Well he takes paypal but I would ask for a post for pandaminer to confirm he is a seller.

    The last year gpu mining has been really good  amazing good.  But mining successfully depends on  difficulty ,your gear, your  power cost  and price of coins.
So while many people are making good money  it could slow up and prices good fall. I would never count on this to last  at this level for years to come.  But  for one or two years it could happen.  Op could make say 4000 a month for 2 straight years.  I could make say 1000 a month for 2 straight years.

But I live in New Jersey  and you kind of need 5000 a month  after taxes to live decently.
Op lives in Texas  has a wife and kids   So 5000 a month after taxes most likely is not enough for him.

My guess he keeps his day job just in case.

he got the 6100 on purpose to duplicate my board setup.

If he gets it running it is a good board as it can do 2,3,4 cards and is m sized.

which mean a very small 4 card cool build is possible.

I want to showcase a four card riser build with a m-sized board.


the i3 6100 and i3 6100 t  are pretty cheap on ebay and amazon used.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-Dual-Core-i3-6100T-CPU-Processor-3-20-GHz-SR2HE-/232324608693?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-I3-6100T-3-2GHz-6th-Generation-3Mb-Cache-Socket-1151-CPU-Processor-SR2HE-/352049983264?

duh  I did not realize  you are talkingdreams

Sorry just pick a worthless coin  and mine it  then hodl it.

So I would say mine cpu+gpu  hodl coin and hold it.  Maybe it goes up

fan >>> rig - gpu >>> fan >>>


@ talking dreams   xmr on the cpu and zec on the gpu    check your watts used  vs your hash rate

I think it won't do it.  but if it did it would be  5600/4   = 1400 to 1500 watts

rule of thumb divide  hash rate by 4 and add 7%  so 5600/4 = 1400 x 1.07 = 1498 watts   this is for the s-7 at 5.6 th

for s-9 divide hash rate by 10  and add 10%  so 13.5tb s-9 =  13500 /10 = 1350 x 1.1 = 1485 watts for the  s-9 at 13.5 th


And I would be surprised to see a s-7 do 5.6th

I think that laptop idea will not work well

  in his case  :

                   

                __l___l__   >>  hub and sticks

               ------------- >> cooler

I think  the hub blocks air flow  to the sticks if he lays the hub on the fan and points sticks up wards

Just went to hawkfish's amazon checkout  ordered a six pack of risers

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06XDZ5H14/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?


same day shipping I should get them by 8pm today.

I have 5 rs 480's running on a gigabyte z270


https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N2V0AHI/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?


these are running at smos

posted here as I do not do many 5 card rigs. Forget about six
but this rig will use risers pointed out on this thread.
and the op sent me a nice break out board.
and yslyung sent me some cables and a nice pico board.

So between me
philpma1957
yslyung
hawkfish
yun9999

the rig got built

they have a direct store only purchase

 http://galaxstore.net/


http://galaxstore.net/GALAX-GeForce-GTX-1070-KATANA_p_130.html


this is the only way to buy it in the usa.

My guess is  even though it reads in stock.  The stock may not be in the USA.  
They  wait for  enough people to order it from the USA link  and ship  at that point.

The link and the store are real.

Here is the facebook page for   them in the US

https://www.facebook.com/GalaxyUS/


I did business with them 1 other time...  And   they were slow to ship.

But I can use this size card in  a few of my builds.  So I am willing to wait a bit.  

It is 9 am  In NY  and they are near Chicago  So  maybe they will reply to my email  in a few hours.

It is a paypal order  so I do not have fear of a ripoff in any way.



UPDATE: I got an email response it is expected to ship may 10 via fedex.  I may get it by fri or next monday.

so lay hub on its side        I think it is not ideal  as I think  the air moved by the cooler will not flow fast due to small grill.  I found one on ebay  for  22 usd

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Deepcool-N200-USB-Cooling-Stand-Pad-cooler-mat-For-Laptop-Notebook-10-15-6-/151877092837?



seems to me this would work better  and it is 18 usd

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Holmes-10-inch-Personal-Size-Box-Fan-HABF120W-/142100873644?

better yet this one is 9.99

https://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/store/product/comfort-zone-reg-4-inch-cradle-high-velocity-dual-powered-fan/3249300?

I ordered it on may 5  it is yet to ship.  Says it is in stock.  I will send them an email later today.

I just emailed them.  I will post back later today.

we are now up to 105%  luck  for the month of may

I used a 1070 just 1 card.
I used a 32 gb sandisk usb 3  it works well for smos so I wrote over the 0014 version
I used the gigabyte b250m gaming 3 mobo

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813145007

it can do up to 4 cards

I used an evga 750 p2 psu
1 stick of ddr4 ram 4gb

I used a monitor connected via  the nvidia and a usb mouse and a usb keyboard.

the screen came up

1 unbutu
2 advanced
3 memtest
4 memtest
5 win 10 dev

I waited it went to unbutu 16.04  and hung

this unit has an intel i3 6100 cpu

I will test with a new mobo and an intel i5 7500


https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128966&cm_re=aorus_mobo-_-13-128-966-_-Product

No  but the guy to ask is wolf0  he is one of the flashing experts.

or ask elovip

drop all memory clocks by 50

drop all core by 25

lower

-ethi  to 7

that pulse in hash simply means the card clocks and intensity  setting is too high.



so hashrate throttles

I used to get single mode or dual mode on my msi gamer  rx 480 and asus  strix 480  all 8gb cards.

I simply lower everything a little at a time  til it stopped.

And I have all i5 intel cpus  and only 2 or 3 card rigs using 750 watt p2 evga  so it is not a psu or a cpu issue  the pulse is simply clock or intensity issue

I get it to boot and it hangs right after first screen  with choices I let it go to 16.05 then it hangs

like the amd fan boys buy their amd and keep secret the excellence of nvidia with zec

thanks for the tip

Okay I have a lot of mobos  

does your os support

biostar b150s1

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138424R

biostar z170gt7
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138421

gigabyte b250m-gaming 3

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813145007


gigabyte aorus z270

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128966

gigabyte ga270-hd3
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128974


I have all of the above on hand

I have this mobo on the way
biostar tb85

http://www.ebay.com/itm/381737915980?

I want to test your os in any or all of the above.

Okay  then  the hp bios  could be in conflict  with the evga program  .

load msi afterburner 4.3  and try to set each  gpu with

75% tdp
100+ core
300+ ram
75% manual fan.


this means you don't check the synch  gpu on afterburner

you need to understand it may not be the hp gpu  but you have 7 gpus  that are mixed  and this can cause a conflict in the software you are trying to use.

BTW  trying to run 7 cards can be very hard.
trying to run 7 cards mixed can be impossible.

trouble shooting can be next to impossible

in fact  you could have 1 riser that is weak and it causes the conflict.

5 hp
1 asus
1 evga

is complex.