Happy New Years! Seventh alt coin thread!

[Elder III]

Yes brand new ones for $130. He was setting up 290s and I bought one. It's new with some scratches from shipping. Even gpus run in a filtered environment will have a tiny layer of dust, this was new as far as I can tell.

Could it be leftover chips back when AMD over ordered 290s...? who knows.

Do those undervolt easily with afterburner, or do you need to do bios mods?  I was mining before the r9 series and after the r9 series, but I don't have much experience at all with that generation of GPUs from a mining perspective.

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[citronick]

Will you guys consider R9 290s for $130 usd each? Got one for testing and it hashes well, 30.5mh/s at 161w in gpuz and -100mv (1.07v), or 33mh/s at 220w in gpuz at -20mv (1.15v). I assume they are +20% power draw at the wall.

https://ibb.co/nh3znn


Strangely all software says it's a 390 but with just 4gb of ram. My contact says he can make them with a MOQ of 500 pcs, yes new r9 290s in this day and age.

My view on the 290s is, if my new factory is ready in May but new nvidia gpus are not announced yet I will jump in for 500.

Relationship building over last month went well, another partner managed to secure 152x 1060s at $350 each for my hosting clients. It's a retail store with direct factory connections. It's good we don't need to depend on Amazon for stock from now on.

290s are good GPUs -- if not for their enormous power appetite - I will grab a couple hundred pieces :-)

The stock R9-390s that I have now are 8GBs - they are still working and really a workhorse in ZEC.

R9-390 Lite may come in 4GBs - since 390s are basically 290s with bigger memory and a few tweaks to match 290X - I am speculating - someone could confirm this since these GPUs are from during 2014-2015 R9 era (Hawaii? or Fiji? ~ maybe Nanos).

[Elder III]

We might be interested in 6-8 of them, but unless someone organizes a group buy to reach that 500 number.... we're not a big enough operation to even think of quantities that large.  How long of a wait would this be if an order was placed? I presume that production time, shipping, etc... would be a couple of months?

[KaydenC]

We might be interested in 6-8 of them, but unless someone organizes a group buy to reach that 500 number.... we're not a big enough operation to even think of quantities that large.  How long of a wait would this be if an order was placed? I presume that production time, shipping, etc... would be a couple of months?

30 days to ready in Hong Kong. Add 2 weeks for shipping. My hosting clients is probably going for 500-700 combined if next gen isn't out when my new factory is ready. I will have 50-100 for sale, $145 + paypal fee +  shipping. If that happens I will pm you.

It also depends on the 1060 price in 2 months. If it's closer to msrp, might be better to go 1060s.

[KaydenC]

Yes brand new ones for $130. He was setting up 290s and I bought one. It's new with some scratches from shipping. Even gpus run in a filtered environment will have a tiny layer of dust, this was new as far as I can tell.

Could it be leftover chips back when AMD over ordered 290s...? who knows.

Do those undervolt easily with afterburner, or do you need to do bios mods?  I was mining before the r9 series and after the r9 series, but I don't have much experience at all with that generation of GPUs from a mining perspective.

Ya they undervolt up to -100mv in afterburner. However I will go for SMOS for individual gpu monitoring.
1100mhz core, 1300 mem, -100mv = 30.5mh/s

No bios mod needed

Edit: I tried to game with it. It has freezes 0.1s several times a minute at stock settings. Not something we can resell to gamers.

[citronick]

We might be interested in 6-8 of them, but unless someone organizes a group buy to reach that 500 number.... we're not a big enough operation to even think of quantities that large.  How long of a wait would this be if an order was placed? I presume that production time, shipping, etc... would be a couple of months?

30 days to ready in Hong Kong. Add 2 weeks for shipping. My hosting clients is probably going for 500-700 combined if next gen isn't out when my new factory is ready. I will have 50-100 for sale, $145 + paypal fee +  shipping. If that happens I will pm you.

It also depends on the 1060 price in 2 months. If it's closer to msrp, might be better to go 1060s.

I will reserve 16 pieces, for 2 x 8GPU rigs. I need to do testing before committing a bigger number.

[asidamani]

Yes brand new ones for $130. He was setting up 290s and I bought one. It's new with some scratches from shipping. Even gpus run in a filtered environment will have a tiny layer of dust, this was new as far as I can tell.

Could it be leftover chips back when AMD over ordered 290s...? who knows.

Do those undervolt easily with afterburner, or do you need to do bios mods?  I was mining before the r9 series and after the r9 series, but I don't have much experience at all with that generation of GPUs from a mining perspective.

I have a few R9 390. Their voltage can be reduced by up to 100mV with MSI afterburner. But my electricity price is high, so I mod the voltage in BIOS to reduce the voltage even more.

[xleejohnx]

We might be interested in 6-8 of them, but unless someone organizes a group buy to reach that 500 number.... we're not a big enough operation to even think of quantities that large.  How long of a wait would this be if an order was placed? I presume that production time, shipping, etc... would be a couple of months?

30 days to ready in Hong Kong. Add 2 weeks for shipping. My hosting clients is probably going for 500-700 combined if next gen isn't out when my new factory is ready. I will have 50-100 for sale, $145 + paypal fee +  shipping. If that happens I will pm you.

It also depends on the 1060 price in 2 months. If it's closer to msrp, might be better to go 1060s.

I will reserve 16 pieces, for 2 x 8GPU rigs. I need to do testing before committing a bigger number.

can anyone share the link to this page for the gpus?

[philipma1957]

does anyone mine with the bitmain L3 +

If so what do you think of it?

[KaydenC]

We might be interested in 6-8 of them, but unless someone organizes a group buy to reach that 500 number.... we're not a big enough operation to even think of quantities that large.  How long of a wait would this be if an order was placed? I presume that production time, shipping, etc... would be a couple of months?

30 days to ready in Hong Kong. Add 2 weeks for shipping. My hosting clients is probably going for 500-700 combined if next gen isn't out when my new factory is ready. I will have 50-100 for sale, $145 + paypal fee +  shipping. If that happens I will pm you.

It also depends on the 1060 price in 2 months. If it's closer to msrp, might be better to go 1060s.

I will reserve 16 pieces, for 2 x 8GPU rigs. I need to do testing before committing a bigger number.

can anyone share the link to this page for the gpus?

Will pm you if cards arrive.

There is no page for it, but anyone who is interested may pm me. Earliest time we can confirm order is after GTC end march, and that's if Nvidia does not announce launch date for next gen.

Sorry for thread hijack.

When cards arrive I will make a thread, sell up to 100 or 1 week is up, then we will ship the rest for deployment.

[xleejohnx]

We might be interested in 6-8 of them, but unless someone organizes a group buy to reach that 500 number.... we're not a big enough operation to even think of quantities that large.  How long of a wait would this be if an order was placed? I presume that production time, shipping, etc... would be a couple of months?

30 days to ready in Hong Kong. Add 2 weeks for shipping. My hosting clients is probably going for 500-700 combined if next gen isn't out when my new factory is ready. I will have 50-100 for sale, $145 + paypal fee +  shipping. If that happens I will pm you.

It also depends on the 1060 price in 2 months. If it's closer to msrp, might be better to go 1060s.

I will reserve 16 pieces, for 2 x 8GPU rigs. I need to do testing before committing a bigger number.

can anyone share the link to this page for the gpus?

Will pm you if cards arrive.

There is no page for it, but anyone who is interested may pm me. Earliest time we can confirm order is after GTC end march, and that's if Nvidia does not announce launch date for next gen.

Sorry for thread hijack.

please do!!
if they do come in would like to grab 5-10 for tests

[bubbAJoe]

For any of you NiceHashers, what is a 1080Ti earning now, per day?

[philipma1957]

For any of you NiceHashers, what is a 1080Ti earning now, per day?

3-4 at equihash

[citronick]

does anyone mine with the bitmain L3 +

If so what do you think of it?

My group has a modest farm of 20 x L3+ and 6 x A4 -- total hash of around 11GHs (small sized farm)

Bottomline, its profitable (mining direct and rentals ~ NH and MRR) and ranked second only after S9s in the farm.

Giant-B and X13/X15 Baikal farm at best 3rd in the ranking.

The group wants to expand on the Scrypt farm in 2017 but we didnt get a good deal from Bitmain, so we put the project on hold and bought more A741s instead.

The 504MH L3+ miner is currently the defacto Scrypt miner - tried and tested, and robust too in handling multi-coin mining. No RMAs so far, but I believe we got a good batch.

They are other companies doing 1GH and beyond using FPGAs but they are really unknowns and have not got a good sales track record.

A little bird shared with us that Innosilicon may come up with something bigger and better vs the L3+ but its all speculation again (not to be confused with the fused A4s bundle).

For 2018 and beyond, our radar is on Scrypt mining very closely because of profitability of the Scrypt coins.

The 2018 ASICS strategy - putting ASIC vs GPUs debate aside and avoiding AMD-NVIDIA dramas, simply because 1 ASICS = several dozens of GPUs = higher BTC accumulation -- as long as we dont have X11/D3 disaster anytime soon.

Yes, I admit that the LBRY, SIA and DCR has now been pulverized by Giant X10 & Bs, and A3s....
.... but the high price to acquire these miners has created a tall barrier of entry and the influx of too many miners and GHs may have neutralized the situation.

[philipma1957]

does anyone mine with the bitmain L3 +

If so what do you think of it?

My group has a modest farm of 20 x L3+ and 6 x A4 -- total hash of around 11GHs (small sized farm)

Bottomline, its profitable (mining direct and rentals ~ NH and MRR) and ranked second only after S9s in the farm.

Giant-B and X13/X15 Baikal farm at best 3rd in the ranking.

The group wants to expand on the Scrypt farm in 2017 but we didnt get a good deal from Bitmain, so we put the project on hold and bought more A741s instead.

The 504MH L3+ miner is currently the defacto Scrypt miner - tried and tested, and robust too in handling multi-coin mining. No RMAs so far, but I believe we got a good batch.

They are other companies doing 1GH and beyond using FPGAs but they are really unknowns and have not got a good sales track record.

A little bird shared with us that Innosilicon may come up with something bigger and better vs the L3+ but its all speculation again (not to be confused with the fused A4s bundle).

For 2018 and beyond, our radar is on Scrypt mining very closely because of profitability of the Scrypt coins.

The 2018 ASICS strategy - putting ASIC vs GPUs debate aside and avoiding AMD-NVIDIA dramas, simply because 1 ASICS = several dozens of GPUs = higher BTC accumulation -- as long as we dont have X11/D3 disaster anytime soon.

Yes, I admit that the LBRY, SIA and DCR has now been pulverized by Giant X10 & Bs, and A3s....
.... but the high price to acquire these miners has created a tall barrier of entry and the influx of too many miners and GHs may have neutralized the situation.

Well next 6 months  we make the most of the solar array's power  we can do 18kwatts  for free.



 The L3+ uses around 800-900 watts this may be good for us at the array.  We can go to 18kwatts  and be 'free' beyond  that  cost is 16 cents. If I get 5 dragonmints  that is 6000 watts 3 s9's is 4200 watts  we have 28 1080tis that is  5600 watts.  This gets us to 15800 watts  which means 2 or 3 more L3+  and we are at 18000 watts.


So

5x DragonMint    6000 watts
3x s9s                4200 watts
28 1080tis          5600 watts
 3  L3's               2400 watts

total 18200 watts


   So far  the newer bigger array is bogged down  with government rules and regulations.  It is a six acre tract of land  which would allow  2 acre array stage 1  then in a year or 2  up to a 4 acre array.  4 acres of panels  would give us 50-70 kwatts of 'free' power. 

    It would be nice to get these arrays added  but that is forum member buysolar's  line of work.  I try to mange the power he gets me to keep risk low  and profits high. We did really well in Nov, Dec 2017 and even in Jan  , Feb 2018

We made most profit mining in Nov, Dec 2017
We made most profit selling gear in Jan, Feb 2018

[citronick]

Yes brand new ones for $130. He was setting up 290s and I bought one. It's new with some scratches from shipping. Even gpus run in a filtered environment will have a tiny layer of dust, this was new as far as I can tell.

Could it be leftover chips back when AMD over ordered 290s...? who knows.

Do those undervolt easily with afterburner, or do you need to do bios mods?  I was mining before the r9 series and after the r9 series, but I don't have much experience at all with that generation of GPUs from a mining perspective.

I have a few R9 390. Their voltage can be reduced by up to 100mV with MSI afterburner. But my electricity price is high, so I mod the voltage in BIOS to reduce the voltage even more.

Can you share your 390 custom roms?

I kept my 390 rigs (circa 2015) and they are still humming and working hard on ZEC. AB undervolted on Windows, soon to migrate to SMOS - if I can get custom rom for them.

These rigs have sentimental value to me because this modest 1GH ETH farm started mining around Nov 2015 and a big contributor to ETH treasure chest.

R9s 290/390s are still great for several algos due to their high core count and massive onboard memory.

[puwaha]

does anyone mine with the bitmain L3 +

If so what do you think of it?

My group has a modest farm of 20 x L3+ and 6 x A4 -- total hash of around 11GHs (small sized farm)

Bottomline, its profitable (mining direct and rentals ~ NH and MRR) and ranked second only after S9s in the farm.

Giant-B and X13/X15 Baikal farm at best 3rd in the ranking.

The group wants to expand on the Scrypt farm in 2017 but we didnt get a good deal from Bitmain, so we put the project on hold and bought more A741s instead.

How many members are in your group?  What's a rough estimation of your hashpower overall... if you don't mind divulging this info.  I'm really just curious.

[citronick]

does anyone mine with the bitmain L3 +

If so what do you think of it?

My group has a modest farm of 20 x L3+ and 6 x A4 -- total hash of around 11GHs (small sized farm)

Bottomline, its profitable (mining direct and rentals ~ NH and MRR) and ranked second only after S9s in the farm.

Giant-B and X13/X15 Baikal farm at best 3rd in the ranking.

The group wants to expand on the Scrypt farm in 2017 but we didnt get a good deal from Bitmain, so we put the project on hold and bought more A741s instead.

How many members are in your group?  What's a rough estimation of your hashpower overall... if you don't mind divulging this info.  I'm really just curious.

...the private group consist of us retired old farts, mining & trading since 2015, we have a lot of gear, the 4PH SHA256 farm keeps the wheels turning...

[philipma1957]

Grabbed a few L3's

With the 200 dollar coupon  1296 price is pretty good.

[citronick]

Grabbed a few L3's

With the 200 dollar coupon  1296 price is pretty good.

That's a great buy and possibly a great resell price too

L3+ are good for long term ASICS to get them LTCs or convert to BTCs