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Seems to be more to it than just laying down regulations though, or why is BTC China shutting down ALL OPERATIONS ENTIRELY?
The "laying down regulations" stuff was some months back....
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Holy crap that would be very nice for my mining farm.. Is this the second comeing of Butterfly Labs? |
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Intel stated "10 nm end of road for Silicon".
IBM has mentioned used HYBRID Germanium/Silicon wafers in their 7NM experimental development (this would end up on Global Foundries since GF ended up with the IBM fabs some years back when IBM decided to spin off that part of their business).
This should probably move over to the "Phil's 6'th thread" for any further discussion.
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has anyone heard of the motherboard that biostar was trying their luck with that supported 104 gpu's?
It was a combination of motherboard AND a bunch of extra cards. I believe the actual number was 119 - 7 boards at 17 cards each - but THAT I might be misremembering a bit. |
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Nobody sells 10MB any more (except perhaps as ancient used gear).
Since 10Base-T had the SAME "Cat 3 minimum" wiring requirement that 100Base-T did, once the price on 100Base-T gear got low enough there was no reason at all to stick with 10 on gear replacement.
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As I already pointed out, it's often a case that the WIRING won't support Gigabit
Have you tried what 5e can do? You are ASSUMING 5e - a lot of businesses have 3 for wiring, not even 5 much less 5e or 6. And yes, I know the limits of using 5e with Gigabit (works but keep the runs fairly SHORT, or go 6 - and for serious backbone work go 6 period). |
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It's ONE company "GMO", and I believe their originally announced May 2018 timeframe was way optimistic.
They seem to have toned the timeframe back to "have working silicon in 2018" which sounds like they are targeting TAPE-OUT by the end of 2018 and might be a viable target (that would put actual PRODUCTION into 1Q or 2Q of 2019).
They seem to have also had some bad timing on when to get involved, with the recent news out of China - unless China DOES in fact ban Bitcoin and it puts Bitmain/BW.COM/EBit and the other smaller Chinese miner makers out of business (Innosilicon will probably survive, they'll go back to being a custom design house like they were before they started doing Cryptocoin ASIC).
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The cards are all EVGA 1070 SC Blacks
I run them at +100 core and +600 mem 80% TDP.
Impressive, mine have never been stable past about +450 on mem. |
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Hm... so, now you have your pile of water-cooled gear sitting right next to the tankless on-demand water heater on the wall. Any ideas on how to maybe merge the two technologies? Preheat the water by GPUs before it enters the main heater? Just thinking out loud...  That would be fairly easy to do with a tank-type water heating setup, using a heat exchanger at the intake of the hot water tank. |
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3 years?
As has been said many times already, a properly cared for GPU can have a indefinite life-span with usually the part becoming obsolete before failing. This can easily mean 5+ years of operation. Most GPUs that have some defect from manufacturing or installation damage will usually fail within the first month or so of continuous operation, which since is within the warranty period usually pose no problem other than the inconvenience of doing the RMA. Other factors that can lead to failure have been mentioned already in the thread, but normally boils down to the care one takes to maximizing their longevity. Electrical problems (surges, brownouts, static discharge, loose connections, bad or unstable PSU) are probably near the top of the lists, along with excessive heat (higher than 80° C operating temperature), dust, dirt, humidity, and of course physical damage. Long term, FAN DEATH is the leading cause of card failure for cards that make it out of infant mortality. I've got several HD 7750 and a 7870 that date back to LITECOIN GPU mining days - they've been in pretty close to continuous usage that whole time (4 years now almost), doing mining or Distributed.Net work (which offers a VERY similar load to most cryptocoin mining algos as it IS crypto work as well). Had to replace the fans on all the HIS 7750 cards (junk sleeve bearing fans) in less than a year, the Sapphire HD7750 JUST had it's (ball bearing) fan die last month, and the HIS blower-type card is still going strong on the original fan (ball bearing LOW loaded big-bloody-blower, it's the IceQ model). Everything I had before that point was either ancient pre-Stream pre-CUDA, or AMD APUs. |
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quick question: whats the roi going to look like in november for litecoin. is it going to drop like the D3?
im assuming there are less competitors for scrypt mining out there for the L3+.
What do you guys think.
Litecoin (and the other Scrypt coins) have a TON more total network hashrate as measured in L3+ units (or A4+ or L21) than DASH does in D3 units. Diff will get worse - but not nearly as fast or as bad. Also keep in mind that a bunch of L3+ batches have already been DELIVERED over the last several months it's been available (along with several batches of A4 miners) - we're still waiting on the D3 first batch to land, the X11 jump the past month has been all about IBeLink and Pinidea. Nobody wants the D3 (and few want the L3+) right now because profitability has CRASHED by about half just in the last week - and that's BEFORE the massive hashrate jump on X11 of late October hits.... |
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Just buy bitcoin for this money. Wait 2-3 weeks and ytou will be able to buy 3 rigs)
So YOU are the one that invoked Murphy and caused the current Bitcoin price collapse! JP Morgan was FUD - but BTC China announcing they are closing all operations by September 30 is a bit more than FUD, it's a bellwether. |
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3800 seems to be pretty strong as for now, let's see what comes next - 4400 + or another dip to 3300 ?
Unless relieving news come from China best scenario is dead cat bounce to about 4000$ ( max. ) and price between 3400-3800$ for the rest of week. Very bad news can drive the price down to about 3000$ though. imho The funny and sad thing is, the news doesn't even have to be confirmed/legitimate for it to affect the price. It's pretty obvious how much ignorant people are invested into bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. They just read a negative post of bitcoin from Wall Street Journal then BOOM. People start selling without even thinking twice if the news is legit or not. A perfect example of this is Charlie Lee's tweet spreading FUD. It's confirmed enough that BTC China has announced they are shutting down ALL operations by September 30. I won't be shocked to see $2000 - but I'm not really expecting Bitcoin to dump quite THAT far. Here's the REAL question - if the Chinese government DOES try to ban Bitcoin (which has been rumored by a few places over "capitol flight" and "funding illegal activity" worries), what happens to Bitmain BW.com and the other miner manufacturers in China? Innosilicon can just revert to their pre-mining semiconductor house status, but most of the rest don't HAVE a fallback position.... |
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Would this work if you only have one or two PSUs or do you think you would need to have at least three?
It should work with 1, but why bother with this board on that low of a GPU count? |
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With current GPU's only producing 80 cents each per day after electric/fees, don't think this thing is in my future.
You must have some insanely expen$ive electric costs - or some very inefficient or low-performance GPUS. |
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For mining use on a 9xx or any 10xx series NVidia card EXCEPT the Pascal-based Titans and the 1080ti, 373.06 is the optimal driver version.
The more recent driver versions offer NOTHING that improves on mining performance, and many of them crash a lot (385.41 CURRENT driver version is a PRIME example) or LOWER mining performance.
The more recent driver versions are all about fixing issues with GAMES - and often cause OTHER issues when they fix something.
More recent is often NOT BETTER on drivers depending on your usage.
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Under current conditions, a single 8TB (actually 7.27 or some such FORMATTED) Seagate Expansion drive (usually the Seagate Archive 8TB internally) will pull in ballpark 450 BURST/month for perhaps $6 a month.
ALL of the calculators are optimistic by quite a bit, due to how the BURST "network" is measured and an inherent flaw in that method - I generally take the figure any calculator comes up with and estimate I MIGHT get as high as 2/3ds (more commonly closer to 60%) of the amount the calculator comes up with.
ANY size HD will work, but IMO anything under 1TB isn't worth bothering with any more.
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They MIGHT be thinking about it as a "1080 Light" model or some such though, to be able to use up some existing GPU chips that have minor flaws - THEN it might make some sense.
Similar to the R9 290(390) vs R9 290x(390x) or R9 280(HD7950) vs R9 280x(HD7970).
Otherwise, total waste of time and effort for them.
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How can I expect like 30% return in 3 weeks? Any news I missed?
You can't. Febuary-March timeframe, sure - during the first part of the big price runup but before miners had built enough new hashrate to catch up and the GPU shortage price gouging started. Now - if you manage 10% return a month you're doing pretty good - we're almost back down to the profitability level of LAST summer, where only the low-cost electric folks could seriously prosper. |
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