Silent mining: Is it even possible? - page 2.

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Quote from: Geraldo on April 24, 2018, 07:50:10 AM

Quote from: rigproxy.com on April 24, 2018, 07:33:15 AM

He said "of course I don't want people to know I'm mining there".
So he wants to mine stealthily without being discovered by others or university network admin.

I am also curious about it.
Would be better to explain it in general (not related to op's case). Since you have those kinds of service, right? As far as I know, using VPN will increase latency, means more steal shares, right? May you can explain more, besides what I told.

The VPN will indeed increase the latency affecting the time to get job, time to deliver share and also time to restore connection if your ISP network quality is bad. So more stale share probability I confirm.
Assuming the university has probably a good connection to internet and considering the will of OP to keep its mining rig secret, I could only encourage him to use a VPN despite the counterpart of latency (because of a longer network route and the VPN transport layer added over TCP/IP), risk of more stale shares, ....

Rigproxy.com is not a VPN solution but a proxy. When you go through a VPN (online pro service, or at home with RPI/linux) or any other tunneling solution, the admin can only see your VPN target IP.
If you connect directly to Rigproxy, the network admin may know that you are mining so using rigproxy won't help for privacy and was never made for this purpose.

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Quote from: rigproxy.com on April 24, 2018, 07:33:15 AM

He said "of course I don't want people to know I'm mining there".
So he wants to mine stealthily without being discovered by others or university network admin.

I am also curious about it.
Would be better to explain it in general (not related to op's case). Since you have those kinds of service, right? As far as I know, using VPN will increase latency, means more steal shares, right? May you can explain more, besides what I told.

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Hi,

Why would you need to use a VPN for mining?
I don't think it's really necessary and just adds a source of possible connection issues.

Regards,
Nestade

He said "of course I don't want people to know I'm mining there".
So he wants to mine stealthily without being discovered by others or university network admin.

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Watercooling is a good solution (but expensive).
The other solution is to try with GPU max fan speed limit and temperature limit (in claymore or afterburner).

Try to have the max distance possible between GPUs and add silent FANs to your case to have a good fresh air flow.
You will probably not get max hashrate as the temperature limit setting will drop it but this is a silent solution.

Also hide your connection by going through a VPN.

Happy mining,

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get a Vega Liquid and you will be fine

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Quote from: swogerino on April 24, 2018, 03:44:07 AM

You have to water cool the case and the heat will not be a big problem , both corsair and enermax cases offer support for cooling radiator. In a full tower you can put up to 4 cards but I suggest max to add three to keep the noise at a comfortable level.

Nah, Water cooling needs a radiator and radiator fans. I believe those fans would produce enough noise to mess up OP's camouflage. Cheesy

But yeah, I agree that OP needs to test it. Will be better, but It will cost more.

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You have to water cool the case and the heat will not be a big problem , both corsair and enermax cases offer support for cooling radiator. In a full tower you can put up to 4 cards but I suggest max to add three to keep the noise at a comfortable level.

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So, those Full-tower case are camouflage plus to reduce noise that produced by the card, right? You were doing the right thing for those two things.

But,
You will be troubled by heat. That standard case not designed for mining process, even if your cards use a water cooling it wouldn't help, instead will cause noise that produces by radiators fan.

You need an open-air rig for mining (like above said), nor a lot of fan for the closed-air rig (with a good airflow system of course)

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Some way, You may lower noise levels on GPU mining rigs. However you can not make it "0"

I do not recommend any mining rig, even small, in your bedroom.

Because noise makes people feel very bad and anxious. You will lose more than you make.

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Dude, are you quite sure that will be a good idea? a good silent case can cost you a lot, like 150-200 dollars, are you sure that spending such amount for money is a wise idea? literally you are thrown away half of rx570 card?
The best option is to set up an open rig, the fastest and cheapest way to start farming

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Quote from: swogerino on April 24, 2018, 02:17:13 AM

You can go with a good case which is sure to have minimal noise. Corsair is one of the best brands but that case is a mid tower.If you truly want a super silent performance with up to 4 graphic cards inside I recommend you the Enermax Thormax Full Tower case.

Just google it as I am at work and I am using the phone because spies are all over me as in any other company I think.

well I was thinking about something more lowprofile, of course I don't want people to know I'm mining there, so I need a good case that looks more like an office case. THis Carbide silent series has a full tower too

https://www.amazon.com/Corsair-Carbide-Quiet-Inverse-Tower/dp/B016IAM7AQ

But wouldn't putting more than 2 cards be exponentially louder and hotter for a closed case? I said only two simply because of that, but I don't really know it to be honest, can't find any tests about this,

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You can go with a good case which is sure to have minimal noise. Corsair is one of the best brands but that case is a mid tower.If you truly want a super silent performance with up to 4 graphic cards inside I recommend you the Enermax Thormax Full Tower case.

Just google it as I am at work and I am using the phone because spies are all over me as in any other company I think.

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So, one of the reasons I finally created an account after so long of only lurking is that I'm thinking about buying some mining rigs. Thing is I have a "personal" desk as a masters student in my uni and could leave a pc there (with free energy of course), but the room has other 12 desks and people can't be bothered with the noise. Of course some noise would be ok, but it had to be something annoying only at very closerange.

But would using 2 cards in a silent case for example: 1) be really silent; 2) manage to be kept cool enough; 3)be worth the trouble?

About 3) specifically, I was thinking about, for example 2 rx570, which according to whattomine, profit is about 30% higher with free energy, in the long run it's a lot but if the costs of making the rig really silent and cool (good silent case, coolers and eetc), if even possible, be too much it's of course better to keep the mining rig at home.

I was thinking about this case for example,

https://www.amazon.com/Corsair-Carbide-Blackout-Ultra-Silent-Mid-Tower/dp/B00R0ZHWC2/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&qid=1493215821&sr=8-1&keywords=Corsair%2BCarbide%2BSeries%2B330R%2BBlackout%2BEdition&linkCode=sl1&tag=gpunerd05-20&linkId=ebfbf4a7c5ef7515d300e2ee202e4399&th=1

Anyone has had experience with this?

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