Powerful, but not the MOST powerful - given at least one rig I've seen posted somewhere (VoskCoin perhaps) that had 19 cards on a B250 Mining Pro motherboard working away.

 Thermaltake makes some nice cases - too bad their power supplies tend to be not as good.

Which part of "BLATANT SCAM" did you not understand?

 I have only one thing to say about GridCoin.

 MOO!

 9-)



 Actually, that's not entirely true - I do have a few CPUs working YOYO for the time being.

 No reason - I'm not saying DON'T do it, I'm just impressed it isn't any BETTER at it.

 No, it's a Windows thing - I see the same sort of thing on the Aorus in my "gaming" machine - only run it at +100 +100 in Afterburner, 100% TDP - and it drops to about 160 watts as soon as I start up a game OR a web browser or much of anything else EXCEPT mining software.

 Plus side - it's dropping into it's EFFICIENT range when that happens, and not dopping a ton of hashrate.

Are you starting something else up around that point?
Even opening a WEB BROWSER seems to cause what you're seeing in Windows.

 The temps in a miner don't get anywhere NEAR what it would take to melt the solder, much less cause any of it to turn to breathable vapor.

 Your ROOM ON FIRE might not get hot enough.

 It would be nice if you would quit spreading this FUD garbage.

 I tried to get Stak to work with Nicehash - nothing but stratum errors, and as of last week when I was trying to work with it the dev STATED that something in Nicehash stratum was broke (or nonstandard) and he wasn't sure if he was GOING to make Stak work with it.

 No idea what you mean by "new integrated version".

 Stak CPU version works fine with Nicehash, oddly enough - dunno why it would be different for the CPU version and the 2 GPU versions.

Canada should be a match on the "stuff taken for no reason doesn't happen much" level with the USA.
Most of Western Europe as well, but then you run into power costs in most of Europe are just bad.

 Thing to keep in mind about Montana - it's either mountains, totally empty flat to gentile rolling, or Billings (and Billings isn't all THAT big a city).
 Most of that state makes the wheatfield plains of Kansas/Nebraska/Colorado look EMPTY.

I like the layout on that "new version" a lot better.
I'd be inclined to skip the "uptime per machine" and "shares" line though.

300 hash seems kinda sad for a high-end high-cost CPU like a I7 7700 - I get THAT much out of my much lower cost FX-8320e CPUs....

300-310 to be picky - and that's NOT overclocked at all (not sure if it does the boost clock thing when mining XMR though).

 Depends on the rig - a small rig could easily be 500 watts, a multi-PS big rig based on that B250 Pro Mining 19-slot MB in theory COULD hit 4k+ watts running all Vega or GTX 1080ti cards (more with certain older cards).

 All of the rigs I currently build target 6 amp draw (660 watts nominal) so I can put 2 of them on one standard 15 amp circuit (my B250 will probably end up closer to 20 amps/2200 watts but that's using 3 PS spread across 2 circuits).

 Because the miner will MAKE MONEY with that electric usage, not turn it into heat for NO other gain?

 Why is this confusing?

Unless it is a server-grade PSU, the 80% "ballpark" figure DOES apply for 24/7 operation.

 It's not a hard and firm LAW, but it's a good idea to stay close to that ballpark for long-term reliability and STABILITY on a 24/7 mining rig.


 Also, non-server power supplies DO have a "thermal derating" curve that often takes some digging to FIND, which is what leads to this rule of thumb.
 Server-grade ones have the same curve - but it generally kicks in at quite a bit higher temp before their rating starts dropping.

 For ZEC/clones, the GDDR5 vs GDDR5x issue appears to be insignificant. The latency issue does drop effective bandwidth a bit but not enough to be noticeable on most algorithms.

 I was talking about the HASHRATE being less than 5% and commonly 1-2% different when operating the cards at the same TDP/efficiency - which means that the 1080 cores are clocking a little lower since there are MORE OF THEM TO EAT POWER they have less power per core to work with and that puts a hair more of a power limit on their boost vs the 1070 ti.

 The REAL difference though, when operating both cards at their max efficiency range, is the PRICE - far bigger difference than the hashrate difference, so on a hash/$ basis the 1080 loses noticeably even if it can match the 1070 ti on hashrate and efficiency.


 If you can get a 1080 of a comparable model to a 1070 ti version for the same price or less, it makes sense to go with the 1080 - for resale value if NOTHING else.


 If you run the cards at the same TDP, and they are the same model (like Zotac mini versions of each, or EVGA SC, etc) the fans should end up running at the same speed and be the same noise level.


 

 No - but unlike Stak-XMR it DOES WORK with Nicehash.

 The "hashrate reduction" is overstated, though real - more like 10-12% in the testing on real mining I've done in the last week for the RX470 (still almost NO change to my R9 290s though) not 25%.
 It would appear that the "future DAG testing" method has some serious flaw to it that badly overstated the issue.

 The 17.30 blockchain drivers for Windows ONLY work with 10, I've tried to get them to work with 7 on 3 separate occasions now and they just flat out don't work at all even though AMD claims they support 7.
 They are buggy as heck as well even under 10.
 I think I remember seeing somewhere that the latest "standard" drivers also incorporate the "blockchain" fixes, but some mining software looks specifically for the blockchain version (XMR-Stak and Cast for XMR definitely do).

 The LINUX 17.40 blockchain drivers STILL doesn't work with Vega, haven't messed with it for my 470 cards as those are not mining ETH.
 To be fair, it seems that NO Linux driver is working correctly to date with the RX Vega - as usual, AMD cares very  about getting their LINUX drivers working, and that got a TON worse when they decided to go to the "AMD-GPU PRO" garbage.

 Afterburner 4.4 is the most recent version, and DOES work with the blockchain drivers and recent non-blockchain driver versions.

 When you do a driver upgrade, always to a clean uninstall/clean install - and you WILL have to "fix" your settings if you use that wattman junk (iffy in Afterburner, if it's not running when you fix the drivers it MIGHT save your setttings, or it might not).

Widespread testing among the FAH community came to the conclusion that 373.06 was the most stable for FAH usage (which indicates it should also be highly stable for mining as both put very heavy loads on a GPU) while maintaining full PPD (FAH version of hashrate).

 There's less agreement about driver version for the cards that have been released since that driver version was released as there's been less time and fewer cards tested to date.

Do keep in mind that ALL of the hardware for the Sony PS4 line comes from someone else.
If they DID make a miner, the chips for it would probably be sourced from AMD....

 I want to say MIRV 12 - whatever the "orange framed" ones Walmart sells are.