Happy New Years! Seventh alt coin thread!

[philipma1957]

http://news.8btc.com/bitmain-urgent-order-100k-12nm-chips-from-tsmc-in-2018
need moar hashes

 10k chips a month - which is barely enough for what,  600 miners?

 DROP IN THE BUCKET.

that assumes very high yield .

they may build some for replacing dead hash nest gear.


remember they still have s-7 hashnest  gear

[Daaaveee]

Thanks guys, great help  wishing you all a prosperous 2018!

[koinli]

happy new years all of you, and thank for the precious information on the thread,

[RockBar0]

http://news.8btc.com/bitmain-urgent-order-100k-12nm-chips-from-tsmc-in-2018
need moar hashes

CPU, GPU.... TPU =

get ready for a 1GH Monero miner ?

The article also says that Baikal partnered with Samsung... that's good news.  I really like the fact that their ASICs can do multiple algos.  Baikal have also been first to market for novel algorithm ASICs, so your 1GH Monero miner might not be far off.

But the bigger news was that Bitmain will be using TSMC's 7nm process this year.  We should see some nice incremental ASICs from Bitmain, like maybe an S10, L4, or D4.

If this is true then the miners will have a very powerful and effective helper to exploit the coin. I believe in the cooperation of Baikan and Samsung, these two companies are extremely strong in the field of technology. I hope the cooperation project will be successful so that I can experience that product.

[dragonmike]

Thanks guys, great help   wishing you all a prosperous 2018!

DO NOT BUY THE EVGA 750GQ's!! THEY ARE CRAP!!!!

Seriously, I've rma'd two of them in the space of 2 months. They are not built to sustain high, constant load. The G2's are a lot better but do yourself a favour and AVOID THE GQ!!!!!

[philipma1957]

Thanks guys, great help   wishing you all a prosperous 2018!

DO NOT BUY THE EVGA 750GQ's!! THEY ARE CRAP!!!!

Seriously, I've rma'd two of them in the space of 2 months. They are not built to sustain high, constant load. The G2's are a lot better but do yourself a favour and AVOID THE GQ!!!!!

never used them  good to know this issue

[vapourminer]

I love SSDs and installed probably 40 of them last year for customers in my IT business.  And, my first two rigs have them.  But, the two new ones I'm working on I'm throwing in some used laptop hard drives simply because I have those on hand and don't have any SSDs in stock.  So other than a little bit of boot speed and shaving off a few watts of power consumption, is there any reason why SSDs are so popular in mining rigs?

changing drivers,  re configuring or installing new miners, os updates (if thats your thing, i do, even on mining rigs), general maintenance, install new/different OS, all fly on ssds. my time is worth more than the 50 bucks for a 120 gig ssd.

i cant stand waiting around for rigs to finish doing whatever when i could be, well doing something, anything else.

Dunno why you would be doing much if any "changing drivers, reconfiguring" and such on working rigs.

 Definitely a time saver on NEW rigs I grant - DD to clone a drive runs SO MUCH FASTER when a SSD is involved.

just rebuilt my old rig into the onda b250 board (win10) with new cards, so starting over so to speak. my previous rig ran for weeks/months with no input. aside from miner updates.

with the onda rig im often trying new miners (new to the nvidia scene and its stuff, which results in crashes with bugged miners, clocks and powerlimits i am still dialing in), occasionally ill try new drivers, os updates. trying a few oc utils (looking for a good command line version, hate gui ones.. uninstall one, install another, repeat..). so all in all not much but id rather not wait around while it happens. 3-4 grand on a miner.. whats 50 bucks more?

my 1st ssd was the intel X25-M 80 gig back in 07 or 08 (and it still is running in a laptop). havent built a rig of any kind with a spinner for its os since (well the freenas box has 2 usb drives in raid 1 for the os).

sure spinners work in rigs fine and probably everyone has them just lying around from upgrades (I have probably 20 old HDs in the basement)  but im getting old, ornery and decrepit, time is worth more than money at my age.

[dragonmike]

One of my friends is getting his hands on a 19-slot mobo... Funny thing is he has no idea how to set up the damn thing.

What's the latest on Windows' support for more than 8 GPUs of the same brand? Would I have to set him up a Linux distro if he wanted to run 19 GPUs on that mobo? Or is 16 doable under Win10? I wasn't recommending that mobo to him due to the major point of failure risk... but hey ho he went for it. Now I can see myself setting it up for him...

[Toughit]

Its -25 here.  The fedex guy left a 1080ti in a box outside for hours.  I opened it, now it is covered in moisture. 

I don't want to wait hours,so should I  hold it in front of the Avalon exhaust for a while?

[philipma1957]

okay still waiting on multiple items

The 13 gpus in a case from Germany for test and review. ---------------- supposed to ship maybe next week
6 more little moonlander 2 usb sticks  will solo mine them LTC/DOGE --- late  jan
1 msi rma --------------------------------------------- they received the return
1 msi 1080 ti seahawk/hybrid ----------------------- it is in Alaska maybe this monday
1 evga 1080 hybrid ---------------------------------- ordered dec 27th not yet shipped
1 zotac 1070 mini ------------------------------------ ordered dec 25th not yet shipped
5 onda j1800 mobos + 5 onda b250 mobos -------- dhl says this monday

[philipma1957]

Its -25 here.  The fedex guy left a 1080ti in a box outside for hours.  I opened it, now it is covered in moisture. 

I don't want to wait hours,so should I  hold it in front of the Avalon exhaust for a while?

yeah but at a distance then move it closer

[citronick]

One of my friends is getting his hands on a 19-slot mobo... Funny thing is he has no idea how to set up the damn thing.

What's the latest on Windows' support for more than 8 GPUs of the same brand? Would I have to set him up a Linux distro if he wanted to run 19 GPUs on that mobo? Or is 16 doable under Win10? I wasn't recommending that mobo to him due to the major point of failure risk... but hey ho he went for it. Now I can see myself setting it up for him...

That board needs 6 x P106 Mining card, as pre-req to work.

See full rig setup by BBT here  - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miUoqnUqk9M

He did it with Win10 - 19 x GPUs

[JaredKaragen]

One of my friends is getting his hands on a 19-slot mobo... Funny thing is he has no idea how to set up the damn thing.

What's the latest on Windows' support for more than 8 GPUs of the same brand? Would I have to set him up a Linux distro if he wanted to run 19 GPUs on that mobo? Or is 16 doable under Win10? I wasn't recommending that mobo to him due to the major point of failure risk... but hey ho he went for it. Now I can see myself setting it up for him...

That board needs 6 x P106 Mining card, as pre-req to work.

See full rig setup by BBT here  - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miUoqnUqk9M

He did it with Win10 - 19 x GPUs

Where do you source P106 cards? What is their equivalent?  I haven't read much on them, but it seems they are becoming pretty prevalent.....  I have this V1.0 D8P board, and I plan to use windows [hopefully];  so having two different types of devices may work for me being able to populate all 12 PCIE slots.

[dragonmike]

One of my friends is getting his hands on a 19-slot mobo... Funny thing is he has no idea how to set up the damn thing.

What's the latest on Windows' support for more than 8 GPUs of the same brand? Would I have to set him up a Linux distro if he wanted to run 19 GPUs on that mobo? Or is 16 doable under Win10? I wasn't recommending that mobo to him due to the major point of failure risk... but hey ho he went for it. Now I can see myself setting it up for him...

That board needs 6 x P106 Mining card, as pre-req to work.

See full rig setup by BBT here  - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miUoqnUqk9M

He did it with Win10 - 19 x GPUs

Does it NEED those P106's though? Can it run 16 cards (8 nvidia and 8 AMD)?

[vapourminer]

Its -25 here.  The fedex guy left a 1080ti in a box outside for hours.  I opened it, now it is covered in moisture. 

I don't want to wait hours,so should I  hold it in front of the Avalon exhaust for a while?

just let it sit overnight. er inside that is i dont like taking chances with temp extremes like that. -25 to 140 (Fahrenheit i assume) in a matter of hours scares me unless youre talking milspec. but thats just me.

[GabryRox]

Hey everyone... so I am looking at this 1500W Rosewill PSU (originally brought to my attention by Phil) to support a 1070ti build but have what is probably a stupid question...

All of my other PSUs (Rosewill and EVGA) have am 18+10 pin connector for main power. But, looking at this model, it doesn't have any port anywhere near that long.  It does appear to have 2 x 14pin slots, which still equals 28 pins total like the other, but just trying to make sure that the other end of this connector will still fit a standard Mobo as I have not seen this configuration before.

[citronick]

One of my friends is getting his hands on a 19-slot mobo... Funny thing is he has no idea how to set up the damn thing.

What's the latest on Windows' support for more than 8 GPUs of the same brand? Would I have to set him up a Linux distro if he wanted to run 19 GPUs on that mobo? Or is 16 doable under Win10? I wasn't recommending that mobo to him due to the major point of failure risk... but hey ho he went for it. Now I can see myself setting it up for him...

That board needs 6 x P106 Mining card, as pre-req to work.

See full rig setup by BBT here  - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miUoqnUqk9M

He did it with Win10 - 19 x GPUs

Does it NEED those P106's though? Can it run 16 cards (8 nvidia and 8 AMD)?

Need specifically P106 mining cards according to BBT - its dumb actually - ASUS should have put this clearly before selling this board.

[philipma1957]

Hey everyone... so I am looking at this 1500W Rosewill PSU (originally brought to my attention by Phil) to support a 1070ti build but have what is probably a stupid question...

All of my other PSUs (Rosewill and EVGA) have am 18+10 pin connector for main power. But, looking at this model, it doesn't have any port anywhere near that long.  It does appear to have 2 x 14pin slots, which still equals 28 pins total like the other, but just trying to make sure that the other end of this connector will still fit a standard Mobo as I have not seen this configuration before.

yeah it does  the wider end fits a standard mobo.


 24 pins I thnk.  but tokamak  fit like normal on the motherboard side

and BTC is pushing 16500-17000

[QuintLeo]

ASUS manual says not more than 13 "non-mining" cards, up to 8 each Nvidia or AMD - but that might have been because they RECOMMEND Windows as an OS and the drivers at the time didn't support more than 8 cards of one brand at a time (I'm not sure how the P106 mining cards get around that limit though).

Oddly enough, their CURRENT online manual seems to indicate that up to 11 AMD cards would work - but it only gives 3 "recommended" configurations and is VERY unclear about actual limits or if recent new BIOS versions have changed anything.

[philipma1957]

ASUS manual says not more than 13 "non-mining" cards, up to 8 each Nvidia or AMD - but that might have been because they RECOMMEND Windows as an OS and the drivers at the time didn't support more than 8 cards of one brand at a time (I'm not sure how the P106 mining cards get around that limit though).

Oddly enough, their CURRENT online manual seems to indicate that up to 11 AMD cards would work - but it only gives 3 "recommended" configurations and is VERY unclear about actual limits or if recent new BIOS versions have changed anything.

crap mobo any mobo that pushes or favors mining only cards does no favors to a miner.

Mining only cards are not a miners friend.