Will be more understandable when someone said not profitable to do mining and gave us their reasons. So, one of the reasons someone told that mining didn't become profitable anymore is electricity cost (dependent on which areas). Acceptable!

As long as those boards have a PCIe socket, you can use it. You are using RX series if you run on stock bios it's easier but if you modification your bios card, may you need to bypass a driver signature to make sure a system can read your cards.

I also use an old board on my first GPU rig. This is my first board and still used till now:

I Want to know a view of someone (maybe you are miner), are you didn't get any profit from mining? Are you really a miner? Or you just say something that you didn't do? Sorry, no offense. I am a miner and till now still get enough profit every days, weeks, month. May something wrong with your way to mining.

You can use the old board (the cheapest one) instead of gaming board if you plan on mining. One of my Rig use old Gigabyte board (M2+ Socket) with 5 PCIe, bought that around $17. Trust me, didn't give any difference with Asrock H81 Pro BTC (I have this board also).

You ask in the place that you try to find. Announcement Thread on this forum would give you tons of newly coins info.


Yeah, Am doing the same before. But I build a mining pool because I didn't have a physical rig. So, I rent Hashrate from Nicehash and sometimes from Mining Rig Rental and point it to my own mining pool that has been adding that new coins. But after building a Rig, I mine to QT-Wallet (sometimes). 

I have similar problem before with MSI 390, guess what I'm doing with it! I use Gun Heater and heating the processor on that card, and use Hawaii bios editor to change some setting on that card then that card back to normal. But....After a few month (8-9 month I think) this card act like before, damn. Now I use 290 (1100 CoreClock, 1250 MemClock) bios setting to that card, Seems stable now with lower Hashrate (26 MHs in Ethash), 32 MHs before.

depends on the GPU series. but to my knowledge, if use GPU better to mine on ETH, ETC, Zec because of those coins which I feel profitable. 4 months ago, I once mine ETN used 2U 12 cores 24 threads and get 30 ETN per day. but for now, it is not profitable.

For me is AMD cards : R9 290,290x,390,390x . RX series (470,480,570,580) 4/8GB. NVIDIA card: 1070,1070'tis.

what the best for me not sure the best for another miner, that's same with you ask the best GPU for mining. So, the best GPU depends on the skill every a miner to use the GPU it.

not also,
fast or not, it depends on from the price of ETH when converted to BTC. a good situation is when ETH and BTC rising price. and almost in all countries, price a GPU is rising because of many a demand.

berbeda juga dalam performance, contoh VER008C tidak semua lengkap terpasang, seperti (lihat gambar VER008C) no.3 dan no.4 ada beberapa manufacture yang tidak memasang komponen tersebut. Namun performance seakan-akan tidak terasa karena sebagian besar berpikir yang penting GPU jalan.

VER008C

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yang pasti, baik 6 pin ataupun molex sama2 menghasilkan Max 75W. kecuali 6 Pin yang dimaksud adalah konektor SATA to 6 PIN  akan menghasilkan Max 54W karena source power-nya berasal dari Sata konektor PSU berbeda dengan 6 Pin PCIe menghasilkan Max 75W.

Penggunaan Power Riser baik Molex ataupun 6 PIN selama source dari PSU langsung tanpa Converter Sata sebetulnya sama saja hanya 6 PIN PCIe akan lebih berguna untuk memberikan power ke VGA, mengingat kabel PCIe bawaan PSU sangat terbatas.

masalah terbakar atau tidak tergantung batas pemakaian. maksudnya gini, Molex dari PSU dalam 1 rail lebih baik digunakan Max untuk 2 Riser. Nah, kasus terbakar itu, biasanya karena penggunaan Molex dalam 1 rail lebih dari 3 maka otomatis kabel akan panas atau meleleh.

I a little bit confusing at first times read your post, please don't call it solo eth mining, better use single mining. If you are using this word "solo eth mining" it can be mean that you are doing solo mining not pooled mining.

Qs 1
A wrong bios version potentially to damage your cards, mainly it has been used for an extended period.

Qs 2
Offcourse, your compound or thermal paste would be so dry and un-useful.

I didn't have that product but with those power capacity, it must be four PCIe cable split into eight PCIe connector (one cable with two connectors in the end). Those kinds of connector would product max power 300 Watt except one single cable with one connector in the end and we are using a Y splitter, it would produce max power 150 Watt with combined that two connectors of Y splitter.

So, if you are using 6 GPUs with single power on it (8 Pins or 6 Pins) it can be handled with those PSU without any splitter.

One of my rigs, fully R9 series (290,290x,295x2), I always like to tell more details about this rig, here it is:
XFX 295X2 (1 card but Dual-GPU)
Sapphire 290 (1 Card)
MSI 290 (1 Card)
MSI 290X (1 Card)
Asus 290 (1 Card)
Asus 290 Reference (1 Card)

And that is my first GPU Rig and still giving me profits till now. This rig mine Eth with 30-31 Mhs for each Card, except 295X2 it's 61-62 Mhs (since this is dual-GPU Cards).

I suggest Ethash, Equihash, or NeoScrypt maybe with R9 series, but better do your own research. Pay more attention with cards temperature.

For better result, you could spend one or two days to try every possible Algorithm with your 1080Ti, and compare it. For reference, you can go round to online technical coin info and mining calculator websites such as whattomine, coinwarz, etc. Make the information you get as your reference and do your own research. What the best for they didn't mean the best for you.

The measures of profiatable always different for every miner, I think. Especially for experienced miners, they have own calculation method for deciding which coin are more profitable than others. There are miners doing solo mining with newly released coins or else trying to mine minor coins and hold it for a few time. And so on...

Almost all newly miner always following a hot trend, they didn't have enough experience and confidence to do something different, but again this is about the experience. So, don't to worry about some coin become POS nor Difficulty increased, etc.

say to your friend, buddy

don't again use a laptop to mine because of the mining process must run 24/7 and the laptop doesn't design for it. and mining process produces heat while a laptop has a small fan.which will never be able to release excessive heat.

and a bit hashrate because of must competition with  GPU miners.

you can try to mine ETN or XMR coin. but your profit smaller than expected except you have free electricity and internet access.

yes, you can do it.
whatever MB type as long as has PCIe socket, you can plug your GPUs on it. but you need USB Riser to expand GPU positioning.

RIG never quiet except your RIG idle. besides that, RIG produces heat temperature will influence your bedroom temperature. and The current GPU price is terrible.

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