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[philipma1957]

really good price on a very good seasonic focus psu

https://www.ebay.com/itm/304000784083

98 bucks for a 650 watt platinum psu

this is usually over 120

newegg is selling it.

[arielbit]

really good price on a very good seasonic focus psu

https://www.ebay.com/itm/304000784083

98 bucks for a 650 watt platinum psu

this is usually over 120

newegg is selling it.

650 watts? what are you going to do with that weakling?

for me worse case scenario, 1000w will be the lowest psu purchase for me..ideally for me minimum is 1200w.

look at the efficiency curve, anything above 50% load ~300w, that psu will start to degrade to "gold", "silver" and "bronze" efficiency. a 1300w gold psu is 92% efficient at 650W load. so if you put around 350w load in that PSU that is technically in "gold" efficiency category.

[philipma1957]

really good price on a very good seasonic focus psu

https://www.ebay.com/itm/304000784083

98 bucks for a 650 watt platinum psu

this is usually over 120

newegg is selling it.

650 watts? what are you going to do with that weakling?

for me worse case scenario, 1000w will be the lowest psu purchase for me..ideally for me minimum is 1200w.

look at the efficiency curve, anything above 50% load ~300w, that psu will start to degrade to "gold", "silver" and "bronze" efficiency. a 1300w gold psu is 92% efficient at 650W load. so if you put around 350w load in that PSU that is technically in "gold" efficiency category.

I build a lot of 2 card pc's a 2 card 3060ti and or a 2 card 3060 use well under 300 watts.

[btcshiner]

LHR cards have landed in today's Newegg shuffle.......

[adaseb]

I don’t have anything against PSUs of 650 watts. However the issue is usually with the amount of connectors with these PSUs. Back in the days when I was starting out with mining I didn’t want to spend too much so I would buy second hand. Many of the PSUs that were generally <700 watts only had a max of 2 PCIe. And being in 2015 with most GPUs (r9 280x) requiring 2 PCIe you couldn’t use them. I used them anyways because I got them cheap like $20. And I would just use 2 of them in a rig and I snipped the CPU connectors and rewired them for a PCIe connection and it ran perfectly fine. Pulled maybe 600 watts with the rated 650 limit and never died.

These days you guys have it easy. Back in the GPU lite coin mining days a 280X GPU pulled around 300 watts from the wall. Now you got GPUs that don’t even use half of that wattage so a 650W PSU sure is doable these days. Especially being platinum grade.

[arielbit]

I don’t have anything against PSUs of 650 watts. However the issue is usually with the amount of connectors with these PSUs. Back in the days when I was starting out with mining I didn’t want to spend too much so I would buy second hand. Many of the PSUs that were generally <700 watts only had a max of 2 PCIe. And being in 2015 with most GPUs (r9 280x) requiring 2 PCIe you couldn’t use them. I used them anyways because I got them cheap like $20. And I would just use 2 of them in a rig and I snipped the CPU connectors and rewired them for a PCIe connection and it ran perfectly fine. Pulled maybe 600 watts with the rated 650 limit and never died.

These days you guys have it easy. Back in the GPU lite coin mining days a 280X GPU pulled around 300 watts from the wall. Now you got GPUs that don’t even use half of that wattage so a 650W PSU sure is doable these days. Especially being platinum grade.

not just the amount of connectors, but also the amount of PSU.

if you are going to use 20,000 watts mining that's 40pcs 650w at ~silver efficiency. compared to 20pcs 1300w psu at ~gold efficiency

anyway as long as mining is small then anything is good enough...or the miner is industrious enough hehe

[philipma1957]

a lot depends on rig size.

I have spots that must be a two card normal pc.

so the 650 are fine.

hey anyone mining xmr on viabtc.

or on nice hash.

my few xmr rig keep crashing.

what is a stable pool?

or a stable miner.

[momanz]

a lot depends on rig size.

I have spots that must be a two card normal pc.

so the 650 are fine.

hey anyone mining xmr on viabtc.

or on nice hash.

my few xmr rig keep crashing.

what is a stable pool?

or a stable miner.

I'm trying out an algo switching pool pool-pay.com using xmrig. It seems to be making me a little more than mining straight xmr and so far seems stable.

Payments are in native coins mined or BTC (you decide) and then pool can pay out in LTC, BTC or USD (if you're outside the US).  My Ryzens (1700,2700, 3700x) make me between $1-$2 per day. Only the 3700x is running consistently (by choice, opportunistic mining on my other cpus) so it might be a bit more. Interested in hearing opinions about this pool if you have any to offer.

[philipma1957]

a lot depends on rig size.

I have spots that must be a two card normal pc.

so the 650 are fine.

hey anyone mining xmr on viabtc.

or on nice hash.

my few xmr rig keep crashing.

what is a stable pool?

or a stable miner.

I'm trying out an algo switching pool pool-pay.com using xmrig. It seems to be making me a little more than mining straight xmr and so far seems stable.

Payments are in native coins mined or BTC (you decide) and then pool can pay out in LTC, BTC or USD (if you're outside the US).  My Ryzens (1700,2700, 3700x) make me between $1-$2 per day. Only the 3700x is running consistently (by choice, opportunistic mining on my other cpus) so it might be a bit more. Interested in hearing opinions about this pool if you have any to offer.

I can't join it.

I clicked sign up and got this:

Registration is temporarily unavailable! The number of users is limited, so you can leave a request through those support, so that we will notify you (letter marked registration)

[herrdrone]

a lot depends on rig size.

I have spots that must be a two card normal pc.

so the 650 are fine.

hey anyone mining xmr on viabtc.

or on nice hash.

my few xmr rig keep crashing.

what is a stable pool?

or a stable miner.

Try downloading again xmrig and config using their wizard, then run as admin.

https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig/releases
https://xmrig.com/wizard

[nsummy]

Whats the consensus on mining with the RTX 3060?  I have one from EVGA, new in the box, that has been collecting dust for the last couple of weeks.  Trying to decide whether I should sell it or mine with it.  From what I gather I can use lolminer with a specific driver version, just wondering if its worth the hassle.

[DrX]

a lot depends on rig size.

I have spots that must be a two card normal pc.

so the 650 are fine.

hey anyone mining xmr on viabtc.

or on nice hash.

my few xmr rig keep crashing.

what is a stable pool?

or a stable miner.

Have you tried MiningPoolHub? or maybe herominers

[philipma1957]

Whats the consensus on mining with the RTX 3060?  I have one from EVGA, new in the box, that has been collecting dust for the last couple of weeks.  Trying to decide whether I should sell it or mine with it.  From what I gather I can use lolminer with a specific driver version, just wondering if its worth the hassle.

you have to remember to boot it every dag change
  I have a 2 card rig ut does 74 mh and drops to 51 each new dag reboot it goes to 74 again

[DigitalFarns]

Good morning all,

I'm rejoining the land of crypto after about a 2 week hiatus.  Our family sells fireworks for the 4th of July every year, so the past 2 weeks I've been living in a van down by the river!  Just kidding, in an RV in a parking lot selling fireworks :-)  I haven't had much bandwidth for the forums during that time.  I've been playing catch up on my favorite topics.  It's crazy how going offline for a couple weeks can push you behind in the crypto news so hard!  My rig went offline right before the break, and so I've lost a couple weeks worth of revenue.  Gotta start troubleshooting it tonight.  But my PC has been stamping out RVN pretty solidly during that time. 

Seems like the landscape for gear is starting to change slightly.  I'm anxious to get back into not getting picked in the Newegg shuffle again.  I've missed all those rejection emails LOL. 

Hope you all are well.  Will be caught up hopefully by end of day.

[philipma1957]

Good morning all,

I'm rejoining the land of crypto after about a 2 week hiatus.  Our family sells fireworks for the 4th of July every year, so the past 2 weeks I've been living in a van down by the river!  Just kidding, in an RV in a parking lot selling fireworks :-)  I haven't had much bandwidth for the forums during that time.  I've been playing catch up on my favorite topics.  It's crazy how going offline for a couple weeks can push you behind in the crypto news so hard!  My rig went offline right before the break, and so I've lost a couple weeks worth of revenue.  Gotta start troubleshooting it tonight.  But my PC has been stamping out RVN pretty solidly during that time. 

Seems like the landscape for gear is starting to change slightly.  I'm anxious to get back into not getting picked in the Newegg shuffle again.  I've missed all those rejection emails LOL. 

Hope you all are well.  Will be caught up hopefully by end of day.

Let me know what's up with it.

[DigitalFarns]

Phil, it's the same as before.  Our internet went out for a couple hours, and when it came back online, I started getting those same errors I was getting before when you helped me.  I spent some time trying different combinations of those numbers we were messing with, and just couldn't get it to work.  I was literally hours away from moving out of my house and into my fireworks stand so I just let it be.  I'll start working on it again this evening probably.  I wonder if the the boards or if the MB are nearing the end of their life?  I'm also dealing with comcast to try and get a new modem.  We're pretty sure it's becoming unstable.  In other news, they're running fiber in our neighborhood right this minute, so I'm anxious to find out when that will be available for me. 

[Philipma1957cellphone]

The usb stick could be aging out.

[generalt]

I just had an old USB stick go out on me on one of my miners. Good thing they're cheap enough to have spares laying around.

[adaseb]

I had USB sticks go out so many times that I basically stopped using them. Just used some old 120Gb HDD (not SSD). It became vert annoying having to duplicate the stick and then have to manually configure everything. When i switched to old fashion disk drives I’ve never had this issue. Sure it uses maybe an extra 10 watts but worth it not to deal with failures in the future.

I think the reason why mine failed was maybe due to the heat or maybe to the poor cheap USB brand. Another reason I heard could be the write cycles however I don’t think a mining rig did much writing, mostly stood on idle. So no idea why they kept failing. Most of the time you could just reformat and reinstall and they would work again for a few more weeks/months.

[arielbit]

I had USB sticks go out so many times that I basically stopped using them. Just used some old 120Gb HDD (not SSD). It became vert annoying having to duplicate the stick and then have to manually configure everything. When i switched to old fashion disk drives I’ve never had this issue. Sure it uses maybe an extra 10 watts but worth it not to deal with failures in the future.

I think the reason why mine failed was maybe due to the heat or maybe to the poor cheap USB brand. Another reason I heard could be the write cycles however I don’t think a mining rig did much writing, mostly stood on idle. So no idea why they kept failing. Most of the time you could just reformat and reinstall and they would work again for a few more weeks/months.

mine are 80gb, bought second hand in 2013-14.

reformat and reinstall will kill a lot of time, i got an army of clones hehe