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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Any word on amd vega hash rates?
by
R0mi
on 23/11/2017, 17:48:04 UTC
How are you guys getting sub 50C temps hashing 2k on Vega 56s?  Are you blowing freezing air on them or something?  I'm at 68-70C doing 2k at room temperature and with a 120mm 5 fan array cooling.

I am using the Raijintech Morpheus II coolers.  I will say this about Vega thermal grease after cracking 9 of them apart.  Only one seemed to have good, fresh thermal grease. The other 8, which were brand new, had dried crappy looking thermal grease; sometimes it was applied quite thick, sometimes it was very thin and did not quite cover the GPU/HBCC.

This is very different from when I was opening up RX 480s.  The thermal grease was uniformly very good across every batch that I opened.

I suspect that some of the different experiences are related to sub-part thermal grease, or how it was applied.  But taking apart the Vega is not completely simple.  PM if interested.

And it is cold here in NY, which helps.