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Impossible. I've been told by so many people (haters) that the "filthy miners" are making it literally impossible to get a GPU for anything less than 200% markup.
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In my opinion is not worth it to mine. I got into it for a few months and the ROI was taking longer than it should plus the constant headaches that comes with it like making sure all your cards are running at their best and ****. And the damn risers man dont get me started.
Im doing way better trading crypto than when I mined eth so if you doing for fun go for it but if you are going to make a living just stick to trading IMO |
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With that said I have enough systems to not have to do the riser card stuff for the cards I have. And i wont have any electricity costs so. |
I can understand some of the negativity on mining, and the frustration of both gamers and system builders. On the other hand, the willingness to spend thousands to build a rig is pretty wild. It seems like a big gamble to me, waiting on that ROI to start raking in the dough. I guess I just don't have much faith in the crypto-system.
However, for myself? I'll keep mining to make a small chunk of extra pocket change each month. Also, I'll try to snag a 2nd 1080Ti to play games with at 4k. I'll mine with that too...would be great to make it pay some of the money back at the very least. I don't have much expectations beyond that. :) |
Pretty much why I did it. Just wanted to pay for the equipment I had on hand already and make a small investment. I've expanded to a total of four GPU and don't have any plans to go much beyond that.
I enjoy my day job and gaming. No desire to build a huge farm and stay at home all day eating chips and watching clients churn out shares. :D |
Added the second 1080 Ti to my main rig tonight. Up to 0.0031 bitcoins a day now.
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You do you KAC. I will be laughing when you can't get it configured right.
Also all Titan Xp variants are out of stock on nvidia.com |
reg xp is still avail.
aio and block variant of the gigabyte available on newegg for 1100s but comes with a x370 gaming 5 mobo to soften the rape lol. |
Yeah I was trying to get the AIO but then saw the motherboard plus the reviews. Not touching Gigabyte.
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It wasn’t about the board. I don’t want to pay for it. I finally scored a MSI Trio for 849 and then Newegg voided my order. My local shop called and said that it has 3 Strix at 4250 per card or 1115 bucks. Wtf.
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pny ref blower is avail for 900 on the egg with a newegg business code. I have it if anyone wants it.
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All variants of the xp avail GO go go.
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Damn near had another 1080Ti scored. Had a notice from EVGA. Checked a few things, moved the cash for it to my debit account, created the order, and hit purchase...insufficient stock. Will go faster next time. Ten minutes was too long. :lol:
Edit: Refreshed their product page and saw another one in stock. It hadn't even hit my email yet for the auto-notify. Bought it, transaction complete. Bought it for $780 MSRP. |
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Ah okay thanks.
I saw the sc and ftw both hybrids come in stock but missed both. |
Trying to decide if running the power limit at 100% on my cards is worth it. Electricity cost wise the difference between 100% and 85% is like $5 bucks. On my Titan Xp watercooled system, running at 100% power puts the cards at 55c, running at 85% puts them at 48C. I'm also trying to factor the cost in the warmer months when I'm dealing with heat too.
According to whattomine.com At 3220MH/s (85% power limit on the Titan Xp's) I'll net $12.85 a day or .00124 bitcoins. At 3600MH/s (100% power limit on the Titan Xp's) I'll net $14.32 a day, or .00135 bitcoins. That's a difference of $44.10 a month. That covers the entire cost of running that system for a month. I think I might just leave it at 100%. $44.10 I think would also cover the cost of the increased run time of my air conditioner to keep them cool. 48C vs 55C on the cards is negligible. Running the cards at 120% power limit results in 3750MH/s and 58C. The unknown here is what temp is the VRM running at. No idea how good waterblocks cool VRM's compared to the core (nyc any insight here?) My biggest advantage here is my power cost at $0.07 kw/h |
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Some cards dont have a sensor there that gpu-z picks up btw. But anyway if your water its hardly an issue. Tbh the vrm chokes are more essentially to be kept cool than the vrm themselves but that's also covered on full blocks. |
Thanks, thats what I thought, yeah I'm running full cover EK blocks.
I actually took the side panel off my case and temps at 100% power limit have dropped to 47C. I have the radiator for the GPU's mounted to the front of the case as exhaust (didn't want to dump that heat into the case and on to the CPU). I can't currently mount it to the top of the case because the CPU cooler is too tall for it to fit. If I wanted to mount to the top of the case I'd need to replace the CPU cooler, something I dont want to do. Airflow is not optimal right now. CPU fan exhausts to the back of the case and gpu exhausts to the front so its not a surprise taking the side panel off has helped temps. Edit: dropping below 50C seems to be allowing the cards to jump up a stepping in core clock (****ing GPU boost, lol) |
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