Topic: 12x 1080 TI Mining Rig Build (8300 sols) (Read 3809 times)

Sorry for reposting this from the Discord channel but I'm really eager to find the answer to this ;

I've been trying to figure this one out on my own with no luck. When Vosk says his 12x 1080 rig achieves 8300 sol/s, is that directly transferrable as 8300 H/s on the http://whattomine.com/ calculator? Are the calculations made when putting sol/s in the h/s field for Equihash feasible?


EDIT: Found a (hopefully correct) explanation here; https://forum.z.cash/t/difference-between-hashes-vs-solutions/2930/6 , where - as I understand it - solutions per second and Hashrate is basically equivalent.

happy to hear it man! How did you end up getting on with the rigs?

The way ZEC works, sol/s *IS* hashrate for all practical purposes.

 Yes, that's the number you plug into whattomine or other calculators - always keeping in mind like ANY OTHER algorithm that the calculator can't account for stuff like stales....

Thanks brother!

sorry about the scammer but it's awesome youve got 13 1080 TIs plus those are supposed to be sweet cards! good luck and post some pictures of your build and final numbers!

It's not that I "believe in Gridcoin" - I actually think how they have things set up needs a major overhaul.

 It's that I'm a 20(ish) year participant in the Distributed.Net project, and working with DNet through the BOINC Moo Wrapper project instead of running the DNet client directly lets me earn enough coin to pay the electric and sometimes even turn a small profit on doing something I want to do anyway.

That's really interesting thanks for sharing, I won't bug you with a ton of questions on it but I'm definitely going to go spend some more time researching this lol. Seems like a very cool project, you think GridCoin will have long-term usability or it will fall off? I imagine you believe in it as you dedicate a nice chunk of machinery to it!

 Most of them are older AMD cards that wouldn't make a lot more doing mining (I've checked it occasionally), but are KILLER on the Distributed.net RC5-72 project (which I have been a participant in for well over a decade, and close to 2 decades working with DNet in general, but moved to working with it via the Moo Wrapper BOINC project a year and a half or so ago to monitize it somewhat via GridCoin).

 When I get tired of the instability of Win 10 as needed to run a Vega on Monero mining, the Vega 56 will be moving back over to Moo Wrapper as well - DNet is one of the few places that the Vega cards are comparable in performance to the GTX 1080 ti (not 1080, 1080 TI that was not a typo).
 I didn't manage to snag a Vega 64 before the prices on ALL the Vega cards got insane, but I suspect a well-tuned Vega RX 64 would be THE highest performance GPU for Dnet/Moo Wrapper work given how close the Vega RX 56 is - with the way overpriced Vega FE being a very close #2.

 The R9 290s, R9 280x, most of the HD 7xxx, and some of the RX 470s DID specifically mine crypto for a while before the big altcoin price/profitability jump, but I'm making enough right now that I don't NEED to squeeze every last penny out of every card I have.

 Turns out that my best current estimate on the "ZEC + Monero" machines is a hair more than the A2 farm is eating - but it's STILL quite close - 5800 watts vs right about 6000.

Thanks brother!

Cost about 10k all cards bought at $700 or less all cards hash ~700 sols

Currently its on suprnova zen which is hard to monitor its exact output as opposed to being on a pool like zhash or luckpool https://zhash.pro/workers/znkPcNtQTKfBkwPqnQBdKRuifeVejrEhjRU where I get read outs for each rig w/ earnings

uses ~2600watts or so haven't measured it

I want to move to washington state to pursue my mining dreams T_T lol

Can you tell me more about why you dedicate those resources to a BOINC farm as opposed to slapping them on crypto?

ah that's tough . . where are you located?

I'm glad you have a solar system setup to help with that, did you setup your system yourself and if so how did that go?

I'm not nearly as experienced with AMD as you are but from everything I see I absolutely agree. . It's why I stick with the green team lol, I've seen some people give up with setting up a Vega rig lol

haha that sounds like a headache in the making to me O_o how'd you get on with this?

Nice man ! Good Work there
That rigs is compact and has really high density .
You can earn around 62 dollars from a single rig and thats only if you are mining zcash a stable coin
You can learn a lot more by mining niche coins like zcoin and others , thats like a 100 $ a day , i.e 1860 -3000 dollars minus the  power draw a day
Thats a good amount of money
Anyways would like to ask How much did it cost you in total and what amount are you earning realtime and how much power is it consuming .

With THAT kind of an electric bill, you should consider moving to somewhere with lower cost electric.

 20 cent per KWH is prohibitive for long-term mining profits.

 My last bill was $550, and while I was "only" generating 15k-16k sol/s during that month I also had a ton of power feeding the A2 Scrypt farm (MORE than the ZEC farm I think, though it's gotten quite close) + some feeding my DNet/Moo Wrapper/BOINC farm, which includes all of my older powerhog HD7xxx and R9 280x/290 cards (along with some RX 470s and A10 iGPUs), and some feeding the CPUs I have mining Monero on most of the GPU-centric machines.


 Oh yeah - some of it was also going into the 1 Evap cooler I still have running, and a little into the A/C unit that keeps the seperate "office" type space cool.

Already have 5kW solar system and selling absolutely nothing back to the grid. Will have to look into expanding. 20c US /kW. ~18kH/s currently and last electricity bill was ~$1700US per 60 days   
Even bought and installed solar+vent combo to save on cooling

 The big issue right now with Vega is that AMD has taken forever to get WORKING drivers available for LINUX - so you had to use Win10 if you wanted to use the Blockchain drivers (needed for high XMR mining rates).

 In THEORY, the 17.40 drivers for LINUX have fixed that - but I've not had the chance to check that out (it's on my agenda for this week) and also include the Blockchain "fixes".

 Given that AMD CLAIMS the 17.30 "Blockchain" drivers are supported for Windows 7 WHEN IN ACTUAL FACT THEY DON'T WORK AT ALL UNDER 7, I am not holding my breath.



 AMD is doing a fairly good job of shooting themselves in the foot with their last 2.5 years of borked LINUX drivers, and their drivers that have been frequently total junk in general.

well I read so much about glitches for amd rigs
and I'm terrified  that I have to do all this mamba umba stuff
cause after 10 days I'm gonna receive one vega.. I'll try to install and run it with my 1080ti all together
i hope I gonna make it

Appreciate it man glad I could help!

What have you decided on to be some of the best bang for buck builds? That's actually a chapter I'm hoping to focus more on soon, I ordered 12x 1060 3b which I'm praying all have samsung memory (pipe dream probably) lol I pulled one out and surprisingly it is samsung but I doubt the other 11 all are

I like the 3 card setups for getting stuff up and running fast, my trio mining rigs have been rock solid since day one but chasing the better efficiency and condensing the parts has been the mission as of late

Thanks again man it's always awesome to get feedback and to know I could help someone out / or entertain

thanks my friend and thanks for viewing

Thanks my friend! What is your electric cost? Maybe it's solar time xD