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It does absolutely destroy the hardware through, even very early mining farms had the sole issue of the fans in the cards burning through their bearings. A loca
by RL_Quine 4y ago
It does absolutely destroy the hardware through, even very early mining farms had the sole issue of the fans in the cards burning through their bearings. A local electronics recycler had an entire crate of burned out ATX PSUs from some local mining operation, every single one of them had the fan melted off the hub. It's worth being aware that all silicon chips are temporary anyway, they all die to electron migration eventually.
- latchkey 4y agoI don't have fans on my cards. PSUs are generally shit (hand soldered) and that's not what we are talking about here.
- dropnerd 4y agodo most miners choose to run cards without fans because of known issues?
- latchkey 4y agoThe smart ones do. Fans are moving parts and require electricity. We also put 12 cards in a case instead of the usual 8 or 9. This means fewer other parts too... psus, mobos, ram, ssd, case fans... all of which use power.