Topic: Review of Panda Miner coming up. - page 18. (Read 30764 times)

well it is costly.  for me to keep it I will need to sell more gear.  I sold a few hundred usd in parts.

I listed a xfx hd 7970

I will be selling  some mobos psus  and gpus etc.

When it gets warmer  I may ship it to sidehack  maybe he can tweak it a bit.

I don't have a ton of time over this weekend part starts in an hour.  it is right across the street which means I can drink since I wont be driving.

therefore sunday is shot.

 i Hope to tackle the language barrier on monday.

I have a windows 10
 I have the panda 8
I have a mac mini

will setup 3 screens  with the above and see if I can get it to do english. or any language italian or spanish and the wife could help.


it is hard to work with  whenever I get a pop up it tends to be fully chinese I don't want to click it so I power the machine off wait a few minutes then boot.  would not worry doing this but the small power button  is delicate.

I may just boot with no hard drive to see if I can get to the bios.

70 DB is not too bad its about the same as a conversation, i would of expected a little higher to be honest!

I think each setup has its advantages and disadvantages to be honest.

Phill dose hit the nail on the head its out the box kinda stuff for the less "advanced" setup user. Also the ascetics are far betting having a nice box there and would look better in home setting,

I look forward to more post's regarding the miner phil,  Will sidehack be getting his hands onto one of these to see if there is any "tweeks" that could be achieved on these machines!

just curious... which CUDA ZEC miner are you using that can produce 1900 sols from 5 x 1070s?

I really wanted these to worth buying; but they aren't.

A 5x 1070 rig costs almost exactly the same and will produce 1900+ sol/s @ ~850 watts with stock settings.

With optimized settings you should be able to get 1900+ sol/s @ ~550 watts.

This is with equipment that is easy to resell, and is likely to hold its value well over time.

The panda miner needs to be both; way more efficient, and have a significantly lower price.

As it is now: it's just a ripoff targeting new miners.

I really wanted these to worth buying; but they aren't.

A 5x 1070 rig costs almost exactly the same and will produce 1900+ sol/s @ ~850 watts with stock settings.

With optimized settings you should be able to get 1900+ sol/s @ ~550 watts.

This is with equipment that is easy to resell, and is likely to hold its value well over time.

The panda miner needs to be both; way more efficient, and have a significantly lower price.

As it is now: it's just a ripoff targeting new miners.

I don't mine nvidia cards but if you are correct

you need to spend 399 per card 5 x 400 = 2000 + 300 is 2300

   so the 1070 gets 375h?   if so it would be better.  but I dont use them.  do you have a rig of nvidia 1070 mining   if so please place a screen shot showing 5 cards getting around 1800-1900 h  and please show the 850 watts at the wall.

I really wanted these to worth buying; but they aren't.

A 5x 1070 rig costs almost exactly the same and will produce 1900+ sol/s @ ~850 watts with stock settings.

With optimized settings you should be able to get 1900+ sol/s @ ~550 watts.

This is with equipment that is easy to resell, and is likely to hold its value well over time.

The panda miner needs to be both; way more efficient, and have a significantly lower price.

As it is now: it's just a ripoff targeting new miners.

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So far I can not enter bios.
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Might be something they would consider sorting out make it easier to get full EN language.
Or release versions with it pre-set to EN might be a worth while exercise for them.

I think I will order one to the UK to have a play about with it.
Won't be till mid January but I will keep you posted on delivery times ect.

Before the RX 480s, my first "high end" card was the 390s which was at least a "1 year old' card when I bought some and thats was end of 2015 during the ETH hey days.

The 390s today is still quite an impressive work horse, very much the same as their 290/290x generations before that but with faster memory. Both are power hoggers though...

Then came the Polaris cards, 480s and 470s were nice because of the price-point, lower power consumption, decent hash power and easily rom modded further to get that extra juice.

I think the 480 will still be around in a year or two, unless the 490 / Vega series is quantum leaps ahead of 480s in terms of core clocks and high speed memory - which we need, in the memory intensive top coins. A optimised undervolted 480 rig today can already dip well below 150w or lower TDP per card. So 480 to 490, how far more can it go.... I doubt if everyone will queue to buy 490s to replace the 480s.

IMHO, I think 1-2 years from now, I bet the 480s are still the workhorses of GPU farms, just like their 290s/390s did prior. The only difference now is how low can the power consumption go still -- at what MHs performance ratio.

Maybe the more experienced miners can feedback.... because I know a number of them have brought back their Scrypt/LTC rigs of yester-years from the dead and still got decent $$$ mining ETH, ZEC and XMR.

The 480 powered Pandaminer I think will be worth investing and keeping for at least 1-2 years in the mining game, unless something drastic happens... like the unexpected rise of CPU mining.

Anyways, this is just my observation from mining just under 1.5 years now.

Appreciate comments from more experienced miners out there.

Have a great New Year 2017 and have safe holidays ahead!