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Which of these has been the most productive for you? Sounds like you've enjoyed the RTX6000 the most?

RTX 6000 is some-what obviously my fastest card but my biggest problem with the RT 6000 is the immense heat. The GPU itself is almost 200F and the exhaust from the fans itself is over 150F. I'm worried that my hard drives are going to fail. I was told that the GDDR7 is even hotter than the GPU which is surprising to me.

After my last run, I'm going to wait for the new case I ordered to come in and cannibalize my kid's PC that we built beginning of this year to form an entirely separate computer. And then figure out better ways to deal with the heat, especially with summer coming up. I'll have to play around with undervolting and running vents directly outside my house to see if that helps.

From my failed and expensive affair with GPU mining 5 years ago, You can get a great heat dissipation outcome by using an open case with a lot of directed fans at the expense of a bit of dust and lots of noise

I take it this wasn't the half-wattage Max Q version with blower fan?

Since you are not running realtime 3d grafix, could you put the card in an external chassis so the heat is not in the same box as the SSDs?

That's about what my OC'd and watercooled 4090 runs at. The cards are designed for it. Only problem I have is when sitting next to the computer under load -- I either have to open windows or blast the AC. Too bad I don't live in a cold climate -- that 60c heat output would come in handy :)

> Too bad I don't live in a cold climate -- that 60c heat output would come in handy :)

Used to overclock back in the day during winter with an intake duct rigged to suck in outside air, best thing about -30c :)

I've always thought about doing something like this in the Midwest US, but was always a bit nervous about condensation damaging the components over time; did you run with that sort of setup consistently, or only when pushing high scores? Ever run into issues with components failing?

That was 25 odd years ago, less sensitive hardware and cheaper... Nothing that failed though, did have some sketchy moments with condensation yeah :)

Not consistently, I did start using petroleum jelly till I upgraded and found out that wasn't very fun to clean up.

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