Can mining ruin GPU?

GPU mining itself isn’t a danger to your PC—it’s the mileage . Since most GPUs rely on attached or auxiliary fans, these parts can degrade faster during periods of sustained use. To prevent damage to your card, you’ll need to clean them often.

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Is 3060 12GB good for mining?

As we found out later, the RTX 3060 12GB can maintain the hash rate only when connected through the PCI-E x16 . So for mining with multiple graphics cards you need a motherboard with a lot of x16 ports. It’s usually a server motherboard. Regardless of the details, the test results are great.

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Can you mine Chia on HDD?

Yes you can absolutely farm chia on an external hard drive . ‘Farming’ is just the mining equivalent for chia. However if you are not using an SSD as your temporary storage drive and doing it on a hard drive your plotting process will be quite slow.

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