Given the fee, for mining JUST Ethereum Claymore has no advantage over Genoil or even QTminer.

 Claymore's strength is the dual-mining mode.

 Grant County Schedule 7 specifies "AVAILABLE: To accounts with loads not less than 200 kW or more than 5,000 kW" - that schedule is where you START get to under 3c/kwh all up in Grant Country.

 Lower power consumption than that puts you on Schedule 1 (residential) or Schedule 2 (small business) that work out to about 4.5 all up.

 DO kindly explain how to get to 3 in Grant County with less power consumption for a mining operation, I'm ALL ears - rents are a lot lower in Grant than Chelan and viable building availability is a lot better in Grant than Douglas....


 Also, how the heck or where do you get to 4 AT ALL anywhere near Tacoma on less than INDUSTRIAL scale on an ALL UP pricing?
 Let's be sure we're comparing apples to apples here, not JUST base rates that in many cases have massive surcharges (like Alliant Energy in Iowa where the majority of the bill EXCEPT in the summer was the surcharges)....

No clue then, I don't do riser rigs.

Is that a Dragon or A2 case you rebuilt to house that rig?

Some of my testing on 16.9.2 a few months back included one each HD 7750, HD 7870, R9 280x and I think R9 290, as well as a couple of RX 470 cards.

 Given the bloatware status of the entire Relive series, 16.9.2 is my go-to version for RX series cards (which unfortunately I'm pretty sure means I can't use RX 5xx series cards and Vega is Right Out).

 Only NVidia supports CUDA.

 Intel is - oddball, though they support OpenCL so a non-brand-specific miner that runs under OpenCL should work - if you can find one.

 Expect REALLY BAD performance though, Intel iGPUs are a joke compared to AMD and AMD iGPUs don't mine worth beans.

 For comparison, on the Distributed.Net project (which DOES work on both AMD and Intel iGPUS), the iGPU on the A10-7890k (or 7860K, same iGPU) manages 600 Megakeys/sec.
 Intel G4600 (which has the SAME iGPU as the i7-7700k running at the SAME clock, both being Kaby Lake generation) manages 150 MegaKeys/sec *IF AND ONLY IF* you aren't doing anything else on the CPU, more commonly 90 if you ARE doing anything else on the CPU.

 That same AMD A10-7890K/7860K iGPU pulls a WHOPPING .... 11 sol/sec with Claymore 12.4 mining ZEC.



 My not-well-optimised Aorus GTX 1080ti pulls 640-650 sol/s at 160ish watts (I can't get it to clock above 1600ish Mhz boost core for some reason in the system I just built it up into, I am starting to suspect a driver issue as the card USED to hit closer to 2000 most of the time with an older driver version - but I need the newer drivers for my gaming in that machine so I'm kinda stuck).

 (edit - now up to around 750 and boosting to 1850ish but soaking 250ish watts after a reboot, I think the "p0 state" software Nicehash uses was messing up the drivers and boost mode somehow).

The Baikal is NOT a Scrypt miner - it does X11/X13/X15/Quark/Qubit and 1 or 2 others that are part OF X15.

 I suspect they are going to be very close to unprofitable on X11 by the end of October unless you have VERY cheap electric, but I've not actually crunched my estimate of the numbers.
 They might still be profitable on the other stuff, but a LOT of folks are going to be moving their existing Baikals to new algorythm homes (some might have already) if X11 DOES go unprofitable for them.

Why 16.12.2 as recommended driver version, since that is one of the "doesn't support BIOS modded version" drivers?

 I'd recommend 16.9.2 for RX 4xx series, don't have anything more recent to test on - though the 16.10.1 and 16.9.1 versions also worked well on the RX 4xx, 16.9.2 seems to offer better support for older cards and matches the hashrate almost identically to 15.12 on R9 3xx and older GCN cards (though it's more of a memory and resource hog than 15.12)

 For Nvidia other than the 1080ti TitanXp and perhaps the TitanX, 373.06 seems to be the "go to" driver.
 The 1080ti and second-gen Pascal version of the Titan need something newer, 378.something as I recall.

None of my AMD cards are mining any more as such. Kinda.

 I'm making enough on everything else I decided to move them back over to their ORIGINAL intended usage - hammering the Distributed.Net project (though I AM doing that via MooWrapper/BOINC and earning enough Gridcoin to pay their electric cost, or a bit more in the case of the RX series cards and the A10 iGPUs involved).

 HD 7750 is still usable to mine ZEC with - but only 55-60 ballpark sol/sec as I recall.

 I'm not sure if that's 128 bit memory bus or NARROWER offhand, but I suspect it's 128.

Mine just showed up from Newegg today, but I probably won't get to it for a day or two as I'm working on a different machine right now.

 I never had any issues with their 970FX Extreme4 or the single 990FX Extreme3 I've got in my rigs though on multi-GPU usage.

 Are you building a riser rig, or putting all of the cards on the MB?

 Have you tried each card IN the MB to make sure they are all good?

 Perhaps it might be a bad riser?

I'd recommend claymore if you want to try dual-mining (sometimes more profitable), otherwise Genoil or qtminer for straight ETH mining.

High static pressure is caused when a fan blows into a restricted airflow path (like the tight heatsinks on an S7 or S9).

 It takes more power to overcome that static pressure, and generally requires special fan design to work well in a high static pressure environment.


 You do not want to "maintain" a static pressure.


 Static pressure is also sometimes referred to as "back pressure", since it is a form of pressure that "pushes back" against airflow.

 

EVGA 1300 G2 comes STOCK with 8 PCI-E connectors - 2"dual" cables and 4 "single" cables.

 I don't remember offhand if the S7 needed 7 or needed 10 though.

 Worst case, talk to EVGA about getting a couple extra of the "2 connectors on one cable" cables.

www.litecoinpool.org is my favorite there - they do merge mining, keep the results, but GIVE YOU usually 3% additional Litecoin in exchange (in other words, their FEE is NEGATIVE 3% due to the merge mining).

Sounds like a varient on the GigaWatt project.

I don't think any of the folks that are selling X11 miners are selling bare chips at all.

 There are 3 counties in the USA that have 3 cent (or a little less on BIG operations) electric.
 Chelan, Douglas, and Grant counties in Washington state.
 Chelan and Douglas have that rate on RESIDENTIAL, Grant you have to get to the 200kw consumption level or more to get that low while residential and SMALL business rates are close to 4.5 cents/kwh

 All 3 have large hydropower dam(s) they OWN on the Columbia river, with lots of excess to local needs power they sell off at a profit and roll the profits back into subsidizing local rates somewhat.

 Alcoa used to have one of it's BIG Aluminum smelters in Chelan country (currently inoperative but they've been talking about PERHAPS bringing it back online), Quincy in Grant county has some fame for being the home of some GIANT server farms (Microsoft, Yahoo, Dell, and some smaller folks).

 Then there are places like near the Three Rivers Dam in China that don't have enough demand (lack of infrastructure to SHIP all that electric output where it's really needed) so they sell off electric super cheap to what locals DO exist.

 A few of the Middle East oil powers subsidize local electric rates too, though I dunno if they do that for non-citizens.


 There are parts of Labrador, most or all of Quebec, and part of British Columbia that also have a lot of cheap hydropower available though I'm not sure if they quite make it down to 5 cents (US) per kwh at less than industrial scale rates.

 3 options that have ever been built as ASIC.

 Gridseed and the GC 3355 - which was very quickly not competative on SHA256 efficiency if it EVER was, but was the only option for some months for Scrypt.
 SFARDS SF100 - second-generation of the GC3355, again by the time it shipped it was no longer competative on the SHA256 side but was fairly close on the Scrypt side.

 SFARDS was the merger of Gridseed and WiiBox - they appear to have built and sold ONE batch of the SF100 then quietly died, or got out of cryptocoin entirely.

 The Baikal technically is multi-algo, but X15 INCLUDES all of the other algos supported by the Baikal miner so it was just a matter of "breaking out" input and output to the applicable sub-algos to allow it to mine on more than one algo (but not at the SAME time, the Gridseed and SFARDS chips were designed to do both Scrypt AND SHA256 at the same time).

 I'm inclined to say that the Baiklal is the only one that was SUCCESSFUL at multi-algo, the GC3355 lived for a long time as Scrypt but not SHA256 and the SFARDS was never a success at all.

192 CUDA cores at less than 600 megahertz.

 I suspect the iGPU on my A10s would mine faster.

 It's not even an ENTRY LEVEL card by current standards.