Official Mining Thread

[KAC]

They already launched a miner card. It is impossible to find.

[KAC]

ITS OVER 10000!

[curio]

Yup I cashed out some last night when it went over 10; sweet

And my adapter should be here today so I can get the rest of the cards running - took quite a bit to get here from China

[KAC]

What adapter lol?

[curio]

24-pin triple PSU adapter because I'm now on a mobo with only one input

Remember?

[KAC]

Can’t you buy that from Amazon or ask EVGA to ship you one for free?

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0793...+adapter&psc=1

[curio]

Can’t you buy that from Amazon or ask EVGA to ship you one for free?

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0793...+adapter&psc=1

I got it through Amazon but the triple ones aren't Prime and they ship slowly from China. Suppose I could have just ordered 2 doubles w/ Prime but I was waiting on my new motherboard anyway... either way I'll have it in my hands by tonight

[Riptide]

My rig now is somewhat of a mutt. Only two 1080ti are the same. Will post an updated photo. Cables look better now but it's tough to make it look perfect.

[curio]

KAC how are you dealing with that heat so far?

[KAC]

Honestly there isn’t much heat. Only two of my cards hit 60 C. Others don’t hit more than 50 C. My room has good ventilation and my air con runs at 25 C. Ambient is 18-20 C at night and about 22-25 C in the morning. I rarely see the compressor of my A/C turn on. Of course all of this will change in summer.

Ordered one MSI Duke from Amazon to make it 8 total cards for mining.

[Riptide]

Of my five 1080ti. The two Duke run the warmest. 64c and 63c. 100% tdp and +50 core. Fans at 80%. I'm a little disappointed. The coolers are stupid huge on these cards and yet the little evga SC black edition runs cooler.

The msi gaming and gigabyte aorus are both in the low 50s. Ambient temp around 68-70 Fahrenheit.

[Dave]

Honestly there isn’t much heat. Only two of my cards hit 60 C. Others don’t hit more than 50 C. My room has good ventilation and my air con runs at 25 C. Ambient is 18-20 C at night and about 22-25 C in the morning. I rarely see the compressor of my A/C turn on. Of course all of this will change in summer.

Ordered one MSI Duke from Amazon to make it 8 total cards for mining.

Don't you live in Dubai? It's 84F there today

[KAC]

Of my five 1080ti. The two Duke run the warmest. 64c and 63c. 100% tdp and +50 core. Fans at 80%. I'm a little disappointed. The coolers are stupid huge on these cards and yet the little evga SC black edition runs cooler.

The msi gaming and gigabyte aorus are both in the low 50s. Ambient temp around 68-70 Fahrenheit.

Yeah I cancelled the Duke and was able to get the FTW Hybrid for 899 from Amazon.

[KAC]

Don't you live in Dubai? It's 84F there today

Yes but my house generally remains 22-25 C as there are other A/Cs on in the house during the day. Nights are cooler.

Btw today it will be a full week of mining and I would have made about 220-230 in a week (about 30 a day w/ 6.5 cards mining). I think it is not too bad to be honest. I make about 0.0031 BTC a day and after fees it is about 0.003 BTC.

[andino]

Yeah, I'm still looking for cards. Not that hard though. And I sure as **** don't want to pay top dollar for them. $1,000.00+ for a 1 year old card is a little pricey for my blood. I could do $900 for a FTW Hybrid if I could find them in stock.

Just my luck everyone want's the hybrids for the mining. I enjoy gaming with them not making rocket sounds under my desk. The mining would be secondary for me.

[KAC]

I have read multiple reports claiming that BTC will hit a high in July 2018. I am trying to mine as much as I can before that. That is why I ordered one more card.

If BTC is above 10K in april, I will be throwing a volta rig.

[Dave]

Personally I hope that Nvidia sets up Volta/Ampere as gaming only cards and blocks or at worse severely hurts the mining performance of the cards. Sucks seeing gamers not being able to get their hands on these cards.

ROI of 8 months on these cards is a little on the high side I think. Better off buying the currency directly instead of mining it. Very curious to see how all these miners handle the summer heat in a few months.

[KAC]

So these are official first week stats.

Current balance
0.02257963
241.78 USD

Wallet
Unpaid mining balance: 0.00019391 BTC

[Riptide]

If a gamer can't find a 1080ti they don't know what they're doing or they are too lazy to put any effort in.

I bought three last week and all it took was watching nowinstock. On one of them the CC company declined the charge, I had to call it in, and it still went through.

Were they over msrp yep were they 1000$+ nope not even close.

[KAC]

If a gamer can't find a 1080ti they don't know what they're doing or they are too lazy to put any effort in.

I bought three last week and all it took was watching nowinstock. On one of them the CC company declined the charge, I had to call it in, and it still went through.

Were they over msrp yep were they 1000$+ nope not even close.

I agree. I paid the new MSRP for my FTW hybrid.

[Riptide]

Some updated photos. The config will stay this way for a while now. Previously there was two titan xp and one 1080ti. Now a total of five 1080ti. Titans gone.

Due to the stock situation I was unable to match the models. Only two, the msi duke, are a pair.

[KAC]

Can you link me to the fans. I need to change my fans so they don't bend across the line. My current corsair fans are too big I think.
How is the noise? Except for one squeaky blower fan, my rig is absolutely silent.

Looks solid.

[Riptide]

Mine is definitely not silent. It's less now with the titans out of there. All my cards are air cooled with fans spun 67-80% on the GPU. So yah it's gonna make some noise.

If ML120 weren't so expensive I'd have got them. Instead I'm using some cheaper 53cfm fans I got off Amazon in a 5 pack.

Wish I had five Aorus extreme. I can't overclock mine much but it runs super cool and is the quietest of the bunch.

In order of favorite to least favorite:
Evga SC2 hybrid
Aorus Xtreme
Msi gaming 11g
Evga SC black
Msi Duke

One thing neat about the SC black is how small it is. It isn't the coolest card in the bunch but for it's clocks and physical size it does well.

[KAC]

I saw the fans you ordered. I didn't like their look

So I ordered this now...

5 of Corsair Air Series SP 120 LED White High Static Pressure Fan Cooling - twin pack

I already have 5 of these fans that came w/ the MSI cards. The 6th MSI card came w/ a regular corsair fan that sucks. So with my incoming EVGA FTW Hybrid I plan to do push / pull on all 7 cards.

I also ordered another of this

SilverStone PWM Fan Hub System Cables, Black (CPF04)

and

Corsair Hydro Series HG10 N970 Edition Cooling Fan to replace the squeaky blower fan.

I think by end of this month, I will have a rig done that looks more civilized and is ****ing quiet.

I also ordered proper screws for that RAD installation, just fyi if gays want to know..

Nylon 6/6 Pan Head Machine Screw, Black, #2 Phillips Drive, #6-32 Thread Size, 1-1/8" Length, Fully Threaded, USA Made (Pack of 100)

[KAC]

So it seems that the two SC2 hybrids I had rejected were still floating around with the carrier so I asked them to deliver them to me again. If I get the cards then I will ask Amazon to charge me and cancel my FTW hybrid order. lol.

[Riptide]

I'm out of pci-e slots on this x370 motherboard. The only way to add another GPU would be with an m.2 riser.

I've also got two 1080ti right now pulling about 500w off my 850w psu. I could squeeze another 150-180w out of it so there is room for one more card.

Tempting but a third 1080ti would have to scale back on TDP to work or I'd be over the limit on wattage.

[KAC]

I never quite understood why you sent the TXPs back?

Also if I do get the SC2 hybrids they will go in my main PC and I will put the Asus in the rig. If I don’t get them then I will put the FTW in the rig. I will end up with either 8 or 9 cards for now.

[curio]

Well I'm fully back in business - sans 1 card I'm sending back for repair because of a noisy blower fan. So far I'm crunching about $32-$40 per day now on 7 Ti's

The Wi-Fi adapter I had been using was giving me all sorts of fits and was preventing me from using more than 3 cards; basically if I added a 4th card the Wi-Fi adapter would start going in and out of signal, but 3 cards or less had a perfect connection to my AC router. I narrowed that down to either EMI interference from all the cards running or problems through the PCI bus. Either way I figured Wi-Fi is now out of the pictures, so I got one of those powerline adapters so I could connect an ethernet cable and run internet through my electrical lines in the house; and it's running silky smooth now.

I also returned my RAM because it was unstable and got a 16GB kit that ran perfect out of the box.

So far at 100% TDP and no additional overclocking outside of what the Sea Hawk's already clock at around 1700+MHz, my hottest card is running at 57c; with the lowest running at only 40c (I've got two fans pumping in cold air from open windows directly on the rig, but they're not oscillating fans so the card in the middle is getting the least air and is the one running the hottest)

Since I've spent weeks dicking with this thing and replacing parts, I'm just glad I got it working and stable because I almost gave up on this. I'm going to run it at these nominal speeds for a week and see if it stays stable and if it does, then I'll crank it up a bit more because I do have the temp headroom this time of year.

[KAC]

How are you doing 32-40 with 7 Tis? Please enlighten me. I am doing only about 30 a day.

Curio what is your steam Id?

Also pics!

[curio]

Well I don't run all algorithms first off; I disable Keccak, Sia, Blake2s, & x11gost if it's listed

Outside of that I'm not sure why else I'm getting what I am. Did you make sure to run a Precision benchmark?

[KAC]

Yup ran precision. I only run Nist5, Neoscrypt, Equihash and Lyra2rev though. Maybe I should enable the others?

Screenshot of Algos and server you are using?

[curio]

I really wish Nicehash would let you maximize the window so you can see all of them at once

[KAC]

Ok let me change my settings then. lol.

[curio]

Sometimes mine dips down to $25/day according to Nicehash; but every morning I wake up I've been getting a $35-40 deposit of BTC

I dunno, maybe Dave is giving me some of his

[KAC]

Re-running benchmark.

[curio]

Curio what is your steam Id?

Just saw this; steam ID is 'curiophile' - but I have all messaging disabled. These days all I play on Steam is Civ V & Civ IV.

Also pics!

Try to ignore the disaster of cables; as I have zero plans of making it look all pretty because frankly I don't care and nobody else will be looking at it anyway

[curio]

Decided to crank them up +75MHz, what the hell. Temps went up a touch but not bad - still stable now at around 1800+MHz

[Riptide]

I never quite understood why you sent the TXPs back?

I'm moving and most likely won't have a basement to keep the rig in. Therefore the blower fans on the titans, while no issue right now, were going to be a problem down the road. It is already noisy enough as it is.

This spring/summer when temps climb I'll end up having to reconfigure everything for 60-70% TDP to keep heat down and probably won't be able to slow the fans down either. Hash will suffer. Nothing I can do about it unless I want the air conditioner on constantly which I don't.

[curio]

Yeah I fully plan on having to lower to probably 80% TDP come summer time

[curio]

Right now I'm down at $28-$32/day estimate; we'll see what it ends up at the deposit