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Quote from: sNaKeyz0r91 on January 16, 2018, 04:24:48 PM

Guys, what are you mining right now with your nvidia or amd rigs?

Since this big drop of every single coin, I'm not sure if I should move my nvidia and amd rigs to nicehash or keep them on low diff coins or long term eth or zec.

Every opinion is appreciated

NVIDIA.... Neoscrypt?

1080ti - NIST5 is still holding up?

In bleak times like this.... in my experience ... just put everything on NH, focus on accumulating BTC and HODL.

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Quote from: QuintLeo on January 16, 2018, 02:40:04 PM

Quote from: philipma1957 on January 16, 2018, 10:44:38 AM

Quote from: QuintLeo on January 16, 2018, 07:10:43 AM

I got my MSI Turbo 1070 ti up and running tonight - and am VERY displeased with it.
Card works well, performs pretty much identical to the EVGA SC and Zotac Mini model.
COOLING though is the worst I've seen out of ANYTHING.

104 watt TDP, 90% fan in a 80F room and it's barely managing to stay down to 70C - and that's AFTER I removed the mounting plate (which was only worth perhaps 1 degree C as it's pretty close to wide open to start with).
Even the Gigabyte ITX cards manage about 8C lower than THAT at the same wattage, on LOWER fan settings. and the Zotac blows it out of the water much less anything with a GOOD cooling solution.

MSI needs to put a lot better fan or a lot better HS/Heat Pipe setup in those cards, they're WORSE on cooling than FE models.

I won't be buying any more.

is this it?

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1369128-REG/msi_geforce_gtx_1070_ti.html

That would be it.

The Aereo coolers are absolute crap.... by far the worst coolers we had the displeasure of trying this past year (out of over a dozen different models). We had to RMA a pair of Aereo 1080s after testing them less than an hour since they were overheating right out of the box.

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Good morning to go shopping today!

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Guys, what are you mining right now with your nvidia or amd rigs?

Since this big drop of every single coin, I'm not sure if I should move my nvidia and amd rigs to nicehash or keep them on low diff coins or long term eth or zec.

Every opinion is appreciated

QuintLeo

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Quote from: philipma1957 on January 16, 2018, 10:44:38 AM

Quote from: QuintLeo on January 16, 2018, 07:10:43 AM

I got my MSI Turbo 1070 ti up and running tonight - and am VERY displeased with it.
Card works well, performs pretty much identical to the EVGA SC and Zotac Mini model.
COOLING though is the worst I've seen out of ANYTHING.

104 watt TDP, 90% fan in a 80F room and it's barely managing to stay down to 70C - and that's AFTER I removed the mounting plate (which was only worth perhaps 1 degree C as it's pretty close to wide open to start with).
Even the Gigabyte ITX cards manage about 8C lower than THAT at the same wattage, on LOWER fan settings. and the Zotac blows it out of the water much less anything with a GOOD cooling solution.

MSI needs to put a lot better fan or a lot better HS/Heat Pipe setup in those cards, they're WORSE on cooling than FE models.

I won't be buying any more.

is this it?

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1369128-REG/msi_geforce_gtx_1070_ti.html

That would be it.

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Quote from: MagicSmoker on January 16, 2018, 01:36:02 PM

Quote from: dragonmike on January 16, 2018, 12:07:16 PM

Pushing that button actually resets the bios afaik, so I'm not touching it now. I usually don't need to reboot anymore, that rig is hashing pretty much as intended (apart from that one Vega card that's hashing 150h/s slower than the other 5 for an unknown reason).

Btw I flashed the bios on that mobo. Be careful browsing around the Chinese Onda site, there's two bios files, one for the original version of the board, one for rev.1. I had to blind-flash back to the correct one after I bricked the board with the wrong version... Got really lucky actually.

Oh, man, I bet that was a few minutes of white-knuckle fury/terror, take your pick!

It was. But after a moment of sheer despair I realised the board was beeping every time upon boot so I thought I might have a chance to save it... Indeed, the (only?) difference between the original and the rev1 boards seem to be the IGFX. So the board was booting with the wrong bios, just not sending a signal to the external GPUs. Based on that assumption, I managed to find the correct bios using my PC, chug it onto the usb stick I used to flash the wrong bios onto the onda, and repeat the few simple steps to flash the correct one blindly. Rebooted... and I had signal. I then let out one of the biggest "PHEEEWWWWWS" of my computer building life! Cheesy

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Quote from: dragonmike on January 16, 2018, 12:07:16 PM

Pushing that button actually resets the bios afaik, so I'm not touching it now. I usually don't need to reboot anymore, that rig is hashing pretty much as intended (apart from that one Vega card that's hashing 150h/s slower than the other 5 for an unknown reason).

Btw I flashed the bios on that mobo. Be careful browsing around the Chinese Onda site, there's two bios files, one for the original version of the board, one for rev.1. I had to blind-flash back to the correct one after I bricked the board with the wrong version... Got really lucky actually.

Oh, man, I bet that was a few minutes of white-knuckle fury/terror, take your pick!

So the button labeled reset is the CMOS reset, not CPU reset? I guess I'll stop pushing it to get the mobo to do something different... Tongue

Thanks again for the post - and the warning about the BIOS update; that's usually one of the first things I do with a new mobo.

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Quote from: martyroz on January 15, 2018, 04:22:16 PM

Quote from: citronick on January 15, 2018, 01:38:20 PM

Quote from: Tidsdilatation on January 15, 2018, 12:55:32 PM

Hi guys.

I want your opinion in nicehash now since they got hacked/whatever. I feel its really profitable when you can move funds freely to coinbase and then to GDAX with free withdraw. Seems like its one of the better options right now, or am i missing something?

Apart from high withdrawal fees (if not transferring to Coinbase).... its an easy and quick to sell hash power to buyers.

Which pool, which coin ... its quite tiring this chasing game... so if you want an easy way to accumulate BTC, yeah NH is a good place to be.

Yeah I'm at a point where I just throw everything at nicehash. I get slogged the full 5% fee which is annoying, but I will acquire more hash-rate to be able to mine 0.1 BTC within 4 days so that the fee is reduced to 3%.

From what I can tell, you pay 2% to nicehash wallet and to get it out of there you pay the network fee of 0.001 BTC - which probably totals 3% anyway.

I didn't know that it was free to coinbase - I will have to look into it.

Cryptonight in particular has been paying wayyy higher than ordinary XMR rates for a few weeks now. Equihash is quite strong as well.

Mine to nicehash wallet. 2% i think. Rest is free all the way to your personal wallet if you use coinbase -> gdax. I dont reall understand how gdax can have free withdraw but that is noone of my concern Grin

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Quote from: QuintLeo on January 16, 2018, 07:10:43 AM

Quote from: martyroz on January 15, 2018, 07:14:05 PM

As usual, Australia is late to the party. You can still buy 1070ti for $500USD here, I just picked up 5.

For .au pricing in these current conditions, that's good value.

Can still find them that low on rare occasions - more that the stock is completely out at most retailers except for very brief "we got some in *SLAM* well, we're out again" situations.

I got my MSI Turbo 1070 ti up and running tonight - and am VERY displeased with it.
Card works well, performs pretty much identical to the EVGA SC and Zotac Mini model.
COOLING though is the worst I've seen out of ANYTHING.

104 watt TDP, 90% fan in a 80F room and it's barely managing to stay down to 70C - and that's AFTER I removed the mounting plate (which was only worth perhaps 1 degree C as it's pretty close to wide open to start with).
Even the Gigabyte ITX cards manage about 8C lower than THAT at the same wattage, on LOWER fan settings. and the Zotac blows it out of the water much less anything with a GOOD cooling solution.

MSI needs to put a lot better fan or a lot better HS/Heat Pipe setup in those cards, they're WORSE on cooling than FE models.

I won't be buying any more.

It baffles me why MSI has 4 versions of the 1070 ti if they are all clocked and priced virtually the same. I wonder if they even bothered to put higher BIN'd chips in these other versions or just skipped that process all together since they weren't allowed by NVIDIA to market them as OC'd versions. I have a few MSI DUKE's coming this week, hopefully they don't suck. Cheesy

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Quote from: MagicSmoker on January 16, 2018, 11:56:59 AM

Quote from: dragonmike on January 16, 2018, 11:49:33 AM

Quote from: MagicSmoker on January 16, 2018, 08:27:23 AM

Thanks to R0mi for his PM to me about my Onda woes... Still no joy getting the board to boot despite trying multiple video cards and swapping out the SODIMMs, but it was during the latter that I noticed the package claimed these were DDR3L modules, while the modules themselves said they were 1.5V DDR3... A bit of digging on my part revealed that DDR3L can be used in DDR3 slots, but not vice versa, so this may very well be the problem.

I'm going to see if I can find the memory locally because I don't really want to go through this hassle with Amazon again, nor wait a week for Newegg to get around to shipping something.

Yes, you need the 1.35V mem or it will not work.
Even then, the Onda board is quite temperamental. It took me a while to get it to boot properly - including removing the battery, shorting the pins to clear CMOS etc. After a couple of tries, I got it to beep and boot. It's working well now, but usually doesn't like to "reboot". I need to cut the power to the board completely for it to shut down.

Thanks for responding! I just ordered a stick of Crucial ct51264bf160b as it is supposed to be 1.35V DDR3L; I was unable to find any locally; well, except for a pair of 16GB modules for $180, and that was too rich for my blood.

Is the pair of pins marked J2 just to the upper right of the Celery CPU for clearing the CMOS? It's the only pair of unused pins I can see, and getting at the battery is a real pain once the GPUs are installed.

When you say it doesn't like to reboot, are you referring to the hard reset switch (lower left corner of the board) not working consistently? That would be most peculiar if the case...

Pushing that button actually resets the bios afaik, so I'm not touching it now. I usually don't need to reboot anymore, that rig is hashing pretty much as intended (apart from that one Vega card that's hashing 150h/s slower than the other 5 for an unknown reason).

Btw I flashed the bios on that mobo. Be careful browsing around the Chinese Onda site, there's two bios files, one for the original version of the board, one for rev.1. I had to blind-flash back to the correct one after I bricked the board with the wrong version... Got really lucky actually.

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Quote from: dragonmike on January 16, 2018, 11:49:33 AM

Quote from: MagicSmoker on January 16, 2018, 08:27:23 AM

Thanks to R0mi for his PM to me about my Onda woes... Still no joy getting the board to boot despite trying multiple video cards and swapping out the SODIMMs, but it was during the latter that I noticed the package claimed these were DDR3L modules, while the modules themselves said they were 1.5V DDR3... A bit of digging on my part revealed that DDR3L can be used in DDR3 slots, but not vice versa, so this may very well be the problem.

I'm going to see if I can find the memory locally because I don't really want to go through this hassle with Amazon again, nor wait a week for Newegg to get around to shipping something.

Yes, you need the 1.35V mem or it will not work.
Even then, the Onda board is quite temperamental. It took me a while to get it to boot properly - including removing the battery, shorting the pins to clear CMOS etc. After a couple of tries, I got it to beep and boot. It's working well now, but usually doesn't like to "reboot". I need to cut the power to the board completely for it to shut down.

Thanks for responding! I just ordered a stick of Crucial ct51264bf160b as it is supposed to be 1.35V DDR3L; I was unable to find any locally; well, except for a pair of 16GB modules for $180, and that was too rich for my blood.

Is the pair of pins marked J2 just to the upper right of the Celery CPU for clearing the CMOS? It's the only pair of unused pins I can see, and getting at the battery is a real pain once the GPUs are installed.

When you say it doesn't like to reboot, are you referring to the hard reset switch (lower left corner of the board) not working consistently? That would be most peculiar if the case...

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Quote from: MagicSmoker on January 16, 2018, 08:27:23 AM

Thanks to R0mi for his PM to me about my Onda woes... Still no joy getting the board to boot despite trying multiple video cards and swapping out the SODIMMs, but it was during the latter that I noticed the package claimed these were DDR3L modules, while the modules themselves said they were 1.5V DDR3... A bit of digging on my part revealed that DDR3L can be used in DDR3 slots, but not vice versa, so this may very well be the problem.

I'm going to see if I can find the memory locally because I don't really want to go through this hassle with Amazon again, nor wait a week for Newegg to get around to shipping something.

Yes, you need the 1.35V mem or it will not work.
Even then, the Onda board is quite temperamental. It took me a while to get it to boot properly - including removing the battery, shorting the pins to clear CMOS etc. After a couple of tries, I got it to beep and boot. It's working well now, but usually doesn't like to "reboot". I need to cut the power to the board completely for it to shut down.

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Quote from: timeshifter on January 15, 2018, 11:19:16 PM

Quote from: ATCkit on January 15, 2018, 04:03:42 PM

Sure- those pics would help.

Here ya go, pics of build using Thermaltake Core X9 case, (4) GTX 1080 Ti hybrids, standard motherboard with risers.

...SNIP.........

Thx. Lots of room for an ONDA Board.I ordered one from Sidonia at Letine last night.

This email gave me the final push to go ahead and order one:

Dear Aaron,

Because of CNY long holiday coming soon in February (nearly one month),

the last mass production of this year for the top sale quality 12*PCIE B250 Mining Motherboard will be ready on 22th,January,2018.

If you have any order plan on this 12*pcie miner motherboard for January & February,

pls kindly inform us asap to avoid any delay on delivery,

Meanwhile, our new version 8*PCIE inbuild Newest 7th Intel 3865 CPU developped out already, trial mass production will be ready in the middle of March,

With big advantage on price, if you need sample, welcome to pre-order, because this trial production quantity will be not big.

8pcie inbuild cpu.JPG

Best regards
Sidonia
Skype:letine2
www.letine.com
www.lindonn.com.cn

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Quote from: VyprBTC on January 15, 2018, 08:00:19 PM

Quote from: MagicSmoker on January 15, 2018, 07:51:35 PM

Quote from: VyprBTC on January 15, 2018, 07:46:10 PM

Quote from: Helios45 on January 15, 2018, 07:43:36 PM

Hey guys,

So I just had an electrician coming at home to quote for a 220v circuit installation
He asked me if my power supplies will require neutral, does anybody know more about this as I did a quick search and I'm still confused about it

Thanks

220 doesn't use neutral. Fire his ass now and get someone that's at least semi competent

Not necessarily... The current NEMA standard in North America is 4-wire for 220 (aka 230 or 240), and the neutral can be used for 120V loads. See, for example, NEMA 14-30 or 14-50.

exactly. the only reason for neutral is for 120.

220v here and a neutral(different country)... still enjoying the occasional jolt from electric shock..

BTW 6pcs of ax1500i just arrived here....hunting for cards now.

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'The right to privacy matters'

Quote from: QuintLeo on January 16, 2018, 07:10:43 AM

Quote from: martyroz on January 15, 2018, 07:14:05 PM

As usual, Australia is late to the party. You can still buy 1070ti for $500USD here, I just picked up 5.

For .au pricing in these current conditions, that's good value.

Can still find them that low on rare occasions - more that the stock is completely out at most retailers except for very brief "we got some in *SLAM* well, we're out again" situations.

I got my MSI Turbo 1070 ti up and running tonight - and am VERY displeased with it.
Card works well, performs pretty much identical to the EVGA SC and Zotac Mini model.
COOLING though is the worst I've seen out of ANYTHING.

104 watt TDP, 90% fan in a 80F room and it's barely managing to stay down to 70C - and that's AFTER I removed the mounting plate (which was only worth perhaps 1 degree C as it's pretty close to wide open to start with).
Even the Gigabyte ITX cards manage about 8C lower than THAT at the same wattage, on LOWER fan settings. and the Zotac blows it out of the water much less anything with a GOOD cooling solution.

MSI needs to put a lot better fan or a lot better HS/Heat Pipe setup in those cards, they're WORSE on cooling than FE models.

I won't be buying any more.

is this it?

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1369128-REG/msi_geforce_gtx_1070_ti.html

MagicSmoker

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Thanks to R0mi for his PM to me about my Onda woes... Still no joy getting the board to boot despite trying multiple video cards and swapping out the SODIMMs, but it was during the latter that I noticed the package claimed these were DDR3L modules, while the modules themselves said they were 1.5V DDR3... A bit of digging on my part revealed that DDR3L can be used in DDR3 slots, but not vice versa, so this may very well be the problem.

I'm going to see if I can find the memory locally because I don't really want to go through this hassle with Amazon again, nor wait a week for Newegg to get around to shipping something.

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Quote from: martyroz on January 15, 2018, 07:14:05 PM

As usual, Australia is late to the party. You can still buy 1070ti for $500USD here, I just picked up 5.

For .au pricing in these current conditions, that's good value.

Can still find them that low on rare occasions - more that the stock is completely out at most retailers except for very brief "we got some in *SLAM* well, we're out again" situations.

I got my MSI Turbo 1070 ti up and running tonight - and am VERY displeased with it.
Card works well, performs pretty much identical to the EVGA SC and Zotac Mini model.
COOLING though is the worst I've seen out of ANYTHING.

104 watt TDP, 90% fan in a 80F room and it's barely managing to stay down to 70C - and that's AFTER I removed the mounting plate (which was only worth perhaps 1 degree C as it's pretty close to wide open to start with).
Even the Gigabyte ITX cards manage about 8C lower than THAT at the same wattage, on LOWER fan settings. and the Zotac blows it out of the water much less anything with a GOOD cooling solution.

MSI needs to put a lot better fan or a lot better HS/Heat Pipe setup in those cards, they're WORSE on cooling than FE models.

I won't be buying any more.

QuintLeo

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Quote from: Vann on January 15, 2018, 06:34:29 PM

Selling used Vega for $1k, is a no brainer You could buy three overpriced RX 570 4GB at $300-$320 each with the better overall performance and still have cash left over. Navi coming out in August too.

Good luck finding any RX 570 that cheap.
They're mostly been in the "well over $400 range" the last few days when there is any stock at all.

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Quote from: VyprBTC on January 15, 2018, 07:46:10 PM

Quote from: Helios45 on January 15, 2018, 07:43:36 PM

Hey guys,

So I just had an electrician coming at home to quote for a 220v circuit installation
He asked me if my power supplies will require neutral, does anybody know more about this as I did a quick search and I'm still confused about it

Thanks

220 doesn't use neutral. Fire his ass now and get someone that's at least semi competent

Depends on the specific installation - NEMA 14 does in fact use neutral, NEMA 6 does not.
Power supplies DON'T need it, so a NEMA 6 type installation would make more sense.

Not all electricians work with 234 VAC input server-type computer power supplies, it's NOT an unreasonable question to ask.

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Quote from: Moondoggie on January 15, 2018, 11:24:50 PM

Anybody had any luck sourcing the old 2400w server PSU recently?
Or any reliable sellers of the 1200w platinums?

I picked up a ton of them on ebay just to test out and use as replacements/standby's . They are very abundant .

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