Official Mining Thread

[KAC]

I will do the 1 year. If these cards don't pay for themselves then I am out. For now, I have about anywhere from 760+60 to 735+50 in my wallets. So about 1 card should be paid for by end of 10th March (which would complete a 1 month of mining, but of course with tons of breaks, re-dos, lost time etc.). For example, right now I am only mining 16 bucks a day because the drivers on my rig are not configured properly and nicehash is acting up. Something I will fix over the weekend to make this crap at least do about 25 a day.

[acroig]

Let's hope the price of those 1080Tis don't tank after Volta is released then.

[Dave]

Back below 10k

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/07/bitc...th-agency.html

[curio]

It was over $11.5k mere hours ago; no posts were made about that though lol

I mean common, it's constantly up and down every day; which is why you don't play this for the short term

[Riptide]

Some people think it'll skyrocket again this year up to 25,000$ or more. I'm a lot more bearish than they are. I think it's going to totally tank and drop down to 5,000$ or less. Even 1,000$ wouldn't really shock me.

[curio]

$0 wouldn't shock me lol

[Hapatingjaky]

Registration next up taxation.

My guess once full taxation takes hold it will only be worth maybe $1000.00.

[curio]

Registration?

And it's already under 'full taxation' in the US

[curio]

I've really enjoyed playing the 'market'; it changes so much that you can buy low and sell high often

[KAC]

I wanted to do that but I am still fixing my routine expenses so maybe around June I may do it.

I just lost a lot of money repairing my car, paying for my sons trip to Thailand, fixing a broken water heater and other stuff that were all extraordinary expenses. .

[curio]

Ouch

[KAC]

Let's hope the price of those 1080Tis don't tank after Volta is released then.

They will tank. Technically to about 500 bucks. However, that depends if miners completely lose interest in 1080 Ti or not. Given even 1070s are selling for 650 today I don’t see that happening until June etc.

[curio]

That all depends on the price strategy of nVidia and how easily people can get their hands on Volta cards

[andino]

Just because nVidia 'releases' a new card doesn't mean that people will get the new cards for a few months. I remember the 780's rolled out and it was months later before anyone actually started getting them. I started my 'step up' to the 880's the day that they came out. I didn't get my first 880 for 2 and a half months.

[KAC]

Doesn’t matter if cards are enabled for mining or not, they won’t be available until June/July in masses.

[andino]

Yup. I think I'm out. The whole point of this was to get a nice working gaming machine out of it. I can't get the SLI Surround to function on the 1080 ti's. I'm going to return one or both of them and the shittyass HB SLI Bridge that never functioned too.

Screw this. I put WAY too much work into making this setup function to find out that nVidia has been sitting on SLI Surround being totally screwed up for over a freaking year.

At least with my 980ti's I had a functioning computer.

Nvidia has really shat the bed as of late when it comes to taking care of their high end users.

I'm pissed.

[KAC]

I came home last night and reinstalled drivers. Killed the shitty miner software. Reinstalled Nicehash and increased pagefile to about 135 GB. Now it seems NeoScrypt is working but it shows my earn rate will be about 0.0021 now. That is QUITE A BIT LOW compared to the 0.0036 or 0.0031 I was making when I started this crap.

A bit disappointed but need to keep this crap running to see where I end up. Might have been better to buy BTC at 6500 and just sell it at 11500 and cash out.

I also can't believe that people are still wanting to pay a dime more than 700 for a 1080 Ti given that it now makes about 2.5 bucks a day

Btw andino, did you actually make higher returns on Awesome Miner when you ran it or was it just bullshite like I saw?

[Riptide]

Market is in a selloff again and yeah who pays 1000$+ for a 1080ti right now? We tod ed.

[andino]

I made higher returns. The key with it is that each pool has a different payout rate. Some like NiceHash pay out at $10 to $15 earned. Some pay out at higher.

I looked in my balance and had 3 different pools that needed to pay me out. Once I mined a bit more those pools deposited into my wallet.

I think that the difference is that I was used to one pool paying out fairly consistently. Instead I had my earnings split over 4 or 5 places and it took time for those to earn enough to get a payout. When they started coming in though they were about as advertised on the dashboard.

Well, except for when bitcoin tanked again. Then it started to look shorter...

[KAC]

Btw these seahawks are utter shite. Another one has gotten a squeaky fan now.

[Riptide]

At first I didn't believe it. Testing proved it.

When I have the phi miner client running at least one or more of my GPU produce actual noise. Close the client and noise goes away. Fan speed stays same. Not the fans.

It doesn't sound like coil whine to me. More of a soft squeak. Idc about it the noise doesn't bother me. Just thought it odd.

[GTwannabe]

Bitcoin down to $8700. Burn, baby burn!

[Mangler]

https://www.qarnot.com/crypto-heater_qc1/

Heat your house up with a crypto heater.

[curio]

So I got my eighth card back from repair, and it's even worse than before. The fan noise is gone, but the card gets up to 95+ celcius when within seconds of benchmarking. It idles at 45c, twice what my other cards idle at. The braid on the radiator tubes is all ****ed up, and the back plate has all kinds of dents and scratches in it. WTF

Well back to repair again I suppose; or I might just ask for a refund on this one

[andino]

I'd get a refund.

Looking at what the repair is like I doubt that you'll get a functioning card back.

[KAC]

So I got my eighth card back from repair, and it's even worse than before. The fan noise is gone, but the card gets up to 95+ celcius when within seconds of benchmarking. It idles at 45c, twice what my other cards idle at. The braid on the radiator tubes is all ****ed up, and the back plate has all kinds of dents and scratches in it. WTF

Well back to repair again I suppose; or I might just ask for a refund on this one

Refund it. Also am glad that I didn't go through the ordeal and just fixed it myself.

Btw, is anyone else also having problems with Nicehash. Mine keeps on closing the black screen w/ the details of mining and restarting it every few minutes or hours depending on its mood. I increased pagefile to now 150 GB so that shouldn't be a problem. Also I keep getting No data available in the daily estimated earnings every minute or so. This wasn't happening until I installed Awesome miner and ****ed my PC up.

Things I have tried are:

1) Re-doing the whole drivers
2) Re-installing Nicehash
3) Checking my cards (they are all fine)
4) Increasing pagefile from 96 to 115 to 135 and now 150 GB
5) Killing off any overclocking software like MSI gaming app or Precision XOC

I am at a loss now on what else I could possibly do. My daily earn rate was about 16 bucks a day (as I was out of country). Now it has climbed back up to 18 yesterday and today I am expecting about 22 (talking in bitcoin terms and assuming 1 BTC = 10K USD). I want it to go back to 24-28 like it should be but this Nicehash crashes are making me go crazy.

[curio]

I'm gonna give them one more chance at fixing it; if this next one comes back all ****ed up then yeah it's refund city

edit: I probably should have just fixed this one myself, they probably didn't put thermal paste on it - but since it's still under warranty I thought I'd let them do it one more time

[curio]

Btw, is anyone else also having problems with Nicehash. Mine keeps on closing the black screen w/ the details of mining and restarting it every few minutes or hours depending on its mood. I increased pagefile to now 150 GB so that shouldn't be a problem. Also I keep getting No data available in the daily estimated earnings every minute or so. This wasn't happening until I installed Awesome miner and ****ed my PC up.

Things I have tried are:

1) Re-doing the whole drivers
2) Re-installing Nicehash
3) Checking my cards (they are all fine)
4) Increasing pagefile from 96 to 115 to 135 and now 150 GB
5) Killing off any overclocking software like MSI gaming app or Precision XOC

I am at a loss now on what else I could possibly do. My daily earn rate was about 16 bucks a day (as I was out of country). Now it has climbed back up to 18 yesterday and today I am expecting about 22 (talking in bitcoin terms and assuming 1 BTC = 10K USD). I want it to go back to 24-28 like it should be but this Nicehash crashes are making me go crazy.

I'm not having any of those problems, and I'm only using a 76GB pagefile for 7 cards - equihash, lyra2, neoscrypt, & nist all run fine at 120% power, +100 core and +475 memory. As far as the no data available thing, have you tried another Nicehash server? When I was connected to the European pool I got more of them; they stopped when I went back to the US pool.

The black screen and the restarting though, no idea. Sounds like a candidate for a total windows re-install. Or maybe try to go back to a system restore point before you installed Awesome miner?

[KAC]

I wasn’t having these problems with 7 cards. I may re do windows maybe on Wednesday.
I switched to USA server for now and will see if it runs fine through the night. Tomorrow I am going out again on business trip and I need this crap to make me at least 25 bucks a day. Damn, how the mighty have fallen. Wanted to make it 45 a day and now down to 25 and it ain't even making that.
Seems USA server is more stable, at least it is not saying NO DATA in the daily estimated earnings area and running Equihash properly.
EDIT: Spoke too soon. Mining is happening but NO DATA nonsense is still there. Might be the new beta causing this crap as well.

[curio]

Sounds like a problem with having an eighth card; they can get tricky

When I installed my 8th the other day, I couldn't even get the thing to post; tried different memory configurations, clearing bios multiple times, unplugged all cards and still wouldn't post. Had to unplug the PSU from the motherboard and from each other and then back again, then it finally turned on. Decided to install each card one by one just to be safe; it all can be very finicky to get working when you get up there in cards.

edit: which reminds me, I need to make backup image of everything in working order like now

[KAC]

Yeah, I am wondering if the riser is busted. There are no signs of it but could be.
Edit: So I moved the card to another slot on the MB w/ the same riser and haven't had any halts for past 40 minutes. Is this the fix?

[andino]

Yeah, I am wondering if the riser is busted. There are no signs of it but could be.
Edit: So I moved the card to another slot on the MB w/ the same riser and haven't had any halts for past 40 minutes. Is this the fix?

That sounds like a late 1990's fix. Bad Interrupt Request number. LOL.

[KAC]

2 hours and still mining like its life depends on it. It is quite common to have one of these MB PCIe slots being busted or acting like a ****ing jerk making me lose money for almost a week. But seems it is fixed now. Let’s see what’s up.

Btw moment of truth. Even with all the crap of installing cards, moving them around, losing time fixing the Seahawk and this mobo issue, I made about 740 bucks last month (assuming 1 BTC = 10K).

I believe if I make anywhere from 0.09-0.1 BTC, it should be good enough to ultimately pay off this thing in 10 months.

[Riptide]

Not uncommon for risers to be bad. As cheap as they typically are probably not a huge surprise.

You guys ever have problems getting into your BIOS? It's a pita on mine. On a restart the display never pops on until Windows loads. Sometimes I can hit the key to get into the BIOS over and over it will work. Other times just sits there with the display in power save won't snap on.

[curio]

You guys ever have problems getting into your BIOS? It's a pita on mine. On a restart the display never pops on until Windows loads. Sometimes I can hit the key to get into the BIOS over and over it will work. Other times just sits there with the display in power save won't snap on.

Yup every time. The only way I can get into the bios is remove all the cards but one; because the same as you with all the cards installed my monitor doesn't even turn on until Windows is logging in - and if I hit F2 or Del after a reboot it just hangs and the monitor never turns on

[curio]

Also I'm using these risers, they've been perfect so far - though I did buy an extra pack just in case

[KAC]

I am using the exact risers as curio. Not a single bad one. I think my issue is partially resolved. Like for the first time in the week since I installed the 8th card, the whole thing ran without hiccups and I made decent money (about 0.002 BTC yesterday). Over time, I will see what's up. Whattomine and Nicehash tell me I should be making about 0.0025 these days so I will see if I can get it to that level over this coming day.

I haven't had a bad riser but a bad mobo slot it seems. Let's see. I am now at least making 0.002 for past 2 days (up from 0.0013-0.0016 from previous week).

[KAC]

Yes I think I will have to try something different. It ran fine for a while but now seems to be again crashing with Nicehash.

[andino]

$2.95 a day for a 1080ti.

[KAC]

Yeah very low these days. I am now running awesome miner and it shows I have about 30 bucks in there but no payouts to my wallet yet. Been a full day of this crap.