thilanliyan
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you ain't kiddin'. should have been running my 290 since i first saw this thread last feb. didn't want to burn out my one gaming card. ha!
There's definitely a lot of tweaking involved if you want the system dialed in. I finally got past my power issues (difficult feeding 5x 250w cards) and overclocking narrowed as high as it can go. Still get a hard crash about once a week but it hasn't posed an issue with autologon and autostarting the minerOne thing that I did not anticipate is how much tweaking, fine tuning and troubleshooting this would take! I don't mind terribly since I work at home, and I'm used to troubleshooting. It's still kind of a pain sometimes when you just want everything to work without a hitch, so I can definitely see how it could be off-putting for some people.
Agreed 100%, that's part of the reason I didn't even try for AMD cards, since I know that so many were going to hit the market. I knew when I bought them that the ti's wouldn't be as competitive on a $/MH or MH/watt, but a) density (I have one 20A circuit in my basement to work with, and it's a rental so I can't modify), b) resale value, much much higher ROI on the sale than people will get for 4x0's and 5x0's, and c) longevity, those ti's will be able to keep up longer than the AMD cards will, even if they're less efficient. I kinda see them as this gen's 290's/390's (which are still making money!)This is why there are so many miners now.
This may seem obvious to many but I'll mention this again as many people seem to forget about the difference the between break even point and reaching full ROI.
With mining rigs, you have two important metrics. You have the break-even point (the point in which you've mine enough Ether/Zec/LBRY etc and convert back to fiat) where if everything went to pot, you could sell (or repurpose) the hardware and not take a loss. I use a 50% metric for this. So if you spent 2K on mining gear, you only need to generate 1K in crypto to safely unload the rest of your gear and still break even.
The second metric is paying off the entire rig after accounting for power costs etc. Currently, this takes a lot longer but is still achievable if, or more likely when Ether/BTC climbs in value. This is the ideal goal (and anything after a full ROI turns your miner into a digital representation of a money tree provided your power costs are average) of many miners but you only need to hit the first metric (break even) to not take any loss (other than time invested which is variable and also beneficial as you'll learn a few things).
Happy mining all.
I've got my old 5870 reference card sitting in an anti static bag in a drawer, I may frame that thing... it's easily minted many many many times it's value in BTC.
New Biostar B250 BTC Pro board per AT:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/11604/biostar-mining-tb250-btc-pro-motherboard-rx-470d-gpu
Mobo layout:
Question is will it work with Windows 10 or require Linux to use 12 cards?
Supposedly AsRock is working with NVIDIA and AMD to make their new mining mobo work in Windows 10 so I wouldn't be surprised if we see that happen within in the next month or two. All this seems a bit silly and late to the game though given how unprofitable mining will be. There is simply no ROI with how fast difficulty is increasing. We're a few months out from break even with the cost of electricity at current ETH prices.
Mmm, 12x 70%'d 1080ti's on a pair of 15A circuits, each with 1200w PSU's. Yes please!New Biostar B250 BTC Pro board per AT:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/11604/biostar-mining-tb250-btc-pro-motherboard-rx-470d-gpu
Mobo layout:
New Biostar B250 BTC Pro board per AT:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/11604/biostar-mining-tb250-btc-pro-motherboard-rx-470d-gpu
Mobo layout:
does Skylake's Mobo have problem with 6 GPU due to PCIe Express resource? My Mobo is Biostar Z270 GT6 which does have 7 PCIe slot.but i can't get more than 4 GPUs.6 GPUs work but 2 GPUs are disable.
I was able to manage 6 GPUs on MSI Z97 gaming and they work without any problem ( one on MB and 5 with riser )
There's room physically but I have no idea thermally.
The product page on Amazon states that it works if you use 6 AMD and 6 Nvidia cards.
Question is will it work with Windows 10 or require Linux to use 12 cards?
Oh also it looks like Serentiy is about 1.5 years out? Or longer? So PoW mining will continue for a bit. Gotta wonder if we're still gonna see that card dump like people are projecting.
Can Claymore run over Microsoft Remote Desktop?
I'm thinking of throwing that 960 into my server which runs headless.
And hope that it doesn't kill the system entirely like it does on my laptop.
wow, 237$ right now
Is replacing eth with those icos realistic?$232 now.
I can't say I'm overly-pleased by this development. The ICOs and reports of network trouble are dragging down the price. It doesn't help that Poloniex froze ETH transfers for awhile, so people are having to sell ETH on the exchange to get their money. We need Metropolis and Lightning stat. It's also unfortunate that at least two ICOs handled on the ETH network are fundamentally designed to undermine and ultimately replace Ethereum itself.
Um well Claymore has a remote administration feature which you can read up on in the documentation. Defaults to port 3333 I think, in read-only mode. You can change that though.
$232 now.
I can't say I'm overly-pleased by this development. The ICOs and reports of network trouble are dragging down the price. It doesn't help that Poloniex froze ETH transfers for awhile, so people are having to sell ETH on the exchange to get their money. We need Metropolis and Lightning stat. It's also unfortunate that at least two ICOs handled on the ETH network are fundamentally designed to undermine and ultimately replace Ethereum itself.
Is replacing eth with those icos realistic?
The ICOs are decimating the price of ETH. We'd be sitting at $350 or higher right now if it wasn't for all this ICO B.S.. The next few months could very well be quite rough. Long term outlook is still good but I was hoping to see $750 ETH by early 2018. With the way things are looking I'd be ecstatic with $500 ETH.