Topic: My 1 gpu now 11gpus 5rigs for Ethereum. 45 days of mining. Photos thoughts. - page 37. (Read 50633 times)

My current desktop is Mac OSX and Mint 17, I use both platforms heavily on daily basis. Like you, I stopped looking at MS since useless Vista years ago.

But for mining, Claymore Dual Miner runs faster on Windows platform (compared to its Linux version) and my first build was on Windows 7 then 8.1, quite easy deployment actually, plus the driver support & multi GPU support are current. And the utilities for overclocking run well under Windows platform.

I find Windows 10 quite fun and zippy actually but it has a lot of "spyware" and so I will probably use it only sparingly....

I have one old PC with quad-core CPU running W10 quite well and stable, and it currently exclusively runs proxy for ETH solo mining, latest geth and bitcoin nodes - on hindsight, I will probably move them to Ubuntu soon because lately I see Windows 10 reboots and updates itself without any warning, and it also deletes programs automatically if it doesn't like it.

I did some folding maybe 100 hours or so.

Yes they still accept Bitcoin as does Tiger Direct I believe.

You don't get paid for Folding.

Highly doubt most people would switch to Folding for free. I think you might get like a free t-shirt with enough folding points.

Does Newegg.com still accept BTC?  That would be a reason to try and use them.  As in... have you ordered something within the last 6 months from them?

you earn a warm happy feeling knowing you are helping humanity as a whole.

its medical research done on your rig(s).

https://folding.stanford.edu/

I was into it lots a while back.

phil sorry for OT. but folding is worthy of a couple OT posts

 Win 8. Gag. DEFINITELY a personal choice - if I have to use a currently-available Windows, I use 7 - 8.x UI was a nightmare I never did figure out how to use AT ALL, and 10 looks to be more of the same. Worst learning curve I've ever suffered through from a Micro$loth product, as I never did figure out HOW to use it at ALL.

 My "Big Box" came pre-installed with 8.something, it SUPPOSEDLY had mining software pre-installed on it, but it ended up taking me 5 HOURS less time to do a "from scratch" Ubuntu 14.04 / XFCE install on it once I gave up on 8 than I WASTED trying to figure out 8 *AND* I never did figure out if the mining software was actually on the machine.

 It says a lot that Micro$loth has already pushed on past 8, and that it looks like they will probably drop support for it BEFORE they drop Win7 support (same thing happened with XP (and 2K IIRC) vs. Vista, or ME vs 98SE).
 7 is at least usable, abet it's still a PITA at times - and it gets AT LEAST as good of driver support as anything "more recent".

 With that said, almost ALL of my mining is on Ubuntu 14.04 systems - the remainder are "gaming" systems that I mine on when I'm not actively gaming on them.
 I DO use XFCE instead of that PITA "Unity" UI though - would go with XUbuntu 14.04 instead if I could ever find a legitimate link to download that from, instead of them pushing their "BREAKS DRIVERS" 16.04 version and having NO link I can find anywhere to any older version.
 The Ubuntu folks are smarter about that, easy to find THEIR links to older versions that are still USABLE for mining.

 I do like ethmine.org for a pool - nice transparent interface, good reliability, decent stats website, and multiple pool URLs for fallover.

this is interesting, what are the good folding option now? and how much is the earning per 970?

yeah but  you still have the other cards. 

I could end up  staying cardless.. So far  No reply from my provantage guy.

X11 ASIC ?

Is it commercially available?

What sucks for the east coast is that Newegg is based on the west coast.  I know they have warehouses everywhere, but they'll probably go on say midnight Pacific time and will probably be sold out before I wake up.

It is quite surprising that X11 has ASIC now, but it is still very profitable for the GPU miners as well.

Okay I have 8 auto notify gpus on newegg.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&IsNodeId=1&N=100007709%20601203818&Tpk=rx%20480&ignorear=1

   
SAPPHIRE Radeon RX 480 100406L PCI Express 3.0 Video Card
Out of Stock   Requested: 6/26/2016
   
XFX Radeon RX 480 RX480M8BFA6 PCI Express 3.0 CrossFireX Support Video Card
Out of Stock   Requested: 6/26/2016
   
MSI Radeon RX 480 8G
Out of Stock   Requested: 6/26/2016
   
ASUS Radeon RX 480 RX480-8G Video Card
Out of Stock   Requested: 6/26/2016
   
GIGABYTE Radeon RX 480 DirectX 12 GV-RX480D5-8GD-B PCI Express 3.0 x16 ATX Video Card
Out of Stock   Requested: 6/26/2016
   
XFX Radeon RX 480 DirectX 12 RX-480M8BBA6 256-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 Video Card
Out of Stock   Requested: 6/26/2016
   
SAPPHIRE Radeon RX 480 100406-4GL GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 Video Card
Out of Stock   Requested: 6/26/2016
   
PowerColor Radeon RX 480 DirectX 12 AXRX 480 8GBD5-M3DH PCI Express 3.0 CrossFireX Support ATX Video Card
Out of Stock   Requested: 6/26/2016

Better things to do with a mining rig between profitable coins.

 Folding@home - most mining rigs would to well on that, especially the Nvidea based ones - among MANY other options.



 Your opinion may vary. Do not fold, spindle, or mutilate this message. There is no guarenttee implied or specified that this message is anything other than pixels on a screen.

i think OS and miner app is a personal choice -- whatever works for you and easiest to manage.

personally, i use all AMD based cards only for ETH mining.

I choose Win8.1 for ease of management, lower learning curve and up to date AMD driver support.

I am a big fan of Claymore's Dual Miner, rich features and developer is active on his thread.

I mine on ethpool.org and failover pool is ethermine.org (after trying all the pools, i will stick on these 2, good support from operator and have straight forward no nonsense reward system)

I was on solo mining before and on dwarfpool too, with qtminer, but after much investigating and talking to forum members, I finally switched to CDM and use ethpool and ethermine for more than 4 months now. I have 5 rigs x MSI R-390 (5 x GPU) rigs, each pushing 150MHs, total 750MHs. I have also 2 x 6 GPU Sapphire Nanos using Heliox rom mods, pushing 175MHs with much lower power consumption. Total hash 1.1GHs. I am more than halfway into ROI and I think mining ETH is profitable.

Note: I have also placed an order for 480s, hopefully reaching my doorsteps soon. Like what philip said, lower watts with decent hash and cheaper than current proven GPUs => more profits & quicker ROI - no brainer.

not really 100% speculation, some coin like ethereum were easy to spot for a big profit, and ethereum was not the only one you know, you only need to be accustomed to it and search for the best and most promising coins

So Ubuntu 14.04 is the OS of choice?  Which client?  Pool? Solo? 

Sorry for all the questions... I'm trying to get my act together before Wednesday...

Hmm... I don't see cable Riser on vga to motherboard, if you don't use cable  Riser, does is it not hot ?

better resale value & 8gb is good for gamers, in my opinion.

also, the R9-390 8gb has been rock solid in ETH mining with that plenty of on board memory.

I would go for the 480/8gb for this same reasons, you wont have any DAG size issues with that many GB and also when you resale it later, gamers loves the 8gb because they can run more memory intensive games, surely will command extra after sale premium.

i wouldnt say its dead yet..

here is 2 r9 270x from the NH calculator.

Projected daily income            0.01234536 BTC
Projected weekly income    0.08641752 BTC
Projected monthly income    0.37036080 BTC


it seems to be mining eth and x11 about 50/50