Hey adaseb, thanks for replying, sorry I couldn't respond sooner.
I'm not paying for electricity. Out of curiosity I asked my grandfather (he is paying) how much would 150w cost me 24/7, and surprisingly it's aroud 3$ per month, so he told me to chill and mine as much as I want, it doesn't break the bank. 0.04 cents / kWh, plus in my country (Serbia) there is this thing called "cheap electricity" for about 8h during late night hours, when electricity is very close to being free.
After lowering the memory voltage from 950 to 850 I notice 2 things. Significantly less rejected shares (2/24h instead of 6/24h) and, now I'm getting crashes. Finally. At least I know my GPU will crash the system if something's wrong. I was mostly concerned that it wouldn't crash, but rather just burn the whole PC down to the ground
. I now guess it needs a little bit more juice, since it crashed about 24h after I let it mine with such low voltages.
I'm actually trying to find the sweetest spot possible for this GPU. I can't really settle for good enough because my OCD kicks in and drives me crazy. Until I hit that 1mV and 1MHz spot where going up for only 1 would cause problems, I guess I wont stop... My goal is to stay above 30MH/s, and currently it's ticking @30.3MHs @80w. I guess it can't be improved much at this point but I need to satisfy my OCD demons
I'll be getting some more cash soon and I plan on buying another GPU to put in my system. Thankfully I don't have to change the MOBO yet since mine already has, I think, 5 PCI-e slots. Only problem that's holding me back now is my PSU. All the SATA ports are used up and I'm not sure if powering 2 GPUs through 2 peripheral rails is a good idea. Sounds like it'll blow up in smokes to me. I'm scared enough having 1 GPU connected to peripheral sata > PCI-e already. So I'm afraid I'd have to blow 100$ on a new PSU instead of another RX580. I've seen people running it on a single 8PIN PCI-e without plugging the 6PIN one? How good of an idea is this for mining?
I'm not paying for electricity. Out of curiosity I asked my grandfather (he is paying) how much would 150w cost me 24/7, and surprisingly it's aroud 3$ per month, so he told me to chill and mine as much as I want, it doesn't break the bank. 0.04 cents / kWh, plus in my country (Serbia) there is this thing called "cheap electricity" for about 8h during late night hours, when electricity is very close to being free.
After lowering the memory voltage from 950 to 850 I notice 2 things. Significantly less rejected shares (2/24h instead of 6/24h) and, now I'm getting crashes. Finally. At least I know my GPU will crash the system if something's wrong. I was mostly concerned that it wouldn't crash, but rather just burn the whole PC down to the ground
. I now guess it needs a little bit more juice, since it crashed about 24h after I let it mine with such low voltages.I'm actually trying to find the sweetest spot possible for this GPU. I can't really settle for good enough because my OCD kicks in and drives me crazy. Until I hit that 1mV and 1MHz spot where going up for only 1 would cause problems, I guess I wont stop... My goal is to stay above 30MH/s, and currently it's ticking @30.3MHs @80w. I guess it can't be improved much at this point but I need to satisfy my OCD demons
I'll be getting some more cash soon and I plan on buying another GPU to put in my system. Thankfully I don't have to change the MOBO yet since mine already has, I think, 5 PCI-e slots. Only problem that's holding me back now is my PSU. All the SATA ports are used up and I'm not sure if powering 2 GPUs through 2 peripheral rails is a good idea. Sounds like it'll blow up in smokes to me. I'm scared enough having 1 GPU connected to peripheral sata > PCI-e already. So I'm afraid I'd have to blow 100$ on a new PSU instead of another RX580. I've seen people running it on a single 8PIN PCI-e without plugging the 6PIN one? How good of an idea is this for mining?