The ONLY country PUD that has anything involving "kwh/sq ft" as a limit is Chelan in Washington - and per my reading of the recently enacted rate change it only applies to large accounts in the industrial power level and *MAYBE* to very large commercial-range accounts.

 I strongly suspect that Chelan, Grant, and Douglass are the only places in the US that would be inclined to worry about it, since they're the lowest rates in the USA by quite a bit due to subsidising local rates by selloff of large quantities of excess electric production.
 Chelan would be the most worried since they have long had the highest "local" usage due mostly to the population of Wenatchee (which by itself is a fair bit higher than the total COUNTRY populations of Grant or Douglass) yet IIRC they have the lowest total power production of the 3 counties by a narrow margin (all 3 are close to 2000 Megawatts total generation out of their respective dams).



 BTW - the only "moratorium" related to the hydro dams or PUDS in the area was one Chelan PUD had on *HALF MEGAWATT OR LARGER* new projects while they were researching to develop their new "high density" rate. There is NO BLOODY WAY that would impact a residential user.



 I'm also quite sure it wasn't the amount of usage being "risky" - I used very close to that 8000 KWH in a TRAILOR (pair of the old style 50 amp plug-ins for service) the last 6 months or so I was in Iowa.
 My current usage last month was a bit over 9000 KWH on a 100 AMP service.


 I'm to the point of calling the OP a LIAR about the reason(s) for this alleged "warning", and starting to wonder if there ever WAS an actual "warning" as they are claiming, especially given the other paranoid BS they have posted in the past.

 Interesting FUD, happens my power company is aware I was mining and didn't AND STILL DOES NOT CARE as long as I keep the bill paid up.

 I am also in Washington State.

 I suspect there is something else going on here the OP isn't talking about.

I believe I was running qtminer when I had my 750ti cards working ethereum.

 Genoil or that Doubleminer thing might do better.


 I tried Minergate once - VERY poor hashrates on anything I tried it on, and a royal PAIN to configure. IMO ignore it as it's junk.


 You might want to look into the Nicehash miner stuff, I've not had the time to play with that yet.

Unfortunately, Team Curecoin is going to take a hit for a while - the place I'm moving to turns out *might* not be able to get Internet installed for a month or a bit more, so instead of my adding another rig later this month to kick up to around 5M PPD, I'm probably going to be offline entirely.

 8-(


 <edit> I'm saved, came up with an alternate ISP and should only lose a few days at most.

 8-)

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 I believe your power supply doesn't have enough power on the rail that runs the PCI-E connectors to handle the load is the most likely issue.

 Downclocking might get it into viable range.

 Keep in mind that MOST power supplies do not have the capability of putting their full "rated" output into JUST the 12V output (some high-end Seasonic and EVGA supplies like the X-1250 and 1300-G2 are exceptions), and that becomes much more of an issue as the supply capasity gets smaller.


 Molex -> PCI-E is a BAD IDEA when you're pushing the PCI-E connecter as hard as most miners do.
 Doing that is marginal even when limiting the connector to PCI-E power ratings (which are very very conservative and not even close to the actual CONNECTOR power rating).


 If your PS only has 2 PCI-E connectors on it, it almost definitely is NOT designed to handle the power draw of a 540+ watt miner like the S5.

You will probably KILL your laptop before it can earn more than a few $ worth of ANY altcoin.
You WILL kill your laptop before you earn A PENNY worth of Bitcoin by mining on it.

 Laptops are NOT designed to be mining machines.
 The ONLY viable use of a laptop in mining is as a controller for a USB-based miner - and even there you have to be carefull to use a miner that doesn't exceed USB power specs (ones that have an EXTERNAL power supply like the Gridseed "Orb" and "Blade" models, the Antminer U3, the Rockerbox, etc should all be viable).

We don't know anything at all about Vega, waste of time to even bother speculating at this point.

You CAN in fact mine Ethereum on a 2GB 750 ti - but I was only seeing 3.something MH/s on mine after tweeking the heck out of them, not worth it IMO.

XMR seems to work ok, though I'm not happy with the pool usually reporting quite a bit less than half the MINER hashrate and the huge number of "nonce don't confirm on the CPU" type messages.

The R4 costs too much for it's hashrate.
Up side, it seems to be in very short supply.

 Worked fine pulling 288 Watts / connector (which is the spec for the CONNECTOR) on the Spondoolies SP20 - this will be pulling less than that and is well within the SPECIFIED LIMITS FOR THE CONNECTOR.

 You did NOT hear about issues related to the power connectors on the SP20 - and the internal software had power limiting at the 288 watt per connector level built in BECAUSE that was the connector spec.

 This is NOT pulling 300+ Watts per connector which is where certain KNC designs had issues with FIRES and burnt connections because they were EXCEEDING the connector ratings by a fair bit.



 The "75 watt" spec is a PCI-E SPECIFIC specification, not a CONNECTOR specification.


 With that said, I'm still finding the pricing listed on that site for several of the items to be a major red flag.

 I'd be VERY worried about a reseller that has the R4 listed for sale at $1100, as that's a good bit less then BitMain's inflated pricing on those units.

 The pictures also don't match Innosilicon's stated dimensions for the unit, though they DO match up with some of the recent pictures that have been posted.

 I think I remember crunching the numbers sometime late last year on doing the SHA256 for Curecoin thing with my S5s vs running them on Bitcoin - and Bitcoin won by a narrow margin on profitability.

 Much lower hashrate but also much lower reward rate and it pretty much balanced out.

 I suspect this remains the case this year.



 Up side, I *FINALLY* got a FLDC payment - don't get me started on how big a PITA this wallet is, and how little feedback it gives while it's transfering anything, but it eventually worked - and was a nice non-small bonus. What I DON'T get is the bs about "have to have at least .0005 BITCOIN to cover transaction fees" - especially when the bloody fee was LESS THAN 30% of that on what had to have been a rather large transaction. SOMEONE is definitely getting over on THAT bs.

 Unfortunately I missed the spike - but it was still worthwhile, though I'm not sure it doubled my income by any means.
For the timeframe involved it was definitely more than I could earn in a year from EVGA's silly little reward program (do keep in mind I've been typically #8 on Team Curecoin as ranked by Points 24 hours since very shortly after I swapped my current rigs over from Ethereum - not many folks that can match or better my performance at this point, and after my move next week I intend to add more rigs).

 Any idea if there's an exchange anywhere for that MAGICFDLC stuff, or is it just useless fluff?

*ONLY* if it is a version that included ASIC support.

Ditto any ccminer or sgminer versions.

The Gridseed GC3355 was a very marginal performing SHA256 miner even when it was first released, at this point it's so far behind the times I doubt you could ROI one on FREE power.

 On the SCRYPT side, it was the ORIGINAL ASIC for Scrypt and it's break-even even now at around 4c/KWH electric cost, but will probably become unprofiitable on anything but FREE electric in a few months once the Innosilicon A4 starts deploying in enough quantity to drive the hashrate/difficulties up.


 The big difference is that Scrypt has proven to be a lot harder to achive super-high hashrates on vs SHA256, and has a lot less competition on building ASIC for it, so the older ones have had a lot longer chance at mining profitability than anything SHA256 has ever had the chance at because the relative efficiency of newer units isn't kicking up by 2-4 times a year (SHA256 in the last year has gone through 3 generations at about double the efficiency each time, Scrypt hasn't had a generational change in over a year).

I believe that the GC3355 was supported by one specific version of a cpu miner, at least one ccminer version, and possibly one or more sgminer versions along with a lot of the other USB-based miners that have existed over the years.

 You're certainly not going to run a USB-based miner on a GPU-specific software.

Technically, you can mine any coin with most CPUs.

 In practice, most coins are not worth trying to mine with a CPU 'cause it just loses money, too low of hashrate on too much power consumption, so IN PRACTICE the answer is no.

The overclock database is why I went with the 1070s when I got serious. It DOES show the major advantage NVidia has over current AMD strongly - but the RX480 results are promising that the gap has narrowed quite a bit and when AMD starts releasing higher-end cards might be very close indeed.

 I'm definitely not looking forward to the day that ETH income on an R9 290 drops below CURE/etc income.

 Quite a bit lower power draw than the S9, they might be using a single fan.

 Double-fan in a push-pull configuration doesn't add all that much airflow, it's more about overcomming the rather high backpressure inherent to the S7/S9 supercramped airflow design.

The GC3355 is an ASIC that will ONLY mine SHA256 or Scrypt based coins.

 IT CAN NOT BE USED ON ANY OTHER ALGORYTHM.

There are very few miners that can be considered quiet - and the only one that is even SOMEWHAT efficient by current standards is the Avalon 6.

The real question though is "are you going to run out of money to buuy miners with first, or are you going to run out of limited electric capasity".

 You might want to consider building a GPU-based rig to mine something like XMR (Monero) with, those can fairly easily be made to be quiet.