8th Alt coin thread. Or what to do now that asics are all over the place.

[dragonmike]

@philipma1957

Anyone still own ONDA D1800 mining motherboard? The heatsink on mine failed and almost stop working. Any idea where I can get parts or anyway to fix it? TIA

The tiny heatsink/fan combo on the integrated cpu you mean?
Not sure if you can get any replacement for it from Onda but you could certainly diy something. It's pretty tiny. Not much heat coming out of that J1800 Celery...

[vapourminer]

@philipma1957

Anyone still own ONDA D1800 mining motherboard? The heatsink on mine failed and almost stop working. Any idea where I can get parts or anyway to fix it? TIA

The tiny heatsink/fan combo on the integrated cpu you mean?
Not sure if you can get any replacement for it from Onda but you could certainly diy something. It's pretty tiny. Not much heat coming out of that J1800 Celery...

yeah 10 watts

https://ark.intel.com/products/78866/Intel-Celeron-Processor-J1800-1M-Cache-up-to-2-58-GHz-

aim any half way decent 60/80mm fan or such at it and your are probably good.

[philipma1957]

@MingMining

I got one of them let me look around for it.  i am going to solar array tomorrow.

I will let you know in about 24-26 hours.

 I think it is not running any cards

I have a shit ton of mobos if you need one my zip code is 07731 Howell NJ

[dragonmike]

I posted this in another thread but I might just as well post it in here too:

I was wondering what the best (i.e. cheapest) case would be for an Onda D1800 with 6 GPUs on it... It would need to fit the PSU as well I reckon. Don't want to splash out too much cash, but I'm thinking of moving this open-air rig to another place so I need it properly secured. I'm guessing some type of 4U case should work...?

[JaredKaragen]

I posted this in another thread but I might just as well post it in here too:

I was wondering what the best (i.e. cheapest) case would be for an Onda D1800 with 6 GPUs on it... It would need to fit the PSU as well I reckon. Don't want to splash out too much cash, but I'm thinking of moving this open-air rig to another place so I need it properly secured. I'm guessing some type of 4U case should work...?

best bet is check aliexpress, and ebay.... you should be able to search of "onda 1800 case" and find results.


Or;  See if spotwood's open air frame would be in the price range and liking to you.   I personally bought his frame for my D8P and it was one of the best decisions i've made for that machine.

[philipma1957]

I checked and see that I only have the large eight card boards not the six card ones

[Elder III]

What do you guys think on the AMD Vega VII coming out next month?  That 16 GB of HBM2 might be nice on CN Heavy algos.

[philipma1957]

What do you guys think on the AMD Vega VII coming out next month?  That 16 GB of HBM2 might be nice on CN Heavy algos.

any price estimate?

[Elder III]

What do you guys think on the AMD Vega VII coming out next month?  That 16 GB of HBM2 might be nice on CN Heavy algos.

any price estimate?

Priced at $699, competes with and in some cases beats the RTX 2080 in gaming applications.

I have not had time to watch the whole live stream yet, but you can view it here if you wish:  https://www.guru3d.com/news_story/watch_the_amd_ces_2019_event_ceo_dr_lisa_su_keynote_live_stream_here.html

The upcoming Ryzen 3000 series CPUs are pretty amazing performance + value too, but probably not of huge interest to the average miner.

[philipma1957]

What do you guys think on the AMD Vega VII coming out next month?  That 16 GB of HBM2 might be nice on CN Heavy algos.

any price estimate?

Priced at $699, competes with and in some cases beats the RTX 2080 in gaming applications.

I have not had time to watch the whole live stream yet, but you can view it here if you wish:  https://www.guru3d.com/news_story/watch_the_amd_ces_2019_event_ceo_dr_lisa_su_keynote_live_stream_here.html

The upcoming Ryzen 3000 series CPUs are pretty amazing performance + value too, but probably not of huge interest to the average miner.

Love my 1920x threadripper cpu.

I will check that link you gave.

[JaredKaragen]

anyone else notice the sudden diff jump in XMR....    Might be a hint....  Price surely isn't reflecting it;  so it must be a new machine at play.    I highly doubt that much gear was turned on all at once based on any other reasoning....

[almonk]

Yeah, it can be some FPGAs..

XMR after the CNV8 fork was not that profitable as before.

anyone else notice the sudden diff jump in XMR....    Might be a hint....  Price surely isn't reflecting it;  so it must be a new machine at play.    I highly doubt that much gear was turned on all at once based on any other reasoning....

[herrdrone]

anyone else notice the sudden diff jump in XMR....    Might be a hint....  Price surely isn't reflecting it;  so it must be a new machine at play.    I highly doubt that much gear was turned on all at once based on any other reasoning....

Indeed. 20% increase, Network hashrate was around ~370 Mh/s and right now is ~440 Mh/s.
If the shit hits the fan like last year, POW will change again.

Update: Radeon VII been announced but not available yet.

[philipma1957]

xmr will be attacked time and time again

sucks but it is true










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stratum+tcp://sha256.usa.nicehash.com:3334


btc.viabtc.com:3333

[WillJ7]

Yeah, it can be some FPGAs..

XMR after the CNV8 fork was not that profitable as before.

anyone else notice the sudden diff jump in XMR....    Might be a hint....  Price surely isn't reflecting it;  so it must be a new machine at play.    I highly doubt that much gear was turned on all at once based on any other reasoning....

No, that's not true.  XMR has been profitable (somewhat so) but something changed recently, I noticed it.  The change is recent, nothing to do with CNV8 fork back in October.

Also, I would point out that the original reference Vega 64 boards are showing up on ebay for $300 give or take, and price seems to be trending down.  If you have the patience to disassemble them and slap on Morpheus II coolers and keep them in an open air case, they are rock steady at 1830-1860 on CNV8 all day, every day.  I'm just saying they may have value relative to the new $700 cards.  If you want the gory details, pm me.

[WillJ7]

I posted this in another thread but I might just as well post it in here too:

I was wondering what the best (i.e. cheapest) case would be for an Onda D1800 with 6 GPUs on it... It would need to fit the PSU as well I reckon. Don't want to splash out too much cash, but I'm thinking of moving this open-air rig to another place so I need it properly secured. I'm guessing some type of 4U case should work...?

best bet is check aliexpress, and ebay.... you should be able to search of "onda 1800 case" and find results.


Or;  See if spotwood's open air frame would be in the price range and liking to you.   I personally bought his frame for my D8P and it was one of the best decisions i've made for that machine.

I do not know the dimensions for the 6 slot ONDA, but I like this case:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0091IZ1ZG/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

it was $99 for the longest time and now the price seems to have jumped.  It is also sold by Walmart/NewEgg, so check around.  And I second the recommendation for the Spotswood frames -- whether you go with an open frame, or go with the 4U build, I think the Spotswood 4U drop in frame is very worthwhile.  Assembly with all of those exquisitely tiny screws and bolts is a bit of a pain the first time around.  But once it is all adjusted and in place, you'll be glad that you added it to your 4U build.  His open frames are also excellent and minimalist in a good way.

[adaseb]

You guys heard what happened with Ethereum Classic. Apparently they had multiple 51% attacks which was detected by Coinbase and it looks like the hash power wasn't coming from Nicehash. Looks like there might be some crazy new DaggerHashimoto ASIC farm which has 8+ TH/s of power.

I don't see the point of doing this as it will make the ETH developers suspicious and might lead to an emergency hard-fork to change the mining algo, since its not everyday where 8+ TH/s of power comes out of nowhere. They change the algo and their powerful ASICs become worthless. Right now 8TH/s leads to about $100K a day of mining revenue, why do a 51% attack and get potentially slightly more but face the risk of getting caught, doesn't make sense this attack to me.

[jasta more]

You guys heard what happened with Ethereum Classic. Apparently they had multiple 51% attacks which was detected by Coinbase and it looks like the hash power wasn't coming from Nicehash. Looks like there might be some crazy new DaggerHashimoto ASIC farm which has 8+ TH/s of power.

I don't see the point of doing this as it will make the ETH developers suspicious and might lead to an emergency hard-fork to change the mining algo, since its not everyday where 8+ TH/s of power comes out of nowhere. They change the algo and their powerful ASICs become worthless. Right now 8TH/s leads to about $100K a day of mining revenue, why do a 51% attack and get potentially slightly more but face the risk of getting caught, doesn't make sense this attack to me.

They posted a tweet first saying that someone was testing new 1500 mhs asics but it's deleted now

[MingMining]

I checked and see that I only have the large eight card boards not the six card ones

Thanks. @philipma1957. I will wait to see if my motherboard can last longer. If it dies, I will try to change it by myself.

[KaydenC]

Re the onda mobos, they are by far the most common failure point of my farm. I use the 8 slot version, with 4 extra pcie 1x slots unused.

Running 51 rigs, replaced 18 of them already. Not to mention 5 of the warrantied boards returned that's still not working. Unfortunately there's no major manufacturer making such mobos, closest is biostar but they aren't made to power 1080ti as power comes from the board.