Topic: How dangerous is mining for your GPU? - page 2. (Read 50351 times)
If you choose to OC badly (eg. nonsensical voltages), then you can fry the cores. If you have good temps & OC ranges, then nothing bad may happen (personal experience). If you have a good cooling solution (Like XFX's Double Dissipation or some nice aftermarket ones (eg. GELID)), then you are all set for some conservative or normal OC.
With adequate cooling your GPUs are fine. Fans wear out. Running GPUs too hot increases the chance of localized temperature spikes that make kill some part of some transistor.
It only takes one weakest link to bring down the whole card.
Mining is not dangerous, overheating is dangerous.
It only takes one weakest link to bring down the whole card.
Mining is not dangerous, overheating is dangerous.
Well I just had my fan on my GPU go. Took it out, vaccummed it, but still makes a terrible noise when it spins. Does not seem user replaceable...
What model is your GPU, I should be able to tell you if you can replace the fan.
Yeah watch that dust its evil clean ur gpu whit high pressure air every 3-6 months specialy if u mine 24/7.
There are commands you can use with cgminer to ensure your temp stays good, I use this:
--temp-target 82 --auto-fan
--temp-target 82 --auto-fan
I don't see it as dangerous at all as long as you make sure that you have adequate cooling for your video card. That being said anything with moving parts that is constantly running is bound to fail one day.
Well I just had my fan on my GPU go. Took it out, vaccummed it, but still makes a terrible noise when it spins. Does not seem user replaceable...
Heed all the warnings about dust. It makes a HUGE difference in temperature. My card started having its fans go crazy just from gaming. I ignored it for a while then checked the temperature one day and it was over 90 degrees! Took some compressed air to it, back to normal.
So watch temperature, and clean your card regularly.
So watch temperature, and clean your card regularly.
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Dust your PC bits once a month, especially when you are maxxing your GPU out constantly. It will get caked in dust very quickly.
I've been dreaming of a pc air filter... Remove the side of your case, tape air filters to it and mount fans to it. Still a poor idea, so it stays in my head.
your not as crazy as you sound, some high end cases do come with dust filters on the front in fans reduces the amount of dust very nicely to
Heed all the warnings about dust. It makes a HUGE difference in temperature. My card started having its fans go crazy just from gaming. I ignored it for a while then checked the temperature one day and it was over 90 degrees! Took some compressed air to it, back to normal.
So watch temperature, and clean your card regularly.
So watch temperature, and clean your card regularly.
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Dust your PC bits once a month, especially when you are maxxing your GPU out constantly. It will get caked in dust very quickly.
I've been dreaming of a pc air filter... Remove the side of your case, tape air filters to it and mount fans to it. Still a poor idea, so it stays in my head.
Heed all the warnings about dust. It makes a HUGE difference in temperature. My card started having its fans go crazy just from gaming. I ignored it for a while then checked the temperature one day and it was over 90 degrees! Took some compressed air to it, back to normal.
So watch temperature, and clean your card regularly.
So watch temperature, and clean your card regularly.
everything fails at some point most card are only suppose to have a life span of around 100,000 hours but that said most do last longer people keep saying run your card so its nice and cool but they also forget that all the small circuits and resisters and VRMs are all points of failure after time they will fail (most of the time youve upgraded cards long before this happens) alot of fails are down to neglect and to much heat, in some way mining with a GPU can extend the life of the card as it dosnt have a cooling down period (this is where things like older GPUs, xbox360s and even PS'3 fail) without the card cooling down the metals such as solders dont expand and contract constantly so they dont crack or break causing blank sreen and 3red lights of death (xbox) or yellow light of death (PS3)
over all there are pros and cons to it but done correctly and well maintained you can get very long life spans out of GPUs
over all there are pros and cons to it but done correctly and well maintained you can get very long life spans out of GPUs
I'm thinking TriForce setup with water cooling 
Check for dust!
Thats probably the most important part of the game...
Thats probably the most important part of the game...
One of my customers cooked their graphics card recently mining for Bitcoins. Keeping your chassis free of dust and debris is a big help, also make sure you have sufficient ventilation to remove hot air - consider installing side exhaust fans as many graphics card coolers simply push air outwards towards to the side panel.
Also make sure you have a power supply capable of delivering your graphics cards power requirements - peak power is not acceptable. Use the table on the side of your PSU to check the current rating (amperage) of your +12V, then multiply by the efficiency rating. For example, 25A on a 80PLUS Bronze certified is 25 x 0.8 = 20A sustained.
Expect 24 months life out of modern graphics cards, the RAM will almost certainly fail before the GPU does, giving colorful visual artifacting in games etc.
Also make sure you have a power supply capable of delivering your graphics cards power requirements - peak power is not acceptable. Use the table on the side of your PSU to check the current rating (amperage) of your +12V, then multiply by the efficiency rating. For example, 25A on a 80PLUS Bronze certified is 25 x 0.8 = 20A sustained.
Expect 24 months life out of modern graphics cards, the RAM will almost certainly fail before the GPU does, giving colorful visual artifacting in games etc.
Tried with my Nvidia Quadro, temps are fine, but mhash are low
Use proper cooling!!! The better the cooling, the longer your Graphics Card will last.
I have 2 AMD 6870 cards OC to 980Mhz that had been running 24/7 for a whole year without any issue.
but do you play games with them and are they still ok, no artifacts?
I have 2 AMD 6870 cards OC to 980Mhz that had been running 24/7 for a whole year without any issue.
You can come to russia, this is very cold, your computer will feel nice there! 
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