Isn't 90C way to hot for the R9. All R9s run so hot. I had some 6xxx and they were never over 75-76C even during summer and with the fan below 75%
I 'm asking because i was thinking of buying one R9
Topic: Should I mine at home or put the gpu in a data center? (Read 1330 times)
Wow, there are a lot of you in here that are going to start a fire if you have the wrong rev GPU with letting these high temps run for months
I had a 6990 running at 102 degrees 24/7 for about 3 months. It was fine.
If the fan stops, though - don't keep going despite the temperature looking fine. That's usually because the card throttles down to save itself. But with no fan, it will eventually hit "smoke poured out" state.
If the temperature worries you, you could manually up the fan speed of the card. They generally top out at around 48-50% of max speed under load. I had my 6990 set to flat 70% - It sounded like a jet engine, but at least I felt more safe keeping it on during nights!
If the temperature on your CPU reaches 99 degrees, I'd look into replacing the thermal paste between the heatsink and CPU. If that doesn't help, get a better CPU cooler.
In regards to watercooling, it does help keep the temperature (and noise) down. But it is an extra cost, and optimally, you should maintain a watercooling system by checking for leakage every now and then and refilling the water tank every few months.
If the fan stops, though - don't keep going despite the temperature looking fine. That's usually because the card throttles down to save itself. But with no fan, it will eventually hit "smoke poured out" state.
If the temperature worries you, you could manually up the fan speed of the card. They generally top out at around 48-50% of max speed under load. I had my 6990 set to flat 70% - It sounded like a jet engine, but at least I felt more safe keeping it on during nights!
If the temperature on your CPU reaches 99 degrees, I'd look into replacing the thermal paste between the heatsink and CPU. If that doesn't help, get a better CPU cooler.
In regards to watercooling, it does help keep the temperature (and noise) down. But it is an extra cost, and optimally, you should maintain a watercooling system by checking for leakage every now and then and refilling the water tank every few months.
currently my mining rig has 3 cards in it and the temps are 90-92 degrees with 7 fans in the machine I was still freaking out when i first had it right up until someone told me to check the average operating temperature of the card, It turns out the particular cards I'm using are safe up to 117!!! degrees
are you insane???
I had an xfx 7950 that had a fan go out. While waiting on xfx to send me a new heatsink/fan (yea they send me parts) it was reaching 92c. I thought that it would be fine running a week at 92c. Well I was wrong. I woke up one day and that mining rig was off. I booted it up and smoke poured from the video card with 1 bad fan.
Moral of the story, keep your video cards under 90c for gods sake...80c if you want them to last more than 6 months.
What I do is put a box fan or circular fan on top of my mining rig blowing down, it gets the cold air right to the gpu fans where it needs to be. My 7970s dont go over 70c on a really hot day.
My 7950s dont go over 80c, the voltage unlocked ones rock a steady 73-75c
I forgot to say, the 20 celcius room wouldnt drop the card temperature down to 20 degrees, the card would still run hot, but it should be comparable to the current room temperature.
If the card runs are 90 degrees at home and home temperature is normally 30 degrees. you should expect the card temperature at to be 80 degrees if the data center temp is 20 degrees (although some temperature/math geek might be able to give a more scientific answer is actually incorrect)
If the card runs are 90 degrees at home and home temperature is normally 30 degrees. you should expect the card temperature at to be 80 degrees if the data center temp is 20 degrees (although some temperature/math geek might be able to give a more scientific answer is actually incorrect)
A GPU holding a temperature in the 90's range isn't that big of a deal. They're usually made to withstand those temperatures under load.
I'd be a bit concerned if your CPU/Motherboard got that hot, though. CPU generally shouldn't be above 80 degrees for extended periods of time.
I'd be a bit concerned if your CPU/Motherboard got that hot, though. CPU generally shouldn't be above 80 degrees for extended periods of time.
Well it really depends on the income vs cost. I would assume renting data center space just to host a single GPU would be far to costly to consider. when i did my electricity calculations i think i was running at about $0.18 cent per day per GPU.
if you can get a data center host for less than that please let me know :-)
Also the temperature you're running at isn't as high as you might think, I was shocked when my cards started running at 85 degrees when i cranked up the speeds (over clocking) the temps jumped to 97-98. i kind of freaked out as i assume you did.
currently my mining rig has 3 cards in it and the temps are 90-92 degrees with 7 fans in the machine I was still freaking out when i first had it right up until someone told me to check the average operating temperature of the card, It turns out the particular cards I'm using are safe up to 117!!! degrees
a much cheaper option to buying extra fans/adding liquid cooling or anything fancy, would be to buy some PCI riser cables and simply get the cards away from the other components - it might mean rigging up a frame for the cards to sit on but it doesn't need to be pretty, just functional (check out google images for funny looking mining rigs)
As for mining with your CPU, it sounds like it is running rather hot - in my rig one of the fans blows directly over the heat sink above the CPU, but then again the rig was built for mining so the guy i bought it off appears to know how to direct the air flow round the box properly (PCs i have bought in the past have been very hit or miss with directing the air and keeping things cool, it seems like they simply add fans so the box sounds like its on ;-) )
anyway back to your original question, It completely depends on the price at which you can get hosting - dont forget about the costs you can offset by having the miner running, by that i mean its december 3rd and im in the south of England and i havent turned the heating on yet :-) so im heating my house with 4 GPUs costing $0.18 each a day :-)
If I we're you I would mine from home, if you hit a good coin and get a decent profit, the cost of replacing the GPU will be marginal ;-) (I have had one of my cards running 24/7{ish} at intensity 17 - 85degrees since march and it hasnt dropped a khash so far.)
sorry to ramble on, i hope it helps a bit
all best
if you can get a data center host for less than that please let me know :-)
Also the temperature you're running at isn't as high as you might think, I was shocked when my cards started running at 85 degrees when i cranked up the speeds (over clocking) the temps jumped to 97-98. i kind of freaked out as i assume you did.
currently my mining rig has 3 cards in it and the temps are 90-92 degrees with 7 fans in the machine I was still freaking out when i first had it right up until someone told me to check the average operating temperature of the card, It turns out the particular cards I'm using are safe up to 117!!! degrees
a much cheaper option to buying extra fans/adding liquid cooling or anything fancy, would be to buy some PCI riser cables and simply get the cards away from the other components - it might mean rigging up a frame for the cards to sit on but it doesn't need to be pretty, just functional (check out google images for funny looking mining rigs)
As for mining with your CPU, it sounds like it is running rather hot - in my rig one of the fans blows directly over the heat sink above the CPU, but then again the rig was built for mining so the guy i bought it off appears to know how to direct the air flow round the box properly (PCs i have bought in the past have been very hit or miss with directing the air and keeping things cool, it seems like they simply add fans so the box sounds like its on ;-) )
anyway back to your original question, It completely depends on the price at which you can get hosting - dont forget about the costs you can offset by having the miner running, by that i mean its december 3rd and im in the south of England and i havent turned the heating on yet :-) so im heating my house with 4 GPUs costing $0.18 each a day :-)
If I we're you I would mine from home, if you hit a good coin and get a decent profit, the cost of replacing the GPU will be marginal ;-) (I have had one of my cards running 24/7{ish} at intensity 17 - 85degrees since march and it hasnt dropped a khash so far.)
sorry to ramble on, i hope it helps a bit
all best
I am planning to mine litecoin and other scrypt based currencies with a radeon R9 280X graphics card.A few days ago I tested my cpu to see if it could mine.While doing that when I suddenly checked the temperature after running it for almost 2 days bot the cpu and motherboard temperatures were at 99 degree celcius.I turned the mining off at once.I am lucky that both hardware are still running fine.
Now if I put the radeon R9 280X gpu in my pc what if temperature gets over 80 or 90 degree celcius while mining?At this rate the hardware will get broken very soon and I may even not get my investment back.Although there is warranty but it takes time to get it fixed.
I was thinking of buying a server with the gpu in it and than put it in a data center where they keep the room temperature controlled at 20 degree celcius through air conditioning.Still I am not sure if hardware temperature will stay at 20 degree celcius as it will keep generating heat.Can someone tell me about this surely.
At this point I cant figure out what to do,should I go with a server to keep the hardware running for long time(which I am not sure if its possible) or start mining at my home which I am not sure how long lasting it might be.Need your opinions about this.
Now if I put the radeon R9 280X gpu in my pc what if temperature gets over 80 or 90 degree celcius while mining?At this rate the hardware will get broken very soon and I may even not get my investment back.Although there is warranty but it takes time to get it fixed.
I was thinking of buying a server with the gpu in it and than put it in a data center where they keep the room temperature controlled at 20 degree celcius through air conditioning.Still I am not sure if hardware temperature will stay at 20 degree celcius as it will keep generating heat.Can someone tell me about this surely.
At this point I cant figure out what to do,should I go with a server to keep the hardware running for long time(which I am not sure if its possible) or start mining at my home which I am not sure how long lasting it might be.Need your opinions about this.
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