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Topic: card is at 90f (Read 1458 times)

newbie
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June 13, 2011, 12:26:25 PM
#11
Personally, I'm running a mineral oil computer with an attached chiller, and I'm maintaining about 55C on my GTX 470's (its a gaming rig, only started on bitcoins recently) while mining.  I got into computer cooling as a hobby several years ago, and have played with liquid cooling, mineral oil, and mechanical chilling.  From what I understand, every 10C over 50C you roughly halve the lifetime of the component in question, though I don't know what the normal expected life of a well cooled card is.

If you're maintaining 90F on a card while mining, I'd be astonished.  I don't know how you'd manage that without some serious phase-change equipment.
I don't get how that could be true when most modern GPU's I've dealt with have idled over 60C... do you have a source for that?
legendary
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June 13, 2011, 11:34:17 AM
#10
Are you mining in Antarctica? 90F at full load is just freaking awesome.
Or maybe you r using LN2 cooling.
newbie
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June 11, 2011, 08:05:58 PM
#9
Personally, I'm running a mineral oil computer with an attached chiller, and I'm maintaining about 55C on my GTX 470's (its a gaming rig, only started on bitcoins recently) while mining.  I got into computer cooling as a hobby several years ago, and have played with liquid cooling, mineral oil, and mechanical chilling.  From what I understand, every 10C over 50C you roughly halve the lifetime of the component in question, though I don't know what the normal expected life of a well cooled card is.

If you're maintaining 90F on a card while mining, I'd be astonished.  I don't know how you'd manage that without some serious phase-change equipment.
member
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June 11, 2011, 07:55:28 PM
#8
apparently, the temp measuring unit is broken

This. What card is it? We can only dream of those temps with a fan.
sr. member
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June 11, 2011, 07:53:59 PM
#7
apparently, the temp measuring unit is broken
newbie
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June 11, 2011, 07:45:17 PM
#6
kool, thanks fellas!
hero member
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June 11, 2011, 07:42:38 PM
#5
it actually says 32c so i was assuming that was estimated to 90 degrees f


Is it submerged in mineral oil inside of a mini-fridge? That's phenomenal if you're talking temperature under load. The rig closest to the AC unit is still in the 60s for me. Then again I do live in Vegas and it did break 100F today Tongue
newbie
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June 11, 2011, 07:40:58 PM
#4
it actually says 32c so i was assuming that was estimated to 90 degrees f
legendary
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June 11, 2011, 07:40:26 PM
#3
90C not a big problem, but try not go any more beyond that. I'd be more worried about fan crapping out by running on high RPM for a long time.
hero member
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June 11, 2011, 07:38:57 PM
#2
I think you mean 90C... 90F = 32C = The temp we all wish our cards would run at 24/7.

As for the lifespan, not entirely sure, I haven't killed a card yet (knock on wood) though I manage to keep mine comfortably in the 70s and 80s.

I use stock coolers on the cards themselves but as it happens I already had a portable AC unit hooked up to my living room window so I just blow cold air directly into the intakes. These can be had for under $300 and I'd consider them to be a good investment if you want to mine long-term without replacing a lot of cards.
newbie
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June 11, 2011, 07:36:18 PM
#1
If the cards running 24/7 at 90 degrees how fast will this card burn? anyone know what kind of small fan i can purchase to kool it down?
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