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• dragontamer 4y ago
  > low operating temperature Debatable. A lot of these miners are keeping their GPU-stations inside of a garage with no air-conditioning (so 90F+ temperatures, maybe 100F+ ambient). These miners are going for the cheapest-of-cheap conditions, they weren't running a datacenter, but a mining operation. I'm willing to bet that the vast majority of them never paid attention to airflow issues. Closets, garages, maybe even sheds. While GPU cores are underclocked and undervolted (but not necessarily), the RAM is going to be processing at full tilt as quickly as possible, possibly overclocked and overvolted and therefore at even higher temperatures. -------- Finally, buying used means having a very ambiguous warranty. You might not have anyone to send the GPUs to. Its generally not a good idea, especially now that new-prices of GPUs is below MSRP. Honestly, we're not getting a temperature graph of these GPU's life. We're only getting assurances from some cryptobro that they treated their GPUs correctly (and no offense to the cryptobro community, but... there's a lot of lying scammers out there). Its not a trustworthy community at all.
  • danachow 4y ago
    No disagreement on any of this - I would not trust the second hand miner stuff wasn’t treated like shit myself either.