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on: August 12, 2013, 05:16:11 AM

Thank you all for all the tips and suggestions! I really learned a bunch with all the information provided. I will definitely start my build up thread here to share my experience with everyone! Thanks again! :-) IGNORE THIS BELOW... Tags for other people to find this thread in search engines: Coldest mining rig? Lowest mining rig temperature? temperatures? Safest coldest mining rigs? Mining rig condensation? Cooling freezing temperatures for mining? What's what is the lowest temperature I can give to a GPU? GPUs? GPU's? Coldest mining rig? Low lowest temperature litecoin mining? Cold air flow for to my video cards?

on: August 10, 2013, 04:43:48 AM

Quote from: PenguinWriter on August 09, 2013, 07:44:06 PM The biggest issue is you'd have to worry about condensation which occurs when the delta temp between ambient air and air on the surface of an object falls outside of a specific range. As cold as you're pumping air onto it, if your ambient temp is too warm the condensation will form on the card and short it out. There's really no need to ever pull a card below ambient air temps unless you're either in a really hot climate or going for some extreme benchmark, but even if doing the latter, it's not good for mining for extended periods of time. Another very good sugestion. In my case I live in Connecticut US. So I will place my rigs in a room where the heater is controlled by one single thermostat that gives the same temperature in the whole appartment. So my idea is to built some ducts that grabs air from the outside that will be between 5 and 35 degrees fahrenheit. I can insulate the rigs very well because inside the room will be at 70 fehrenheit but the ducts will be flowing very cold air. I will give this a try with my HD 4850 because it's a poor video card and if it fails due to condensation I will try to post the results in this thread or maybe I can create my build up thread in this forum. Who knows? Thanks for participating PenguinWriter!!! I'm starting to love this forum! Lots of helpful members willing to help in anything they can! Thanks again to all of you! :-)

on: August 09, 2013, 07:09:10 PM

Thanks a lot Lethos! I will definitely consider about being careful with freezing temperatures. Obviously I don't want to have any kind of condensation in my $300+ video cards. I will try to keep them between 40C and 50C with the highest ambient temperature I can! Thanks again for all your suggestion guys! :-)

on: August 09, 2013, 02:19:40 PM

Wow thanks guys! That thing about the nitrogen is crazy. I'll stick to the cold air flow and try to keep the GPU's the lowest I can but I will be comfortable having them between 40C and 50C.

on: August 07, 2013, 12:06:27 AM

Thanks for the suggestion digit! Appreciated a lot! :-) Thank you very much!

on: August 06, 2013, 07:52:46 AM

I've found a very nice thread that answer my question a bit. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=62814.0;viewResults It still doesn't talk about the lowest safest but I guess I wont be able to get the GPU's lower than 40C and if I do I will worry to keep them at least between 40C and 50C. Anyways I still feel like 40C is pretty hot. But I guess is not like that for a GPU meant to be running over 60C.

on: August 06, 2013, 05:16:26 AM

Quote from: digit on August 06, 2013, 04:39:25 AM I don't think you need to worry about that. room temp is 25C, and it would be near impossible to keep any gpu that cool when it mining. airflow in the case should eliminate condensation issues. and 20C = 68F LOL! Thanks for pointing that out! I will fix the first post. Definitely my celsius to fahrenheit calculator is drunk! Also thanks for your suggestion. So saying that it's almost impossible to keep a GPU cool while mining then a better question could be: What's the lowest temperature someone is being able to keep a GPU while mining?

on: August 06, 2013, 04:34:07 AM

Here is a link that I found which is the most common one related to my question but still it talks about very low temperatures but it doesn't talk about the safest lowest. http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=72684 That thread talks about 30 celsius but that could be very dangerous. That's why I need suggestion from experienced people or good suggestion before I jump and start flowing -20 celsius air flow to my rigs because I saw someone else did without being sure if it was safe or not. Thanks a lot guys! Anything can help! :-)

on: August 06, 2013, 04:21:02 AM

Hello people! Newbie here saying hi and asking a question to know your suggestions. My name is Julio and I am planing to build a litecoin mining rig but... I've been searching Google and every question is about "maximum safest GPU temperatures" but I want to know what's the "MINIMUM safest temperature". In example: I have the ability to flow air to my GPU's of -20 celsius which is -5 fahrenheit and I can flow even colder air if I want to but I don't know what's the safest coldest air I can give to my GPU's. If anyone have experience or can share a nice suggestion that will be awesome. I know I don't want to send extremely cold air flow to my GPU's due to condensation but that's why I have the question. What's the lowest safest GPU temperature. Thank you very much! :-)

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