Happy New Years! Seventh alt coin thread!

[citronick]

@ citronick what's your opinion on moving a couple dozen from BTC into ETH

Thinking about diversifying my portfolio a little bit but not sure if I want to eat the fees or just keep it all BTC.

Currently, my Gemini account is 30% BTC, 30% ETH and 40% USD$
I have also Binance and Bittrex trading accounts... for about 12 more alts.
Diversity is key to growing wealth.

The Citronick System:

Every Monday - I see if BTC or ETH is high enough so that I can sell. If NO - do nothing.

Every Friday - I see if BTC or ETH  is low enough so that I can buy. If NO - do nothing.

At the moment, BTC dipped below 15,900$ support -- so I will buy.

ETH is strong at 1225$ ATH and the rally since weekend show a lot of accumulation --- so I will sell.

RINSE and REPEAT.

Well here's my other dilemma - I just don't feel safe depositing a lot of bitcoins in any exchange. I am already shitting bricks with just 3 BTC that I have in Poloniex. I probably wouldn't be able to sleep at night if I deposited 10% or 25% of my holdings with all the new tax and IRS bullshit going on I just feel I'm better off keeping it all off the books.

Just had really bad dealings with Paypal 10-15 years ago just as an example freezing 50k and didn't release for 6 months! Coinbase also stole around 100k from me and banned my account a few years ago. Not trying to deal with shit like that.

Pretty much just ranting at this point so I'll stop.


Side note I was able to scrape up 6 1070 TI's - 4 1080 TI FE's - 4 1080 TI Hybrids - and 4 1080's - never used 1080's but just said screw it why not. Slots need to be filled. Still on the hunt for more but I'm not trying to pay crazy reseller prices

So far Binance, Bittrex for trading/auto-sell .... and, Gemini and Trezor as my "bank" -- so far so good.

I have been collecting 1060s during these dry months and buying ASICs -- every single satoshi counts at this stage because the post 20k BTC will coming soon.

[citronick]

What do you guys think about the GTX 1080 Ti equipped with a blower fan?

I'm thinking about returning into to the gpu mining and build a small 4 GPU rig using these made by Zotac:
ZOTAC GeForce® GTX 1080 Ti Blower (ZT-P10810B-10P)
https://www.zotac.com/us/product/graphics_card/zotac-geforce-gtx-1080-ti

I'm able to buy these for quite reasonable price from Germany.

it is a good vga card.

you should get this board.

you can simply alternate your 4 cards very simple build.

sidonia from alibaba  will sell a sample for about 178 usd  not sure about vat to finland.

I have all info on these in first thread.  Onda b250  tell her philip from howell nj usa  linked you to her

it is all on this link
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2674194.msg27301397#msg27301397

...

Yes agree with Phil

At the end of day, standard 1080ti still performs OK and still tops the GTX 10 series.

The riserless mobos with blower type GPUs is a good match too if you use those Scythe fans to help cool down the GPUs.

If you don't get them.... I will 

[HagssFIN]

Thanks for the replies guys and
thanks for the info about the ONDA board, but the shipping and VAT most likely
kills that idea unless she writes a low value for the customs.

And I already went ahead and bought four pci-e risers.

I was thinking about getting this mb, which lets me to expand up to 6 GPU's if needed.
ASUS PRIME H270-PLUS
https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/PRIME-H270-PLUS/

[jimmykl]

Thanks for the replies guys and
thanks for the info about the ONDA board, but the shipping and VAT most likely
kills that idea unless she writes a low value for the customs.

And I already went ahead and bought four pci-e risers.

I was thinking about getting this mb, which lets me to expand up to 6 GPU's if needed.
ASUS PRIME H270-PLUS
https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/PRIME-H270-PLUS/

I have five of those boards and they work very well and are good value (at least in my location). You can expand it to 8 GPU using two M.2 to PCIE adapters (these ones are cool because they connect directly to the riser usb)

That said I recently setup my first riserless rig running linux off a usb stick and if you're expanding it might be worth the shipping + vat once you factor in buying a CPU, SSD, risers and time to set it up.

[Steamtyme]

Thanks for the help earlier Phil. I have questions regarding PSU's

So I have managed to secure 6 Sapphire Nitro+ RX580 OC 8GB cards. ( Backorder but close enough)

The site I took my guidance from is suggesting a 1000 W PSU; but I'm thinking that was for 4GB cards. I read these cards take up to 235 W, not including the rest of the system.

If you have any experience with these, would a 1600 W PSU do the trick? Also what would be the startup sequence if I were to split the load between 2 PSU's. I have time to shop around but figured I should try by getting pointed in the right direction.

Thanks

[philipma1957]

Thanks for the help earlier Phil. I have questions regarding PSU's

So I have managed to secure 6 Sapphire Nitro+ RX580 OC 8GB cards. ( Backorder but close enough)

The site I took my guidance from is suggesting a 1000 W PSU; but I'm thinknig that was for 4GB cards. I read these cards take up to 235 W, not including the rest of the system.

If you have any experience with these, would a 1600 W PSU do the trick? Also what would be the startup sequence if I were to split the load between 2 PSU's. I have time to shop around but figured I should try by getting pointed in the right direction.

Thanks

do your cards have 2 x 8 pin jacks?

you can under volt them somewhat  so 6 x 235 =  1410  is not needed.

more like 6 x 175-190 = 1050 to 1140  so a 1200 watter is just barely enough

1500 watt atx

a refurbished below and still costly

http://www.corsair.com/en-us/ax1500i-digital-atx-power-supply-1500-watt-fully-modular-psu-refurbished


on sale the rosewill tokamak  1500 watt

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Rosewill-TOKAMAK-1500W-Full-Modular-Power-Supply-80-PLUS-TITANIUM-Certified/192417010336?hash=item2cccf292a0:g:aMIAAOSwLOtYXGf2


it has 6 double headed 8 pin pcie cables  which will do 220 watts

so it could run 6 of your cards

it has 5 sata/molex cables   so you can do risers if needed


the evga 1600 g2 p2 and t2  all use 8pin + 6 pin  pcie cables

so if your sapphire are 8pin + 8pin  do not get evga

other wise any of the 3 will work

G2
https://www.evga.com/products/product.aspx?pn=120-G2-1600-X1
P2
https://www.evga.com/products/product.aspx?pn=220-P2-1600-X1
T2
https://www.evga.com/products/product.aspx?pn=220-T2-1600-X1


all five of these psu's are good. and have the juice to do your 6 cards if you don't floor them


or buy 2 of these with a psu link

http://www.corsair.com/en-us/rmx-series-rm1000x-1000-watt-80-plus-gold-certified-fully-modular-psu-na-refurbished

https://www.amazon.com/ELEGIANT-Multi-power-Synchronous-Extender-Graphics/dp/B0734Z24BJ/ref=sr_1_4?

you get more power  2000 watts

[Mashy81]

I have 2 of the 6 x onda. I am running 6 x rx570 and on the other 4 x vega 56 and 2 x rx580.
Been running them for a few weeks. A pain to setup but all good once they are set.
I am waiting on some gtx cards so would like to know also.

what issues were u facing when installing those rigs? it might help me, im planning on w10 with 6x 1080ti's

Mine were getting the operating system installed (win 10). Once I got this stable it has been plain sailing.
Its a great board and I have picked up a few more for $100 + shipping.

[philipma1957]

I have 2 of the 6 x onda. I am running 6 x rx570 and on the other 4 x vega 56 and 2 x rx580.
Been running them for a few weeks. A pain to setup but all good once they are set.
I am waiting on some gtx cards so would like to know also.

what issues were u facing when installing those rigs? it might help me, im planning on w10 with 6x 1080ti's

Mine were getting the operating system installed (win 10). Once I got this stable it has been plain sailing.
Its a great board and I have picked up a few more for $100 + shipping.

yea  windows is a ballbuster.

but smOS  I can set a nvidia rig up in under 30 minutes

[Yars]

Very informative thread, thanks guys.

I saw all your good feedbacks about riserless motherboards so I purchased 2 Onda 6 GPU boards from Alibaba. They work like a charm but i'm struggling keeping them inside a closed case with a low CFM fans, GPUs are heating too much.

I tried to use some spare Deltas 252 CFM fans, but I can't find in BIOS how to lower fan header voltage in order to decrease the RPM and consumption.
I don't want to keep them at 100% because of noise and don't think the motherboard can handle 3 fans at 3.9A each.

Any ideas?

[un4given]

Very informative thread, thanks guys.

I saw all your good feedbacks about riserless motherboards so I purchased 2 Onda 6 GPU boards from Alibaba. They work like a charm but i'm struggling keeping them inside a closed case with a low CFM fans, GPUs are heating too much.

I tried to use some spare Deltas 252 CFM fans, but I can't find in BIOS how to lower fan header voltage in order to decrease the RPM and consumption.
I don't want to keep them at 100% because of noise and don't think the motherboard can handle 3 fans at 3.9A each.

Any ideas?

just buy an external manual Fan regulator. it usually needs a 4 pol molex power

smth like this https://www.amazon.com/HDE-Channel-Multi-Fan-Cooling-Controller/dp/B006UFMH3W/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1515507033&sr=8-7&keywords=fan+control+pc

[Yars]

Very informative thread, thanks guys.

I saw all your good feedbacks about riserless motherboards so I purchased 2 Onda 6 GPU boards from Alibaba. They work like a charm but i'm struggling keeping them inside a closed case with a low CFM fans, GPUs are heating too much.

I tried to use some spare Deltas 252 CFM fans, but I can't find in BIOS how to lower fan header voltage in order to decrease the RPM and consumption.
I don't want to keep them at 100% because of noise and don't think the motherboard can handle 3 fans at 3.9A each.

Any ideas?

just buy an external manual Fan regulator. it usually needs a 4 pol molex power

smth like this https://www.amazon.com/HDE-Channel-Multi-Fan-Cooling-Controller/dp/B006UFMH3W/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1515507033&sr=8-7&keywords=fan+control+pc

I know about these fan controllers but most of them can't handle more than 2A per fan header.

[Steamtyme]

Thanks for the links Phil,

The cards have 1 - 8 pin, and 1 - 6 pin.

I was planning on using risers, mostly because I didn't know any better.

This is my first build and I figured I would go for 6 cards right now, because who knows what things will be like in a month or 2.

[morro]

Hi guys,
I have ordered some ONDA B250 motherboards from Sidonia. Can you please tell me what's the distance between the PCIe slots? Will some AORUS 1080ti (5.5cm wide) fit well next to each other? Or do I have to use <=5 cm cards?

[P00P135]

Hi guys,
I have ordered some ONDA B250 motherboards from Sidonia. Can you please tell me what's the distance between the PCIe slots? Will some AORUS 1080ti (5.5cm wide) fit well next to each other? Or do I have to use <=5 cm cards?

Safe to assume no, those Aorus are like 3 slot GPU's.

[timeshifter]

Hi guys,
I have ordered some ONDA B250 motherboards from Sidonia. Can you please tell me what's the distance between the PCIe slots? Will some AORUS 1080ti (5.5cm wide) fit well next to each other? Or do I have to use <=5 cm cards?

Did you get v1 or v2 motherboard?

[philipma1957]

Hi guys,
I have ordered some ONDA B250 motherboards from Sidonia. Can you please tell me what's the distance between the PCIe slots? Will some AORUS 1080ti (5.5cm wide) fit well next to each other? Or do I have to use <=5 cm cards?

Did you get v1 or v2 motherboard?

same as me  the v1  ie 1 short slot  blocked by the 24 pin psu header

those aorus are just too fucking wide  for any thing.

[morro]

Hi guys,
I have ordered some ONDA B250 motherboards from Sidonia. Can you please tell me what's the distance between the PCIe slots? Will some AORUS 1080ti (5.5cm wide) fit well next to each other? Or do I have to use <=5 cm cards?

Did you get v1 or v2 motherboard?

I have no idea, probably v1? Just ordered today from the link Philip posted: https://leiqing.en.alibaba.com/product/60707942149-803390961/China_New_Top_Sell_Bitcoins_Mining_Motherboard_With_12_PCIE_Ports_B250_Chipset_Intel_Manufacturer.html

At the current insane prices of sha256 miners I'm making a switch to gpu mining. I didn't imagine things to be so complex, so many pieces and cables... Going back to reading more pages.

[wolf_miner]

Hi I need some help with Onda D1800 BTC, the mobo arrived without bios battery, what kind of battery I have to use, Lithium CR2032 is the correct one? Is available the scheme to connect power button and status led to FP1 connector?

Thanks in advance W_M

[JaredKaragen]

Hi guys,
I have ordered some ONDA B250 motherboards from Sidonia. Can you please tell me what's the distance between the PCIe slots? Will some AORUS 1080ti (5.5cm wide) fit well next to each other? Or do I have to use <=5 cm cards?

The B250 D8P V1.0 is ~6.5cm from center of 16x slot to center of 16x slot.  I don't imagine they changed this in 2.0.

[martyroz]

I previously paid little attention to PCIE headers and ignored the fact that there are 1070ti models out there that operate on just one 8-pin (EVGA comes to mind).

As a result, I have build slightly inefficient rigs which have motherboards and PSU's capable of 8 devices, which can only power 5 * dual-pin, due to having a maximum of 10 PCIE headers from the PSU

Would it be dangerous to use an adapter that converts a single PCIE header into two? Specifically with 1070ti's operating at 106W?

My only other option would be to sell off a bunch of dual-pin 1070ti and buy the EVGA single pins to replace them. Or just build a new rig and re-arrange the lot to suit.