Official Mining Thread

[KAC]

Bitch coin be falling. Needs to hit 40K.

[Leprechaun]

Needs to fall lower. I need cheap coin. More importantly the fees are through the roof. Some sweet mining $$$

[caveman-jim]

Originally Posted by Riptide

There is precious little we actually need to survive and if some people had their way we'd be back to spending winters holed up in a teepee to avoid use of resources.

The interesting thing to me is that bitcoin has some disadvantages. Disadvantages that other alt-coins address. Yet it continues to maintain supremacy in the market, at least in part because it was the first. It will be interesting to see what happens in the next 10-20 years.

I CPU mine XMR on monero ocean. I also mine ETH and am paid in XMR there as well.
https://moneroocean.stream/

They have a version of xmrig that switches algos and has no dev fee. I highly recommend you look into this.
https://moneroocean.blogspot.com

There is a discord server as well.
https://discord.gg/ek3qCV8U


See above sir.

Thanks, I'll check it out.

[SirBaron]

Thermal pads are sold out everywhere, need to replace the cheap **** on my gpu.

I want to mine at. Normal speed but not above 100'c tjunction.

[KAC]

I ordered massive sinks for mine: https://www.amazon.ae/gp/product/B08...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Also a massive thermal pad.
https://www.amazon.ae/gp/product/B00...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I put my Corsair ML120 fan on the back side of the card for now and brought temps down from 106 C to 96 C. I may add another fan until I get the pads plus sinks.

[acroig]

Is there a reason why there are no dedicated mining GPUs? Call it the mGPU?

No graphics other than 2D, mining only.

[KAC]

Last time they delved into it, they sold out fast but the resale value was crap so later on no demand for those cards. They are hoping to launch more this time as well but not sure by when and for how much.

[SirBaron]

Originally Posted by KAC

I ordered massive sinks for mine: https://www.amazon.ae/gp/product/B08...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Also a massive thermal pad.
https://www.amazon.ae/gp/product/B00...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I put my Corsair ML120 fan on the back side of the card for now and brought temps down from 106 C to 96 C. I may add another fan until I get the pads plus sinks.

I need 2mm for front, and 3mm for back, yet both of those are out of stock.

[Mangler]

Maybe watercooling your backplates would be a good idea?

[KAC]

Originally Posted by Mangler

Maybe watercooling your backplates would be a good idea?

Not indulging in custom loop. Honestly 90-100 junction temp is absolutely fine. My mem chips are 70-80 C. That junction just needs more love. With some padding and sinks plus fan it should be fine.

[Leprechaun]

The 3060/70 GDDR6 are all fine..
3080 EVGA ftw3 ultra gaming fine mem temp. 96c
Asus 3090s all fine.
EVGA ftw3 ultra gaming super duper fine @98c mem for 2+ months without stop.
3090 gigabyte = doggie doodoo. Gigabyte has lost my GPU respect. Hits 105c VRAM and throttles after you tell it to load 1 pixel on the screen.

What world is this where my Zotac card outperforms Gigabyte? I always assumed Zotac was the bottom of the barrel AIB?

[KAC]

Gay you need to pad those up and put heat sinks. Otherwise that shite gonna blow.

[demo]

Originally Posted by KAC

Not indulging in custom loop. Honestly 90-100 junction temp is absolutely fine. My mem chips are 70-80 C. That junction just needs more love. With some padding and sinks plus fan it should be fine.

You may want to check what the backplate and pads actually make contact with, it may be more than just memory chips. I haven't looked on this card but my 2080ti backplate cooled a lot more than Vram alone. I do believe sinks will do a better job, just saying you might need to add a few more than expected.

[KAC]

Ofcourse. I have gotten 145X145X1.5 mm pads. I also have pads lying around from my 980 Ti classified block. The heatsinks are also 50X100X12.7 so plenty of surface area. I will try different configs. It is mining like a champ but was crashing in games. That hasn't happened for past 12+ hours so I am going to keep seeing where the issue is. Thus far, nothing hints towards the card itself as being the problem.

[demo]

Cool bananas, I might do the same if your results are good.

What are your power figures in GPU-Z? Total board, slot, 8-pins.

[KAC]

Damn, crashed again 30 mins into CW.
Power figures are 420-450 watts. Slot is typically 74-78 watts. Third 8 pin typically is below hundred but the others routinely hit 130-150. Volts are also 0.9-1.0 when gaming/mining etc. I do see highest idle volts at 1.081.

[demo]

What are your figures if you run Kombustor at 4k?

Not furmark doughnut test, just the 'msi-01' test. It's a little more realistic on GPU.

https://www.geeks3d.com/furmark/kombustor/downloads/


And 150W on the 8-pins?! Hrmm


EDIT: continue in 3080 thread

[curio]

Welp we definitely saw the inevitable correction after how fast it was rising for nearly a month

BUY BUY BUY lol

Things like this though is why I'm still in

[Riptide]

68c memory junction temperature on this 6900xt while running phoenixminer 5.5c. 63 MH.

Definitely not skerd of high temps at this point. GPU junction temp is 54c.

No reason to be concerned whatsoever of any mining related 'damage' to the device.

[KAC]

63 MH is about same as my 3070

[KAC]

43 Gs now. This thing crashing like Titanic.

[acroig]

Originally Posted by KAC

43 Gs now. This thing crashing like my 3090.

Sorry, couldn't resist, too easy.

[KAC]

So a report after almost 3 weeks of mining. I do on and off mining plus was without a card for a few days in between. Started on 7th of February and in the short month I managed to score a little over $200 (at $45K rate). I also checked my electricity bill and the increase was barely noticeable (maybe $20) but that includes A/C usage that would’ve happened regardless. So overall, pretty satisfied with this. February is just an indication and if things continue as they were (which they won’t) then it seems $350-400 should be doable per month. My target is to really try and make at least $2700 boners with this ordeal. This would imply that I have paid off all incremental costs of purchasing hardware this year ($1430 for kid’s computer, $770 for my 3090, and $500 for my 5900X).

That is the only motivation to get back in this shite.

[SirBaron]

I hear talk that etherium 2.0 is going to make mining highly Unprofitable, not sure how likely another coin will take it's place,at least that fast anyway.

[Leprechaun]

Originally Posted by SirBaron

I hear talk that etherium 2.0 is going to make mining highly Unprofitable, not sure how likely another coin will take it's place,at least that fast anyway.

Januray was good but Feb was out of the ordinary good as far as payout goes. I'd quit my job if every month was February.
There's conflux, Ravencoin, vertcoin, but all still less profitable than eth at the moment..that will change once it goes proof of stake.

I found if I just lower memory overclocks by 100 on all cards, none ever go down and I lose just 1 mh/s. Should improve VRAM life not redlining it 24/7.

[Cyko]

So I don’t get to test out these fancy new buttons? Damn

[curio]

Originally Posted by SirBaron

I hear talk that etherium 2.0 is going to make mining highly Unprofitable, not sure how likely another coin will take it's place,at least that fast anyway.

Only for people who mine ETH since they're changing from PoW to PoS

Miners will still be fine mining btc and alt-coins

[SirBaron]

Isn't most of the profit on nicehash from etherium?thats all i see when its ever mining.

[curio]

Originally Posted by SirBaron

Isn't most of the profit on nicehash from etherium?thats all i see when its ever mining.

Currently yeah ETH is the most profitable, but something will replace it. Before ETH was killing it, Grin was the highest. Before that it was Raven. And before that it was Equihash. And before that X11. There's always a new flavor of the month (year).

Either way since with Nicehash you're technically not mining directly but instead renting your hashing power into a pool for buyers, using NH you'll still get paid in BTC regardless of what it will mine at the moment. Rates might not be as good after ETH moves to PoS, but buyers will eventually start buying another NH pool of PoW crypto.

[Leprechaun]

^what Curio said. Nicehash will even change between algorithms to mine different coins on the fly depending on what's most profitable atm.

Eth has been killing it lately though. Mining difficulty keeps going up as more and more peeps are mining. Also, less transaction fees for miners atm since prices stabilized a bit more and you don't have all those people trading like mad.
All equals less mining profits last 10 days.