I have never seen such rush/stress about new coin, all devs and miners with a great enthusiasm started to create mining software and mine zcash even before it was launched. I'm impressed, it's seems I'm the only dev that don't have own miner at the moment

Greetings to all fellow miners,
 
I've been running my rig steady for about two weeks and everything seems to work fine.

What bothers me is that today i felt a strange smell coming somewhere from the motherboard/psu. I cannot describe it as a burning smell, something more like the smell from new hardware being burnt in (if i can say it like that)

The rig is still working fine but i am not sure will it work in the future.

I'll put a screenshot here where you can see the power consumption and clocks.

The rig consist of 1 x ref Sapphire 480 8GB (flashed bios with low power consumption.rom), 2x rx 470 MSI 8GB with and 3x Rx 470 Sapphire Strix also 8GB. The 470's all are bios edited with 1500 and up strap copying, undervoltet with STRIX to -120mV, and clocks set to 1.100 and 1.750 memory clock for MSI (stock is 1.650) and 2000 (stock) for Sapphire.  Mobo is AsRock BTC pro, PSU is Corsair RM 1000i. Every card is connected to the mobo with power risers.  

As i said it works steady for two weeks, and i am getting around 160 MHS, with power usage from the wattmeter around 830-860W, and Corsair Link 900-920W.


https://postimg.org/image/3qa3juktb/


I'll kindly ask some more experienced miners to take a look at the screenshot and check if everything is ok or should i change something.

Thanks

Regards,

900w in...

Yes and the fact that they need a specialized environment to work.  Prolly somewhere around 20 c input temp is safe MAX.  Course good luck with that if your at home running these in a garage.  Im going to be selling mine on ebay for cheap in the next couple days ill post a link here soon. (winter is the safest time i feel i can sell these and not get a chargeback and ohh boy wait till you see my description of these machines . Think you all might get a kick out of it except maybe bitmain lol.    Its long past time i gave this up.  Now im sure most of you will hoot and holler at that but the more they pick away at those that participate in this experiment the less people there will be that use it or worse that advocate for it.  Crypto with all the bs that is happening with ethereum and btc is really leaving a sour taste in my mouth.  I have over 850 mhs eth rigs ill be parting with aswell. ( not to mention i guess its time to fire sale the hardware left in the garage.  Been procrastinating doin it cuz its going to suck major!  80Ths sha-256 plus 1 ghs scrypt all inefficient and collecting dust)  That should be my first sign that this game is rigged towards those that have the most money cheapest resources.  This is all about getting things done for the cheapest cost.  This was the only way it could be done and also it makes those that put the machines in feel like they are the ones doing it lmao.  We all work for someone that is running this show.  Big corps will use this to find the regions in the world with the cheapest resources to get their accounting or whatever done via blockchain.  Was this all a trick to put datacenters out of business, lawyers etc etc?   just remember lawyers are one of the biggest costs to a corporation!  Its all about how can we make things cheaper amirite???  Only was a matter of time before it showed its ugly head.  In the beginning i had hope for btc/crypto but now that i see it wont be anymore decentralized than fiat is now im over it.  One word of advice i could give is this is too good to be true!!  Far too many variables have to come together exactly for this to succeed.  Lately all i see is fighting amongst the devs and community.  Sooner the human race rids ourselves of these chains the better off we all will be.

Honestly bitmain not selling is doing you all a HUGE favor!. Maybe is a good time to reflect on whether or not this is for you or not.  

For those living in the states and want a killer deal on crypto hw then keep an eye open for my sale.  Its time for me to part ways while im ahead.  I put that lightly since most will go to IRS.  Cuz they did so much to help me get going   I find it fucking amazing that those like trump who can afford to lose a billion dollars and can write that off. but then there is the general public who goes to jail for not being able to pay.  What a fucking joke.  Those that can afford to pay dont and the ones that cant goto jail and lose everything.  Welcome to America folks!

Best Regards
d57heinz