The TI uses a little more power so if that's a concern in your rig, go for the gigabyte. If not? You'll make it up easily in hashrate, sso my vote is for the ti as well.

I was going to say something, but then I just figured "they'll figure it out". When I lived over there, the only person I ever took remotely serious that had a copy of The Sun was the fish and chips guy.

Agreed 100%. Learning more about messing with electricity is key if you don't want to trash your gear.

That said, if you want to mess around and are more concerned about draw than damaging your D3, you CAN pick up a kill-a-watt and figure out your voltage/draw without math.

The latter. The link bypasses the sold out page and takes you directly to their third party offers.

EDIT TO ADD: also the average ebay price jumped up from around $260-80 just a few hours ago to $340 and up now.

EDIT2: I WAS able to find an i5 model at a reasonable rate (comparing the two on the Gigabyte page, the specs are identical other than the CPU i class, so I'm assuming it should come pretty close to the above estimates). Picked up one to play with.

...and it's already almost doubled in price.

Old thread, but I am rebuilding my smallest rig tonight, which also happens to be on my heartiest CPU/mobo, so I plan on testing this out. Will post back if it works (probably won't if I give up, though).

Yup, this. This is why the alt thirty six folks focused on DASH.

Not true at all.

I don't see why it wouldn't, just change the miner settings.

Actually the problem is banking. Most banks, being national and not state based, are unwilling to risk working with dispensaries (even medical ones) right now, which has resulted in most dispensaries becoming cash only as POS became impossible, especially once Square started refusing to process indirectly. Here in Oregon, that all happened right around the time Sessions took office (shocking, I know). Altcoins, specifically DASH, could solve the problem (google "alt thirty six" if you're interested in specifics). I know the weed named coins want to be that coin, and in some markets I think they are established to some degree--or it's all marketing and nobody is--but either way my money is on DASH to take on that role, at least initially, as the alt36 people have been setting up a POS system and trying to make agreements for over a year now (unless that is also marketing). However, in the log term, I think any stable coin with a fast confirmation cycle can easily take on that role...

I've found most often that those types of variables are usually due to either the miner (see if you have the same result using Claymore) or the underclocking/memory settings. Try setting all to default (# out any memory or powertune/core settings) and rebooting, if it's still the same change the miner to Claymore (globalminer claymore) and reboot. If it's still the same, check your risers and PSU and make sure you are providing enough power. It's also possible that you just randomly have it set up so every 4th card happens to just be better (better memory or clock speed). You can mess with the settings for each individual card to drive up hashrates once you are sure everything is stable.

Ethos? Yes, it comes with Claymore 9.8 as of version 1.2.7, but they JUST released an update so they may support 10 now (you can also manually install 10 on an earlier build, their website has instrux on how to).

Yeah, no, wasn't meaning to imply they aren't legit, I'm just over trying to buy from them.

Yeah, personally I'm done with them. Between the price hike, the ROI rate, and the complete lack of customer service, I'd rather just buy an S9 at this point

Not really. Think about when the D3 first came out. If you'd overclocked it to the highest stable hashrate and left it running back then, by the time the second batch shipped you'd have made more than you probably will with any batch since on any setting. So it really just depends.

I have my L3 overclocked to 600 with zero problems (running for a couple months now), my D3 uses BlissZ's mods and runs underclocked a lot of the time, but will be overclocked when it moves to the basement. If I had an S9, though, I would leave it at stock, because that will be a consistent earner until something new comes out for BTC.

I mean, there is certainly something to be said for longevity, my S5 still earns a steady profit and heats my living room. But just by the math, the $2-3/day it earns is nothing compared to what it earned when it was king of the block, so if I had it back then, overclocking would have likely resulted in more income.

YMMV. I'm mostly conservative with my hardware (except the L3), but I totally get the logic in overclocking.

(also Nicehash is nice when BTC drops in value, but in general yeah, I totally agree: mine coins and support blockchains of coins you believe in!)

I got the Electrum-XVG 2.4 wallet working on 10.13.2. You just need to add 83.169.38.218 to the Network settings, that will add like 5 new blockchain sources and everything will start workig just fine.

Your beliefs don't matter to the millions of people it helps. Just fyi.

Anyone know of an active lyra2rev2 pool? Aikapool is in maintenance mode (and closing in Feb), IDCray gives me an error message, and zpool doesn't seem to have one anymore (just X11)...

Yup. Fans have nothing to do with amount of heat generated, just efficiency and dispersion (though turning them down should actually generate a bit more heat in theory, since improper cooling will force the card to work harder, but that's not really worth messing around with IMO).

If you want to know how much heat you are generating, check the wattage, not the card temp or fan speed.

It depends. I watch the percentage more than the actual number, since that's basically your lost profit. So for example, if overclocking by 5% hashrate leads to a 1% increase in HW and not a huge increase in power consumption, I watch the machine for stability to be safe but am fine with that, since the increase in efficiency outweighs the error loss.