Mining itself won't hurt your card as long as you are doing it properly, which I imagine you are. What could hurt your card is if other hardware is insufficient. For example, a high temperature for a long time. I would say that 76 C seems a little hot to be running at for 8 hours straight every day, but I think it is acceptable. I generally like to keep my 770 below 70C, even if the duration of load is only an hour or two, but that is personal preference. Some people run their cards at 80 or higher C for 12 hours a day, so you might be fine, but then again those are usually people with AMD cards, which usually run hotter and are built for it. Also, if something happens during the day, like a power outage or short, that could potentially harm your GPU, but there is a low likelyhood of that happening.

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Mining itself won't hurt your card as long as you are doing it properly, which I imagine you are. What could hurt your card is if other hardware is insufficient. For example, a high temperature for a long time. I would say that 76 C seems a little hot to be running at for 8 hours straight every day, but I think it is acceptable. I generally like to keep my 770 below 70C, even if the duration of load is only an hour or two, but that is personal preference. Some people run their cards at 80 or higher C for 12 hours a day, so you might be fine, but then again those are usually people with AMD cards, which usually run hotter and are built for it. Also, if something happens during the day, like a power outage or short, that could potentially harm your GPU, but there is a low likelyhood of that happening.

How does power outage damage the card? Mining itself won't hurt your card as long as you are doing it properly, which I imagine you are. What could hurt your card is if other hardware is insufficient. For example, a high temperature for a long time. I would say that 76 C seems a little hot to be running at for 8 hours straight every day, but I think it is acceptable.

I generally like to keep my 770 below 70C, even if the duration of load is only an hour or two, but that is personal preference. Some people run their cards at 80 or higher C for 12 hours a day, so you might be fine, but then again those are usually people with AMD cards, which usually run hotter and are built for it. Also, if something happens during the day, like a power outage or short, that could potentially harm your GPU, but there is a low likelyhood of that happening.

How does power outage damage the card? It's a tricky business and it is hard to say exactly how it works, but power outages work the same way shorting components do, I have experienced the effects personally. It's pretty much the same exact thing as pulling your PC's plug, and you know not to do that. Especially since the OP is running an incredibly intensive task, the GPU will be at full load, if the power goes out, it immediately goes from 100% to 0% in a very short amount of time that has the same basic effects or similar ones to a short and have the potential to damage the card.

I have seen this corrupt hard drives as well as damage them, CPUs, motherboards, RAM, and GPUs, in person.

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The number of plots you store is effectively your mining speed. Every block the miner will skim through the saved plots, and come up with an amount of time until it is able to mine a block if another block hasn't yet been found. After reading through the plots is complete, your hardware can idle until the block is found. ***EDIT 2015-02-06**** UPDATE TO BURST 1.2.2 AS SOON AS POSSIBLE DOWNLOAD HERE sha256: 2e1a7f2d74c584e46b16b40ac889ebcaa95a0c1b71abc9eb83a37b All users must update by block 67000. This is a bugfix release mainly for ATs, and also loosens restrictions on ecblock info.

Github: After running wallet, access it through a web browser at When upgrading wallet, move burst_db folder into new wallet folder to avoid re-downloading the blockchain. For detailed instructions, see Guides below. Websites (website under reconfiguration) Guides for BURST mining Windows mining guide (thanks to crowetic) Linux mining guide (thanks to TetraHect0rCannabinol) Plotters Janror's CPU plotter (sse4/avx2) cryo's (bipben's) GPU plotter Miners Blago’s Windows Miner (source: Uray's Miner dcct's c miner for Linux Dev's POCMiner in java Pool Mining Warning: there is no standard protocol for pools at this time, so different pools require different miners.