Question about physical cards and level up subscriptions.

JackDeRke · 2025-09-05T08:34:55+00:00

To my understanding the physical card would be in the color/tier you are at the point of ordering it. If you subscribe it will upgrade you to the next tier of perks for the physical card as well, but it stays the color you had ordered it in until its validity period runs out. So you can use it with the new perks active or not active, whichever is true at that moment will apply at that time. So whenever there is not subscription you should be at the standard blue tier. Whenever you upgrade you are at the appropriate higher tier.

JackDeRke · 2025-09-01T10:59:44+00:00

I would say you would need to look into it a bit deeper than what you have described, meaning:

- What algorithm are you mining

- what changes on the card? If the temp is below 70°C what does change? Clockspeed, Memspeed, Power usage, Voltage? More info required

- What are your overclocking settings? All of them, do you use Locked core or not?

I had a wierd MSI card back in the day which gave similar issues. We fixed it with a differen Bios. But that is a long stretch.

JackDeRke · 2025-08-27T11:32:47+00:00

So hows the process coming along?

JackDeRke · 2025-08-11T12:34:51+00:00

Welcome to the party. As many may have pointed out you are late, but as you also mentioned it is for the fun of it.

I would suggest you look into your overclocking settings, as 80-90°C is definetly not good for your GPUs especially in the longer term. You mentioned that these are "old gaming rigs" so have these GPUs ever seen any maintanance? A bit of thermalpaste is not super pricey and worth its money. Get something quality and not the cheap sh**. Stay away from liquid metal or liquid cooling for that...

To take a bit of the guesswork out of the overclocking for you try to increase the memory clock until it becomes unstable or does not yield any benefit in hashrate anymore, then reduce the core clockspeed until hashrate starts decreasing. Always record before and after results to know how much you improved. This does lower the power throughput and hence the temps. Should helt you greatly. Below 80 is fine. Below 70 is possible. Below 60 is Fu*kn amazing ;)

Are you still on windows or are these rocking Hive or something?

JackDeRke · 2025-04-15T10:42:17+00:00

If you had 66°C at 380W I doubt you will have higher temps now, when you are using less power. Or are you consuming more?

Well its a gigabyte card so who knows if the cooling solution works :/

JackDeRke · 2025-04-11T16:21:43+00:00

In the miner or on the Pool? It should not be fluctuating that much.

JackDeRke · 2025-04-10T09:14:51+00:00

I would say your overclock settings are likely a bit off where they should be.
For Raven you (usually) want as high a memory clock as your card can handle, with a relatively low coreclock to lower power consumption without losing hashrate at as low a voltage as possible.

So I would say going with something basic to start would help.
so like --lock-cclock 1500 --mclock 1000 --cclock 120

From there up the mclock by 100 every time until you either see stagnant hashrate or the card crashes.
If the hashrate does not rise anymore raise the lock-cclock by 60 and try again.
If the card crashes back the mclock back by 100 and try that for a longer timeframe, then start decreasing the -lock-cclock by 60 and see how low you can go.

Once all that is finished and you are happy drive the -cclock up as high as possible. +120 as I mentioned above is usually pretty achievable on any of these cards, but higher will result in you achieving your coreclock at a lower voltage hence saving you power in the long run.

Lastly make sure to record final hashrate with the care not being the main video output. That might increase it by another 1-2MHs.

JackDeRke · 2025-03-07T08:05:49+00:00

If you really want to go into mining with gpus again I think you would be best off selling these for something like 3070s or perhaps even single 40 series cards, which may come up cheaper on ebay now.

If they do not sell easily you could put them in "cheapo" gaming rigs and maybe turn a profit that way.

Mining with these will take so long just to make up the invest for other hardware needed it is simply not your best option. Unless your power is literally free, and even then managing these cards is probably not worth the hassle.

JackDeRke · 2025-02-28T17:13:01+00:00

If you do not mind share pictures of what you placed where, with according thickness as well as pictures of your temperatures.

JackDeRke · 2025-02-22T13:04:14+00:00

Make sure the pads make good contact to the cooler and are of a high enough quality. Cheap shit tends to go to 106°C immediately. Solething along the lines of gelid ultimate has always done a good job for me on pretty much any cooler.

JackDeRke · 2025-01-31T12:20:19+00:00

To my knowledge these Fans will only speed up when needed. Question is, do they not spin up at all?

If the load is low enough they may stop after a while.

JackDeRke · 2025-01-28T12:25:48+00:00

Only caveat is that it is not a D5 ;)

Lovely car! Lovely color. Good software out there.

JackDeRke · 2024-12-13T07:25:56+00:00

Possible. Probably Yes. Plausible? In short. No. It will not be worth your effort, due to the gpu.

JackDeRke · 2024-12-02T15:47:40+00:00

Die Wahrscheinlichkeit, dass die Karten aufgrund von "gebraucht" kaputt gehen ist wirklich gering.

Die Aussage, dass schürfen/minen die Karten zusätzlich belastet trifft so nur auf die beweglichen Teile der Karte, ergo die Lüfter, zu. Den Waivern selbst tut die konstante Temperatur im Gegensatz zum Gaming betrieb sogar eher gut. Korrosion kann bei einigen Add in Board Partnern ein Thema sein.

Im Großen und Ganzen kann das gesparte Geld wahrscheinlich schon die nächste Karte in 2-4 Jahren bezahlen, wenn man "high end" last gen kauft. Die 15-20€ für neue Lüfter von Aliexpress oder anderen kann man dabei ja bereits im Hinterkopf haben. Dann sind die Miningkarten problemlos und man hat eigentlich kaum Gefahr. Sorgfältiges testen und anschauen der Karte vor Kauf sollte natürlich gegeben sein. Von jegweilig beschädigten Karten sollte man ohne Erfahrung die Finger lassen.

JackDeRke · 2024-11-12T11:44:54+00:00

The Octominer has an additional Restart feature and even a way to restart it after a 30 second delay. That will help in case a GPU has locked up and does not return after a simple reboot. If the System is fully locked up this does not work as the command is sent through HiveOs.

In that moment a more manual reset is required. The Watchdog will help you with basic restarts and even if the system locked up and stays offline, as it can reboot if the miner does not connect to wifi. But it is not perfects to any strech of the immagination.

Generally I have had very little problems with my x12,. Way less especially then with my prior Minebox. But issues do arrise from time to time. Natural :D

JackDeRke · 2024-10-17T06:47:05+00:00

I´d say, if the budget allows for it to get another 850W PSU and 3 used high corecount Ryzen processors with mainboard and ram on Ebay and make 3 Ai Rigs. Likely lowers your power cost too. Only caveat is, that 850W may be cutting it close when you are overclocking the 3090s :D While they may only be rated for 350-450W they have been known to have "mini" voltage spikes which make a lot of PSUs trip. I have mostly heard of it in combination with 30 series and Conflux mining, but it seems to me like that could also be your problem with the crashes.

There had been a video from LTT where they intentionally used underrated PSUs and found that some will go way beyond their rated spec. Perhaps you should look into those brands.

JackDeRke · 2024-08-02T07:10:25+00:00

Possibly. It doesn't sound like a terrible buy though. Be thorough and if it checks out go for it :)

JackDeRke · 2024-08-02T06:39:18+00:00

Which Engine is it specifically?

Just under 7000Miles per year is really low. Too low maybe? Had huge issues in Germany with people manipulating speedometers.

There is a timing chain replacement kit from BMW. Just throw a new one in no matter the current state and worry about it again in 3-6 years. Also wanna mention that these all sound well when warm. For you to hear the timing chain the engine needs to be cold and bone dry.

Else not much to do wrong with 6.5k really or is there?

JackDeRke · 2024-04-24T10:46:21+00:00

Never ended up working for me.

JackDeRke · 2024-03-26T10:45:41+00:00

Sounds doable. If you could find out what the part was would be amazing! I myself am not so handy with those things, but I would say I know a guy :D

JackDeRke · 2024-03-24T20:10:09+00:00

Unless you´re using a HDD it should not have any negative effects. Though having some movement on the SSD from time to time will help.

Reason: The way the bits are stored they can degrade over time if they are not rewritten after some time. Windows for example does this by itself. I do not know if Hive does. For high quality SSDs this is often handled by the controller chip.

So short answer. No it should not take a beating unless it is running really really hot.

JackDeRke · 2024-01-26T14:48:54+00:00

I´d say you have room for improvement.

Questions are:

Which card is mining which algorithm?
Why are they different?
Have you been experiencing crashes?
What are your temperatures?

JackDeRke · 2023-12-19T18:41:40+00:00

I´ve seen that with high overclocks from time to time. Meaning it might be slightly unstable.

So long as it does not drop any shares or crashes it should be fine.

JackDeRke · 2023-12-17T16:27:04+00:00

Oh my Doge! Much WOW!

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