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This monitor in question is actually competitively priced to other high-end ultrawides though.
NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards
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Well notice how his video is talking about an older tv. The oled tech has changed a lot just in the past two years. I believe he’s using one of the new oleds for his monitor now, at least I thought I saw a recent video of that.
That 2017 you mentioned, yeah that’s pretty good for someone who probably won’t keep it on nearly that long, and the tech is way beyond that 2017 model now. New oleds are fine as monitors imo.
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So, I added thermal paste to my 3080 in Nov to get the 102C memory junction temps down to like 90C while mining, but now temps are up another 8C degrees. I'm watching it hover around 96C/98C most of the time and this seems too hot.
It seems like I've done everything I can to the physical card without liquid cooling it. What can/should I do to reduce the effort it's putting toward mining and reduce it another 10C?
[edit] I used pads not paste.
It seems like I've done everything I can to the physical card without liquid cooling it. What can/should I do to reduce the effort it's putting toward mining and reduce it another 10C?
[edit] I used pads not paste.
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I started mining mid April and have made like $1100, so I'd rather keep doing it!
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Did you actually factor in the cost of electricity and the cost of buying a 3080 only to melt it a year later?
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What is your average efficiency at? You can often get lower temps while getting higher efficiency via clock and power tuning. 94c is generally accepted as the temp you don't want to go over for card longevity.
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By average effeciency do you mean my hash rate? 88 to 90 MH/s. What do I need to clock and power tune?
In just under a year I have over $2,000 sitting in Bitcoin from mining on a 3080 system I paid $2,400 for (I use the PC for gaming too, so it doesn't even mine all day). I convert eth to BTC, and it will be even higher as BTC goes back up. Power cost was $137 for that time period. Yes it is worth it, and no, you won't melt your card as long as you do a small amount of due diligence on settings and monitor memory junction temp. Even if my card died tomorrow, I could buy another and still be ahead.
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There is hash rate, and then there is efficiency (amount mined per energy unit used). With tuning you can go for pure mh/s, or tune for higher efficiency (kH/J). I get about 440 kH/J with 94c memory junction and under 85% fan speed. I get 90-94 mh/s. If all I wanted was mh/s I could be getting around 100, but I would be at 100% fans and more energy use (dropping efficiency to like 350). You should be overclocking memory, underclocking core, and under-volting power. Nicehash's light miner actually had a tool that tests and then optimizes speed and power, or just fiddle with their suggested tuning for a 3080 to get a memory junction temp and fan speed you are comfortable with. Just use afterburner with profiles if messing around with recommended mining clocks.
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1080ti remotely useful for mining? Might have 2 computers as the 3080 i got was bigger than the other and might be too big.
As a big dumb dumb, any reason id maybe not want to do this on my 3080 in the 20 hours a day I'm away, assuming i push for efficiency and temps at like 90?
Litehash have articles on starting not just tweaking?
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I use the quickminer. I used the OTCTune and adjusted some settings to get it to where I hit the 94c with a lower fan speed and similar efficiency compared to the "optimal" setting the OTCTune came up with. You can also just plug in the setting similar with to the recommended base settings below and make sure it adjusts fan speeds and throttle to keep it at 94c or less. Afterburner is what to use for GPU clocks and voltage. I also adjusted fan speed curves in my case during mining to increase overall airflow. Based on most sensors it won't think it is hot in there because the CPU is cool and the GPU main temp is low, meanwhile the memory is pumping out tons of heat.
Base settings for overclocking if using the regular miner or a starting point for quickminer:
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Install HWINFO and make sure to run sensors and watch the "GPU Memory Junction Temperature." That is the setting you need to keep at 94c or less. Too many people think the card is fine with base settings because the GPU temp looks fine, meanwhile the memory junction is thermal throttling at 100c+, and efficiency is terrible. That is how you degrade a card quickly.
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