3080s havent been out long enough to have worn out paste. 

There was a lot written about the capacitors on back side and Gigabyte used the worst so that may be the issue.  It could also be just bad paste from factory.  Thus good advice not to disassemble as you can always warranty the card.

Not all gpus are equal.

The scammer (appears to be russian and the whois shows an individual in russia is owner) has been very active last few days.  Keep reporting when you see it. 

Replying here so it gets back on main page to warn others.

get the 80mm not the 8’s  

No.

Actually....you can do exactly that...very easy to take BTC or ETH to electricity or anything else.  EurBits are what has no value and no liquidity compared to BTC/ETH. 

/pay my electric every months for years using BTC/ETH.....and very easy to exchange for $$$.....but when i search EurBit NOTHING comes up.  If you cant make CMC/CG360.. then you have no value.

Saturn doesnt even have $700 in daily volume.....Stop with the jokes....it is laughable.

As stated update to 1.3.3


the look here from the lead dev

https://sling00.com/

1660 is listed as needing that update:

 sudo install-nv-beta

hope it helps

Why you wasting a monitor on a rig...all of mine are headless...ssh is all i need. 

yes

Linux doesnt suffer from this issue...running claymore on 4gb on eth currently.

ill post this again.... how to provision intel mobos for mining...

set VTd INTEL VIRTUALIZATION to DISABLE.
set ONBOARD AUDIO/SOUND (AZALIA) to DISABLE.
set IEEE1394 to DISABLE.
set PCI-E SUBSYSTEM/LANES to x8/x4/x4
set ONBOARD GRAPHICS to DISABLE.
set PCI-E GENERATION to GEN2.
set CPU FREQUENCY SCALING to DISABLE.
set CPU PERFORMANCE MODE to ENABLE.
set FAST BOOT to DISABLE.
set CSM to ENABLE.

If its full ribbon flat cable type then you are still pulling power from the pcie bus.  It needs to be the short edge card with just a usb cable to a riser (with its own supply of power from either sata or 6pin pci).  I have some of the ribbon wire ones from Fractal Design (not cheap)..but if its carrying all the pcie card connections then its carrying the power up which only makes it worse (longer distance / more loss).

What you want can be found on amazon under

Mining Powered Riser

Its not that your PSU isnt supplying enough power...its that the mobo's isnt designed to deliver multiples of that at a time.  This is why mining specific boards have additional molex or sata plugs on each end of the PCIe bus to plug psu plugs into for additional power to the bus.  6 gpu boards would have 2 additional plugs and the 13-19 boards would have 2-3 depending on board. 

This is of course assuming thats whats going on...but i am tending that way...because anything over 2 is going to a problem.  Even 2 on some boards is too much.

I dont bother with cards in the actual slots this present new problems like the 12V supply on the PCI'e slots.

I do highly recommend going to risers on all cards which removes the strain on the bus power.  Each riser gets it power directly from the PSU via either SATA (less optimal) or a 6 pin PCIe connector.  Consider its like 70W each card can draw through the PCIe bus most mobos not meant for mining will have some trouble.  Ie you could be trying to pull 210watts through the bus on top of the PCIe x 8 connection.  So by using riser this issue is eliminated.  It also would put to rest any concerns about wearing out the edge connectors...although i dont think that is an actual issue.

The video cards even is used for a monitor work just fine on a riser on x1 pcie.

And to be clear there is no way to limit what is drawn on the PCIe bus....so best to have it on its on riser.

If you have questions regarding any of what i referencing just ask...happy to explain and post the info.\

None of my gpus are in actual board sockets all are on risers.

Yes look on amazon or similar for something like

XT-XINTE PCIe 1 to 4 PCI-Express 16X Slots Riser Card PCI-E 1X to External 4 PCI-e USB 3.0 Adapter

under $20.  Plug you risers into the ports on it instead of the little edge card risers.  The first gpu will be off the top closest to the screw tab or the bottom vertical (cant remember)

and yes power is always a concern but just booting up and idling should not be an issue.

Make sure your M.2 slots are disabled.  Im trying to find the pcie diagram for that specific board but looks like they are probably shared with the M.2's

On mining rigs i disable just about everything that isnt needed audio / SATAs / M.2's / etc....

Found one in manual...looks like the GPU0 slot (main) can support a multiplex adapter to get the most out of the PCIE bus.  The one off the PCH seems to only support a single GPU. If you have something like a 1x4 PCIE adapter you may be able to get to 5 easily (4 off the plex and 1 off the slot2).  If you have a SQRL X2G laying around then things can get interesting.  Ive run those with one off main slot to get connection...then plugged another into a riser off the first port...getting 7 from the single slot (one is lost feeding from the first X2G to the 2nd X2G on a riser.). I know some had enough to get crazy numbers daisy chained. Fun stuff. 


Ive run into this problem with a couple of mobo's and have been able to solve with cheapo $10-$20 dollar 1x4 plexs.  I have had some plex cards i never got to work..but i must say the X2G's while not cheap are really high quality gear.  Of course proc also limits what can be done...but 2 seems REALLY too small.

wow...

gtx has nothing to do with cpu mining.

mining on a laptop is a terrible idea....doesnt matter what it is. 

i dont know of any cpu coin that is earning $1 a day per cpu...

Ive got some AMD cpus that are quite powerful 2970wx and do around 14khs on xmr which is still not $1 a day even with free power.

He means if its 1060 6gb cards you can mine eth or etc....and many other choices but those are going to be the best earners right now.  If its 3gb 1060 your choices get less.  And the advise for whattomine is spot on...just note if it works on 3gb or 6gb.

You do realize that is a scam seller....they are not a registered company with the state of Oregon for starters, they list only a n office space rental as location .... sorta like uber for offices...but real companies dont use such things.  And rhen there are the posts listed on this site clearly showing the scam.

Buy from The maker not some fly by night...non entity.... 


Here is a link to the Secretary of State in Oregon and to be in business you have to register....SCAMS dont do that...because they are scams.

http://egov.sos.state.or.us/br/pkg_web_name_srch_inq.do_name_srch?p_name=HALV%20MINING&p_regist_nbr=&p_srch=PHASE1&p_print=FALSE&p_entity_status=ACTINA

Amazon sells them..alibaba sells them try adding 4pin pwm or replacement gpu fans with the model in it.

No RAM is not an option.  Speed would be near 0....   The speed needed must be either VRAM on board the gpu or HBM2.....not DRAMon the motherboard.