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Title: GUIminer / pc crash Post by: N3vur on April 12, 2013, 07:01:10 PM Hi,
since I'm new and not allowed to post in a technical forum I will try to find some answers in here.. My PC crashed 2 times when is stopped the mining for guiminer... now, it seems that my grafic card (GTX 460) is broken. Any known issues? Thank you! N3vur Title: Re: GUIminer Post by: CoolIT on April 12, 2013, 07:11:08 PM 1- Is your computer running properly overall ? Can you play videogames ? If not, the issue is not with Guiminer but it is possible that you burnt your videocard. 2- Did you monitor your temperatures while mining ? Mining runs your GPU at 100% all the time. It is easy to burn out a card. 3- Nvidia cards are fantastic for games, but are lousy at mining. I am sorry, I don't think those are the answers you wanted to hear. If you are still interested in mining, I strongly suggest finding a used computer with a low end cpu... such as a Pentium4 or old single core AMD Athlon with 1 or 2 PCIE slots on motherboard... you can find these for 100$ Make sure the PSU is at least 450 to 500W depending on the GPU you will put in. Use an ATI/AMD videocard. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison Find a good used one that has a fair hash rate. Good luck Title: Re: GUIminer Post by: N3vur on April 12, 2013, 07:21:08 PM Thank you.
I already ordered a 7870 two days ago ;) Yes, I monitored my GPU temperatures, everything green (55°C @ 99% usage) The card is working again (I wrote the post above by using onboard vga). It seems, that its the mainboard or CPU which was damaged... I get the first pictures on the monitor after I logged into Windows. (also no UEFI screen with onboard or grafic card so i dont think its a OS/Software issue) I already checked the RAM, next will be CPU with prime. Any furhter ideas? Title: Re: GUIminer Post by: johnnyf on April 12, 2013, 07:55:38 PM Thank you. I already ordered a 7870 two days ago ;) Yes, I monitored my GPU temperatures, everything green (55°C @ 99% usage) The card is working again (I wrote the post above by using onboard vga). It seems, that its the mainboard or CPU which was damaged... I get the first pictures on the monitor after I logged into Windows. (also no UEFI screen with onboard or grafic card so i dont think its a OS/Software issue) I already checked the RAM, next will be CPU with prime. Any furhter ideas? Umh, just to mention, you could get two 7950ies. These are much cooler than the 7870ies. |