Happy New Years! Seventh alt coin thread!

[vapourminer]

Hey hows peoples experience with running AMD cards like the 570/580/Vegas on the Onda D8P motherboards, all I see is them running Nvidia.
I want to know since AMD cards, unlike Nvidia, pull a lot of juice through the PCIe slots, so if anyone's done an 8 card build and its running stable, I'd love to hear about it, maybe see some pictures.

not all amd, mine is mixed: i have 2x470s and a 460 on my d8p (other cards are 2x1080ti, 1070ti, 1070)

runs fine, fwiw

[R0mi]

okay I am building a rig for a guy using the b250 version 1  onda.

he wants windows. and I loaded windows 10 did the up date loaded nvidia drivers booted and I am at black screen.

pissed to say the least.  any guess at what to do next.

I tried a few tricks but going nowhere fast here.

Hi Phil, I put windows on the Onda B250 you sent me this past Sunday.  I played around a lot changing bios settings, got a black and then a grey screen.  I was connected to an Nvidia card, not to the internal GPU.  I was also connected to the network.  I ended up hitting the clear CMOS button by the 2 USB ports.  That at least got me to the screen where I could enter the bios settings again.  This time I think I only changed PCIe speeds from max to Gen1.  Rebooted, loaded windows from a USB stick, install went fine.   I'll check over the weekend, but I am pretty sure I did not enable the 4G option, which you have to do on Asus Z270 boards.  Can check all the other settings as well and I will report back.

But bottom line, same exact board and Windows is running fine.  For memory I used the G.Skills stick that either you or someone else on here posted the link to NewEgg.

[rs1x]

okay I am building a rig for a guy using the b250 version 1  onda.

he wants windows. and I loaded windows 10 did the up date loaded nvidia drivers booted and I am at black screen.

pissed to say the least.  any guess at what to do next.

I tried a few tricks but going nowhere fast here.

The onda board i got from you in December I had windows on it. I always had monitor in onboard hdmi. Never to a video card

[vapourminer]

okay I am building a rig for a guy using the b250 version 1  onda.

he wants windows. and I loaded windows 10 did the up date loaded nvidia drivers booted and I am at black screen.

pissed to say the least.  any guess at what to do next.

I tried a few tricks but going nowhere fast here.

Hi Phil, I put windows on the Onda B250 you sent me this past Sunday.  I played around a lot changing bios settings, got a black and then a grey screen.  I was connected to an Nvidia card, not to the internal GPU.  I was also connected to the network.  I ended up hitting the clear CMOS button by the 2 USB ports.  That at least got me to the screen where I could enter the bios settings again.  This time I think I only changed PCIe speeds from max to Gen1.  Rebooted, loaded windows from a USB stick, install went fine.   I'll check over the weekend, but I am pretty sure I did not enable the 4G option, which you have to do on Asus Z270 boards.  Can check all the other settings as well and I will report back.

But bottom line, same exact board and Windows is running fine.  For memory I used the G.Skills stick that either you or someone else on here posted the link to NewEgg.

phil, here are some shots of my onda b250 d8p v1 bios, its running win10pro

display is running off the igpu (the boards HDMI plug), cards have nothing plugged into them.



https://i.imgur.com/7J3nPzi.jpg?2



https://i.imgur.com/icq2Wua.jpg?1



https://i.imgur.com/Nz5Fssv.jpg?1

let me know if you need something specific you want shots of

[KaydenC]

Escrow makes sense, but using poor Phil as the escrow agent sounds awfully burdensome for him!

My Escrow Dapp is the perfect solution:  http://escrowmyether.com/

When the buyer confirms he received his goods (in this case, once USD or other coins reached his address/account), he can automatically release funds (ETH) in the Dapp. He can also initiate the transaction in the Dapp. All these can be down without going through the escrow agent, just put escrow agent's address in the correct field. The escrow agent only needs to be involved when a dispute occurs.

I escrowed for 9.74eth so far and only one of the transactions required my intervention. All other transactions were initiated and fund released without me taking any action.


If you'd like, you can use my address , details in sig. Also, anyone can be an escrow agent on the platform, just update your name and fee and advertise your service.

Hah, seek and ye shall find! Ingenious service, are you planning on supporting any more coins in the future? ZEN and/or ZEC would be a natural for escrow service and have low transaction fees.

Ah the smart contracts can be written on the Ethereum platform only, but should also work on ETC. The transaction fees are problematic indeed, when it launched it costs less than a cent to create an escrow transaction using 0.5Gwei price. Now it's $2-5 depending on the network congestion.


It can be written for ERC20 tokens. A useful one will be DAI, a token that's pegged to 1 USD.


The Dapp has been used for OTC coin trades in the past. Here's a 4.5 Eth transaction for Boscoin (Click convert to ascii below): https://etherscan.io/tx/0xfe9139faf2c227d743d599259237ac6479d8267354145115a274a76534997ec8

[philipma1957]

okay I am building a rig for a guy using the b250 version 1  onda.

he wants windows. and I loaded windows 10 did the up date loaded nvidia drivers booted and I am at black screen.

pissed to say the least.  any guess at what to do next.

I tried a few tricks but going nowhere fast here.

Hi Phil, I put windows on the Onda B250 you sent me this past Sunday.  I played around a lot changing bios settings, got a black and then a grey screen.  I was connected to an Nvidia card, not to the internal GPU.  I was also connected to the network.  I ended up hitting the clear CMOS button by the 2 USB ports.  That at least got me to the screen where I could enter the bios settings again.  This time I think I only changed PCIe speeds from max to Gen1.  Rebooted, loaded windows from a USB stick, install went fine.   I'll check over the weekend, but I am pretty sure I did not enable the 4G option, which you have to do on Asus Z270 boards.  Can check all the other settings as well and I will report back.

But bottom line, same exact board and Windows is running fine.  For memory I used the G.Skills stick that either you or someone else on here posted the link to NewEgg.

phil, here are some shots of my onda b250 d8p v1 bios, its running win10pro

display is running off the igpu (the boards HDMI plug), cards have nothing plugged into them.



https://i.imgur.com/7J3nPzi.jpg?2



https://i.imgur.com/icq2Wua.jpg?1



https://i.imgur.com/Nz5Fssv.jpg?1

let me know if you need something specific you want shots of

I got it to work  thanks

[own4d]

Wow has ETH been on a wild ride!  Was watching it all day yesterday... topping out at about $1,230 on GDAX (I broke down and sold 1 at just over $1,200 lol). Then overnight, it crashed all the way down under $980, only to quickly rebound and now be right at the $1,150 mark and possibly headed over $1,200 again.  Thanks to this latest bump, my rx 470's are netting over $3/day... something I never would have thought possible, even 3 months ago!  Granted, it's nowhere near the close to $10/day on the higher end GTX cards, but hopefully i will get on that train very soon.

Hey GabryRox

Which coin(s) give this kind of return cira $10/day?
I have a single 1080 Ti for now
I have attempted XVG ($7/day) ETH ($4/day) SC ($0.5/day) DCRED ($0.5/day)
Pascal, LBRY look to yield the same poor profits sub $1

I have yet to try ZEC, ETC or XMR

Thanks a lot in advance

[Moondoggie]

Wow has ETH been on a wild ride!  Was watching it all day yesterday... topping out at about $1,230 on GDAX (I broke down and sold 1 at just over $1,200 lol). Then overnight, it crashed all the way down under $980, only to quickly rebound and now be right at the $1,150 mark and possibly headed over $1,200 again.  Thanks to this latest bump, my rx 470's are netting over $3/day... something I never would have thought possible, even 3 months ago!  Granted, it's nowhere near the close to $10/day on the higher end GTX cards, but hopefully i will get on that train very soon.

Hey GabryRox

Which coin(s) give this kind of return cira $10/day?
I have a single 1080 Ti for now
I have attempted XVG ($7/day) ETH ($4/day) SC ($0.5/day) DCRED ($0.5/day)
Pascal, LBRY look to yield the same poor profits sub $1

I have yet to try ZEC, ETC or XMR

Thanks a lot in advance

Have a look at MUN coin.
Dont mine it myself, but its often near the top of the calculators and currently estimating 15/day

[kemo6600]

Hey hows peoples experience with running AMD cards like the 570/580/Vegas on the Onda D8P motherboards, all I see is them running Nvidia.
I want to know since AMD cards, unlike Nvidia, pull a lot of juice through the PCIe slots, so if anyone's done an 8 card build and its running stable, I'd love to hear about it, maybe see some pictures.

Been running 8 RX570 for over 3 weeks now , rock stable both windows and Linux , pulling around 800W for ETN and 1000-1050W for ETH . keeping it on ETN for the past two weeks because i have no forced ventilation yet .

[Mashy81]

Hey hows peoples experience with running AMD cards like the 570/580/Vegas on the Onda D8P motherboards, all I see is them running Nvidia.
I want to know since AMD cards, unlike Nvidia, pull a lot of juice through the PCIe slots, so if anyone's done an 8 card build and its running stable, I'd love to hear about it, maybe see some pictures.

I have the onda 6 board not the 8 but it has been running flawless for about 2 months now. I have 4 x vega56 and 2 x rx570 on it. Only thing I had to do was patch the drivers on the 570's after bios flash.
9000h/s @ 700w.

[Mashy81]

I am waiting for latine to have the onda 8x gpu board with inbuilt cpu.

[philipma1957]

Wow has ETH been on a wild ride!  Was watching it all day yesterday... topping out at about $1,230 on GDAX (I broke down and sold 1 at just over $1,200 lol). Then overnight, it crashed all the way down under $980, only to quickly rebound and now be right at the $1,150 mark and possibly headed over $1,200 again.  Thanks to this latest bump, my rx 470's are netting over $3/day... something I never would have thought possible, even 3 months ago!  Granted, it's nowhere near the close to $10/day on the higher end GTX cards, but hopefully i will get on that train very soon.

Hey GabryRox

Which coin(s) give this kind of return cira $10/day?
I have a single 1080 Ti for now
I have attempted XVG ($7/day) ETH ($4/day) SC ($0.5/day) DCRED ($0.5/day)
Pascal, LBRY look to yield the same poor profits sub $1

I have yet to try ZEC, ETC or XMR

Thanks a lot in advance

Have a look at MUN coin.
Dont mine it myself, but its often near the top of the calculators and currently estimating 15/day

nist5  is decent 

[deadsix]

Been running 8 RX570 for over 3 weeks now , rock stable both windows and Linux , pulling around 800W for ETN and 1000-1050W for ETH . keeping it on ETN for the past two weeks because i have no forced ventilation yet .

not all amd, mine is mixed: i have 2x470s and a 460 on my d8p (other cards are 2x1080ti, 1070ti, 1070)
runs fine, fwiw

I have the onda 6 board not the 8 but it has been running flawless for about 2 months now. I have 4 x vega56 and 2 x rx570 on it. Only thing I had to do was patch the drivers on the 570's after bios flash.
9000h/s @ 700w.

Thanks for your reports guys, sounds pretty encouraging. I guess I will order a batch of these boards then.

[dragonmike]

Guys, can you give me your opinion on the following please? I'm going to help a friend build his first mining rig. He got the Gigabyte GA-H110-D3A board. I gave him the entire list of components (including an HDMI dummy plug). Unfortunately I didn't realise that board did not have a HDMI video output... but a D-SUB.

So ideally I would like to use the IGFX as signal output to not use any of the mining GPUs for that task. Obviously the HDMI dummy plug won't work. Amazon UK doesn't seem to feature any D-SUB dummy plugs. I've got old VGA dummy plugs that I built myself back in 2014 using capacitors to short the pins and emulate a monitor... but will they fit a D-SUB output?

Any ideas?

[deadsix]

Guys, can you give me your opinion on the following please? I'm going to help a friend build his first mining rig. He got the Gigabyte GA-H110-D3A board. I gave him the entire list of components (including an HDMI dummy plug). Unfortunately I didn't realise that board did not have a HDMI video output... but a D-SUB.

So ideally I would like to use the IGFX as signal output to not use any of the mining GPUs for that task. Obviously the HDMI dummy plug won't work. Amazon UK doesn't seem to feature any D-SUB dummy plugs. I've got old VGA dummy plugs that I built myself back in 2014 using capacitors to short the pins and emulate a monitor... but will they fit a D-SUB output?

Any ideas?

But why do you need a dummy plug on an H110 motherboard? AFAIK dummy plugs were only needed on the H81's, on all other hardware they are optional (to overcome the 480p display cap on older boards) and even then if you force enable the onboard gfx on the H110 board, display scales 720p.

[dragonmike]

Guys, can you give me your opinion on the following please? I'm going to help a friend build his first mining rig. He got the Gigabyte GA-H110-D3A board. I gave him the entire list of components (including an HDMI dummy plug). Unfortunately I didn't realise that board did not have a HDMI video output... but a D-SUB.

So ideally I would like to use the IGFX as signal output to not use any of the mining GPUs for that task. Obviously the HDMI dummy plug won't work. Amazon UK doesn't seem to feature any D-SUB dummy plugs. I've got old VGA dummy plugs that I built myself back in 2014 using capacitors to short the pins and emulate a monitor... but will they fit a D-SUB output?

Any ideas?

But why do you need a dummy plug on an H110 motherboard? AFAIK dummy plugs were only needed on the H81's, on all other hardware they are optional (to overcome the 480p display cap on older boards) and even then if you force enable the onboard gfx on the H110 board, display scales 720p.

Ok, I didn't know that. Basically I'm trying to make sure logging into the rig using Teamviewer will not be rez-limited due to the absence of the dummy plug. If it's going to default to 720p I reckon it'll be workable...

[P00P135]

Guys, can you give me your opinion on the following please? I'm going to help a friend build his first mining rig. He got the Gigabyte GA-H110-D3A board. I gave him the entire list of components (including an HDMI dummy plug). Unfortunately I didn't realise that board did not have a HDMI video output... but a D-SUB.

So ideally I would like to use the IGFX as signal output to not use any of the mining GPUs for that task. Obviously the HDMI dummy plug won't work. Amazon UK doesn't seem to feature any D-SUB dummy plugs. I've got old VGA dummy plugs that I built myself back in 2014 using capacitors to short the pins and emulate a monitor... but will they fit a D-SUB output?

Any ideas?

The lack of an hdmi port is something i've always hated about a lot of these stripped down miner boards.  I think the vga dummy should fit though.  I would tunnel in without it first.

[skymia]

New coin with great potentials, coming very soon to the exchange! Do your own research, study your own investment! Good luck,

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2753447.0

[bubbAJoe]

Been running 8 RX570 for over 3 weeks now , rock stable both windows and Linux , pulling around 800W for ETN and 1000-1050W for ETH . keeping it on ETN for the past two weeks because i have no forced ventilation yet .

not all amd, mine is mixed: i have 2x470s and a 460 on my d8p (other cards are 2x1080ti, 1070ti, 1070)
runs fine, fwiw

I have the onda 6 board not the 8 but it has been running flawless for about 2 months now. I have 4 x vega56 and 2 x rx570 on it. Only thing I had to do was patch the drivers on the 570's after bios flash.
9000h/s @ 700w.

Thanks for your reports guys, sounds pretty encouraging. I guess I will order a batch of these boards then.

You had better do it today, they're about to shut down for the CNY.  After that, boards won't ship until March.  Good luck!

[MagicSmoker]

New coin with great potentials, coming very soon to the exchange! Do your own research, study your own investment! Good luck,

[link removed]

LOL, you dun goofed, son.