Topic: Lowering power consumption as possible - page 2. (Read 263 times)
Since you plan on mining with solar you shouldn't have buy rx580 in the first place, you should have go with low power GPUs like gtx1650 and gtx1650 super or Ti, also I recommend removing the motherboard from the PC casing and get rid of the desktop fans leaving only the CPU cooling fan on, do not underestimate those fans they draw some power too
Do not believe whatever watt reading your miner software is showing you, that's not the actual power draw and the most energy consumption gpu on your list is that rx580, the Nvidia cards are less power hungry if compared to rx580, with rx580 your miner can say 75 watt but the real thing is rx580 will draw 100+ from the wall, here is two things you can do here
1. Remove hdd from the PC and start loading OS either windows or linux straight from USB drive, 16gb recommended if going windows 10
2. If you can change that i5 cpu it will help, find something lower like pentium CPU instead, they are less power hungry
3. Use mini monitors for display like in picture below
1. Remove hdd from the PC and start loading OS either windows or linux straight from USB drive, 16gb recommended if going windows 10
2. If you can change that i5 cpu it will help, find something lower like pentium CPU instead, they are less power hungry
3. Use mini monitors for display like in picture below
Hi pip I'm running my miners on solar and batteries and I want to lower power draw as much as possible, I've remove two RAM sticks and only have one onboard, any other things I can replace to limit power draw?
Pc config
Dell optiplex 370 with core i5 CPU
1x 4g ram stick
Three 1660 Ti and one rx580
Pc config
Dell optiplex 370 with core i5 CPU
1x 4g ram stick
Three 1660 Ti and one rx580
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