Happy New Years! Seventh alt coin thread!

[dragonmike]

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

CR2032 confirmed for Onda D1800. My seller actually informed me of the fact they were not allowed to include the battery in the package from China. Just buy one (costs next to nothing), plug it in and off you go!

[MagicSmoker]

Hey guys sorry I've been so MIA lately T_T been trying to adjust after having my life/schedule flipped around last month (not a pity post, but seriously I miss being more active in this thread)

On a positive note I'm kind of impressed with the numbers the 1050 TI's put out for being old tech on equihash wi/ DSTM miner, these ASUS pulled ~190 sols @ 60 watts

I'm one of the many rooting for Tails!

The GTX 1050 Ti was my first mining GPU - because it was what was installed in my main desktop when I started. It didn't take me long to figure out that Equihash (and Neoscrypt - 460 H/s) are its strong points*. In fact, the Equihash performance - combined with not needing external PCIe power - makes it almost compelling. I would still be using it for Equihash except the fan went bad - new one on its way from China - and I have since bought an RX 570, (4) GTX 1060 3GB (chosen mainly because of availability), and a used GTX 1080 from a local store for the low-low price of MSRP...  - Yes, I know Ethash is especially bad on the plain 1080, but it is an Equihash and Neoscrypt monster (it's churning out >1k H/s on the latter right now with just +300 on the memory clock).


* - Cryptonight performance, however, is especially terrible at around 385 H/s - my Ryzen 5 1600 is faster - while I could only manage about 13.4 MH/s with Ethash despite that this card has Samsung memory.

[vapourminer]

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

CR2032 confirmed for Onda D1800. My seller actually informed me of the fact they were not allowed to include the battery in the package from China. Just buy one (costs next to nothing), plug it in and off you go!

yeah any of the bigger drug stores chains should have em (cvs, riteaid for example) if youre in a hurry.

[deadsix]

Anyone else using 1050 TI's? they are one of the only cards that's actually available lately. . lol

Great Video Vosk, you have really grown in knowledge over the last year
And yeah, the 1050ti's are the only ones really available at somewhat reasonable prices, but I really want to know what memory are you folks getting? Are they all Samsung memory?
Because the last time I bought GTX 1060's in a big batch, ALL of them turned out to be Hynix, Zotac, Inno3D, Palit, MSI, Asus - the lot, everything was hynix.
The Current GPU Crunch, and the upcoming slowdown in production schedules owing to the Chinese New Year celebrations, mean the situation is not going to improve, so I want to stock up on GPU's.

[MarkSinn]

any news of custom vega 56 ?

[rs1x]

hi guys -I need some help.

I purchased several HP DPS-750RB A power supplies from eBay.  My goal was to plug these supplies into break out boards that I've purchased from Parallel Miner.

So I have the power supplies, and when I plug them in via 3 prong power cord I get no green light on the back of the power supply.  I've tried several power cords to connect these power supplies.

I have FOUR different HP DPS-750RB A power supplies, and 3 different power cords I've tried.  No combination of the gear has worked.

Anyone have any advice here?  Did i purchase the "wrong" type of server power supply?

I did some research already via google - I didn't find anything to helpful.

[HagssFIN]

^ Let's try something simple first. Did you press the power button in the breakout board?

[rs1x]

^ Let's try something simple first. Did you press the power button in the breakout board?

Yes I did try that - fair question, which i should have included.

Perhaps I received a bad breakout board?  It's the part that I don't have several of to test.

[philipma1957]

Link the eBay add for the psu

[rs1x]

Link the eBay add for the psu

https://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-HSTNS-PL18-750W-Server-Power-Supply-506821-001-506822-201-511778-001/201650125897


Thanks guys  - maybe it's user error on my part?

[nsummy]

Hey guys sorry I've been so MIA lately T_T been trying to adjust after having my life/schedule flipped around last month (not a pity post, but seriously I miss being more active in this thread)

On a positive note I'm kind of impressed with the numbers the 1050 TI's put out for being old tech on equihash wi/ DSTM miner, these ASUS pulled ~190 sols @ 60 watts

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2724055
my full post on it

Here's the video if any of you guys are interested

https://youtu.be/574KpZdpaVE




Anyone else using 1050 TI's? they are one of the only cards that's actually available lately. . lol

I bought one a couple of months ago for $120 from EVGA Wednesday deals.  For its price its an absolute beast.  Generally my 1070s only outperform it by 2.5x, making it probably the best bang for buck that you can get.  And powering it from the mobo is another benefit.  As someone else mentioned though, rig density is the bigger issue.  I honestly don't know why they aren't discussed more often.

[QuintLeo]

any news of custom vega 56 ?

 MSI had one up on NewEgg for a VERY short while but it's out of stock again.
 A few others have been anounced but haven't seen them actually for sale yet even when listed.

[QuintLeo]

My gear is set up in my unfinished basement, about 28 feet away from the breakers.  It's just where they ended up, near a workbench and where I had some portable shelving.

As I look to add new outlet(s) I was thinking I'd just put it next to the panel for now because it's easier.  I saw someone mention EMI and other interference when you travel some distance, and I'll be pulling about 4400 watts, so it might be nice not to have all that right over my desk (my desk is between the panel and my shelving / workbench.

Is it a good idea to locate your mining rigs and power outlets right next to the breaker panel? 

 EMI is a non-factor. 60 hz doesn't generate enough EMI for computer gear to notice.

 Close to a panel makes for shorter runs and slightly less IIR losses in the power feeds - it's not enough to be a big deal but it probably would save you a FEW watt-hours a month.

[QuintLeo]

* - Cryptonight performance, however, is especially terrible at around 385 H/s - my Ryzen 5 1600 is faster - while I could only manage about 13.4 MH/s with Ethash despite that this card has Samsung memory.

 50% better than the 750 ti that it replaced - and similar power usage if I remember correctly from postings folks have made about it.

 But yes, quite a few of the Ryzen CPUs can do better - abet generally at same-to-HIGHER power usage.

[wolf_miner]

Hi, thanks a lot for your previous help.
Do you know if this case 4W-6O (waikey/ENFOLD - 4U 6 GPU Mining Rig Case for Onda D1800-BTC Motherboard)  is available somewhere in Europe?



Cheers W_M

[MagicSmoker]

* - Cryptonight performance, however, is especially terrible at around 385 H/s - my Ryzen 5 1600 is faster - while I could only manage about 13.4 MH/s with Ethash despite that this card has Samsung memory.

 50% better than the 750 ti that it replaced - and similar power usage if I remember correctly from postings folks have made about it.

 But yes, quite a few of the Ryzen CPUs can do better - abet generally at same-to-HIGHER power usage.

HWInfo says my Ryzen 5 1600 draws an extra 52W while mining Cryptonight at ~400 H/s, while the TDP of the 1050 Ti is 75W, so the Ryzen wins in the hashes/W department as well.

But my point was more that the 1050 Ti really excels at Equihash so why use it on an algo it's only mediocre at like Cryptonight or Ethash?

Oh, I forgot, it's also relatively good at Lyra2v2 - my spreadsheet of benchmarks shows 14.8 ?H/s at 1860 core, 3800 mem, using ccminer-klausT (the ? is because I don't know what the correct units are - k, M, none at all?)

***

On a separate note, can someone <cough, philipma1957, cough-cough> give me the dimensions of the 6 slot D1800? I want to get started on a rack and I suspect the dimensions on the Alibaba listing are not even remotely correct (at least I hope that's the case - a "plate size" of 195mm x 374mm is smaller than Micro-ATX).

[MarkSinn]

any news of custom vega 56 ?

 MSI had one up on NewEgg for a VERY short while but it's out of stock again.
 A few others have been anounced but haven't seen them actually for sale yet even when listed.

Thanks, yeah and this year there aren't any new vega GPU

[dragonmike]

Guys, would like your opinion on the following please.

I'm going to help two work colleagues set up their first respective mining rigs next week (both identical 6x1080).
I'm struggling on what to set them up to mine, basically. As they have very little knowledge of the whole mining experience, the logical thing would be to get them an account on Nicehash and forget about it.

Unfortunately I don't like that option for 3 reasons:
- NH is taking massive fees
- They'd have to setup an account because mining to external addresses would just take ages for them to see their gains
- NH is not my friend anymore, generally, for well-known reasons

I could set them up with DSTM and mine ZEC, but they'd potentially be forfeiting 30-40% of potential earnings.

What do you reckon? Zpool equihash hub? Ahashpool Neoscrypt hub?

[rs1x]

Guys, would like your opinion on the following please.

I'm going to help two work colleagues set up their first respective mining rigs next week (both identical 6x1080).
I'm struggling on what to set them up to mine, basically. As they have very little knowledge of the whole mining experience, the logical thing would be to get them an account on Nicehash and forget about it.

Unfortunately I don't like that option for 3 reasons:
- NH is taking massive fees
- They'd have to setup an account because mining to external addresses would just take ages for them to see their gains
- NH is not my friend anymore, generally, for well-known reasons

I could set them up with DSTM and mine ZEC, but they'd potentially be forfeiting 30-40% of potential earnings.

What do you reckon? Zpool equihash hub? Ahashpool Neoscrypt hub?

What woold be the disadvantage in mining zcash on flypool and using smos. That would be very simple setup and when they decide they want to mine other equihash stuff they can ?

[citronick]

Guys, would like your opinion on the following please.

I'm going to help two work colleagues set up their first respective mining rigs next week (both identical 6x1080).
I'm struggling on what to set them up to mine, basically. As they have very little knowledge of the whole mining experience, the logical thing would be to get them an account on Nicehash and forget about it.

Unfortunately I don't like that option for 3 reasons:
- NH is taking massive fees
- They'd have to setup an account because mining to external addresses would just take ages for them to see their gains
- NH is not my friend anymore, generally, for well-known reasons

I could set them up with DSTM and mine ZEC, but they'd potentially be forfeiting 30-40% of potential earnings.

What do you reckon? Zpool equihash hub? Ahashpool Neoscrypt hub?

Why dont you mine direct to pools like nanopool -- send them to Bittrex and set the auto-sell on to convert to BTC automatically (or turn it off, and sell it when price is right).

NH do have steep charges for payouts but that's the price to pay to get BTC upfront and cut thru all the confirmation etc etc. NH is afterall a buyer/seller marketplace ... sometimes they will be very high payrates for certain hot coins etc. NH is not a mining pool....