Quote from: sxemini on Today at 10:08:07 AM

Quote from: joseph32 on January 19, 2024, 03:20:15 AM

Hey Rigel,

T-Rex has a great option: "--keep-gpu-busy". Means, he continue the mining even with no internet connection.

Especially in the winter months that option keeps the GPUs warm and not freezing to death, it's a great safety feature just for the case. Is it possible to get that same option for your miner? Thats the only reason using T-Rex over Rigel.

(And maybe also add ProgPowZ to mine ZANO, would be awesome)

Thanks!

Freezing to death? Colder = better = less power consumption

Some of my rigs running in a room with a negative temperature for years and nothing died because of cold temperature. I don´t why people think hardware die in cold environments. You know about LN2 cooling for CPU or GPU in extreme benchmarks? You know that this parts running at -50C or more negative temperatures and the hardware is fine.

Easy too cold doesn´t exist for pc parts -> the only problem can be condensation formation, but never happend to me.

So keep busy was stupid at T-Rex miner times and is still stupid.

Try to read and understand how condensation works...

Cold is good, yes, if the cards have work.
But with no internet connection, or something with the pool, or any bugs, or whatever other reason the cards could have no work, condensation occurs and they can die fast. Especially watercooled cards in any variant can die in minutes. Even the best rules in Awesome Miner or Hive wont work if the connection is lost for any reason. That simple option is the only reason me and my friends with hundreds of cards, and i think many others too, are using the old T-Rex for some coins in the winter to keep the space heated.

If you dont want to use such option, dont use it, simple. But it would be great to have such option in Rigel too, to protect very expensive hardware. And less T-Rex means more cash for Rigel. So thank you Rigel for considering this