I'm fully aware of the issues of moving - I just DID so last summer.

 If you're going to be serious about long-term profitable mining, though, you NEED to get somewhere with low electric cost.

 I have never seen a 1070 that managed more than about 460 - SPECIFICALLY INCLUDING my Gigabyte G1 cards.

 You apparently have one that handles a lot higher overclocks better than most do, or you're looking at the "momentary peaks" and counting those as the hashrate where I tend to look at the AVERAGE hashrate instead, or you're in a VERY COLD ambient temp with your cards - or a combination of all 3.
 

 Even with minimal tuning and having "fairly high ambient temp cooling" limitations, most of my 1080 cards easily hit 530 and I suspect when I take the time to fine-tune them they will be able to push closer to 550 - and NONE of those are "high end" 1080 models, most are the Zotac Mini or the bottom-end Gigabyte 2-fan models which are definitely heat limited in my environment.


 On the other hand, with 1070 pricing getting back down into the pre-gouge range, the 1070 is starting to look like a better option even at the system level to the 1080 in many respects - and the recent climb in 1080ti pricing isn't helping any.

With the 1070 finally getting back under $400 (Newegg pricing, saw 2 of them today at $399) it's taking back it's place as arguably the best NVidia mining choice for most algos NVidia is good at.

 1080ti pricing seems to have been going UP a bit lately - I can't remember the last under $700 listing on Newegg for one, been a month or so I think.

 1080 ti is still better from a "rig density" point of view, though, and any of the 1070/1080/1080ti options are close on both hash/$ and hash/watt when you figure them at the TOTAL SYSTEM COST AND POWER CONSUMPTION level.


 Gonna be interesting to see where the "1070 ti" specs end up at, and pricing on it, and where it falls in the efficiency and hash/$ spectrum - presuming it DOES actually happen.

 Try setting the fans to something faster than the "factory stock" fan profile - which in all "good for mining" cards I've seen to date worries too much about "quiet" at the cost of "cool".

 Bitmain has NOT shown that level of efficiency, though they've shown somewhat CLOSE to it on the first few VERY UNRELIABLE batches of the S9 - and stopped trying on the later batches as the miners could NOT operate reliably when pushed that close to their bottom voltage spec for max efficiency.

 BitFury chips are used in the Hotmine X5/X6 line of miners, among others I don't remember offhand.

 BW doesn't SELL retail, you're arguing strawmen there - and we don't KNOW what the efficiency on their current miners ended up at, their CHIP level claims however did in fact beat Bitmain and were in Bitfury territory for their "3'd gen" 14/16nm chip design claims.

 Canaan beats Bitmain HANDS DOWN on reliability, at a cost in efficiency.

 I never mentioned EBang, YOU are the only one bringing them up.
 Another strawman argument since I never made ANY claim about them at all.


 It's nowhere near as cut and dried "Bitmain is the best" as you claim.

 I ran my S5/SP20 farm the same way when I had it - 3 miners on a pair of Seasonic X1250 or EVGA G2 1300 supplies.

 Just make sure each hash board is powered from the SAME power supply and you should be good to go.

 It also gave me plenty of headroom to crank that SP20 HARD (it was the "middle" unit on it's trio/pair).

 3 counties in Central-Eastern Washington - Douglas, Chelan, and Grant.
 Residential and SMALL business rates in the first two are around 3 cents/kwh all up, Grant 4.5-4.6 all up (the rates are near identical between the 2 classes of service in each county).

 Large business rates in all three (200kw level for them all IIRC) is well under 3 cents/kwh all up.

 Most of each county is covered by a "County PUD" built fiber network that was originally set up for remote meter reading, but the counties lease access out to local area ISPs for end users to get connected to - usually on a 100Base-T Ethernet link (faster is available but I suspect it takes time to get the panel modified or swapped out).

 This is WHY there are a lot of LARGE major corporation data centers in Quincy (Grant County) and most of the largest cryptocoin farms in the USA are in the area (Gigawatt that used to be known as MegaBigPower, Zoomhash, Toomin Brothers, Columbia River Mining, to my specific knowlege and I KNOW I'm forgetting a couple and am sure there are others that are "under my radar").



 24,000 KWH / year is not much power - 66 KWH a day or well under 3KW total draw on a continuous basis.


 MOST areas I've ever lived in had lower "residential" rates than "small business" rates, but it varies depending on the specific power company involved. Never hurts to check into it, and potential other options like "Time of Day" rate that can often lower your power bill when they are available.

 I think I've seen at least one high-end PDU do that, but I'd be more inclined to suspect he splits the 3-phase out to single-phase and feeds the PDUs from the single-phase.

 Liebart is comming to mind....

 GTX 1070 is overpriced at current pricing for ETH mining - you'd do better to build an ETH mining rig around AMD RX 470/480/570/580 cards now that they're commonly available under $300 again.
 SSD is a waste on a pure mining rig - I'd go with a low cost hard drive or a USB flash drive instead.
 8GB is overkill for a pure mining rig but does offer some future "room to grow", and it's not all that much more expen$ive than 4 GB any more.

 Yes, your planned rigs SHOULD be profitable on ZEC mining - as long as your electric cost is not crazy-high.
 I CAN'T say if it will achieve ROI though, way too many variables like "future ZEC pricing" that I don't know and NOBODY can predict, and I also have no idea what your electric cost is like.

 Per the specs, it should work well even for an high clocked Moonlander.

 1.4 Amp rating....

 No need for a seprate "load balancer" - quite a few options available to go from 2 or 3 WAN ports to your local network in firewall/VPN routers and I've never seen one that could NOT be configured for load balancing.

 I would IGNORE Dlink or TPLink for switches entirely.
 Cisco (ignore their "small business" line of relabled LinkSys junk) if you can find them cheap, used 3Com when you can find them, Netgear "blue box" pro line in their GS series, all are MUCH MUCH MORE RELIABLE long-term.

 Managed switches on a mining setup are a waste of money, unless you can get them cheap - might be usefull if you insist on trying to remote manage you miners from outside your LOCAL lan, but otherwise don't bother.

 $700-$750 for an assortment of different 1080 ti models on Newegg.

 Still doesn't add up to 200%+ margin though.

The older Baikal miners (based on their original chips) were the ones that support X13 - the old Cube 900 etc models.

 I *think* I remember them mentioning that their new chip in their current miner can support X13 but they have not enabled that support in the firmware of their new miner yet.

 You should move.

 My last bill was under $600 (barely) for a bit over 13kwh usage.

 Hair under $0.046 all-up rate.

When you factor in TOTAL SYSTEM price, the 1050 and 1050ti start falling quite a bit behind most cards that have widespread usage in mining.

 1070/1080/1080ti are good efficient and cost-effective cards on ZEC/ZEN/other splitoffs and some small niche coins using Skein/Groetsl/lbry type algos, but don't support as wide a range of algorithms well as the high-end AMD RX series cards.


It's hard to give a definitive answer to this sort of question because the parameters to make the choice VARY too widely, sometimes on an individual basis.

If your case was designed to fit in OpenServer style racks, there might be FAINT interest in it.

 Most folks that mine with "cases" on their miners want 19" due to it's widespread availability and relatively low cost.

Didn't you keep the "power supply test adapter" that the EVGA G2 ships with?

 Rectangular plastic piece with a connector inside, a hair longer than the ATX 24 connector and designed to plug into it with pins 4-5 shorted to start up the PS like a jumper.

 The S9 isn't best in class - Bitfury was showing similar efficiency to what Syan is claiming on their demo - and there have been "upgrades" to both GF and TSMC processes since then that make the efficiency claims of the Syan unit reasonable.

 That doesn't mean they are NOT a scam - it just means that *IF* they are a scam, they're a well thought out scam.

 They're also not the first company to come "out of nowhere" with a new miner - a few of which have proven to be legit....

Try the Altcoin section, Bitcoin has been IMPOSSIBLE to mine effectively with a "regular computer" for several years now.

 Best I've managed out of my Aorus is about 790 - but that was PUSHING it with a bit over 100% TDP (105 I think, for 262 watts) and +150 core +100 memory.

 80% figure (200 watts) more like 720 sol/s ballpark, +150 and +100 (which seems to be the sweet spot for this card at ANY power level 75% or higher, lower it starts crashing at the +150 core setting).


 My Gigabyte 3-fan Windforce model overheats if I try to push it at all, it's currently pulling a little under 700 sol/s at 215 watts +120 core +100 ram (It's on a LINUX box where TDP is set direct as a watts figure not a % figure).
 
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 It's on a riser for cooling reasons - and still pulling about 70C at 80% fan at a ambient of about 85F, despite the reduced TDP setting.