These are very good prices. In Russia, such video cards cannot be bought even at approximate prices. I can buy from a trusted store for 2x the price, or make a prepayment to an unwelcome seller to buy at a cheaper price, but this may turn out to be a scam. Have you thought about selling components to other countries? |
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so i was looking into setting up a CPU only monero miner I was looking at the threadrippers. DO you guys think its profitable to mine monero with a cpu only like that?
https://monerobenchmarks.info/Mining Monero is profitable if you have this processor and can mine on it in your spare time. And buying a system unit for the sake of mining will be a very reckless investment. It is better to buy video cards, because they are more versatile and can work with old motherboards and 2-core processors. |
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7970 consider is catalyst card for mining industry and for compute application, is the first card from amd reach 1tflpos in double precision, benefit for research
is beast and pretty strong card, at current market for mining. its consider to much power for small profit
Are you sure? These video cards have not been used in mining for a long time due to their high power consumption and minimal profit. Look at the statistics on the pools where they are available https://hiveos.farm/statistics/For 8 years after the start of sales of HD7970, many good video cards have been produced. |
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With free electricity, you can mine coins in any market, but mining equipment is best bought in the bear market.
Otherwise, you will be recouping your investment for a very long time. if the bear market lasts for several years, then you can get losses.
Now you definitely shouldn't start mining.
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In 2019, when mining became non-profitable, the network hash rate decreased from 300 terahesh to 150, then many good video cards were sold for $ 150-200, for example AMD Vega 56 and Vega 64. Check how much these video cards cost now.
We must be ready for a new sale of video cards.
Yes have some cash/credit ready for cheap cards. But if you want to add a few at premium now It is okay. It differs for each of us. I have cheap power to spare and could add 100 cards today actually 300 cards. With some simple but not cheap circuits added. I have 5 x 30 amp 240 volt circuits empty they can do 2x 12 cards rigs. or 24 cards x 5 = 120 ready as I type. we could add 12 circuits that means 24 x 12 = 288 with additional circuits and more cooling. With this in mind. I slowly add minerdude cases and rtx a4000 cards. if they were cheaper I would buy quicker. but I pay 1200 a card and 1000 for the rig total of 12x1200= 14400+1000 which is 15400 a rig I feel a true price for this rig is less maybe 700 x 1200 = 8400 + 600 which is 9000 a rig now to buy rigs at 15400 when I think they are worth 9000 is okay if I buy slowly. Keeping cash in reserve for a crash down to the lower prices. We can add a rig a month at the 15400 price I agree with you, but there are a few things to keep in mind. You live in America. You have cheaper video cards and other equipment, but electricity is very expensive. In your case, with a cheap price of electricity, I would also buy. In Russia, cheap electricity, but video cards are 60-100% more expensive. Therefore, I am not buying now. |
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Every week I see posts on mining forums that the motherboard does not detect 6 video cards. M2 ssd is installed in the photo, but do you really think that there were no attempts with a USB flash drive?
I agree that a motherboard with 6 connectors should work with 6 video cards or even 7 (via a m2 connector), but this does not always happen.
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I knew this coin it's not a new CPU mineable coin and most importantly it has not great worth mining for, it's just like every other CPU coins that later get abandoned in a year or two, not good I'd rather choose even shiba coin over this lol
You are really wrong, RTM is much more profitable than other cpu mineable coins. My R9 3900 make around 4 - 5$ a day mining RTM vs. 1,5$ mining Monero. And what has CPU mining to do with Shib? Right nothing because shib is not mineable, and it is a scam -> many people will fall into this trap. CPU mining is more worse than the most people think and believe  - I think you are wrong. After all, in my history of mining, which is more than 4 years, I have not seen a single processor broken by mining. Whatever it sounds like now. Profit when mining Raptoreum is now very low, and it is not profitable to buy new processors. It is better to invest in video cards, because they are more versatile, and as a rule, if a miner for processors appears, then a miner for video cards appears. I did not use my processor in mining this coin. |
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I'm not sure you will be able to fix this on your own, I had a dead Vega card too, there is short from the 8pin slot on the GPU but I still can't figure out where its coming from, I've changed all power choke but the short still stands there, don't know where to check again
Power choke breaks less often. The voltage is supplied to them through transistors, and the transistors are controlled by a PWM controller. So, as a rule, the cause of the breakdown is a microcircuit with transistors (2 in the photo) or a PWM controller. But that is a very ideal case, as a rule, everything is much more complicated. I do know how to use a soldering iron but that # 2 in the pic can't be fixed with a soldering iron, I removed it and I see the inside it's completely burnt out, also the four black diodes? I think on the back of the picture I sent are getting hot if I plug back the card into pc, I think it's time I throw this away, my loss 😔 Do not connect this video card to the motherboard, otherwise you risk losing the motherboard as well. If there are good masters near you, then give this video card for diagnostics, if you do not want to waste your time, then sell it. In my country, a broken RX 470 4 GB video card costs $ 100, the current that you can open an auction for your video card from $ 150-200. |
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I'm not sure you will be able to fix this on your own, I had a dead Vega card too, there is short from the 8pin slot on the GPU but I still can't figure out where its coming from, I've changed all power choke but the short still stands there, don't know where to check again
Power choke breaks less often. The voltage is supplied to them through transistors, and the transistors are controlled by a PWM controller. So, as a rule, the cause of the breakdown is a microcircuit with transistors (2 in the photo) or a PWM controller. But that is a very ideal case, as a rule, everything is much more complicated. |
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I decided to mine the CHIA on video cards. I sold ethereum and bought a CHIA  I think that it is very important to calculate on what is more profitable to mine a CHIA. Video cards are more versatile, and can mine a lot of coins, and for mining on hard drives, I know no more than 5 coins. I understand that there are many more of these coins, but their price is now zero. Are you serious? I would never have thought that someone would decide to sell a more reliable coin for the sake of a new and supposedly promising one! I think you are mistaken about the prospects and profitability of Chia. There are greener and more promising projects It is better to make a mistake now and lose a few thousand dollars than to regret later that you did not invest in this coin. If the price of the coin falls, then I will buy more. I will have to wait a long time, at least until the first halving, but it's even interesting. Of course, I do not advise beginners to do this, because they need to quickly recoup their investment. |
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 https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/X370%20Pro4/index.ru.aspThis motherboard doesn't work with 6 graphics cards, so you need to use a pcie-4 USB adapter. The reason is very difficult to find and I don't want to waste time on it. Therefore, whoever has experience with such motherboards, do not forget to share it in this thread. |
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yes guys i would recomend using ssd rather than usb stick, and ssd getting cheaper anyway after m2 nvme taking the place buy 120/128 gb ssd is good rather installing on usb stick
ssd disk increases the boot speed of windows. For Linux systems, the boot time of the operating system with ssd and hdd is the same, or the difference is very small. Why overpay for something that you can buy very cheap. Used hard drives can be bought in bulk at very competitive prices. I just ordered 10 120gb ssds for 219 usd. I had a few coupons so they cost me 160 at 16 a drive they are worth it. I bought 80 GB sata HDD for $ 2 and this HDD have a perfect SMART If there is an opportunity to save money, then I will use it. For 5 years, not one of their hard drives has broken. And now a lot of HDDs are sold due to the purchase of ssds. You can buy hard drives with large gigabytes of cheap. You've got a very good deal, most low GB HDD storage I saw today has been used for a very long time and does not have a perfect SMART. If they have that, definitely a better choice compares to running OS on USB sticks. Also for HDD, if you can't find a one with a perfect SMART and have to go for a lower, at least make sure there are no bad sectors in it. SSD is quite expensive nowadays. Used SSDs are quite cheap but the TBW from most of them are horrible. Older hard drives were of better quality. Bad sectors are absolutely not dangerous if there are several of them and they are not in the first 8 gigabytes. You can even lock the beginning of the hard drive for recording, but this takes more time. In my country, a used 500GB hard drive can be bought for $ 10, and 80-160GB hard drives are hard to sell, so they are very cheap. |
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1-3% stale shares excellent mining performance. If you have more than 5%, then a bad internet connection may be the cause.
I also have 2-3% stale shares, when there are problems with the Internet, this indicator increases.
Mine further and don't waste time on this question.
Though 1-3% stale shares were under the okay range for mining I still have a question to ask: Is there any way to reduce this since able to cut off 1-2% of stale shares is very worthy in my opinion. Possibly, but the cost of fixing this problem owes many times your bottom line. You will need to pay for a faster internet connection and look for mining pools with the lowest ping. You will spend a lot of time and increase expenses, the profit will be minimal. I don’t want to waste my time on this, and I don’t have the opportunity to improve the speed of the Internet connection, because I use a 4g modem. |
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Short circuit on the power choke.
Was the power choke damaged or destroyed itself?
If you bought a used video card, you may have bought a defective video card.
It is necessary to evaporate this power choke, and measure all the resistances on the power chokes for a short circuit.
Boss are you saying the power supply is responsible? I don't know what about GPUs so I don't know what power choke is, this GPU was bought used but have worked for two months already  1-power choke. It seems to me that this is mechanical damage that was accidentally done by the previous owner. 2- soldering defect. This does not happen in a video card factory. 3-Traces of soldering flux. So this video card was being repaired, and then it was sold to you. I am a poor specialist in determining the cause of breakdowns by photography, but it seems to me that you were sold a video card after a bad repair. Poor power supply may be the cause, but this can be easily checked with a multimeter. Check the 12 volt power supply in the 8 pin connector when mining. If the voltage is 11.4-11.5 volts, then your power supply is crap. Also, there should be no power surges. |
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I am looking for the easiest altcoin to mine that is in the top 100 crypto market cap rankings that requires less electricity as possible.
Mining is there for years and mineable used to be an indicator that a project can survive. It only partially true because many mineable altcoins finished their lives with deaths. Mining itself is risky because you have to face with tripple risks: - Risk of investment in your mining equipments, power bills, maintenance cost.
- Risk of unknown price changes
- Risk of coin survival ability
There are few mineable altcoins in top 100 but they are no longer easy to mine. Others are for stake, yield, farm, etc. My advice for you are - Checking with Whattomine.com.
- Look at those coin age, should be more than 4 years.
- Next, go back to coinmarketcap or coingecko and check further details of coins that you just filter from Whattomine.
Hello I'm looking to mine a altcoin in within the top 100 rankings that doesn't require ASIC, fast PC or any expensive hardware or if hardware is required then consumes the least electricity. Is there a altcoin for this? I want to work, but so that I don't have to go to work, ... and it's even better that the salary is brought home If you are talking about POW mining, then there are no such coins. The competition is very high, so you have to buy expensive equipment and pay your electricity bills. You can mine Shitcoin on old hardware, but the profit will be in the range of a few cents per day. |
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Typically 4 video cards work fine in older motherboards. Problems begin after installing the fifth or sixth video card (although the new cards have the same).
If you have 2 only 2 video cards, then you can buy a 750 watt power supply. The main thing is that it has enough 8 pin connectors.
Then you can buy a second power supply for the other two video cards.
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Hi,
My rig is off for the last 10 days. No ethernet, the lights turn on at boot but go turn off blinking after startup. I'm mining ETC on HiveOS.
Any solutions, please? thanks in advance.
BR
First, you need to check the balance in the personal account of the Internet provider. If your mining farm is far away, but you need to install a Wi-Fi camera and a Wi-Fi smart socket. Then you can reboot the farm remotely. If you use 3G / 4G Internet, then it may be a modem or router failure. |
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Short circuit on the power choke.
Was the power choke damaged or destroyed itself?
If you bought a used video card, you may have bought a defective video card.
It is necessary to evaporate this power choke, and measure all the resistances on the power chokes for a short circuit.
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yes guys i would recomend using ssd rather than usb stick, and ssd getting cheaper anyway after m2 nvme taking the place buy 120/128 gb ssd is good rather installing on usb stick
ssd disk increases the boot speed of windows. For Linux systems, the boot time of the operating system with ssd and hdd is the same, or the difference is very small. Why overpay for something that you can buy very cheap. Used hard drives can be bought in bulk at very competitive prices. I just ordered 10 120gb ssds for 219 usd. I had a few coupons so they cost me 160 at 16 a drive they are worth it. I bought 80 GB sata HDD for $ 2 and this HDD have a perfect SMART If there is an opportunity to save money, then I will use it. For 5 years, not one of their hard drives has broken. And now a lot of HDDs are sold due to the purchase of ssds. You can buy hard drives with large gigabytes of cheap. |
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