The Mining Pit

yawning sneasel said:
I am not smart with this shit. I have a question that I hope can be answered. 75% of the time the extent of my computer use is a browser, snipping tool, MS Word and sometimes MS Excel. When I am doing that I am pretty cool. Even today I was fine, didn't notice a difference. 10-15% of the time I have either SPSS, STATA or StatGraphics up. These programs will slow my shit down hard and at times my computer will even lock up. If I am at like 25-50%, will it nuke me? or does this thing adjust to accommodate the needs of other applications?
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You can fix this problem easy by using a real man's stats program
 
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Null said:
No. I have a virtual office in Fort Walton Beach that I use for practical reasons. They will put mail over a period into a box and ship it at the end of the month, or whenever I request if I want to expedite something.
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Sort of like those cross border mailing companies? I've been looking into one of those myself.
 
neger psykolog said:
Didn't see this answered so far.

Basically your computer will just go slow if its overloaded. Pretty much any and every processor has a thermal switch where it will severely slow down itself in order to cause damaged caused by overheating. It might cause a hard reboot or system crash if its not feeling good, but it shouldn't generally be able to cause any permanent damage unless you have overclocked it.
The only reason your computer would overheat is because of the fan/heatsink being broken/improperly set up or if your computer is completely filled with dust. Basically anyone who uses their computer semi regularly without issue should have 0 issue with this.
With some processors its unlikely to reach 100% capacity except for tasks like mining so some issue may pop up with temperature if/when it reaches 100% usage on a constant basis (some processors automatically overclock a small amount when they need to).

The biggest issue will be for people who have laptops as they're all pretty much shit when it comes to keeping cool. Even so, it shouldn't ever cause any lasting damage.

If your computer does slow down its processor due to temperature issues or does hard reboots then it isn't configured properly. Most times when people custom build computers they will run software to use the CPU 100% for several hours (like this mining can do when set to 100%) to try and identify any faults and fix them.

For lifespan, the CPU is generally not going to have to have any issues caused by using it 100% for eternity. Graphics cards (which this miner does not use for this site) can have lifespan issues.
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To add on to this you can assign thread priority in the OS if you run a miner as a separate process. I recommend setting XMR miners threads to half your physical core count. You will not notice any real impact on your experience unless you're actually compiling source code or rendering video on the CPU.

GPU Monero miners rely on your video memory and there's some relatively complicated performance settings, (threads, blocks, bfactor, thread sleep). If you run a GPU monero miner on full blast you'll get about half a frame a second rendering your desktop as it begins to thermal throttle. Some people overclock the memory on the video card to get more performance.

If you combo mine on both CPU and GPU you _will_ need to assign low thread priority to the CPU miner otherwise it will end up blocking GPU miners threads and massively degrade your overall hashrate.
 
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Dane said:
I'll disable adblock but I want a weekly blogpost on what dragon dildos my traffic is paying for
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https://bad-dragon.com/products/nocturne
These!

Now I don't feel like a total leech, just a moderate one. Will try to check content more on PC vs mobile when at work, this fucking system can burn into flames for all I care, just gotta make sure it doesn't get flagged as infected.

I don't have a PC at home, just 2 netbooks I rarely use, CPU power must be shit, should I have em do it too just cuz why not?

Aquinas said:
what @Null doesnt provide, however. are dickpicks, and i think he should.
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IN for dickpicks!
 
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Null said:
I've actually had someone successfully send me something from New Zealand before. It came in a discrete brown envelope with no return address, like, the very next day after I got SWAT'd by Sam. My mom and I were treating it like it had anthraxx or a bomb or something. Eventually I just nutted up because I was pretty much ready to go at that point anyways and out slips $100 and a postcard with a drawing of kiwi and the message "Keep trucking, little kiwi" printed on it. I still have that postcard in my backpack.
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An actual Kiwi supporting the Kiwi Farm. How fitting.
 
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I tried cranking the little kiwi up to full green. Currently running a quad core at 100% and my CPU fan is at 0 RPM. Coolant currently fluctuating in the mid-170 F range. @Null may have just helped me find a serious issue with my hardware.
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Grumpy said:
I tried cranking the little kiwi up to full green. Currently running a quad core at 100% and my CPU fan is at 0 RPM. Coolant currently fluctuating in the mid-170 F range. @Null may have just helped me find a serious issue with my hardware.
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Is your fan plugged into the right header? Or is the header/fan just dead?
 
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JSGOTI said:
Is your fan plugged into the right header? Or is the header/fan just dead?
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I'm thinking it's the latter. The fan is being 'nudged' every few seconds, like the motor is feebly attempting to spin it. There is constant vibration from the part that houses both the fan motor and the coolant pump, so I think it's still pumping liquid through, just without any fan action to help with air flow. Even without the fan going, it hasn't been actually hitting critical CPU temp, so I think it's fine for now. Until I get a new job and can afford to replace the entire heatsink, I'll be mining at far, far less than 100% to stay on the safe side.
Help the Farms, and the Farms help you. That's the takeaway here.
 
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Grumpy said:
I'm thinking it's the latter. The fan is being 'nudged' every few seconds, like the motor is feebly attempting to spin it. There is constant vibration from the part that houses both the fan motor and the coolant pump, so I think it's still pumping liquid through, just without any fan action to help with air flow. Even without the fan going, it hasn't been actually hitting critical CPU temp, so I think it's fine for now. Until I get a new job and can afford to replace the entire heatsink, I'll be mining at far, far less than 100% to stay on the safe side.
Help the Farms, and the Farms help you. That's the takeaway here.
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Lol unemployed
 
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I never turn my laptop off anyway so I'm glad to hear I have an excuse to not only melt the motherboard, but open up all the remotely interesting threads into their own tabs and keep track of them in real time, 24/7, to distract me from my inner demons
Thanks @Null!
 
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Had a thought earlier - Does chrome's 'inactive tab' throttling affect the miner? I only know this is a thing because games with timers will often start running slower than realtime if you don't put them in their own window. Should I do the same with my KF tab?
 
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