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It kinda feels like the mining GPU being bad myth when in fact miners nursed those GPUs like babies because their income depended on those devices.
by irusensei 3y ago
It kinda feels like the mining GPU being bad myth when in fact miners nursed those GPUs like babies because their income depended on those devices.
- namibj 3y agoTbf the fans may be broken on them, or at least not far from being broken. I.e., plan to waterblock it.
- epolanski 3y agoPeople forget there's decade old servers out there working 24/7. Anyway there's a Microsoft research paper on silicon which essentially says that failure rates of CPUs increase by mostly two factors: - cycles. The more calculations the higher the rate of failure - temperature/power. I will let you guess it by yourself. Even minor slips overvoltages and overclocks can enhance failure rates by magnitude of orders. Getting back to your comment: I would've chosen a GPU used for mining (if properly cleaned during its life span, far from a given) over years rather than one used by some kid benchmarking and overclocking any day. Because years of crunching calculations did very little damage in comparison to a kid trying to find the overclock limits for few days. Most mining GPUs were used undervolted and underclocked (especially as Ethereum mining was memory rather than core intensive).
- always2slow 3y agoIs this the paper you're referring to? https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2021/04/Zissou-Overclocking-ISCA21.pdf https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2021/0...
- epolanski 3y agoNot exactly this one. Maybe it's referenced at the end.
- coffeebeqn 3y agoWhen I ran a ETH miner for a little bit it was putting an insane amount of pressure on the video memory making it overheat since memory chips aren’t always properly cooled. It would crash my machine until I changed some settings. Never had such issues with any other workloads