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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Sixth alt coin thread I forgot to mod last thread.
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SCSI2
on 27/09/2017, 16:35:23 UTC

Finally! You got your 5th subscriber, Phil! Great video quality by the way.

Speaking of new vs slightly used Avalons... I usually can tell how well (or for how long) some piece of electronics was used by smelling the exhaust air. If it has a fan, the electronics aroma dissipates in a few weeks/months of 24/7 usage, especially when it's getting hot. It's like the new car smell. Plastics, adhesives, soldering flux and all the other good stuff.

For example, I can tell that roughly half of the 2400W Deltas I received from Parallel were very well used since they didn't give off any flavors whatsoever. A few were brand new and a couple appeared only slightly used. Two 750W HP PSUs from them were brand new. After sitting for a month at 50% load in my garage, the new ones don't smell anymore...

-scsi