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I see many people have mining rigs in their rooms, some with 6+ gpu's.  Is the air quality bad?  I know that heated solder is bad for you.  So, isn't it unhealthy to breath in too much of the air coming out of a mining rig?

Not an issue at all.

its just hot air.  Solder takes a ton more to melt than that

The air is not unhealthy but i think i want sit with 6+ GPU´ Rigs in one room - it makes noise.

How do people work at foundry then?

What about radiation or stuff like that? I have 20 GPUs in my apartment.

It's not about radiation, it's more about emission, but if it's grounded OK - it's more about the noise.

lets not forget about the hot stale air and strong electromagnetic field.

The radiation can be an issue if you live close to a cell phone tower. Happened a year ago to some forum member. The cell phone company told him he must shut down his rigs because it causes interference.

Also if the equipment is very new there is small contaminants due to the flux burning off. After a month or so it should all burn off.

At least you will not pay the bill for heating during winter :D

Its not the GPU thats unhealty but you who are unhealthy. All that skin that you drop ends up into the nooks and grannies of the GPU. Thats why you should keep your GPUs in a room that is isolated from the rooms where the skin-droppers are living.

I just took a big inhale from my MSI aero 1070 Gtx's. Still alive and well.
Results may vary with different cards.

Yes, hot air mixed in with extremely toxic chemicals, beta and alpha radiation emissions due to the ghz frequencies, as well as proton emission decays due to the unique ethereum algorithm computation that happens inside the GPU will most likely fry your brain within a week if you stay within 100ft of more than 10 GPUs.

With 20 you should be dead already...

It really is no different than running a few computers in your home or office, same components. The miners may run a bit warmer and heat up and dry out your air, but other than that no real bad effect should come of it. As was mentioned, there may be some new component smell the first few weeks, but again that would be no different than any other new electronics in your house. If you are really concerned open up a window for some fresh air.

There may indeed be an increase in the RF noise floor which can cause some some other radio devices in your house to not function properly (RF remotes, WIFI, TV (off air) reception) but this usually only manifests once you get 20-30 GPUs running in a close area. I do not really think they will cause any health issues unless you are sleeping or living right next to a bunch of GPUs 24/7. By that I mean you would need to be within a couple of feet at all times, since RF radiation adheres to the inverse square law meaning every doubling of distance between you and the RF emitter, the power level decreases by a factor of 4. So the RF power at 2 feet will be 1/4 that of 1 foot, and the power at 4 feet will be 1/16th that and so on. If you put an obstruction in the way, such as a wall, this increases even more so just keep them in a separate room than where you spend a lot of you time.

It is not a problem if you have enough of airflow from your windows or you have placed your mining rig(s) in a big basement which has a lot of surface in square meters. If you keep your rig inside a room , small one without windows so the air is to heavy, all the dust that the fan of the cards make it is not healthy for you. The rigs I have together with friends we keep them in a big basement surface which we have rented and with good airflow, rarely we stay them, we check them from teamviewer and go there when we have a problem.

The rig I have at home ,I have it in my room, I keep my window of my room always open to have good airflow. In other words it all depends at how good you have placed your mining rig and how good of airflow it has.

That's also what I do also. Keep the window open and let the air flow.

Heated solder is bad because of the flux fumes. So, unless the GPU is releasing the magic smoke from its internals, you should be fine even with a couple of rigs.
The noise however, that's real pollution  ;D

Nah, so many unhealty product we are eating and drinking that this small amount of not so helty air will make no difference.
Mobile phone is much more damage tu us, radiation, non stop in touch with who know how dangerous materials made from...

There would really be residue specially on new miners which would eventually burn off later on. I cant see that the air been produced by these miners are healthy at all.Even it is just a warm air but thinking off those are being generated which do really have substance accompanied and the main concern is not actually the hot air but the noise that it do generates and since you are operating mining then expect these kind of things and get used to it.

I don't know that there is any major health concerns about emissions from the GPU cards. I do know that if you are in a small contained area that you better have a good air conditioner and a set of noise cancelling headphones. These rigs generate a heck of a lot of heat and noise, so more of a comfort concern versus a health concern in my opinion.

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You are actually unhealthy for you poor GPU´s that end up loaded with your tissues and having problems to properly cool. You should sleep outside the house for their well being  ;D ;D

:D :D :D :D
havent laughed so hard since last week.

I guess I am lucky. Those 20 GPUs didn't kill me yet...

The only radiation that is dangerous from a PC or Graphics Card is heat radiation  8)

🔥💣🔺😄 Its bad just like breathing air from a heated / cooled AC / heat pump / space heater 😄🔺💣🔥

I think more harm brings noise than the heated air. Or electromagnetic learning, so I would not advise you to sleep in an embrace with a mining farm.

I love the smell of it. It is not really a health hazard unless you stick your face close to the running GPUs for more than 8 hours a day. If you are always moving around then you're fine.

I have to say that I disagree, you should embrace your gpus. There a high correlation between a gpu's overall level of happiness and productivity in terms of hashrate. Social needs are a factor to consider, and is beneficial for both you and your gpu.

Nothing puts me to sleep better than the hum of a hundred gpus.

I basically consider them part of the family at this point and you should too.

I was sleeping next to 12 GPU's for more than a year and I'm still alive..
I think that the u are breathing the same air as it's going out of the vacuum cleaner.. :)

It's just a hot air unless some chemicals evaporate from mining rig chassis.

it's just hot air, not polluted air. but if you feel, you can buy air purifier anytime.

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The answer for your questions is no one really knows , you need to ask a doctor , but i am sure it's not your biggest life risk bro.

It seems that you live in a hyperbaric chamber with the mountain air and come to the computer as a nuclear reactor. Lol. You are on the streets goes a lot of cars blowing in the wind that raises dust and many other things. You can't walk the streets in a gas mask. The computer is part of our life and it is not more harmful than anything else.

I have 12 GPU in bedroom with me, and still good until now,

If you live in a dusty area the gpu fans break the dust particles into fine particles which fill the air in the room. Breathing this air for an extended period of time might lead to health problems later due to the inability of the respiratory system filtering the fine dust particles.

He just mentioned ETH mining. So it is safe for ZEC mining.

I think air is ok, but circulation can woke up dust from the floor, and overall air dryness is worse with prolonged finding near rigs

This is the only response that made some sense.

The bigger worry than breathing the air is the fire risk involved when running miners in your house. That is way more likely to kill you than breathing the air. Dust/dirt build up, loose connections, overloaded components, excessive heat, placing miners too close to flammable materials, all far greater concerns than the air quality. The air quality issue (if there even is one) can be alleviated to a great extent by simply cracking a window or two to vent in fresh air, but the fire hazards are a lot harder to mitigate.

Humidity will be around %40 at its best when you have a rig in the room. Its not good for your health.

Still we all using the electrical and electronic products in your anf my house. Since the hazardous release is from the material it contains the electrical wastages you will find the impure gases from that. You may avoid the heating issue by having your AC cooling in your home.
Breaking the windows making ventilation for that and all, we need to set up in the better air circulation.

Can you explain a little more what you mean?  Everyone says it's ok for your health, I'd like to know a little more why you think it's not good

Humidity level TOO low dries out your sinuses and can cause health issues.

 Humidity level too high tends to cause mold buildup and is VERY bad for you to breath that stuff for extended periods of time.


 I'm not sure where the actual numbers on "too low" are, but I suspect they are probably under 20% and might be under 10%.

This. I'm far more focused on keeping my GPU's in the 70 C temp range tops, making sure there isn't anything flammable too close, touching connectors to make sure none are getting hot or playing up etc. Also have to try and stay on top of dust to make sure it doesn't build up and block your GPU fans from working as effectively. I'm more interested in keeping good air quality to keep the dust away from the rig than worrying about my 'health'!

Heat is the problem.  Back in the early days of Bitcoin a guy had some computers mining BTC in his bedroom.  He closed the door and went to sleep.  He woke up the next day suffering from heat stroke.  He had to be taken to the hospital. Adequate ventilation and cooling needs to be considered as much as your GPU.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/a-minor-bitcoin-miner-injury/

 Every time someone comes up with an "idiot-proof" idea, a worse grade of idiot shows up.

 Odds are, if it got THAT hot in the room, his rigs were overheating and thermal throttling too.

Thanks for sharing.  I'm glad to see both points of view.  I do believe that there's a limit to how many rigs one should have in their room and am glad that my concern is a valid one.

The placing working hardware in living room is of course unhealthy. Mining rigs influence to humidity, temperature and noise. Shoudn't do that.
Just check humidity, tempereature and noise standart paramters for living space and compare that with real parameters in your bedroom with mining rig. It can terrible effect on nervous system, respiratory apparatus etc. at long-term exposure.

Harmless. That small amount of solder never gets to the point of outputting any kind of particle. If the solder got too hot, the unit itself would decay quicker, as the connections would begin to loosen. The biggest environmental hazard would be the entire chassis, motherboard fans and all, putting dust out the back. And that dust was already in the room, just has been collected and blown out.

I agree. I have a few computers in my living room. Quite safe.

If you have a spare room where you could put all your mining rigs with ventilation this will be the best thing to do.
I would not recommend putting mining rigs in the same room where you sleep. There are two factors loud noise and heat.
And most badly is the dry air that will be in that room.

I'm not a doctor, neither do I know anything about the science behind radiation or emission. But I've been in a large room with 20 rigs for multiple hours and was pretty wasted the day after. I think he combination of hot air + noise is pretty fucked up. So not a sustainable state at all.

Eh what?
I would've told them to move their fucking cell phone tower somewhere else.

Ok, but really - it is MUCH more unsafe if you breathe the laser printer air, or work near it if it's in use often.

If you live in a city, the air outside is way more toxic than any mining rigs. All your rigs are doing is circulating and heating up the air already in your rooms, dust may heat up too but you breathe that in every time so.

Don't worry about it! As long you're not got a breathing aide connected to the rigs I think you'll be fine. Just remember to open the windows and let some fresh air in from time to time.

circulation is really needed with this type of machine but there's no real harmed if you are talking about serious illness its just an ordinary
hot air coming out from the devices that you've got, its just needed a good ventilation for the benefits of your device health and your own
body as well just in case that there might be any harmed that bring out from the devices.

It could potentially be bad if you are asmathic. The amount of dust my mining rigs collect is insane. They're just like dust collectors. Now only if we could only get paid for collecting dust.

But seriously, GPU air should be harmless. Been breathing it in for almost a year now.

It's individually tolerability of hot air. But you need fresh air in the room, i.e good ventilation system. Otherwise - headaches and health problems.

Exactly!
I wouldn't worry about it at all. Just keep the room vented and thats it.

lol, what kind of questions. I can't belive it.  ::)

This is like asking if air from an electric radiator is bad :D

I'm picturing OP holding GPU up to nose and snorting it for a high.

Honestly, though, the noise would be more my concern.  My basement sounds like I have a jet engine in there.

hahaha my amd almost killed me

also temperature can be an issue.. free heat on winter but on summer my room was at 30-32 °C.. I have a 6x GPU open rig and a room of 5x6m , it rise the temp of +4 C..

Haha, during summer there were at least 50 degrees in the room with the rig since I had constantly 35-40 degrees outside

How bad is breathing in air from GPU's?

? no bad air i know of comes off of GPU ...... just a lot of heat that might be bad over time .

like some one else said some place else about mining

Bullshit, the normal system with banks, banknotes, coins etcetc pollute much much more. Bitcoin is much greener.

 I know it says Bitcoins ....

so mining in general is ok and no bad air .. are you sure there isn't some thing leaking in your house ? .... or are you asking to know ? .


if you can deal with the noise in the same room you sleep in, go for it , i can't and why i have a room in my houses basement sound proofed .


heated solder is also melting GPU's aren't.

The amount of sheer ignorance posted thus far is like looking at all the newbie posts asking if a 1070 can do 57MH/s on ethash.

Running one or 2 video cards at home most likely will not be the cause of your demise. Odds are you're more likely to get hit by lightning.

increase the number of cards, however, to a small farm and you are now getting higher particulate benzene, toluene, chlorobenzene, ethyl-benzene, xylene, styrene, benzaldehyde, and trimethyl-benzene in your air - especially if you don't have fresh air intakes.

While some of these chemicals occur naturally, the amount given off by PCBs as volatile organic compounds is multiplied by the number of devices being used as well as operating conditions like humidity, voltage and ambient temperatures.

I bought high quality VOC meter to monitor the air at my farm.

For myself, I run any new cards I get in an outdoor or ventilated setup for 2 months before putting them in a place with a lot less ventilation.

While a space heater may give off heat from warming resistive coils, it doesn't give off nearly as many VOCs as new carpet or a new video card does.

...i see only 2 problems having rig in an apartment or smaller house...but not life threatening...

1. noise...at the start the noise of vent's could me irritating...but u will get used to it...
2. lifting dust because of vents...

This.

I moved my rig to the balcony because I felt dizzy after installing my mining farm in my room.
May I add last time I felt dizzy was either from alcohol, I usually never feel this way otherwise.

After moving it two days ago, I do not face the same dizzines, it is mostly gone.

Life is generally unhealthy, and you can die any moment due numerous reasons ..... if your mining rig air quality is you main concern - you are doing much much better than millions of ppl around the world!

I've made 2 rigs in my living room. Putting those there only during winter. 23 degrees, feeling perfectly well. I like it ;)

I do had this when I got the gpu's new in box. When I used them on full load for mining a weird smell came from the gpu's.
This weird chemical newness smell :D
Smelled very chemical though/not good for your health smell. But was gone after a day.

I think a ventilated room is always a good thing even when you are not mining.

Nothing wrong in it.

Winter coming in the NE US.  Getting ready to add some more GPU style home heating. Love it when a plan comes together  8)

Don't worry nothing wrong with it.