newmz
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January 22, 2018, 08:22:15 AM |
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Hi - I've been mining for 2 years now and I have never seen a setup like this. Are you using a closed design purely because of the noise or is it also because it looks "neater" or "cleaner"?
The reason I'm asking is because I believe that open air is always better if you can do it, for many reasons. All the obvious ones about ventilation, etc but also because you can see everything and I have often worked out problems because I can actually see that one GPUs fan isn't turning for example, or whatever.
If your problem was noise, did you consider water cooling? I know it's expensive but you can improvise with big systems by using radiators that are meant for small vehicles or motorbikes and irrigation or aquarium pumps. The only thing you get screwed on price for is the blocks that fit your GPUs. It looks like you have spent a lot on the case and all the fans, etc but I guess water cooling would be much more expensive?
I used to mine with AMD R9 290s (same hash-rate for ETH as a 1070 but twice the power consumption) and I had 3 of them that were reference design. AMD's reference design for the R9 290 and 290X used a blower style cooler, and when it's blower/fan was at 70% or more it sounded like a cross between a lawn mower and a dentist drill. I water-cooled those 3 and they were silent and took huge overclocks but stayed at 60 degrees celcius or less. If you can find any affordable way to water-cool I recommend it, but "affordable" often means DIY so it all depends how good you are at making stuff yourself.
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