Is that really only 673 Watts for 4 290 cards? Or am I reading it wrong?
Yes, "only" 673 watts at the wall for 4 x 290x, that's just one forgotten powersaving algo. I don't know about the drivers. I tested them all with the same drivers, the blockchain beta ones. I also tested them with their respective latest drivers too and both gens performed worse.
They do work for some mainstream algos & miners like ETH & Claymore. You said you like ETH, you should mine that most profitable coin and trade it to ETH then. For a 290 that most profitable algo lately has been nicehash cryptonight/ ETN. |
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Drivers for different GPU generations can be installed manually through the device manager.
True, it's just that making them work together on that same rig is sometimes challenging when trying to find the most profitable coins out there. If I were OP I would just build two rigs. Your profitability makes me wonder - either the calculator is broken or you mine some top class coin  My number bending calculator is always broken. But I'm working on it haha! |
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Mixing hawaii and polaris can be a major PITA, they like different driver generations. About Corsair RM series, it's not the best there is but it does it's job more than well, just don't push those hawaii's with ETH/ dual mining or you might have some melted connectors. My Brennenstuhl with rm1000x + 4x290x, calculator says $22/ day:  |
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Also, how could they had 4736 Bitocins in hot wallets?! Ridiculous. Almost suspect of being an inside "hack" (e.g. stealing of funds) but I'm not about to start rumors.
How could they have almost 5k btc in any wallet? I knew they need to take their slice of the pie but 5k... |
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There is an easy and working solution for situations like this, just contact bitfinex.
1) We need one more exchange, let's call it nicefinex.
2) Everyone who lost some "money" will be credited with nfx tokens.
3) Start nfx market at nicefinex.
4) Enable margin trading.
5) Start printing some magic "cryptofiat", this annoying phase can be skipped by simply adding numbers to order books.
6) Pump it.
7) Tadaa, all those dues are payed full in what, three weeks.
8.) WTF just happened?
9) I don't care, btc is going up.
edit: who ever you are, congratulations, you have the best miner there is haha!
edit2: xmr pump has something to do with this?
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If you can buy btc with your cc, what's the point going through all that annoying mining phase?
I mean, what could possibly go wrong?
Hit me baby one more time...
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Buying mining hardware on credit is basically like going long on margin, some things to consider:
Not so much upside, black hole downside.
Hard to "close" your "position" when things start going south.
To sum it up, NO NO NO.
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Mining has been really profitable since this crypto bull market started more than two years ago (summer 2015).
When market turns it will be all about who dumps fastest to the highest bid.
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Most of the time nvidia mining is all about corecount so I went and looked what's available. Not a big fan of MSI but for some reason they have good stocks right now and I needed some numbers so here we go, MSI Gaming series, €: | GPU | Cores | Price | €/Core | | 1050 | 640 | 164 | 0.26 | | 1050ti | 768 | 219 | 0.29 | | 1063 | 1152 | 309 | 0.27 | | 1066 | 1280 | 369 | 0.29 | | 1070 | 1920 | 529 | 0.28 | | 1070ti | 2432 | 565 | 0.23 | | 1080 | 2560 | 619 | 0.24 | | 1080ti | 3584 | 859 | 0.24 |
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Sorry for OT but I had a quick chance to test 970 against 1080, didn't have time to find absolute sweet spots but here are some equihash numbers: gtx 970 270s/s 2.24s/w=120w gtx 1080 476s/s 4.43s/w=107w Whattomine, profitability and difficulty last 24 hours, $0.12/ kWh, profits after power: gtx 970 $1.35/day gtx 1080 $2.69/day So 1080 earned $1.34 more per day, if you sell 970 for $150 and buy 1080 for $500 it will take 350/1.34=261 days to break even. Is that a good deal or not? I guess it depends, at least there is a free slot if you sell two 970´s and upgrade. Nowadays there is no gpu that can handle every algo well, here is an example where that crappy 970 (above) beats 1080 (below):  |
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hehe good one.
I can sell you some 7950/7970 if you need :p
Haha, no more gpu's. I know miners don't like numbers (except those that run in that black box). |
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8 x 7970. Still.
If they need to be new gpu´s then it is a different story.
edit: $800
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You should mine cryptonight based coins, much lower power consumption.
sgminer -g 2 -w 4/8 -ri 640
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I would like to start experimenting with new difficulty retarget algorithms. Do you have any preference? Classic choice is DGW3 but we are free to try anything, even something new. I have some ideas for a custom algo. Might also be good for marketing.
Have you looked at BCH? They had pretty wild network hashrate fluctuations too. No idea if it is a good solution but worth a look at least. More info here: https://www.bitcoinabc.org/november |
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Nothing to loose, storjshare is the way to go.
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Crashanatum was dead from the start, miners made some cash but who paid it, I don't know. As usual, those who were hoping SIGT would go to the moon. Except it didn't. Signatum is one of the examples how investing into mining hardware is so much safer than investing into coins. For every coin that goes up spectacularly (like BTX did) there's 5-10 coins that just go down. You are right, it's safer to invest into mining hardware. But you miss all the profits by doing that. High risk, low reward... You just don't invest to "coins" like btx or sigt. |
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Right! But there is a catch: you never know which coin will goes to the moon (btx) or goes down (signatum). So you have to diversify your "portfolio" and mine multiple coins.
BTX was always worth a try, it did help holding if your wallet was in a corrupted disk partition, haha. Crashanatum was dead from the start, miners made some cash but who paid it, I don't know. |
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Story of mining shitcoins.
1) You must know how this shit works.
2) After some research you have found something that could work, you have them gpu's anyway so why not?
3) Mine it, no need for an optimized miner, people are busy buying hardware.
4) Sooner or later, it pumps.
5) Sell it.
This is where it goes ugly.
6) sp_ knows how this shit works, you will see a screenshot of a moon.
7) You are late. Miner is always late.
8 ) Denial mode, we can still make this work. We are printing future money here, we start buying even more expensive gpu's that can't do more than ancient gpu's from 2014. It must be profitable. It must.
9a) You buy an optimized miner.
9b) You start thinking where profits were actually made.
Looking back btx was the most profitable nvidia coin to mine back in 5-6/2017, those who hodled made 30-50x.
As always, no offence guys, I love you all.
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