Cryptocurrency mining is an increasingly common practice among digital currency enthusiasts. And, as we know, to extract these coins, users resort to high-performance graphics cards, such as the latest from Nvidia.
However, images of the appearance of several GeForce RTX 3080 graphics have now arrived from Asia and have ceased to function during the mining process.
The new and powerful desktop graphics cards from Nvidia's RTX 30 line are the most sought after chips for cryptocurrency mining. Especially the Ethereum digital currency. Here we have already introduced several curious extraction systems, such as, for example, this with 78 RTX 3080 graphics capable of generating $ 128,000 a year.
In this way, we know that these GPUs are used intensively, day and night, for this practice. And as such, its wear will be quite significant.
This is the aspect of RTX 3080 graphics that 'died' mining Ethereum
Recently, asian fonts revealed several images that show us the appearance of several high-end graphics cards GeForce RTX 3080 from Nvidia after 'dying' during the mining process of the cryptocurrency Ethereum.
In particular there are two models ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 3080, along with a template Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3080 Gaming.
As we can see in the images, all these graphics burned in the same area. However, the Gigabyte model ended up in a worse state probably due to its less efficient cooling system. And also due to the greater amount of plastic used in its construction.
All GPUs burned in the same location, that is, in the peripheral zone of the VRAM and VRM memory.
However, it is not known for sure what happened to bring graphics cards to this state. It may actually have been caused by overheating, or there may have been a problem, for example, in the power supply.
Therefore, sources they just indicate that the printers were in this state during the mining of the Ethereum cryptocurrency. But with the intensive use that is given non-stop, for 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, it is not surprising that, no matter how powerful the equipment is, they do not stand up to so much work and continuous effort.
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