LifeEngineer wroteTheIlluminative wroteSorry for such question, but will mining affect our PC performance? Sounds good with electricity at 1,500 right now.
It does use the GPU quite extensively. So yeah it does affect the performance of course. You can't play games and mine at the same time for example.
However, I think you're asking about the long term effect, which is debatable but I think it's safe as long as you're not overheating/overvolting/overclocking too much.
I actually started just yesterday and I'm doing it on stock settings and zero overclocking. I know I'm losing a bit of mining performance there, but I don't want to risk my hardware or even make it stress as I game on it and ruining a GPU (or any other hardware component) nowadays can cost a fortune. It's my sole personal PC after all so no luxury there...
I totally agree regarding not play games while mining, however overclocking + underclocking is important and safer.
here is my msi gtx 1070 running on stock settings, the temp is around 74C and on hot days reaches around 82C (temp limited by msi) and I'm getting around 25mh/s
https://ibb.co/WyXFnm9
however when I configure it on msi afterburner with these settings (each gpu has different settings)
I get around 27mh/s, plus my gpu runs on lower temps and doesn't go beyond 70C which is better for the long run
https://ibb.co/McPfSjY
And if I want to play it safer, I lower the power limit to 50% so the temp goes down to max 60C, and I still get around 25mh/s, same as the stock settings but way lower temps.
https://ibb.co/mX6D89B