The dev is free to set whatever fee level he wants and we are just as equally free to not use the miner, or to say we feel the fee is too high relative to performance, reliability, etc. Really, what's got your panties all in a wad?

The supplier I bought my Onda from is sold out - and the price on the listing is now twice what I paid. That said, the Octominer board looks better overall anyway.

Quoted again for posterity!

I just pointed my Ryzen 5 at your pool (a modest ~400 H/s) with difficulty set to 16000 and it seems to be working very well - fixed diff is much nicer than the roller coaster ride you usually end up taking with vardiff. I also really like the UI customizations, especially the payout counter that increments with every share, rather than every block; that should go a long way towards silencing the noobs that complain about not getting credit for their hashing (I should know, as I was one of those people not so long ago...).

One potentially worrisome thing is that at the bottom of the page is a warning that the pool is not healthy and to contact the admin... err, no, I just checked it again and the warning is gone. Carry on!

EDIT - I also want to note I'm getting a good ping time from my location, too - around 47ms.

I was also averaging about 1% rejected shares with 5.0.0, and virtually 0% with dstm 0.5.7.

I will be doing just that - and yes, they are awfully close together. I'm planning on using supplemental fans to blow air either down onto the cards or across from the side opposite where the video jacks are.

I'm going to be firing up my first Onda D1800 rig soon - only (2) GTX 1060 installed to start, but I have (2) more I'll be moving over to it once I get it running.

Any tips/tricks/advice for configuring the BIOS to run Windows 10 from a HDD? I'll be installing from bootable USB which I have successfully used to prep another bare board system once before so that part *shouldn't* be a problem.

Starting with: is it okay to partition the HDD with GPT and use UEFI BIOS, or is it strictly legacy BIOS?

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But all those NH idiots are going to get burned when the stocks.exchange wallet fiasco gets sorted out, as while I believe DERO has great prospects for the future, it almost certainly is not worth 0.0002 BTC just yet.

Damn, these look good. I'm glad I only bought 2 of the Onda D1800 6-slot boards because this is a superior (looking, anyway) solution.

That said, I can't find enough GPUs to populate the mobos I have, much less the mobos I want...

Meanwhile, DERO is trading at $2.74, but with a 24 hour total volume of $0.085... 

So when is stocks.exchange going to get its act together? My test deposit of 10 DERO still hasn't shown up there.

XMR-Stak is a weird program, in my (very limited) experience. The first time you run the executable it prompts for wallet address, pool/port, etc., then generates a few files that are specific to your CPU and GPU(s). Don't copy these files to a new machine and expect it to run properly, especially if you change GPU teams (ie - from red to green or vice versa). Also note that Cryptonight/Cryptonote miners seem really benefit from having "Large Memory Pages" enabled in Windows 10 - and run as an administrator to take advantage of such.

By default XMR-Stak uses both the CPU and all GPUs to mine, and yes, Ryzens can dish out a surprising amount of hashpower; my Ryzen 5 1600 is humming along at better than 400 H/s right now (using Claymore CPU miner 3.9, but got nearly identical results from the CPU portion of XMR-Stak) mining one Cryptonight coin while the RX 570 in this computer is mining another coin at 724 H/s (using a newcomer, AMD XMR Miner v0.65b https://www.amdxmrminer.com/ - highly recommended if you don't want to use your CPU to mine, or use it to mine a separate coin like me).

I think the concern is of a more personal nature - as in, who the f' are you and why should we trust you not to steal our hashes?

Not to imply you are a shady character, rather just pointing out that during any boom there are always lots of shady characters that come out to capitalize on the mania (and, let's be honest, the greed of others).

Not sure what you are asking; returns are based on your hashrate, the difficulty to solve each block and whether or not a block has been found and matured. Small pools that don't find blocks very often tend to have very erratic payouts, but if you mine there long enough - assuming blocks are found - then you will make the same as a larger pool finding blocks more often; the difference is that the larger pool will pay out smaller amounts more frequently.

That said, few people want to wait more than a few hours to see if their pending balance goes up on a pool so smaller pools tend to stay small unless they can build a certain amount of momentum.

Altminer, however, is not a small pool. Neither is the official TZC pool, though - it has about half the total network hashrate.

Altminer works fine - I'm in the US, btw - and I like that it pays out on a regular basis, rather than when you accumulate a certain amount of coins; this means you don't have an "orphaned" balance if you switch to mining something else.

A two-fer.


Yes, good point. Unfortunately, the 1050 Ti doesn't seem to report power use figures like its bigger brethren (or, at least, my Zotac mini doesn't), so the only way to tell is by looking at the difference in wattage of the whole system when mining vs. not mining, and that tends to bounce around by 20W or so anyway.


Yet another good point - I just checked the spacing of another mobo that has 2 GTX 1060 in it - and which need an external fan blowing on them to keep temps under 65C - and the spacing is 6cm... Well, one can always use a bigger fan, I suppose.

Well, no thanks to you slackers I can now answer my own question from earlier - the board is, indeed, a diminutive 195mm x 374mm. Surprisingly small, really. The PCIe slots are spaced 50mm apart so cooling of big cards with "impingement cooling"* might be challenged, if not marginal; cards with blowers should fare better.

One other pertinent bit of info for those interested in getting a head-start on building a rack for this board is that it has ( total 4.0mm ID** mounting holes with the four on the top of the board spaced, from left to right, at 155mm between the 1st and 2nd holes, then 100mm between each of the others. Along the bottom of the board things are a little different. The spacing between holes going from left to right is the same as the upper row, but spacing between the top and bottom rows is 132mm for the 1st hole and 155mm for the rest.



* - the technical term for a fan blowing air directly against a heatsink, rather than across it.
** -  #6 or 6-32 for us Muricans

I ordered the same board and it should be arriving any day now. The CPU is a Celeron mobile type; likely a G 1820, but who knows for sure. Could be an Untel Celery for all we know.

The memory required is single stick of 4GB or 8GB SODIMM (laptop) DDR3L - the L stands for low voltage - at either the 1600 or 1333 clock rating.

So I should expect the deposit I made to stocks.exchange about 3 hours ago to take another 2-3 days?

In the meantime, it will be interesting to see how the bid/ask spread plays out (nearly a 3:1 range between the lowest sell and the highest buy).

Just did a test transfer of 10 DERO to stocks.exchange with "normal" priority and a ring size of 5; let's see how long it takes to show up there.

EDIT - I also transferred some TZC at around the same time and it showed up about 15 minutes later; nothing but crickets with the DERO deposit so far.

Lol, just like when Kraft changed its name to Mondelez and that turned out to be a derogatory term in either Russia or Ukraine or the like.

In other news, DERO is up to 0.00013 BTC / $1.86US on stocks.exchange... quite a run so far.

HWInfo says my Ryzen 5 1600 draws an extra 52W while mining Cryptonight at ~400 H/s, while the TDP of the 1050 Ti is 75W, so the Ryzen wins in the hashes/W department as well.

But my point was more that the 1050 Ti really excels at Equihash so why use it on an algo it's only mediocre at like Cryptonight or Ethash?

Oh, I forgot, it's also relatively good at Lyra2v2 - my spreadsheet of benchmarks shows 14.8 ?H/s at 1860 core, 3800 mem, using ccminer-klausT (the ? is because I don't know what the correct units are - k, M, none at all?)

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On a separate note, can someone <cough, philipma1957, cough-cough> give me the dimensions of the 6 slot D1800? I want to get started on a rack and I suspect the dimensions on the Alibaba listing are not even remotely correct (at least I hope that's the case - a "plate size" of 195mm x 374mm is smaller than Micro-ATX).