Excellent, thanks for the feedback.  I'd originally looked at just getting 2 1200w supplies, but they were basically sold out everywhere OR I couldn't find a breakout board for the models that ARE available.

I've seen mixed info on the risers being powered by the same supply as the mobo vs cards, but if need be I can replace my risers with the 6 pin versions.  I think that may be for the best anyway since I realize what you're saying about the power on issue since I can't link to the atx PSU.

I've kept all my rigs between 3 and 5 cards up to this point for simplicity's sake and my own sanity, but I have a few Z270 boards now and could push up to 7 on one, so I think that will be my plan for the weekend and if I can get it running and stable that will be the new home for this guy.

Do any of you have a good link/source for a 1200w that has a breakout board available?  That would be awesome!

Nicehash has calculators on their site to figure this out.  You'd need to decide what you want to point the hashing power at, and play around with that and calculating the returns in coins.  Whattomine.com could be useful to, just plug in hash rates into your chosen algo and see when you get to $2k. 

HINT: It won't be worth it, unless the coins appreciate considerably, you'll always pay more than coin value in renting hash power.

Ether PoS is going to happen..... at some point.  There's a lot of speculation and conjecture around when it will actually happen, and the ETH team has already put out a statement clarifying they anticipate a capser rollout to be phased in and it won't replace PoW overnight.  Which is wise for many reasons.  I think it's realistic to expect a START to a PoS transition sometime within 3-18 months.  Given that development is prone to unforseen issues and that guaranteeing network stability is a top priority I doubt we'll see an immediate or even rapid transition from PoW to PoS in a very short time frame. 

I'd expect WHEN they're ready to push casper to the livenet there will still be at least several months of the chain being predominantly backed by PoW, giving miners plenty of transition time.

ROI on cards is still in the 60-100 day range (if you can find any) so it's still probably a safe bet from a return standpoint.  Unfortunately after ROI you're prospects for longer term profits are up in the air, and no one can really give any definitive answer to that, I'd bet even the ETH dev team would have a hard time telling you with certainty what the time table would be.

It can be a little tough to calculate, but really it's a ratio of your hash rate, to network hash rate, while factoring in block time, you also need to consider the block reward, since if you're solo mining you would reap the entire block in one go.  Usually it takes a considerable amount of time to solo mine most profitable coins, but when they do pay out OR if you're insanely lucky it can be quite profitable.  Unfortunately, luck plays such a large role that you have to be a gambler of sorts to want to consider it.


If your % of hash is less than it would take to make by pool mining over a similar amount of time what a single block reward would be then it's not worth to solo mine, from a pure ROI standpoint.  Otherwise roll the dice and see where they fall.

From a raw cost/hash ratio you're absolutely right.  The Tis are grossly over-cost for the gains most people would see from them... BUT, there's a few secondary considerations to keep in mind if you're even contemplating 1080tis.

1) Hash density can be maximized with them.  If you have a limitation of # of rigs and/or space available to mine, then per cubic inch these are the most profitable cards available. 

2) With Summer upon us, and the cost of electric and the need for additional cooling rising, these cards allow for optimization of those costs as well, they're actually cheaper to operate with both of those considerations in mind, than 2 cards that produce comparable hashes (2 1070s or 480s) so there's a soft savings involved that might not be very easy to calculate there

2) Resale on these will be considerably greater and easier at the end of the mining boom (or when newer cards come out for us to start to replace our miners).  1060s and 1070s will be plentiful if/when that happens, but gamers will be QUICK to jump on a discounted 1080ti.  Right now the 9xx series cards are much easier to sell (personal experience) if they're higher end, and will garner a better price overall.  1060s and 470/480s will be a dime a dozen in 6-12 months time.

3) And this is how I use them personally, the 1080ti is still the best performing gaming card available.  I only run them in my primary desktops that I use for work/games.  Those are idle 90%+ of the time when I'm not playing a game or using the PC for any heavy lifting, so as a single card in separate towers they provide me the best power available when I need it, and the best profitability possible for a tower that only has a single card in it.

If you're just building out a farm, and have the watts and space available then it doesn't make any sense to even look at these cards at the moment, but if you have any of the above (or I'm sure other situations I haven't considered) considerations then they might be worth it.

So, currently I have 4 separate rigs running on a 240v line I put in a few weeks ago with assorted PSUs I've bought over time.  I'm frustrated/annoyed with the realization that different PSU manufacturers have different pin-out configurations for their cables (I actually accidentally killed 4 hard drives in a RAID as a result of this, thankfully I'm a backup fanatic).

To consolidate and hopefully improve efficiency I've order a 2400w PSU from parallel miners, and my search on the forum hasn't yielded much in the way of feedback on these, although the 1200w units seem alot more common.

This is the unit I've ordered (should be here in roughly a week):

http://www.parallelminer.com/product/94-platinum-2400w-power-supply-kit-for-2-a4-dominator-litecoin-miners-200-240v/

My questions are as follow:
1) This configuration is set up for 6 pin power cables, while many of my cards have 8-pin connectors on them - will using 6 pin only connectors work on the cards I have (480s and 1080s)?

2) I understand conceptually how to connect and bridge two standard PSUs to be used on one mobo (add2psu, jumpers, etc...) but since this unit doesn't have an ATX connector and only the PCIs - does this unit automatically power on due to logic on the breakout board or do I need to plan to do something else to have this power on with my cards?

3) Ideally I would like to use this PSU to run several rigs worth of cards to reduce cabling and clean things up on my rack, given the above question about how to trigger it to power on state - is it realistic to set this up to power on multiple motherboards worth of cards, and if so is there anything special I would need to do to make it work for that?

Right now I have 6 nvidia cards (mix of 1080/1070) that are on one rig, and 10 AMD cards (mix of 470/480/580) on 3 other motherboards.  I just received a new Z270 mobo I plan to use to condense those 3 into only two, so in the end I will have three motherboards running all of the cards.  I want to use this PSU to drive the 480s on a standalone rig, and possibly two 1060s on a rig I plan to build out of the leftover motherboard/parts I'll have, has anyone done something like this / have suggestions?

Thanks in advance,
DBC

Really?  Must've rallied before i checked my holding values 

I'm seeing potentially excellent and long overdue entry point pricing on many projects with this.  Alot of genuinely crap sub-100sat coins have been rallying for the last week or two because the truly strong projects had grown WAY too quick and no longer looked like value investments.

Wyvern $225,855

Biggest drop since the start of this >3 month bull run.  Time for a big scary correction, get ready to see your blockfolios halve themselves.

It's still trading just can't import/export coins from Bittrex till they unlock wallets.

It;s a teensy market cap and volume, takes very little to move the price at the moment.

it depends on if they don't hold any liquid assets to make payouts on their profits from the beginning (i.e. not over-leverage their ETH/BTC holdings).  Also, technically TAAS could never be a ponzi scheme, since they wouldn't be taking in any new capital investment.  The premise of a ponzi is to pay out dividends to investors from new money that flows into the fund.  They could do something similar, but I think the premise of the cryptographic audit they will be providing should allow for transparency and allow for confidence in the funds.

Yup, although if you really want to talk to him, he's probably still around.  Look for RIDDLE or ScryptWaves, or any of a few other cookie cutter scam token/coins that are floating around at the moment.  Their ANN threads all looks pretty similar.

42 for hosting a secure node, same is it's been since release.

The Dev team raised a reasonable chunk of cash in the Wyvcorp token sale.  I think it was about $70k at the time, and with the boom in ETH is probably more like 200-300k now.  I'm certain, in due time, Nukeless and the team will have a marketing plan to raise awareness.

I'm doubtful it's all, or even a majority of millenials who are riding the current boom, most of them didn't have the money to invest in mining or buy in 

Seriously though, Ether has utility, Bitcoin has utility (and is still a massive value store), NEITHER provide anonymity, and both have some serious issues to be concerned with.

That said there's PLENTY of booming projects that still have great promise in anonymity and freedom: Monero, ZEC, ZCL, ZEN, Zcoin, well really it seems just about anything starting with a Z. 

Blockchain is here to stay, companies and governments are going to use and abuse it, like they always have with any other technology they can benefit from.  That doesn't mean the benefits to those who value freedom and anonymity are destroyed, just don't put YOUR money in ETH and you'll be just fine.

Not saying this is true for BAT, but it seems like it may be counterintuitively good for some of these projects to have a large whale bagholder.  With the influx of new investors in this space and the likely skidish weak hand nature of them, it makes a critical dump less likely... provided the investing whales have the tokens long term future in mind.  If it's a pure cash grab, well then... run for the hills.

It should exist just fine on the chain, unless Bittrex does some sort of major reset on wallet address assignments (no reason to think they should) then it should "deposit" when they reactivate transfers.

I think you set up an account at tether.io, and you can withdraw there.