Gaelium (GAEL) mining

[nc50lc]

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You need to take into account the technical aspects of mining with older graphics cards. In my view, graphics cards should be replaced every 5–7 years, provided they haven't been used for hot algorithms and have been well-maintained.

This perfectly shows FP91G's experience on mining rigs.

For example, I had a few RX570 cards from when ETH mining was booming, had to underclock their VRAM frequency after a few years due to similar issues.
After they're decommissioned, I found out that most of the have developed "hidden issues" on their VRAM when used on something more heavy like gaming.
Works perfectly on idle or low resource usage but after reaching certain VRAM frequency, it freezes the machine.
Issues are similar to some of the cards so it must be its heavy VRAM usage during mining.

[FP91G]

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You need to take into account the technical aspects of mining with older graphics cards. In my view, graphics cards should be replaced every 5–7 years, provided they haven't been used for hot algorithms and have been well-maintained.

This perfectly shows FP91G's experience on mining rigs.

For example, I had a few RX570 cards from when ETH mining was booming, had to underclock their VRAM frequency after a few years due to similar issues.
After they're decommissioned, I found out that most of the have developed "hidden issues" on their VRAM when used on something more heavy like gaming.
Works perfectly on idle or low resource usage but after reaching certain VRAM frequency, it freezes the machine.
Issues are similar to some of the cards so it must be its heavy VRAM usage during mining.

I try not to wait for those moments to arrive; instead, I sell off my graphics cards. While it is possible to run them at lower settings, there’s already no profit to be made as it is, so using lower settings would just make mining completely unviable. If a graphics card can still pass gaming benchmarks, I sell it and purchase newer models.

[gaelium]

I try not to wait for those moments to arrive; instead, I sell off my graphics cards. While it is possible to run them at lower settings, there's already no profit to be made as it is, so using lower settings would just make mining completely unviable. If a graphics card can still pass gaming benchmarks, I sell it and purchase newer models.

Can confirm the VRAM thing, been through it.
I had 5 rigs with 6 RX470s each, same hardware everywhere, and still some were rock stable and others kept freezing.
Always figured one card or another had a problem... never found which one.

And yeah, when you've built and set up the rigs yourself it's better not to be too far away.
Basement is usually a good spot, the attic a lot less in my opinion.

Selling them while they still pass gaming benchmarks makes sense, that's probably how most of them end up with gamers anyway.
And it must be exactly the same with cards used for AI.
Since most of those will hit the second hand market one day, I think gamers are in for some nice crashes... 

On the other hand, running older cheap hardware also saves you from big investments, with GPU prices being what they are right now.

I'm messing around with a local AI myself and struggling to upgrade it, hardware prices are crazy, even second hand.

[FP91G]

I try not to wait for those moments to arrive; instead, I sell off my graphics cards. While it is possible to run them at lower settings, there's already no profit to be made as it is, so using lower settings would just make mining completely unviable. If a graphics card can still pass gaming benchmarks, I sell it and purchase newer models.

Can confirm the VRAM thing, been through it.
I had 5 rigs with 6 RX470s each, same hardware everywhere, and still some were rock stable and others kept freezing.
Always figured one card or another had a problem... never found which one.

And yeah, when you've built and set up the rigs yourself it's better not to be too far away.
Basement is usually a good spot, the attic a lot less in my opinion.

Selling them while they still pass gaming benchmarks makes sense, that's probably how most of them end up with gamers anyway.
And it must be exactly the same with cards used for AI.
Since most of those will hit the second hand market one day, I think gamers are in for some nice crashes... 

On the other hand, running older cheap hardware also saves you from big investments, with GPU prices being what they are right now.

I'm messing around with a local AI myself and struggling to upgrade it, hardware prices are crazy, even second hand.

If the logs don’t make it clear which graphics card is causing errors, you can identify it through indirect signs for instance, by checking the temperature -it will be lower or the fan speed -the fans will be spinning more slowly. Sometimes, however, the issue lies with the risers or the electrical contacts, I’ve occasionally had to spend an entire week right next to the mining rigs to figure it out.

[Akka 007]

Gaelium’s KawPoW algorithm is notorious for frying VRAM, so those "hidden issues" are likely permanent silicon degradation from excessive heat. Treat this project with extreme caution; it’s less about community building and more about burning through your hardware.

[nc50lc]

Gaelium’s KawPoW algorithm is notorious for frying VRAM, so those "hidden issues" are likely permanent silicon degradation from excessive heat. Treat this project with extreme caution; -snip-

If you're responding to my post with the same quote, that wasn't caused by Gaelium mining.
That was quite a long time ago during Ethereum mining era.

But yeah, it's applicable to this coin as well but that's pretty much unavoidable on such algo.
Better take FP91G's suggestion to sell them in time before those issues develop given that they already paid for themselves.