What algo?  I dont see compound listed...

you must use the ID ticker of the coin that the pool uses.... sometimes the pool has a slightly different id tag than the rest of the world.

I.E.  BCH for Bitcoin Cash, BTC for Bitcoin, DOGE for dogecoin, etc.   See what the pool labeles it as before you mine too much on an "unknown".

is the coin red on pool stats?

dell cases are known for being cramped....   It's the main downside to their designs (aside from caps that only last ~5 years give or take).


Sounds like you will be fine on ventilation.  Be sure to clean any dust screens once a week [if any] if in a rural area like I am.

if you aren't overheating the card <83*c, you are fine.  The card starts thermal throttling above 83*c from what I can gather.  They should be plenty capable of running @ ~80C steady.

I have never shortened the life of a device by running it at max... I have killed devices by running them out of spec, or on very dirty power.... never by throttling them to 100%.  Its almost always something else such as a bad overclock, dropped a screwdriver, etc...

example:
I have an i7-920 C0 CPU.  It has run at 4Ghz and is on all day (its a fileserver, and video streaming relay/processing server)

It sits at thermal limit (100c) all day, or at 80-83*c while idle.  Its cooled on water.  No failures.  Been run like that for over 2.5 years.

I have yet to kill a video card by any reason other than by physically/personally damaging one, or ending up with a defective card.

Maybe I am lucky...

one of the biggest things any miner can do;  not go "all in".  Newer miners should take note for sure.   You may not ride the razors edge of profitability, but you stand a chance of benefiting from spikes elsewhere when you are running several different algos or coins.  If everyone switched to my test algo all at once on my recommendation;  you would see good profits for like 2 hours; then everything will back off substantially.   I felt this the first time I publicly recommended skien back in the beginning of the year.

Profit switching is a double edged sword.   Once all the coins network hashrates started to climb from profit switching taking hold (yiimp release I believe; right around the time of xpool becoming zpool), the profits seemed to plateau and then I would see long spurts of un-profitability.  GEtting stuck often on high diff algos, with credits few and far between.... a few thousand switches on different miners all over, and bam.... credit/earnings way less than expected (when calculated real time).

Seeing the block value/freq of the current test, vs the block value/freq of the comparison coin;  it is producing very nicely.... I hope it holds out.   The block freq is pretty good at ~2-5 min is pretty good when the reward is ~0.002mBTC.   Skien showed promise for a week or two about a month or two ago, but it seemed to fall flat on its face once again.

NIST5 was producing nicely for the past few months, but the profit switching masses would drag it down every time it started to go green.

if its just one gpu; and not overclocked.... temps are of zero concern.... as long as the case itself is ventilated.

Adding a second GPU; you willprobably expect ~70-75* in a stock closed case.  Which is totally fine.


Phil on this site has a habbit of underclocking his cards, up to 20%... which lowers stress and heat.  Your call if you wish to do that =)  I have several 960 cards that I have run at 80* solid for over a year with minimal downtimes (country living issues).  They are still pretty solid performers and I think I have re-pasted them once.  I am getting ready to retire them for 10 series cards and pop them in my friends' gaming computers so they are finally off the 5 and 6 series cards and seeing more than 25fps in games =)

Yep.  I have recovered from the slump myself, and I am back at the profitability level that I was several months back on the decline... with the same hardware.  I am just on a different algo currently.

I have already sent out feelers to others to see if I am on the highest profitability track as far as nvidia is concerned.   Phil is doing a test on it as well, and I see good results on his 24 hour miner graphs for his test machine.

Its too bad that skien has fallen wayward.  I was literally making $400+/mo profit on the equivalent of 3x 1070.  I miss that.  And it wasn't even on a new algo or coin.

More often than not picking your algo and sticking to it, works WAAAAY better than any high speed profit switching.  Way better.  Especially not being locked to one individual coin for profit.

Yeah, I thought it might work with some variant of the miner apps;  since bitmain ripped off a public licensed version of the miner app... (forget which one).  I believe extranonce is on by default nowadays;  but I could be wrong on those assumptions... but all of the last ~10 builds of ccminer I have used have ES on by default.

FYI xevan, scrypt, x11, x13, x14, etc were all designed to be "asic resistant".  Look what happened... lol

extranonce subscribe;  for bitmain asics.

yes, power supply is important, but since its only 1 1070, using on average 160wMAX, you have LOTS of headroom.  most cpu are <150w.

You should be fine to add a second 1070 as long as your 12V rail can support it, and you have proper case ventilation.

who cares about any other hardware past the 1070 for mining..

If it has it, use it.

My single 1070 in my gaming PC mines the rest of the time its not actively being used.   That card has already paid for itself and then some.  I was lucky and bought during the last hot streak and ROI'd pretty damned fast.

My old 980 Earned ~3x what I bought it for... before I replaced it with a 1070 and put it in one of my miner chassis..... and today, is still on 24/7.

This is a good approach.

Another is to make sure if you are buying hardware;  to consider an exit strategy for selling the hardware; if it will even have a viable resell market.

FWIW I have killed 13 laptops with CPU mining.

They simply overheat when being powered on and working hard for a few min now.

half of them simply don't power on anymore.

Then again;  I had them in a pile on a countertop;  no real consideration for ventilation.

Its not worth laptop mining in the end;  the hardware cost over what you get out of it... is not close to being anywhere near a "ROI"..

If you have an old laptop; and there is a cpuminer that works with your architecture;  and you want it to sit there and make massive amounts of heat for a significantly reduced typical hashrate output;  go for it.  Most laptops consume ~60w or less if they have a mobile variant of the cpu used...


But for the most part;  you are fighting for less than a penny a day; at the cost of probably $0.30/day...

Id say spend half on a GPU farm.  At least if its self-sustaining, its a worthy investment.

spend the other half on BTC.  sit on it.  Wait for that multiplication.  Also save it to expand or support your business model for the first half.  you will be guaranteed sustainability if you are proactive.

The cost of TX fees and the value of BTC these past several months have thrown things out of whack for sure.

At least its only 7.5mBTC for a payout anytime, and 1.5mBTC for sunday... but 1.5mBTC seems a little steep still; and hopefully the new network (if it ever works like it should) will rediuce or almost eliminate the fees compared to what they are now.

zpool.ca

please read all the text on the mainpage and understand it.

They only pay you out of coins mined on the site; or in BTC.

Be sure that the coin you wish to be payed out in has regularly generated blocks on the pool; or payout will be delayed.
A key factor that can delay your credit is:  if others have a % credit on that block;  some will need to be sold in order to pay them their btc usually.  You also mine other coins other than the payout coin;  so your credits for that has to be converted as well.    Its slightly complicated, and I still don't understand the whole yiimp credit code yet;  but it works.

If you need help getting configured for zpool;  I am more than willing to help.  I also have profit switching scripts for nvidia cards using ccminer variants.... link in my sig.   Through that link you can also see another link with many other scripts and details to help you understand how to configure your miners and work with the pool.

This situation on amazon often happens weather you want to or not... lol

Recently I bought a NGFF M.2->USB WWAN adapter and it did not power on when hooked up like the miniPCIE/USB WWAN adaptors.... the seller asked me what WWAN card I was using, and when I stated LM7355, I was promptly given a refund saying incompatible device.
Two days od driver fiddling later;  the whole contraption works and powers up.   $25 saved.....

Im not sure.   I haven't tried to decompile the program since I have found out... see if the code is obfuscated, etc.  Lots to do to figure it out since the application no longer runs.

The application used to run fine.  Now it does not.... so its not as easy as I hoped initially.   Every single copy on every device I have copied this to has the same behavior now..... so its not just one thing infected it;  it has always been that way.

if you are worried, literally run a subharness with a pair of grounds to the +2 extra pins.   Ive done this before, and it works fine.  There's nothing special but two extra grounds.

Ahh, im mistaken;  that's right... they changed the protocol completely;  but for some stupid reason they don't start fresh like most blockchains;  instead they continue to double up bags on people who don't really need it.

These forks are just stomping on the altcoin market imho.... pushing it into BTC.

Lol... you obviously did not read the link in my sig, or my post count here, or even have an idea of what I do on this site...

I've been around the bush.... more than once or twice.  I have been providing free public mining scripts for well over a year now.

I am commenting on an older release;  but still actively seen on pools (via pool stats reviews like zpool's).

Just use this as a minder:  never put a publicly available pre-compiled application run on any sensitive machine.  You never know whats really in it unless you review the code and compile yourself.

EVGA coolers are pretty quiet on 70% or less fan speeds.

If you can separate them more than 2 slot spacing, then they will get enough cooling to not need to ramp up even that high at default settings/clocks.

FWIW: BTG wont be a GPU algo;  its still SHA256 which GPU's are pure garbage at compared to an ASIC.

I chose skien because of 2 reasons:  power consumption, and hashrate for the algo compared to many other cards....  Kinda like how Lyra2v2 was the king for nvidia cards in the past;  they are just much more optimized, and there's a really good sp_ release for skien mining.

For a purely silent ASIC (but barely zero power consumption so you might as well run at home) would be the Baikal X11 mini.