2 x vega64 + 2 vega56 Cryptonite rig testing in progress using the Colorful B250 8-slot motherboard with WIN10, LGA1511 Celeron, 8GB DDR4, 64GB M2-Sata SSD. This board has 8 x 6pin input to power the mobo and 8 x 6pin output to GPUs. Notes: 1. May need to change that M2 to 120GB because cast-amd-xmr miner seems to need a lot of virtual memory to run properly. 2. I have 5 more Vega64s still unboxed, final config maybe 2 rigs with 4 x Vega64s and 1 x Vegas56 = 5 x GPU rig - the D1800 maybe able to do the job. 3. If the overall power can be contained around 1400w-1600w and good temps with 8 x GPU - I will do a full blown 8 x Vega64 rig with the Colorful board. Spacing will be tight!   Loving all your test rigs, beautiful beautiful things my man! |
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Hey Vypr. Im impressed you have 9 rigs at your place. I only have 4 and the place sounds like an airport!  That being said I think you need to define a goal for yourself. What do you want out of all this (to me this is the most important question). You could decide to hodl by building a simple portfolio and sell your assets/rigs to create it Alternatively if you want to get back in and ride the bitcoin waves just keep mining with what you have (are the rigs at home paid off? or are you carrying debt). If you expand you will be investing more capital (youve sold once and buying again so Im pretty sure youre not coming out ahead) to begin with so might want to run the numbers again to see if it makes sense. LOL Yes indeed it does sound like LAX - I am using my garage to house the equipment. I'm using Vortex 10" Inline fans which has about 700 CFM - don't be fooled by all these 5000 10000 CFM fans, they don't work at EXTRACTION due to static pressure. A few of my old clients had huge marijuana grow ops, these are the fans that these people use to remove heat from their giant lights. They work amazing. I've actually been hashing numbers for the past few months since we liquidated the warehouse - I'm a financial planner by trade so the spread sheets run wild! I have a decent holdings of BtC, all the rigs were paid for in BtC and they are most definitely paid off, zero debt. You hit the nail on the head, if I expand, I will be investing more capital, which puts me at the difficult decision. On a speculative basis, I don't think BtC will grow the 550% it did - that's one of the main reasons the partners dissolved the warehouse - profits were and are good, but not 550% good  I don't see 5x growth this coming year, again speculative as it's a very volatile (obviously) market. But it's why I decided to try to have a discussion here, bounce some ideas around, hear opinions, views etc to expand my consciousness in whole. |
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With that many rigs and so much equipment, have you ever considered setting up a warehouse out of state or even out of country? Here in Canada, we get between 8-15 cents/kw depending on province (in CAD). It might be worth it to spend the flight up, find a few partners, and work things out.
Also same question as above; how did you manage to get so many 1080 Ti's in bulk? I'm trying to build something of my own.
The hard part believe it or not wasn't getting the cards, because we just mixed brands and models, as long as it was a 1080 Ti, we bought it. At the time nobody was really buying them because everyone was land grabbing for 1070's and 470/80s. The hardest part was getting PSU's, 8+8 cables and RISERS. |
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i hear ya man. paying .35 cents/kw down in SD sucks. hows the commercial electric rate up there? been thinking about getting a spot to take advantage of the lower rates (i think its .15-.20 here)
Ouch.... SD doesn't play fam! Commercial rates here range from $0.09 on up depending on the zone |
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Yeesh, 0.27$ is insane. How did you manage to buy so many TIs in bulk?
It's absurd! I started out before my other partners, and the bulk came from Newegg, the rest came from Fry's and Microcenter before Microcenter changed their policy to only 2 per customer. Even after they did for additional rigs we would just go 4 or 5 of us and buy them all. There are also 5 Fry's around Los Angeles/OC so we would drive to all of them and buy everything. |
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I just started mining zcash with EWBF over the weekend. Single 1080 TiFE setup. Just a casual gamer + miner looking to eventually pay off my GPU.
I don't understand the point of dialing back the TDP setting in Afterburner while at the same time adding an overclock. If I dial back TDP the sol/s goes down. Adding an overclock gets some of that performance back but just increases the power consumption anyway. It seems counterproductive. What am I missing here?
Right now I average around 680 sol/s with the GPU on default clocks at 90% power setting.
Your Sol/s do go down but you need to calculate your wattage, and Sols/w will tell you how efficient your rig is really doing. I can run my rig at 4200Sol/s at 3 Sol/W or I can run it at 3500 @ 4 Sol/W - only you can decide which is more beneficial to you. In my case running @4+ Sol/W is what I need to do because of power limitations on my home grid. For someone else, max production will have a higher value, so they'll OC and max out the card. Just depends on the person. |
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I wanted to first say thanks to all the great people here on the forum, this community is awesome, thanks fam! Wanted to workshop and run a few ideas maybe bounce some stuff back and forth - A couple months ago my partners and I sold off all our (their share) equipment and shut down our warehouse - roughly had about 400 1080ti's. We spent roughly 200 BTC back when it was 2k/ BTC (50 was from me) so needless to say even though we made our money back, if we would have just left those coins in our wallets, we would have been much much much more profitable with today's valuation @ 11k/ BTC. I still have my share of miners at my house, 50 1080ti's but my house is MAXED out - 80A and I'm paying $0.27/w here in Los Angeles, it's insane. So now I'm at a crossroad - - Let my coins sit and keep mining with only 9 Rigs
- expand this time no partners just myself
My electric is roughly 2k/mo right now so expanding to a small warehouse my bill would be only 600/mo so basically with the equipment I have now and the cost I'm paying, that savings alone would offset the monthly lease by $1,400 - it has me thinking. |
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I don't know why you won't use coinbase but if you have never used coinbase and don't have an account setup thats a reason.
Very simple actually - I had a fully verified account in 2013 they froze for no reason. Fought them for months on it and basically ripped off a very large chunk of coin from me. During that time and even now there have been hundreds upon hundreds of people they've done this to. To each their own, if you're comfortable using them by all means, I'm just more comfortable handling large sums of cash in person. |
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To further expand on the coin price comments by Phil and others... yeah, I thought for sure that when the dip started 3 days ago we were headed for a pretty big correction. Most coins were down 10-15% and that even held into the next day. But then yesterday, essentially overnight for those in the US, almost all of those losses were erased and and now most coins are either back where they were 4 days ago or even higher. i'm not saying there won't be another correction but the market has shown much more resiliency most of this year, meaning pretty much every dip, even the big ones, were immediately followed by a growth period where BTC and many alts hit all times highs. but most of those prior dips lasted much longer than this recent one and took much longer to recoup losses than 2 days. To me, this likely means there is more stability in the market now, and I wouldn't be shocked to see many coins gain another 25-40% before another correction hits.
Granted, despite this optimism, I am still looking to liquidate at least a bit of my portfolio in the coming weeks. To that end, I would like to ask what method most people like to use (aside from the obvious Coinbase) here to convert BTC to fiat (in my case, USD). I took a look at LocalBitcoins.com and there are many buyers there offering at or even above current market prices. Has anyone used this? Is it legit? What about the paypal option? anything to look out for when using that? Aside from that, any other recommendations would be appreciated.
The bulk of coins are staying in my wallet, I only transferred over 5 to play with, I really don't trust Poloniex to transfer a ton of coins into, especially since I only have 2k limit accounts. And I would NEVER use coinbase again, especially now more than ever. I have always traded through localbitcoins or traders on the darknet if I don't feel like meeting up with anyone. |
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Your seller was pretty good Phil
1 sample = no issues
10 boards = no issues
10 boards = no issues
21 for 21 is good.
Yes but the preorder is different. It would be an order of 10 boards no test sample. Stuff is selling like mad. She told me Dec 10-15. I do not want to send say 1500 usd via paypal and get stuck waiting until Dec 20 for them to show. Coins are in a frenzy at the moment. Crash has to come. If I order a board in stock I get it in 3-5 days I do not want to get stuck with 10 boards that no one wants. I am close to capacity in my 3 spots my gear is in. I now have 10 older boards like the biostar z170 or aorus z270. I just don't need to order until they are in stock. I will check back with my alibaba seller on monday. coins are once again over 11,000 I sold some this morning. Good deal - I traded in a few BtC @ 11k as well, going to try to get a buy in on a pullback - Man I wish I would have bought out my other partners instead of totally dismantling our office space, now I only have the rigs at 2 locations, both maxed @ 70A each - I kind of want to expand with those boards you've been getting have me itching to build again . . . but since I'm on tiered elec (0.12/0.24/0.32) I'm hesitant unless I get another warehouse. For now I'm just going to sit on my coins, spent a little north of 60BtC for my gear back when it was sub 2k and I'm kicking myself for it. Hind-site is always king. |
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what do you think save configs into "profiles", select config for that miner, load and save.
Looks good - I remember there used to be public profiles but can't find that anymore, used to be nice to show people stats, is that not an option anymore? I would like to be able to use that again to show people earnings and things, get some more people interested. |
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Ive noticed microsoft quietly squeezing people out of 7 like apple does with their IOS devices....
Machines that weren't buggy before, are now.... considerably so.
Several of them get false activation retractions causing a reload of the OS.... very strange stuff happening with 7 that never ever happened to me before.
That's pretty crappy. I've just been rolling a non activated 10 pro for almost a year now, fortunately zero problems. |
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Just curious what OS is everyone running these days?
I'm still just on good ol Windows 10 Pro on everything
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I know a lot of you are going to (or at least experimenting with) the 8-GPU and up Mobos... but for those of you still potentially in the market for a 4-6 GPU rig, NewEgg has probably one of the best Mobos for this back in stock at the moment at only $70. https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157724&cm_re=asrock_btc-_-13-157-724-_-ProductI have 2 rigs built on this and they are by far my 2 most stable (vs the other 2 that are on BioStar TB85). I just picked up 2 in case I end up keeping my Vega's & building a GTX rig. Very cool thanks for the link - I bought a bunch of spare ASUS Primes just in case any of ours failed, but they're still sitting brand new all this time lol. |
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Hash on brothers and sisters
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Just got 5 in from a friend selling them off.
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1080ti and 1080 I'd use for same stuff.
Can you tell me if there's a huge difference between those 2? in earnings? These are the speeds I'm getting and it's for you to decide if you think it's worth or not These are the speeds I'm getting [2017-08-25 12:06:06] GPU#0:GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, 935.34MH/s [2017-08-25 12:06:06] GPU#0:GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, 4.2MH/W, 0.53MH/Mhz [2017-08-25 12:06:06] GPU#0:GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, 70C(F:72%) 1771/5300MHz(223W) [2017-08-25 12:06:13] GPU#1:GeForce GTX 1080, 658.78MH/s [2017-08-25 12:06:13] GPU#1:GeForce GTX 1080, 4.1MH/W, 0.37MH/Mhz [2017-08-25 12:06:13] GPU#1:GeForce GTX 1080, 79C(F:81%) 1784/4513MHz(161W) [2017-08-25 12:06:25] [S/A/T]: 0/95/104, diff: 5.614, 1596.62MH/s yes! [2017-08-25 12:06:26] [S/A/T]: 0/96/105, diff: 2.944, 1596.37MH/s yes! For DGB from blockfactory and ZEC from flypool Temp: GPU0: 71C GPU1: 76C GPU0: 704 Sol/s GPU1: 532 Sol/s Total speed: 1236 Sol/s INFO 16:03:44: GPU0 Accepted share 15ms [A:8429, R:11] INFO 16:03:50: GPU0 Accepted share 15ms [A:8430, R:11] INFO 16:04:03: GPU1 Accepted share 15ms [A:6299, R:11] Temp: GPU0: 71C GPU1: 76C GPU0: 709 Sol/s GPU1: 528 Sol/s Total speed: 1237 Sol/s INFO 16:04:10: GPU0 Accepted share 13ms [A:8431, R:11] INFO 16:04:19: GPU0 Accepted share 20ms [A:8432, R:11] INFO 16:04:22: GPU0 Accepted share 87ms [A:8433, R:11] INFO 16:04:28: GPU0 Accepted share 4245ms [A:8434, R:11] INFO 16:04:29: GPU0 Accepted share 14ms [A:8435, R:11] INFO: Detected new work: 72fe0db19f1676d9d645 INFO 16:04:29: GPU1 Accepted share 11ms [A:6300, R:11] INFO 16:04:31: GPU1 Accepted share 14ms [A:6301, R:11] Temp: GPU0: 71C GPU1: 76C GPU0: 701 Sol/s GPU1: 531 Sol/s Total speed: 1232 Sol/s Considering - around minimum $930-940 for 1080ti and $700 minimum for 1080 - CAD and I use blower style only. Better for heat dissipation for my PC case. I do have 1500W PSU in my PC but I'm not a big baller so I'm taking baby steps and only purchasing stuff that would give me shortest ROI. I can run 5 graphics card from my PC though. Plan is 1x1080ti , 1x 1080 , 1x 1070 - then once money rolls in- then decide. Another 1080 and 1070 won't be with me until end of September if at all(scarcity and all) Fingers crossed though. 1080- 3.69$ ZCL 1080ti - 4.38$ ZCL So you'd need extra 300 days to earn that $200 from that extra 70 cents (all else being the same, currency and what not-) . I haven't done power calculation yet because it isn't of concern to me just yet. Thanks for the numbers, pretty big difference |
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Also one of the benefits of UN-Activated Windows 10 is....... you no longer get automatic updates... because it wants you to register the device before it will allow you to update... granted there are a few manual updates from time to time it will still allow you to optionally add, typically these are windows defender updates.. but whenever i get a random update on windows on my registered pc's, the unregistered ones are clueless of this update... keep trucking along mining.
I just disable all updates. No updates, no problems. |
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