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Quote from: josh75 on November 13, 2017, 08:56:19 PM

Hello all :

i need some advice.

on ETH i do the OC : Core -50, Memory 1100, power limit 120, Target temperature : 75 degrees, minimum fan speed 60%

my 1070's are between 75 degrees

75 73 74 73 76 69 75 69 60 78 76 73 77 ℃

do you think i should do some adjustment of the fan speed ? i just started mining and i want my gtx 1070 8 G to live long.

thank you all for your help

unfortunatly when i try to mine Zcash

with OC : Core empty, Memory +500, Power limit 120

my card are going between 80-82 ℃

i have 440 sol/s per card but i think 80-82 ℃ is too hot.

if some of you have some OC for the Zcash please help me

thank you all

I just got gtx 1070 8 G few days ago and I keep Power limit at 65% and the temperature is always hovering around 67C, regardles if I'm mining ETH or Zcash.

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Hello all :

i need some advice.

on ETH i do the OC : Core -50, Memory 1100, power limit 120, Target temperature : 75 degrees, minimum fan speed 60%

my 1070's are between 75 degrees

75 73 74 73 76 69 75 69 60 78 76 73 77 ℃

do you think i should do some adjustment of the fan speed ? i just started mining and i want my gtx 1070 8 G to live long.

thank you all for your help

unfortunatly when i try to mine Zcash

with OC : Core empty, Memory +500, Power limit 120

my card are going between 80-82 ℃

i have 440 sol/s per card but i think 80-82 ℃ is too hot.

if some of you have some OC for the Zcash please help me

thank you all

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Quote from: dagarair on October 08, 2017, 11:58:07 AM

long story short, they carry a 3 year warranty in the USA for EVGA. Their return process is spectacular so you have nothing to worry about till then =)

They do have the best return policy I've ever used, get the replacement before I have to ship them the broken card. Fastest turnaround which is perfect for mining.

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The temperatures of a GPU will NOT affect cold solder joints - whoever made that claim is totally clueless.

100% speed on a fan DOES increase wear on it quite a bit over 80%, and is not generally NEEDED unless your cards are getting pushed fairly hard in a hot environment.
A good ball-bearing fan is normally DESIGNED to run for years at 100% of design fan speed - used to be THE NORM back in the days before PWM fan speed control got common on some fan types.

Dead fans CAN CAUSE CARD FAILURE due to overheating - but IME this is more common in power supplies (that don't tend to HAVE "thermal limiting" control) than on GPUs.

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It depends, some says about 2-3 years, other says more.
Experts say it's important to keep core temperature as same as possible to prevent cold soldering.

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Any card has a percentage of the defects. Top class cards have a stock that allows you to ignore some defects. If your gpu have normal 24/7 first time they have chance work many year

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Quote from: MetaMiner on June 07, 2017, 03:30:39 PM

Hey guys,

I'd like to know from your experience, how much will this GPU last if I'm mining 24/7 below 60 degrees, 100% fanspeed?

Thanks !

If you limited power limit you dnot need fan on 100%, and life of 1070 card will be very long.
But that depend of card brnd and serie. But almost all have good lifespan.
I buy lots of 1070 when they start to show and 99% of them working without any probs.

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I have my cards under 70ºC with the fan speed set to 80% and for the moment(6 months) everythink is ok

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If you control your temperature well, then you can have your card last afew years, but still it depends on luck.

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Quote from: MetaMiner on June 07, 2017, 03:30:39 PM

Hey guys,

I'd like to know from your experience, how much will this GPU last if I'm mining 24/7 below 60 degrees, 100% fanspeed?

Thanks !

running a fan at 100% fans speed is a sign of mental illness. disagreement with this is also a sign of mental illness. it means you are in a state of denial about reality.

set fans at 80 to 85%
see what your temps are.

if under 70c you are fine.

when fans are in the 90 to 100 % range there is no real benefits for long term use.

and if a fan set at 85% does not cool off your gear you are doing something wrong.

either over clock is too high or room is to hot. or voltage is too high.

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Quote from: umine on October 10, 2017, 02:52:20 AM

Quote from: Za1n on October 08, 2017, 11:56:25 AM

100% fan speed is not good as you will wear out your fans in no time. Best to try and keep fan speed below 70% for longer lifespan of the fans. Now you also need to keep the temperatures cool, your 60C is a good goal to aim for. You may need to separate your GPUs and either relocate them to an cooler environment or direct an external airflow over them such as a box fan. The other thing to watch for is power surges or brownouts. A good surge suppressor in front of your PSU is recommend.

As far as lifespan of the cards themselves, I have some 3+ year old cards still mining away. Their mining efficiency decreases over the years simply because newer more efficient cards are released, but they are still working just as good as the day I bought them.

But fans can easy be replaced and cheap enough. Fans are consumables. Besides fans with ball bearing have lifetime about ten and more years.

Not always - my Sapphire HD7750 had a dual ball bearing fan, but the fan lasted less than 5 years.
On the other hand, the HIS HD7750 cards I bought shortly AFTER I bought that Sapphire had all of their fans (except one) die in less than 6 months and that ONE didn't last a year - bloody junk "rifle bearing" junk.

Dual ball bearing fans DO tend to last a lot longer in high-load high-temp environments than anything else though, which is why I try to avoid any other fan type on my gear (and refuse to even CONSIDER the new Seasonic "Prime" and EVGA "G3" power supply lines).

Adding oil is at best a VERY SHORT term cure - if it leaked out in the first place, the seals are shot and adding more isn't going to last long.

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Even if fans fail most of the time you can open them, put a drop of oil and they are back running like new. I have had to do this numerous times already with my 3 year old R9 280x cards.

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I try and keep fan speed under 70 and temps under 75 and all has been fine so far. Just watch out for dust build up every couple of months.

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Mining 24/7 with any Nvidia card and not just GTX 1070 is 2 years minimum amount of life span. The lower the temperature of a PC component the longer its lifespan. I don't know if fans at 100% will last that long but if the GTX 1070 is from MSI one of the best brands in graphic cards I think they can last at least 2 years too.

My Nvidias 1060 3GB ,Palit and Gainward are mining since last November, no problems so far, both under 70 degrees and with 80% fan speed. I am using them heavily overclocked with +200 core clock and +750 memory speed so I think for 2 years you should have no problem.

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Quote from: umine on October 10, 2017, 02:52:20 AM

Quote from: Za1n on October 08, 2017, 11:56:25 AM

100% fan speed is not good as you will wear out your fans in no time. Best to try and keep fan speed below 70% for longer lifespan of the fans. Now you also need to keep the temperatures cool, your 60C is a good goal to aim for. You may need to separate your GPUs and either relocate them to an cooler environment or direct an external airflow over them such as a box fan. The other thing to watch for is power surges or brownouts. A good surge suppressor in front of your PSU is recommend.

As far as lifespan of the cards themselves, I have some 3+ year old cards still mining away. Their mining efficiency decreases over the years simply because newer more efficient cards are released, but they are still working just as good as the day I bought them.

But fans can easy be replaced and cheap enough. Fans are consumables. Besides fans with ball bearing have lifetime about ten and more years.

You can replace the fans, but many can not do this because of the warranty service. I for example can not really clean my 1070 turbo from the 3-year warranty.

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Quote from: Za1n on October 08, 2017, 11:56:25 AM

100% fan speed is not good as you will wear out your fans in no time. Best to try and keep fan speed below 70% for longer lifespan of the fans. Now you also need to keep the temperatures cool, your 60C is a good goal to aim for. You may need to separate your GPUs and either relocate them to an cooler environment or direct an external airflow over them such as a box fan. The other thing to watch for is power surges or brownouts. A good surge suppressor in front of your PSU is recommend.

As far as lifespan of the cards themselves, I have some 3+ year old cards still mining away. Their mining efficiency decreases over the years simply because newer more efficient cards are released, but they are still working just as good as the day I bought them.

But fans can easy be replaced and cheap enough. Fans are consumables. Besides fans with ball bearing have lifetime about ten and more years.

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Quote from: kapsel on October 09, 2017, 11:13:43 PM

Maybe I've been unlucky with my cards, but I have started mining last year in July, and I have 4 dead rx 470s on my hands. I got my money back from RMA process so it's not so bad, but it seems like my failure rate has been higher than anyone else. Prior to mining I have never RMA'd a single piece of hardware... And the cards were kept in good condition or so I thought, always below 70c in an open air bench.

Ive had a similar run. Of the AMD cards ive so far bought, ive had a failure rate of about 10% over the first year. Of the Nvidia cards, they haven't failed during usage, but about 5% were DOA. All of these were under warranty so RMA'ed but a pain nonetheless.

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Maybe I've been unlucky with my cards, but I have started mining last year in July, and I have 4 dead rx 470s on my hands. I got my money back from RMA process so it's not so bad, but it seems like my failure rate has been higher than anyone else. Prior to mining I have never RMA'd a single piece of hardware... And the cards were kept in good condition or so I thought, always below 70c in an open air bench.

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Quote from: shibob on October 09, 2017, 10:49:59 PM

I think 100% fans peed is not good idea, 70C is good enough for long-term operation, I always set fans peed limit at 85%, cards stay around 67-72C.

that's also what I set up with my cards though I'm just new into mining but reviewing inside and outside the forum let me learned about how to taking care of
my gpu better to keep your device in its safe setting so it can be last even if you will use it 24/7 don't look after the roi too quick better still to enjoy the profits
if the device last for much longer.

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Quote from: dagarair on October 08, 2017, 11:58:07 AM

long story short, they carry a 3 year warranty in the USA for EVGA. Their return process is spectacular so you have nothing to worry about till then =)

The new generations of cards are pretty hard to kill. Temp is the biggest problem and all the new cards thermal throttle rather than cook. As posted above, the fans are most likely the thing to go and can be replaced. This is the reason you start to see longer and longer warranties. If you get a good card that is working properly, you should get years out of it. I would think that you won't be able to efficiently mine with it before it dies.

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I think 100% fans peed is not good idea, 70C is good enough for long-term operation, I always set fans peed limit at 85%, cards stay around 67-72C.

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Just buy a little electric compressor (oil free) and clean your rigs every 2-3 weeks and the will go forever. Dust is the fan killer

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The TDP on that card is 94c. The reality is you can run it at 75c forever with no problems. Just set the fan to auto and set a thermal limit.

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I mine with 1070 EVGA's SC's and setup the fans at 55%. In open air frame the temp are stable around 60'C.
I dont use an additional fans for cooling.

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If there is no mechanical damage or problems with electricity, then the technician can work without rest as much as necessary. Shutdown in this case only bad, but fans can break down

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Quote from: MetaMiner on June 07, 2017, 03:30:39 PM

Hey guys,

I'd like to know from your experience, how much will this GPU last if I'm mining 24/7 below 60 degrees, 100% fanspeed?

Thanks !

How did you manage to get 60 degrees with 100% fanspeed? Where do you hold your card(s)? Is it in a desktop case? If that is the case, you should remove the side from it and no need to have fans over 70%.

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EVGA normally uses good dual ball bearing fans in their cards, so they SHOULD last a long time even at 100%.

On the other hand, pushing them that hard to keep the card under 60C is overkill - card should last quite a few years at 70C, and your fans will last a LOT longer at 80% or less of max.

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Quote from: MetaMiner on June 07, 2017, 03:30:39 PM

Hey guys,

I'd like to know from your experience, how much will this GPU last if I'm mining 24/7 below 60 degrees, 100% fanspeed?

Thanks !

The fans will probably break very quickly being at 100% all the time. Reduce the fan speed; I’m pretty sure that letting the cards run at 75°C would still be very safe. Thermal throttling only occurs at 83°C.

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long story short, they carry a 3 year warranty in the USA for EVGA. Their return process is spectacular so you have nothing to worry about till then =)

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100% fan speed is not good as you will wear out your fans in no time. Best to try and keep fan speed below 70% for longer lifespan of the fans. Now you also need to keep the temperatures cool, your 60C is a good goal to aim for. You may need to separate your GPUs and either relocate them to an cooler environment or direct an external airflow over them such as a box fan. The other thing to watch for is power surges or brownouts. A good surge suppressor in front of your PSU is recommend.

As far as lifespan of the cards themselves, I have some 3+ year old cards still mining away. Their mining efficiency decreases over the years simply because newer more efficient cards are released, but they are still working just as good as the day I bought them.

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Keep the fans clean and you should be fine.

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Quote from: PanneKopp on June 08, 2017, 02:47:40 AM

Hi,

to be serious, nobody can give a clear statement, because of the age of the product (missing long term experience).

If you choose optimal parameters like 70-75% TDP, 66-85% FAN and temperature below 70° C
your card should last at least for 2 years [EU warranty time],

but it also depends on the quality of the vendors FANs and VRMs
and the dust in your envirement.

Took the word from my mouth.

@OP, 100% fan speed all the time is not needed. Make your own custom fan graph and lower your speeds. 60 degrees is pretty good temp so you can freely lower your fans RPM, increasing their lifespan and lowering the noise.

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Hi,

to be serious, nobody can give a clear statement, because of the age of the product (missing long term experience).

If you choose optimal parameters like 70-75% TDP, 66-85% FAN and temperature below 70° C
your card should last at least for 2 years [EU warranty time],

but it also depends on the quality of the vendors FANs and VRMs
and the dust in your envirement.

Unacceptable

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Quote from: MetaMiner on June 07, 2017, 03:30:39 PM

Hey guys,

I'd like to know from your experience, how much will this GPU last if I'm mining 24/7 below 60 degrees, 100% fanspeed?

Thanks !

Well,just as an indicator,IF you keep temp at 60c or so....I have had 6 6950's since 2011 (sold em all on ebay last year) that never died,just a few fans & I found fans in china cheap & worked well.

Got a 7970 I bought in early 2013,still mining fine & no issues,it's a keeper,lifetime warranty Grin

So,the only issue you MAY run into is the fan dying,which if you look around you can eventually find...or do an ebonic engineering feat by being creative with zipties or whatever attachment device & a soldering iron Wink

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Likely longer than the card will be mining at that temp and longer than any normal user due to the lower stress put on the gpu with constant temps and no boot shock. Fans will likely be first to break if they break at all, and they can be replaced for almost nothing most of the time assuming non FE card. Also a great reason to not turn off computers when they're not being used lifetime is increased but electrical costs might be a little bit up.

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Hey guys,

I'd like to know from your experience, how much will this GPU last if I'm mining 24/7 below 60 degrees, 100% fanspeed?

Thanks !

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