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Posted by Cucaracha

- March 15, 2021, 21:43:04

It takes a lot of time for oil to cool off, what a stupid mistake!

Posted by Anon-a-moose

- March 15, 2021, 16:00:50

All that money to buy multiple 3090's and takes photo with a 0.8 MP camera phone. First thing he should buy with all that profit is a god dam camera.

Posted by Paul Beckett

- March 15, 2021, 13:31:24

There is an ocean floor survey company based in Perth who built a mineral oil immersed server for seismology in Perth, then a 2nd in the States I believe. DUG but they have a fancy name for their mineral oil and seem to have grown exponentially since i last checked them out. https: //dug. com/dug-cool/

Posted by scottrichard1986

- March 15, 2021, 12:44:12

why is everyone complaining, do you have the money for a 3090 to game on?, i doubt it i would be more annoyed at the scalpers using bots over miners any day, mining used cards are a god send on the used market, i had to buy a 3090 as i didnt want to pay scalper prices for a 3070 or 3080 so yes i mine to make up the difference

Posted by Alexander Marrero

- March 15, 2021, 12:33:09

What a waste of time & money.

Posted by Blake

- March 15, 2021, 10:43:31

I would like to turn that oil into a deep fryer and fry those cards since gamers aren't gunna see those cards anyway

Posted by Andy777

- March 15, 2021, 09:19:01

Quote from: Kysminer on March 15, 2021, 08:38:16
It's because of these idiots that we don't have graphics cards, on top of that they are running them non stop and killing the environment. These people are criminals and crypto mining should be illegal, f*** you miners.

Come on, it can't be true! Nvidia told us recently that miners are less than 10% of theirs income. Didn't they?
So I assume the rest are gamers.

Posted by kony

- March 15, 2021, 08:54:00

I can't wait for the day of crypto-crash, it can't come soon enough. I guess it's not gonna happen this year though.

Posted by Kysminer

- March 15, 2021, 08:38:16

It's because of these idiots that we don't have graphics cards, on top of that they are running them non stop and killing the environment. These people are criminals and crypto mining should be illegal, f*** you miners.

Posted by WP

- March 15, 2021, 07:36:28

8 cards less that will appear on the marketplace after decommissioning this rig, wonderful!

NOT

Posted by JJames

- March 15, 2021, 03:48:10

"And add some curly fries. Oh, how do you heat your oil?"
"Curly fries it is. So, we just use 8 crypto-mining GPUs in our fryers."
:o ::)

Posted by Zach Swartwood

- March 15, 2021, 03:46:10

It actually makes perfect sense for mining. The cost of 8 3090 waterblocks easially offsets the cost of the oil. Instead of using many costly pc radiators, you could use one large cheap oil cooler. In a few years when you get new cards you won't even have to get new waterblocks.

Posted by Old tech

- March 15, 2021, 00:06:04

Not exactly new ideas here... I've got an old gtx 970 that was part of someones mineral oil computer before I bought it and put a fan back on it. This is old and been done to death.

Posted by dds

- March 14, 2021, 23:03:53

Interesting cooling solution. Wish all these GPUs were used for doing actual useful work instead of mining volatile currencies.

Posted by kek

- March 14, 2021, 22:14:30

Quote from: L on March 14, 2021, 21:45:11
Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't mineral oil degrade plastic parts? I think it was the case when Linus tested it and the ram slots were unusable or at least the latches were coming off.

It also attacks some types of metal.