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Miners undervolt and often underclock though: heat is their enemy, so they’re more particular about this than gamers are these days.
by girvo 5y ago
Miners undervolt and often underclock though: heat is their enemy, so they’re more particular about this than gamers are these days.
- irq 5y agoTotally true- I went through the process of manually overclocking my 2080ti for max hash rate and the best settings involved setting a power limit that is less than half the card’s 100% limit.
- emmelaich 5y ago> Heat is their enemy Sometimes literally: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr8bp8a2QS4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr8bp8a2QS4 "A Bitcoin Miner Heatstroked In His Sleep. This Is What Happened To His Organs."
- hddherman 5y agoThey also sometimes do GPU BIOS modifications, which is a fun thing to discover once the card ends up on the second-hand market and you happen to buy one. Luckily the fix is to reflash the BIOS using a matching one from TechPowerUp GPU database, but this assumes that you even know that this is something to pay attention to. Source: happened with an RX 560 that I bought second-hand. Driver installation failed in Windows 10 due to the modified GPU BIOS. Was fixed with a reflash of a stock GPU BIOS using atiflash.
- solarkraft 5y agoAny idea what they modified?
- hddherman 5y agoI didn't check it, but if I had to guess, it might have to do something with allowing the card to run using settings that make it more suitable for mining. Someone more familiar with GPU mining can correct me here.
- impassionedrule 5y agoUsually memory timings, at least on my 5700 XT