Occasionally, I have to clean and lubricate the graphics cards' fans on my mining rig. As it is an open case, dust can easily get into the parts, and I have to go in there with some keyboard cleaner and oil. The reason for the open case is because it is a lot easier to make changes to the rig when upgrading or when diagnosing problems. The other reason is that there is a lot of heat generated from multiple cards and it is harder to fit so many cards into a closed case (there exists GPU server chassis, however).
Recently, I found one of the cards had a stopped fan, and it was not responding in the mining software. I thought it just needed a little cleaning and lubrication to the fans, but this was not the case. It turned out the fan motors themselves had burned out. I found a replacement online, and installed it:
Here is the rig back in operation!
Interesting chore that can actually make money for you!
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Your frame looks great, very solid built! Where did you get it from or is this a DIY thing?
Will post about my newly created rig, soon.
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I found it on eBay!
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Maybe I'll put a tutorial on the stuff I'm building... mind telling what all your mining?
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I've mostly been mining Ethash coins (Ethereum and others) and Equihash coins (ZCash and others) because they are the most profitable for GPUs.
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Thanks
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This looks nice, I wonder if it makes lots of noise.
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Thank you! And yes, it's noisy and hot!
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Thanks for responding, good luck with mining.
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what graficcards do you use to mine?
how much power does this consume and what hashrates do you get?
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These are AMD R9 280X from MSI. The whole rig consumes about 1000 Watts. On Equihash, I get 300 H/s with Claymore's miner.
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Awesome blog post!
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@Styxer Thanks!
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Thank you for lend me steem power, I will use it wisely :)
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very nice set up .... keep it up
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its great :D i hope one day i will have same :D
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thanks!
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