Quote from: twofreckles on October 03, 2016, 07:02:08 AM

I am just wondering how stability looks under Windows.

Currently I have 2 rigs (both with 6 GPU's) running under ubuntu, GPUs with flashed bioses:

1st rig - over a month without a single crash or restart
2nd rig - the same amount of time, froze once.

Results as above are awesome for me, however there is bigger power draw from wall using ubuntu when it comes to Rx 470 and Rx 480. So considering switching OS.

The only concern for me is stability. Do I have to expect more crashes? Please share your experience. How often do you have to check rigs, or maybe there is no bigger problem and under windows rigs can work for months as well? Thx in advance.

Windows 10 is pretty rock solid IMHO when it comes to mining. Like the the other posters suggested, your biggest headache is Windows itself. Disabling the power saving features, especially sleep, and also disabling (or setting to deferred) Windows updates are the two biggies.

I also disable the hibernate feature to free up some SDD space which I use to increase the swap file size. Claymore recommends 16 GB with his miner, which I have never witness this much being used, but for the most part once your rig is setup and running there is not a lot of need for the extra SDD space anyway.

I have had Windows 10 rigs running constantly for well over 2 or 3 months at a time with no issues. I believe they would easily go much longer, but I find myself rebooting them once in awhile, mainly due to updating mining software or drivers. You probably don't need to reboot them as often as I do, but this also gives me a chance to give them a quick once over for cleaning. As my rig count becomes greater I find myself obsessing over things such as dust build-up and heat.