did you run GPU at negativ degrees or i do? I described it below, i never saw any condensation, never i am mining this way for almost 7 years, and i have also hundreds off cards and asics.
My internet connection was interrupted a day, after i came home and fixed the internet, the cards start hashing with -5C and ended up at 30C and no condensation (Keep in mind the room temperature is below 0 without hashing). Maybe you must learn more about condensation and not me
You every saw condensation on GPU´s or you only hear about it? I asked your hear about LN2 cooling, you saw how wet this mainboards are? And they don´t die. I had a rig stand next to the open door and in winter the snow falling on this rig and melted but suprise suprise the whole 13 card rig is running until today without any problems. I can give you so many more examples of my own experience with condensation, water in combination with electric parts -> condensation nearly don´t exist, you must do so much wrong to provoke condensation. and water on electric parts are not good. but mostly the things not dying.
And next time we are here to help out other peoples. And some people have other experience than other people and together we all know more -> swarm intelligence, but some people are so stubborn. But it is ok, do what you want.
Condansation occurs when the envirement and the card temp have huge temp differences.Delta T around 30 degrees may starts condansation, when mining stops Also card temperature degrees to envirement temp within in less then a minute ,so there is no risk but i don't say no Miner have this option , maybe someone wanna use ths option.
Sure maybe someone use this, for me personally i see no use case. But I want to let him know that there is no such thing as freezing to death. Some of my systems run the whole year in an room with open door everytime, whether it's 30°C or -15°C, they run perfectly all the time. Lowest messured GPU die temperature was -5°C in idle and 10°C at mining