Your mining rig is wasting electricity (DO THIS NOW!) - Sebs FinTech
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Date: 2022-04-19
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Chris
I ran 220V to a sub panel to get rid of a buddy's use of extension cords all over the house plugged into 120 outlets. I also sold him some power distribution unit strips (PDUs) that monitor the overall power used and power used by EACH plug. 2 exact same computers tested shown that each actually used different power levels over time. So purchasing expensive professional PDU strips to monitor power use by each rig is not a bad idea. Also, you can remote control each plug also.
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I ran 220V to a sub panel to get rid of a buddy's use of extension cords all over the house plugged into 120 outlets. I also sold him some power distribution unit strips (PDUs) that monitor the overall power used and power used by EACH plug. 2 exact same computers tested shown that each actually used different power levels over time. So purchasing expensive professional PDU strips to monitor power use by each rig is not a bad idea. Also, you can remote control each plug also.
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Johan
Now in these times this is even more important. My electric price has first gone up by 33%, then just now like 50% more. It's barely profitable for me to mine at all right now. My last three month was electric bills in 7000 SEK per month ($780) , and I'm living in an apartment. Sweden doesn't have that good prices on electric anymore. January and beyond, if I continue mining should be something 10000-14000 SEK ($1350) a month.
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Now in these times this is even more important. My electric price has first gone up by 33%, then just now like 50% more. It's barely profitable for me to mine at all right now. My last three month was electric bills in 7000 SEK per month ($780) , and I'm living in an apartment. Sweden doesn't have that good prices on electric anymore. January and beyond, if I continue mining should be something 10000-14000 SEK ($1350) a month.
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Sand
Thanks for the great tips! Always learning from this community. So if I understand what you say about psu gold and other standards, what it's said about HiveOS not showing true wattage, is not completely true. The OS may display really true GPU wattage, but because of the PSU efficiency (or lack of it) , what we see at the wall is other truth! GPU wattage + PSU inefficient wattage = Wattage at the wall. What do you think?
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Thanks for the great tips! Always learning from this community. So if I understand what you say about psu gold and other standards, what it's said about HiveOS not showing true wattage, is not completely true. The OS may display really true GPU wattage, but because of the PSU efficiency (or lack of it) , what we see at the wall is other truth! GPU wattage + PSU inefficient wattage = Wattage at the wall. What do you think?
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Victor
Some mining software report an efficiency (hashrate per W) value for each card. Is there any table or guide regarding how much efficiency should you try to get from each card model? It would help me know if I'm in the ballpark of the average good values that my cards can get or if should keep tunning them.
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Some mining software report an efficiency (hashrate per W) value for each card. Is there any table or guide regarding how much efficiency should you try to get from each card model? It would help me know if I'm in the ballpark of the average good values that my cards can get or if should keep tunning them.
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Roberto
Thanks for the video, Sebs. I think is important that everyone to calculate what is the cost of increasing, for example, 1 Watt/day x 1 month and see if this give a better hashrate. Then, compare with the Mining profitablity in MH/s/USD per day. Today is, 0.0594 USD. ( ETH Minnig).
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Thanks for the video, Sebs. I think is important that everyone to calculate what is the cost of increasing, for example, 1 Watt/day x 1 month and see if this give a better hashrate. Then, compare with the Mining profitablity in MH/s/USD per day. Today is, 0.0594 USD. ( ETH Minnig).
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longshelton
This was very informative. I wasnt really thinking about that initially when I started mining.
3060x3 plus a 3060ti it gives about 9.00 on Ethereum at 450watts. Can anyone tell me if thats pretty good? Thanks
Next I am making an raven coin rig with 580 4gb cards.
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This was very informative. I wasnt really thinking about that initially when I started mining.
3060x3 plus a 3060ti it gives about 9.00 on Ethereum at 450watts. Can anyone tell me if thats pretty good? Thanks
Next I am making an raven coin rig with 580 4gb cards.
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ZaPpaul
I have been trying for a while now to explain why you should look mostly at increasing your efficiency when mining, unless you get free electricity. There is little point in increase hashrate if you are only giving your profits to the electricity companies.
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I have been trying for a while now to explain why you should look mostly at increasing your efficiency when mining, unless you get free electricity. There is little point in increase hashrate if you are only giving your profits to the electricity companies.
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Spurious
Besides underclocking and undervolting, you can also disable Hyperthreading/SMT and disable unnecessary cores directly in the bios in order to replicate a lower wattage CPU. Useful given the rarity and cost of lower wattage CPUs due to demand.
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Besides underclocking and undervolting, you can also disable Hyperthreading/SMT and disable unnecessary cores directly in the bios in order to replicate a lower wattage CPU. Useful given the rarity and cost of lower wattage CPUs due to demand.
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3rd
PSU efficiency ratings are not always to be trusted. Gamers Nexus has addressed this several times. Maybe you can compare the ratings within one brand but even that is suspect. Trying to compare efficiency ratings between brands is nearly futile.
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PSU efficiency ratings are not always to be trusted. Gamers Nexus has addressed this several times. Maybe you can compare the ratings within one brand but even that is suspect. Trying to compare efficiency ratings between brands is nearly futile.
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lordspam
I took my 6800 xt off my rig and put it in my gaming pc. Problem I'm having is I can't get msi afterburner to lower the power more than 15%. Anyone know how to resolve this? Also, so running 50% load on a psu is the most efficient?
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I took my 6800 xt off my rig and put it in my gaming pc. Problem I'm having is I can't get msi afterburner to lower the power more than 15%. Anyone know how to resolve this? Also, so running 50% load on a psu is the most efficient?
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