Quote from: Artemis3 on March 10, 2019, 05:55:23 PM

Quote from: DordOfLarkness on March 10, 2019, 05:13:47 PM

I work in a business where I record audio. I was thinking that I would just turn off the miner when I needed to record, however that won't be the case. Even with the settings that philipma1957 posted, that fan is so loud that I can't work in the same room while it's on. It's a one room office hahah. So, I'll just be mining when I'm not there. That will certainly impact my ranking.

I'm currently ranked 480. I know there is ramp-up time and that the 841 has a decent hash rate. However, I only have one unit, and that one unit will be only running an average of about 14 hrs/day. It'll probably be years for me too before I see anything. I guess that's just the nature of the beast. I'll watch the ranking and see if this will be worth my while. I'm probably going to be moving from this office in 4-5 years. Oy.

I wouldn't worry about the ranking. Your single 841 working 24/7 wouldn't make it anyway, so you will have to make a line with the rest of small miners and be paid according to your time in the waiting line. In this pool you will not get paid on every block, but you WILL get paid, just don't expect it soon, unless the hashrate climbs significantly.

Asic miners are loud industrial beasts, 77db is considered "normal". The only "Silent miner" that ever was, was the R4 (i own one). Maybe the S7 LN previous to that, but the R4 was specifically designed to be silent, and it truly is (50db at 100%). Sadly nobody made something like it again. I'm sure a MicroBT with two boards, or sn S17, with a similar design would do wonders, oh well home use is not their target, 99% of the mining is done in warehouses where noise is not a problem.

My only hope is someone designs a mod case to recreate the R4 design with current hardware, if that fan is available somewhere, but knowing the Chinese it should be...

You can foam out a grow tent will help. As loud as they are the LP firmware from bitmain and canaan has dropped fan speed quite a bit then it is winter here.