Fourth alt coin thread last three got oversized.

[Efemen]

Graphics chip makers Nvidia Corp. (NVDA) and Advanced Micro Devices Inc.  (AMD) are both working on graphics processing units (GPU) specifically for processing cryptocurrency transactions, and RBC Capital bet on Nvidia to make the superior chip in their note Friday.

 Just goes to show that RBC Capital is clueless.
 The announced NVidia options for mining-only cards are NOT as good as the announced AMD mining-only cards overall - if they'd put a GTX 1070 or a GDDR 5 (not 5x) 1080 in as an option it would be another story though.

 They're also wrong about the "much faster" part of that blurb.
 The REAL advantage for mining-specific cards will be better efficiency.

Do you see any confirmation that the mining only 1060 is more efficient than the ordinary 1060?

[philipma1957]

Graphics chip makers Nvidia Corp. (NVDA) and Advanced Micro Devices Inc.  (AMD) are both working on graphics processing units (GPU) specifically for processing cryptocurrency transactions, and RBC Capital bet on Nvidia to make the superior chip in their note Friday.

 Just goes to show that RBC Capital is clueless.
 The announced NVidia options for mining-only cards are NOT as good as the announced AMD mining-only cards overall - if they'd put a GTX 1070 or a GDDR 5 (not 5x) 1080 in as an option it would be another story though.

 They're also wrong about the "much faster" part of that blurb.
 The REAL advantage for mining-specific cards will be better efficiency.

Do you see any confirmation that the mining only 1060 is more efficient than the ordinary 1060?

no one has shown two 3,4,5,6 or 7 card rigs  head to head on a weeklong test pointed to say  nicehash mining eth.

Till then all is hearsay

[Vann]

Graphics chip makers Nvidia Corp. (NVDA) and Advanced Micro Devices Inc.  (AMD) are both working on graphics processing units (GPU) specifically for processing cryptocurrency transactions, and RBC Capital bet on Nvidia to make the superior chip in their note Friday.

 Just goes to show that RBC Capital is clueless.
 The announced NVidia options for mining-only cards are NOT as good as the announced AMD mining-only cards overall - if they'd put a GTX 1070 or a GDDR 5 (not 5x) 1080 in as an option it would be another story though.

 They're also wrong about the "much faster" part of that blurb.
 The REAL advantage for mining-specific cards will be better efficiency.

Do you see any confirmation that the mining only 1060 is more efficient than the ordinary 1060?

Cryptomined did a video showing the mining 1060's were about the same as a regular 1060.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9deSVpjm1Kk

[flminer]

Just modified a few more 160w pico psu. What do you guys think?
Sending one to Phil to play with as way of thanks for all the help.



https://imgur.com/a/pAvnj

[philipma1957]

Just modified a few more 160w pico psu. What do you guys think?



https://imgur.com/a/pAvnj

looks okay

note I played with the photo a bit




here is my guess on your wires.  please correct my text

[flminer]

Just modified a few more 160w pico psu. What do you guys think?



https://imgur.com/a/pAvnj

looks okay

note I played with the photo a bit




here is my guess on your wires.  please correct my text

The 8 pin is for 8 pin cpu on motherbaords. I never liked the 4+4 lol. And there is molex, sata, and 4 pin cpu power there also. I started doing this mod because I switched to server psu and wanted to run pico off of it also without the barrel connector and get better power to the 8 pin CPU. Thanks for the pic mods Phil.

Edit: Also note that the wire splices are done with uninsulated butt splices that are soldered. Been splitting wires like this in high power applications like this for years. Best way I have found to guarantee good conductivity. All wires to 8 pin cpu connector are 16 ga. The 2 power wires to the pico are 18 ga since that is what they drilled the pc board for.

[philipma1957]

I have two picos.  When I ship I will mail one to be modded.

I just can't solder well do to my double cataract surgery .

[flminer]

I have two picos.  When I ship I will mail one to be modded.

I just can't solder well do to my double cataract surgery .

Be happy to do it 

Need your address to send ya the one I just did for ya 

[martyroz]

Here's my build based on one of Phil's 3 card builds. I added 1 riser for a 4 card rig. Added risers to a shelf to mount the motherboard and riser. Also made a custom card holder and fan mount from extra shelf parts. Pulling 2450 Sol/s at 755w at the wall. Very stable rig.

3 x MSI Aero 1080 ti
1 x MSI Aero 1070 Mini
1 x EVGA G3 850
1 X 4GB Ram
1 x 32 GB Lexar USB running Fullzero's nvOC

Impressive that you are using 3*1080ti and a 1070 off a single 850W PSU. Are they all set to 65% TPD?

How difficult is it to commence mining on a USB based OS? I am using HDD's and Windows 10 ATM, I would love to expand and use USB OS.

[martyroz]

if I have 3x 1080 ti and 1x 1070

850w is system + 1080 ti + 1070 and 1000w is 2x 1080 ti


1080 ti can draw up to 300w so x3 is not an option....although you can undervolt/underclock, or other algo with lower power consumption etc...my practice is a power supply capacity is budgeted to a cards max power draw.....typically power supplies are more efficient at about 50% load.. and when you decide to mine other coins with more power draw, there will be no human error (forgetting that the psu is not enough or at the edge/ maxed out).

Thanks for the input.
I think that I will use the 850W PSU for my SLI gaming PC and set the two 1080ti to 100%TDP limit so they can only draw 500W
I have set up the 700W PSU PC to take the 1080ti and 1070. It is a 10 year old PSU so probably a good idea to run at 65%-70% TDP like Phil and others suggest.

Currently;
(i5-6600K) 850W - 2*1080ti in SLI with 100% TDP limit gaming / 70% TDP mining. This PC has many add-ins that draw power.
(E8200) 700W - 1080ti + 1070 with 70% TDP mining.
(i5-2500K) 1000W - NOT IN SERVICE

So I'll just buy some 2nd hand nvidia series 10 GPU's as they appear on the 2nd hand market.

My strat is to mine a single currency until I have a decent amount and then move on to something else. Not really caring to turn to BTC or fiat. I want to accumulate and hold.

[philipma1957]

Here's my build based on one of Phil's 3 card builds. I added 1 riser for a 4 card rig. Added risers to a shelf to mount the motherboard and riser. Also made a custom card holder and fan mount from extra shelf parts. Pulling 2450 Sol/s at 755w at the wall. Very stable rig.

3 x MSI Aero 1080 ti
1 x MSI Aero 1070 Mini
1 x EVGA G3 850
1 X 4GB Ram
1 x 32 GB Lexar USB running Fullzero's nvOC

Impressive that you are using 3*1080ti and a 1070 off a single 850W PSU. Are they all set to 65% TPD?

How difficult is it to commence mining on a USB based OS? I am using HDD's and Windows 10 ATM, I would love to expand and use USB OS.

it is easy I have a new  newbie thread for nvoc 0017

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1998198.0

[Chili.Dog]

@ Citronick, Baikal what psu do you use?
Power supply:12V 6PIN（12V/10A DC ) ??
I'm thinking about trying (1)
Thanks for any info.
Chili

[numeratrix]

Trying to chose between these cards:

• ASUS ROG GeForce GTX 1080 Ti STRIX OC
  
• GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB Founders Edition
  
• MSI NVidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Gaming X OC 11GB GDDR5X
  
• EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti FOUNDERS EDITION GAMING 11GB GDDR5X LED DX12 OSD Support
  

Any pointers on which one(s) to go with/or not (and why)?

Thanks 

[philipma1957]

Trying to chose between these cards:

• ASUS ROG GeForce GTX 1080 Ti STRIX OC
  
• GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB Founders Edition
  
• MSI NVidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Gaming X OC 11GB GDDR5X
  
• EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti FOUNDERS EDITION GAMING 11GB GDDR5X LED DX12 OSD Support
  

Any pointers on which one(s) to go with/or not (and why)?

Thanks 

Asus too big
Msi too big

gigabyte founder  gigabyte is a little slow with rma's

evga   founder is pretty good and fvga is very good with rmas.


asus  wants lots and lots of room to stay cool
msi    wants  room to stay cool.  msi does  rma's okay   but not as good as evga


on the founders  at same price no question I get the evga.

but if the gigabyte is really cheaper  say 670 vs 700  I would get the gigabyte.


both the asus and the msi are pretty at night  I have owned them.

here are a lot of msi rx 480 8gb

[QuintLeo]

How difficult is it to commence mining on a USB based OS? I am using HDD's and Windows 10 ATM, I would love to expand and use USB OS.

 LINUX is pretty easy to set up on a USB - I've got a few of my lower-end machines running that way.
 Windows - never managed to get it to work, but it's SUPPOSED to be possible with 10 and in some cases with 8 or 7.

[citronick]

How difficult is it to commence mining on a USB based OS? I am using HDD's and Windows 10 ATM, I would love to expand and use USB OS.

 LINUX is pretty easy to set up on a USB - I've got a few of my lower-end machines running that way.
 Windows - never managed to get it to work, but it's SUPPOSED to be possible with 10 and in some cases with 8 or 7.

I use Win-To-Go (Windows on USB) for trouble shooting purposes and allow me to remotely diagnose rigs from Windows.

I tried all mining apps and it can also do mining, exception of ETH Claymore because the thumbdrive may not have enough space to create a virtual disk to run multi-GPU for Claymore miners.

All my rigs are on smOS Linux and nvOC/rxOC Linux, and only 2 x Windows dev + testbench rigs.

I keep a few sticks handy because its designed to be portable so that I can just use it in any rig... its a full fledged Win OS and its as good as the other 2 above.

http://www.easyuefi.com/wintousb/

[citronick]

@ Citronick, Baikal what psu do you use?
Power supply:12V 6PIN（12V/10A DC ) ??
I'm thinking about trying (1)
Thanks for any info.
Chili

which model?

I have Minis, Quads and Giants.

Minis 150MH uses barely 40watts each, so a simple 12V5A Switching Power Adapter will do.

Quads 600MH uses just under 160watts each, I use old S7 power supply since it uses 6pins pcie, it works so it saved me buying a PSU.
I sent all my S7s to ISP last year so I have a bunch of Bitmain PSUs 1600w lying around, what better way to put them to good use.

Giants 900MH uses just over 210watts each, so since these Giants are like "liquid gold" nowadays, I will take good care of them and got them EVGA-G2-1300w -- you can have 5 x Giants to one this PSU. You got to short 2 pins so that the PSU will continuously go on "ON mode", like the S7 PSU.

[Chili.Dog]

@ Citronick, Thanks for the reply. I was thinking a mini, saw 6 pin and was confused. it looked like overkill for power.
Chili

[flminer]

Anyone know how to set up M2 to run gpu's? Looking through threads trying to find any information and seeing none. Have a board am trying to get this to run and not having any luck. Thanks!

[philipma1957]

Anyone know how to set up M2 to run gpu's? Looking through threads trying to find any information and seeing none. Have a board am trying to get this to run and not having any luck. Thanks!

xleejohnx  has done some

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=652696


He sent me an adapter to test I could not get it to work.





On a side note




I listed my 1070 msi and gigabyte cards

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1999721.msg19912230#msg19912230