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Title: 24/7 mining: how long will the hardware last? Post by: dille71 on January 03, 2014, 12:33:03 PM Hi, i have a low budget mining computer and i intend to let it mine 24/7 for as long as possible.
It is an AMD computer with a 500w PSU and radeon R9 270x gpu I use cgminer with the following command line -I 13 -g 2 -w 256 --thread-concurrency 8192 --auto-fan It produce 350-400khash and the temp is 70-74 degrees celcius Fan speed 1200-1500 rpm Is this ok for letting it mine all the time and for how long will it last? Title: Re: 24/7 mining: how long will the hardware last? Post by: hostmaster on January 03, 2014, 12:40:01 PM Hi, i have a low budget mining computer and i intend to let it mine 24/7 for as long as possible. theotractically it last forever. In real world it's depends on quality of electrocity, enviroment, dust, heat, vibration all influence. It is an AMD computer with a 500w PSU and radeon R9 270x gpu I use cgminer with the following command line -I 13 -g 2 -w 256 --thread-concurrency 8192 --auto-fan It produce 350-400khash and the temp is 70-74 degrees celcius Fan speed 1200-1500 rpm Is this ok for letting it mine all the time and for how long will it last? youneed to check heat time to time. If there is no problem then will last long. We servers works 24 hour and for years... Title: Re: 24/7 mining: how long will the hardware last? Post by: toTOW on January 03, 2014, 02:36:05 PM I have some old 9800GTX+ running H24 since their release ... they are still doing fine. (not mining, Folding)
But some older NV hardware (like the 4* 8800 GTS 512 MB I had) weren't as robust and all died ... On the AMD side, the only card that failed at me were a 4870 (fan died and got it replaced during warranty) and a 4850 (died because of high OC with volt mod). All other cards I had have been replaced, but the 3870 was still doing fine at a friend a year ago, and another friend is still playing with the 5770 I sold to him. If you don't push your hardware too hard (indecent overclocking / overvolting) and have a well sized PSU, everything should be fine for years, but of course, you can still have a few problems with flawed pieces of hardware, it happens. edit : oh and I forgot, always make sure that your air filters are clean, and don't forget to clean your heatsinks and fans periodically. Title: Re: 24/7 mining: how long will the hardware last? Post by: Circuit6 on January 03, 2014, 07:43:03 PM I have never experienced problems with my AMD GPU's. I was mining 24/7 with my gaming rig which has a GTX780, this recently just died and I have sent the card off RMA. As long as you keep the temperatures low as possible I do not think you will run into any issues.
Title: Re: 24/7 mining: how long will the hardware last? Post by: black_swan on January 03, 2014, 07:47:33 PM As far as I know (but I am not expert so it might be completely false!) electric components don't like to be turn on and off often so leaving your GPUs running 24/7 should only deteriorate fans. Also temperature is very important
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