How damaging is salad.io to your GPU?

Zvi Wolf · November 7, 2021

Above question

SorryBella · November 7, 2021

Damage in your ROI, yes. Mining with them is blatantly useless, you better off with mining straight crypto and sell it.

Arika · November 7, 2021

2 hours ago, Caroline said:

I love how the site states "We consider it our duty to own our carbon footprint and protect fragile ecosystems." while offering a service that literally makes you use more power and make your 'carbon footprint' bigger, like.... what?

very careful wording

"OUR carbon footprint is OUR duty, fuck YOU and YOUR carbon footprint though, that's not OUR fault, it's YOURs!"

BlueChinchillaEatingDorito · November 7, 2021

1 hour ago, Arika S said:

very careful wording

"OUR carbon footprint is OUR duty, fuck YOU and YOUR carbon footprint though, that's not OUR fault, it's YOURs!"

Pretty much most eco fads out there. When phone manufacturers say they're reducing their carbon footprint by not including accessories. Yea... but if I need them, I would need to buy from Amazon our go to the store to get it separately... increasing my carbon footprint.

MultiGamerClub · November 7, 2021

10 hours ago, Caroline said:

Had to search for it and the first result says "Salad.io | Complete Beginners Guide To Make Hundreds"

lol I can smell the scam without even clicking on it. all cryptominers (any load honestly) "damage" your card, it's a slow process that takes years though, unless you force it to run at ridiculous high clocks therefore increasing power draw and temperature. In simple terms it's not the miner itself that damages it with code or whatever but the current that wears down the internals of the GPU -and memory chips in particular when it comes to mining- itself, the greater the momentum -caused by current- and higher the temperature the faster the card wears down.

There's no way to tell how long a harmful electromigration process will take, and being honest other components are more prone to fail before it happens, in mining cards the surface caps and resistors will most likely fail before the memory chips or GPU. Undervolting, underclocking and timing tuning will improve lifespan and, with luck, the card will be obsolete and unprofitable before something in it fails.

You won't "make hundreds" by the way, apparently you only sell your hashpower so others get rich while you only gather tiny amounts of whatever shitcoin it mines.

I love how the site states "We consider it our duty to own our carbon footprint and protect fragile ecosystems." while offering a service that literally makes you use more power and make your 'carbon footprint' bigger, like.... what?