Hello all,
When I started mining UTC the temp of the GPUs and the power consumption went much lower. Is this a "feature" or I did not configure something right. I have 141kh/s on each r9 280x. Can I get higher highrate or WU with this cards? I use the default config from the nitro pool site. The rig goes from 1100 W on litecoin to 800 on UTC and the temp goes from 72 to 60. /win 7 8gb ram/
Thanks
Power is same for me and has been from minute 1, temp is definitely lower though
99.9% of the power in watts put into a GPU are produced as heat. A change of temperature cannot occur without a corresponding drop in wattage. Having overvolted or overclocking can reduce the efficiency of gpu's, in terms of tflops/sec/watt. So, it is possible (if a card is heavily OC'd) to have a larger drop in heat with a smaller change in wattage; in this "lower efficiency band". However, there cannot be a change in temp (at a set clock, mem, volt, fan) without also changing wattage. The watt is the proverbial "egg" preceding the chicken.
All I know is my P3 Kill-a-watt says my pc is pulling the exact same wattage from wall on UTC as any scrypt coin.. yet I run 7-8C cooler on UTC