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just brew it! wrote:It's only "free money" if you don't pay for your electricity.
whm1974 wrote:just brew it! wrote:It's only "free money" if you don't pay for your electricity.
This. Even getting it for free the high powered GPUs required for mining can get really expensive if there is a run on them. And BTW how often do miners replace their GPUs?
whm1974 wrote:just brew it! wrote:It's only "free money" if you don't pay for your electricity.
This. Even getting it for free the high powered GPUs required for mining can get really expensive if there is a run on them. And BTW how often do miners replace their GPUs?
freebird wrote:Don't forget all crypto coin mining is taxable according to the IRS.
southrncomfortjm wrote:Any idea what the life span is for a good quality consumer GPU that is running at 74c and 15% fan speed (650-700 rpm) for 24/7?
Yan wrote:southrncomfortjm wrote:Any idea what the life span is for a good quality consumer GPU that is running at 74c and 15% fan speed (650-700 rpm) for 24/7?
My temperature is much lower, and my fan is much faster. It didn't occur to me to do it the other way around to avoid wearing out the fan. Perhaps that makes more sense.
southrncomfortjm wrote:Yan wrote:southrncomfortjm wrote:Any idea what the life span is for a good quality consumer GPU that is running at 74c and 15% fan speed (650-700 rpm) for 24/7?
My temperature is much lower, and my fan is much faster. It didn't occur to me to do it the other way around to avoid wearing out the fan. Perhaps that makes more sense.
I don't feel like 74 is a really high temp for a GPU, but maybe I'm wrong. I'd rather wear out a fan than melt something.
just brew it! wrote:It's only "free money" if you don't pay for your electricity.
Redocbew wrote:Are fan failures really that common? I can't remember the last time I had a fan fail on anything even for old, sad, dirty machines brought to me by family members.
Redocbew wrote:Are fan failures really that common? I can't remember the last time I had a fan fail on anything even for old, sad, dirty machines brought to me by family members.
southrncomfortjm wrote:No idea really. It just seems like fans would be the first thing to go after a few million revolutions.
Captain Ned wrote:southrncomfortjm wrote:No idea really. It just seems like fans would be the first thing to go after a few million revolutions.
Um, do the math on a 7200 RPM hard drive running 24/7/365.
Captain Ned wrote:southrncomfortjm wrote:No idea really. It just seems like fans would be the first thing to go after a few million revolutions.
Um, do the math on a 7200 RPM hard drive running 24/7/365.
Redocbew wrote:Are fan failures really that common? I can't remember the last time I had a fan fail on anything even for old, sad, dirty machines brought to me by family members.
southrncomfortjm wrote:Captain Ned wrote:Um, do the math on a 7200 RPM hard drive running 24/7/365.
How does that help? It's fans v. multiple spinning platters, plus the hard drive is also executing writes and reads, so there are multiple possible mechanical points of failure. All a GPU fan does is spin with no other moving parts in the GPU.
southrncomfortjm wrote:Plus I'd have to assume that, assuming everything else is equal, something spinning at 1000RPM last more than 7x longer than that same thing spinning at 7000RPM.
Bad comparison. Next?
just brew it! wrote:Though with the practice of using larger diameter, lower RPM GPU fans these days, I expect that GPU fan failures are much less common than they used to be 10+ years ago.
Captain Ned wrote:southrncomfortjm wrote:No idea really. It just seems like fans would be the first thing to go after a few million revolutions.
Um, do the math on a 7200 RPM hard drive running 24/7/365.