Official Mining Thread

[KAC]

Let’s hope my MOBO doesn’t fry like Dave and Curio.

And for the record I hate this case

[andino]

Just curious, why don't you gays put a one or two 120mm fan blowing across your motherboards?

[Riptide]

I have before I moved the GPU up into risers. I may rig up a couple fans again and zip tie them to the rail onto the frame in front of the motherboard. Debatable how needed it is. I don't think it runs very warm. While I mine with the CPU it runs real cool and is not overclocked. Remember this stuff is running open air.

Finally I've settled on my configuration. In the miner frame I'm going to have 4 1080ti running off a 1200w and 850w psu. (2) msi duke, (1) msi gaming 11g, and (1) gigabyte aorus. I want to get one more 1080ti eventually to max out the rig. The motherboard won't support more than 5 so that will be it.

In the main workstation upstairs I have (1) evga sc2 hybrid and a 850w psu. When volta comes out I want to get one and keep the sc2 in that computer to strictly mine with. Volta will be used for games and mining.

Eventually the total will be (6) 1080ti and (1) volta. The intention is to keep mining stacks of various alts and hold them all at least one year or longer. See what happens.

[KAC]

This stupid Nicehash is saying I am going to make 1035 a month. I don’t mind it at all.

[andino]

Still getting about $5 a day off the two 980ti's.

[KAC]

Gays, one of my sea hawks has a squealing sound from the blower fan. Can I just replace it with this puppy?

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0151PYG4E...518338067&sr=2

[Riptide]

Picked up an evga sc black this morning which will finish out my miner frame. While I could use a M.2 adapter and host a sixth GPU my two psu won't provide enough wattage. Right now not really wanting to sell my 850w psu and upgrade plus buy a sixth expensive GPU. Also unsure how well that asrock taichi would like having 5 risers on pci-e plus a 6th hooked up with m.2. Might be kinda pushing it.

Titans go back next week. I'd probably keep them if I weren't moving and may have to live with the frame in a room next to me. Blowers just a little too noisy for that IMO.

[KAC]

Man, this mining generates a lot of heat

[Dave]

Man, this mining generates a lot of heat

you are just now figuring that out? lmao. I just have my 2 Titan Xp's mining here in my apartment. My heat has not kicked on at all and its 20F (-6C_ outside.

[Hapatingjaky]

you are just now figuring that out? lmao. I just have my 2 Titan Xp's mining here in my apartment. My heat has not kicked on at all and its 20F (-6C_ outside.

Maybe that's because you spent all your money on the mining equipment and did not pay your bill and they cut you off.

[KAC]

Actually I knew about the heat that is why I went with Hybrids. Compared to all air cooling it is lesser of the two evils in terms of heat and noise. I just added a push/pull to one of the rads that was hitting 65 C compared to others that remain between 47-55 C. It has gotten that rad down to 58 C now. I think I will go tomorrow and nab 12 new fans w/ higher CFM than the ones that came with seahawk and push/pull this crap. Also need to straighten up the case.

[Riptide]

Bit of an illusion really. The hybrids help you remove the heat more quietly. There is still the same amount of heat to be removed.

Blower coolers being the loudest solution followed by 2/3 fan and then water. My gigabyte aorus even when spun at 80% though audible is not loud at all and a huge step up over blowers. The evga sc2 AIO runs about the same decibel level to my ear as the aorus however could run quieter if I weren't running it at 120% tdp with a +100 core overclock.

Maybe that's because you spent all your money on the mining equipment and did not pay your bill and they cut you off.

Miner's dream?

[KAC]

I am not overclocking these cards. After curio’s experience and reviews on Amazon I am weary of this board crapping out on me. Btw the b250 mining expert is now 100 bucks less than my purchase price. I am so annoyed by that.

[curio]

Yeah I wasn't a fan of that mobo; but I think I just got a bad one. And so did Dave lol

Anywho looking good there KAC; hope you can pump that heat out of the room somehow. If it gets too much you'll probably want to lower your power threshold to 80-90%.

As for myself I finally got my Z270-A mobo installed and had some major problem getting Windows installed on it; ended up getting everything working after a BIOS update - which I should have done first :headslap: Back on track though.

[KAC]

Pics man pics.

[curio]

Will do after I get all eight up and running; currently just running 3 now while waiting for my 24-pin ATX adapter so I can use the other PSU's

[Riptide]

Got one of the adapter cables on the way too so I can get my 850w psu in the picture without jump starting it. There is also the add2psu as another option.

[KAC]

Will do after I get all eight up and running; currently just running 3 now while waiting for my 24-pin ATX adapter so I can use the other PSU's

Only reason why I paid 150 bucks more than any other board. NO ADAPTERS FOR PSU!

[KAC]

Looks like I am doing about 25-27 bucks or 0.0031 BTC per day with 6.5 cards mining. Doesn’t seem too bad to be honest.

[KAC]

I have stopped playing video games due to mining.

[OverclockN']

I have stopped playing video games due to mining.

That doesn't sound like any fun at all.

[Dave]

lol, thats the whole point of the mining rig. setup those cards to mine and leave your main pc alone to play video games on.

[Treeckcold57]

lol, thats the whole point of the mining rig. setup those cards to mine and leave your main pc alone to play video games on.

LMFAO. My thought exactly.

[KAC]

Yes but I am becoming greedy lol.

[Greasy]

This **** reminds me of Amway.

[KAC]

I am now regretting sending the 2 EVGA Hybrids back to Amazon.
It is 9650 now.

[Seyiji]

I am now regretting sending the 2 EVGA Hybrids back to Amazon.
It is 9650 now.

Ha!

I cri everytiem cause I only have a 970 and a RX 580 to mine with...

[Riptide]

It's ok when it crashes to 5000 or less KAC you'll feel fine about it.

Dude these msi Duke cards are stupid huge. If they run warm ima be like wtfff

[KAC]

Nah I don’t think it will hit 5000 or below. It is only going to go up.

I guess I need to build another rig when Volta is out.

[Treeckcold57]

I am now regretting sending the 2 EVGA Hybrids back to Amazon.
It is 9650 now.

Please....Stop....Make..."Quick decision". You'll thank me later.

[KAC]

Almost 10k now. Need that 1080 Ti

[Riptide]

Make me an offer on the two titans lol

Put em under water. Beast

[Dave]

Make me an offer on the two titans lol

Put em under water. Beast

Dude rip off the coolers and put nzxt g12s on them

[Greasy]

Nvidia might be releasing a mining card to help out GPU prices.

When Reuters reported Turing as NVIDIA's next gaming graphics card, we knew something was off about it. Something like that would break many of NVIDIA's naming conventions. It now turns out that Turing, named after British scientist Alan Turing, who is credited with leading a team of mathematicians that broke the Nazi "Enigma" cryptography, is a crypto-mining and blockchain compute accelerator. It is being designed to be compact, efficient, and ready for large-scale deployment by amateur miners and crypto-mining firms alike, in a quasi-industrial scale.

NVIDIA Turing could be manufactured at a low-enough cost against GeForce-branded products, and in high-enough scales, to help bring down their prices, and save the PC gaming ecosystem. It could have an ASIC-like disruptive impact on the graphics card market, which could make mining with graphics cards less viable, in turn, lowering graphics card prices. With performance-segment and high-end graphics cards seeing 200-400% price inflation in the wake of crypto-currency mining wave, PC gaming is threatened as gamers are lured to the still-affordable new-generation console ecosystems, led by premium consoles such as the PlayStation 4 Pro and Xbox One X. There's no word on which GPU architecture Turing will be based on ("Pascal" or "Volta"). NVIDIA is expected to launch its entire family of next-generation GeForce GTX 2000-series "Volta" graphics cards in 2018.

https://www.techpowerup.com/241552/n...save-pc-gaming

[KAC]

Glad I got a mobo with at least 6-8 slots that can support this Turing card. I can't wait

[KAC]

Make me an offer on the two titans lol

Put em under water. Beast

You won't like my offer. There are less than 2 months before all our cards go to shite in terms of pricing. One of the reasons why I am seriously contemplating picking up another 1080 Ti at this point or just wait it out for Turing, Ampere, Volta, whichever mines like a mofo on crack.

Right now it will take 8-10 months of non stop mining to pay off a 1080 Ti let alone a TXp.

[Riptide]

K. You have another day to change your mind.

In two-three months if nothing is out, paper launched, or just out of stock again due to supply/demand you may regret it.

Good luck sir.

[KAC]

Sent PM.

[curio]

Nvidia might be releasing a mining card to help out GPU prices.

https://www.techpowerup.com/241552/n...save-pc-gaming

Yeah that's the best thing they can do for gamers; make gaming only cards and mining only cards

[Exposed]

Having two lineups while having the same allocation at TSMC means they have to lock mining out of the gaming cards somehow. Otherwise miners will just buy both and still keep supplies dry.

I don't know what capacity TSMC is operating at on a monthly basis, but if they're close to manufacturing capacity then increasing allocation for one customer means taking away allocation from another.