I would think those cards could mine ZEC as well, no clue what their hashrate is going to be like though.

Titans are a VERY poor choice to mine on, unless you already HAVE the bloody expen$ive things - they don't give any more hashrate than the 1080ti does (or at least not that you would NOTICE) yet cost almost twice as much.

 A triple 1080ti rig would make a lot more sense, even from a "insanely high end gaming system" standpoint.

Bit of food for thought for those that think 7nm will show up next year.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/08/intels-next-generation-chip-plans-ice-lake-and-a-slow-10nm-transition/

Given the issues with 14/16nm, and the reported issues getting 10nm up to speed, I'm starting to think that *2019* might be excessively optimistic for actual 7nm production to arrive.

 0.09 is marginal for long-term mining. It's been viable since about Febuary this year due to a massive price jump on almost all cryptocoins, but profitability has been dropping a LOT the last couple months as the price rise leveled out and more and more rigs got online to raise the difficulty - and that trend will probably continue for a while since most of the BIG farms are in places with very cheap electric (under 5c/kwh and often more like 3).

 Bitcoinwisdom calculator has a "diff increase percentage" field in the calculator, which is a lot better than the "nothing" most other calculators offer.

 SInce when does Counterparty give you an OPTION to pay less than their normal RIPOFF level of fees?

I have to wonder if this issue is related to why I've not seen a payout in well over a week, when I USUALLY see a payout daily more-or-less with the amount of coin in my wallet at the moment.

 Has ANYONE gotten a payout since the current wallet version went live and mandatory?

 They would be less profitable as there would be a ton of wasted space on the chip and a bunch of circuitry that even in a "powered down" state is STILL going to pull a little power.

 The whole REASON that an ASIC is efficient is that it is dedicated to doing ONE thing VERY VERY WELL, as opposed to something like a GPU that has to be set up to do many different things and is not as good at each one.

 Bitmain has been selling ALL of their models on a "2-3 months preorder" basis for several months now - demand exceeds supply that much.

 WHEN you can get into their site at all to order anything right after they release a new batch (optimally their current "revamping the site" will DEAL with the traffic load a lot better).


 There are no "tools" to accurately model future profitability - prices vary too much for any "model" to work due to factors that often CAN'T be predicted ahead of time (like the Chinese Government).
 "Technical Analysis" on cryptocoins is a JOKE, pricing is far too "news driven" for TA to WORK on a market as immature as cryptocoins.
 As best, you can estimate it - and hopefully allow ENOUGH to make up for unexpected changes along with expected ones.

 The model for future difficulty on SHA256 coins comes down to seeing WHEN a new Bitmain batch is going to be shipped, and how big it is, then adding a "fudge factor" for the apparently much lower sales of gear by Caanan, BW.com, and Bitfury-based miners.
Since the introduction of the S9, difficulty increases on SHA256-based coins have been limited to how many chips the various miner makers can get out of the foundries since they are now competing with the BIG BOYS like Apple, Samsung, Nvidia, AMD, and IBM (but not Intel due to Intel having THEIR OWN foundries) on how much foundry production they can get out of TSMC/Samsung/GF on lines that are probably sold out months ahead of time and running flat-out processing the CURRENT state-of-the-art semiconductor technology.

 The RX series uses HALF OR LESS the power of a R9 290, much less a 290x.

 The difference in mining between 8GB cards and 4GB cards is that the 8GB cards are pretty much always 8000 Mhz ram CLOCK, while the 4GB cards are pretty much always 6600 or 7000 Mhz, NOT due to the extra RAM.

 30-32 might be a hair high to expect, but 28-30 with a BIOS modded 480/580 8GB card seems to be the common ballpark.

Do you HAVE to return the original card to get the credit?

 If so, it's worth it to upgrade to a newer, higher performance card like a RX 470/480/570/580 even at the current INFLATED pricing on those cards.

 If not, it's a no-brainer slam dunk.

 That's been ALL of the "extra bonus" tokens that have been distributed with FoldingCoin.
 That would be a lot less of an issue if they would drop usage of that bloody ripoff Counterparty garbage.

 Since the D3 is at best the #3 miner CURRENTLY available for X11, it might be worth selling it off early batch ones soon before the BIG difficulty jumps hit.
 S9, no point - it's the best AND the most cost-effective on the market WHEN it works (though BitFury based gear SHOULD be capable of getting close).
 L3+ is pretty much a tossup for the best on the market WHEN it works AND is the most cost-effective.

 NEMA 6-15 would be enough for a 2400 watt power supply running at 220.
 There are several companies that make "NEMA 6 plug to standard C13 or standard C19" type power cords - Americable and Iron Box come immediately to mind.

APC makes some good gear - they are my VERY long time "go to" supplier for UPS systems - but that whitepaper ASSUMES the use of standard air conditioning, which is an expensive BAD choice for most miners in most of the world.

 It would be better to reference the Yahoo "Chicken Coop" data center design, which is specifically designed for low cost - or take a good look at the Gigabyte "mining shed" design and all of the other "large farm" flow-through air setups, as miners tend to handle warm temps a little better than most traditional server designs.

 Oddly enough, I had a tentative design I'd thought out and done some planning on 2-3 years BEFORE I heard of the Yahoo design - that ended up being somewhat similar but will handle open-rig miners (the Yahoo design DEPENDS on being used with rack-mount cases).

X11 WAS profitable - both during most of the Litecoin craze days (though usually not AS profitable as Litecoin) and for a few weeks to a month after Litecoin collapsed, as folks scrambled for something else to mine and eventually swamped the few other options or ended up dropping out of GPU mining entirely.

 It was still profitable after that - for folks with VERY CHEAP of free electric, but it quickly hit "breakeven" to a hair worse for those of us that were paying 8c/kwh or more.

The 1050 ti doesn't have an inflated price due to it's LOW performance.

 IMO the 1060 is a better option even though it DOES still have slightly inflated pricing, because the performance more than makes up for the price especially when you factor in the price of the ENTIRE SYSTEM.


 GTX 1070 are still somewhat inflated on price, but I think part of that is NVidia jacked MSRP up $50 recently citing "high RAM costs".

R7 370 is a HD 7870 with MUCH faster ram - that 190 sol/s figure for ZEC looks very reasonable, as I was seeing 160-170 on my HD 7870 cards despite the MUCH slower ram on them.

 They'll work for any alt-coin EXCEPT ETH and some of its derivatives like ETC (dag file issue, though some of the offshoots MIGHT still be under 2GB) as long as an AMD-based miner exists for the coin/algo.

i3 is pretty low end to try to mine on - it MIGHT be profitable on Monero (XMR) but it's going to be a VERY SMALL profit.
i7 would be a much better choice, they can argue with low-to-mid range GPUs on hashrate for usually similar to a little lower power usage.
Ditto higher-end Ryzen.

 A LOT of Monero mining is done on used E5-based servers, thanks to serve.the.home and their articles and forum posts about the subject.

For perspective, my current farm of Innosilicon A2 scrypt miners have a little LESS hash power than a single L3+ while eating 4-5 TIMES the power.

 They are VERY profitable - making several times the cost of the electricity they eat - and would be profitable at 20 cent electric (though not by a LOT).
 They managed to pay themselves off LAST year - before the big Litecoin price jump - and have done so again with some to spare since Feb or March of this year.

 I WAS thinking about selling them off this winter, as their profitability was getting marginal despite my low electric cost - but 20/20 hindsight I'm glad I didn't.

 I don't buy break-even in 4 months - diff is climbing too much - but they SHOULD break even sometime next year as long as they don't break.

 BTW that power figure in the calculation is low, even BITMAIN states 800 watts +10% (at the wall with the APW 3++) - not that it's going to make a huge difference.



 I have no idea where the "50kh per machine" figure is from, that's very very low hashrate FOR A LOW END GPU - which hasn't been usable to mine Litecoin with for a profit for almost 4 years now.
 Even my GENERATION OLD OUTDATED A2 miners manage at least 85 Megahash/sec (for the LITTLE one, the big ones are either a bit over 100 or a bit over 110 depending on the power supply in each one).

 

Do you mean HD 7850 on those "DD" cards?

 If so, that's a reasonable to GOOD speed for those - I was only seeing 12-14 ballpark out of my HD 7870 cards when I was mining on those WITH a well-optimised overclock.

 If they are 7950 cards, it does seem a bit low - try setting the memory clocks to either 1250 or 1450-1500, and you probably DON'T need to overclock your core much.