Fifth alt coin thread last four got too big.

[Last of the V8s]

https://twitter.com/cryptoHWwallet

has some hardware wallets in stock. not altcoin ones, nor well-known ones. this is not a recommendation!

source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIsU3ZLusVU ~10 mins in

[philipma1957]

I just ordered 5 new RX 580 (8GB) cards on Ebay for about 10-15% of what they're normally going for these days. I suspect that the seller may have mistakenly listed them with a "buy it now" price instead of setting the starting price for an auction, but they have yet to cancel.

Or is there something I'm missing here? Just a little paranoid that this deal is way too good to be true.

are they still above retail?  if so you may get them and they may be good.

if they are below retail  I would worry.

[SVK]

Right I got it working but now I have a bit too many coins  

mBTC

What does it mean ?

Those are milli-BTC.  aka the metric system.  You can change the units back to BTC in Preferences -> Appearance -> base unit

Phew  

Thank you for your help

Philip, sorry for a small hijack of your thread.

Went to buy 2x 1080Ti and couldn't pay so that have triggered my question.

ZOTAC or EVGA ?

Thank you again for help

I have tons of ZOTAC mostly on 1070s and 1060s - hashing very well.

I have Gigabyte and ZOTAC for 1080tis. The ZOTAC 1080ti AMP Extreme editions are absolutely king right now - the best cards in my small NVIDIA farm.

I dont have EVGAs cards... but I have a few dozen EVGAs PSUs -- top notch PSUs. I am sure their cards are just as good ... 

I have some EVGA PSU's from Litecoin mining days and they are still going strong after years of mining.

EVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB SC Black Edition and Zotac NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB AMP Edition are available for same price so not 100% sure which ones to get.
I guess people stick to what works for them.

I'm buying ASUS where ever I can but 1080Ti ASUS ROG STRIX is like £79 more than Zotac&EVGA mentioned above.

[Storx]

Just wanted to chime in on the 1080 ti discussion

I have 5 of them running in a closed 4U rosewill case and they are cruising along at @ 85% power, +200 core, +500 memory
They are all Founders Editions as I needed blower cards, and the highest temperature I see is on an EVGA ~64 degrees, but I think it must be in the worst spot for airflow.

I haven't been chasing efficiency at all, and just went for a good solid overclock that was stable 24/7 with EWBF.

Next rig is going to be 6 or 7 1080 ti's in a closed 4U case, but I'm not sure even a 1600W PSU will handle 7 cards, so it might just be 6

Are you running the airflow in the case backwards? i ask this because i was planning on putting rigs into 4U cases and bought 2 cases, i put 5 cards in one and because the heat was being circulated over the CPU, i was having issues with the CPU overheating on me... so that build has been running with the lid on the case off since then with a box ran layed on top sucking the air out of the case...

Mine are in a DC so I need front to back airflow, as the racks are setup with hot and cold aisles.

The airflow is coming through the front and all of the cards are blowing out towards the motherboard/cpu/psu.
There is a row of 3 x 120mm, 3000rpm Skythe fans also blowing towards the back and then 2 x 80mm fans that came with the case.

The CPU is cooled by a Cooler Master Hyper D92, and it runs @ 30-36 degrees, and I've never had an issue with overheating at all

Are you running this inside of a air conditioned room?

Yes it is in a data center that is air conditioned with hundreds or maybe even a thousand servers and switches

Hmm are you renting that space to place your rig there or something? just wish i had that type of access to me right now. When i built that 4U rig i ran it for a few hours and quickly noticed the temps were super high with the lid on, i was averaging 78-82c with the fans bouncing off 100% on the GPU's and this was with the filter removed from the front of the case, with the filter i was in the 80-84c range i noticed very quickly. I took the top off the case and now the rig sits happily in the 64-69c range, but i have since replaced the 1600w evga PSU in the server with a smaller 350w unit i got from local pc recycle center for $5 and moved the GPU's over to server power supplies and put that 1600watt unit being shared between 2 x 4 card 1080ti rigs. Yes i understand that the cards can overpower the PSU if ran at 100%, but run a scrypt on them that injects GPU settings every 5 minutes, so if a GPU every resets on one of the rigs, 5 minutes later its been corrected back down on teh TDP

[JaredKaragen]

Your high temps are probably lack of high CFM fans on the case.... Did you upgrade them from the OEM rosewell case fans?   The OEM fans are garbage.

With 130cfm+ fans, temps were kept in check...

[Undefined31415]

I just ordered 5 new RX 580 (8GB) cards on Ebay for about 10-15% of what they're normally going for these days. I suspect that the seller may have mistakenly listed them with a "buy it now" price instead of setting the starting price for an auction, but they have yet to cancel.

Or is there something I'm missing here? Just a little paranoid that this deal is way too good to be true.

are they still above retail?  if so you may get them and they may be good.

if they are below retail  I would worry.

A few hours later, I got a bunch of emails from Ebay telling me that the seller's account may have been compromised and that the order was canceled. Thankfully it looks like the refund process won't take too much effort; just a bit of waiting.

(Yeah, I meant 10-15% OF, not 10-15% OFF. https://www.dropbox.com/s/0dy1q5hxd9qgc74/rx580scam.png?dl=0 :p It was pretty obvious that something was up, but I figured I'd just go for it since I had good experience with Ebay and PayPal support in the past.)

[philipma1957]

Ebay has 8% buck sale today.  I have 547 to spend as I did not spend my ebucks that came on July3  so it is now 547/.92 = 594

Looking at 1080ti's

[cryptotore]

All good Phil? I haven't been active on the forum for a year++.

Would love to hear your take on the mining scene for this year.
Whats the future for GPU mining? I'm currently mining ETH with 4 rigs, would you continue mining ETH even tho the diff is climbing like crazy? Or switch to something else? Sell the rigs?

Would also love to pick ur brain regarding the recent x11 ASICs thats seems to be flooding the market right now!

Cheers <3

[iamnewhere]

All good Phil? I haven't been active on the forum for a year++.

Would love to hear your take on the mining scene for this year.
Whats the future for GPU mining? I'm currently mining ETH with 4 rigs, would you continue mining ETH even tho the diff is climbing like crazy? Or switch to something else? Sell the rigs?

Would also love to pick ur brain regarding the recent x11 ASICs thats seems to be flooding the market right now!

Cheers <3

Just do some math with the hash-rates for your cards where you have the highest outcome of BTC per day (just keep in mind the transaction fee's and trade fees will come on top) and then you might get better results to mine some other coin and trade for ETH (usually through BTC).

[cryptotore]

All good Phil? I haven't been active on the forum for a year++.

Would love to hear your take on the mining scene for this year.
Whats the future for GPU mining? I'm currently mining ETH with 4 rigs, would you continue mining ETH even tho the diff is climbing like crazy? Or switch to something else? Sell the rigs?

Would also love to pick ur brain regarding the recent x11 ASICs thats seems to be flooding the market right now!

Cheers <3

Just do some math with the hash-rates for your cards where you have the highest outcome of BTC per day (just keep in mind the transaction fee's and trade fees will come on top) and then you might get better results to mine some other coin and trade for ETH (usually through BTC).

Yeah I used to compare it with Nicehash rates, but after they got their new design it seems they have removed that part of the site..

[flminer]

All good Phil? I haven't been active on the forum for a year++.

Would love to hear your take on the mining scene for this year.
Whats the future for GPU mining? I'm currently mining ETH with 4 rigs, would you continue mining ETH even tho the diff is climbing like crazy? Or switch to something else? Sell the rigs?

Would also love to pick ur brain regarding the recent x11 ASICs thats seems to be flooding the market right now!

Cheers <3

Just do some math with the hash-rates for your cards where you have the highest outcome of BTC per day (just keep in mind the transaction fee's and trade fees will come on top) and then you might get better results to mine some other coin and trade for ETH (usually through BTC).

Yeah I used to compare it with Nicehash rates, but after they got their new design it seems they have removed that part of the site..

here

https://www.nicehash.com/index.jsp

[cryptotore]

All good Phil? I haven't been active on the forum for a year++.

Would love to hear your take on the mining scene for this year.
Whats the future for GPU mining? I'm currently mining ETH with 4 rigs, would you continue mining ETH even tho the diff is climbing like crazy? Or switch to something else? Sell the rigs?

Would also love to pick ur brain regarding the recent x11 ASICs thats seems to be flooding the market right now!

Cheers <3

Just do some math with the hash-rates for your cards where you have the highest outcome of BTC per day (just keep in mind the transaction fee's and trade fees will come on top) and then you might get better results to mine some other coin and trade for ETH (usually through BTC).

Yeah I used to compare it with Nicehash rates, but after they got their new design it seems they have removed that part of the site..

here

https://www.nicehash.com/index.jsp

Thanks a lot!! <3

[citronick]

just saw this on Amazon... Sapphire RX470 4GB selling for USD$599 .... OMG!

you can a nice 1070 SC with that money

https://www.amazon.com/Sapphire-Radeon-GDDR5-PCI-e-Mining/dp/B073RN4XQM/ref=pd_sbs_147_5?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B073RN4XQM&pd_rd_r=2CSB3660ATK7TQ2ME01E&pd_rd_w=ibxOG&pd_rd_wg=EmYXw&psc=1&refRID=2CSB3660ATK7TQ2ME01E

[DevonMiner]

just saw this on Amazon... Sapphire RX470 4GB selling for USD$599 .... OMG!

Yep, the RX cards are fetching a pretty premium at the moment. I've sold over 10 cards this week at a very healthy profit over their original cost, let alone what they mined, especially through the ETH bubble a few weeks back. All were ROId a while back.

I decided to reinvest in Zotac 1070 minis given the low power consumption and the different algos they can mine.

... just need to find the minis in stock (I already have a few) ... and for a reasonable price! Most UK retailers are doing pre-orders for end of August delivery.

[MikeBuzz]

just saw this on Amazon... Sapphire RX470 4GB selling for USD$599 .... OMG!

Yep, the RX cards are fetching a pretty premium at the moment. I've sold over 10 cards this week at a very healthy profit over their original cost, let alone what they mined, especially through the ETH bubble a few weeks back. All were ROId a while back.

I decided to reinvest in Zotac 1070 minis given the low power consumption and the different algos they can mine.

... just need to find the minis in stock (I already have a few) ... and for a reasonable price! Most UK retailers are doing pre-orders for end of August delivery.

I am also from the UK, and bought a zotac 1070 mini a few weeks back, best price I could find was £380, but looking now that price seems cheap. How much had you been paying?

[citronick]

just saw this on Amazon... Sapphire RX470 4GB selling for USD$599 .... OMG!

Yep, the RX cards are fetching a pretty premium at the moment. I've sold over 10 cards this week at a very healthy profit over their original cost, let alone what they mined, especially through the ETH bubble a few weeks back. All were ROId a while back.

I decided to reinvest in Zotac 1070 minis given the low power consumption and the different algos they can mine.

... just need to find the minis in stock (I already have a few) ... and for a reasonable price! Most UK retailers are doing pre-orders for end of August delivery.

the Zotac 1070 Minis are gem of a card... I rather have this than RX cards because its so easy to OC with very low power consumption.

[Storx]

just saw this on Amazon... Sapphire RX470 4GB selling for USD$599 .... OMG!

Yep, the RX cards are fetching a pretty premium at the moment. I've sold over 10 cards this week at a very healthy profit over their original cost, let alone what they mined, especially through the ETH bubble a few weeks back. All were ROId a while back.

I decided to reinvest in Zotac 1070 minis given the low power consumption and the different algos they can mine.

... just need to find the minis in stock (I already have a few) ... and for a reasonable price! Most UK retailers are doing pre-orders for end of August delivery.

the Zotac 1070 Minis are gem of a card... I rather have this than RX cards because its so easy to OC with very low power consumption.

I really wish i would have bought in on the 1070 minis when they were still affordable.. ive been sticking to the 1080ti's... the prices have been the least affected, so i keep buying them when on sale on ebay mostly, occasionally i find steals on wikibuy, but mostly i get off ebay.. like i bought 4 more last week when they had the 12% back to school thing on ebay bucks offer

[flminer]

Have a few more modded pico's.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2040729.0

Delete if ya need to Phil. Just wanted to put here as this is where I have received the most help.

That being said, if I have learned anything, received help from you and you need these then I will discount as thanks for the help.

[ps_jb]

... ive been sticking to the 1080ti's... the prices have been the least affected, so i keep buying them when on sale on ebay mostly, occasionally i find steals on wikibuy, but mostly i get off ebay.. like i bought 4 more last week when they had the 12% back to school thing on ebay bucks offer

How much 1 1080Ti card can earn per day (before electricity)? I assume ZEC is still the best to mine with it, isn't it?

[flminer]

... ive been sticking to the 1080ti's... the prices have been the least affected, so i keep buying them when on sale on ebay mostly, occasionally i find steals on wikibuy, but mostly i get off ebay.. like i bought 4 more last week when they had the 12% back to school thing on ebay bucks offer

How much 1 1080Ti card can earn per day (before electricity)? I assume ZEC is still the best to mine with it, isn't it?

Right now it is about $4 to $5 a card on NH Equihash.