Rogue employee fired for turning game into Bitcoin mining colony

Re:Rogue employee fired for turning game into Bitcoin mining... by Hilyin on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @06:48PM (#6023314)

I don't think it'd damage the computers, if it did, it'd be very minor, like you said. I'd say the biggest effect would be people's electrical bills being higher.

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Re:Rogue employee fired for turning game into Bitcoin mining... by speeder on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @07:08PM (#6023428)

Bitcoin mining on Laptop GPU is known to destroy whole machines (usually by overheating several parts of the motherboard and ruining them... also ruining the GPU itself too)

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Re:Rogue employee fired for turning game into Bitcoin mining... by HarryHirsch on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @07:33PM (#6023545)

Quite a bit higher, in fact. Under full load a fanboy graphics card dissipates 100 - 150 W. A wattmeter is instructive toy.

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Re:Rogue employee fired for turning game into Bitcoin mining... by shawabawa3 on Thursday July 11, 2013 @05:02AM (#6025099)

I did some GPU mining for about 5 minutes once. Had to stop it immediately because the noise my GPU was making definitely wasn't good for it. The fan still rattles a bit sometimes from the 5 minutes it was being run at 100%

GPUs are not really designed for 100% load for prolonged periods of time

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