I have a version of 1080TIs which will not run X17s for anything.
I gave up.
Oh yeah, which version is that, because I pretty much have every single model of 1080 Ti. Works just fine. |
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thanks for your take on it. I know your´e right ! besides that it was "free" its basically the mainboard from my ex´s pc that she left here like any other stuff she didnt needed anymore. as it was an expesnvie relation it´d be great lulz if this board manages to be the heart of a new mining rig. (im using Asrock H110 in my 2 others) Her ex PC would do at least something productive to pay back stuff which would be hilarious. But if its unstable i´ll ditch it. Just to clarify a bit of the "motivation"  beside a mere lower invest Yeah if its unstable just ditch it, just like your ex. Lol. But seriously, i've been using a 4x PCIE splitter on one of my old motherboards and it works fine and stable. I guess its a case to case basis depending on the specific board or chipset. If you are able to get it work then you'll be able to build a cheaper rig. I guess the IF is a big question here and that leaves you to gamble whether or not to buy a PCIE splitter and risk wasting money or just get a new mobo directly. The knucklehead that said he's just asking for trouble I'm willing to bet has never even used one, he's just spreading FUD and his opinion of what MIGHT happen. I've heard of many others like you that don't have any issues with their expanders - I'll be buying a few of them just for shits n giggles to play around with, why not. It's pretty much like how everyone was screaming "don't use risers, they're terrible, find boards that you can do 3 onboard on, risers will fail, rigs will magically disappear into thin air." I built the 3 card rigs, they were fine. but I decided go and build on risers. Bam. Not a single problem. None. Sure. Buy a few to play around with, but consider it playing around. My point was to not expect stability from trying to split what wasn't designed to be split. More than a few people have told me they have caused them problems, so why risk it? My preference is stability for rigs that I want running 24/7. Well when I started people were saying build 2 card and 3 card rigs, don't use powered risers because they aren't stable. We see where that went. |
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thanks for your take on it. I know your´e right ! besides that it was "free" its basically the mainboard from my ex´s pc that she left here like any other stuff she didnt needed anymore. as it was an expesnvie relation it´d be great lulz if this board manages to be the heart of a new mining rig. (im using Asrock H110 in my 2 others) Her ex PC would do at least something productive to pay back stuff which would be hilarious. But if its unstable i´ll ditch it. Just to clarify a bit of the "motivation" beside a mere lower invest Yeah if its unstable just ditch it, just like your ex. Lol. But seriously, i've been using a 4x PCIE splitter on one of my old motherboards and it works fine and stable. I guess its a case to case basis depending on the specific board or chipset. If you are able to get it work then you'll be able to build a cheaper rig. I guess the IF is a big question here and that leaves you to gamble whether or not to buy a PCIE splitter and risk wasting money or just get a new mobo directly. The knucklehead that said he's just asking for trouble I'm willing to bet has never even used one, he's just spreading FUD and his opinion of what MIGHT happen. I've heard of many others like you that don't have any issues with their expanders - I'll be buying a few of them just for shits n giggles to play around with, why not. It's pretty much like how everyone was screaming "don't use risers, they're terrible, find boards that you can do 3 onboard on, risers will fail, rigs will magically disappear into thin air." I built the 3 card rigs, they were fine. but I decided go and build on risers. Bam. Not a single problem. None. |
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Everyone is going to be different - if you have space issues, then 1080 Ti will be for you, if you have Amperage max out issues, then max efficiency will be for you.
For me personally I will be moving to 70 Ti's for the (approx) 4.5 Sol/W vs 3.2-3.5 Sol/W, per 10kW draw that means 10-13,000 more Sols - That's nothing to sneeze at.
Everyone will be different though.
1080 ti run at efficient settings will manage closer to 4.1-4.2 range - which still isn't a match for the 1070 ti but it's not WAY far off like you're claiming. I don't get to 4.1-4.2 unless I drop TDP down to 50% |
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Oh going into more cards or paying electricity each time I sell
Good good good. I know it's the financial planner in me talking and all, but stale/dead money is just dumb money. Always have your money working for you. Even if it's just a crappy 1% savings account, it's still better than holding cold hard cash. |
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Sure have  Been selling frequently. Seems it was a great tip from you. Hope it's going to paying bills or converted to some type of equity, stock, investment of some kind, because money should always be working, I don't even know what cash is. Every penny I have is always tied up in an investment vessel of some sort. |
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Now I'm really fighting between buying more gear or using that money to buy Bitcoins if it hits say 11 or 12k.
Basically if I buy equipment now in bitcoins it's going to cost me 1.5 more coins than if I did at 20k - and selling off the google shares I'm only paying $4,500 in capital gains tax, vs a 1.5 BtC loss I'm already coming out ahead right there.
Part of me is telling me not to be greedy and just buy the equipment as a hardware hedge, but my other side is saying... buy more Bitcoins if it dips even lower on tuesday when the funds transfer over to my bank.
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bitcion at 13k who's getting cold feet?
I hope my transfers go through, I'm delaying the mining equipment purchases and going to dump it all on BtC if it hits 11k
havn't you guys been selling coins regularly like I have been telling everyone for the last month! I have all my money in money and in gear. I have under 5k in coins and over 50k in gear. all paid for. I prefer a december crash over a january one. and I have efficient gear. I'm in it for the long haul, last time I sold was to buy mining gear when it was at 2k, I was going to expand with more gear with BtC at 20k, but only 20% of my holdings. I won't be selling BtC for fiat till it hits about 40k |
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bitcion at 13k who's getting cold feet?
I hope my transfers go through, I'm delaying the mining equipment purchases and going to dump it all on BtC if it hits 11k
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It seems to be the less profitable solution tho, according to whattomine. I may be wrong, just checked.
Seems like you know what you want to do then. Let us know |
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Everyone is going to be different - if you have space issues, then 1080 Ti will be for you, if you have Amperage max out issues, then max efficiency will be for you.
For me personally I will be moving to 70 Ti's for the (approx) 4.5 Sol/W vs 3.2-3.5 Sol/W, per 10kW draw that means 10-13,000 more Sols - That's nothing to sneeze at.
Everyone will be different though.
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Nicehieeeeesh (those who've watched their video will get it) is back up and paying quite a big premium for Cryptonight currently (if whattomine is to be believed).
Wonder if I should point my AMD hash to their servers for a while.
Also, do I have to mine there using a brand new BTC address?
If you used an external wallet or a pool deposit address, it still works. You only need a new wallet if you used a Nicehash wallet. I am "on hold" for new card buying at this time - Bitpay that Newegg uses seems to be getting some major issues due to holidays overload. http://cryptomining-blog.com/tag/sleeve-to-dual-ball-bearing-fans link shows GIGABYTE fans having sleeve bearings replaced with ball bearings on the fans, NOT SAPPHIRE. I'm on hold too because I don't want to buy @ Newegg @ the current BTC price. I knew I should have bought the gear when it hit 19k but was like "ah, I'll do it tomorrow" and tomorrow became a week ... as usual. I'm thinking I'll just be better off dumping 50 shares of Google and take the capital gains hit instead of taking the hit from the low bitcoin price to buy a couple rigs till prices go back up. |
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Vosk's new video on the D8P board was nice to see. Seems pretty seemless to run 8 GPU, and I can only imagine doing risers for the extra 4 GPU to see if there are any quirks there. But I am super stoked i jumped on the first batch. first time for being a "first timer" lol; I normally test the waters first.
I Hope to finally get my board up online soon so I can have everything at home consolidated into one machine outside finally. Depending on how well it works, I may recommend them to friends to build using them and the frame that could be bought here on BCT in the future.
Phil; Ive been meaning to get back to you about the cpu... i'm going to wait for the market to settle a little then resend the pm with confirmation before I shoot =)
Supposedly my boards shipped from letine today. Hopefully I'll be able to run the 8 TI hybrids on the bottom and 4 1080 Ti's up top on risers. We'll see. |
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Anyone know who to contact from hashrefinery? I'm missing a payment, their system says they double paid me and I went negative, but checking my electrum wallet i'm missing exactly what they said they "paid me"
I contacted user hashrefinery early this morning but no response so just curious if that's even the right person.
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Can someone confirm the price of ZEC ?
615$?? Side note. Nicehash is refunding all the lost money yeah we'll see. It shows zero balance in my wallet, i wasn't a login miner. if i get my BTC great if not oh well. |
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Anyone know who to contact from hashrefinery? I'm missing a payment, their system says they double paid me and I went negative, but checking my electrum wallet i'm missing exactly what they said they "paid me"
I contacted user hashrefinery early this morning but no response so just curious if that's even the right person.
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Actually, I was planning on *2* of my 92 mm - not 3. I think I DID say "one per heatsink". 120mm wouldn't FIT right, way too high. I've done the "relube" thing too many times to count - and it never works for long as the seals are ALREADY shot by the time you do that. Short-term "buy time for a better option" at BEST, usually lucky to get a month of working fan out of relubing and if the bearing/shaft is too WORN you won't get a week if it works at all. And now the reason I logged in this time - rig porn. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JXjZsYfB_Gg0oElpUO-ScHxGLdZ9JS-8/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PuP8GWyUcbS70LofSyHz2rJyJDnKIkY3/view?usp=sharing in the back pick you can also see part of my "airbox" setup for getting filtered air into the room - definitely a low-tech solution but it works. Those Vegas must have JUST gotten posted for sale - that stuff wasn't THERE 2 hours ago when I was on Newegg looking for Vega 56 and at available 1070 ti options. Hey you can't tease us with "Rig Porn" and not grant us access!  |
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Hi all. I have 5 miners at home and was desperate to find a quick option to remotely reset my rigs while on holidays this Christmas. I stumbled upon this product at Costco; https://www.panasonic.com/au/consumer/connected-home/home-control-kit/kx-hn6032azw.htmlIt works perfectly. So long as your motherboard is set to power on after loss, you can just power cycle frozen rigs. They are rated at 2000W from memory, so I have 2 smaller rigs connected to one and each other rig has it's own dedicated power controller. Pretty cool, so it's like the wemo plugs I'm guessing? I looked for them on costco but not on the site, how much did you pick it up for? Probably see if I can find it on my next costco run, I do have an SRR inbound but I love little gadgets to play with! Good find. |
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What's the issue you're having with all 1080 ti's Phil? I'd like to try to avoid them when mines come in might be the 1st slot needs a short card as the 24 pin atx connector is inline with the slot? any short 1080tis? I've got a few of the new 12 PCIe ones coming in, if that's the case maybe I'll just run them 6 Hybrids on board in slots 3-8 then slots 1 & 2 use risers and slots 9-12 have to be risers anyways. So 6 on risers, 6 on the board itself. I can deal with that. |
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Those 3000 rpm fans Phil recommended finally came in. I swapped out the ~1,600 rpm Thermaltake fans and it made all the difference. Temps are now between 55 and 65 with the GPU fans staying at 50%.
Here are a couple of shots of the fully loaded Coloful rig:
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Also got all but 1 card in for the Onda rig. I'm staggering Zotac 1070Ti Minis with 1070TI AMP!.
This rig is running Delta fans with about the same specs at the fans Phil recommended (but more expensive). Hope to have the 4th AMP! by Friday, but Christmas mail mayhem might delay it.
How do you like the Colorful vs the Onda? Those are nice pictures, I've had a hard time finding pictures of either board with the right angle and clarity to see how much space is between the GPUs. It looks like with the right kind of airflow either board would work for 8 GPUs (at least the less power/heat hungry ones). both are good and neither one likes all 1080ti's but 3x 1080 ti's and 4x 1070tis on my colorful doing 3x690 and 4x475 is 3970 sols at 1050 watts at the kwatt meter. using all hybrids with a celeron 3930 and 4gb ram What's the issue you're having with all 1080 ti's Phil? I'd like to try to avoid them when mines come in |
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