The people that place bids in the Nicehash marketplace are the hash buyers - when their bid is high enough to go active.

Copy your gridcoinresearch.conf and wallet.dat files to a different spot, the copy them back after a fresh wallet install, SHOULD work.

Founder Edition cards do NOT have very good cooling - I would strongly recommend AGAINST them for mining usage.

 Yeah, I'm currently in discussion with that issue with them about a pre-order I placed earlier this week.

 Their initial suggestion was "wire transfer" but I don't have ACCESS to wire transfers (one down side of credit unions, sometimes they don't offer some of the "fancy services" the big banks do - but on the other hand they also don't usually have the "fancy fees" either).


 Their published specs for the CHIPS in the A4 suggested they could put together a higher-performance miner - at a significantly higher cost due to the need to use a lot more chips to be able to run them at a lower voltage.

 I also suspect the Futurebit Moonlander v2 is using the chip out of the A4, but that's not been confirmed or denied yet....

 I don't count August 23 or August 25 for that (Stanford stat database issues) but we're on pace to hit 1 GigaPPD "legitimately" today.

 (edit) and yes, August 31 was the first time Team Curecoin exceeded 1 Giga PPD legitimately - 1,014,xxx,xxx points.

 Now we need to get Vorshalk to quit depressing the yield with his far too large folding farm and get to working harder on INCREASING the value of CureCoin.


 To put it bluntly Vorshalk, your farm has got quite a few folks PISSED and at least a couple of folks in the EVGA folding forum have stated they no longer are folding because of it.

 Water cooled I can see for folks that need "in house" or "in apartment" QUIET builds, but it's going to be a fair bit more expensive than air-cooled.

 You might want to think about a 4-card no-riser rig with your old favorite Biostar board (or one of the other similar options) with the 4 x 16-bit slots since you CAN cram water-cooled cards in tight without a lot of heat management worries - just need to have the waterblocks on the GPUs exit the barbs out the top like the EVGA Hydro Copper https://www.evga.com/products/product.aspx?pn=11G-P4-6399-KR

 Not sure why you want to use a Ryzen for the CPU though, trying to find a Ryzen motherboard with 3 usable 16-bit slots is a nightmare and I've yet to see 4 usable on a MB to date.

 I do grant that pricing for Ryzen as a CPU has come down a lot since they introduced the 1200 and such, but it's still a pretty premium to pay on a mining machine over a low-end AMD or G-series Intel solution.

 I'm estimating close to a 10 jump by the end of OCTOBER, when most of the D3 models that have currently be sold are due to have been shipped - and that's with no idea how many IBeLink or Pinidea units will have shipped by then.
 Then the Innosilicon A5 shipments start happening (but at the WAY HIGH price of the A5, I don't anticipate that unit having a huge short-term impact despite it's efficiency and performance).

 That's VERY hard to picture given it's performance vs the Titan, A2, and Alcheminer (which were all 28nm as well).
 It's even HARDER to picture vs the A4 (which is specified as 14nm yet has LOWER performance and efficiency as used in the A4 miners).

 I'd bet a LOT that the L3+ is 14/16nm tech.


 The *D3* on the other hand I can believe being a 28nm design, especially with the size of that last batch Bitmain sold of those.

 Many do, though they tend to reduce airflow a LITTLE even if you keep them clean on a regular frequent basis.

 On the other hand, unless you are in a VERY HIGH dust enviroment with high humidity a no-case rig setup doesn't accumulate enough dust to matter for a long time.

Windows 10 isn't a good choice for mining on in the first place - 7 is noticeably more stable at this point and a lot more "settled", if you decide you HAVE to use Windows for a mining machine.

 Most AM4 motherboards at this point (possibly all) DO include drivers for Windows 7, even though Mickey$loth might not "officially" support the use of Ryzen on 7 for stupid monopolistic reasons AMD has seen the light as have the MB makers and DO in fact support it at least for now.

 Less expensive in terms of LTC (last batch was still 40 LTC as I recall) though....


 BTW BenRickert - more than "half" of the batches of L3+ sold to date have been delivered, they've been selling them for several MONTHS after all.
 It's the D3 that is facing a 10x multiplication of difficulty by the end of October.
 The L3+ is probably facing at most a doubling by the end of November (when the current batch is shipped up and running), even WITH Innnosilicon A4 sales helping drive it up some and the potential of the BW.com L21 adding more when it starts shipping.


 People are so SPOILED by the last few months, achieving 100% ROI in 6 months used to be Bitmain's NORMAL pricing target on their miners - though to be fair they weren't so backlogged as to be able to sellout batches for "2 months+ down the road" in those days.

Don't matter what your normal ping is when they flat out don't have the bandwidth to handle the load when they put out a new batch.

 Gotta wonder how many of the "didn't pay" types couldn't get into the order process TO pay, as broken as Bitmain's website gets when a batch goes up and for how LONG it does.

 Less on a LTC cost basis, it WAS 40 but this batch was "only" 25.something - for the lucky few that could actually get an order placed.


 20 tries? I was well over 100 by the time it finally let me back in - only to find it was now out of stock.

Their page was so damned broken it took me 6 minutes just to get two in the cart - then it wouldn't stay connected long enough to let me FINISH the damned order.

 I dunno how ANYONE manages to buy anything from them.

 Guess I'll be going Innosilicon after all.

 Intel SoC design, but the spec on it claims it only has 4 PCI-E 2.0 lanes (and it doesn't USE a "chipset" so it's not able to gain any from that).

 I'd guess they're using a multiplexer chip to get the extra lanes for the M.2 socket some of the PCI-E sockets.


 Spacing is a bit tight, but doesn't look much if any worse than most "2-5-7" motherboards between the first 2 cards.

 It's Scrypt, so any Scrypt coin should work?

 8-P

Biostar has a newer option for mining riser rigs.

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138449&cm_re=btc-_-13-138-449-_-Product

Seems to be an updated variation on the ASUS H81 theme.

Try NOT bumping the core up - 1070 on ETH doesn't need it, it needs the memory bump.

 The cooling system on the Zotac isn't QUITE as good as on the EVGA SC models, but it's not bad for as much smaller a card as it is, and for machines in cases it does a much better job tossing a LOT of the hot airflow out the back instead of circulating it AROUND the case.

Those are all Tahiti-based GPUs, ZEC works well on them but isn't always the best option.

 They are NOT good ETH miners on a comparative basis.