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Title: Whats a good target temp for mining? Post by: tospace on August 21, 2012, 11:12:43 AM I recently got a dual fan 5850 (with a cleaned heatsynk). I'm trying to not run the fans too fast because I hear they go out quickly on the dual fan ones, one of them already rattles in certain positions when I got it but it was supposedly underclocked and used in lan party computers
Right now I have clocks at 920/500 and auto fan speed so its running at 88c/78% fan speed pretty constant right now. I'm not sure what I should do on a costum fan curve if any. I could lower the fan speed 10-15% with it costing only around 5c maybe so I'm just trying to get a good balance. So yeah, I just want to know what the highest temp I can run my card at constantly for a few years :P. Thanks Title: Re: Whats a good target temp for mining? Post by: SSSSer on August 21, 2012, 06:26:42 PM i stay cards at 70C. this is good temp and makes cards last, but fans don't.
Title: Re: Whats a good target temp for mining? Post by: jwzguy on August 21, 2012, 06:30:27 PM I recently got a dual fan 5850 (with a cleaned heatsynk). I'm trying to not run the fans too fast because I hear they go out quickly on the dual fan ones, one of them already rattles in certain positions when I got it but it was supposedly underclocked and used in lan party computers Right now I have clocks at 920/500 and auto fan speed so its running at 88c/78% fan speed pretty constant right now. I'm not sure what I should do on a costum fan curve if any. I could lower the fan speed 10-15% with it costing only around 5c maybe so I'm just trying to get a good balance. So yeah, I just want to know what the highest temp I can run my card at constantly for a few years :P. Thanks I wouldn't run it nearly that high. I make sure mine stay below 70. You're quite right to worry about your fans. The best solution I found was pointing one of these across a row of cards. I got one for each machine: http://www.laskoproducts.com/max-performance-pivoting-utility-fan-model-u15700/ That said...you're not going to have to worry about running them for years. Maybe the next 2 months if you're lucky. Title: Re: Whats a good target temp for mining? Post by: SSSSer on August 21, 2012, 07:31:45 PM i think asic will come not this year, but next.
Title: Re: Whats a good target temp for mining? Post by: jwzguy on August 21, 2012, 07:37:03 PM i think asic will come not this year, but next. Not sure if that really matters to GPU miners. Difficulty is currently estimated to go up another 12+% in 3 days. We're running out of time. |