Any idea on electricity consumption while mining

[Ghost]

Specs are
R5 5600x (not using for mining : mostly idle)
MSI MPG X570 Gaming Edge WiFi
PNY XLR8 16GB 3200Mhz DDR4
Gigabyte Aorus Master RTX 3070 8GB
NZXT 510 Elite Case with 3 x 140MM fans + 1 x 120MM fan (RGB Turned off) (fan controller included)
1 x 240GB Kingston PCIe NVMe M2 drive (windows and applications)
1x 2TB Segate hard drive (games) (idle when mining)

Any idea on power consumption while mining?
Power limit on GPU set to 55% and GPUz shows board power draw as 165W

[Ghost]

I have solar, Not using coal to mining. Just want to get rough idea on power consumption.

Reducing power limit does not have impact on earning as long as memory frequency of GPU not reduced. I use Gamerhash to mining.

[Monk]

Right let's have a guess should we about our carbon foot prints.

I don't use any fuel based transport for years (no bus, car, motorbike etc) I'll walk or cycle, I'll use 1 low watt bulb in the evenings at home.

I rarely use the heating, which is gas when I do.

I still own the same leather shoes and jacket I bought 20 years ago, I also have plenty of clothes as old as no need to replace what still works.

I have a TV that's only on when I use it.

I don't own a mobile phone, building these are very bad for the environment.

Oh and I eat meat as the land required to eat a proper balanced diet is far less harmful in co2 than the swathes of land required to live a vegetarian or vegan diet not to mention the mountains of pesticides.

I don't eat foods such as avacardos as they are so bad for the environment to produce.

My meat is sourced locally.

I have acces to a garden for home grown fruit and veg.

Large ammount of my furniture are antiques so I've barely even had to cut a tree down in the past 2-400 years for it.

Now tell me how me mining on a handful of video cards is so crippling compared to what I suspect is your carbon foot print as you are undoubtably a hypocrite.

So how about you stop insulting everyone when you are most likely worse.

As you can see, outside of mining, I use very little energy, which, in the UK is both clean and abundant.

This us also how I can afford the stuff I have as I live very frugally outside of it.

Id also be pulling nearly as much power gaming.

2 3090's mining are using 650w ish, gaming on a power modded 3090 with my 9900k at 5.3 pulls 7-800w.

Heck, I used more power folding at home and gaming than I do just mining now especially as I swapped to a greener energy plan since I started mining, so my carbon foot print has technically gone down!

[Ghost]

Monk の投稿を引用：

Right let's have a guess should we about our carbon foot prints.

I don't use any fuel based transport for years (no bus, car, motorbike etc) I'll walk or cycle, I'll use 1 low watt bulb in the evenings at home.

I rarely use the heating, which is gas when I do.

I still own the same leather shoes and jacket I bought 20 years ago, I also have plenty of clothes as old as no need to replace what still works.

I have a TV that's only on when I use it.

I don't own a mobile phone, building these are very bad for the environment.

Oh and I eat meat as the land required to eat a proper balanced diet is far less harmful in co2 than the swathes of land required to live a vegetarian or vegan diet not to mention the mountains of pesticides.

I don't eat foods such as avacardos as they are so bad for the environment to produce.

My meat is sourced locally.

I have acces to a garden for home grown fruit and veg.

Large ammount of my furniture are antiques so I've barely even had to cut a tree down in the past 2-400 years for it.

Now tell me how me mining on a handful of video cards is so crippling compared to what I suspect is your carbon foot print as you are undoubtably a hypocrite.

So how about you stop insulting everyone when you are most likely worse.

As you can see, outside of mining, I use very little energy, which, in the UK is both clean and abundant.

This us also how I can afford the stuff I have as I live very frugally outside of it.

Id also be pulling nearly as much power gaming.

2 3090's mining are using 650w ish, gaming on a power modded 3090 with my 9900k at 5.3 pulls 7-800w.

Heck, I used more power folding at home and gaming than I do just mining now especially as I swapped to a greener energy plan since I started mining, so my carbon foot print has technically gone down!

Hats off you mate. I use electronic car for my daily travel. I have backup energy storage to get excess energy that generates from solar during the day. According this bugger, how does that affect carbon footprint?

[Monk]

Yeah you are basically neutral.

Go forth and mine and pay for the card with a clear concsionce, I know I do/have.

[Washell]

Monk の投稿を引用：

Oh and I eat meat as the land required to eat a proper balanced diet is far less harmful in co2 than the swathes of land required to live a vegetarian or vegan diet not to mention the mountains of pesticides.

Your meat needs to eat far more veggies and drink far more water to grow into a steak than you would need to eat and drink to get the same nutritional value. It also neatly concentrates those pesticides to a far higher dose, paring them with an unhealthy level of antibiotics and, in some countries, growth hormones.

I'm a meat eater myself, but I don't kid myself about a balanced diet being lighter on the environment. Whenever you add a step between you and the veggies, the environmental costs go up.

[Monk]

It is though, much much better.

1 cow can feed dozens to hundreds, the fields needed to feed that many on a pure vegan or vegetarian diet is far greater, though vegetarian isn't nearly as bad as vegan.

Also, I don't know where you are or get your meat, but I eat from ethically raised free range farms as frankly, it tastes better and in the UK atleast, its pretty healthy these days when such things are claimed.

[Schrute_Farms_B&B]

I envy OP, if he rly lives in Sri Lanka.
Wouldnt hesitate a sec and start to mine again, with 0.075USD/kWh.
Had to shutdown my 12x GPUs in Germany 2 years ago and now my current Setup where I live today.......

Enjoy. Sri Lanka rulez. (when its about the electricity price ;) )

[Monk]

That is crazy cheap, my provider was raising the price to 18p kw/h so I found a new better one that's 'only' 15p kw/h...

Still nice and profitable though :)

[iceman1980]

Monk の投稿を引用：

It is though, much much better.

1 cow can feed dozens to hundreds, the fields needed to feed that many on a pure vegan or vegetarian diet is far greater, though vegetarian isn't nearly as bad as vegan.

Also, I don't know where you are or get your meat, but I eat from ethically raised free range farms as frankly, it tastes better and in the UK atleast, its pretty healthy these days when such things are claimed.

Bahahaha miners will defend their unethical practices to the death. Enjoy the the defense we are already on a collision course with 1.5C temperature rise. You can keep ignoring it hope you live in a low lying area when the sea level rises you'll be displaced first.

Or better yet you'll be the first to experience the thermal effects of the trans atlantic belt stopping, then freezing the northern hemisphere. Hope you like -80*C

Maybe when faced with harsh real consequences of your actions you will go "Aww why did this happen to me, and with that, you'll have only yourself to blame"

Cryptocurrency needs to be annhilated out of existance, every government needs to make it completely unusable, for anything.

[Electric Cupcake]

Miners are all greedy, selfish jerks who should be ashamed.

And gullible if they think they'll break even.

[Ghost]

Schrute_Farms_B&B の投稿を引用：

I envy OP, if he rly lives in Sri Lanka.
Wouldnt hesitate a sec and start to mine again, with 0.075USD/kWh.
Had to shutdown my 12x GPUs in Germany 2 years ago and now my current Setup where I live today.......

Enjoy. Sri Lanka rulez. (when its about the electricity price ;) )

I do not use coal energy to mining. I have my own power source which is off grid solar.

[Washell]

Monk の投稿を引用：

1 cow can feed dozens to hundreds

And the soy/corn/grain fields that fed the cow can feed thousands. Honestly, even the people *in* your camp admit that, and jump through hoops about distillery waste product, unsuitable soil and pastures to warp the numbers in their favor.

Half of the world’s habitable land is used for agriculture, with most of this used to raise livestock for dairy and meat. Livestock are fed from two sources – lands on which the animals graze and land on which feeding crops, such as soy and cereals, are grown. How much would our agricultural land use decline if the world adopted a plant-based diet?

Research suggests that if everyone shifted to a plant-based diet we would reduce global land use for agriculture by 75%. This large reduction of agricultural land use would be possible thanks to a reduction in land used for grazing and a smaller need for land to grow crops. The research also shows that cutting out beef and dairy (by substituting chicken, eggs, fish or plant-based food) has a much larger impact than eliminating chicken or fish.

https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets

[CravenCoyote]

Bad 💀 Motha の投稿を引用：

Why would you set a power limit below 100% on the gpu. Why even bother mining then. Set the power limit to the max allowed, such as 110% or higher. Mining isn't going to damage the gpu anymore then playing games on it would.

I hope you have at least a 850W gold certified PSU for that system.

I also hope you are mining to a HDD and not an SSD.

This is really incorrect advice especially when the algorithm has not been mentioned.

Part of mining is running hardware at the lowest power levels you can. As an example, if you are using the ETHASH algorithm then the GPU cores are relatively unused as this algorithm uses RAM for hashing.

Therefore, to maintain a better profit margin then you would drop power usage and core clock speeds, and increase memory clocks. Anyone who knows what they are doing will not set a power limit higher than 100% - most run at around 80% tops. Why draw more power than required? It is a waste.

There are some algorithms that do favour different over/under clocks and there are no catch-all settings. Power, however, is always aimed to be kept to as little use as possible.

Storage medium (ie hdd or ssd) is irrelevant unless you are mining a proof of space coin (ie Chia). Rewards are not stored on a device, they are stored within the block chain - you are not reading/writing from the storage medium any more than normal. You cannot 'save' a bitcoin to a physical device, you can only save credentials which provide access to that bitcoin. A mining rig could explode and your crypto currency would be fine, provided you have your credentials kept somewhere safe.

You are right in that measuring power usage from the wall is best to get a true draw reading, but most mining software will tell you how much energy each actively-mining card is using, hashes being made, and overall efficiency.

[Captin Mercedes]

sjohn29 の投稿を引用：

I don't understand this mining, what are they mining?

I think it's a scam, mining some Imaginary thing. The only people to make money are the Electricity companies, GPU sellers and the 10% men.

it's not real money, remember the boom and bust of the early internet days

it will end in tears.

That's happened before, if you know what your doing its great AKA:Ltt or something, but even so its extremely volatile, and the GTX 10 drivers support 8 cards max. It's 50% scam i think, but its the most redundant e - bank on earth. So expensive 1/2 scam im staying away. I've also heard mobos gpus, and psus going up in flames after pci risers, sata adapters, and so.

YES it will end in tears.

[iceman1980]

Captin Mercedes の投稿を引用：

sjohn29 の投稿を引用：

I don't understand this mining, what are they mining?

I think it's a scam, mining some Imaginary thing. The only people to make money are the Electricity companies, GPU sellers and the 10% men.

it's not real money, remember the boom and bust of the early internet days

it will end in tears.

That's happened before, if you know what your doing its great AKA:Ltt or something, but even so its extremely volatile, and the GTX 10 drivers support 8 cards max. It's 50% scam i think, but its the most redundant e - bank on earth. So expensive 1/2 scam im staying away. I've also heard mobos gpus, and psus going up in flames after pci risers, sata adapters, and so.

YES it will end in tears.

A lot of people are buying on credit hoping to make back their investment which they won't.