Frontier edition (the WORKSTATION initial Vega model) has been on Newegg for almost a week now.
The CONSUMER Vega cards have been held up due to Micron having production issues with HBM2, per many rumors and reports - probably around another month, perhaps longer, depending on which rumor.
I don't see VEGA being a major good ETH card series though, for the same reasons the Fury wasn't a monster ETH card - but they might do well on stuff like ZEC where the memory latency of HBM is less of an issue.
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Am finally making a little headway to having a nice little farm. Up to one 6x rx480, and two 6x 1080 ti rigs. 
All the help and advise that has been given is VERY much appreciated! Thank you all so very much!
Also have a little mutt rig with 2x 1080 ti, 1x 1070, and 1x 980 ti lol
All the help and advise that has been given is VERY much appreciated! Thank you all so very much!
Also have a little mutt rig with 2x 1080 ti, 1x 1070, and 1x 980 ti lol
nice I will be shipping more card to you on july 5th so it will be bigger.
Am looking forward to it! Ordered one of those 12 gpu motherboards which should be here next week. Will be nice to have 12 per motherboard to lower per gpu cost.
So when are the new AMD gpu coming out? Thought they already were, but have not seen them on newegg.
Cryptomined's review.... P106-100 NVIDIA 1060 Mining Cards
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9deSVpjm1Kk
so in conclusion.....
1. same performance as existing gaming 1060s..... even though touted to be less 200 bucks -- its a mining card with no video out so no sell value back to the gaming world
2. with VEGA coming with monster HBM2 performance (ETH loves fast memory).... IMHO that will just kill ETH mining with even higher difficulty and cuts profitability ..... and maybe trigger exodus on miners going to ETC and other coins.... GPU mining will be less attractive
unless.... we spend more money in VEGA mining rigs (VEGA 500$? 1200$?)
3. With ETH POS coming..... VEGA coming..... that perfect storm will contribute to a massive ETH difficulty around the corner.
4. While GPU mining is at its boom.... I think expanding to ASICS will be easier to digest than spending more money in more expensive GPUs.
5. I think we need to do a wait and see approach in coming weeks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9deSVpjm1Kk
so in conclusion.....
1. same performance as existing gaming 1060s..... even though touted to be less 200 bucks -- its a mining card with no video out so no sell value back to the gaming world
2. with VEGA coming with monster HBM2 performance (ETH loves fast memory).... IMHO that will just kill ETH mining with even higher difficulty and cuts profitability ..... and maybe trigger exodus on miners going to ETC and other coins.... GPU mining will be less attractive
unless.... we spend more money in VEGA mining rigs (VEGA 500$? 1200$?)
3. With ETH POS coming..... VEGA coming..... that perfect storm will contribute to a massive ETH difficulty around the corner.
4. While GPU mining is at its boom.... I think expanding to ASICS will be easier to digest than spending more money in more expensive GPUs.
5. I think we need to do a wait and see approach in coming weeks
Am finally making a little headway to having a nice little farm. Up to one 6x rx480, and two 6x 1080 ti rigs.
All the help and advise that has been given is VERY much appreciated! Thank you all so very much!
Also have a little mutt rig with 2x 1080 ti, 1x 1070, and 1x 980 ti lol
All the help and advise that has been given is VERY much appreciated! Thank you all so very much!
Also have a little mutt rig with 2x 1080 ti, 1x 1070, and 1x 980 ti lol
nice I will be shipping more cards to you on july 5th so it will be bigger.
Am finally making a little headway to having a nice little farm. Up to one 6x rx480, and two 6x 1080 ti rigs.
All the help and advise that has been given is VERY much appreciated! Thank you all so very much!
Also have a little mutt rig with 2x 1080 ti, 1x 1070, and 1x 980 ti lol
All the help and advise that has been given is VERY much appreciated! Thank you all so very much!
Also have a little mutt rig with 2x 1080 ti, 1x 1070, and 1x 980 ti lol
Impressive that you are using 3*1080ti and a 1070 off a single 850W PSU. Are they all set to 65% TPD?
How difficult is it to commence mining on a USB based OS? I am using HDD's and Windows 10 ATM, I would love to expand and use USB OS.
I have the 1080ti's set to 70% TPD and the 1070 mini to 80% TDP. My next rig will have a 1000w power supply so I can test out power levels better. I do think the 70% TPD on the 1080ti's is the sweet spot for now.
I have similar setup and it is best for me.
tend to agree.
I can get much better sols per watts setting in the 55% tdp area but lose a lot of hash
And when you go past 80% they suck power like mad. so mine are 68 to 72% tdp unless price of coin jumps a lot I then go closer to 80%
other points a decent mobo is a 2-3 year item
I tend to sell cards every late spring early summer. I have space I have power but in house power is costly and keeping cards cool is hard.
I don not mind 2 card 3 card rigs now and bumping them to 4 cards in the winter.
I have 7 rigs using 14 cards
a 1 card
a 3 card
five 2 card rigs.
AND the solar array rigs
4 of them
1 two card 1080 ti
1 two card 1070
1 three card 1080 ti
1 three card 1070
Impressive that you are using 3*1080ti and a 1070 off a single 850W PSU. Are they all set to 65% TPD?
How difficult is it to commence mining on a USB based OS? I am using HDD's and Windows 10 ATM, I would love to expand and use USB OS.
I have the 1080ti's set to 70% TPD and the 1070 mini to 80% TDP. My next rig will have a 1000w power supply so I can test out power levels better. I do think the 70% TPD on the 1080ti's is the sweet spot for now.
I have similar setup and it is best for me.
Impressive that you are using 3*1080ti and a 1070 off a single 850W PSU. Are they all set to 65% TPD?
How difficult is it to commence mining on a USB based OS? I am using HDD's and Windows 10 ATM, I would love to expand and use USB OS.
I have the 1080ti's set to 70% TPD and the 1070 mini to 80% TDP. My next rig will have a 1000w power supply so I can test out power levels better. I do think the 70% TPD on the 1080ti's is the sweet spot for now.
Anyone know how to set up M2 to run gpu's? Looking through threads trying to find any information and seeing none. Have a board am trying to get this to run and not having any luck. Thanks!
xleejohnx has done some
https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/xleejohnx-652696
He sent me an adapter to test I could not get it to work.
Thanks Phil. Sent him a message.
Anyone know how to set up M2 to run gpu's? Looking through threads trying to find any information and seeing none. Have a board am trying to get this to run and not having any luck. Thanks!
xleejohnx has done some
https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/xleejohnx-652696
He sent me an adapter to test I could not get it to work.
On a side note
I listed my 1070 msi and gigabyte cards
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.19912230
Anyone know how to set up M2 to run gpu's? Looking through threads trying to find any information and seeing none. Have a board am trying to get this to run and not having any luck. Thanks!
@ Citronick, Thanks for the reply. I was thinking a mini, saw 6 pin and was confused. it looked like overkill for power.
Chili
Chili
@ Citronick, Baikal what psu do you use?
Power supply:12V 6PIN（12V/10A DC ) ??
I'm thinking about trying (1)
Thanks for any info.
Chili
Power supply:12V 6PIN（12V/10A DC ) ??
I'm thinking about trying (1)
Thanks for any info.
Chili
which model?
I have Minis, Quads and Giants.
Minis 150MH uses barely 40watts each, so a simple 12V5A Switching Power Adapter will do.
Quads 600MH uses just under 160watts each, I use old S7 power supply since it uses 6pins pcie, it works so it saved me buying a PSU.
I sent all my S7s to ISP last year so I have a bunch of Bitmain PSUs 1600w lying around, what better way to put them to good use.
Giants 900MH uses just over 210watts each, so since these Giants are like "liquid gold" nowadays, I will take good care of them and got them EVGA-G2-1300w -- you can have 5 x Giants to one this PSU. You got to short 2 pins so that the PSU will continuously go on "ON mode", like the S7 PSU.
How difficult is it to commence mining on a USB based OS? I am using HDD's and Windows 10 ATM, I would love to expand and use USB OS.
LINUX is pretty easy to set up on a USB - I've got a few of my lower-end machines running that way.
Windows - never managed to get it to work, but it's SUPPOSED to be possible with 10 and in some cases with 8 or 7.
I use Win-To-Go (Windows on USB) for trouble shooting purposes and allow me to remotely diagnose rigs from Windows.
I tried all mining apps and it can also do mining, exception of ETH Claymore because the thumbdrive may not have enough space to create a virtual disk to run multi-GPU for Claymore miners.
All my rigs are on smOS Linux and nvOC/rxOC Linux, and only 2 x Windows dev + testbench rigs.
I keep a few sticks handy because its designed to be portable so that I can just use it in any rig... its a full fledged Win OS and its as good as the other 2 above.
http://www.easyuefi.com/wintousb/
How difficult is it to commence mining on a USB based OS? I am using HDD's and Windows 10 ATM, I would love to expand and use USB OS.
LINUX is pretty easy to set up on a USB - I've got a few of my lower-end machines running that way.
Windows - never managed to get it to work, but it's SUPPOSED to be possible with 10 and in some cases with 8 or 7.
Trying to chose between these cards:
Any pointers on which one(s) to go with/or not (and why)?
Thanks
- ASUS ROG GeForce GTX 1080 Ti STRIX OC
- GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB Founders Edition
- MSI NVidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Gaming X OC 11GB GDDR5X
- EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti FOUNDERS EDITION GAMING 11GB GDDR5X LED DX12 OSD Support
Any pointers on which one(s) to go with/or not (and why)?
Thanks
Asus too big
Msi too big
gigabyte founder gigabyte is a little slow with rma's
evga founder is pretty good and fvga is very good with rmas.
asus wants lots and lots of room to stay cool
msi wants room to stay cool. msi does rma's okay but not as good as evga
on the founders at same price no question I get the evga.
but if the gigabyte is really cheaper say 670 vs 700 I would get the gigabyte.
both the asus and the msi are pretty at night I have owned them.
here are a lot of msi rx 480 8gb
Trying to chose between these cards:
Any pointers on which one(s) to go with/or not (and why)?
Thanks
- ASUS ROG GeForce GTX 1080 Ti STRIX OC
- GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB Founders Edition
- MSI NVidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Gaming X OC 11GB GDDR5X
- EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti FOUNDERS EDITION GAMING 11GB GDDR5X LED DX12 OSD Support
Any pointers on which one(s) to go with/or not (and why)?
Thanks
@ Citronick, Baikal what psu do you use?
Power supply:12V 6PIN（12V/10A DC ) ??
I'm thinking about trying (1)
Thanks for any info.
Chili
Power supply:12V 6PIN（12V/10A DC ) ??
I'm thinking about trying (1)
Thanks for any info.
Chili
Here's my build based on one of Phil's 3 card builds. I added 1 riser for a 4 card rig. Added risers to a shelf to mount the motherboard and riser. Also made a custom card holder and fan mount from extra shelf parts. Pulling 2450 Sol/s at 755w at the wall. Very stable rig.
3 x MSI Aero 1080 ti
1 x MSI Aero 1070 Mini
1 x EVGA G3 850
1 X 4GB Ram
1 x 32 GB Lexar USB running Fullzero's nvOC
3 x MSI Aero 1080 ti
1 x MSI Aero 1070 Mini
1 x EVGA G3 850
1 X 4GB Ram
1 x 32 GB Lexar USB running Fullzero's nvOC
Impressive that you are using 3*1080ti and a 1070 off a single 850W PSU. Are they all set to 65% TPD?
How difficult is it to commence mining on a USB based OS? I am using HDD's and Windows 10 ATM, I would love to expand and use USB OS.
it is easy I have a new newbie thread for nvoc 0017
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/here-is-a-thread-for-newbies-to-setup-a-nvoc-0017-rig-to-mine-zec-1998198
if I have 3x 1080 ti and 1x 1070
850w is system + 1080 ti + 1070 and 1000w is 2x 1080 ti
1080 ti can draw up to 300w so x3 is not an option....although you can undervolt/underclock, or other algo with lower power consumption etc...my practice is a power supply capacity is budgeted to a cards max power draw.....typically power supplies are more efficient at about 50% load.. and when you decide to mine other coins with more power draw, there will be no human error (forgetting that the psu is not enough or at the edge/ maxed out).
850w is system + 1080 ti + 1070 and 1000w is 2x 1080 ti
1080 ti can draw up to 300w so x3 is not an option....although you can undervolt/underclock, or other algo with lower power consumption etc...my practice is a power supply capacity is budgeted to a cards max power draw.....typically power supplies are more efficient at about 50% load.. and when you decide to mine other coins with more power draw, there will be no human error (forgetting that the psu is not enough or at the edge/ maxed out).
Thanks for the input.
I think that I will use the 850W PSU for my SLI gaming PC and set the two 1080ti to 100%TDP limit so they can only draw 500W
I have set up the 700W PSU PC to take the 1080ti and 1070. It is a 10 year old PSU so probably a good idea to run at 65%-70% TDP like Phil and others suggest.
Currently;
(i5-6600K) 850W - 2*1080ti in SLI with 100% TDP limit gaming / 70% TDP mining. This PC has many add-ins that draw power.
(E8200) 700W - 1080ti + 1070 with 70% TDP mining.
(i5-2500K) 1000W - NOT IN SERVICE
So I'll just buy some 2nd hand nvidia series 10 GPU's as they appear on the 2nd hand market.
My strat is to mine a single currency until I have a decent amount and then move on to something else. Not really caring to turn to BTC or fiat. I want to accumulate and hold.
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