video cards

[mqgouveia]

I'm looking at ways to increase the life of my cards that I use to mine cryptocurrencies! How can I do this? I saw that I have to use thermal pads, but I would like to know what is the ideal thickness for my plates and for the activity that they do (mining). Someone can help me? There are two boards: RTX 3070 and GTX 1660 super

[Anghammarad]

just don't mine crypto ^^

[8-Bit Ninja]

4 minutes ago, mqgouveia said:

I'm looking at ways to increase the life of my cards that I use to mine cryptocurrencies! How can I do this? I saw that I have to use thermal pads, but I would like to know what is the ideal thickness for my plates and for the activity that they do (mining). Someone can help me? There are two boards: RTX 3070 and GTX 1660 super

100% fan speed, more airflow over the cards, and undervolt them as much as possible. Don't know where you heard this thermal pad rubbish from but unless you're replacing the cooler, changing pads will make things worse, not better. 

[bowrilla]

14 minutes ago, mqgouveia said:

I'm looking at ways to increase the life of my cards that I use to mine cryptocurrencies! How can I do this? I saw that I have to use thermal pads, but I would like to know what is the ideal thickness for my plates and for the activity that they do (mining). Someone can help me? There are two boards: RTX 3070 and GTX 1660 super

 Your post is an example of why you need to be awfully careful when buying used cards that have been used for mining.

 

A good miner will optimize efficiency and by doing that reduce wear and tear prolonging life expectency. There's a heck load of resources freely available everywhere on the web. A bad miner knows nothing about the stuff he's using.

 

But to not just roll my eyes:

 

Your cards already have thermal pads on the memory modules. If you mine Ethereum, it's hard on the video memory and does not much to the GPU itself. Undervolting and sufficient airflow is sufficient. Some newer cards (especially MSI as I have heard) have some stupid cooler designs exposing some memory modules and having them not cooled: that's bad.You'd need to replace the whole cooler or jerryrig something. Thinking about your questions: you shouldn't jerryrig anything and if it isn't properly cooled just stop mining.

[Guest]

26 minutes ago, Anghammarad said:

just don't mine crypto ^^

Why though?

[Shizzy]

On 6/22/2021 at 1:22 PM, mqgouveia said:

I'm looking at ways to increase the life of my cards that I use to mine cryptocurrencies! How can I do this? I saw that I have to use thermal pads, but I would like to know what is the ideal thickness for my plates and for the activity that they do (mining). Someone can help me? There are two boards: RTX 3070 and GTX 1660 super

Here is some attachment photo I had found from a different thread of someone tearing down the Gigabyte GTX 1660. This could maybe help you out.

[thrasher_565]

imo just take off the stock fans and zip tiy some 120mm on there/ super quiet and cooler...and cheap. but ya adding pads ins areas that dont have can help too. too thin it wont do any thing and too thick can case a gap on the mount.

[fonzz1e]

nf-a9 normal or slim works too