Official Mining Thread

[LordHawkwind]

It's a gaming card FFS stop mining!!!!!!!!

[Dave]

It's a gaming card FFS stop mining!!!!!!!!

I think I have to side with this imo. I'm glad the EVGA Hybrid and my MSI Gaming X went to people that said they are using them for gaming...The Sea Hawks I'm pretty sure will be sent to the mines or the guy is going to re-sell them. Glad I got out when I did. I see bitcoin is down to $7k today. I'm not too concerned about people with 8 GPU's mining. I am laughing at those idiots that bought 50 to 100 and are getting nervous because their profits have been destroyed with the value of bitcoin right now.

[OverclockN']

It's definitely interesting to see where it will finally stabilize. It's been looking bad for a long time. If someone looks at the performance of the past month, or at least from the crazy $19k spike...it's been steadily downhill ever since. I don't think digital currency is going away permanently, but it certainly doesn't look good for its immediate future.

[Riptide]

Meh. Bitcoins been through big crashes before. Might be better if eth takes over as the base currency anyway sooner or later.

Not sure why anyone expected the super high profits in December to continue? Need to do yer homework.

https://youtu.be/YgCqc7_a0Wo

[KAC]

Man this crap is making me mad. I am still holding onto my guns to build the PC.

[OverclockN']

Man this crap is making me mad. I am still holding onto my guns to build the PC.

What's making you mad? Bitcoin value hanging low, or us talking about it?

The value of Bitcoin is fun to speculate and watch. We aren't trying to be downers here or drive anyone away from mining. We'd be talking about it just the same if it were back up at $19k.

[Riptide]

Tomorrow I get my electric bill and the first of two CPA consultations. Should be interesting.

I've got a spreadsheet together now and am caught up on all my transaction data for the year so far. I found a place to download all the transactions from the blockchain in a CSV. It took me two hours to catch up. I was able to calculate the USD value for every one so far. Now just need to keep caught up and it won't be that big of a deal.

Also on a pool that pays out about 8 times a day vs. 12 which helps.

[KAC]

I don't get mad at anyone here. I was talking about bitcoin price. However, somehow Nicehash keeps telling me I am making 5 bucks a day. Also, I see that usually I was mining about 0.0003 per night, last night I mined about 0.00045. That means difficulty must have changed.

Riptide. Is that the Vedda 6 frame or 8 frame. Looks very small for a 8 frame. Also, why no fan grill? I am now worried about sticking AIOs on that thing as the spacing seems very small. Also Riptide, add more GPUs man.

Which pool are you mining with Rip? Can you direct me to links you used to set it up.

[Dave]

Curio got his rig up and running. Sent me a picture, it looks fantastic!

[Riptide]

It's a six GPU frame. I'd love to add another GPU however the PSU is a 1200w and I'm pulling a steady 875w. Even a GTX 1060 would be pushing it. And yah it's been in cart. Lol I chickened out though. Maybe if prices go down and stock gets back in.

I'll pick up a fan kit from Amazon next week.

Currently I'm still mining LUX on the bsod pool. I'm using the ccminer spmod1 client mining to a LUX wallet.

Oh and Curio should put up a photo. 😀

[nycdarkness]

feb 6th will be big day for bitcoin

[Dave]

Oh and Curio should put up a photo. 😀

You'd see it if you checked the facebook chat group lol

[Riptide]

But Dave I like having you all to myself on steam. 😀

[KAC]

curio you built the rig? Where dat photo?
It would be helpful for me if you can post some photos. I am especially concerned about cable management.

[andino]

You'd see it if you checked the facebook chat group lol

There is a facebook chat group????

[KAC]

Seems like I should get the build ready by the weekend. I will receive the case and PSUs today so I may get cracking tonight. May get the HDD, Mobo, CPU and 2 GFX tomorrow to do a windows install.

[KAC]

Curio got his rig up and running. Sent me a picture, it looks fantastic!

How he mount that 8th rad?

[Dave]

How he mount that 8th rad?

From the pic it looks like it's off to the side, not mounted to the case.

Purchased 2 NZXT G12's and 2 Corsair H55's. I cashed out my bitcoin that my cards had mined for $240 earlier today (Put a limit sell order in at $9000 yesterday). So basically the cards paid for their own cooling upgrade. EKWB really pissed me off with that pump failing on the Phoenix radiator combo. I think it convinced me to not go full water for now. If their idea is to get more people into more advanced watercooling beyond basic AIO coolers - they really need to work on product quality control. I bought 16 Corsair ML120 fans that I was going to use on my mining rig with the 7 sea hawk and 1 EVGA 1080 Ti Hybrid cards that I had (push/pull config). I'll likely mount 2 ML120 fans to each H55 and also mount 6 ML120's to my Thermaltake 360mm radiator (mounted as front intake). I'll also use one of the ML120's as a side intake fan blowing directly on the GPU's (has a fan filter so a static fan will help there).

I think once I get these G12's mounted on to the Titan Xp's I may continue to mine via Nicehash when I'm not gaming. That's assuming I can keep the cards silent. At this point I think I'll be using any small amount of cash that these cards generate from mining as play money. Having the cards pay for their own cooling upgrade is pretty awesome. Would be cool to have the cards pay for themselves ($2500).

[KAC]

I am not thinking about doing push pull. Dave is there even space for push/pull? I didn't order any fans. I was thinking that given the case is open air, push/pull won't do any wonders for me. I am also thinking about having them exhaust air towards the other side (out of the frame) which means that unlike the images, my fans would be on the inside facing the cards.

Wdyt?

[Dave]

There's space for push/pull

[KAC]

This shite is not stopping. Just going down and down and down. Meanwhile graphics cards prices are up wtf?

[Hapatingjaky]

This shite is not stopping. Just going down and down and down. Meanwhile graphics cards prices are up wtf?

It won't happen over night. I'd give it atleast a month or two before prices normalize. We still need to go through the second hand market sell off first.

[Riptide]

I like the ML120 the cost is a bit high though. I picked up a 5 pack of these on Amazon this morning:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

PWM, 78CFM, and cheap. Don't care about noise. I'm 42 soon anyway so it's not like I'll be able to hear them.

I wouldn't be surprised if Bitcoin gets down to 5K before we get to the point where the slide stops. It sucks how it drags down all the alts right along with it.

Anyway I don't really care that much. The lower it goes the less the tax liability is for mining anyway. As long as it continues to break even or better with mining I'll continue it. To hold for future possible gains. The coin I'm mining now is down to $14 from a high well over $40. Keep mining, get a stack, and if that shoots back up (even if it takes a year) then it was worth it.

When Volta comes up for pre-order I'm getting my name on ONE. Will put the 1080ti upstairs down into the miner. If I don't have the power for it I'll cut TDP down. I'm not replacing all my 10 series miner cards with Volta. Especially if things continue to stay low price-wise on the crypto market.

[nycdarkness]

From the pic it looks like it's off to the side, not mounted to the case.

Purchased 2 NZXT G12's and 2 Corsair H55's. I cashed out my bitcoin that my cards had mined for $240 earlier today (Put a limit sell order in at $9000 yesterday). So basically the cards paid for their own cooling upgrade. EKWB really pissed me off with that pump failing on the Phoenix radiator combo. I think it convinced me to not go full water for now. If their idea is to get more people into more advanced watercooling beyond basic AIO coolers - they really need to work on product quality control. I bought 16 Corsair ML120 fans that I was going to use on my mining rig with the 7 sea hawk and 1 EVGA 1080 Ti Hybrid cards that I had (push/pull config). I'll likely mount 2 ML120 fans to each H55 and also mount 6 ML120's to my Thermaltake 360mm radiator (mounted as front intake). I'll also use one of the ML120's as a side intake fan blowing directly on the GPU's (has a fan filter so a static fan will help there).

I think once I get these G12's mounted on to the Titan Xp's I may continue to mine via Nicehash when I'm not gaming. That's assuming I can keep the cards silent. At this point I think I'll be using any small amount of cash that these cards generate from mining as play money. Having the cards pay for their own cooling upgrade is pretty awesome. Would be cool to have the cards pay for themselves ($2500).

Just a heads up there is a screw under the collectors edition sticker and one under the serial number sticker. Messing up the serial would get your warranty void. So remove with great precision and care.

[KAC]

To build or not to build is the question.

[Dave]

Just a heads up there is a screw under the collectors edition sticker and one under the serial number sticker. Messing up the serial would get your warranty void. So remove with great precision and care.

warranty is already voided from installing the EK waterblocks I had to return.

[nycdarkness]

warranty is already voided from installing the EK waterblocks I had to return.

So i guess you messed the stickers up lol already. It can be done with great care and put back. I did it on one over the weekend with a plastic razor blade.

[Dave]

So i guess you messed the stickers up lol already. It can be done with great care and put back. I did it on one over the weekend with a plastic razor blade.

I'll throw karma to the wind and say this - I've never had a GPU die on me, never had to RMA one either. Looked at some videos of installing the NZXT G12 - looks pretty damned simple.

[KAC]

NZXT is a very simple install. At least the G10 was.

[curio]

Sorry gays I was busy with that American passtime handegg this weekend

Oh and cable management, that's funny. Anywho here she blows; eighth radiator is zip-tied on the side:

[OverclockN']

That just looks cool as hell. Never thought I'd be seeing rigs like this even a year ago when mining was completely off my radar. Didn't even know it existed.

[nycdarkness]

Wall of heat lol. You should duct it to your other rooms and not pay for heating this winter.

[curio]

That just looks cool as hell. Never thought I'd be seeing rigs like this even a year ago when mining was completely off my radar. Didn't even know it existed.

Thanks dude. This probably would have been the most powerful computer in the world 15-20 years ago lol

Wall of heat lol. You should duct it to your other rooms and not pay for heating this winter.

The heat output is insane. Had to back the power output to 90% (along with window open and fan); and will probably have to go lower come summer time.

[Treeckcold57]

Hey curio, that's pretty sexy mining rig than your main gaming rig, tbh!

[shrike126]

I just saw Curio's setup in all its glory last night. Now I can't help but feel like I want to work on setting up a rig for myself. Except, of course, that ****'s expensive.

[curio]

Hey curio, that's pretty sexy mining rig than your main gaming rig, tbh!

And with the money I've spent recently on this, my gaming rig isn't getting updated any time soon lol

I just saw Curio in all his glory last night.

Now I can't help but feel like I want to work on setting up a rig for myself. Except, of course, that ****'s expensive.

Yeah right now with prices at what they are it's not really worth it; but I do enjoy this stuff

[nycdarkness]

Anyone want a strix i got from RMA in 940 to your door. I literally have too many cards at this point lol.

[OverclockN']

Anyone want a strix i got from RMA in 940 to your door. I literally have too many cards at this point lol.

I may be interested if I can get my 1080Ti SC2 sold. I do worry about being able to keep two Strix cool though. One does fantastically well. But two would have them basically smashed together on my board. Maybe a 1/4" gap.

[nycdarkness]

I may be interested if I can get my 1080Ti SC2 sold. I do worry about being able to keep two Strix cool though. One does fantastically well. But two would have them basically smashed together on my board. Maybe a 1/4" gap.

Just lemme know. I literally have 4 unused strix at this point. 3 of which are new but I plan on keeping or flipping those. Not sure at this point in all honesty lol. I'd swap with you but I have 2 sc2 elites and I am not a fan of it lol.

[KAC]

Curio some stupid questions.

1) Are the cards touching the aluminum bar? The one on their butt.
2) Which fans are you using?
3) Can I run this on 2 1000 Watts psu?
4) Are the radiators going to fall off?
5) What is your profitability right now?
6) Buttsechs?
7) what are you using to control the fans?
8) can you show cables from the bottom/side?

Looks great btw