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Old 01-21-2014, 05:46 PM   #474
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Originally Posted by Rathji View Post
Mining scrypt is nothing like mining BTC. No real reason to overclock or push your cards, so there is no real risk assuming your GPU temp is kept reasonable by the cooling that you have.

Bandwidth has never been something I have been concerned about, but just looking at my monthly usage in the last 10 or so months I have been mining, there doesn't seem to be any excessive use.
would just like to +1 the temperature on the GPU, a buddy had a card go due to it being burnt out. Not sure what his rig looked like, but just make sure you have adequate air flow/cooling, and it shouldn't be a problem.
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