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In general, are third party heat sinks and fans better? Yes. This doesn't mean that blower style cards don't have their place:
I love them in my personal mini itx computers - get hot air out of small spaces.
I also love them in my 4u server builds for mining. I have had great success with directed airflow and blower style cards.
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Reported to moderators. I am sure this violates several tos. Not sure where you learned to be like this. I wont tolerate and neither will the mods I am sure.
Haha now I'm just curious at what TOS do you think he violated? Don't melt away. That'd said, at these prices, I will jump on board - I'll buy all your cards but you must use escrow. |
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If my Vega's end up selling I can pull some ram out of that rig.
In my notes, I have it as:
Crucial Ballistix Sport LT 16GB 4 x 4GB DDR4-2400 PC4-19200
Little slower speed but could pull 8gb out to help you out.
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Nice setup wish I had the cash to grab these! But really wanted to say nice fishing trophies hehehe
haha hate to admit it but those are my wife's trophies. How much for the whole rig? I’m in Louisiana I’ll drive to Texas. Message me your phone number and we can text
PM sent. I'm in Houston - so hopefully not too far. --------- To anyone else interested the 64's are 2 - gigabyte reference 2 - xfx reference |
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Figured I'd just add to this one. If anyone is local to Houston, I'm shedding another rig. Starting at $3k for 2v56 and 2v64 ----- Sale PendingSold Prices have gotten a little out of hand on these cards. Trimming down one rig. These are used Rx Vega 64's. Run perfectly - temps have stayed below 55c under load. Shipping Lower 48 Only. I can arrange for delivery in Texas. Asking $4000 for the lot. Cash for delivery/local pick up or BTC/LTC/XMR via Escrow. Price does not include shipping. Will be sending FedEx - signature required. I will edit this post with brand specifics when I get home. If you're interested in the full rig and local - I'd consider selling it as well. Please let me know if you have any questions.   |
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Are you suggesting mine whatever is most profitable then sell it and use the BTC to buy XLM? Thanks
Yes. Mine the most profitable. Sell it to btc. Buy your desired coin. Do this daily/weekly/whenever. |
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Hi All,
Vega 64 Update :
So finally after tons of frustration and repeated failure i decided to divide my vega 64 into (3 cards each) which is very stable when it comes to card detection.
Allthough 4 cards also can run together but at a price of instability because if for some reason the system/driver/power crashes, post reboot 1 card goes missing from device manager. Tried every PCI GEN combination from Auto to 3 but none can fix this instability. For all those who got 6 or 8 vegas running smoothly you guys are really blessed man !!
Present scenario :
Cast miner 0.8
Bloackchain driver Aug release
HBM2 ON
Clock - 1000
Clock Volt - 800
Memory - 1025
Memory Volt - 1100
Fan - 3000 - 4900
Power - -10/-5/+5/+7/+10
Using above changes i wast able to hit only 1950 h/s max in cast miner(+10%) power, 1898-1920 h/s (-10%) & 1920-1940 h/s (+7%) with the last one currently im running my vegas on.
Can anyone suggest me how did you guys achieve those extra 50-100 h/s breaking 2000+ barrier in cast miner. I tried almost every overclocking settings max i only reached till 1950 h/s that too it wasn't constant.
Except for the very first time when i tried running the miner without any proper knowledge of config idk what settings i changed or what clocking i did i got 2200 h/s but with errors.
Please suggest me to cross the 2000 barrier !
Thanks
Are you using PP Table mods? Looking at your settings, it doesn't appear so. Your power draw is probably through the roof which may lead to throttling due to temps. I encourage you to read through the following threads/guides: Vega thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2002025.0Cast thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2256917.0vega.miningguides.com Also reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/MoneroMining/comments/74hjqn/monero_and_vega_the_definitive_guide/ |
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Monero has a lot going for it in 2018. Things I'm watching out for are: 1. Bulletproofs - reduction in transaction size/fees 2. Hardware Wallets 3. More adoption from Exchanges and Merchants Realistic goals that are very much in motion and have the potential to be accomplished in the first half of the year. 5 years from now?!? Who knows... But one can dream...  |
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Been doing some reading and it seems like really Monero is as of now the best privacy coin. Zcash maybe not bad too. Everything else has one problem or another like rich lists, sender not concealed, etc.. Monero is difficult to mine and so is Zcash now. With 1080ti hardware XMR in particular is a very bad option. Both currencies are expensive to buy. It would be nice to get away from mining coins that are either total scams or are fail in some other way like no use case, bad privacy, bad developers, etc.. Looking for pointers here from anyone who has experience and feels like sharing. Please. Doesn't strictly have to be a privacy coin either. Not wanting to share and telling me to do my research is an acceptable answer too. No feelers will be hurt. I'm starting to look into it and it takes a lot of time which is one reason I do understand people guard their secrets.  I prefer Monero over ZCash but end of the day your graphics card can mine equihash much better than it can cryptonight so I would stick with ZCash
I also prefer Monero over ZCash. To answer Riptide's question - If you're interested in a coin and recognize that 1080ti is not the best at mining it - then the general strategy is to mine the most profitable coin for your gpu, sell it (daily/weekly/whatever), and buy the coin you want to own. I'm doing this with my 1080 ti's - you'll accumulate the coins you desire much faster. |
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I had the awesome opportunity and truly pleasure to tour CrazyDane's mining farm and have him talk about his setup -- for those interested check it out here! https://youtu.be/V2fhHdeN_5EWhat an awesome project! Great video Vosk! Always enjoy seeing the community come together! |
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One of the more popular cases people use is this one: http://amzn.to/2FYi9ZqThen pick up the Spotswood mod for it and I believe you can get up to 8 cards in it (I've only done 6 or 7). This particular manufacturer also makes a GPU-centric version of the case, but it's actually more expensive and comes with less, so in general I like the Spotswood modded one better. He also has a mod for this case to use the DPS-2000BB, which is very cool. That's the exact case from Amazon I use for my garage rigs. Up to 3 now. Definitely going to take a look at Spotswood's mod. Below was my first go at it. I've refined my layout a bit. |
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If you can identify the cards that are the problem, try dropping intensity to 1800/1800. You can also try turning the volts back up on those problem cards - 905. If they are 56's you could flash those back to stock and run them with pp tables and your settings and get 1800 - 1900 h/s. Are you running a dummy plug or display off igpu? Could explain one card.
Contrary to what someone else said, I run with HBCC turned off on Blockchain drivers.
8 Vegas on a board is impressive. People have run into lots of headaches as you add more cards.
Personally I run my rigs at 4 Vegas each but that is mainly due to the age of my rigs and at the time we hadn't figured out how to get more than 4 running. That said, I don't have hashrate problems.
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Anyone else mining Nicehash with Cast XMR suddenly have the Nicehash interface reporting zero hashes, despite the miner at full speed running for hours since the last detected hash on the interface?
Yes this is currently happening to me. Hopefully nicehash is counting the shares as the dashboard certainly isn't. Cast XMR is reporting all data correctly I don't believe this is a Cast issue. I occasionally have the same problem on other miners. Probably just a buggy Nicehash dashboard |
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As others have mentioned -
Don't be afraid to sell hardware when prices are too good.
Find a microcenter near you
Work the secondary markets - craigslist, letitgo, etc.
Prices are getting crazy high. I've sought out some feelers for prices on some of my vega rigs/cards. Probably move some cards pretty soon
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First set of 1080 ti's. Running into an issue.
Windows boots and runs perfectly. However, upon launching any mining program, I get an instant black screen crash with a reset.
I've tried all different settings. From stock to slightly OC'd. Windows settings are same as all my other rigs.
The longest I've had it run was for maybe half a day.
Thinking it's either psu issues (1200 watt titanium that I bought open box)
Risers
Drivers (using the newest)
Anybody have any thoughts or guidance? I'm was planning on doing a rebuild tomorrow anyways but wanted to see if y'all had some ideas on things I should look out for with these cards.
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I wonder what I am doing wrong. Optimized version of stak-amd is getting around 5670 hashes (3 vega 64s @ around 215 watts per card).
CAST_XMR ist at around 5680 hashes [Hash Rate Avg: 5685.2 H/s]. That makes a difference of about 10 hashes on avg.
Any settings you can recommend so I can get more out of my vega 64s?
Did you read through this thread? Also - standard response - I encourage you to read through the following threads/guides: Vega thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2002025.0Cast thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2256917.0vega.miningguides.com |
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Another thing to watch for in a garage setup is it's not conditioned space so it's going to be close to what the temperature is outside or a little cooler or hotter. Depending on where you are this could be an issue.
Texas summer and rigs in the garage did fine. Directed airflow with blower cards work well for me. Shibob's setup looks much cleaner than mine but same Rosewill 4u modified case route   |
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You are trying to put asic miners into stanard server racks, of course it is not going to work properly these arent rack mount machines.
Also, these are industrial miners, they should be in an industrial setting where sound shouldnt matter.
This is super easy to say except that this has become a poor mans game. Regardless of how they are designed we are still going to find a way to hack around the issue. This aside, one of the things I was thinking was if you put a vent kit on each of them and then had the exhaust going out the back it may decrease the liklihood of them wanting to suck back in the intakes Agree that its a poor mans game but this isn't a poor mans solution - unless he inherited these cabinets for free. These cabinets get expensive fast - $2k-$8k? I'm still very interested in where this goes. I'd love to see this vent kit your talking about in action. I run my gpu miners in 4u cases on a rack. Directed airflow with blower cards works very well in my setup. |
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