There was also the dual Nano, the "Fury Pro" as I recall it being named, ballpark 500 watt TDP I think?

 It should not be an issue.

Equihash (as used by ZCash) was intended to be memory-intensive, but turns out to not be nearly as much so as the original creators probably intended it to be - it's DEFINITELY not as memory-limited as the algo used in ETH mining.

 In practice it wants a lot more core clock than memory clock when you're overclocking cards to mine it.

 Your -60 core +625 memory would be a good starting point for ETH mining, if it's stable.

 MAID or STORJ

 but from what I understand both are massively LESS profitable than BURST is.


 Long term, there will be a cryptocoin shakeout - I anticipate that eventually there will only be 2 or perhaps 3 cryptocoins that have significant value. I do suspect it will take years though, but there are already coins that have died or have done so for all practical basis.

Same setup except that you use a MusicCoin wallet instead of an ETH wallet - I'm presuming MusicCoin uses the same algo as ETH, I'm NOT familier with that coin.

 You need a fairly high end GPU to make ANYTHING on foldingcoin.

 Also, laptops are NOT designed for 24/7 operation, they make VERY VERY BAD mining machines (they're OK for running USB miners with, as that puts a very low load on the laptop).



 Trying to mine Bitcoin (or ANY OTHER coin where an ASIC exists for the algorithm) is a waste of time on a regular computer - you won't make back enough to even NOTICE.

The RX 570/580 came out AFTER the 16.9.2 drivers, you have to go with something newer - and unfortunately, you probably have to go with one of the "Relive" bloatware driver sets for those cards.

3 GB is enough VRAM to mine ETH for now - not sure if it will be enough to last 'till ETH goes fully POS given the repeated delays on the move to POS, but it's plenty for NOW.

The S9 does not use your computer for it's mining work - it is a self-contained unit with it's own small computer (Rasperry Pi or similar) to handle network connections and such.

 If you solo mine, you would have to run a wallet on your computer to mine against, and that MIGHT affect your gaming some.

 If you pool mine, it's not an issue at all - you only use a browser on your computer when you set up or change the setup on your miner, and to keep an eye on the pool stats and such.

 Sounds like you changed out the power cable at some point - the EVGA 1300 G2 comes with a 14 AWG cable that is rated for plenty of capacity and should NOT be doing that - especially since a pair of S5 units do NOT push the 1300 to full capacity (unless you're doing some SERIOUS overclocking on them).

 Make sure the power cable you are using is 14 AWG (it's right there on the cable on any decent-quality power cord).

 If you were using a 16 AWG cord, you WERE overloading it a hair, if you were using 18AWG I'm amazed the cable DIDN'T short out due to major overload meltdown.


 "THICK" does not matter - I've seen occasional 16AWG cords that were thicker than some of the 14AWG cords I have, and quite a few 18AWG that were thicker than some of the 16AWG I have.

 Sounds like you need to consult with an electrician.

 Single phase power in the US and Canada (not sure on Mexico) is normally supplied at a nominal 220 volts, but center-tapped to allow easy installation of 110 volt circuits.

 80% of 600 amps - 480 amps x 220 volts = 105.6 KW (appx), so that place should be able to handle 95 or so miners that soak 1KW from the wall comfortably, with some left over for fans lighting network gear and such (you stated 10kw, which should be a reasonably safe assumption if you don't use mechanical A/C to try to cool the miners).


 OP DID state "single phase power" - ignore the 3-phase calculations.

 600 amp service standard "split phase" 220 is pretty common for buildings.

 DO check the wiring though - it's COMMON for a panel to be rated higher than the actual power feed can handle.
 The MAIN BREAKER should be properly sized for the feed, but I've seen rare cases where some moron swapped it out for a higher-capacity breaker because they were overloading the original without bothering to check that the actual WIRING was rated for that capacity.

I seriously doubt we will EVER see an S10 model - Bitmain seems to have given up on rack-mount "huge power consumption" miner designs since their small-size single-tube type designs are ALREADY pushing so much power.

 S-11 will show up probably 6 months to a year after the "next semiconductor node" hits full production - be it 7nm or 10nm - as Bitmain isn't big enough to break into the early days and too much of the production of GF/TSMC/Samsung is earmarked to the BIG BOYS like Samsung, Apple, AMD, Nvidia, and IBM.

 That's NOT enough space for proper cooling on the second PS.
 It WILL have overheating issues if you are running it at a significant percentage of it's full capacity - ballpark estimate if you're running it at more than 25% or so of capacity, it WILL start overheating due to LACK OF AIRFLOW.

 I would strongly recommend figuring out how to flip it over to draw air in from the "down" direction, or figuring out how to get it AT LEAST 1 FULL INCH of clear space between the fan intake and the case.


 The CPU shouldn't be a issue either way, G-series dual-core Pentiums don't soak a lot of power and a mining rig doesn't tend to push them anyway.


 It's amazing how much CPU cooling has upgraded since the "meltdown" Pentium 66 (the last of the 5v CPUs) - which only soaked about 18 watts at MAX yet had overheating issues bad enough Intel never released a 75 Mhz version....

 It's just another alt-coin with a (so far) pretty much unique method of mining it.

 I doubt any LARGE mining operation uses Nicehash, as they just aren't a big enough market to asorb that much hashrate.

 For smaller miners though, they often are THE most profitable option for a particular algo, and usually are in the top 3, on the algos their market supports.
 Scrypt in particular the last 2-3 days they've been the top option, but it DOES vary a lot - last week they spent a lot of time outside of the top 5 scrypt options.

 Keep in mind that you're not mining COINS on Nicehash itself, you're SELLING your hashrate to OTHER miners for them to do the actual mining with.


 The top 10 volume coins are almost never the "highest profitable coins" - rare exceptions when a coin is fairly big AND climbing on price a lot.



 Backup pools are important for ANY miner.
 Even major DDOS-protected pools will sometimes go down for a while.

 Probably late October, perhaps November - they've not announced that part yet that I've seen.

 Hashrate does NOT affect price. That's a very long-standing urban myth I wish folks would STOP spouting.

 Profitability follows PRICE, not the other way around.

 The sad part is the Foldingcoin is more profitable the last 2-3 months than Curecoin is.

 Good thing we don't have to choose BETWEEN the two - thank goodness for merge folding!

 You had something else running on the machine, I do NOT see a bottleneck on that SAME board running 3 x R9 290 with a Sempron 145 SINGLE core CPU - and ZERO difference in the hashrate when I ran it with a X240 dual core CPU for a while.

 The dual-core CPU did make for a little faster DAG generation, but that was the ONLY difference.


 Nicehash on the other hand does some other stuff where a multi-core MIGHT make a difference.