Same here. My provider in Shenzen is now selling P106-090 250% what they were back in June. Crazy.

Think I got myself a partner who will be able to help with liquidities. I'm considering waiting another 6 to 7 weeks to see if 3070 is a better choice than 5700 XT though. Hope I won't be too late to the party. 

Ah! Would be awesome to buy you a drink and chat for sure.

Unfortunately, it's unlikely to happen as I live completely on the opposite side; northern Quebec. I travel a lot to Ontario for work, but I never went to BC. Seems beautiful though. Whistler is a place I'd love to visit some day.

Yes sorry - I meant Onda. I still has an unused B150 as well as some spare risers, so I guess I'll use that for my next rig. But the next mobo I buy for mining is an Onda. No question! All those USB wires are unaesthetic.

Thanks a lot @philipma1957! Shared some love.

Nice carpet btw! 

Love the pen tube idea! What I did on my side is I used self adhesive bumpers and drilled mobo through them.


Thanks @citronick that is gold. I didn't even know such boards existed! Being riserless is sure less expensive as well. I like how you just have to slide GPUs in there and not have to worry about fixing them. Had a look at your rigs and they look pretty slick. K35 seems hard to find, but I've seen a few Oanda mobo/cpu/RAM combos on eBay that aren't expensive, so I'll make sure to look for them for my next rig.

As of SMOS, they don't seem to support GPUs less than 6Gb anymore, so that won't work for my low-end 3Gb rigs. However, I did the math and came to the conclusion I'd better save for 5600/5700/XT instead of spending on anything else moving forward (hopefully I can control my addiction for a while). I'll sure consider SMOS at that point. 2 bucks monthly per rig is a steal... As a miner, if you consider you're paid for your time at an hourly rate just like any job, dealing with Windows issues and endless updates/reboot factor for much more than $24 a year!

Your post would definitely deserve some merit. Sadly, I still can't share the love... But I guess I will at some point!

Might sound like a basic question but how are you guys building your rigs with that many GPUs?

What I've done so far is I built my racks using cheap framing lumber... I just make sure MOBO has some spacing with wood using plastic pieces.

No way I'll invest in an aluminium frame at $100... I prefer to keep that money for GPUs.

Here are those masterpieces (there are actually two racks there... I just built them so they could be stacked):



I've seen those shelves being used a lot: https://www.amazon.com/Seville-Classics-UltraZinc-Shelving-Wheels/dp/B07CJVL5BK

... could have 6 rigs on one shelf. I'm wondering how I could "hang" GPUs on them though. What kind of frame/rack do you suggest?

Enjoy reading that thread almost daily... It's now being a part of my morning routine. Give my baby girl a bottle and while I stream some Youtube cartoons for her, I read this. Pretty much like rig porn literature, right? 

I tried to go back to thread one, but pardon my ignorance, aside generally covering profitable/worthwhile mining setups, is that also a journal of the evolution of OP GPU farm?

Btw OP, I bought an SP20 from you back in 2017... Sadly, it's still sitting on my shelf, covered with dust. Never had the occasion to power it as my first attempt to building an ASIC farm ended up with that Quadrigacx mess. I was lucky enough not to lose too much money, but my partners at that time lost around 2 BTC... A fortune from my small miner perspective. Anyway, enough of background and introduction.

I recently got back to GPU mining back around May. You guys might think I'm masochist, but I'm currently running 2 rigs for a total of 12 P106-090 3GB that I got real cheap from Alibaba. They're useless for anything other than Raven and Nimiq, and I probably won't be able to mine RVN for too long neither as the DAG size is also increasing there. But I'm lucky enough to pay $0.045 per kWh, so this is still profitable, racking around $100 to $120 monthly so far. Really small setup, but based on what I can read here, I'd better stack that money and buy some 5700 XT moving forward, then slowly grow from there. Basic setup (MOBO, CPU, Risers, 6pins cables, PSUs, breakout boards and RAM) is literally killing me anyway, as it's almost as expensive as GPUs in my case.

I have a barn in the backyard I'd like to fill with them. I'll max out my panel in no time, but we'll see how it goes.

Thanks for sharing your knowledge guys.

Cheers!

Hey Bruce,

Thanks for sharing! I really enjoy following your thread. 

I'm canadian as well and recently started a small mining operation in a barn in the back of my yard. P106 as well, but 090, so mine are 3Gb. I can't mine ETH with that, but RVN has been my holy grail so far and pretty stable in terms of profits. Plus, those cards are so cheap it doesn't require a lot of investment. I order directly from China as well and managed to get my power cost even lower than what you're paying for; $0.045 USD per kWh. This is what makes it profitable - no way it could work with the usual power cost in the US.

Wish I could put 30K like you do, but since I can't, I hope patience will pay! It's far from you in terms of size as a project, but your numbers are a motivation somehow!

I also found the fact somehow else is hosting those rigs for you interesting; maybe it's a service I could offer at some point! I would max out my panel pretty fast, but for around 5K I can get a new one installed, so perhaps that would be worth it...

Anyway!

Wish you all the best success in that project!

1060 6gb, Brand New, Buy It Now for less than 500 USD

https://www.ebay.com/itm/MSI-GeForce-GTX-1060-6GB-6GT-OCV1-RTL/263496979909

Try better prices and maybe someone will be interested...

Sent both an email and a PM. They still haven't got back...

I'm interested in buying a whole pallet of those...

The pre-order is apparently made by email; I haven't paid for anything yet.

I asked them for a 1 x Miner X6 1.1 KW, 7.2 Th/s- 1900 usd. They asked me if it would be local pickup (which is the case), and told me they would contact me to arrange payment beginning of February when the unit is available.

However, they also told me they had 60 of these X6 available when I first got in touch with them... I'm not totally convinced this is legit yet to be honest.

I'll post here if I ever hear back in February as they said, but this might just not happen...

Can you sell Avalons separately? I'd buy one Avalon + PSU if possible. I need it shipped to Canada though - would pay for it of course.

If your deal doesn't work for your S7 let me know - I'm interested. Sent PM.

I'm looking to buy S7 control board. Don't need BeagleBone.

Needs to be working.

Thanks!

I pre-ordered one X6 with them today. I'll let you know guys how it goes.

Prices have been updated though:

Miner X6 1.1 KW, 7.2 Th/s- 1900 usd.

Miner U6 4,4 KWt, 29 Th/s - 5000 usd.

Upgrade Kit X6 1.1KW, 7.2Th/s - 1500 usd.
Upgrade Kit X5 0.6KW, 3.6Th/s - 950 usd.
Boiler 2.2 kW, 14.4 Th/s - 3700 usd.

Boiler 4  kW, 29,2 Th/s - 5750 usd.
Power unit supply 2.4 KW - 180 usd.
Power unit supply 1.2 kW - 90 usd.

Title says it all!

Can I replace my S5 boards with S7 boards? Is some mod required?

Thanks!

This is rather simple to develop actually.

If you want it done with Google Spreadsheet, it could refresh automatically at a given frequency (each 15 mins, hourly, etc.).

You would need some server environment (shared hosting would work) to host the process.

I can give a hand, but I'm swamped with work and really just wandering around on the forum because I have some free time during the holidays. My rate isn't cheap neither; I would charge around 0.010725 BTC for such a project (and host it somewhere on a server of mine for you for 6 months). But just wanted to give you a heads up on this.

You can probably find someone who would be much cheaper on Upwork. Just give the same project description as above and take the cheapest proposal! Be careful with people from India as the quality of their work is generally not that good (I'm talking from experience here; has been using Upwork/vWorker/Rentacoder for more than 10 years). Really just a rule of thumb; I have nothing against them.

Good luck!

Luckily was able to find some on Blokforge! Locking topic.