Quote from: citronick on June 29, 2019, 05:46:27 PM

Quote from: arielbit on June 28, 2019, 06:17:11 AM

Quote from: citronick on June 28, 2019, 02:25:51 AM

Quote from: arielbit on June 26, 2019, 10:03:07 AM

open air for me too.

GPUs are zip tied to racks.

the room is the case and the windows are the exhaust.

Started my GPU farms like the above in 2016 and never looked back - ease of maintenance is the key.

Dust is the only pitfall though - I gave up on this long time ago and most of my 470/480 rigs still running at peak non-stop eventhough they are bloody dusty and grimy.

Well ..... as long as critical parts still works fine like fans for PSU, GPU and CPU - will just leave them alone. All of them are well ROIed several times over, so just leave them alone.

ease of maintenance you say?

how about real time (powered on and mining) pulling off slow spin/not spinning GPU fans and re oiling-plugging back in fans? hehe

no need to keep the area squeaky clean, for me i'm just making sure dust build up does not come close to possible "harmful" level to electronics----> i just come inside the room semi naked with face mask and a blower.. blowing the dust that accumulated in the electronics (all powered on and mining) Grin

Most of the Gigabyte RX470s fans died premature death - I had to replace several dozens of them. The Sapphire ones are very good and lasts longer - most still running since 2016. The motherboards (circa 2016/17 ASrock Pro BTC) are beyond recognition - the dust and grime probably evolved into a protection layer for the electronics thus still running until today. I should take a pics next time - we should start a most "dirtiest GPU warrior rig" pix contest.

My wife's office is owned by a cheap landlord who doesn't bother to put a filter on the 60 ton HVACs - consequently I get these nasty little grey fibers all over everything. It got so bad that I weighed the weight of the matted fibers that I pulled out of a 6 card rig that ran for 1 year. All fibers from GPU fans, CPU fan, PSU fan and caked all over the motherboard and wood rig frame came in at 196 grams. That's fiber weight - not counting the dust that I blew out after removing the fibers.

I've had my hands in people's orifices before but this...this was nasty!