Happy New Years! Seventh alt coin thread!

[philipma1957]

Nvidia = trouble free.

I want to do 6 card  1080ti hybrid   only

3 year warranty  I can crank up and down power  almost zero work


these
http://www.corsair.com/en-us/hydro-gfx-gtx-1080-ti-liquid-cooled-graphics-card

or these

https://www.evga.com/products/product.aspx?pn=11G-P4-6598-KR


run smos 

Im with you on this bud, ever since i went all watercooled on every gpu i mine with except my test rig... my average hashrate increase across all the rigs already nearly payed for all the work it took to convert them all to water... the new waterpump setup im running is showing to be super stable and i was actually able to add a variac to reduce the waterpump down to about 40% of the output it was running at previously and still have plenty of overflow flooding the supply side of the system.... temps down here have been up to 89-90F during the peak of the day already and my gpu temps are still peaking at 57c on the loop

variac = great gear  I used them when I built kit audio amps.

Prebuilt Waterblock from evga and msi or corsair are far better  then any air cooled  1080tis.

 Long warranty 3 years and   higher hashing = make the extra cost back easy peasy.  they are quiet.  and you can do 130 to 210 watts on a card    which makes them  far more efficient


Hot in NJ so


look here

set to 175 watts

https://i.imgur.com/hC9Ljxw.png


set to 140 watts


 https://i.imgur.com/RSaozeN.png

[TheYankeesWin!]

So you lower the watts  7 x 35 =  245 watts  to manage heat  and drop hash  from 4750 to 4250


so 245 watts  gives 500 hash  which is  only 2.04 sols  per watt

[dragonmike]

Ah the joy of having 27 nvidia 1080ti's

and only 1 rx560

fuck bios flashing.

Proud to say never did a one.

Agreed 100%

My group's AMD farm was tweaked for ETH (2015-2016) and it was a bloody nightmare that BIOS flashing.

If I could turn back time, I would have used 1060s and 1070s any day.

No BIOS flashing needed, impressive MHs, watts and temps well under controlled.

That premium on NVIDIA cards vs AMD - is worth it.

Apart from Vega cards, all cards acquired since last year were all NVIDIA.

@R0mi - I had to flash over 300 x GPUs (470s, 480s) - it was no picnic.
I also had to do a crash course Linux because the farm went 100% SMOS and ditched Windoze.
Thanks to kind souls out there, I managed to write a script that will flash batches of GPUs at a time, in Linux.

Disagree 100%.
Yes, my RX 570's were a pain to flash and setup... A YEAR AGO. But that's because of a bunch of different issues. Immature drivers. Immature mobo BIOS. Little knowledge about the best mem timings to use... You guys need to put things into perspective here. Back then you were able to extract 29Mh/s out of a GPU that cost less than $200 BECAUSE AMD ALLOWED YOU TO DO IT. Try to get that out of any nVidia card at that price!

Today, not only are all driver and bios issues sorted, timings are widely available. You can get your AMD rig flashed, up and mining in no time. If there is stock building up in RX570/580 at less than $350 they are an extremely compelling option.

Dont get me wrong - the AMD farm is still alive and well - well optimised, undervolted and stable with the custom BIOS. Still the workhorse in the farm doing UBQ and XMR. Apart from some GPUs with failing fans, the farm is steady as a rock.

However.... If I were to do everything again, I will choose NVIDIA purely for speed to deployment, and probably worth more after sales because the BIOS are intact and seems components better quality. Its just preference my friend.

I hear you. Scale does add a factor to consider. However I believe the whole setting up of AMD cards is now a lot easier than it was last year due to the reasons I mentioned above.

Would I have setup a whole farms of AMD cards last year knowing what had to be done to get it running? Hell no.
Would I today? Yup. Certainly.

[Storx]

Nvidia = trouble free.

I want to do 6 card  1080ti hybrid   only

3 year warranty  I can crank up and down power  almost zero work


these
http://www.corsair.com/en-us/hydro-gfx-gtx-1080-ti-liquid-cooled-graphics-card

or these

https://www.evga.com/products/product.aspx?pn=11G-P4-6598-KR


run smos  

Im with you on this bud, ever since i went all watercooled on every gpu i mine with except my test rig... my average hashrate increase across all the rigs already nearly payed for all the work it took to convert them all to water... the new waterpump setup im running is showing to be super stable and i was actually able to add a variac to reduce the waterpump down to about 40% of the output it was running at previously and still have plenty of overflow flooding the supply side of the system.... temps down here have been up to 89-90F during the peak of the day already and my gpu temps are still peaking at 57c on the loop

variac = great gear  I used them when I built kit audio amps.

Prebuilt Waterblock from evga and msi or corsair are far better  then any air cooled  1080tis.

 Long warranty 3 years and   higher hashing = make the extra cost back easy peasy.  they are quiet.  and you can do 130 to 210 watts on a card    which makes them  far more efficient


Hot in NJ so


look here

set to 175 watts

https://i.imgur.com/hC9Ljxw.png


set to 140 watts


 https://i.imgur.com/RSaozeN.png

Ya i agree with ya on that, ive been contemplating going a few hybrids... just been very happy with the normal air cards with universal cpu waterblocks.... the hottest ive seen the VRAM and PWR modules on the PCB's is 73c so far.. keeping an eye on them via thermal gun to see if i need to add a small amount of cooling to them, currently i have the naked cards with universal $13 copper CPU waterblocks attached to them.

To be honest with the lack of heat around the rigs due to the cooling being transferred outside, i wouldn't be shocked if you could place hundreds of these rigs in a single room with a small window a/c to maintain the room to around 80f or something cooler if you had to... the amount of heat in my rig room has reduced by like 90%

Example: just glancing at one of my rigs...
im averaging 939.31 MH on skein @ 151watts only on asus turbo 1080ti, before to get into the 930's i was in the 240+watt range

[QuintLeo]

@Romi and @Tadeus
It's a Sapphire rx470 reference, with blower. So, no dual bios, and no way to see inside without removing the blower

After looking at mine, they DO have dual BIOS - though the switch is not real obvious and tiny.

[vg54dett]

@Romi and @Tadeus
It's a Sapphire rx470 reference, with blower. So, no dual bios, and no way to see inside without removing the blower

After looking at mine, they DO have dual BIOS - though the switch is not real obvious and tiny.

I wish it would be the same for me, but I triple checked and found nothing.
Maybe different batch from yours ?
Would you be kind enough to take a picture ?

[JaredKaragen]

@Romi and @Tadeus
It's a Sapphire rx470 reference, with blower. So, no dual bios, and no way to see inside without removing the blower

After looking at mine, they DO have dual BIOS - though the switch is not real obvious and tiny.

I wish it would be the same for me, but I triple checked and found nothing.
Maybe different batch from yours ?
Would you be kind enough to take a picture ?

Even better: Click for some google search results

[rs1x]

nuff GPUs... lets talk Asics.

My group has a sizable Scrypt and X11 ASICS farm hosted overseas.

With dwindling revenues in Scrypt and X11 algos, especially X11, we had to make a decision on what to do with the farm.

The farm is about 70% ROI, consisting of Innosilicon A4s, Bitmain L3+s and D3s.

Total hash power around 11 GHs Scrypt and 350 GHs X11.

Keep or sell off the farm?

Conclusion: Keep the farm alive for special project, as long as the power stays cheap (ie. cheap Canada hydro power)

Special project:

Acquire LTC, ETC, RDD, XVG and VTC for long term.

Using prohashing.com, a Scrypt and X11 multi-algo pool, we portioned a fixed % for these 5 coins (to be auto-exchanged)

There are a number of other coins that prohashing can auto-exchange to, depending on your preference.

Too bad prohashing.com only supports Scrypt and X11 mining.

For more algos & coin pools, MPH is a good choice but it allows only 1 coin type to auto exchange.

you are looking to get some ETC for long term hold?  I like it.  what have you heard with ETC that makes you want to keep long term
VTC seems like it was pretty popular around here at one point.
RDD - i have tlook look into this one.
XVG - was a massive pumper earlier, i have some.  you see a bright future for this one?


I respect your opinion a lot, always like to see why you like certain coins, etc.

[rs1x]

also i don't know there is much chatter in this thread over ZCL/BTCP.  Anyone taking a gamble on the ZCL -> BTCP pump?

[philipma1957]

I mine zec to btc

I hold a little btc 0.5-0.7   not that little I guess

A few ltc

mostly cash cash cash at this time.

I am waiting for a buying opportunity in newer gear.

[JaredKaragen]

im holding out for the new gen of GPU....

This just fell in my lap the other night;  so it should definitely fund the new hardware purchase.

76x   EV SL10-2V...

https://imgur.com/a/gFdPR

[philipma1957]

im holding out for the new gen of GPU....

This just fell in my lap the other night;  so it should definitely fund the new hardware purchase.

76x   EV SL10-2V...

https://imgur.com/a/gFdPR

nice  a lot of speakers


  is that an old movie house?


https://www.manualslib.com/manual/43897/Electro-Voice-Sl10-2v.html

https://www.ebay.com/itm/EV-Electro-Voice-SL10-2V-Slanted-Two-Way-Cinema-Surround-Speakers-FREE-Shipping/332204398978?

[citronick]

nuff GPUs... lets talk Asics.

My group has a sizable Scrypt and X11 ASICS farm hosted overseas.

With dwindling revenues in Scrypt and X11 algos, especially X11, we had to make a decision on what to do with the farm.

The farm is about 70% ROI, consisting of Innosilicon A4s, Bitmain L3+s and D3s.

Total hash power around 11 GHs Scrypt and 350 GHs X11.

Keep or sell off the farm?

Conclusion: Keep the farm alive for special project, as long as the power stays cheap (ie. cheap Canada hydro power)

Special project:

Acquire LTC, ETC, RDD, XVG and VTC for long term.

Using prohashing.com, a Scrypt and X11 multi-algo pool, we portioned a fixed % for these 5 coins (to be auto-exchanged)

There are a number of other coins that prohashing can auto-exchange to, depending on your preference.

Too bad prohashing.com only supports Scrypt and X11 mining.

For more algos & coin pools, MPH is a good choice but it allows only 1 coin type to auto exchange.

you are looking to get some ETC for long term hold?  I like it.  what have you heard with ETC that makes you want to keep long term
VTC seems like it was pretty popular around here at one point.
RDD - i have tlook look into this one.
XVG - was a massive pumper earlier, i have some.  you see a bright future for this one?


I respect your opinion a lot, always like to see why you like certain coins, etc.

This project was meant to repurpose the A4, L3+ and D3+, and accumulate selected long term coins outside of the group's core crypto portfolio - which is currently heavy BTC and cash. The SHA256 farm just hit 3.3PHs in January with last batch of A741s coming online. Meanwhile, AMD GPU farms are mining UBQ and Monero. Baikal and NVIDIA farms mining various algos to BTC and Equihash to BTC via
 Bittrex, NH and MPH, respectively.

That leaves the the Scrypt and X11 farms, currently sluggish in terms of revenue contribution over power consumption, esp the almost worthless D3s unless a miracle happens. SO we decided to keep both farms (since power is still cheap) and use the revenue to auto-exchange to "under-valued" coins that we can hoard for long term like LTC and ETC.

DGB, VTC and XVG (may add ZEN too) are for short-long term cash out to BTC. Currently the coins have occasionally high profitability so we are just taking advantage of that but will exchange for BTC when the time is right. No special love for these coins, just being opportunistic and pure greed :-)

RDD is a "hail-mary" coin where -- one of my group member thinks that it will be the next DOGE. The whitepaper is very impressive, fits well into the tipping-coin ecosystem and we think its a good high risk high return coin. The group member has already about 4M of RDD when it was 24 sats and its now its around 90 sats - simply amazing.

Meanwhile, at the GPU farm... all but 8 rigs (out of 96 GPU rigs) are now fully riserless - based on Onda-D1800s, Colorful B250s and K35, 6 and 8/9 slots mobos. The remaining 8 rigs are on riser 12/13 slot mobos and was a bitch to setup. They are powered by 470s undervolted and super stable. Too lazy to test the Onda-250 v2 for hybrid setup... so I will leave them alone since all 8 are on beast mode without issues  currently.

I would like to take this opportunity to thanks Phil and many group members for helping me out since 2015, from a humble 750MH ETH farm to what it is today. Too many ups and downs in this crypto journey.... you probably need to refer from Phil's first alt coin thread to read them all.

In summary, it was a good couple of years for us miners and let's hope BTC breaks 20k this year. Please ensure when that happens, you have a sizable BTC or coins stash to convert, fully protected by hardware wallets, 100% or near ROI your gears and own none or less power hoggers GPUs or ASICS.

Good luck to us all!

[JaredKaragen]

im holding out for the new gen of GPU....

This just fell in my lap the other night;  so it should definitely fund the new hardware purchase.

76x   EV SL10-2V...

https://imgur.com/a/gFdPR

nice  a lot of speakers


  is that an old movie house?


https://www.manualslib.com/manual/43897/Electro-Voice-Sl10-2v.html

https://www.ebay.com/itm/EV-Electro-Voice-SL10-2V-Slanted-Two-Way-Cinema-Surround-Speakers-FREE-Shipping/332204398978?

Yep; can't say which one, but  they were upgrading; and I became the disposal service....  The contractor was originally instructed to destroy the units and throw in the dumpster....  I ended up with many amps and now these speakers by getting in the middle of the process.  I may have the same sort of thing on a 20+ screen location happen as well.  if that's the case, im looking at ~90 more amplifiers and ~250 more speakers........ that being the case we would take out a loan on a warehouse to store them locally.... and be at the flea market every weekend.  Just sell one pair and it was more than worth the trip to try and sell them.   Given the brand/quality,  easy sell for sure.

We already have a guy who came to inspect them so he could talk to his other guy and make a bid on a lot of 36 of em.  We expect him to lowball us to ~50/unit;  but I think we are going to hold out for an absolute low of 120 for bulk (target 160-180), and we are going to be listing and holding onto many to get what we can out of em.

Given the brand and quantity;  should be quite a bit cash.  My business partner is taking his % in speakers for himself;  and the ones that sell through our ebay, he will get a %, but all in all;  pretty much easy $.

Im not gonna count it until I have it, but given how much I am owed by my buddy, and how easy these things will sell;  I'm sure I should be able to deck out 1-2 rigs of new hardware right when it releases.  All I need to do now is get a spotswood frame for my D8P and i'm off to the races.

[R0mi]

Nvidia = trouble free.

I want to do 6 card  1080ti hybrid   only

3 year warranty  I can crank up and down power  almost zero work


these
http://www.corsair.com/en-us/hydro-gfx-gtx-1080-ti-liquid-cooled-graphics-card

<snip>

run smos 

The Corsair maglev fans on those are very nice and they run really well.  I do use SMOS on some rigs and I like it.

[philipma1957]

Ah the joy of having 27 nvidia 1080ti's

and only 1 rx560

fuck bios flashing.

Proud to say never did a one.

Agreed 100%

My group's AMD farm was tweaked for ETH (2015-2016) and it was a bloody nightmare that BIOS flashing.

If I could turn back time, I would have used 1060s and 1070s any day.

No BIOS flashing needed, impressive MHs, watts and temps well under controlled.

That premium on NVIDIA cards vs AMD - is worth it.

Apart from Vega cards, all cards acquired since last year were all NVIDIA.

@R0mi - I had to flash over 300 x GPUs (470s, 480s) - it was no picnic.
I also had to do a crash course Linux because the farm went 100% SMOS and ditched Windoze.
Thanks to kind souls out there, I managed to write a script that will flash batches of GPUs at a time, in Linux.

Well, I would like to have such a problem as 300 480's to flash.  :-)

I am old enough to have used DOS.  I like the command line version of ATIFlash.  If you are taking care of one rig at a time, it's not a huge deal.  300 cards?  Yes that would kinda suck.

I sold off every nvidia for more then I paid for it.

Not nasty fuck you markups but markups.

Most cards were purchased with 15000 to 19500 btc coins.

And were sold to 8500 - 11000 coins.


I have almost turned over every air cooled 1080ti

I have two asus
I have two Msi aero
I have two in a pc.

I have one zotac mini may keep this

I have 14 waterblock keeping them

I have three two card omen I will keep them they have 11 months on warranty

I will just hold cash for a while

[Storx]

nuff GPUs... lets talk Asics.

My group has a sizable Scrypt and X11 ASICS farm hosted overseas.

With dwindling revenues in Scrypt and X11 algos, especially X11, we had to make a decision on what to do with the farm.

The farm is about 70% ROI, consisting of Innosilicon A4s, Bitmain L3+s and D3s.

Total hash power around 11 GHs Scrypt and 350 GHs X11.

Keep or sell off the farm?

Conclusion: Keep the farm alive for special project, as long as the power stays cheap (ie. cheap Canada hydro power)

Special project:

Acquire LTC, ETC, RDD, XVG and VTC for long term.

Using prohashing.com, a Scrypt and X11 multi-algo pool, we portioned a fixed % for these 5 coins (to be auto-exchanged)

There are a number of other coins that prohashing can auto-exchange to, depending on your preference.

Too bad prohashing.com only supports Scrypt and X11 mining.

For more algos & coin pools, MPH is a good choice but it allows only 1 coin type to auto exchange.

you are looking to get some ETC for long term hold?  I like it.  what have you heard with ETC that makes you want to keep long term
VTC seems like it was pretty popular around here at one point.
RDD - i have tlook look into this one.
XVG - was a massive pumper earlier, i have some.  you see a bright future for this one?


I respect your opinion a lot, always like to see why you like certain coins, etc.

This project was meant to repurpose the A4, L3+ and D3+, and accumulate selected long term coins outside of the group's core crypto portfolio - which is currently heavy BTC and cash. The SHA256 farm just hit 3.3PHs in January with last batch of A741s coming online. Meanwhile, AMD GPU farms are mining UBQ and Monero. Baikal and NVIDIA farms mining various algos to BTC and Equihash to BTC via
 Bittrex, NH and MPH, respectively.

That leaves the the Scrypt and X11 farms, currently sluggish in terms of revenue contribution over power consumption, esp the almost worthless D3s unless a miracle happens. SO we decided to keep both farms (since power is still cheap) and use the revenue to auto-exchange to "under-valued" coins that we can hoard for long term like LTC and ETC.

DGB, VTC and XVG (may add ZEN too) are for short-long term cash out to BTC. Currently the coins have occasionally high profitability so we are just taking advantage of that but will exchange for BTC when the time is right. No special love for these coins, just being opportunistic and pure greed :-)

RDD is a "hail-mary" coin where -- one of my group member thinks that it will be the next DOGE. The whitepaper is very impressive, fits well into the tipping-coin ecosystem and we think its a good high risk high return coin. The group member has already about 4M of RDD when it was 24 sats and its now its around 90 sats - simply amazing.

Meanwhile, at the GPU farm... all but 8 rigs (out of 96 GPU rigs) are now fully riserless - based on Onda-D1800s, Colorful B250s and K35, 6 and 8/9 slots mobos. The remaining 8 rigs are on riser 12/13 slot mobos and was a bitch to setup. They are powered by 470s undervolted and super stable. Too lazy to test the Onda-250 v2 for hybrid setup... so I will leave them alone since all 8 are on beast mode without issues  currently.

I would like to take this opportunity to thanks Phil and many group members for helping me out since 2015, from a humble 750MH ETH farm to what it is today. Too many ups and downs in this crypto journey.... you probably need to refer from Phil's first alt coin thread to read them all.

In summary, it was a good couple of years for us miners and let's hope BTC breaks 20k this year. Please ensure when that happens, you have a sizable BTC or coins stash to convert, fully protected by hardware wallets, 100% or near ROI your gears and own none or less power hoggers GPUs or ASICS.

Good luck to us all!

How is the riserless stuff working out for you, i had a lot of issues with my D1800's i bought, i couldnt run more than 4x1080ti's without it crawling to a stall half the time causing the miners to hangup constantly, moved all those back over to risers with the high temp glu around the entire socket to reduce movement and future errors... seems to be working just fine to me this way. Also i got rid of running all my risers vertically, and mounted them all horizontal.... since im running water on all the cards now, i built wooden open air cases with slots cut into the wood to screw the risers into, and then use a wooden clamp style setup to secure the cards firmly into the risers... i also moved it so the cards are behind all the other gear, so if i do manage a water leak at one point it would drip on the floor and not on other gear to short it out.

Are you still holding NEO bud?
I have been taking my extra scalps off mined earnings occasionally and buying more NEO, currently im earning about 0.5 Gas a day, so its a nice little passive income as of lately, i sold most of my gas when it hit $85, im so glad i bought in a lot of neo back when it was around $7 like you said... good advice

[Storx]

Ah the joy of having 27 nvidia 1080ti's

and only 1 rx560

fuck bios flashing.

Proud to say never did a one.

Agreed 100%

My group's AMD farm was tweaked for ETH (2015-2016) and it was a bloody nightmare that BIOS flashing.

If I could turn back time, I would have used 1060s and 1070s any day.

No BIOS flashing needed, impressive MHs, watts and temps well under controlled.

That premium on NVIDIA cards vs AMD - is worth it.

Apart from Vega cards, all cards acquired since last year were all NVIDIA.

@R0mi - I had to flash over 300 x GPUs (470s, 480s) - it was no picnic.
I also had to do a crash course Linux because the farm went 100% SMOS and ditched Windoze.
Thanks to kind souls out there, I managed to write a script that will flash batches of GPUs at a time, in Linux.

Well, I would like to have such a problem as 300 480's to flash.  :-)

I am old enough to have used DOS.  I like the command line version of ATIFlash.  If you are taking care of one rig at a time, it's not a huge deal.  300 cards?  Yes that would kinda suck.

I sold off every nvidia for more then I paid for it.

Not nasty fuck you markups but markups.

Most cards were purchased with 15000 to 19500 btc coins.

And were sold to 8500 - 11000 coins.


I have almost turned over every air cooled 1080ti

I have two asus
I have two Msi aero
I have two in a pc.

I have one zotac mini may keep this

I have 14 waterblock keeping them

I have three two card omen I will keep them they have 11 months on warranty

I will just hold cash for a while

Phil, something to look into in the future since you have heat issues also...

I have a small aluminum tank in the room of the rigs that i use for filling the system up that leads outside into the ground... friend of mine mentioned i could put a stove fan on it since its so warm for free air mixing, turned out the heat from the water tank alone is able to spin one decently... i bought 4 of them off amazon and they turn 24/7 without use of power.. if i am ever to add radiators to my system, i was thinking of adding some sort of metal brace or something so i can mount those fans so they blow air through the radiator solely off the heat

[KaydenC]

How is the riserless stuff working out for you, i had a lot of issues with my D1800's i bought, i couldnt run more than 4x1080ti's without it crawling to a stall half the time causing the miners to hangup constantly, moved all those back over to risers with the high temp glu around the entire socket to reduce movement and future errors... seems to be working just fine to me this way. Also i got rid of running all my risers vertically, and mounted them all horizontal.... since im running water on all the cards now, i built wooden open air cases with slots cut into the wood to screw the risers into, and then use a wooden clamp style setup to secure the cards firmly into the risers... i also moved it so the cards are behind all the other gear, so if i do manage a water leak at one point it would drip on the floor and not on other gear to short it out.

I have the 8 slot ondas running 7x 1080ti or 8x 1070ti minis on windows. It's super slow as molasses when starting Skein on ccminer, the miner starts, but only 2 card runs, then every 30s - 1 minute, another 1 - 2 cards start hashing. It takes up to 4 mins for all 8 cards to be actually hashing after the ccminer window appears. EWBF or DSTM miner starts quickly though.

The cpu is G3930, I think it's just too weak. Since over $5k is in cards, it's best to spend abit more for an i5 and 8gb ram. The alibaba supplier (letine) has the 8 slot onda mobos with built in i7 3855u cpu/4gb ram coming in March, 1.6ghz 2 core 2 thread, but I won't use it for windows lol.

[Storx]

How is the riserless stuff working out for you, i had a lot of issues with my D1800's i bought, i couldnt run more than 4x1080ti's without it crawling to a stall half the time causing the miners to hangup constantly, moved all those back over to risers with the high temp glu around the entire socket to reduce movement and future errors... seems to be working just fine to me this way. Also i got rid of running all my risers vertically, and mounted them all horizontal.... since im running water on all the cards now, i built wooden open air cases with slots cut into the wood to screw the risers into, and then use a wooden clamp style setup to secure the cards firmly into the risers... i also moved it so the cards are behind all the other gear, so if i do manage a water leak at one point it would drip on the floor and not on other gear to short it out.

I have the 8 slot ondas running 7x 1080ti or 8x 1070ti minis on windows. It's super slow as molasses when starting Skein on ccminer, the miner starts, but only 2 card runs, then every 30s - 1 minute, another 1 - 2 cards start hashing. It takes up to 4 mins for all 8 cards to be actually hashing after the ccminer window appears. EWBF or DSTM miner starts quickly though.

The cpu is G3930, I think it's just too weak. Since over $5k is in cards, it's best to spend abit more for an i5 and 8gb ram. The alibaba supplier (letine) has the 8 slot onda mobos with built in i7 3855u cpu/4gb ram coming in March, 1.6ghz 2 core 2 thread, but I won't use it for windows lol.

ya, that was the issue i was running into, with me profit switching it was just not working at all for me.. so i went back to risers and just took measures to prevent loose/weak connections errors i had in the pass just hanging them off shelves...

I use to mine a single algo, but after lots and lots of performance logs between similar rigs testing both methods out over nearly a month, profit switching was the clear winner, granted it takes far far far more time to setup the process, because you have to test every card out on every algo, find its stable zone and use clock setting profiles for each algo for each switch.. but IF you setup the process correctly you will net far more, i profit switch direct mined coins mostly on suprnova