My second ZEC + XMR+ ETH thread builds info links thoughts and photos. - page 2.

LoneRangir

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Quote from: philipma1957 on February 20, 2017, 11:13:49 PM

Quote from: citronick on February 20, 2017, 10:19:08 PM

Hi Phil - trying to find high and low for that post you did for the 10 pack msata you got for a song.
Do you have the link handy? Thanks

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lot-10-Kingston-Acer-16GB-42mm-mSATA-M-2-NGFF-SSD-RBU-SNS4151S3-16G-S9FM01-1-/112143250197

sold out

but I am a Legendary member

so :

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Kingston-16-GB-M-2-NGFF-mSATA-SSD-Chromebooks-Acer-/201814831953?

he has more then 75 on hand

Are those big enough for Windows and/or Linux, if you include swap?

philipma1957

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'The right to privacy matters'

Quote from: citronick on February 20, 2017, 10:19:08 PM

Hi Phil - trying to find high and low for that post you did for the 10 pack msata you got for a song.
Do you have the link handy? Thanks

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lot-10-Kingston-Acer-16GB-42mm-mSATA-M-2-NGFF-SSD-RBU-SNS4151S3-16G-S9FM01-1-/112143250197

sold out

but I am a Legendary member

so :

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Kingston-16-GB-M-2-NGFF-mSATA-SSD-Chromebooks-Acer-/201814831953?

he has more then 75 on hand

citronick

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Hi Phil - trying to find high and low for that post you did for the 10 pack msata you got for a song.
Do you have the link handy? Thanks

philipma1957

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'The right to privacy matters'

Quote from: citronick on February 20, 2017, 09:01:00 PM

Quote from: vg54dett on February 20, 2017, 05:41:04 PM

I made some test with ETHPOOL as pool for ether mining and still not happy.
Expected reward according to Ethpool is lower than all mining calculator (too much lower, not acceptable) , and their average hashrate is ALWAYS lower than the reported one.
In the end, less profit.

I know many of you have come back to Eth mining.
Did you find better options than Ethpool / Ethermine ?

I went back to renting my Cryptonight hash to Nicehash and let market supply and demand in NH marketplace takes its course.

There's always someone crazy out there who will pay premium above market price for my hash.... and I see that everyday.

NH pays me BTC upfront and cryptonight algo lower my power bill by whopping 25-30% and reduced temps at same time.

The main pools that I have used heavily in the past ethpool, ethermine, flypool, dwarfpool, nanopool all are getting more and more inconsistent in they way they calculate payouts timing and amount; and poolside hash reporting. Even pools with big hash power struggles to find blocks whenever diff level increases - I find this strange because pools like ethpool and dwarfpool are like more than half of the total global hash power (for ETH) -- something is not right (is they such thing as "blocks withoholding" in the alt-mining world?)

sure why not.

citronick

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Quote from: vg54dett on February 20, 2017, 05:41:04 PM

I made some test with ETHPOOL as pool for ether mining and still not happy.
Expected reward according to Ethpool is lower than all mining calculator (too much lower, not acceptable) , and their average hashrate is ALWAYS lower than the reported one.
In the end, less profit.

I know many of you have come back to Eth mining.
Did you find better options than Ethpool / Ethermine ?

I went back to renting my Cryptonight hash to Nicehash and let market supply and demand in NH marketplace takes its course.

There's always someone crazy out there who will pay premium above market price for my hash.... and I see that everyday.

NH pays me BTC upfront and cryptonight algo lower my power bill by whopping 25-30% and reduced temps at same time.

The main pools that I have used heavily in the past ethpool, ethermine, flypool, dwarfpool, nanopool all are getting more and more inconsistent in they way they calculate payouts timing and amount; and poolside hash reporting. Even pools with big hash power struggles to find blocks whenever diff level increases - I find this strange because pools like ethpool and dwarfpool are like more than half of the total global hash power (for ETH) -- something is not right (is they such thing as "blocks withoholding" in the alt-mining world?)

LoneRangir

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Quote from: vg54dett on February 20, 2017, 05:41:04 PM

I made some test with ETHPOOL as pool for ether mining and still not happy.
Expected reward according to Ethpool is lower than all mining calculator (too much lower, not acceptable) , and their average hashrate is ALWAYS lower than the reported one.
In the end, less profit.

I know many of you have come back to Eth mining.
Did you find better options than Ethpool / Ethermine ?

Is the rapid rise in difficulty factored in to either your calculations or these online calculators? It's been going up 1TH per day.

https://etherscan.io/chart/difficulty

vg54dett

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I made some test with ETHPOOL as pool for ether mining and still not happy.
Expected reward according to Ethpool is lower than all mining calculator (too much lower, not acceptable) , and their average hashrate is ALWAYS lower than the reported one.
In the end, less profit.

I know many of you have come back to Eth mining.
Did you find better options than Ethpool / Ethermine ?

thedue

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Quote from: citronick on February 20, 2017, 01:53:14 PM

Quote from: thedue on February 20, 2017, 01:39:50 PM

I´d like to try a 4 or maybe 3 card build right now (some spare 700W PSUs Roll Eyes

)

Any recommandation besides the Biostar? Especially for a 3 card build that has some space between all 3 gpus Huh

I want to stay below 100$ of course... maybe there is an older mainboard on the market? (cheaper, still working, buying it in used condition..)

There is an ASrock Z170 4-slotter that Philip has reviewed before -- I think that mobo is a good one.

However, most Z170 are quite decent (apart from quality of their RMA or customer service).

Lessons learnt from my current Biostar Racing Z170s...

a. mSata storage -- this is really an important advantage.
b. easy to insert a divider to give a small gap in between cards (I use disposal wooded chopsticks to space them).
c. built in touch sensor ON/OFF/RESET buttons on the Biostar was really convenient.

Right, forgot about the Z170.. pretty expensive here in europe :/
Any cheap 3 card board?

citronick

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Quote from: thedue on February 20, 2017, 01:39:50 PM

I´d like to try a 4 or maybe 3 card build right now (some spare 700W PSUs Roll Eyes

)

Any recommandation besides the Biostar? Especially for a 3 card build that has some space between all 3 gpus Huh

I want to stay below 100$ of course... maybe there is an older mainboard on the market? (cheaper, still working, buying it in used condition..)

There is an ASrock Z170 4-slotter that Philip has reviewed before -- I think that mobo is a good one.

However, most Z170 are quite decent (apart from quality of their RMA or customer service).

Lessons learnt from my current Biostar Racing Z170s...

a. mSata storage -- this is really an important advantage.
b. easy to insert a divider to give a small gap in between cards (I use disposal wooded chopsticks to space them).
c. built in touch sensor ON/OFF/RESET buttons on the Biostar was really convenient.

thedue

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I´d like to try a 4 or maybe 3 card build right now (some spare 700W PSUs Roll Eyes

)

Any recommandation besides the Biostar? Especially for a 3 card build that has some space between all 3 gpus Huh

I want to stay below 100$ of course... maybe there is an older mainboard on the market? (cheaper, still working, buying it in used condition..)

vapourminer

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what is this "brake pedal" you speak of?

Quote from: citronick on February 20, 2017, 09:33:18 AM

Quote from: vapourminer on February 20, 2017, 06:48:09 AM

Quote from: citronick on February 20, 2017, 03:35:48 AM

2. Wished I had a small air compressor thing instead of buying these damn air sprays. I could had done more cleaning but I ran out of air spray. Any suggestions?

any cheap pancake style will work, you can get then under a hundred bucks easy on sale, and they come with basic attachments including a blowgun.

only down side is they spit moisture every so often, just watch out for that.

havent used canned air in years.

something along these lines, only mine is a bit smaller (a craftsman 120 psi 2.5 gallon).

http://www.homedepot.com/p/Porter-Cable-3-5-Gal-135-PSI-Pancake-Compressor-PCFP02003/203254365

all you need is 100 psi, believe me thats plenty pressure for computers.

thanks vapourminer -- this is great. I will look out for it.

I wonder if there is a computer specific - air compressor - even smaller than 100 psi.

not sure if they make smaller ones but with those pancake compressors you can dial the psi down to whatever you want. 120 psi is just the max mine can do i can set it to 5 psi if i want.

citronick

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Quote from: vapourminer on February 20, 2017, 06:48:09 AM

Quote from: citronick on February 20, 2017, 03:35:48 AM

2. Wished I had a small air compressor thing instead of buying these damn air sprays. I could had done more cleaning but I ran out of air spray. Any suggestions?

any cheap pancake style will work, you can get then under a hundred bucks easy on sale, and they come with basic attachments including a blowgun.

only down side is they spit moisture every so often, just watch out for that.

havent used canned air in years.

something along these lines, only mine is a bit smaller (a craftsman 120 psi 2.5 gallon).

http://www.homedepot.com/p/Porter-Cable-3-5-Gal-135-PSI-Pancake-Compressor-PCFP02003/203254365

all you need is 100 psi, believe me thats plenty pressure for computers.

thanks vapourminer -- this is great. I will look out for it.

I wonder if there is a computer specific - air compressor - even smaller than 100 psi.

vapourminer

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what is this "brake pedal" you speak of?

Quote from: citronick on February 20, 2017, 03:35:48 AM

2. Wished I had a small air compressor thing instead of buying these damn air sprays. I could had done more cleaning but I ran out of air spray. Any suggestions?

any cheap pancake style will work, you can get then under a hundred bucks easy on sale, and they come with basic attachments including a blowgun.

only down side is they spit moisture every so often, just watch out for that.

havent used canned air in years.

something along these lines, only mine is a bit smaller (a craftsman 120 psi 2.5 gallon).

http://www.homedepot.com/p/Porter-Cable-3-5-Gal-135-PSI-Pancake-Compressor-PCFP02003/203254365

all you need is 100 psi, believe me thats plenty pressure for computers.

citronick

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Quote from: citronick on February 19, 2017, 12:20:57 PM

Quote from: philipma1957 on February 19, 2017, 11:23:29 AM

Quote from: Tmdz on February 19, 2017, 11:21:14 AM

Just rma the damn thing, hey it happens and at least you will get a nice refurb unit back.

One of the rails might be failing to supply proper power so that could be causing the restart issue.

Yeah send it back. Evga is good with returns.

yes, tmdz, phil - with 10 year warranty - this EVGA is worth every penny.

I will continue to do a few more test to isolate tomorrow morning.

well....

I basically unplugged everything, did some cleaning with a nice toothbrush, cleaned the riser's PCI connector tips, and a short prayer.

Bang... rig came back to life!

Before the above I used a EVGA-1300w to acertain that the PSU is dying and strangely enough same thing happened. So its not the PSUs.

Following Tmdz's suggestions, went to look for a soft toothbrush and a air spray can and proceeded to dismantle the rig

2 eureka moments here because of this PSU incident :

1. The 6 x Nano rig mining XMR only uses 500watts, so I get to recycle a 1300w PSU and use the 1600w PSU for another new rig (another Pandaminer? Roll Eyes

)

2. Wished I had a small air compressor thing instead of buying these damn air sprays. I could had done more cleaning but I ran out of air spray. Any suggestions?

philipma1957

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Quote from: bittawm on February 19, 2017, 04:18:08 PM

do another build phill

Fancy you mention this.

After 80 days bio star sent me a rma for my dead z170.

I went to do a build with it.

Using the ultra thin slim xfx 460.
So far it is a struggle to get it to work.

I think they sent me a bad replacement board.

To voice my anger at biostar and utter an endless stream of racial anti Asian comments is not my style.

To complain and mention they took 80 days and sent me a beat board is my speed.

I will just give the board a few more try's.

Shame as I want to do a build. I will f around with the board the next few days.

I may buy an aorus from gigabyte. Works pretty well.

I kind of want a new board.

bittawm

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do another build phill

citronick

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Quote from: philipma1957 on February 19, 2017, 11:23:29 AM

Quote from: Tmdz on February 19, 2017, 11:21:14 AM

Just rma the damn thing, hey it happens and at least you will get a nice refurb unit back.

One of the rails might be failing to supply proper power so that could be causing the restart issue.

Yeah send it back. Evga is good with returns.

yes, tmdz, phil - with 10 year warranty - this EVGA is worth every penny.

I will continue to do a few more test to isolate tomorrow morning.

philipma1957

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'The right to privacy matters'

Quote from: Tmdz on February 19, 2017, 11:21:14 AM

Just rma the damn thing, hey it happens and at least you will get a nice refurb unit back.

One of the rails might be failing to supply proper power so that could be causing the restart issue.

Yeah send it back. Evga is good with returns.

Tmdz

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Just rma the damn thing, hey it happens and at least you will get a nice refurb unit back.

One of the rails might be failing to supply proper power so that could be causing the restart issue. Had that restart issue before and that was the cause.

vapourminer

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what is this "brake pedal" you speak of?

Quote from: citronick on February 19, 2017, 07:17:18 AM

I think one of my prized possession the ultra dependable EVGA-1600-G2 is showing the symptoms of death...

After slightly more than 1 year of non-stop 24x7 mining, had to reboot this PSU yesterday... started the rig and a second later, stops... and comes back alive again, then stops repeatedly.

I had to shutdown the whole rig (6 x R9-Nano powered risers, Asrock H81 BTC, 8gb, 120ssd, smOS) - unplugged power cord/point and left it over night.

Today... no luck. Same thing.... starts-stop-starts-stop-repeatedly. Power supply and cabling should be OK since it was working for so long.

Anyone had this experience before?

I hope the remedy is just changing the power cord or re-seat the RAM of something... otherwise this will be my first RMA out of the 9 units that I have in the farm.

The other rigs uses EVGAs 1300w-G2 and 1000w-G2.

i would stat by pulling all psu connectors (both ends if modular) and inspecting them. corroded or dirty pins can be a problem but i cant see just that power cycling the psu, usually shorts do that. but cant hurt to check.

of course reseating all mobo components is a good idea too.

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