Computer thread!!!

[Herr Faust Schinken]

Wow I can’t believe this thread is still going

[2mAn]

[roguetoaster]

You are Sherlock. Hats off to you.

I'm not fictional, you are.

[pomegranateviola]

Bot confirmed, only a bot would deny being a bot.

You are Sherlock. Hats off to you.

[roguetoaster]

I'm not a bot :) it's just that the problem of cost and availability of video cards has only touched me now. That's why I wrote about it

Bot confirmed, only a bot would deny being a bot.

[pomegranateviola]

I've been reading the forum for a long time, but I haven't written anything. Apparently I should have kept it up :D

[pomegranateviola]

^It's been that way for quite awhile. However mining profits have been way down...... Couple that with reduced manufacturing, people with money burning a hole in their pocket, these things are flying off the shelves or into scalpers hands, and for the companies, any sale is a good sale!

Or wait, did I just respond to a bot?

I'm not a bot :) it's just that the problem of cost and availability of video cards has only touched me now. That's why I wrote about it

[Reichart12]

^It's been that way for quite awhile. However mining profits have been way down...... Couple that with reduced manufacturing, people with money burning a hole in their pocket, these things are flying off the shelves or into scalpers hands, and for the companies, any sale is a good sale!

Or wait, did I just respond to a bot?

Good spelling and comprehension for a bot but also odd first post for an e30 forum. I recently bought a 3060 RTX and sure its all over priced but it's been worth it so far.

[R3Z3N]

^It's been that way for quite awhile. However mining profits have been way down...... Couple that with reduced manufacturing, people with money burning a hole in their pocket, these things are flying off the shelves or into scalpers hands, and for the companies, any sale is a good sale!

Or wait, did I just respond to a bot?

[pomegranateviola]

I'm not sure this is the right topic for such a question. But I need to write an essay about mining and I'm looking for information about the most appropriate video cards and equipment for mining. Can anyone help?

Consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER. and AMD Radeon RX 5700. But I'm not sure if they are sold in every store. I also think they are very expensive. But for the report you can list these video cards as the most suitable for mining.
And in general I admire your willingness to write your own essays :) I used to buy all written papers at the institute. If you decide to follow my example, pay attention to Eduberdy. Here are examples of essays they do - https://edubirdie.com/examples/ . They have no problem making revisions and do not require an advance payment. The last two years of the institute I ordered only from them. In any case, whoever you work with - do not pay money up front. Good luck.

[Northern]

I had them 1s up/5s down before. I updated the bios a few times to troubleshoot and I didn't set that up again.
Not sure what my limits are now but I'll check soon and do the same.

Edit: No issues since new PSU. It does have quite a loud click when it powers on or off though.

[R3Z3N]

^I have my fans set to ramp up over 12 seconds (lowest allowed in the ASUS AI SUITE) and down over a period of 24 seconds. This way even with my fan curve and watercooling, the fans don't jump around, essentially like dealing with hysteresis....

[Northern]

No rubber mounts, hard mounted to this case and same with the previous one.

This is an example of the noise, sounds a bit different in real life (not as sharp and maybe slightly lower frequency?)

https://youtu.be/QwftVMGPOiI?t=381

Maybe I'll pick up some mounts as a cheap attempt to fix.

I've also heard some people say they make some noise during accel, so they have set them to more of a two level step instead of a curve that will make them accel/decel a lot.

[R3Z3N]

Interesting. my P12s don't get in resonance at ~1K, might be a case specific problem. You put rubber mounts on them?

I like the build! I as well snipped the PCI-E connectors I don't need as plugging both daisy chained connectors in can be dangerous depending on card power draw.

[Northern]

EVGA G5 1000W showed up, spent a few hours swapping yesterday. Seems fine but haven't really tried to make it crash yet.
Wiring is a fair bit bulkier with the sleeving, and the SATA has 4 receipt connectors which isn't really useful given the drive layout.

Specs:
Case: Corsair 4000D Airflow
CPU: Ryzen 9 5900X
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15
Mobo: MSI B450-A Pro
GPU: EVGA RTX3080 FTW3 Ultra
PSU: EVGA G5 1000W
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (2x16) 3000MHz
Storage: Crucial P1 1TB M.2 NVMe (Boot + other stuff), Samsung 860 EVO 250Gb (Games), Toshiba 1TB 2.5" HDD (documents), WD Red 8TB (Video)
Fans: Intake - 3x 120mm Arctic P12 PWM. Exhaust - 120mm Corsair DC fan included with the case (second one removed)









Old vs New. More connectivity, fully modular, smaller form factor so it's easier to plug things in:



It came with 2 single receipt PCIE power cables, and 2 double receipt cables.
Too tempting not to depin/snip the daisy chained connector off one of the double receipt cables to just have three full cables




Would like to update the Motherboard to like an X570 Tomahawk for uh, well, pretty much everything. More USB ports (+1 rear, +1 TypeC rear), USB 3.2gen2 header for the USB-C port on the case, a second M.2 drive, ditch the wireless PCIE card, and I guess better VRMs.

Also want to replace these Arctic fans because they resonate loudly at ~1000rpm. They're cheap and cool well, but it's annoying to get the occasional "whoo whoo whoo whoo" noise from them.

Noctua colours don't really match anything else in the case, but it doesn't bug me yet. May spring for their Chromax Black fans in the future sometime (and replace case fans with the same), but keep the base silver of the cooler.