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If you are looking for what to mine (but solo only i think), there is spreadcoin and nexus you can check out.  there is a private miner out for nexus but idk if its worth it, depends on how many 1080tis you have.  I'm not solo mining, variance is too high for my nvidia hashrate.

Thanks Citronick
Chili

https://www.youtube.com/user/BitsBeTrippin

learnt a lot from Carter during my nube days circa 2015

looking forward to his 5 x Vega rig -- live streaming -- all his other testing usually last 2 hours  !  fun and down to earth guy.

I am following his sgminer VS claymore epoch #150 discussions also .... with wxxxx.... kudos to him for pursuing this issue

@ Storx, Do you have a link to that?
Chili

Just keep an eye out for the live stream tomorrow on bits be talking, he has 5 Vega's coming tomorrow he said, he plans to do a live test with them on ETH, ZEC, and DUAL MINING

googled the reviews on Vega and ETH mining only... 31-32MHs which is below expectations -- this maybe the nooks of that HBM2

however, ZEC perhaps is a different story because my R9-Nano with HBM1 is easily the strongest ZEC miner in my AMD stable.

1k is a lot of mullahs but then again you can always resell them later to 3D/CAD/CAM users....

no info yet.

and I am not buying them until I know they work well.

but   11 gb 1080 ti does  700 sol at 180 watts for zec.


so 16gb/11gb = 1.454545

and 1.454545 x 700  = 1018

so 1000 sols at 180-200 watts seems possible.

if so the card is decent to buy at 1000 usd.

looking forward to your Vega review soon Phil

600watts for 3000sols is very good

One of my contacts doing 3D modelling and CAD/CAM stuff, is getting a DIY workstation with Vega and Ryzen, to replace his aging Dell T1700 workstation.

I was thinking page 99.



I sold my  seven 1070s

I was going to buy all 1080 ti's with the sales.

I may get a few Amd vegas instead.

7 1070s were doing 2800  Sols at 700 watts

I think three Vegas will do 3000 sols at 600 watts

I'm looking to sell 4 x RX470s.  Willing to split them up. 

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/wts-up-to-4-x-rx470-for-sale-us-only-2002183

I have to wonder when thread 5 is going to start.

 9-)

 HBM2 will NOT be "sweet for ETH" as it has the same sort of memory latency issues as HBM. It will be better due to faster speed and SOMEWHAT lower latency, but not by a lot.

 The Vega is an offshoot of the Fury/FuryX/Nano arch, so it will probably perform like a much faster Fury series - how much faster will depend on the number of cores (Frontier has same core count as the FuryX and Nano, consumer versions will probably start at the same 4096 and go DOWN from there) and the clocks (Frontier is 50-60% HIGHER than the fastest of the Fury series) on the consumer cards.

 The Frontier Edition is intended to be a WORKSTATION card (ignore the folks that say it's not, AMD itself is stating that and the whole DESIGN screams "workstation" orientation like the WX series).
 This means it's going to tend to be clocked a bit slower than an comparable consumer card, for higher reliability, and will tend to have a cooling system designed for many cards in one rack mount case.
 Compare the WX 7100 to a consumer RX 480 for a specific example of how this works.

 I anticipate the high-end "consumer" Vega will be same cores, slightly higher clocks, and lower cost than the Frontier Edition - and it won't LOOK like a WX series card, but more like the RX series even in the "reference" design.
 Then the aftermarket cards will hit and push the clocks even higher with at least some having much better cooling solutions.

 Oops, yeah I meant Hynix.

works for some not others.

I have 20 mobos that can be populated  with 2 or 3 cards.
stability is great  with the smaller builds

a big flaw with 5,6,7,8 card builds is a shit card  can force you to keep other cards at lower settings  with some software/mining os.

so if you have 6 cards  and one rig  the entire rig may suffer as it all needs to be clocked lower due to some poor cards
if you have 2 biostar z170's  you can run one with 2 poor cards clock low and one with  4 cards clock high.

the deal  is that this is more true for a 50 card farm or smaller  as individual care of  17  three card rigs  is not hard.

if you have a 300 card farm  with 100 3 card rigs vs 50 6 card rigs  it is more work.

I have never past 52 cards  so small rigs = no worries.

I suspect so Phil because HBM2 will be sweet for ETH and ZEC is not really memory hungry but you need massive compute to get ZEC to fly (like R9s).

If this VEGA is a souped-up R9-Fury X type card then it will be a monster card that can do ETH (fast memory) and ZEC (massive compute) very well.

But this 1k card is really a waste of money, IMHO... because we end up doing 3-4 card rigs because of PSU requirements. We are already doing that for 1080ti.

does it do 1000 sols of zec at 200 watts?

if it does the price is not terrible.

On a side note




I listed my 1070 msi and gigabyte cards

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.19912230
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Did you run these on eth? What coins and rates did you get with them? Have one 1070, but only had the mutt rig to put it in so didn't have the opportunity to separate it and do any testing. Thanks!

https://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&Description=radeon+vega&N=-1&isNodeId=1

And here I thought the price of the 1080 ti was over the top! Anyone hear anything about what the cost of the consumer edition is going to be?

Hynix manufactures HBM2, not Micron. Micron makes GDDR5, GDDR5X, and soon GDDR6