most rooms in usa houses use the same breaker for all outlets in that room, so no.

semi serious miners will either spread the units to multiple rooms (each with its own breaker) or run dedicated 220 volt outlets from the breaker panel.

sometimes garages will have outlets on separate breakers. kitchens will generally have separate breakers for various groups of outlets too.

best to map your outlets to their respective breakers.

only load a circuit to 80% max.

curious as to why usb sticks only. not that i am against them, my freenas box has been running off  of two 16 gb usb sticks configured in raid 1 for its OS for a few years now.

it just doesnt work with ssds? or..?

ive been using macrium reflect free for ages to make image backups of miners and regular rigs. cant beat the peace of mind. anything goes poof, restore and youre back up and running in minutes.

got tired of the lag. pulled the last of my trading/lending coins out today.

pity i liked polo. maybe it will come back better sometime in the future.

dunno bout noise (depends on how you build it) but for heat, imagine a 1200+ watt heater running 24/7..

undervolting saves power and heat.

as long as the clocks are the same you will get the same hashrate at lower power and heat.

i run my 470s at -100 and my 390s at -75

ms now uses a monthly "roll up" update once a month on win7/10.

on 7 i just tell it to let me know. after a few days with no issues reported on the web it let it update. i do a full image backup 1st though. if something tanks from the update  i restore from backup.

no way to pick and choose what updates you want in 7/10 now, its all or nothing.

as for 10.. well its only on my notebooks and they dont mine. they are on wifi and i set them as metered connections so they cant download and update till i turn that off. same deal, full image backup 1st.

full image backups have saved me mucho problems. use macrium reflect free version.

poloniex is very laggy today. slow to trade, slow sending confirmation emails and slow to pull out coins.

finally pulled my coins (that i kept in there for trading) out today. have a bit out on lends but ill pull those out when the term is up.

not liking what i see anymore.

only windows computers, no macs or *nix systems yet. XP, Vista, win8.x, win7 are vulnerable. not win10 as far as i know.

best defense: UPDATE your OS and software. backup to OFFLINE disks. use decent antivirus. and dont click unknown attachments in mail.

if you go to the win10 update settings page you can pull a list of the dates win10 installed updates, see if they correspond to the dates you had the problems.

this is one reason why i mine on win7. i tell it to monitor for but not install updates till i can review them.

port 445 may be open in internal networks. it is not open to the internet, at least with a properly set up router/firewall.

go to grc.com and let it scan your ports. 445 is stealthed on mine. thats with 6 computers behind a router, and windows firewall on plus whatever firewalls freenas, ubuntu and the rpi use. and i have file/printer sharing on.

im getting tired of the btc transaction delays and ridiculous fees.

today i sent someone ltc instead of btc (i own both). transaction was confirmed in about a minute with a 6 cent free.

im sure others will come to the same conclusion. ltc will become the main coin for payments.

about the only part that will wear is the fans.

mining is actually better in some ways as its temp remains constant. constant temp is good for electronics because of thermal expansion and contraction. and power off/on cycles is worse than leaving it on 24/7.

just keep it cool, dont go crazy overclocking it or messing with the vbios. and use a GOOD psu.

coinbase does have some sort of list of gambling site addresses.

solution. always send to your own wallet 1st, then send to gambling site. same with gambling site withdrawals.

i dont gamble but this is what others say. so may or may not be accurate.

actually any windows os (xp, vista, 8.x, 7 not sure about 10) can get hit if they are not patched. ms patched it in march but we all know how well typical users patch stuff up

read about another adapter at techpowerup. turns 6 slot mobos into 8 slot mobos.

https://www.techpowerup.com/233317/biostar-releases-accessory-to-convert-your-gaming-pc-into-a-pro-mining-rig

8 cards with an adapter. works with the following mobos: RACING H170GT3, GAMING H170T, Hi-Fi H170S3H, Hi-Fi B150S1, Hi-Fi B150S1 D4, or TB150 PR

i would rather go with the lightning board if i can find 8 single slot cards. much neater and smaller package.

after flying to china they posted 3 or 4 pictures, one poor picture of a miner, 2 pics of a monitor with some stats, and one picture that was redacted. they are some short videos somewhere linked in this thread.

seems like a long way to go for so little real info like long videos and tons more pics.

ps i have no dog in this fight. just watching how it goes down. best of luck folks.

dont use coinbase as a wallet. buy your coin, send it to your own wallet. from there send it to wherever.

i use coinbase to buy and sell. its linked to a bank account. i buy, i transfer it out to my wallet asap. i sell i send it directly to my bank. i give my accountant a spreadsheet with all coinbase buys and sell, he figures taxes out and i pay it,

works fine for me.

ive been lending at polo for a few months, no problems. i set most to not renew so go in every couple days to see the rate and modify them based on the market.

i typically only have under 0.5 btc out and break it into several 0.1 and 0.2 loans for 2 days.

what do most of you do?

i got a few vostros when work junked them during upgrades. vista business keys, various core 2 duos/quads cpus, 3 to 4 gb ram, no hds, hd3450 video. some models worked with multiple cards with upgraded psus, some would only take one video card and not see two (plus lose network when 2nd card was installed.) tried HD6870s, RX470s, RX 380, RX 390s. all worked as a single card in the single card only vostro, all worked at the same time in the vostros that took 3 cards ok. power supply was a seasonic 850 in the vostros i tried

all mobos had latest bios flashed.

seems luck of the draw really. sorry dont recall the model numbers. thought they were 200s series though, matx boards with 4 pcie slots, 1 x16, 3 x1s. all had a HD 3450 in the x16 slot. as i recall the HD3450s dropped like flies with artifacts on boot/bios screen. had like 4 bad cards out of 6 vostros.

only suggestion i have is try different slots. make sure to upgrade the psu, vostro psus are, well not total jusk, but not really quality you need for miners. usually low efficiency. dont use adapters like 2 molex to 6 pin peg if you can help it use straight 6/8 pin pegs direct from psu.

tl;dr vostros are hit or miss.