Haha that video is incredible. Very nice find

Prices are a little crazy but cards are out there. You can grind away on the local secondary markets - craigslist, letitgo, etc. I been fairly successful going that route.
If you believe the ads, my local craigslist has 30ish Vegas for sale - granted all used and at 1.5x prices

What miner are you using? Any recent temperature increases on the cards? Are temps in check?
Assume it was a significant hash drop?

I'm in - April 18, 2018 - easy.

Adjust windows settings - no aero, no screen sleep, etc
Run off igpu if at all possible
If no igpu, try turning down the intensity for the card handling the video

I keep temps below 60c. 75c may be too high
Could always be a silicon lottery. Try bringing the intensity down a bit if stability is an issue.

Thought I would do a Merry Christmas post as I finally completed my Vega mining setup in my garage.

After a brief moment of weakness when I had it for sale - I pushed on and found my 8th card. I probably have room for another 2 cards in each case - but I'd have to up my power supplies. So for now, I'm done.
Little over 16,000 h/s. No reboots necessary.

Merry Christmas and Happy Mining

I encourage you to read through the following threads/guides:
Vega thread  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2002025.0
Cast thread   https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2256917.0
vega.miningguides.com

Crypto-Games Nickname: HolyS

Great site, outstanding people

Has anyone used one of these? Very interesting. Can't seem to find a straight answer at what temp does it deploy.

Sounds like there may be a difference between deploy temp and melting temp?

Maybe I'm simplifying it too much.

I wish you luck in getting 8 vegas running on one board. I know some guys had some real headaches getting that many vegas working properly.

I encourage you to read through the following threads/guides:
Vega thread  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2002025.0
Cast thread   https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2256917.0
vega.miningguides.com


I opted to build two rigs with 4 cards a pop. Granted, this was before we had figured out how to get more than 4 cards running. However given the choice today, I still might end up choosing two builds over one. Could always expand even more later.

Also if you're not going to build your own frame and plan on spending around $80 for a metal one off of ebay, I'd suggest looking into 4U server cases. They're not for everybody and you will have to modify them a bit but I love my two Rosewill 4U cases. Directed airflow with blower style cards is wonderful. My rigs are mounted on a rack in the garage - perfect for me. Though each 4U case can probably only fit say 6 cards comfortably - something to think about.

I'd be happy with those results. Pending power draw numbers...

Or read this thread or even the Cast thread.

All 3 sources discuss script options and offer different solutions.

After some back and forth, I have opted to install wattman on my rigs. For whatever reason, my stability is way better with wattman installed. Now, I only open it once after the first install to turn off hbcc, crossfire, and follow the old steps to apply my soft table - after that its all overdrive. Works perfectly - never had any hash drop problems either.

I'd of course be interested to see if anyone has tried them. Everything I've read doesn't seem to indicate much change for Vega

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12147/amd-releases-radeon-software-adrenalin-edition

"So in short, Adrenalin details nothing Vega-specific and there was no information disclosed on what Vega optimizations are coming when. The focus is on interaction and availability of the features within."

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-software-adrenalin-edition,5384.html

"Vega owners won't see the Graphics/Compute switch in AMD's driver. According to company representatives, all of the features that benefit compute workloads are already enabled by default in Vega's architecture, so the switch isn't necessary."

I've always had better luck with gen 1.

You can try the standard stuff
-Make sure crossfire is disabled
-Turn HBCC off
-Reinstall drivers

Honestly, on my two vega rigs occasionally they won't see the 4th card. I just restart until they do. 2-3 restarts generally fixes it for me.

You may have better luck posting your question in the main vega thread. If you haven't read through it already, it really does have some good stuff in there:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2002025.0

Finally got around to configuring a script to restart cards, apply profiles and launch miner.

Curious, if anyone is copying/making a shortcut of this script into startup folder for reset purposes or are y'all just remoting in on restarts and running the script.

I guess I don't see a reason why I couldn't throw the script into the startup folder?

Pretty sure Cast has a quit function. Press q instead of just closing the window

Surprisingly, I've never had problems with second hand gpus. I purchase used (or preferably via retail open box) frequently. I don't think I would purchase a full rig second hand - especially off of ebay. I always personally inspect the used items before purchasing.

Fun fact - I've had to RMA several new parts - never a used one.
Lucky I guess...

Love the description

"The funds will be used to start up a cryptocurrency mining farm.  Mining farms are need to complete transactions made between coins.  I would like to start this farm January 2018.  Once the setup is complete, it will mind roughly 21 ethereum a month."

I don't believe that's what they are talking about... Of course the blockchain drivers hash more than 17.11.4

All Red was saying is if you want to play around with the 17.11.4 drivers - XMR-Stak doesn't do a driver check vs Cast which may