A group of miners from Vietnam used an oil-filled tank to cool a mining farm comprising eight Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 GPUs.
… with oil cooling = the craziest mining ever in the worldhttps://t.co/beYwz9pAux@elchapuzas @hms1193 @harukaze5719 @hardwareluxx_de @nbc_net @VideoCardz https://t.co/QSSaUxOPwG pic.twitter.com/WVW3dNmo7C
— I_Leak_VN (@I_Leak_VN) March 10, 2021
The footage shows operating hardware running software to configure the GPUs.
Given the video’s poor quality, deciphering the temperatures and technical parameters of the build is not possible.
Experts note several advantages of mineral oil cooling over water- or air-based cooling. It cools all components to the same temperature and extends the GPUs’ lifespan.
The GeForce RTX 3090 is among the most expensive GPUs for Ethereum mining. Its price on the primary market exceeds $1,800.
Earlier, Chinese miners said that they managed to breach the protection of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 desktop GPU to throttle the hash rate. Nvidia itself claimed that the protection could not be bypassed.
The decision to halve the hash rate of the GeForce RTX 3060 was explained by the GPU maker as aimed at tailoring the model to gamers’ needs.
Later online appeared the first photographs of the Gigabyte CMP 30HX graphics processor, created by Nvidia specifically for cryptocurrency mining.
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