Why It’s Important To Pick The Right Graphic Cards?

Mining Algorithm

Some Graphic Cards are not efficient in some mining algorithms, mainly comes down to NVIDIA or AMD cards.

They both have their ups and downs, NVIDIA is well known for their Cuda Cores intensive algorithms like (MTP, X16R), And AMD is known for their Memory intensive algorithms (Ethash, CryptonightR).

Maintaining Your Equipment

Can’t over-stress this enough. Please maintain the equipment, dust it every other month, keep it neat and away from dirt and danger.

All this takes a toll on your rig, the more dust the less efficient and more heat will come forth.

I’d recommend buying a Duster (Compressed Air Cans or The Electronic Duster) to make it easier on your self and a fan (Best Fan we have been using for a while) to help reduce the heat.

Do NOT place your mining rig on a carpet since it leads to plenty of dust to be absorbed by the fans. Try to set your Rig somewhere high — out of reach from your house pets or children.

Overclocks & Configuration

Overclocking is a must for Mining. Make sure to undervolt your cards since it will make a huge difference in wattage consumption and the heat it generates, less watts means less heat. We will be writing an article on overclocking your cards and making them Mining ready.

Configuration will refer to all the background services and unnecessary noise for your computational power, make sure you took the needed setup steps in our previous article ‘How To Setup a Mining Rig‘

Aesthetics

Having a good looking mining rig is not a must, however, we do recommend it because it promotes you to cable manage and keep dust away which will ultimately improve the life expectancy of your graphics cards.

We recommend buying the same model for your entire rig and then pimping it up with some LED strip.