These are in reviews of the AMD cards, AMD themselves assured me this is normal although it seems hot. I have a case extractor fan and also a fan on top, to extract the heat as it rises. Watercooling seems like an option here!
Topic: My Etherium setup... 30 MH/s Any Reccomendations (Read 943 times)
This card runs at 90, apparently 95 is normal, although I have good case fan and ventelation
Do you live in really hot climate?
100c is when a GPU will shut down and some at 80c..
I would be very worried if anything about 85c.....
60-70c is good and even lower the better of course.
This card runs at 90, apparently 95 is normal, although I have good case fan and ventelation
Is that in Fahrenheit or Celsius? I suspect Celsius, and if so that is rather hot and will shorten the life of your cards. You imply these are in a case, at a minimum take off the case side to increase ventilation, or better yet take off the side and rotate the case so the open end is pointing up to maximize heat removal.
If you even want to get serious in the future with additional rigs, make them open air design (no case) to really open up the cooling. Plenty of examples to search for out there from the scrypt mining days.
You can always underclock and undervolt your cards to massively reduce heat production and power consumption.
I used to do it all the time when scrypt mining. Hashing output was reduced by around 10-20%, but heat went down from 85 degrees at 100% fan speed to 60-65 degrees at 50-70% fan speed and also power consumption was reduced by more than a third.
Net profit can increase due to the reduced power consumption and you also extend the lifetime of your hardware.
I used to do it all the time when scrypt mining. Hashing output was reduced by around 10-20%, but heat went down from 85 degrees at 100% fan speed to 60-65 degrees at 50-70% fan speed and also power consumption was reduced by more than a third.
Net profit can increase due to the reduced power consumption and you also extend the lifetime of your hardware.
This card runs at 90, apparently 95 is normal, although I have good case fan and ventelation
Are you using Linux or Windows?
I tried a Linux Live CD but, the client had pre-reqs and it looks like you need a full install. I get 10Mh/s currently in Windows 8 using one eVGA GTX 960 but, it crashes the driver after a few hours. It seems profitable especially at $12. I want to take the plunge and build a real mining rig however, I'm nervous the profits might not last and I'll regret it.
> Any recommendations as to what I should do with ETH?
I'd personally hold if you feel the price is stable and/or going up. Otherwise if you want to be conservative convert to BTC on an exchange.
I tried a Linux Live CD but, the client had pre-reqs and it looks like you need a full install. I get 10Mh/s currently in Windows 8 using one eVGA GTX 960 but, it crashes the driver after a few hours. It seems profitable especially at $12. I want to take the plunge and build a real mining rig however, I'm nervous the profits might not last and I'll regret it.
> Any recommendations as to what I should do with ETH?
I'd personally hold if you feel the price is stable and/or going up. Otherwise if you want to be conservative convert to BTC on an exchange.
You can search down cheap psu and cheap gpus - these you can resell for the same money more or less within 6 months if they don't break. Mostly it's the fans that go wrong. Mine used to leak some kind of oil and the gigabyte ones catch fire so don't have them near any kind of mosquito nets or stuff like that. This is rare though and only gigabyte 7950. I actually did catch fire to a small part of netting that was blowing near the machine. Luckily it only happened when I first turned it on so if i wasn't there then perhaps something worse.
However the good thing about gigabyte is they have a long warranty period and so do xfx so you can get free repairs or if it's fans just stick case fans on with high temp resin - actually works well. I like the sapphire cards most they are quiet and ive had no fan issues with those. Even better if you can get ones with 3rd party expensive coolers for the same price.
If you get lucky you can build a very cheap rig and if ethereum crashes you can keep for the next POW coin (sadly most are ICO now) or sell and you will not lose much other than postage and selling fees.
Sounds like you needed more fans/cooling..
Are you using Linux or Windows?
I tried a Linux Live CD but, the client had pre-reqs and it looks like you need a full install. I get 10Mh/s currently in Windows 8 using one eVGA GTX 960 but, it crashes the driver after a few hours. It seems profitable especially at $12. I want to take the plunge and build a real mining rig however, I'm nervous the profits might not last and I'll regret it.
> Any recommendations as to what I should do with ETH?
I'd personally hold if you feel the price is stable and/or going up. Otherwise if you want to be conservative convert to BTC on an exchange.
I tried a Linux Live CD but, the client had pre-reqs and it looks like you need a full install. I get 10Mh/s currently in Windows 8 using one eVGA GTX 960 but, it crashes the driver after a few hours. It seems profitable especially at $12. I want to take the plunge and build a real mining rig however, I'm nervous the profits might not last and I'll regret it.
> Any recommendations as to what I should do with ETH?
I'd personally hold if you feel the price is stable and/or going up. Otherwise if you want to be conservative convert to BTC on an exchange.
You can search down cheap psu and cheap gpus - these you can resell for the same money more or less within 6 months if they don't break. Mostly it's the fans that go wrong. Mine used to leak some kind of oil and the gigabyte ones catch fire so don't have them near any kind of mosquito nets or stuff like that. This is rare though and only gigabyte 7950. I actually did catch fire to a small part of netting that was blowing near the machine. Luckily it only happened when I first turned it on so if i wasn't there then perhaps something worse.
However the good thing about gigabyte is they have a long warranty period and so do xfx so you can get free repairs or if it's fans just stick case fans on with high temp resin - actually works well. I like the sapphire cards most they are quiet and ive had no fan issues with those. Even better if you can get ones with 3rd party expensive coolers for the same price.
If you get lucky you can build a very cheap rig and if ethereum crashes you can keep for the next POW coin (sadly most are ICO now) or sell and you will not lose much other than postage and selling fees.
If you want real results go with ETHOS
The best thing about GPU mining is unlike an ASIC it wouldn't become worthless if it turned out to be a pump and dump, I will keep hashing with this, I did buy a few ETH not long ago, I will hold some for now. My GTX 950 doesn't crash, the R9 290 runs hot but seems stable.
Jacob
Jacob
Are you using Linux or Windows?
I tried a Linux Live CD but, the client had pre-reqs and it looks like you need a full install. I get 10Mh/s currently in Windows 8 using one eVGA GTX 960 but, it crashes the driver after a few hours. It seems profitable especially at $12. I want to take the plunge and build a real mining rig however, I'm nervous the profits might not last and I'll regret it.
> Any recommendations as to what I should do with ETH?
I'd personally hold if you feel the price is stable and/or going up. Otherwise if you want to be conservative convert to BTC on an exchange.
I tried a Linux Live CD but, the client had pre-reqs and it looks like you need a full install. I get 10Mh/s currently in Windows 8 using one eVGA GTX 960 but, it crashes the driver after a few hours. It seems profitable especially at $12. I want to take the plunge and build a real mining rig however, I'm nervous the profits might not last and I'll regret it.
> Any recommendations as to what I should do with ETH?
I'd personally hold if you feel the price is stable and/or going up. Otherwise if you want to be conservative convert to BTC on an exchange.
I have etherium mining for the past couple of weeks with about 30 MH/S split across two GPUs. This seems to have a relatively good profit margin for me at the moment. I have been reading into etherium and a few people recommended it when I posted a topic a while ago, I do wish I begun to mine it sooner. I prefer the mining altcoins with GPUs because at least if the worst comes you still have a usable asset, whereas ASICs could become worthless.
I have been mining into my own paper wallet which I created on myetherwallet.com, the paper wallet has the private key and I am thinking to keep mining and holding for a while? Any recommendations as to what I should do with ETH?
I have been mining into my own paper wallet which I created on myetherwallet.com, the paper wallet has the private key and I am thinking to keep mining and holding for a while? Any recommendations as to what I should do with ETH?
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