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Quote from: WellRozey on August 11, 2022, 03:27:54 AM

Trying to safe pennies over quality will humble you few months or a year later when mining crypto, today I almost but down my house thank God I just went down to a store nearby, should have knew but I am sick with cough and catarrh so my nose is not working right.

Don't buy cheap risers
Don't buy cheap Pcie extender cables ( that's what I did ), in fact don't go cheap on your setup than buying cheap GPU, other parts are very important, that includes the power supply as well.

Thanks for sharing.I am also interested in mining but you teach me about what setup should I make.

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Quote from: WellRozey on August 11, 2022, 03:27:54 AM

Trying to safe pennies over quality will humble you few months or a year later when mining crypto, today I almost but down my house thank God I just went down to a store nearby, should have knew but I am sick with cough and catarrh so my nose is not working right.

Don't buy cheap risers
Don't buy cheap Pcie extender cables ( that's what I did ), in fact don't go cheap on your setup than buying cheap GPU, other parts are very important, that includes the power supply as well.

Good thing that the fire did not burn your whole place down- though it is very unfortunate to hear that your video card got burnt.

A few questions on my mind: is your place properly ventilated? Where is your mining rid also located? How is the climate on your country? These factors affect ultimately the outcome of your mining rig as it directly affect the proper temperature required for the rig to properly function. But you are right, there are no shortcuts to mining and purchasing cheap products to substitute for some parts would likely cause the issue of this.

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I'm not a miner but when it's come to building PCs and miners, you really don't have to be the cheapskate guy on your rigs and builds. I do follow mining groups and they always tell that never to be too cheap on the parts because for each part that you try to be cheap, you'll never know if it's just an imitation and low quality. Good thing that you are safe and you can still go on with your next builds and this is a lesson learned not just for you but to those that have plans of setting their budget too low and try to pick the cheaper ones but unknown qualities.

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I am very careful with all devices and often check their cables, even though I am not a miner, but the house/apartment can also catch fire from a short circuit caused by a TV, microwave or a regular desktop computer. If you are going somewhere for a long time, always disconnect all unnecessary devices from the socket, so not only will you prevent a possible fire or damage from a lightning strike, but you will also save some electricity because the devices consume even in standby mode.

When it comes to mining, some may cause a fire, while others lose their lives, which reminded me of a case from a year ago.

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37-year-old police officer Maja Marković died due to an unfortunate combination of circumstances - namely, on the glazed terrace of the apartment, she and her husband kept several computers that were used for cryptocurrency mining. On that day, it started raining in Belgrade, and the unfortunate owner wanted to move two computers from the open terrace into the apartment.
In the process, as it turns out, she touched the power cable of one of the computers, suffered an electric shock and died on the spot.

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Quote from: Kalchef on August 12, 2022, 01:42:50 PM

Quote from: Taskford on August 12, 2022, 05:54:06 AM

Quote from: WellRozey on August 11, 2022, 03:27:54 AM

Trying to safe pennies over quality will humble you few months or a year later when mining crypto, today I almost but down my house thank God I just went down to a store nearby, should have knew but I am sick with cough and catarrh so my nose is not working right.

Don't buy cheap risers
Don't buy cheap Pcie extender cables ( that's what I did ), in fact don't go cheap on your setup than buying cheap GPU, other parts are very important, that includes the power supply as well.

Aside for picking a quality hardware check also your cables if this one installed right by fully skilled electrical engineers or electrician. Also don't forget to do monthly maintenance by checking your lines so that you can avoid any such incident. Lastly maybe much better if you don't do mining at home since putting it there will give you huge risk about losing everything since imagine how devastating you experience today. Maybe this is good learning experience and bounce back again since for sure this is just a challenge for you.

Mining at home gives you a better monitoring chances right under your nose, you move the rig into your store or garage is more risky because you are in your room and your mining rig is in the garage, if a spark in the socket happens you won't quickly now until things start burning up.

That's why frequent maintenance should be done to make sure that your miners are in good condition and its better to separate it few meters to your house so that if there's something trouble that may cause fire to your units you can avoid getting more damage since your house is safe compare if you put it on one of your room where risk is so huge just like what happen to OP. The only key on that is proper maintenance and if you can do it daily much better since safety is important thing to make your money continuous flow on your rigs.

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Quote from: Taskford on August 12, 2022, 05:54:06 AM

Quote from: WellRozey on August 11, 2022, 03:27:54 AM

Trying to safe pennies over quality will humble you few months or a year later when mining crypto, today I almost but down my house thank God I just went down to a store nearby, should have knew but I am sick with cough and catarrh so my nose is not working right.

Don't buy cheap risers
Don't buy cheap Pcie extender cables ( that's what I did ), in fact don't go cheap on your setup than buying cheap GPU, other parts are very important, that includes the power supply as well.

Aside for picking a quality hardware check also your cables if this one installed right by fully skilled electrical engineers or electrician. Also don't forget to do monthly maintenance by checking your lines so that you can avoid any such incident. Lastly maybe much better if you don't do mining at home since putting it there will give you huge risk about losing everything since imagine how devastating you experience today. Maybe this is good learning experience and bounce back again since for sure this is just a challenge for you.

Mining at home gives you a better monitoring chances right under your nose, you move the rig into your store or garage is more risky because you are in your room and your mining rig is in the garage, if a spark in the socket happens you won't quickly now until things start burning up.

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Quote from: WellRozey on August 11, 2022, 03:27:54 AM

Trying to safe pennies over quality will humble you few months or a year later when mining crypto, today I almost but down my house thank God I just went down to a store nearby, should have knew but I am sick with cough and catarrh so my nose is not working right.

Don't buy cheap risers
Don't buy cheap Pcie extender cables ( that's what I did ), in fact don't go cheap on your setup than buying cheap GPU, other parts are very important, that includes the power supply as well.

Aside for picking a quality hardware check also your cables if this one installed right by fully skilled electrical engineers or electrician. Also don't forget to do monthly maintenance by checking your lines so that you can avoid any such incident. Lastly maybe much better if you don't do mining at home since putting it there will give you huge risk about losing everything since imagine how devastating you experience today. Maybe this is good learning experience and bounce back again since for sure this is just a challenge for you.

WellRozey

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Quote from: UserU on August 11, 2022, 10:30:07 AM

Yikes, hope it's just the GPU that got burnt and not the other components.

I got lucky, the burnt GPU was partially burnt and it still works, and the GPU extender is the one that melted, cant handle the power draw I guess, this is a rig with 8 graphic cards using just 950-1000watts from the wall... Thanks for your replies @ everyone

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Quote from: UserU on August 11, 2022, 10:30:07 AM

Yikes, hope it's just the GPU that got burnt and not the other components.

What? It's better for other components to burn than the GPU 😆 lol, bro GPU is more expensive than PSU for mining crypto.

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Yikes, hope it's just the GPU that got burnt and not the other components.

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I had a bad experience when building my first crypto mining rig, I cheaper out on PSU because it can power up to 12 graphic cards and since in planned to use a low to medium range of cards I just went ahead and made the purchase, this PSU killed on of the cards on that very same day I received the PSU, bad wiring from the factory was revealed to me when I opened the PSU apart, I will never forget.

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Quote from: WellRozey on August 11, 2022, 09:31:57 AM

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Even in PC building for gaming, I never cheap out your PSU.
I am not a crypto miner, but I had kept this in mind for plenty of years of doing my hobby of PC building. Usually when getting PSU, I stick to reputated brands like Corsair, EVGA, Seasonic, though that does not mean that you won't have bad PSU, the chances of your PSU being a ticking time bomb is just unlikely.

I can still recall back in the days when my 4 pin ATX power connector burned then I realize that it was like one of those flexible cables that you're talking about there. Good thing it did not take my whole rig with it.

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Quote from: jackg on August 11, 2022, 05:25:38 AM

I'm curious to know if there are good ways to tell the difference and what stops this from being an accident that could've happened with more expensive PSUs?

I'd guess cheaper parts have thinner cabling that can't handle the power going through them and maybe poor insulation/none in some areas of the wiring too.

Cables that comes with cheaper parts are too flexible compare to premium parts, try buying a PSU with Chinese names on it and a Corsair PSU you will see what I talking able, the flexible cable is what mostly cause fire or start melting.

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I'm curious to know if there are good ways to tell the difference and what stops this from being an accident that could've happened with more expensive PSUs?

I'd guess cheaper parts have thinner cabling that can't handle the power going through them and maybe poor insulation/none in some areas of the wiring too.

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This is a warning for crypto miners so I believe this topic belongs in alt mining section, will be good if you can move it there, I have heard some funny stories about mining PSU and china is the place where you get all kinds of cheap parts that might ruin your mining rig, the only thing worth buying from China is graphic cards but when it comes to PSU, Motherboard, Risers and others use Amazon, talking from experience.

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Quality is what makes the difference in anything be it electrical materials to whatever you can think of. No matter how cheap an item might be it's dangerous to patronize as you stand the risk of short life-span for such product as it's durability is questionable and you have to spend more in getting another again whereas you could have just bought an original and move on for longer years and less risk.

This also applies to cryptocurrencies, as a trader avoid cheap coins it will only end you into loss unlike bitcoin that has been well tested and trust for year now.

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Trying to safe pennies over quality will humble you few months or a year later when mining crypto, today I almost but down my house thank God I just went down to a store nearby, should have knew but I am sick with cough and catarrh so my nose is not working right.

Don't buy cheap risers
Don't buy cheap Pcie extender cables ( that's what I did ), in fact don't go cheap on your setup than buying cheap GPU, other parts are very important, that includes the power supply as well.

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