From last thread



Never did neoscrypt.


UrsaUrsa quoted below from last thread

"As far as I know it's a memory heavy algorithm."





Oh I am selling some older s-9's   and a T-9

they are a client's  not mine or buysolar

as is but tested and do work.


https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2674029.0   three 2 boards units


https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2673467.0  one full 3 board unit.

I have some interest in 1 s-9 and 1 t-9

set a wide range of freq older firmware was not stable at 600 or 550 but good at 525



locked at freq 550





t-9

autotune

I'm pretty new at this, but I found that the same OC settings for Equihash work well for Neoscrypt, too.

Happy new year everybody! Let's hope 2018 is full of mined coins!

Hmm, I just wrote about my positive experience running Ethminer 0.12.0 compared to Claymore 10.2 in another thread. Claymore *reports* a higher hashrate to me, sure, but I seem to actually earn more using Ethminer... I admit my experience is very limited, however, so I may have to revisit this comparison.

 No current motherboard I am aware of has the 1-4-7 slot spacing to do what you want to do and have fairly good cooling to all cards without going to rather expen$ive "5+ slot" boards - and very few of THOSE put a 16-bit slot in that #1 position.

 When you start looking at paying $300 ballpark AND UP for the motherboard, you quickly start looking at other options.

I was going to email Letine.com to get a riserless motherboard.  Looks like they only have the v1 Onda on their site

http://letine.com/bitebizhuban/12-channel-bitcoin-mining-motherboard-manufacturer.html

(they also show the six slot but I'm not interested in that)

I'm inclined to go with the v2 of the Onda 8 slot board, do you think they have them?  Recommend a good source for them if they don't?

Would I be correct in assuming that the v1 boards will be around until they sell out then there'll only be v2 boards?

Also, to be clear, Onda is the actual manufacturer?  No else makes this board, it's just available through different resellers (who all appear to be in China)?

my conspiracy theory on the card shortage: profits are high and the miners who started in March, April, May of 2017, just ROI'd their gear, and with the coin prices high, are potentially doubling down on more gear.

Agreed. No conspiracy IMHO, just market forces Coins going up like crazy put enough money in miners pockets for them to invest in more equipment. Also short term the profits look crazy high (what soon gets over-corrected) so buying new hardware appears to be a really good investment. You also have the FOMO go to an extreme (more like POMO for Panic or Paranoia) My mom want so buy GPUs, and her cat too.

If you were paying attention to AMD and Nvidia forecasts, they predicted (always so wise of them) mining demand on hardware going down for this year. I imagine they made production decisions based on those forecasts...

As I said, I think this will over-correct soon. A lot of hardware will be available at a low price, and people that got burned will be too fearful to buy. I'll be waiting with my checkbook open

 Everything I bought that far back ROIed months ago.

 I'd go with the "prices JUMPED 2-3x in late December and it took time for miners to decide the prices were going to hang around long enough to be WORTH building more rigs for" theory.

 The mining theory though doesn't account for the shortage and pricing on the 1080 and 1080 ti - SOME of the pricing on those is probably "ram price jump" but the SHORTAGE of cards I don't think can be blamed on memory pricing.
 1070 ti is a special case - card didn't exist during the previous runup, but between me and Voskcoin and others picking up the theme it's gotten quite popular for EFFICIENT mining.


 Newegg got some of the MSI Blower model 1070 ti cards in - limit 1 though - at a SANE price.
 Mine is on order - I wanted to try some of the other "single-8pin" cards anyway, though I'd have prefered the ASUS blower card as my next "try it out" card - as I'm still not 100% sure the MSI uses a ball-bearing blower.
 Their OTHER cards are ball bearing though, so I'm willing to risk it ONCE.
 Transaction went through without issue - I'm inclined to think my issue with the previous transaction was due to the "holiday Bitcoin backlog" + crazy-high transaction fee caused some sort of issue.

 Newegg also had ONE Sapphire Nitro design (570 I think) in stock at under $300 - didn't notice the limit though offhand - and one other RX card around $300, Powercolor IIRC.
 Rest were ALL $389 and up.

 At the time AMD and Nvidia made their forecast, they made sense - coin prices had been flat for months, demand was dropping down to near "pre-surge" levels.
 Then their forecasts got borked by ANOTHER unexpected price jump....

 I was doing some wide reading today, trying to figure Volta - and as of right now I'm starting to think the first "consumer" Volta GPU(s) might get announced in late March at that Nvidia "confrence" they have annually - been a few years since they introduced a new line at that, but the timeing seems to fit a LOT of other indicators.
 I wouldn't bet on immediate availability though - probably depends on how fast Samsung, Micron, and "whoever else" gets GDDR 6 production ramped up.
 I DO expect the "consumer" cards to be GDDR 6 not HDM2 though.