When I got home from work I set up the computer I'm building and did some stress tests and bench marking. Then I took it down and put mine back up forgetting to install the little USB splitter board that I bought for it....DUH
This morning stress testing my computer with the CPU cores synced I was getting more variance in temperature between the cores than I would like to see. If I can get enough ambition I'm going to reset the cooler. When I pull it off I'll know immediately if my paste application is the problem or not.
Edit: my ambition seems to have got up and left.
Edit: my ambition seems to have got up and left.
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Ambition returned after coffee kicked in. I decided to do some more testing first, temps are within 4 degrees C so no problem, more than 5 I need to start looking. A better cooler might be in order as I'm hitting up to 83C at 100% load. I found the CMOS battery in need of replacement, this motherboard must have sat for a long time without power. The battery that I put in was one I put in a board up in the closet a couple of months ago, I had never removed the sticker on it's negative button so it was still new.....DUH.
Of coarse the battery was underneath the video card.
Of coarse the battery was underneath the video card.
I have come to the conclusion that I'm losing it. I have this program for overclocking my video card. It has adjustments for fan speed ect. It shows #1 fan running at X% and #2 fan running at 0% so I'm thinking it's only running one because it doesn't need 2 running under light load. So I decide to load it up, it never runs #2 even at 70C. I take the card out and inspect the fan connections on it (well tried too). Eventually I thought maybe I should look and see if it's running or not.....they are both running.
Hmmmmm, some might say that particular ship has already sailed!by now i'd have lost my mind completely
carry on!
If you want something to keep your video card busy. I'm not playing any games on my rig at the moment, so I let the GTX 1660 mine a little Ethereum since my computer is on 24/7 anyway.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 can generate more than 38.16 USD monthly income with a 21.30 MH/s hashrate on the ETH - Ethash (Phoenix) algorithm.
Depending on what video card you put it you could generate more or less.
Running one of my NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti full out for 24/7 per month would cost me $15.52 in electricity. I also have a second machine just like it. So that would be $31.04 per month when running both of them. I don't know how long they would last in a laptop. Although I don't believe I have seen them hit over 65°C with two 3 inch fans running at max. It's the Core™ i7-8750H CPU that usually gets hot and a core or two may hit just over 100°C during heavy processing.
I don't pay for power so it's not a big deal for me. CPUs don't have what it takes to mine bitcoin so it's not worth it to use them, high end video cards and especially dedicated ASICs are the way to go.
It's just a novelty for me, no one gets rich mining bitcoin without dedicated mining hardware and lots of it.
I use GPU-Z to monitor the NVidia cards, GTX-970 and RTX-2070 and it always shows both fans. I use the NVidia utility to tune the cards.
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