How much does it cost for you guys to convert to fiat, and is the converting process convenient for you?


I'm new to mining and over the past 3 months and mined about $500 of various cryptos. They are converted to btc on Poloniex, moved to Gemini, then converted to USD and withdrawn to my bank.
My bank fees are about 8% unfortunately. I'm in Hong Kong and have no easy access to US banks or btc to Amazon gift card services. Any tips on lowering these fees?

Thanks, I will try this out.


The reason is XFX's bios has some high voltage offsets. It's at 0.9375v compared to 0.8875v for MSI/Asus and uses 25% more power when compared at gpuz at same settings.

Since they are all reference cards, I'm trying to force a lower voltage by using another brand's bios.

AIT win flash returns a "sub system ID mismatch" when I try. Even after copying XFX'x systems ID to MSI's bios, ati win flash returns "cannot flash rom".
How do you flash another vendor's reference bios to another reference card? Please help.

5 - 8 watts is my guess, but I don't have a wattmeter to measure though. The drives are active for 30 seconds every 4 minutes, and will use your cpu or gpu to scan the drives. Maybe 20 watts extra during scanning.
I grabbed the seagate 8tb archive HDDs, they were $170 on black friday Amazon US.

I'm mining burst with 80TB and it's pretty great, 40 cents a day profit per 8TB drive, each bought at $170. Electricity costs for them are negligible and they don't go obsolete that quickly.
Compared to my Rx 480 that makes a dollar a day, half of which goes to electricity. My electricity cost is $0.17/KWH

If you have good electric cost, go for GPU mining. If high electricity cost, you might want to diversify your mining equipment a litle. 

Yes I did. The only difference in polaris bios editor was core clock speeds and idle mem clocks. Even core voltage is exactly the same.

In wattman it's lowered to the minimum 0.8V and I'm not sure how to edit voltages safely in polaris bios editor. How would you lower voltages further?

With the lowering profitability of mining, I'm taking a second look at power efficiency and notice my XFX reference cards uses way more power than my MSI/Asus reference Rx 480 8gb.


Here's a screenshot: http://imgur.com/a/H0eQt
4 Rx 480 8gb reference cards, one MSI, one Asus, 2 XFX. Msi and Asus were bought in August, XFX last month.

Settings: 1625 straps
Core clock: 1015mhz
Core voltage: 800mv
Mem clock: 2000mhz
Mem voltage: 860mv
1625 mem strap copied to 1750 and 2000.

About 26.8Mh/s on ETH each.
Taken from GPU-Z,
65 - 70W power consumption on MSI and Asus reference Rx 480 8gb.
83 - 88W power consumption on Xfx reference Rx 480 8gb.


The cards are running the same settings, however the XFX cards uses way more power and has 0.05V higher VDDC than msi and asus cards.

When set to -30% power limit, the XFX cards throttle while the Asus and MSI cards do not. Does anyone know why the XFX cards uses more power, and if there's a way lower VDDC/power usage to be in line with the MSI card?

Alternatively, can I flash my MSI bios to the XFX cards since they are all reference Rx 480 8GB cards?

Any advice is appreciated, thanks guys.