Topic: Number 9! Ninth altcoin thread. Back to the moon Baby! - page 84. (Read 66416 times)

Ok, thank you for the feedback. Definitely would be primarily to cut my teeth on, and trying to take advantage of some hardware already laying around.  But if it's just a big step backwards, then maybe it's not worth going that route.  Thank you for giving me that side to consider. 

I'd rather build a new rig than deal with Win7 and that old of Mobo. While you could buy 3 PCIe risers and plug in three cards, I wouldn't recommend it unless you really only want to learn how to do it. If you are looking for profit, build a new rig(s) with Mobo(s) made for mining, it will make your life easier. Also, please get Win10/Linux or use one of OS made for mining like NicehashOS.

Good morning. Here are the images of the motherboard on my old computer.  The computer itself is an early i7 with 8GB ram.  I see one PCI slot, and two PCIe slots - I believe I saw a youtube video showing installing a riser in the PCIe slot and putting a card in there.  As for the PCI-16 (blue one), I'm unfamiliar with that interface, so not sure if that would be useful.  The cards presently in the PCIe slots are not needed - one is a video capture, and one is a usb hub.  Obviously the whole thing needs careful and thorough cleaning.  It has a 128GB SSD and I'm running Windows 7 on it I believe. 

Would you say then, that I could drive a total of 3 Video cards on this machine?  If I did, would I want to remove everything from the case to get a more open-air feel that I've seen in various pics and videos here to keep things operating cooler? 

Images linked here:
https://imgur.com/DOsol7x
https://imgur.com/Tvr7FAQ

Exactly  below is the standard A10 pro quote is from innosilicon web site.


"Innosilicon A10 Pro ETH miner with 6G memory is an upgraded version optimized for ETH mining, performing with a power-efficient hash rate of 500MH/S at 950W.

Hashrate: 500MH/s (±5%)
Power Consumption: 950W(±10%, on wall, with 93% efficiency PSU, 25℃ temperature)
Dimensions: (L)360mm*(W)136mm*(H)282mm
Net Weight: 8.6Kg
Internet connection: Ethernet
Ambient Temperature: 0°C to 40°C

Please note that they are not new miners and after upgrading the machine may not be refurbished, if you expect a high-standard appearance, your discretion is strongly advised. Once the order is placed, it will be deemed as an acceptance.

Notice:
Please make sure your farm use proper cooling, dust filter and 10A AC cable to meet the proper operating condition requirements.
Humidity <75%, AC voltage 210~240V, Power supply AC input current 10A, dust <0.5 Mg/m3."

500mh at 950 watts just beats the 3080 which is 95mh at 220 watts  5x is 475mh at 1100 watts.  if you paid 800 a 3080 it is 4000 plus mobo psu ram ssd


if the a10 plus does. 750 at 1350 watts with 8g ram and they don't sell it just yet they make a deal with a farm

the hash rate will be stable at 300th as the a10+ picks up all the dropped out 4g cards.

It is why I am not going way over the 60 cards I now have.

Probably Innosilicon A10, 750MHs...

There are very likely hidden e4's same design with 8gb ram. Made a bit more efficient then a  nvidia 3080 or  an amd 5700.

some one said the big farms were upgrading thier e3 with bitmain help , and i know the innosilicon one has more mem, lik 6? those are really the majority of asics ,  the 3 hasn’t been sold for 3 years now?

Well looks like the Antminer E3, the very first DaggerHashimoto ASIC, has transitioned into a door-stop pretty much. With new DAG released a few hours ago, Epoch #380, there are reports that E3 stopped mining ETH, even with the updated firmware.

You would think they would switch and mine ETC instead? Turns out ETC don't want E3 on their network either and they are incompatible with the slightly different ETC algo with lower DAG.

Looking at,
https://etherscan.io/chart/hashrate

Shows pretty much almost no hashrate change. Maybe give it a day or 2 to settle. Really wondering how many of these E3 were actually produced. I remember when they were first released, people were saying that "Bitmain produced enough to cause a 51% attack" wonder if that was actually the case.

didn't experienced that phase in my mining past since i bought surplus/older boards so they didn't come with boxes so i used nuts and bolts, they are useful to elevate the board so the GPU brackets will not hit the floor and later on those nuts and bolts became useful when i hang some of the boards to the wall (no risk of shorting, cement might short something).

nuts and bolts are sturdier to operate on, imagine pressing a RAM module and PSU connections on top of a board on a box, later on that box will get squished in time hehe

I agree. Another one is when mining is so profitable that you need to get it hooked up ASAP. So instead of mounting it properly on a open air rig, you just leave the motherboard on the motherboard box and cram as many GPUs as you can in there.

I remember I had so many rigs set up Like this in the past. I stopped doing it when I realized that there NorthBridge (or southbridge) on the motherboard can actually get very hot and if it’s laying flat there is no ventilation and things can go badly. However according to the hundreds of amateur mining setups I’ve seen in the past I am not the only one guilty of this.

Better tech and more money spent tends to convert electricity to money better.

Sometimes spending more is earning more.

Some people can't fit 60 cards in their mining area, but with 3080's 25-30 cards..less than half of your cards will do the "over 2gh" hashrate.

There are always takers out there, for some it is for the better and for some it is not hehe

Well you did not want them but they sold out any way

Meanwhile I keep offering the 1000 series cards with not many takers.

They make about 500mh at 3.2 cents = 16  day pure profit for me until Jan 1 then my temp power deal ends.

I am keeping all card earnings 100% with no power cost until Jan 1.  At that point I drop to a 25% share of the coins with no power costs.

The nice thing is we have over 60 cards and over 2gh. So I will own 50% of  all the cards  outright no debt on any of them and make 25% of the coins with no outlays.

Yeah, i remember some miner with 480s inside being sold as asic..didn't like it/didn't bought it.

If you can, it is always better to troubleshoot a system you assembled yourself. You know each part better hehe

speaking of density and troubleshooting...some of my p35 boards and ddr2 2gb died, imagine juggling through 3x 2gb RAM (mining ETH requires 6gb for both GPU ram and system ram to run on full hash speed) plus the board just to identify where is the fuck up...now just 1x 8gb ram on a h81 board eases things LOL....same thing with cards and risers and pcie slots hehe, so density is a good thing.

I think we're headed to prebuilt systems being shucked for GPU's like last time.

Not going to touch these low density setup cards..when "can't get enough gpu syndrome" kicks in some people will ran out of space, thus limiting their max attainable hashrate LOL

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Sapphire-Pulse-RX-5600-XT-BE-6GB-GDDR6-PCI-E-DUAL-HDMI-DUAL-DP-OC-w-Backplate/303593236325?

$299 5600xt Newegg ebay 5GPU limit + 24 month 0% paypal financing (might be targeted), Enjoy.

You know when we are in bull market when phil started posting gpu rig pictures again hehe

This is a good point. Maybe I will switch back.

Right now I don’t think you guys will have too many issues since Nicehash has removed ETC mining. So if you are mining Daggerhashimito it will only mine one coin, ETH. So you will never get any reloading DAGs.

The issue I had in the past was when switching back and forth between ETC and ETH and dags kept crashing when new work was issued by nicehash. So I had to stop using it. However now the only possible DAG is ETH so you won’t get any switching even with new work. Yes it’s possible it’s some Ubiq coin but I don’t think anyone would rent hash at. 2x cost to mine those low cap coins.

I concur, I would've stayed on NiceHash as well if I didn't have so many issues hashing over there. I personally mine to a wallet these days, not Coinbase (just my personal preference).