Learn from my mistake. I recently bought two used GPU's for much lower than market price, and am getting much higher kh/s than the previous owner with them. I don't think he knew what he was doing.
Anyway. In order to run all 3 of my GPU's now i needed a new PSU. after I installed the new PSU I powered my two SATA harddrives with the old modular sata power cable from the old PSU. When it didn't boot, I inspected the connections and noticed the 6pin socket that goes into the PSU to power the drives is different on the new/old cables. I ended up frying both of my harddrives - about $250 in damage.
Hopefully SOMEONE sees this and learns from it.
I have some basic knowlege regarding building computer/etc so it shouldn't be hard. I will also do some research which cards and mobo I should use. Well even if it won't be profitable, I will still have cards and hardware I can sell, right?
How long is a GPU lifespan when it runs 24/7? Will it work for like 3 months or should I expect some of them permorming bad/breaking after this time? I am thinking about 3 cards and using them in about 70 degrees.
Anyway. In order to run all 3 of my GPU's now i needed a new PSU. after I installed the new PSU I powered my two SATA harddrives with the old modular sata power cable from the old PSU. When it didn't boot, I inspected the connections and noticed the 6pin socket that goes into the PSU to power the drives is different on the new/old cables. I ended up frying both of my harddrives - about $250 in damage.
Hopefully SOMEONE sees this and learns from it.
It's not late and in my opinion might it will never be late (maybe I'll explain my opinion further in another post). But you'll need to build your own mining rig witch requires certain amount knowledge. Also scrypt mining is much different than how the bitcoin mining works. By breaking it down you'll see that currently the most efficient way to mine is using a graphics card; graphics cards offer you a nice hashrate but still consume a lot of energy and produce much of heat since they weren't originally designed for running 24/7 in oc settings for solving computations such as these litecoin (or scrypt coins in general) mining requires.
I have some basic knowlege regarding building computer/etc so it shouldn't be hard. I will also do some research which cards and mobo I should use. Well even if it won't be profitable, I will still have cards and hardware I can sell, right?
How long is a GPU lifespan when it runs 24/7? Will it work for like 3 months or should I expect some of them permorming bad/breaking after this time? I am thinking about 3 cards and using them in about 70 degrees.