Sounds good, thanks. If by south you mean GTA, I wouldn't bother driving that far. Ottawa or Kingston would be my limit.

Where in Ontario?

I'd pick it up in Montreal for $6K CAD, cash or coin.

MSI motherboard with a Killer Ethernet NIC?

Of course they're allowed. When you run a business, you set the price of the items you sell.

I'm definitely right.  

Your multi-meter picture shows you are reading the voltage improperly. You have your red probe on the black wire, and black probe on the yellow wire. If you'd have put red on yellow and black on black, you'd have seen -12V.

Thankfully you didn't fry the motherboard etc!

These were a ridiculously good deal for Canadians, until a few days ago. Changing the price from USD to CAD didn't alter the price, due to what I assume was an error on nVidia's part. I managed to buy 25 of them for $1138 CAD before the error was corrected. Now they're showing as $1499 CAD.

That is NOT the issue at all. As soon as I saw your pics I thought "fuck, hope he hasn't powered that on yet.." and then scrolled through and saw you scrapped 2 PICOs.

You're feeding the pico power from a PCI-e 6 pin connector on the breakout board. The pico's input connector is NOT a PCI-e connector, it's a CPU connector. You managed to make it fit in there, but it's polarity is reversed. Compare it to your actual PCI-e connectors, you'll see that the yellow cables are on the bottom, and black is on top. You've just sent 12V to ground, and ground to 12V to your poor picos.

If you can cram the next pico's 4 pin connector upside down into a 6 pin, you'll be fine.

Can you stop shitting on him for his choice of hardware? If you have nothing to contribute, move on. He's here to share his experience with Vegas, and perhaps help some people. We don't care about your opinion on Polaris GPUs.

Can you post a picture of the excess solder?

Here's to hoping they're legit, because... Fuck shitmain.

nVidia Inspector

Nice clean job, but your GPUs and especially airflow should be reversed. Now the hot air is flowing over your motherboard, and heating your PSU unnecessarily. I'd definitely change the air flow's direction if I were you.

Man I'd love to see AMD/Intel/nVidia/MSI/Asus have a go at crushing bitmain.

I'm willing to test it and post a review.

Here's how I'd test:

Use 1 8x 1080Ti rig. Run djm cuda 9 on 4 GPUs, and your mod on the other 4 GPUs on separate workers. All GPUs are running at the same settings, 1900MHz/-502MHz VRAM, and the system has perfect uptime. I'll post graphs of the reported hashrates every 12 hours or so for at least 72 hours, and probably for up to 1 week.

If you're interested, PM me.

Would you mind taking a screenshot that shows both the device manager with 10 GPUs and claymore mining with those 10 GPUs?

Also, have you tried the blockchain driver with 1709?

Vega 56, 64, and FE reference cards are all the same PCB and construction. Only differences are the shrouds and number of compute units enabled, and 8GB more RAM on the FE. They all have the same VRMs, and all feature a top notch Delta made blower fan. It'll never die on you.

Are you seriously complaining about grammar while you use "no" instead of "know"? 

Fuck off, go crawl back under the rock you came from.

Doubtful. Every noobie that jumped in while profitability was ridiculous and unsustainable are in for one hell of a shock.

I'd be interested, have cheap power, but don't know what to offer right now with these ridiculous prices everywhere.