Third alt coin thread last two were too big. Builds links thoughts etc - page 27.

LoneRangir

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Yah, these block payout times on ethpool are getting ridiculous. After the next payout, i may switch half to ethermine to get more regular payouts and point the other half to ZEC/ZCL. It's getting warmer here (eventually) and that darn power bill is a problem

thedue

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Doing what Citronick is doing for the last weeks Grin

he´s absolutely right... less power, less heat, less stress for the gear, easy money.. no hassle

Thanks btw to phil and citro and all the rest of course for this helpful thread(s)!

citronick

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---- winter*juvia -----

Quote from: xleejohnx on March 18, 2017, 12:51:14 PM

Quote from: citronick on March 18, 2017, 11:41:46 AM

Quote from: Tmdz on March 18, 2017, 11:09:05 AM

Zec is on FIRE!

Most profitable right now, btc continues to lose value.

Its crazy shit this ZEC -- even renting hash to ZEC Nicehash marketplace is on fire.

My 33 rigs peaking at 46,000 sols/s and Nicehash pays me 0.4 BTC per day for my hash!

Wouldn't you make more doing eth right now you get paid more?
Or less watts with zec your goal?

I get into trouble with ETH.... higher watts, power trips, increased temps, Claymore crashing etc.

It was good when I had only a dozen rigs back in early 2016 but with 33 rigs now, I maxed out my amps and power bill that I can afford in the warehouse.

So its all.... X11, ZEC and XMR mining only for me - and Optiminer v1.7 + smOS + SRR is so stable and near perfect uptime in the warehouse -- so I dont want to mess around with anything in the farm. The rigs are mining to the hilt now. Even my dev rigs are into mining duties now.

xleejohnx

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Quote from: citronick on March 18, 2017, 11:41:46 AM

Quote from: Tmdz on March 18, 2017, 11:09:05 AM

Zec is on FIRE!

Most profitable right now, btc continues to lose value.

Its crazy shit this ZEC -- even renting hash to ZEC Nicehash marketplace is on fire.

My 33 rigs peaking at 46,000 sols/s and Nicehash pays me 0.4 BTC per day for my hash!

Wouldn't you make more doing eth right now you get paid more?
Or less watts with zec your goal?

Edit: also bought some btc sense it went under 1k

xleejohnx

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Off topic a little

I'm looking to monitor the watt usage for a 240v line
Any watt meter anyone know of that would do that?
Would a pdu be better way of going about it?

DevonMiner

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Sure has been a few crazy weeks for crypto ...

I got used to 'point and mine', with the miners usually staying on a particular coin for some time.

Now it's a lot more exciting Grin

citronick

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---- winter*juvia -----

Quote from: philipma1957 on March 18, 2017, 11:42:26 AM

Quote from: citronick on March 18, 2017, 11:41:46 AM

Quote from: Tmdz on March 18, 2017, 11:09:05 AM

Zec is on FIRE!

Most profitable right now, btc continues to lose value.

Its crazy shit this ZEC -- even renting hash to ZEC Nicehash marketplace is on fire.

My 33 rigs peaking at 46,000 sols/s and Nicehash pays me 0.4 BTC per day for my hash!

what a nice way to get cheap btc

I will be hoarding BTCs for awhile until the frenzy with BTC settles down....

Poloniex charts showing droves of buyers grabbing cheap BTCs.

philipma1957

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'The right to privacy matters'

Quote from: citronick on March 18, 2017, 11:41:46 AM

Quote from: Tmdz on March 18, 2017, 11:09:05 AM

Zec is on FIRE!

Most profitable right now, btc continues to lose value.

Its crazy shit this ZEC -- even renting hash to ZEC Nicehash marketplace is on fire.

My 33 rigs peaking at 46,000 sols/s and Nicehash pays me 0.4 BTC per day for my hash!

what a nice way to get cheap btc

citronick

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---- winter*juvia -----

Quote from: Tmdz on March 18, 2017, 11:09:05 AM

Zec is on FIRE!

Most profitable right now, btc continues to lose value.

Its crazy shit this ZEC -- even renting hash to ZEC Nicehash marketplace is on fire.

My 33 rigs peaking at 46,000 sols/s and Nicehash pays me 0.4 BTC per day for my hash!

Tmdz

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Zec is on FIRE!

Most profitable right now, btc continues to lose value.

philipma1957

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'The right to privacy matters'

Quote from: Jdope on March 18, 2017, 09:54:42 AM

Hey if you're selling some of your MSIs soon philip just send me a message, i would like to take a couple of cards off you rather than pay full new price at amazon!

5 asus right here:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/sold-i-have-5-asus-rx480-4gb-gpus-for-sale-maybe-the-pandaminer-8-gpu-rx480-4g-1832492

I have only 1 msi rx 470 left.

I sold one today.

Holding on to it for a bit.

Jdope

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Hey if you're selling some of your MSIs soon philip just send me a message, i would like to take a couple of cards off you rather than pay full new price at amazon!

philipma1957

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'The right to privacy matters'

Quote from: xleejohnx on March 18, 2017, 07:50:38 AM

Quote from: Jdope on March 18, 2017, 07:01:31 AM

Quote from: philipma1957 on March 18, 2017, 06:27:52 AM

the armor is not good choice

...

I currently have just about 800$, so all i can afford is the rx 470s, since the rx 480s of the rog strix are good i guess the rx 470s would be as well, i guess you don't overclock/edit bios your cards right? They seem to have lower hashrates than what others are reporting

@xleejohnx, how much are the armor getting on what temp?

My miners are in a 8x8x8 room with only an outtake fan with a vent for intake
19 cards sit the room temp around the 80f mark
Msi cards sit at 66c 40% fan speed

my miners are in a garage no outake fan. the garage is 90f it is attached to the house I leave the door open and the heat drifts into the home.

So winter mining I get a 20% discount on the power bill since I get a ton of heat. So the 12.7 is like 9.7

Summer add 2.3 for more cooling to 16.7 which the power company jumps me to in the summer like 19.0

Summer mining is hard power jumps from 12.7 to 16.7

Adjust for free heat in the winter I am at 9.7
adjust for extra cooling in the summer I am at 19

So I have to sell off my gear.

this will need to be done by May 1-May 31

I can keep everything but the gpus as I mine 4 amps x 240 volts in the summer not 14 amps x 240 volts like the winter.

So in a bit I will be selling all the gpus with the exception of the pandaminer. which will burn about 960 watts or 4 amps x 240 volts.

so at the moment 20 cards and 1 pandaminer = 28 cards and 14 amps x 240 volts = 3360

I may move some gear to the solar array rather then sell it.

xleejohnx

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Quote from: Jdope on March 18, 2017, 07:01:31 AM

Quote from: philipma1957 on March 18, 2017, 06:27:52 AM

the armor is not good choice

I have the asus rx 480 4gb
I have the asus rx 480 8gb --------- good
I have the asus rx 480 strix 8gb----- very good
I have the msi rx 470 4gb
I have the msi rx 470 8gb
I have the msi rx 480 8gb--------- very good

I rate the asus strix 480 8gb about equal to the msi rx 480 8gb
the asus dual 480 8gb a little lower

the msi rx 470 8gb next
the msi rx 470 4gb
then the asus dual 480 4gb

I currently have just about 800$, so all i can afford is the rx 470s, since the rx 480s of the rog strix are good i guess the rx 470s would be as well, i guess you don't overclock/edit bios your cards right? They seem to have lower hashrates than what others are reporting

@xleejohnx, how much are the armor getting on what temp?

My miners are in a 8x8x8 room with only an outtake fan with a vent for intake
19 cards sit the room temp around the 80f mark
Msi cards sit at 66c 40% fan speed

https://imgur.com/a/UtV88

Rig0 is all msi armor cards

philipma1957

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'The right to privacy matters'

Quote from: Jdope on March 18, 2017, 07:01:31 AM

Quote from: philipma1957 on March 18, 2017, 06:27:52 AM

the armor is not good choice

I have the asus rx 480 4gb
I have the asus rx 480 8gb --------- good
I have the asus rx 480 strix 8gb----- very good
I have the msi rx 470 4gb
I have the msi rx 470 8gb
I have the msi rx 480 8gb--------- very good

I rate the asus strix 480 8gb about equal to the msi rx 480 8gb
the asus dual 480 8gb a little lower

the msi rx 470 8gb next
the msi rx 470 4gb
then the asus dual 480 4gb

I currently have just about 800$, so all i can afford is the rx 470s, since the rx 480s of the rog strix are good i guess the rx 470s would be as well, i guess you don't overclock/edit bios your cards right? They seem to have lower hashrates than what others are reporting

@xleejohnx, how much are the armor getting on what temp?

I am anti flashing of bios mostly due to smaller farm.

my cards get a little less hash then flashed but with smOS voltage setting on 2 vs stock 7 I don't use as much power and look at my temps.

Think of mining as driving on a long road trip.

Lets say New York City to Los Angles 3000 miles or 5000 kilometers.

I have a Kia Forte it can do 120 mph or 200 KPH on the speedometer.
I have got it into the low 90's It is comfortable to drive it at 80 mph.

But if I was to drive from NYC to LA I would set the speed control at 70mph and relax.

I can push my gear with dual mining and use 18 amps
I can push my gear with high clocks and use 17 amps.
Or I can just relax and do 14 amps (70 mph on cruise control)

Much less danger for fire and or burn out of gear.

Best of all I have been doing this long enough that the :

mobos = paid for
cpus = paid for
ram = paid for
psu's = paid for
gpu's = paid for

this allows me the luxury of mining with 2 cards on a 4 card board riser free and still turn a profit

citronick

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---- winter*juvia -----

Quote from: Jdope on March 18, 2017, 05:12:19 AM

Quote from: thedue on March 18, 2017, 04:18:35 AM

Armor is getting hotter than Gaming.
ROG should be decent but expensive usually.

The rog is not as expensive as the msi gaming, its about 5$ more than the armor but still 15$ less than the gaming

For mining, temps will be your worst nightmare, so consider good reputable fan/cooling solutions from Asus Strixx or MSI Twin-Frozz- very good actually -- my favorites. See Philip's rigs - I think he did review of these brands for RX cards too.

Jdope

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Quote from: philipma1957 on March 18, 2017, 06:27:52 AM

the armor is not good choice

I have the asus rx 480 4gb
I have the asus rx 480 8gb --------- good
I have the asus rx 480 strix 8gb----- very good
I have the msi rx 470 4gb
I have the msi rx 470 8gb
I have the msi rx 480 8gb--------- very good

I rate the asus strix 480 8gb about equal to the msi rx 480 8gb
the asus dual 480 8gb a little lower

the msi rx 470 8gb next
the msi rx 470 4gb
then the asus dual 480 4gb

I currently have just about 800$, so all i can afford is the rx 470s, since the rx 480s of the rog strix are good i guess the rx 470s would be as well, i guess you don't overclock/edit bios your cards right? They seem to have lower hashrates than what others are reporting

@xleejohnx, how much are the armor getting on what temp?

xleejohnx

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Quote from: philipma1957 on March 18, 2017, 06:27:52 AM

the armor is not good choice

I have the asus rx 480 4gb
I have the asus rx 480 8gb --------- good
I have the asus rx 480 strix 8gb----- very good
I have the msi rx 470 4gb
I have the msi rx 470 8gb
I have the msi rx 480 8gb--------- very good

I rate the asus strix 480 8gb about equal to the msi rx 480 8gb
the asus dual 480 8gb a little lower

the msi rx 470 8gb next
the msi rx 470 4gb
then the asus dual 480 4gb

I have 6 msi armor and they can't overclocking or mine like the others
1850 mem clock is all they will do without mem errors
Gigabyte gaming 470 is really nice on overclocking and temps it's also quiet

philipma1957

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'The right to privacy matters'

the armor is not good choice

I have the asus rx 480 4gb
I have the asus rx 480 8gb --------- good
I have the asus rx 480 strix 8gb----- very good
I have the msi rx 470 4gb
I have the msi rx 470 8gb
I have the msi rx 480 8gb--------- very good

I rate the asus strix 480 8gb about equal to the msi rx 480 8gb
the asus dual 480 8gb a little lower

the msi rx 470 8gb next
the msi rx 470 4gb
then the asus dual 480 4gb

Jdope

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Quote from: thedue on March 18, 2017, 04:18:35 AM

Armor is getting hotter than Gaming.
ROG should be decent but expensive usually.

The rog is not as expensive as the msi gaming, its about 5$ more than the armor but still 15$ less than the gaming

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