GPU Mining 200k Shiba per Day

I bought one of the 2060 KOs. I don't think I've ever bought a dirtier used GPU. Smelled like mildew and smoke. I had to fully disassemble and clean it before even testing. I had to use multiple solvents to get it clean. First pass with a contact cleaner wash of the board. Did a final touchup with ISO and cotton swabs. Pulled the fans and cleaned them with an ISO moistened rag. Once I got the heatsink bare, I washed it multiple times with hot water, detergent and alternating with vinegar rinses to loosen the tarry gunk.
The thermal paste should have been changed a couple of years ago, was all dry and had suffered significant pump out. The thermal pads were filthy. I think the ones on the front of the board are 3mm and 2.5mm on the back. I didn't have any that fit so I just washed them as best as I could and put them back. I used TF4 paste on the die. I spent over an hour refurbishing the GPU and will still have to replace the pads in the near future.
Just thought y'all should know what you're gonna be getting. Not all miners treat their hardware the same. I could have just put the GPU in a PC and fired it up but it would have been like the Glade plug in from hell.
The EVGA KOs are going for around $170 in pristine condition on eBay so when you consider the labor and materials, I pretty much got what I paid for.
Once I had the GPU fit to use, I ran my standard battery of benchmark and stress tests and was pleasantly surprised by the performance. It ran stable with a 2000MHz VRAM clock which is pretty impressive for a neglected mining GPU that has run for at least 3 years in a less than ideal environment. However, due to the fact you cannot raise the power limit above 100% with Afterburner, it performed substantially worse at 2000MHz than at 1950MHz because it had to cut the core clock so much to have the power for the VRAM. It also was able to run at 75% power with stock clocks at the same performance as the default tune. Benchmark results put it on par with a 6650XT or a mediocre 3060 in terms of both DX12U benchmark results (with RT) and regular, pure rasterization benchmarks, even before I started overclocking.
While I did use a somewhat aggressive fan curve, an extended stress test with Furmark, running both CPU and GPU burner simultaneously, saw a GPU temp of about 60C. Hot spot and mem temps were about 15C higher. This is pretty much normal based on prior experience with Turing and with other compact 2 fan EVGA GPUs, such as the 3060 XC and 1080 FTW2.
I don't want to tell you how to run your business but if you'd take the time to do some refurb on these ex mining GPUs before selling them, you could get more money for them. To me, it isn't a big deal to refurbish a GPU but for a lot of people it is. The fact I am satisfied with my purchase is partially based on the fact I was able to refurbish the GPU. Otherwise I would have just been smelling moldy ass the whole time I was playing FO76 last night and getting high temps.

How about the community helping you mine those 100mil?

Yo guy lol your really dancing to ur own drum over there … a lot of coins out and u want more shib … good luck with it

Pyrin is a nice because it is low power.

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People still mining? ⛏️

RIP AM4 motherboard ❤
Maybe some ultrasonic cleaning can bring it back to life. Just remove all the thermal pads, thermal paste and also the CMOS battery prior to the process. And let it dry for a while before powering it up back again 🙂
Happy midweek Jelyfish nation ⛏

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