ASUS Strix not sure but their "Turbo" blower-type cards ARE ball bearing.
 1080 ti Turbo cooling is OK if you're running the card for efficiency NOT pushing for high hashrate - removing the mounting bracket helps that some but means the card "wobbles" in the riser unless you twist-tie it to something.

 My 3 (so far) Gigabyte minis are going to get RMAed - but they didn't have the fan die, they just outright died.
 My other Gigabyte cards with fan issues are going to get "real" fan replacements at some point - not worth the time and pain to RMA them if the card itself is still working, and should provide better cooling for LESS power.
 I've got a TON of "bought used" NMB 92mm fans sitting around that should fit on a Windforce heatsink fine with a few twist-ties to hold them in place.

 Anything EVGA is ball bearing.
 Same for Sapphire on the AMD side.
 Gigabyte Aorus are ball bearing - nothing else Gigabyte need apply for the last few years. 8-(
 Not sure on ASUS in general, though their blower models are ball bearing.
 MSI seem to all be ball bearing, though not sure on their blower models.
 Zotac - only the Amp EXTREME claims ball bearing, no idea on anything else.

 Efficiency and rig density.
 A pair of 570 can match a single 1070 ti on hashrate, but at what cost in power usage? 50% worse? 30% worse?
 To match the efficiency of my 1070 ti rigs, they would have to manage 230 sol/s at UNDER 55 WATTS power usage - then factor in "more power used per GPU by system overhead" and they're have to get into the 45-50 watt range.
 The 230 sol figure is trivial for a RX 470/480/570/580 card - but that 55 watt figure? *ROFLMAOSC*

 RX cards CRUSH Nvidia at current pricing for ETH and spinoffs (except possibly the 1060 that they only "beat"), but that's not the case on many other algos - and do keep in mind that ETH *IS* making progress towards the end of Proof of Work.

 Also, I'm not seeing 570 cards at $225 - $239 AND UP last time I checked and availability seems to be dropping again while price is starting to rise again - though still pretty close to half the price of a 1070 ti.

 It's also why some folks prefer the 1080 ti over the 1070 ti - efficiency there is close and the rig density makes up for the slightly worse hash/$ and hash/watt figures.


 I do have to wonder what the Volta Nvidia generation is going to look like - based on the figures out of the Titan V, I'm guessing 5+ efficiency at even PUSHED hashrate figures might happen, with some potential for "the most efficient model" touching 6.

 Remember, you saw that prediciton here from me FIRST!

 I'm not understanding why Coinbase added BCH over so many other MORE DESERVING AND MATURE coins.
 IMO that choice is a MINUS for Coinbase.

 An ip address of "0.0.0.0" is a common "use ANY available interface to talk to" setup option.

 It's definitely a case of TEST IT YOURSELF - the results are close enough that it could easily come down to specific settings on specific cards.

 I still prefer the EBWF "set your own fee rate" option though - this whole 2% fixed fee stuff is a RIPOFF that I blame Claymore for, and have tended to AVOID using his miners as a result since they rarely offer enough better performance to make up for the ripoff-level fee.

 Did you bother reading, they SAID they were using flypool.

 Bitmain has long had a standard that they aim their units at "6 month ROI" for price - though I think they changed it a bit on the S9 since it had no competition for so long, and they HAVE gone lower on occasion when they had real competition (S5 vs SP20 wars timeframe).

 I'm shocked they didn't bump their S9 pricing up sooner.

B&H Photo has been around for decades - I think I've bought electronics from them WAY back in the day.

 I keep forgetting they added computer hardware to their selection.

 Do they take Bitcoin?

 Rig density on the 1060 is WAY too low for me to bother with them on anything except PERHAPS ETH - if I was doing any ETH mining at all.

 1070 ti is the current efficiency champ for ZEC/offshoots that is affordable - technically the Titan V is more efficient but at $3000 a card it is a TOTAL FAIL on hash/$.

 The Titan V does indicate that the new Volta upgrade cards will probably be 20-30% better efficiency over any current Pascal card - but gotta wonder if NVidia is going to bump the price on the new cards given that they'll be noticeably better than anything AMD.


 The Zotac Mini 1080 ti SHOULD be efficient if you run it at a low enough power level - try it in the 150-180 watt range where it's cooling system should be able to keep up.
 I wouldn't buy one due to the apparent lack of ball bearing fans (their AMP Extreme line brags about it's ball bearing fans, but their other cards are suspiciously silent on the subject) but if you already have it might as well use it effectively.


 BMiner on pretty much ALL of my rigs will not even load - since it's a Windows-specific program and I'm a major fan of the RELIABILITY of LINUX in a mining environment (and the very few Windows rigs I still have are getting moved OUT of Windows due to the low stability of the junk).
 I've also not been real impressed with it's posted hashrates - barely better than EBWF but you lose most of all of the improvement to the FIXED fee.
 Same issue as with DTSM except that some of my testing has shown DTSM giving SAME OR LOWER hashrate as EBWF on the same card at the same power setting.

 EWBF miner is quite happy to run at a 0.2% fee (which I consider a LOT more reasonable for a widely-used mining program of comparable performance).

In my testing of dstm, it is either the same speed or so little faster vs EBWF as to make it LESS effective given the FIXED 2% fee (ebwf can have the fee modified to suit).
I also strongly dislike the interface on dstm, way too much "busy worthless garbage" on it, but if it was enough faster to matter I'd tolerate it - I'm not REAL fond of the ewbf interface either.

BFast doesn't exist for LINUX.

 1070 ti is a little better on hash/watt than 1080 ti, even at the "total system" level, but it's pretty close.
 I prefer the 1070 ti both for the efficiency AND for the fact it fits into my current infrastructure better on my existing "left over from FAH days" convertion-to-riser-rigs project.

 EVGA SC is my current prefered "go-to" model on both, though the ASUS blower model 1080 ti has acceptable cooling IF you run it for effficiency at under 180ish watts AND 8+6 power AND is usually the lowest-price option available.
 I TRIED to order one of the ASUS blower-model 1070 ti cards yesterday to test it, only to have Bitpay mess up on my payment to Newegg so now that money is in "limbo".

 Why?

 Because he is one of the LEGIT reviewers on this site, while you have gone out of your way to post ZERO LEGIT PROOF that this product actually exists, and have been acting like a shill for the "company behind it"?

 Your posted pictures so far are jokes - they look JUST like the S7 and S9 Bitmain miners.


 You have provided ZERO to date that is reassuring at all, and your actions are making a lot of us inclined to believe this IS in fact just another scam.

 Warm wet climate where water-cooled cards makes PERFECT sense.

 I was looking at a semi-similar project at one point for cooling the ROOM I set my rigs up in, using radiators on the intakes and a simple ground-loop setup, but decided it was a waste of effort with evap cooling in my area working so well.

 I think the price on ethcontrol is excessive ($2 per rig per month), but if you just run ethmonitoring it's free and it's a pretty good tool.

 Author also responds well to polite feedback and is definitely active.

 R9 290 is generally going to make you more money mining ETH, where it is a legitimate 29-30 Mhash card but will easily pull 250-300 watts per card to get to that hashrate in most cases.
 I'm not sure what kind of power usage they have mining ZEC as I never had mine doing that for more than a very short period of time during the EARLY ZEC days last year.

 3 of those Bladecenter PS should be plenty, if you can find the right breakout boards for them to make them usable.

 2 would probably be viable, they should be able to handle about 8 cards each PCI-E AND riser - depends on how big an ATX supply you use to run the MB itself and how many of the cards the ATX supply can run.

 About the first "mod" any high-end blower model card with a bloody DVI connector should do is to pull that bloody airflow blocking mounting plate OFF (if it's in a riser rig and doesn't use the mounting holes part).

 Helps a lot on 1080 blower models too, though my ASUS 1080ti blower card doesn't have a DVI connector and doesn't really need the mod.

 Also helped noticeably on the one Sapphire "mining" card I got that had the congested "original" type mounting plate instead of the later models that opened up that mounting plate.


 "Cannot find any AMD adapters" is probably a DRIVER crash that took more than a fractional second to "recover".

 Is the Vega 64 LC the water-cooled version?
 Temps still seem a LITTLE on the low side even if so, unless the radiators have VERY cool air flowing into them.

 Many legitimate well-known mining programs get FALSE reports of virus from some sources.

 "Heuristic" virus checkers IMO are not well thought out or implamented, they FALSE report way too often for the very RARE cases they might ever actually catch.
 The old tail about "crying wolf" too often comes immediately to mind....

 Perhaps if you bother trying to figure out why YOUR RIG is having issues when most of us do NOT have these issues?

 I suspect the issue is the software between your ears....