Considering your Budget of 2k, I would recommend the following : Get the ASRock FM2A58+ http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157517And couple it with 4gb ddr3, an AMD A4 APU and a cheap 120gb SSD This combo should set you back by ~$120 and is the cheapest 5-GPU solution I know of Add to the mix 5 X Sapphire 4gb Rx 470 OC at $200 each or less ( Get this specific version because they have back-plates and inexpensive/run cool). You will need powered risers and a 750W PSU ( thats all the power you need for the RX 470 and a smaller wattage PSU is easier to sell off later ). If you are able to find powered risers cheap, you can get them and the PSU for under $100 total. Build a simple open air frame for the assembly, follow this guide here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfE_QidD75MInstall Windows 10 ( free if you dont activate it ) and follow one of the several guides posted on this portal, and you have yourself a functional ETH Miner. I would recommend ETH because it has long term potential if you plan to hold it, and has been pretty profitable to mine for a while now. That brings our total cost to about $1250. If you have the system optimized well (read through the forum posts, lots of details on optimizations, ping me if you cant find them), One such machine would consume about ~500W from the wall, and running 24/7 would generate about 24 ETH per month. At current rates of $11.7 that's about $280 per month (although this amount will reduce each month as network difficulty rises). If you are up for it, you can stretch your budget a little and set up two of these. Enjoy Mining. Also, per your offer of 5% of the mining reward for the first 50 days, that comes to about 40ETH. Shall I ping you my Wallet Address?  This is sounding like a contender!  Is this machine designated for ETH or can it be used to mine any coin? Do not listen to him. AMD cards sucks anywhere outside Hashimoto and Cryptonight. My 1070 is perfect and do so much better than my R9 380s. It is a also a lot more power efficient. |
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The duel between SDC and XMR is useless. Market determine which one has a real value and which one doesn't have. Monero is more useful, so even with 50% less features, it would be better.
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Difficulty already increased by 50%. I think that you won't get that much over ETH, and price might get down and push the profitability lower than ETH, with it's steady value over the time.
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no it is not regular mining lagging.. it is lagging badly and I get reduced hashrate.. when I exit miner I get blue screen.. Then it resets and starts working fine for days, then if I decide to switch to another coin every time I get that nasty lag, reduced hashrate and bluescreen..
overclocks and drivers are fine, I am using 369.09 driver and it works for days without problems..
I am suspecting it has to do something with win 10 anniversary update because since I updated on my main pc I get random blue screens too.. hmm..
Here is your problem. Why the hell are you using that  ? Windows 7 is so more strong, reliable, battle hardened, secure... Try to change your drivers to 368.latest. Thta's the one I'm using and they solved some of my problems over the most recent one (that is not yours, I know). |
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sapphire rx 480 nitro 4gb here is about $70 cheaper than the 8gb model.
any thoughts if i should choose the 4gb over the 8gb model?
will the 4gb suffer the same fate as the 3gb 280x on dagger algo in the near future?
All depends if you plan to resell them after, as some people like here. The 8 Go version will have a better resale value due to its great performances in games. Good question. I mine 475 mh so I earn 200 usd after power every 10 days. I got 3 reference sapphire. 470 s for about 560 which means they will be paid off in 28 days. I could sell them for 150 each since 28 days past I would net 450 and that would be all profit. But frankly I want 8gb cards now 470's or 480's. Since I have about 11 4gb cards and about 9 8gb cards. I guess blending 4gb with 8 gb works How lucky you are  . Prices is the USA have nothing in common with Europe's one. I was astonished when I saw that a card costing 460€ was priced 440$ in the USA  . |
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Thank you for the replies. So yeah, luck thing is to consider, but now I'll maybe brave it for an healthier coin . Thank you to both of you. I'll now lock the thread. |
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Best I can recommend you is my standard configuration for each new miner I build, until I test a new one for the next rig I'll build : -Intel Celeron G1820 -8 Go of RAM -120 Go SSD -Lepa MaxBron 1000W (that will be enough, since you won't put more than 4 GPUs with that price) -ASRock H97 Anniversary -Risers (that point don't matter that much, as long as they're powered) To that, add as many 1070 as possible. Then you have the master setup to mine absolutely all the coins  ! |
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The 1070 is the founders edition? (With Blower one)??
I have one 1080 SC With overclock and she don't get 62ºC
No, they are custom ones. if you can simply put a fan in the middle between the two, it should lower the temp pretty well
I have just a fan, so powerful that when I put it perpendicular to the table, it fall and then move randomely on the table due to the big airflow. I'll probably get a real fan, but I prefer waiting to have a real case to put my rigs into (since that's the configuration I chose to apply to my future builds). |
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The ASICs do have their own chips do provide them a "brain". GPUs are only hardware piloted by the CPU. There's maybe a trick to get TeamViewer to get displayed in a webpage, but don't ask me how.
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So, as I stated a few times already, I have a 970 and a 1070. They're hashing well, but problem is their temperature is very high, at 68°C for the 970 and 76°C for the 1070. Fans are also running at a very high rate, between 70% and 80%. Compared to my R9 380s, that run between 55°C and 65°C with fans under 70%, I'm worried. I thought that would be the contrary . |
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newegg
and you can pay by BTC
does newegg ship outside US ? I live in Italy use caseking, they are in german you can pay directly in bitcoin, shipping is also very fast I have check the price but have excessively high prices on RX470 and RX480 comparing the Italian shops. thanks anyway At the inverse of you, I find their prices afordable, and moreover they have things other don't, so I'll probably order something there someday. |
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Both ETH and ETC are dropping. It seems that the hot money on these coins have moved to DASH and XMR. The volume of DASH and XMR is increasing and the price of these coins are slowly increasing. ETH and ETC is done for now.
The combined volume of ETC and ETH is just around 7000 now in Poloniex. The volume ratio to the DASH and XMR has reduced. The trading volume of ETC and ETH has reduced significantly in the last few weeks. The Monero is the number 1 now. That's just a temporary pump, as we see in many shitty altcoins. Don't worry soon the two main jewels of the smart contract crown will shine as they used to do. |
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Sorry for hijacking your thread but I have some problems with my mining rig too..
My problem is when I sometimes run a ccminer my whole rig starts to lag and when I close the miner it drops a bluescreen, it happends every time I switch coins to mine..
I am running 4 1070 on asrock B85 anniversary mbo on win 10 32bit anniversary update.
Any help would be appreciated.. Thanks
No problem mate, we're here to help each other. With Nvidia cards, the computer always lag when it is mining. You can correct this by lowering the intensity on the GPU that gives the video output, but it isn't worth I think. Except in some rare cases, I don't think you would have to switch coins that often. The cause of the blue screen is unknown to me however  . |
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share above target is strange? the invalide cpu thing it's normal if you have the last driver, it need to be fixed, for now use 369.09 drivers
hashrate on hashimoto is 20+30 not 35MH for a 1070, for reaching 50MH you need to tweak the 1070 to +600 mem and 120 core
Okay, I understand these two solutions. For share above target, I have to add that it does me that only on a single pool. So I can consider that all my problems are solved since I moved of that pool . Thank you Amph, super, as always ! |
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I'm facing a dilemna about which pool going to mine things other than Ethereum and Ethereum Classic. I'm however facing low hashrates on my favourite pools, so I'd like to get what you think about it.
For me pros are that it helps decentralising the network and cons are that I don't find many blocks. However, due to to the rules of the proportionality, I should have the same amount of coins after a week.
My question is is that statement true ? If I go to a 1 MH/s pool will I get the same amount of coins at the end than if I'm in a pool that has 100 MH/s ?
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First question would be are you using the correct miner for each algo? Ie a GPU miner for the CPU coins etc? Which miner are you using for Eth?
Did you set the GPU properties so they get 100% of the power allocation etc etc?
I'm not that noob, that's not my first rig . But with Nvidia cards it is. I use ccminer 1.8.1 for LBRY and I tried the special fork that give a boost of hashrate, but even the ccminer 1.8.1 give the same errors. It's weird on with Nvidia cards, GPU load can go beyong 100% according to MSI Afterburner (WTF ?) . On AMD I didn't had to set anything such as allocation so I entered nothing here. |
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So, my new rig is composed of a 970 and a 1070. My problems are : -Neoscrypt : "Share above target" -LyraREV2 : "Result does not validate on CPU" -Hashimoto : Only 44 MH/s with the two cards where I should except something like 55 MH/s according to many members (20+35 MH/s) Just ask me what you want to know more to determine what's bad and I hope help me, since I can only mine LBRY for now ... |
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You know, I prefer a good old Genoil miner, that I near never updated and that never had any problem, than a 10% faster miner that has a 2% fee. Question of mind. I don't like to be obligated to donate.
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sapphire rx 480 nitro 4gb here is about $70 cheaper than the 8gb model.
any thoughts if i should choose the 4gb over the 8gb model?
will the 4gb suffer the same fate as the 3gb 280x on dagger algo in the near future?
All depends if you plan to resell them after, as some people like here. The 8 Go version will have a better resale value due to its great performances in games. |
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both of you have risers on the dead cards am I correct?
I have 20 cards all good all have no risers.
My guess is it is a riser issue.
So funny Phil, this attack against risers . Though I'll listen to you for my next rig, by not using any riser and placing all the cards on a motherboard, for now all my cards except two cards are connected throught risers and I never had any problem. |
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