I like the "no connector" Sapphire mining card design, due to better cooling.

 I don't plan to sell the cards, as I have a use for them in DNet RC5 work once I stop mining with any I have.

 Most folks though might want to keep resale value in mind - the mining cards WILL get hammered there when GPU mining crashes, though there will still be a SMALL market for them as second cards in a Crossfire/SLI setup or gaming under DirectX 12 or for folks doing various "crunching" type work.

You should be able to run Windows monitoring software to monitor miners with the same API no matter what OS the machine the miner software is running on.

 I can't speak to ETH monitoring specifically (I always used the capabilities of the POOL to keep track of my miners) but it works for me on what most of my rigs are mining on right now.

I believe that is the correct website for Pinidea - one of the oldest names (well, all of a year and change now) in X11 ASIC miner manufacturing.

The "With Nvidia cards" part doesn't really matter.

 I had good results from ethermine.org (and their "flypool" ZEC pool once they got the teething pains fixed) when I was mining ETH.

 Be nice if they would actually DO that on my A4 order - so far it hasn't happened.

 On the other hand, I'm quite willing to wait to get A4+ units instead.

 Thermaltake V34 or V35, can add a couple of Delta 120x38 or 140x38 fans to the front just by unscrewing the HD cages (use the floppy drive mount cage to mount a drive).

 Can run *4* GPUs in this case on a motherboard like Phil's favorite Biostar or that AM4 board he posted earlier without having to mod the case at all (it's designed to handle 4 dual-width cards).

 Very nice case for the relatively low price.


 IMO though it's a lot better to go with open rigs, as they're a lot easier to keep cool - even for non-blower builds like I use and Phil generally prefers.

 Point, I'd forgotten about that model.

 To usao - Seasonic has been my "go to" power supply maker for years now (though the EVGA G2 series is also good, and Silverstone makes some good lower-power units).
 I used to prefer PC Power and Cooling, but once they stopped building their units in the Escondido / San Marcos (CA) area their quality got very spotty.

 Corsair - varies, depending on the specific model and who actually made it.

 They only have a "bad record" relating to their initial postings about the anticipated specs on the A4 - and at this point they have enough experience with the chip AND A WORKING MINER that I'm willing to trust their current claims about the A4+.

 The A4 was also the ONLY miner they ever pre-announced before they even had chips in hand - they never pre-announced the A2 at all, and the A1 chips were mostly built into miners by other folks (like LKetc).

 L3+ on the other hand has a poor track record for reliability (though not quite as bad as the S9 early batches), and *IF YOU CAN GET THROUGH TO ORDER ANYTHING AT ALL* Bitmain has a pretty good track record for delivering miners that are paid for on time.


 BOTH companies need to do some serious work on improving their order process, though they aren't quite as much of a pain to deal with as Baikal.

Probably a strawman issue, you wouldn't be tapping into the "main" to do this, you'd be tapping into a line IN THE HOUSE (probably the intake to the hot water heater unless you can get an internal line before it splits out).

 Innosilicon has a MUCH better record of reliability on their miners than the last 2 generations of Bitmain miners (S7, S9, L3, L3+, less so the T9) and the one time (first 2 A4 batches) that they DID have issues, they dug in and FIXED them.
 The last time Bitmain was even in the ballpark on reliability was the S5 - and they've NEVER been there on Scrypt gear.

 They also don't compete on price - which might be part of the reason they're still around when so many other folks (except Caanan which ALSO doesn't try to compete on price) have FOLDED once they went head-to-head with Bitmain.

 I'd anticipate the A4+ ending up in the $2600 range initially, and then going up some.

 BURST still seems to be getting DDOS attacks on a lot of it's infrastructure, and many pools have never come back (I have yet to see Haitch bring back ANY of his pools, for example) and the ones that HAVE come back have at least intermittent issues with "can't confirm deadlines in a timely way" that appear to be related to this issue.
 The "spam attack" does seem to be over and dealt with.

 SIA and MAID are the "rent hard drive space" coins - though there is an ASIC announced for SIA, no idea how THAT is supposes to work.

 Because that Corsair will run from 110V while the Bitmain one won't?

 There are pics around of the ASUS blower-type card packed in JUST as tight - and they cool a little better but STILL NOT WELL when jammed in that close together.
 It doesn't matter how much airflow is going through the case, as most of the access to the cooling fan intake IS BLOCKED which restricts airflow through the card very badly.
 A rig like that REQUIRES low environmental temps to SURVIVE due to that issue - try running it at 95-100 F ambient like MY rigs do in the summer and you're talking thermal throttle or "shut down due to overheat" issues CONSTANTLY.
 Heck, try running a rig like that in the Yahoo "chicken coop" server farms and you're going to have the SAME issue, just not QUITE as bad, as those farms are designed to keep the intake to the racks at about 90F as I recall.

 That's why many "compute-specific cards" like Teslas and Firepros have an intake on the END of the card, so the air can flow through it without obstruction and don't bother with a fan at all, they rely on the CASE to provide massive airflow.

 I learned to do that a while back, far too many times the internal "update" process BREAKS.


 Now for the important question - where the HELL did the "unlock wallet" button go in the current wallet?


 (Edit - found an option on the Settings menu, so it turns into an irritation rather than a critical flaw).

Not so much "jacked up" but "month or more outdated" and they apparently aren't going to change them "at this time" per my email exchanges with them about my current pre-order.

Guess it's back to playing "L3+ website lottery" if they don't get the exchange rates FIXED before they actually start selling the A4+.

 Assuming they FIX their badly outdated BTC/$ (and LTC/$) exchange ratio.

For DOGE, it's worse than that.

 Most DOGE for the last 2-3 years has been mined via MERGE MINING from Litecoin - you're not even trying to compete with ASIC directly, you're trying to compete with their LEFTOVERS (sorta).

There are a few GPUs around with a PCI-E 1x connector - but they're low-performance stuff.

 Mining GPU makers probably figure they need the 2-slot width to get enough cooling on the card so no point to a 1x connection.

 That ASRock X399 board is nice, but DANG that's a lot of money for a mining rig motherboard.....

 The only thing you really need is the "12 word phrase".

Windows 7 does NOT limit you to 5 GPUS.
I have ZERO CLUE where that lie is originating from - I've seen way too many folks talking about running 6 card riser rigs successfully on 7 over the years.

 I have no experience trying to mine on Windows 8.x - the ONE AND ONLY time I tried to use it (it came on my "Avatar" pre-configured mining system), the UI was so ANTI-intuitive and so ANTI-user-friendly I couldn't even figure out if the mining software that was supposed to be pre-installed was ON the machine, much less how to get it configured and running.''

 I've not worked with an AM4 motherboard at this time, as I can't find one that does what I WANT it to do for a reasonable cost *AND* Ryzen pricing is still on the "too high" side for a dedicated mining rig, even the 1200.
 I HAVE done a lot of research into them, both for "future" mining systems and for options for my next "gaming" system.

 I HAVE tried to get Win 10 working reliably on other hardware - and it's been nothing but PAIN and CRASH CITY to the point that even my next GAMING system is going to be Windows 7 and I don't intend to ever bother LOOKING at bloody Windows 10 ever again.

 Not that I class 7 as stable or reliable, but it's certainly been a lot more so in MY experience than 10 - WITH 4 GPUs in quite a few of my systems, including mixed AMD and Nvidia systems (the ONE place Windows beats LINUX hands down, especially with the state of AMDGPU-PRO at this point on LINUX).

 I should probably check out ntlite - I've used a couple of it's ancestors back in the day, but forgot about it at some point.