I haven't been impressed by uptime on ANY Windows system I've worked with - a couple of the older "server" versions could achieve TOLERABLE uptimes (NT 3.51 SP5 was THE BEST on that by a wide margin), but no Windows system I've EVER worked with can even come close to the literal DECADES of uptime I've seen out of some of my older Slackware systems (which literally have never seen downtime except for power outage, hardware failure, or I had to shut them down to physically move them in the case of literally DOZENS of systems).

 I finally retired my ancient AMD K5 based systems last summer strictly because I didn't have the space to MOVE them, and their performance was low enough to not be worth the hassle of trying to MAKE space for them - those systems dated back to the mid-1990s, and the ONLY one that ever had downtime happened when I accidentially deleted the entire /bin directory - yet it kept running anyway just couldn't START any new processes 'till I shut it down to move it and had to reinstall.

 Appx. 20 YEARS of performance with ZERO downtime on 14 systems that were constantly running the DNet client or the Prime95 client during their entire existance, among other things (keep in mind that a lot of sites used to use those programs for STRESS TESTING on hardware) - show me a Windows system that can even THINK about claiming 2 years uptime before you even think about talking "impressive uptime".


 The BEST I've ever seen out of Windows was a little under 2 years out of a Dell server at a place I worked for a while, running NT 3.51 SP5 and not doing a lot of heavy work (fairly simple web server and ftp server for driver downloads).

 No updates is a nuisance, but they can all be installed - just not always THE most recent version.

 What's really irritating is that AMD essentially stopped XP support close to 3 YEARS before Mickey$loth finally got around to it - while NVidia supported XP for at least a few months PAST M$ dropping it.
 There's a REASON my remaining XP "older games" gaming and media systems sport NVidia cards now (first once I had bought in many years at the time I bought them).

 There should be a link to "previous versions" on the page for the latest version.

 GTX 750 ti doesn't support CUDA 8 as I recall, so probably not unless you recompile.

v11 was "add asm code for specific older GPUs", no change for RX series from v10.

Claymore DID mention he was still working on upgrades for the RX series, probably asm as well.


 ZEC seems to be getting fairly close to full optimised, when the coders are having to go to GCN Asssembly code to get any further upgrades in speed.

 Make that "since NT 3.51 SP 5" and I'd agree.

 Though NT 4 SP 6 and 2k SP 3 were tolerable.


 The UI on Win 8 was totally unusable.
 The "send home too much info to Mickey$loth" built into 10 is totally unacceptable.
 I strongly suspect 7 is going to linger on for a LONG time much like XP did 'cause a lot of folks won't be willing to put up the with newer junk (corporations in particular seem to be VERY slow at adopting 10, and almost NOBODY had any use for - DESPITE the issues 7 has, which are *relatively* minor compared to the newer junk.

 Error. The hashrate and difficulty DID drop some when the halfing occured LAST SUMMER - but there was a "new generation" of miners being deployed in that same timeframe, which had already taken over the majority of network hashrate and remained profitable despite the halfing - and continued sales quickly drove the hashrate back past the previous high.

 The current market PRICE downturn has nothing to do with miners - it is STRICTLY AND ENTIRELY due to the Chinese Central Bank (with is part of their GOVERNMENT) announcing it was investigating the large Chinese exchanges for stuff like "potential money laundering, market manipulation" and such.

 It's not MINING that's too centralised, it's Bitcoin OWNERSHIP that is very centralised in one country.

 (Ditto Litecoin and many if not most other newer altcoins).


 RESIDENTIAL electric rates in many parts of the US are less than 10c / kwh - and there are quite a few of us SMALL miners paying less than 5.
 While the majority of Bitcoin hashrate is no doubt generated by various major farms, it's entirely possible for the small miner to be quite profitable with proper planning and location.

 That case pictured, *IF* it is rack mountable, appears to be an 8U case.
 It's not even CLOSE to being a 4U case.

 By specification, a 4U case cannot be more than 7" in height.

 Per Wolf0, there is NOT much room if any for significant optimisation on XMR for the 470/480 series, the current miners are already well optimised.

 ZEC on the other hand still has quite a bit of room for optimisation it would appear.

 That's "in addition to sgminer" not "instead of sgminer" I hope?

 The only thing nheqminer has going for it is if you WANT to work with NiceHash for auto-switch algorythm mining - overall the sgminer interface and controls are a TON better.

1.15 GH nominal, so 0.0008583 (appx) right now.

 It's not standard, but if you're willing to pay the cost it CAN be done at many or most residences - most of the cost would probably be the installation of a 440v 3-phase transformer, but the wiring would add some too. Standard distribution in a neighborhood from the substation is normally 3-phase at 10kV ballpark.

You should be able to use a stand-alone cryptonight miner and just point it at the appropriate Nicehash pool for your 750Ti

 I didn't say ANYTHING about ASIC mining in the post you replied to.
 Please pay attention.

Depends on the card - I believe all 480s have at least one  HDMI port, some of us use a standard "HDMI to VGA" adapter as a dummy plug 'cause they're cheap common and work.

 The "dummy plug" trick originated on older cards that had DB9 VGA outputs, but the issue with Windows/ drivers for Windows has persisted for years.

 I think I'm reading that as they have 47 ohm resisters in line - which is gonna drop those Deltas to 3 volts or so *if* I'm correct and the fans won't turn at all a that low a voltage.
 Might be 4.7 ohm though - the listing is VERY unclear - which would be a fairly small voltage and speed drop but the resistor better be a lot bigger than it looks like (at LEAST a 2 watt and even that would probably be very marginal at best, 5 watt would be better for some safety from overload and overheat).

HD 7870 up to 133 sol/s on V10 (was 120 on v9.1 previous).

 HD 7750 essentially unchanged at 53.

 Standard ATX-type power supplies with large right-angle airflow fans like the one in his picture suck air INTO the supply with the fan, and it blows out near the power plug.

I believe you need the actual "core" wallet to solo mine against.

 Also, you will LOSE MONEY trying to mine any Scrypt-based coin on a CPU or GPU based rig - even with free electric you'll kill your machine long before you mine enough to cover replacement cost.