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 At that power cost, a Platinum power supply actually makes sense.

 A 750 is NOT going to be enough for your planned rig.
 Given your power cost, the EVGA P2 1200 would be a good option, as I still think the 1000 is going to be VERY marginal and a 1200 should have enough margin to work reliably.

 Not that I've noticed, but there are some non-mining stuff that wants more CPU - and if you get an efficient CPU you can mine XMR on it like Phil says and possibly pay for the "upgrade" over a bottom-end CPU over time.

 I plan on getting my newest rig (dual 1080ti on my Intel G4600/Gigabyte Z270-HD3 board "experiment", VERY similar to Phil's MB in this build) up and running today, will see how it compares.

DGB has a scrypt option.

 Kinda redundant to add Litecoin since there are a lot of other pools for that already.

 DOGE is a merge-mined coin, adding it would be a total waste.



 What I'd like to see is all of the DGB options pay into one COMMON pool on TBF, instead of each one having it's own seperate payout and payout limit.

 Most existing calculators include watts and cost/KWH to figure net income.

 That's NOT an option on Windows 10 Home at all, and I think you have to do something else in Pro per the reading I've done.
 The ONLY way to turn off updates in 10 Home (and it's not 100% reliable, per a couple comments I've seen it CAN be overriden by Mickey$loth for "critical" updates) is registry modification.

 Mickey$loth has gone out of their way to FORCE you to suffer through autoupdate on 10, and made it a ROYAL PITA to even try to turn it off.
 It's NOT as simple as 7 or earlier at all.

 7 in my experience works JUST as well in multi-GPU setups, and seems to be a lot more stable overall (M$ has had a lot longer to squash bugs in 7 after all).

I've got a few systems running on Sandisk Ultra USB sticks - specifically including the 32GB Phil linked, but mostly on the 128GB version of that one (Walmart had them on sale a while back and I stocked up).

 Plenty fast for a mining system, though not as fast as a good HD and nowhere near as fast as a SSD.
 
 For a pure mining system, a low-wattage Celeron or G-series Pentium should be plenty.

 LINUX is pretty easy to set up on a USB - I've got a few of my lower-end machines running that way.
 Windows - never managed to get it to work, but it's SUPPOSED to be possible with 10 and in some cases with 8 or 7.

 It is if your power cost is low enough - and WHICH FTW model, there are at least 2 and I think might be 3 of them in just the EVGA 1070 models.
 (one has ICX one has the older cooling setup, so at least 2).

GPU0                | (5s):21.66M (avg):21.50Mh/s | A:27000000000 R:0 HW:1 WU:22.625/ I:18

 The "A:" indicates "accepted" share work, so it's doing SOMETHING right.

GTX 960 is a fairly good miner, for NVidia-orientated coins especially lbry or lyra2rev2 based coins, or point it at Nicehash.

HD 4890 is too old, not much that's going to support it at ALL any more and the performance would be a sad joke for it's power usage.
Same on the GTX 550ti cards.

Go with Windows 7 if you insist on mining under Windows.
10 still has a LOT of issues, and it's a ton easier to get 7 to NOT UPDATE YOU TO BROKEN NEW DRIVERS that often kill your mining.

 SSD is severe overkill for a mining machine, though the M2 based ones are convenient and small.
 HDs still offer a ton better GB/$ if you don't need the raw speed of a SSD (which mining machines do NOT need).

 I do agree with the reccomendations to go more than 16 GB - you probably want 30 GB as a BARE minimum and > 60 GB for a machine that will be viable long-term on a Windows installation.
 LINUX you can get away with 30 GB but 60+ would probably be better there as well.

 2 x 4GB RAM is a much better option than a single 8 GB stick, dual channel can help a lot sometimes and the price is usually pretty close to the same.

 EVGA P2 1000 should handle your rig, but might be a bit marginal - and platinum is overkill unless you have VERY high power cost you'll never make back the difference between a good Gold unit and a good Platinum unit.
 I'd be inclined to go with the EVGA G2 1300 (or the Seasonic X-1250 gold) instead as I think they're about the same price and both have near-platinum efficiency - especially with the lighter loading than the 1000 watt P2.

 If you are going to undervolt the cards, you can probably get away with the G2 1000 or the X-1000 models.

 16.10.1 WHQL driver works well on both of those.
 I don't think it works with the RX 5xx series though as they came out after that driver version did.

 You'll see lower stability than if you stick with "one generation":

 For reference on the AMD side - HD 78xx/79xx and all R5/R7/R9 cards except the Fury line count as "one generation".
 All Fury cards are the "one generation".
 RX 4xx and 5xx count as "one generation".
 The VEGA cards will probably count as "one generation" but only with themselves, they MIGHT count as part of the Fury generation but I doubt it.

 Nvidia side, the only significant variation from the "First digit designates the generation (10xx counting 10 as a digit)" is that the GTX 750 ti is part of the 9xx (Maxwell) generation.
 NVidia though doesn't seem to be quite as picky about being stable between 2 "close" generations as AMD is though, probably because they have the time and money to do a better job overall on their drivers and seem to TEST them on further-back card generations than AMD appears to do.

 You need 2 coin to set your address up for use with a pool (one for the actual setup, one for the transaction fee) as I recall.

 Depends on the plotter - wplotgenerator does NOT optimise plots, IME with it.

As a general rule, you need to be looking at small business locations to get into the > 40KW power available range.

 Many homes have 100 amp 220V service, some newer ones might go to 150 amp, but about the only ones you will find with 200 amp service are
 (1) areas with ELECTRIC heat might get to 200 amp service on NEWER homes
 (2) places where the owner had the place custom-designed with more-than-usual power available
 (3) places where a previous owner had the power upgraded for some reason


 I have never seen an apartment with more than 100 amp service, and only ONE condo complex that had more than 100 amp service to an individual condo (it had electric heat AND attached garages).

 Rents on warehouses tend to be a LOT lower per square foot than for apartments - even "shop" spaces are usually lower on a square-foot basis than an apartment, with occasional exceptions where a shop is in a busy downtown location in a large town or in a high-traffic part of a city.
 Office spaces tend to be pretty close to shop space for rental rate per square-foot but rarely have enough power for mining usage.

 You can't assume that ANY warehouse has a lot of power though - a lot of them were strictly for storage and won't have much.
 You have to CHECK first.

 Warehouse/small industrial type spaces tend to have decent power available (like auto repair shops and light manufacturing spaces).

 $30 a day for a single 6-card rig wasn't hard to achieve - a month ago, or even 2 weeks ago.

 Right now, it's very difficult and you have to find a specific small niche - or go with all 1080ti or possibly a VERY well tuned 1080 rig on ZEC - to achieve it.

 I don't think there's ANYTHING you can do with a RX-based rig to manage $30/day - but if you've had that rig more than a couple months it's likely paid off or fairly close to being so.
 ETH certainly isn't an option for that - $20 a day is about the best a 6-card RX-based rig will manage right now, as they struggle to match the hashrate on my R9 290 cards and my trio R9 290 ETH rig only pulls in a hair over $10/day now.

 In 2018, unless coin prices rise a TON, profitability will be very low indeed as ETH takes steps towards PoS driving MILLIONS of GPUs into seeking new homes and driving profitability on THOSE coins down a ton.

 This doesn't even factor in the number of folks that are deploying or going to deploy new rigs between now and end of the year.

 You can make good profits RIGHT NOW, and for the last 2-3 months, at 20 cent electric - but don't COUNT on that lasting even TO the end of the year much less past it unless prices go up a LOT.

 Keep in mind that the only REAL limitation on rig growth RIGHT NOW is the worldwide GPU shortage - otherwise profitability would ALREADY have dropped a ton - oh yeah, it already HAS dropped by over half on almost all coins in just the last 2 weeks or so DESPITE that shortage.

 Bump the TDP up some to compensate - those MSI are 230 watt TDP your Gigabytes (if they're the same ones I have) are 180.

 You should be able to get them to at least 430 sol/s and possibly more with the right tweeking.

 If those are the "2 PCI-E connector" version, they have a MUCH higher TDP (at about 230 watts) than any other GTX 1070 I am aware of.

 That's why reporting figures as "% TDP " and such is MEANINGLESS when you don't specify the actual card they are from.




 To Chipychop - dual mining pushes the card harder, as it aims to use the ENTIRE card fully when most crypto "single" mining leaves large parts of a card unused.
 Open case works better for most, unless you set your case up with a LOT of airflow into the GPU area AND HAVE A WAY TO EXHAUST IT.

 This is why blower-type cards are usually better than fan-type in a case with multiple GPUs.

 Yeah, right.

 Link to a REPUTABLE site or take your FUD back home again.

 Keep in mind that dedicated multi-GPU setups like the PandaMiner are NOT ASIC.