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Cooling pads do help. How much they help depends on your needs and your situation. I bought this one here, and here is my review of the unit. Do your due diligence and figure out what you need base on your situation.
FYI, my situation doesn't warrant a laptop tent style (upside down V) with an ordinary house fan blowing on it (seems like the majority do this). I also want an additional compact cooling system that will do the job to maintain the temperature less than 70 °C to lessen the burden on the laptop's internal fans from prematurely dying if they were the only cooling solution.
Yeah that's the same laptop I bought in February. It went on sale and they did a price match so I got it for $1250. My hashrate seems to throttle with the temperature (59-63°c with cooling pad) and actually goes down when I try to increase the clocks via afterburner.
Complete opposite compared to my MSI GE76 3070, see pic below.
Since that screenshot, I lowered my Vcore to 725mv and gpu down to 1000 which lowered the power use via Trex to 112w and it uses 145w at the wall at 52-54°c
I'm curious who is the VRAM supplier of your GPU. Use GPU-Z to find out. https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/ I'm thinking that your VRAM is the reason why your GPU is crippled at mining.
As for ETH 2.0 doomsday for miners, there are other coins to mine, just not as profitable. NiceHash QuickMiner mines ETH via DaggerHashimoto.
I just got this lappy, but can only mine at 50.1 MH @ 80W. How did you get it to 118W??!
Also, with Afterburner, if I set the memory clock above 699MHz, Windows crashes.
Any pro tips? Do I have a budget version of the GL66, or something?? This is mine:
https://www.amazon.com/MSI-GL66-Gaming-Laptop-i7-11800H/dp/B09127DDVT
Limited-time deal: Gaming Laptop Cooling Pad, 4500RPM Strongest Laptop Cooler 17.3 inch, Laptop Cooling Stand with Faster Heat Dissipation, Colorful Lights, Adjustable Mount Stand, Temperature Drops by 20-30 Degrees https://www.amazon.com/dp/B085DPTFJM/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_i_dl_PTT2V2XH5F37NGTZFXNR
This is what i suggest. I use it and it worth it. Fan is very loud but still it cools the board and bottom so im fine with it.
Download MSI afterburner for free and use the settings recommended for your GPU: https://www.nicehash.com/blog/post/nvidia-rtx-3000-series-overclocking-guide-to-increase-mining-profits?utm_source=Weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=19%2F02%2F2021
You're welcome. As for your hashrate, it is quite low compared to mine, assuming you also got a Dell G15 similar to my configuration. If that's the case, it appears that you probably got a RTX 3060 that doesn't include Samsung VRAM, probably using Micron VRAM. You can verify who is the VRAM by downloading and using GPU-Z. If it is indeed Micron VRAM, you're screwed, just like how I was screwed with my Lenovo Legion 5 Pro with RTX 3070 with Micron VRAM.
M15R4 are 140watt gpu machines.
-503 to your CPU speed to drop it to 825 does nothing to lower the 140watt gpu power.
this is what you need to do:
control panel, software devices, highlight NVIDIA Platform Controllers and Framework
disable, your will drop your GPU 140watt to 115 watt instantly
if GPU-Z shows you have Samsung instead of Micron, you can easily OC to 1400-1600 speed but I would advise you get a professional cooler first as this one: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09B7CWT63/ it will drop your GPU temp by 10 degrees C or more.
Use GPUZ to download the bios to your computer and load the bios into more power tools. Then change the two values mentioned above and then click write and then reboot, that's it, very easy.
What did I do to make it possible to have these numbers(66mh 105w 56c) on my alienware farm?
1) Disable boost via device manager: Device Manager:Software Devices>NVIDIA Platform Controllers and Framework>Disable
2) Power options: sleep disabled while plugged in/unplugged and turn off screen in 1 minute while plugged in/unplugged
3) In Alienware Command Center: Disable AlienFx and change thermal profile to full speed for maximum cooling effect
4) MSI afterburner: do -502 core and +1700 memory and save that to profile 1 and then do curve and grab leftmost dot and drag it to 825-830 mhz and make sure you do ctrl+l while drag it and drop it at 825-830 mhz; afterwards save this to profile 5
5) Space out laptops and have cheap ass coolers with stands that you can push upwards on wire racks for bigger cooling effect: I use these laptop coolers.
6) Make sure to go to brightness settings and turn brightness all the way down
7) Replace your anti virus program(any even windows defender to Avast and tick options: silent mode and disable all shields until you turn it back on)
8) After all updates/installations and tweaking, go to services and disable windows updates AND RESTART for this to take effect.
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Doing so SHOULD make it similar to my current 66mh 105c 56c numbers. Any other ideas or tweaks? Let me know!
Great man! I'm sure you got a super Black Friday deal and I'm happy for you. Seriously, don't worry about the Micron stuff. I've also heard that Micron isn't bad, just that they may have a bad batch in the past, it may be worked out already. Since you're not going to mine as your primary, I would just enjoy the gorgeous QHD super color accurate display and really badass thermal control built-in without needing specialized cooler. But if you do get a cooler, get this one https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09B7CWT63/ you can play max game all the way through, never EVER have to worry about throttling. lol.
There is this guy on Reddit who thinks I'm a salesman for that cooler. What an idiot to think that. I share because it's the BEST no competition cooler and need to be told because no cooler seals the bottom of your chassis and blow pressurize cool air (air filtered air) into the bottom vents of your laptop. I have all of them on both my Alienwares and Prometheus17 once I figure out how good they are, so worth it to keep the life of the laptop running forever.
it's really bad you did not provide any information about your laptop's brand model or gpu's tdp specs, how do you expect anyone who CAN help you, help you?
people who CAN help you need specific information, nutrient to extrapolate and process to give you the best suggestion.
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anyways, first thing first. run gpu-z and determine if your video ram manufacture is Samsung or Micron
second, go to control panel, device manager, software devices, NVIDIA PLATFORM CONTROLLERS AND FRAMEWORK, select that and right-click with your mouse to disable it. you can always right-click to re-enabled it, no need for reboot, it's like a swithc.
Turning that off will reduce your wattage. Since you did not give us laptop brand/model, we cannot tell you anything more.
Also, make sure your laptop gets the best cooling, so buy this and be proud. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09B7CWT63/
you'll get to where you need to go, if you keep trying. there is this thing called silicon lottery so your mileage can vary.
MSI Afterburner I see you're at -300 core which is perfect, +650 VRAM - I am concerned. I'm sure you tried to push beyond +650 and if you cannot to get it stable, try my above method of cooling and wattage reduction. just those 2 alone, you may be able to get to +1000. and with the cooling pad, get to +1500 if you have Samsung manufacture as your VRAM. if Micron, they're not necessarily bad since they may have fixed their issues but concensus is Samsung just the best VRAM.
Very simple. Have the better GPU VRAM to achieve high overclocking abilities. My Lenovo Legion 5 Pro sucks at mining in its class though.
Here's your homework assignment, since you seem to be curious: Download GPU-Z. Run it on both your Dell and Lenovo laptops. Tell me who are the GPU VRAM manufacturers for each laptop. Actually, to save you some time, here's a cheat reference: Samsung > Micron, Hynix.
This subreddit contains numerous information to back up the above information. Do your due diligence. :)
Yes, you're missing something: You're doing it wrong. Read this in my post:
>I was so anxious, I loaded up NiceHash QuickMiner, increased VRAM to 8000 MHz (+999 MHz) in OCTune while Windows was running updates and boom: Windows 10 crashed (black screen then proceeded to reboot). Shit. I know what this means. I got the shittier OEM RAM maker on the NVIDIA RTX 3070.
I bet you probably have Micron VRAM like I do and not Samsung VRAM. You can verify this by loading up GPU-Z and to be sure to select NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 at the bottom of the app. Micron VRAM will top out around 800 MHz overclocking (give or take some MHz), while the Samsung VRAM will top out around 1500 MHz overclocking (give or take some MHz), based on many posts here of people having RTX 3070.
You need to learn how to overclock properly. See NiceHash OCTune guide under "How to use OCtune's alternative overclocking method?" for example. That should get you close to 59 MH/s. If you're using another mining software, it'll still be the same concept of under/overclocking: start with small values and work your way up/down.
Good luck hitting 59 MH/s or higher and let us know how it went. :)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08V51QGS2?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2_dt_b_product_details
Does say currently unavailable. Also small disclaimer, it *ever so slightly* blocks the top corner of the vents when it's on the stand. Noticed it when I took a closer look. May not be the case for you and your computer, though.