Topic: Data Center Mining Garage and Man Mining Cave ( PART 2 !!!!!!!!) - page 38. (Read 106682 times)

actually as yun9999 has inquired about it and so has another member on the forums watching this thread it has crossed my mind to start such a thread. but honestly i haven't felt ive gathered enough intel to be able to. im not very handy at making a guide of any sorts. i can give up things like where to look for pin outs, tips and tricks i use when making custom cables, things like that. as people ask me things im able to dig up more info, like for instance seasonic psu's on the 8pin plug that plugs into the psu is a specific plug that's NOT made by molex and its slightly different from its normal 8 pin molex connector plug.

good info although i have to say im not sure i would trust a bios "mod", if its not from MSI for there motherboard that could void warranty other than that the rest of the info is good

Custom power cable, if you use big 2 or 4k psu, that sound very interesting, why not opening a topic about making your own power & network cables !

if there is anyone else that is interested in making there own custom length power cables for there rigs pci express, eps 12v, 4 pin molex and sata
yall are welcome to hit me up, i have a some information that should allow just about anyone to jump right into making there own cables instead of spending and arm or a leg for what you might think is quality made, if you make it you control the quality, every now and then i see things like splitter cables that use stranded aluminum, not a good choice, those of us that are old enough knows what happens to houses that have aluminum wireing don't we? over time and or when its overloaded. i use nothing but straight up stranded copper wire


BTW @yun9999 sent you a pm!:D

Hey yun, i think i saw somewhere on this forum you had to activate a specific option in the newest mobo bios to get 6 gpu to work, it was "4G bandwith or something", i'll try to find the post again. Try to see if you see something like that in the bios, seems to be the key to get 6 gpus if i remember correctly. Keeping you updated

Ah there it is

http://mining-hardware.weebly.com/blog/category/z170-bios-mod

Dunno if you can get it to work the same way for the biostar. Tell me about it

LOL.... yeah my eyes are going bad.

Yes, diversity is best IMHO.

Just like coins - you wouldnt want to do all ETH but pair the best GPU type for the right coin type.

Eg. RX best for ETH. Non-RX best for non-ETH.

Man don't eat on bread alone 

Hehe, I'm still wording it badly.  What I mean is if I were to invest $2400 in a GPU rig mining ETH / ZEC or whatever for  the 6-12 months.  Does the future look rosier in that path which right now looks good but DASH is popping.  Stay that path or diversify a bit and add some of these ASIC to the mix.

@thedue - You can order it on his Ebay store.  PM him.  He ships Internationally.

Sadly I can´t order risers from hawkfishs Amazon Shop with shipping to europe 

GPU for X11 will be a mismatch because the smallest Baikal Asics is only around 300 bucks delivering 150MHs.
A rig with 6 or 7 GPUs maybe can push 15-20Mhs per rig... so not worth wasting the watts. It better to get the ASICs.

There are Baikal, Pinidea, iBelink etc. to choose from. The Baikals are very stable, and it was install and forget from day 1. Also they gave me a nice utility to manage the farm - scan network automatically, change pools and config centrally. The Giant model is 900Mhs per ASIC and uses 205-215watts. A 1300 PSU will drive 5 of these Giants.

We paid in BTC directly to Baikal because we are in Asia.

For US sales & support - you might want to PM bittawm.

I think I word the question poorly.  My real question is whether it's worth investing in the ASIC BAIKAL Miners now vs more GPU rigs since DASH is on FIRE.  I love the low wattage which means we can mine them for a very very long time.  However the short 30 days warranty also could mean we can get into a lot of down time.  Another concerning point is that not too long ago Dash was barely $10 and it would probably take forever to ROI on these ASIC miners.  Now that prices are popping, I wonder if there's at least 6-9 good month where we ROI and just enjoy regardless of price or how high Diff is.  12 of the top end unit would fit into my SHED slot perfectly.  Another challenge I would have in trying to buy 5-15 of these units is that they require payment in DASH coins.  Looks interesting and fun even the smaller units.

P.S Was going to keep 1 Racing MB as a ROM / Test Station as it's so damn sexy plus I can direct connect 4 GPUs into it without needing risers.  The biggest plus as a ROM station / separate test station is not needing a power button, but this one I'm testing the power button sensitivity just stop working.  I guess it's not meant to be.  Time to return them all.

I host 25GHs of Baikal X11 ASICs for one of my team members. He is a huuuge DASH supporter and he is also into FINTECH stuff. The 25GHs farm is being rented out on Nicehash X11 marketplace and currently paying 0.0122 BTC per GHs per day. The entire 25GHs is powered by 5 x PSUs (3 x 1600 and 2 x 1300). Amazingly efficient power consumption these ASICs.

GPU mining for X11 is almost dead in the water. Sure it will mine but no fight vs Baikals or Pinidea ASICs. Better get the GPUs to mine ZEC  

I still have a box (carton?) of H81s still un-open from Newegg in the storeroom. I think a box holds 10 boards. Not for sale though because it's reserved for another project. When we started the farm last year, one of my investors correctly predicted that the H81 will be hard to find if the crypto coin industry takes off - so we bought plenty....

However, the BIOSTAR TB85 is newer, so thats a good alternative too since its designed for mining just like the H81s. I got 7xGPUs working with R7-370s with a PCI-USB splitter with H81s. Since small data mining bandwidth is required vs high IO gaming, 1x PCI is sufficient for data transport. I have to try them on my Nanos but ZEC is killing it now and I prefer no downtime around this time.

Sorry about the Z170-GT7 situation - I feel for you man.

Yeah it will work on, the older 1151 CPUs.

I3  6xxx
I5  6xxx
I7 6xxx.

But

I3. 7xxx
I5. 7xxx
I7  7xxx

All need to flash mobo. Which means you need a spare CPU if you have new CPUs. Or you just buy the older CPUs.

The BIOSTAR TB85 is a great Board and Great alternative to the SOLD out ASROCK H81 BTC Pro.  No Issues getting it to recognize 6 GPU, no drivers needed for Network card.    Simplemining.net as well as Windows work like a champ.  CPU slot is 4 vs 8 Pin.






The Biostar 7 Slot GPU Z170GT7 Racing is a SEXY Board.  I really really want it to work but it didn't.  It's actually a very stupid card.  All Looks and no go.  Max is 4 GPU.  You have to flash the BIOS in order to see some CPU models.  How do they expect us to do that?  Have a spare CPU just for that?  I bought 15 of them, I may only keep 1 for a ROM / Test station.  Why would they tease us with 7 Slots but only 4 are designed to work?  That's like going to an ALL YOU CAN EAT Buffett, just to be told It's ALL YOU CAN EAT, NOT YOU CAN EAT ALL!!!

Nhan, Did you get any luck with the Biostar board, the 6 slot but 4 cards one ?

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Where are these risers being sold at?

@ bittawm and WhyMe -  Thanks.  This ASIC does interest me a lot due to it's low Power usage and high current income.  However DASH just got smoking HOT, if it cool down and go back like the way XMR cool down,the ROI people may not be as exciting as it is now.  I'm still semi interest, may have to look further and see if it's even worth the risk as the 30 days warranty is so pathetic.

@TheBottomTurle - First, thanks for the kind words.  No donations necessary, just pay it forward.  I'm very Lazy by nature but I felt the need to share as when I first started doing Bitcoin mining, no one really had much experience mining in a Garage or Shed.  Everywhere I turned to to ask, they either don't know or advise me that it's not going to work.  I spent tens of thousands on stupid design changes, etc.  

Hawkfish, myself and a few other friends literally lost hundreds of dollars if not close to a thousand on crap risers that almost burn down our rigs.  This is when Hawkfish said Enough is Enough and decided to sell risers.  The best way to say thanks, is by supporting our community and VENDORs that Support US well.  Very happy to hear that you're going to be up to 60 rigs by Summer.  This means you're going to be TheFLYINGTurtle vs TheBottomTurtle with your 60 rigs!!!  We're here if you need anything or have any questions.  

Here is Hawkfish Amazon Link
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06WRX86YN/ref=cm_sw_r_oth_api_s7qRybC027P01

If you do order from now until end of next week.  Just P.M hawkfish007 to show the order # along with your PayPal address.  Say Nhan Do sent ya.  I'll have Hawkfish send a $10 bonus to you making each Riser effectively close to $6 while getting Super Amazon shipping speed.  He still prefers Ebay over Amazon due to slim profit margin but I said I want Amazon because I can PURSE his stuff for cheaper and FASTER shipping later.  =)  All he ask is that you guys leave a 5 Star review.

P.S As stated in the first post.  I get no Kickbacks or incentives to pushing any products or referrals, so you can trust that it have to be good when I put my STAMP of approval on it. 

Loving this, all the info you give has made me realy want to get into gpu mining and use Simplemining.

Tried to find those risers you said are sold by HAWKFISH007?
can't find the thread? Happen to have a link to those risers?
Thanks

I've been reading this forum for months now and I finally created an account just to say thank you to Nhan and everybody else that has contributed here.  I've been running 10 rigs for a year now as a trial and am getting ready to scale up to +- 60 rigs in August.  There is so much useful and practical information in this single thread that I put my entire life on hold to read through it all.  There is one critical piece of information that I can't seem to find anywhere though.  I need a BTC address to send a donation.  Writing and moderating this thread has literally saved me weeks of research, drastically cut down my costs on building rigs (mostly via Finksy who I'm planning to contact once I see his design for Server PSU only rigs) and countless amounts of time and money by allowing me to avoid some of the pitfalls you did, and I would have, made.  It seems only fair to return some of my savings to you.

Thanks to all.  You guys are the $hit.
-TBT