Fourth alt coin thread last three got oversized.

[citronick]

I have to wonder when thread 5 is going to start.

 9-)

I was thinking page 99.



I sold my  seven 1070s

I was going to buy all 1080 ti's with the sales.

I may get a few Amd vegas instead.

7 1070s were doing 2800  Sols at 700 watts

I think three Vegas will do 3000 sols at 600 watts

looking forward to your Vega review soon Phil

600watts for 3000sols is very good

One of my contacts doing 3D modelling and CAD/CAM stuff, is getting a DIY workstation with Vega and Ryzen, to replace his aging Dell T1700 workstation.

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[philipma1957]

I have to wonder when thread 5 is going to start.

 9-)

I was thinking page 99.



I sold my  seven 1070s

I was going to buy all 1080 ti's with the sales.

I may get a few Amd vegas instead.

7 1070s were doing 2800  Sols at 700 watts

I think three Vegas will do 3000 sols at 600 watts

looking forward to your Vega review soon Phil

600watts for 3000sols is very good

One of my contacts doing 3D modelling and CAD/CAM stuff, is getting a DIY workstation with Vega and Ryzen, to replace his aging Dell T1700 workstation.

no info yet.

and I am not buying them until I know they work well.

but   11 gb 1080 ti does  700 sol at 180 watts for zec.


so 16gb/11gb = 1.454545

and 1.454545 x 700  = 1018

so 1000 sols at 180-200 watts seems possible.

if so the card is decent to buy at 1000 usd.

[citronick]

I have to wonder when thread 5 is going to start.

 9-)

I was thinking page 99.



I sold my  seven 1070s

I was going to buy all 1080 ti's with the sales.

I may get a few Amd vegas instead.

7 1070s were doing 2800  Sols at 700 watts

I think three Vegas will do 3000 sols at 600 watts

looking forward to your Vega review soon Phil

600watts for 3000sols is very good

One of my contacts doing 3D modelling and CAD/CAM stuff, is getting a DIY workstation with Vega and Ryzen, to replace his aging Dell T1700 workstation.

no info yet.

and I am not buying them until I know they work well.

but   11 gb 1080 ti does  700 sol at 180 watts for zec.


so 16gb/11gb = 1.454545

and 1.454545 x 700  = 1018

so 1000 sols at 180-200 watts seems possible.

if so the card is decent to buy at 1000 usd.

googled the reviews on Vega and ETH mining only... 31-32MHs which is below expectations -- this maybe the nooks of that HBM2

however, ZEC perhaps is a different story because my R9-Nano with HBM1 is easily the strongest ZEC miner in my AMD stable.

1k is a lot of mullahs but then again you can always resell them later to 3D/CAD/CAM users....

[Storx]

Just keep an eye out for the live stream tomorrow on bits be talking, he has 5 Vega's coming tomorrow he said, he plans to do a live test with them on ETH, ZEC, and DUAL MINING

[Chili.Dog]

@ Storx, Do you have a link to that?
Chili

[citronick]

Just keep an eye out for the live stream tomorrow on bits be talking, he has 5 Vega's coming tomorrow he said, he plans to do a live test with them on ETH, ZEC, and DUAL MINING

learnt a lot from Carter during my nube days circa 2015

looking forward to his 5 x Vega rig -- live streaming -- all his other testing usually last 2 hours  !  fun and down to earth guy.

I am following his sgminer VS claymore epoch #150 discussions also .... with wxxxx.... kudos to him for pursuing this issue

[citronick]

@ Storx, Do you have a link to that?
Chili

https://www.youtube.com/user/BitsBeTrippin

[Chili.Dog]

Thanks Citronick
Chili

[fr4nkthetank]

If you are looking for what to mine (but solo only i think), there is spreadcoin and nexus you can check out.  there is a private miner out for nexus but idk if its worth it, depends on how many 1080tis you have.  I'm not solo mining, variance is too high for my nvidia hashrate.

[philipma1957]

@ Storx, Do you have a link to that?
Chili

https://www.youtube.com/user/BitsBeTrippin

thanks I will check it out.

I am in position to buy 3000 worth of gpu's

so 4 1080 ti's  or 3 amd vega's  need info to decide which to buy.

my may show me the vega is  better for me if it can do 1000 sols at 175-200 watts

but that if the vega does 900 sols  at 175 -200 watts  it is a push

anything less the 1080 ti is better.

The price  I used for this is 1000 usd for the amd and 700 for the 1080ti

[QuintLeo]

Wait for the consumer Vega cards, rumored to be due out late this month or sometime next month.

 The Frontier Edition is priced high due to it's workstation orientation, the consumer cards should be more like half the price (depending on the specific model, apparently they are going to be a LINE this time around instead of only being 1 GPU with a "lose one compute unit from manufacturing defects and sell it as a lower-end model" and "make a shortie card version" routine).

 I won't be shocked if the Vega can beat the 1080ti on ZEC mining, that would be in line with Fury hashrates and clock speed upgrades.
 I WOULD be shocked if the high-end consumer card Vega can't at least get very close.

[fr4nkthetank]

also check the evga website for midweek madness sales, b-stock.  1 year warranty, its refurbished by evga so no problems there.  much better prices.

[zer0k]

Wait for the consumer Vega cards, rumored to be due out late this month or sometime next month.

 The Frontier Edition is priced high due to it's workstation orientation, the consumer cards should be more like half the price (depending on the specific model, apparently they are going to be a LINE this time around instead of only being 1 GPU with a "lose one compute unit from manufacturing defects and sell it as a lower-end model" and "make a shortie card version" routine).

 I won't be shocked if the Vega can beat the 1080ti on ZEC mining, that would be in line with Fury hashrates and clock speed upgrades.
 I WOULD be shocked if the high-end consumer card Vega can't at least get very close.

The consumer Vega has been confirmed by AMD twitter for release at Siggraph July 30th - August 3rd
https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/radeon-rx-vega-confirmed-launching-at-siggraph.html

[Chili.Dog]

When the consumer Vega comes out I'm going to grab 4-6. I'll roll the dice (a Las Vegas phrase were I live)
If they don't work out I'll light up E-Bay the gamers will love me.
This whole Bitcoin-Altcoin thing is a gamble-Risk you can't be timid if you what to do this dance.
Just my 2cents. your mileage may vary.
Chili

[ticmmae]

Suddenly getting "ERROR: Cannot connect to the pool" on ewbf. I have been mining fine on nicehash for few weeks. Does anyone else get this?

EDIT: I think something wrong with nicehash USA server? Changed server to EU and it is fine. Is USA server down?

[varusisog]

Suddenly getting "ERROR: Cannot connect to the pool" on ewbf. I have been mining fine on nicehash for few weeks. Does anyone else get this?

EDIT: I think something wrong with nicehash USA server? Changed server to EU and it is fine. Is USA server down?

Yes. It was down.

[philipma1957]

I am getting flakey numbers on this nicehash account


https://new.nicehash.com/miner/16yLHLoeyuCLPMXkVpC3gyrRYvwRGwjKJr

[Storx]

I am getting flakey numbers on this nicehash account


https://new.nicehash.com/miner/16yLHLoeyuCLPMXkVpC3gyrRYvwRGwjKJr

How many cards is that your running? seen the 1080ti labels, rig 1 seems like 2x1080ti's and rig 2 im unsure on.. seems like 2x1080ti +1080?
Just curious, im looking to make a change.. my earnings lately have been terrible on zpool... with 18x 1080ti's i made a whole 0.0189btc in 24hrs of mining....

[64dimensions]

I have been following this thread and last month changed over a couple of 380 systems to 1080 ti 's. This decision wasn't financially justfied, but more than a future proofing move. I had no confidence in getting any vegas for a couple of months and attempted to cash in on June's coin mining bonanza.

I'm constrained by power and cooling, so each mining system "slot" can't draw more than 1kW and and GPU's have to more than 1 fan.

All the watt measurements are using a Kill-a-watt meter.

 The cards that I purchased were the EVGA 1080ti FTW.

4 1080 ti's replaced 6 ASUS Strix R9 380's. Typically 6 380's would hash ETH about @ 125 Mh/s @ 870W

For the 1080's I run at a TDP of 60% - 65%

a) ZEC For 4 cards, power is about 710 W @ 2600 sols/s

b) ETH, For 4 cards power is about 830W @ 142 Mh/s (+400 - +500 mem overclock)

What I find most interesting is that dual mining with these cards draws no additional power at dcri's of about 120.

c) ETH/DCR 830W @ 132 Mh/s @ 5,000 Mh/s

d) ETH/LBR 830W @ 132 Mh/s @ 380 Mh/s


e) Pure DCR 18500 Mh/s


I havn't really tweaked the above, the goal being with these new cards to not crash.

[flminer]

I am getting flakey numbers on this nicehash account


https://new.nicehash.com/miner/16yLHLoeyuCLPMXkVpC3gyrRYvwRGwjKJr

How many cards is that your running? seen the 1080ti labels, rig 1 seems like 2x1080ti's and rig 2 im unsure on.. seems like 2x1080ti +1080?
Just curious, im looking to make a change.. my earnings lately have been terrible on zpool... with 18x 1080ti's i made a whole 0.0189btc in 24hrs of mining....

zcash is down big time on nicehash so I switched to zpool skein a couple days ago. running 14x 1080ti, 1x1080, 1x1070, 1x980ti. about $15-20 more a day than nicehash.