Fourth alt coin thread last three got oversized.

[EvilMonkey]

four 1080 ti's  could be 300 watts each if they are aorus

so 1200 x .85 = 1020 watts    so if you have a 1000 watt psu it may not cut it

This one is in a rig all by itself because I use it for gaming.  Has a EVGA 750W PSU.  It doesn't instantly turn off instantly crashes screens go blank and computer and card stays powered at whatever fan speed it was set to.  I shoulda explained that detail.

So I don't think it is anything to do with the PSU, yes it is an auros.  Some google shows most people can't go over +50 core.  So I was just wondering if I can run it at 75% power and +75 but not +75 and 85% power if that is safe or not.

try
80% tdp
+70 core

the aorus is factory overclocked and pulls solid power 300 watts

I would not push that card  to the point it keeps crashing

so if 85% tip
and + 75 core = crash  do not set it that high.

It doesn't like 65 core @ 100%  Can handle +50 @ 100% but I get more sol at +75 75% TPD.
Does not like +75 core 85%
Is fine on +70 80% TDP.  So I think +50 is pretty safe bet.

Thanks for the tips.

What is everyone mining right now.  I am doing pretty much just ZEC.   But I see mining ZCL, Hush or Zencash could be more profitable?  Just not stable?  I have given up on skein for now as zpool is slightly anoying as well as the price.

[Ryuujikun]

4 x 1080ti Full @ Skein DGB.
I hope the price rise next month.
Thats my bet 

But i have a question. The summer heat make actual some problems. The core is 65C @ 100% Fan and 85 % TDP.
I will try some Ghetto mod in the next days. But is this temp Okay?
Thank you very much

[VyprBTC]

4 x 1080ti Full @ Skein DGB.
I hope the price rise next month.
Thats my bet 

But i have a question. The summer heat make actual some problems. The core is 65C @ 100% Fan and 85 % TDP.
I will try some Ghetto mod in the next days. But is this temp Okay?
Thank you very much

I've read 70's is fine.

disclaimer: I'm reckless

I have some cards that run @80c - which is pretty much every POS MSI Armor I have so I could care less about those - but they've been at 80-85 24/7 the past month - since they have 12mo warranty and I've got spare cards in case they go down All is well. Every good Jew always has multiple spares - I'm a good Jew

[EvilMonkey]

4 x 1080ti Full @ Skein DGB.
I hope the price rise next month.
Thats my bet 

But i have a question. The summer heat make actual some problems. The core is 65C @ 100% Fan and 85 % TDP.
I will try some Ghetto mod in the next days. But is this temp Okay?
Thank you very much

So you are not converting to BTC going directly to being paid in DGB?  I'm not too sure about that strategy .   I have dropped some BTC in DGB by buying it when the price dips heavily on the exchange.  Mining to BTC has paid off too while the price was down as it has gone up ALOT in the last 2 weeks so all that BTC mined previously is worth more now.

Time to buy a bit more DGB I think.

That temp is fine though I personally prefer to run under 60C but I think most aim for under 70C.  I dunno is maxing the fans is a good idea but if you can handle the sound it doesnt really use noticable extra power.  Best thing you could do is lower you TDP which will drop the heat alot.  You could go down to 60 and not really lose much unless you have free power.

It is winter here.  I run all my cards 60-75 TDP, and fan speed 50-65.  It keeps the temp down alot droping the TDP.   So in summer you should drop to 60% (some even go a bit lower) for the efficiency.  But it depends on how many cards you got because sometimes because of the return/power price it doesnt pay to be efficient it pays to get the best mining rate you can while still maintaining a good heat.  A  "Ghetto" fan would help.

Right now though the mining returns pretty much best to be around 60-70 compared to a few weeks ago I could crank it a bit more.

[VyprBTC]

I'm mining and not converting - it's a risk we're willing to take - if it pays out it be be a nice doubling of mining earnings so we don't mind.

For lower TDP we're actually thinking of running at lower 50-60%tdp but that reduces earnings as well.

Let's say you're running 80A of cards - roughly 37 1080Tis

@75% we're roughly at 25 KH/s @ 80A
@50% we're roughly at 17 KH/s @ 57A

That's about a 3k loss so we'll be running everything at 75%

If we do the same 80A @ 50% TDP it would require 13 more cards and NET about 2k/mo more, but 13 1080Ti's would cost around 10k so 5mo ROI @ current rates for the increase in cards (not counting base of Rig so basically add another $125 per 1080Ti)

[EvilMonkey]

I'm mining and not converting - it's a risk we're willing to take - if it pays out it be be a nice doubling of mining earnings so we don't mind.

For lower TDP we're actually thinking of running at lower 50-60%tdp but that reduces earnings as well.

Let's say you're running 80A of cards - roughly 37 1080Tis

@75% we're roughly at 25 KH/s @ 80A
@50% we're roughly at 17 KH/s @ 57A

That's about a 3k loss so we'll be running everything at 75%

If we do the same 80A @ 50% TDP it would require 13 more cards and NET about 2k/mo more, but 13 1080Ti's would cost around 10k so 5mo ROI @ current rates for the increase in cards (not counting base of Rig so basically add another $125 per 1080Ti)

Are you mining DGB also?  I have been buying a bit.  Looking at DGB on the market the price jumps around so much  BTC is generally stable/goes up apart from recently.  Can someone give me some insight on why mining the coin directly is better than say converting earnings directly to BTC (which is usually stable)  then buying whatever coins you want such as DGB only when the market dips as DGB espeically seems to dip and rise heavily in a 24 hour period.

Can you get more coins this way?  I assume you are mining Zpool  skein and getting paid out in DGB instead of BTC so the value of the mining is pretty much the same or are you doing it some other way?  On zpools it says you can get paid in other currencys at your own risk what does this mean hah!

I have personally directly mined eth and Zec and that was worth it.  But again they are pretty stable/mostly going up unlike DGB.

[Ryuujikun]

Yes direct DGB and no BTC converting. My first idea was a weekly exchange. But i bet on high value next month. Time will say if I make a big lose 
I mine on suprnova. Zpools exchange rate is worse then the real value. So even when you go DGB and exchange then you will make more.
Okay Thank you. Thats calm me a little bit down.
The noise of the Fans is no problem. Maybe the Fans will not live so long with 24/7 100% but then I take the warranty.
I bought 2 Noctua nf-a14 ippc 2000 and will crank them on the hottest card. Lets take a look if it helps.
Yes to Change the TDP is a way. Will try to modify the voltage curve to sqeeze the Rest out of it

[EvilMonkey]

Yes direct DGB and no BTC converting. My first idea was a weekly exchange. But i bet on high value next month. Time will say if I make a big lose 
I mine on suprnova. Zpools exchange rate is worse then the real value. So even when you go DGB and exchange then you will make more.
Okay Thank you. Thats calm me a little bit down.
The noise of the Fans is no problem. Maybe the Fans will not live so long with 24/7 100% but then I take the warranty.
I bought 2 Noctua nf-a14 ippc 2000 and will crank them on the hottest card. Lets take a look if it helps.
Yes to Change the TDP is a way. Will try to modify the voltage curve to sqeeze the Rest out of it

I havn't actually experienced that with zpool.  Using calculators and a conservative average hash rate I have always come out slightly more than I expected.

There was a few days a week or so ago when it went a bit screwy though.

I use a similar fan to what you are using directly at 2x 1080ti FE.  Because one of them was sucking warm air off the back of the other one it was getting 20C hotter.  After putting one of those fans blowing air in between them the hot one dropped 20C and the cold one dropped a small amount.  So overall I was able to drop their fan speeds.  Ideally I need a bigger gap between them.  They are blower style but I have them in an open air rig atm.

[ticmmae]

is there a way to auto restart EWBF miner if miner or GPU has a problem ? like watchdog for claymore ?

Try this:

Code:

:restart
Timeout /t 30
miner --server eu1-zcash.flypool.org --user t1cURHbxrB4xtBNaPH5xLFWE9CvPU5XQcFZ.ew --pass x --port 3333 --fee 0 --eexit 3 --log 1 --pec
ping 127.0.0.1 > nul
goto :restart

Does that go in the miner batch file? Also (newb question) how do I get the IP address?

This starts the miner and also monitors it
The IP address is a standard host only IP address that the program puts out for monitoring


I once had a power shell script that would monitor any mining software  but I can't find it anywhere

took me forever but i found it
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0614dRHRS0RYXRnNWtpeWRjbDg/view?usp=sharing

Thanks for sharing. With my limited knowledge, I changed things around for my ewbf miner but it keeps restarting when it is working well. I think it is because of this argument "if($global:count -gt 5)". What does that exactly imply?

The Global count is number of times the gpu goes to 0 after 5 times it restarts the program
I wrote some of this back when zec miners first came out. I update it soon for ewbf miner

I would appreciate that. I tried to figure out a way to get it work for couple hours couldnt get it to fully work Right now, just wrote a short script to have it restart every hour lol Not the worst I guess.

[philipma1957]

Running a test rig 1x gigabyte 1070 itx with a watt setting of 92  gives me 24-25.07 mh of hash mining eth at nicehash

[QuintLeo]

Running a test rig 1x gigabyte 1070 itx with a watt setting of 92  gives me 24-25.07 mh of hash mining eth at nicehash

 60% TDP, that's quite nice.

 They'll pull 28+ at higher settings, but I've not played with targeting efficiency on them for ETH.

 I'd be inclined to do my testing on ethpool vs nicehash though, given how nicehash likes to bounce cards around as their market shifts and the cards get shifted to different participants in the market.

[bentcrypto]

Running a test rig 1x gigabyte 1070 itx with a watt setting of 92  gives me 24-25.07 mh of hash mining eth at nicehash

I played around with an Asus 1070 gtx last week and was able to crack 30mh with about 90 watts. I love the 1070's very versatile card.

Weird thing is I have some 1080gtx on the same rig and the 1070 left it for dead on Eth.

[citronick]

Running a test rig 1x gigabyte 1070 itx with a watt setting of 92  gives me 24-25.07 mh of hash mining eth at nicehash

I played around with an Asus 1070 gtx last week and was able to crack 30mh with about 90 watts. I love the 1070's very versatile card.

Weird thing is I have some 1080gtx on the same rig and the 1070 left it for dead on Eth.

The 1070s apparently have better memory compared to 1080, 1080ti
I have the Zotac 1070 Minis and all of them are ETH mining to ethpool and dwarfpool.
While the 1080tis are selling ZEC hash at Nicehash.

[ATCkit]

Great info here. I'm learning a ton and like everyone else I can`t find any AMD Rx GPUs. So I'm building another rig with 1060s ( 3 Zotac AMP Edition & 2 EVGA SC ).
Which mining software and algorithm are best for Nvidia GPUs?
From what I can see it appears fullzero's miner might be best- correct?
 I can mine Ethash, Equihash, Skein and Lbry. Equihash may be the best right now - right?

[xleejohnx]

Great info here. I'm learning a ton and like everyone else I can`t find any AMD Rx GPUs. So I'm building another rig with 1060s ( 3 Zotac AMP Edition & 2 EVGA SC ).
Which mining software and algorithm are best for Nvidia GPUs?
From what I can see it appears fullzero's miner might be best- correct?
 I can mine Ethash, Equihash, Skein and Lbry. Equihash may be the best right now - right?

I keep a balance at nicehash between ethash and equilhash
Pays very nicely
smOS for amd
nvOS for nvidia

[ATCkit]

Sounds good.
Anyone have experience with this motherboard?:

 ASrock H170A-X1/3.1

[citronick]

Great info here. I'm learning a ton and like everyone else I can`t find any AMD Rx GPUs. So I'm building another rig with 1060s ( 3 Zotac AMP Edition & 2 EVGA SC ).
Which mining software and algorithm are best for Nvidia GPUs?
From what I can see it appears fullzero's miner might be best- correct?
 I can mine Ethash, Equihash, Skein and Lbry. Equihash may be the best right now - right?

I keep a balance at nicehash between ethash and equilhash
Pays very nicely
smOS for amd
nvOS for nvidia

Its times like these when mining is sweet....

Selling ETH hash to Nicehash gives you better returns than mining at ETH pools.... no thanks to the incredible ETH difficulty level.

With BTC inching towards previous high -- I have a hunch that BTC breaking 3K will be just around the corner - no brainer this BTC payment from Nicehash.

[ATCkit]

So are your Baikal's on NH also?
 I have mine on MPH mining DGB quibit and auto exchange to ETH. MaYbe I should switch to BTC for the auto exchange.

[xleejohnx]

So are your Baikal's on NH also?
 I have mine on MPH mining DGB quibit and auto exchange to ETH. MaYbe I should switch to BTC for the auto exchange.

if i had a baikal it would be on NH

[PanneKopp]

Running a test rig 1x gigabyte 1070 itx with a watt setting of 92  gives me 24-25.07 mh of hash mining eth at nicehash

Hi Phil,

this doesn´t look very impressive to me,
compared to my GTX-1060-6 trimmed to ~ 22.3 MH/s.

I personally don´t like the so called Mini-ITX Cards because of weaker cooling solutions and lower base/turbo rates.

ETH-Mining will be useless in a few weeks because of the difficulty-bomb.