Topic: Happy New Years! Seventh alt coin thread! - page 80. (Read 34166 times)

An ac unit will just drive up your power bill - what you need for mining is to vent that hot air out, not try to cool it down with AC (which won't be able to keep up anyways if you get several rigs in there.  Install a commercial grade exhaust fan, think of what is used in greenhouses for example, and if possible have an open window or vent in a door etc on the other side of the room.

We have a room in our barn with 12 rigs in it and the above method works very well for us, even in the summer months.

I'm not really sure if this is my first post but I'm so sure this is one of the thread I've actually sat down to read through all of its post and I can't find the perfect word to qualify it, rather than say impressive and encouraging. This thread is all about managing farms both from big or small and the information shared in addition to help offered and suggestions given have really turned up more light in my head. And all I can say to OP...Philipma1957 is that you are awesome and have managed to put together a small community within an actual community for like minded individuals, to all others who have posted and shared valuable information and also gotten detailed responses as well to your questions, I will like to say Thank You as I have taken a lot away from this one thread than the whole internet itself, on mining and having a mining farm mentality.

Though, I don't use the Onda boards or Nvidia graphic cards, but it is on my list as the next 21 cards I'm going for. I want to have an equal competitive mining setup but since my startup budget was just 10k USD, I decided to go for the most cost efficient set up. I started putting funds into mining equipments last year, I did managed to get 21 RX570 4GB cards, 7 of which are the ASUS STRIX OC, which have been flawlessly running not until the latest drivers AMD 17.2.2 and recent versions of Claymore 10.3 and 10.4 had I had issues with it, looking at other mining programs, found PhoenixMiner but it seems it ain't stable yet on some cards or Mobo's but I'm going to give it a test run for a week, hopefully this weekend assuming it's stable and would last that long.

The other 14 RX570 cards are MSI Armor OC 4GB as well, I would encourage anyone who's looking towards buying AMD cards to move away from this guys, I read in this thread as well someone saying they aren't working as other brands of cards they have. It is so true, that the second 7 card rig is not running and every time I try to running it it constantly crashes, and the other rig is running but with error constantly popping up on 2 of the cards. This cards have been frustrating, trying to mine other ETHASH algo other than ETH crashed the rig and some of the card even in compute mode would not do more than 25MH/S, 187MH/S total for 7 RX570 4GB with 980Watts power draw from the wall, I know that's ridiculous by standards. This cards were bought in the batch released November/December and since they were a rushed batch to meet demands at well then, I'm afraid the batch coming out next to meet then recently higher demands would be rushed, but since I would be picking up Nvidia cards, I certainly hope for the best and no MSI, if I have no choice then it would be the GamingX and Titanium ones only.

Here are a few questions for the Vets in here, going to be using my dryer connection for RIGS, finally found a 10-30P to 6-30R Adapter other than on EVSE who after 48hours refunded and cancelled my order, you need to have bought an EVSE product before they'll sell you any other products including adapters.

First question is, what does the 20Amps derated mean to 30amps PDU's?
 I am looking to see if I can run 4 rigs on a 30amp PDU from my Dryer connection. I live in an apartment and I have no other of changing anything, so I'm sacrificing my washer and dryer, I can do laundromats.

Second question would be general, what advice would anyone give as to how I can keep my earnings at the 1/3 ratio in terms of cost of running to profits? What should I look for, what should I aim for and what strategy would be best to use when trying to achieve this.

FYI..my electricity cost $0.13/KwH and also this is what my full time job is now since I started late last year, my goal is to try and aim for Hodling 60% of my earnings and creating a portfolio in different cryptos I have faith in, because when regulations start to hit the crypto world not all of the cryptocurrencies would be here. So apart from Hodling 60%, they rest 40% I want to go back in cost of operation, expansion and my day to day runnings.

Any ideas and advice, reads and suggestions are very much welcomed. Good to have found this thread, would go look for others in the series.  

search for Panto-Tech, they sell cards and such in bulk

Well... got some pretty good news from the electrician in regards to expanding my house's mining capacity...

Seems it will be easy and relatively cheap ($350) for them to drop 4 20-amp circuits from my breaker box to 4 new outlets directly below it.  This would give me a lot more flexibility with my current setup (rigs in 5 different rooms), as well as the ability to more easily expand to at least 7-8 rigs.  Each of those 20-amp circuits could take 2 of my current rigs since they only pull about 800W each, so would be well under the recommended max of 2000W per.  Then I would just need to plan out how to best distribute my newer 7-8 GPU rigs, but overall, this expansion will make things much easier to manage.

The only downside is that my garage has no natural ventilation and while I can run 1-2 rigs in there from Oct-April/May without it, I will need to come up with a solution for more than 2 and/or in the summer.  The electrician seemed to think it would be relatively easy to buy a portable A/C unit and hire someone to drill through my wall to vent it outside.  I was originally opposed to this idea but if it's pretty common and easy to do, I would of course consider it.  Any of you go this route with your setups?

Lmfao... so how do you guys REALLY feel about bios flashing lol?  Certainly that extra step for AMD cards is a major PITA! but to be fair, I have not had any problems with flashing but 23 of my 24 AMD GPUs are the exact same model... MSI 470 4GB... and those happen to be very easy to flash and the strap method worked very well for me.  However, looking forward to future rigs, this would likely become a monster to try to manage because it will be nearly impossible to build a rig with all the same GPU model due to the shortages. Therefore, you're left with having to investigate many different bios flash methods which leads to more confusion, wasted time, and likelihood of bricking a GPU.  Right now I have 3 Vega 56 that I have committed to sell. But I also have 2 MSI 570's. School is still out on those... if I think i can get 4-5 more relatively quickly I may still build that rig as a dual miner. But, I am definitely selling those Vegas and will use that $ to buy more 1070ti's as soon as they hit the market.

Shot in the dark but does anyone know any alibaba shops with GPUS in stock at a semi reasonable price?

Just got a k35 v1.2 to test
Paid for it last week on Monday and it came today by DHL however it was only made on the 10th according to the PCB so hot off the press!
Running nvoc no worries off a USB, had to hdmi and keyboard to config the bios but it has pxe and some other interesting features like a watchdog, reboot on power failure and some RTC stuff.

https://i.imgur.com/66oH49U.jpg

How nice is the dps-1200 / all 6 pin setup

It’s income tax time in America so it’s always a good time to sell anything

Curious WHY the firesale, I have never been good at knowing when to sell, is it now?

it is about 4000-4200 sols  close to 1150 watts  it does 35-45 a day nicehash/zec

here is the 13 card 1060  it does  3000-3200 sols

https://www.nicehash.com/miner/3QPFEdX8rtXHoVZHct5eUbp7AK1t1vRMfL

Philip,

What are you mining with the 1080Ti rig?  What is it earning/day right now?

Right now it's just a couple Avalon 741's.

And all the parts for my first 6 rig set up, except my backordered sapphire RX 580's.

Should be a nice learning experience, but I do wish I had seen a few of your videos before I ordered everything. Live and learn, depending on pricing in March I might copy/paste one of your builds.

I settled on funny, but I like weird haha

haha I was hoping people liked that as after when I was editing I was like . . funny or this dude is just freaking weird xD

Thanks man that's so cool to hear, whats your farm consist of?

video card update.

I have 3x Evga 1070ti hybrid    I sold 9 of mine.


Ebay = Nuts
2 for 1800

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Evga-1070ti-Hybrid-Gpus-2-graphic-cards-in-this-listing/222806839143?

8 for 8250
https://www.ebay.com/itm/8-x-EVGA-GeForce-GTX-1070-Ti-GAMING-08G-P4-5678-KR-8GB-GDDR5-SC-HYBRID-LED/302605735183?

1 for 995
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Evga-NVIDIA-Gtx-1070-ti-SC-Hybrid-Mint-condition/282813250362?

1 for 835 best offer
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Evga-NVIDIA-Gtx-1070-ti-SC-Hybrid-Mint-condition/282810897136?
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I have some
msi sea hawk 1070

nuts 1296
https://www.ebay.com/itm/MSI-GAMING-GeForce-GTX-1070-8GB-GDDR5-DirectX-12-VR-Ready-GeForce-GTX-1070-SEA/322240805959?

best offer 800
https://www.ebay.com/itm/MSI-GeForce-GTX-1070-SEA-HAWK-X-8GB-OC-GDDR5-Video-Graphics-Card-4K-DVI-HDMI/263251877479?

best offer 650  seems cheap
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Nvidia-GTX-1070-MSI-Sea-Hawk-OC-Graphics-Video-Card/142652231138?


I have 3 of the evga 1070 ti
I have 3 of the msi   1070

so  pm offers for them USA only.

I am not that greedy  as the ebay sellers.

They are all hybrid style. water block pre installed.

Fans have an added grill.  safety first.

My goal is to get to just these 2 rigs

Autominer 13 gpu rig

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9a5zXdRMxxc

spotswood with  6 1080ti's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIxWgv-rsuE

a ryzen 1800 x with a few rx 560;s 460;s

a few pod and usb stick miners.

Wondering when a few of mine will look like this.  I've gotten my hand in the way once or twice which didn't turn out great for the hand or presumably the fan.

@ Vosk

Nice vids, I've been watching a bunch of yours lately as I've branched into GPU mining; decided to take the plunge. So far my favorite part is the "If Bitmain stole your baby bit"

Keep up the good work

Taking beyblades to the next level xD



Sorry for not being more active in here guys this thread is my favorite part of bitcointalk :c


I've been face deep in this whole SIAcoin debacle since I was up late flashing bios (as phil says FUCK flashing bios lol) and bitmain shoots out their mass email saying hey. . want the antminer a3 that may end up like the d3 I say sure xD and here I am. .

I put together this thread on it trying to collect some thoughts

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitmain-antminer-a3-earning-500-a-day-mining-siacoin-what-results-stats-2813143



If anyone's interested in my recap of the siacoin debacle basically here's my video on that

https://youtu.be/ADK6SUGfb6w


and here's my video on the antminer a3 and even right this second its on track for $400 a day which is insane. .

https://youtu.be/6ZFx35ilUwQ

I just amazon or ebay the part number on the fan's sticker on its backside.

Then I spend ~$20-30 on the replacement fan(s) and put it/them on the card.

I bought a GTX980 brand new years back when the 980Ti wasn't released yet.    It's fans barely failed in November of last year.  Not bad for a GPU that was run at full load and 70+% fan speeds the entire time.  It earned the $ for its new fans.

I gave up on HIS cards years ago because the fans were total junk (except the IceQ blower models).

 You don't inject the oil, you either have to take the fan apart or you have to remove a "cover seal" on the back depending on the specific fan.

 Either way the seal is ALREADY leaking, taking it apart just makes it worse, so adding oil is at best a short-term solution.

I've never tried this.  Where do you inject the oil?  I thought those things were sealed up pretty good.

Is this what I'd need?

https://www.amazon.com/Precision-Premium-Machine-Lubrication-Commando/dp/B00500UVNQ