Best practices when mining with ASICs

Let us look into the recommended things do to when mining with ASICs. Mining is fun and it can also be profitable if several factors are taken into account.

Make sure that all your ASICs have adequate cooling; additional fans beyond what is provided by the manufacturer are always a good idea. Remove dust frequently as a build up of dust might have a detrimental effect on the cooling efficiency and therefore mining speed.

Note

For your particular mining machine, look up all the optimization tweaks online to get all the hashing power that is possible out of the device. Due to the large variety of mining machines, we cannot provide all the possible tweaks in our book.

When setting up a mining operation for profit, ...

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