Topic: Number 9! Ninth altcoin thread. Back to the moon Baby! - page 121. (Read 66416 times)

as are the ones I held on to. 🙂



at gabyrox open an account on smos

2 dollars a month for the 1 rig.

you dont have to pay more then a month at a time.


meanwhile

I am doing okay with the gpus and the monero.
I am doing okay with the farm in clifton.

I am doing a major hodl in doge.

2,000,000 coins. they moved from 4600 usd to 7000 usd.

I really would like to,hold them until 2022 I would be 65.

Hello everyone. A few days ago I posted about getting 1 of my RX 470-4GB rigs going again by using the latest Phoenix miner and switching my Primary Display to onboard/internal graphics through the BIOS of my ASRock Pro BTC MB.  That is still working perfectly, but I just tried doing the same on another 470-4GB rig built on a Biostar TB85 MB and can't seem to get the display switched over to internal.

Was hoping that some of you are running this or similar Biostar board and might be able to help.  These are the BIOS settings I have tried. Prior to this, all options were set to "Auto" with the monitor plugged into 1 of the 470's:

-  Primary Display = IGFX  (with IGFX "ebabled")
-  Primary Display = IGFX  (with IGFX "auto")
-  Primary Display = Auto  (with IGFX "enabled")
-  Primary Display = Auto  (with IGFX "auto")

In some combinations, it still shows video while connected to my 470 (when i made this change on the ASRock MB, it wouldnt display while plugged into my 470 immediately after applying the BIOS change and reboot, but when i plugged into the MB, it worked immediately).

When i switch the monitor cable over to the MB, once i got the screen to appear but it was super focussed (meaning the screen was magnified beyond use). When I rebooted i just got what appeared to be a windows hang, then a black screen where i could move my mouse cursor but do nothing else.

FYI:  I can get the BIOS screen to display with the monitor plugged into the MB's VGA port, just cant get a usable windows screen to appear that way.  Any suggestions would be highly appreciated!

A few months ago, I shutdown my modest 40 rigs GPU farm and I invested in "a couple" FPGAs (Blackminer).

I maintained some of my 1080tis to mine on mostly speculative coins.... but ended up using the FPGA platform to mine new coins like TRB, KDA, AEON, PMEER to name a few. These past weeks, I have seen a single F1-Ultra making 12$ after power cost at today's TRB spot price.

Since last week, I have been dusting the rest of my 1080tis to mine ETH/Nicehash.... all 13 of them brings me around 20$-24$ per day but electricty will still take a bulk of the takings.

Moving forward, unlike 2017... Looks like I have to use them FPGAs because a single FPGA can replace dozens of GPUs, consuming only a fraction of power bill. Some other coins that I am mining.... like Nimiq, Verus is currently best on GPU, CPU POW respectively.

I have not bought any new GPUs and I am not sure I will ever will because when a new promising coin comes about, I will just load up the bitstream image on the FPGA and mine you go.

I guess the miners journey from GPUs to CPUs to ASICs to FPGAs: to learn, adapt and keep up to speed on the various mining strategies and their communities like Phil's thread.

Great mining everyone.... everything is green at the moment...... good luck to us all!

I remember philipma1957 theory back then that nvidia or amd can pump gpu mineable coin/s to be able to make a killing selling the upcoming-just at the corner release of new cards.

will it happen? 2017 shows it is profitable for them. just look how shitty grin is and the marketcap is small hehe

I think the 1080ti is worth more now !

I think it depends on what you pay for electricity and if you have already made money (and/or have the hardware) to re-invest.

ETH is on a tear...I think someone calculated that at current prices (if you have to buy new GPUs) you can recoup your money in 300 days...so if you already have the GPUs skip to step 4 and "profit" !

Many posters have cheap or "free" electricity.


What's your situation ?

It means that the gpu mining industry will alive again? is it the sign that im going to assemble my gpu rig again and participate the miners to solve every dag file needed to get an ETH reward.. If you have a good and potential coin to be mine, don't be hesitate to drop it here

kW <> kWh

Although, you're probably right and he mistakenly wrote kW instead jWh...otherwise, he has real solar plant over there,
like 200 average panels

how does 50kw cover 55 gpus ? 10kw won’t even cover one rig 24/7 or do u only mine during the day?

Haven't posted here in a long time.  I've been mining non-stop since 2017 and for the last year plus, just with my GPUs (55 total, mostly 1080Ti's) and with my 50Kw of solar, that is covering my power cost 100%.

Phil all those GPUs you sold me way back when are all still going strong!   

haha same here i got at lear six rigs of 470s 480s i can bring up on smos , i tried one rig already it works but you have yo remod all your cards with 1 clip straps since i unmodded all my cards for progpow ugh

A few weeks ago, I have started to revive and dusted off my old GPUs from the storeroom.... 13 x 1080tis, 6 x 1070ti and a few dozen 480s,470s and 1060/P106-100 .....   put them all to work under SMOS and Phoenixminer.

USB Linux SMOS for fast deployment under 1 dashboard.

Phoenixminer for ETH mining with lowest dev fee (compared to Claymore).

Highest density using K35 motherboards with 8 x PCI slots and Delta 2400w PSUs.

Since, everyone will be furiously mining ETH till POS.... I decided to do otherwise and point every ounce of hash and sell it to Nicehash, in exchange for BTC instead. I expect "crazy pricing" at Nicehash soon since they are crazies out there that would pay crazy rental prices at NH and MRR, especially for last few months of ETH POW.

All my GPU gear are ex 2016 and paid for several folds, so I guess this revival project will be the last hurray for these GPUs.

As for offsite hosting... I had to shutdown my 1ph SHA256 farm (33 x 30THs ASICs) but retained DCR and FPGA hosted mining to save on power bills. If BTC 20k.... even the 30Ths ASICs will make money and can be revived.

Good luck to us all!

thanks for the tips on getting my 4GB rigs up and running again, i really appreciate them!

I tried installing 20.4.2 drivers on the rig with the one 8GB GPU and seemed to go fine (all 6 GPUs recognized in Dev Mgr) but when i started Claymore 15, I only got about 50% hashrate on GPU-0 and nothing on the others. Was getting a notification the the miner was being blocked from accessing graphics hardware. So, decided to give up on that one for a bit as it is too hot to turn on all 6 of my rigs anyway.

So, I went to another rig with 6x RX 470's all 4GB.  Went into BIOS and switched display to onboard graphics, then unplugged my monitor from the 470 and plugged it into the MB. Display showed up no problem.  I then downloaded Phoenix miner 5.0e, changed the config to my pool and wallet and launched miner.  Took a few minutes to get DAGs assigned but now it's been running perfectly for about 2 hours at the same speeds it was about a year ago.  And the best part? I didn't even have to update the drivers, which for AMD cards is still a freaking PITA!

So, based on these results I will likely move all for AMD rigs over to Phoenix miner.  I do like the look of the SMOS Phil mentioned, but if this method works on my other 3 rigs, I will likely stay with it to avoid the extra cost and time.  If I was starting from scratch though that definitely looks like a cool way to manage rigs!

I would do smos for all four rigs. cost is eight bucks a month for the four rigs.

you should get aug sept oct nov.   easy peasy.  cost of 32 bucks.  way cheaper then buying 3 cards.

and you only need pay eight bucks at a time.


as for 5600 vs 5700.

price is king and of course time is money .

so cheap and in stock helps.

Check out the phoenix miner thread.  I think they posted drivers that work best on page 1 for 4gb.  There was another thread by the simple mining OS dev discussing 4gb cards and a solution till late this year.

Opinion:

5600 xt vs 5700 xt

I know we are dealing with: availability / price / power consumption / units per machine (space) / what else ?

Hey everyone! Great to see Phil still running these threads and going strong!

Given the recent spike in ETH price, I decided to starting turning back on my rigs.

Of course, my 2 Nvidia rigs (w/1070ti's) were up and running perfectly in no time. Just downloaded Claymore v15, copied over my config file from 1 year ago (last time my miners were on lol) and bam! running amazingly smooth!

Now, the issue comes with my 4 AMD rigs, mostly running MSI RX 470's (4GB). If anyone here is still running those, you are probably aware that you can no longer have a 4GB GPU in port 0... either has to be bigger than 4GB or use Intel Integrated Graphics.  Luckily on 1 rig i do have one 8GB Sapphire 470, so i swapped it over to port 0.  I just used DDU to wipe previous drivers, and now am at the stage of installing new drivers.

My question is, what are the last good AMD drivers available to run 470 rigs?  Looks like the last ones i was using were 18.3 or so.  Most current appears to be 20.4.2 but was wondering if anyone has used those successfully, or if slightly older versions might be better.

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!

Nice

Yes it was microcenter, I grabbed a 2060 super for $369, soon after they all disappeared ...might pick up a few 5700 soon. I need to learn how to get and use stackable coupons at best buy !

Also, there used to be rebates for everything $20 mail in rebate, etc - those are all gone (at least at microcenter).

I have three two card 1080ti rigs at a place with free power. i simply give 1/2 the coins to the guy letting me run them.

I build a lot of two card cased rigs because they are easy to stick into offices that need a space heater.
they also can become a gamer by pulling the smos usb stick out.
I have a four card 1080ti rig this is a true mining rig uses smos it is an eight card mobo with hard wired cpu.

I have a five card rig with 1080ti,  1080, 2x 1070, 1660 smos so that is 5 rigs and 15 cards on smos.

I have six monero rigs four with amd r 3900 two thread rippers. they have either amd 5500 or amd 5700

i think it is about 95000 hash for monero

and 300 mhs for eth.

so 11 rigs and i think 24 cards.

Is that Microcenter?  Wish I had one close.  Would pick off their open box GPU's.  They had an MSI 2060 Super for that price at the one my brother shops at in May.


These go on sale about once a month for $369.99.  Nice if you can combine it with a coupon or eBay bucks.  No games though like on Neweggs direct site right now.  I have this and the 5700 variant.  Love em but I don't really overclock and don't mind the no dual bios.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/GIGABYTE-Radeon-RX-5700-XT-GAMING-OC-8G-Graphics-Card-PCIe-4-0-8GB-256-Bit-GDD/303275999144

I have 2 of these on the way.  Watched them for about a month before they came in stock last night and briefly tonight.

https://www.newegg.com/asus-radeon-rx-5700-dual-rx5700-o8g-evo/p/N82E16814126348#

I picked up a Zotach 1660 ti open box for $233 on a sale 2 weeks ago. 

AMD cards are mining eth
Nividia ETH or Raven
CPU's XMR