Riding the Crypto wave

[notb]

72 x £150 = £10,800 at its high of £300 i would have doubled that , easily it would have been worth that risk , but I didn't take it that time.

You could have simply bought ETH.
We're supposedly talking about pros and cons of mining, yet most arguments I receive are about investing in cryptocurrencies (i.e. owning them).

Mining is about production. You spend some resources and you end up with a commodity.
If you keep this commodity instead of selling it instantly, this turns into a speculative investment.

Point is you can have your shit wiped clean at any moment in life , straight out of the blue while cruising home from your safe blue collar ,no risky decisions job, having never even tried loads of Risky shit you might actually enjoy.

I don't see what you're trying to say here, to be honest. I do understand the words, but you lost me on the relevance.

As for "why mine?," I'd guess it's because we are NERDS!

Exactly.

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

You could have simply bought ETH.
We're supposedly talking about pros and cons of mining, yet most arguments I receive are about investing in cryptocurrencies (i.e. owning them).

Mining is about production. You spend some resources and you end up with a commodity.
If you keep this commodity instead of selling it instantly, this turns into a speculative investment.

I don't see what you're trying to say here, to be honest. I do understand the words, but you lost me on the relevance.

Exactly.

In short then

Feck it, its speculation so is life.
And life can end in a snap so double feck it.

 

[hat]

Well, cards are running. Now I have to decide whether or not to overclock. They're Micron memory chips, so I can probably get somewhere around +400, but I don't want to send these cards to an early grave by stressing them out too much with an overclock like that. They're cooking too... should they be running this hot? Thermal place replacement in order? Also, why is my memory running at 1901MHz when it's supposed to be 2002?

Well for those watching the market zcash is where it is at right now. Highest conversion rate I have seen in a while.

My rigs are sitting at 8000 sols/s give or take which is back around 70-80 USD a day.

I shoupd be a smidgen higher, but cannot get to my furys to swap them over.

Doesn't Nicehash automatically make the switch anyway? Or am I missing something?

 

[toilet pepper]

Well, cards are running. Now I have to decide whether or not to overclock. They're Micron memory chips, so I can probably get somewhere around +400, but I don't want to send these cards to an early grave by stressing them out too much with an overclock like that. They're cooking too... should they be running this hot? Thermal place replacement in order? Also, why is my memory running at 1901MHz when it's supposed to be 2002?

Doesn't Nicehash automatically make the switch anyway? Or am I missing something?

Yup! Those are running hot. Try fixing the fan profile. Mine doesnt go above 61°c when mining. Fan speed is around 40% though. Overclock the memory and lower the power limit as well. You'd probably get the same hashraye at lower consumption.


Edit: didn't see they were blower fans but lowering power limit might help.

 

[Vya Domus]

Well, cards are running. Now I have to decide whether or not to overclock. They're Micron memory chips, so I can probably get somewhere around +400, but I don't want to send these cards to an early grave by stressing them out too much with an overclock like that. They're cooking too... should they be running this hot? Thermal place replacement in order? Also, why is my memory running at 1901MHz when it's supposed to be 2002?

Doesn't Nicehash automatically make the switch anyway? Or am I missing something?

Actually I'd say they run about what is expected from a blower.

 

[hat]

I've since set an aggressive fan profile. 88% fan speed at 77c.

 

[LightningJR]

Yeah blower fans. Sounds about right temp wise.

 

[hat]

Think replacing whatever thermal paste is on there with some swanky MX-4 would help?

 

[Vya Domus]

Think replacing whatever thermal paste is on there with some swanky MX-4 would help?

I've since set an aggressive fan profile. 88% fan speed at 77c.

Now that I think about it , 77c at 88% fan speed is kinda high , might be a case of poor TIM. How many intake fans do you have ?

 

[hat]

None, actually. My case isn't the greatest for airflow. There's a big vent in the side where the video cards are, though, so they should have no problem pulling in fresh air.

Any ideas why my memory is running slower than reported? Maybe GPU-Z detected it wrong on the front page?

 

[Vya Domus]

Any ideas why my memory is running slower than reported? Maybe GPU-Z detected it wrong on the front page?

Use some msi afterburner and see what that reports. I suppose you can up the clock to the stock one though it is strange why it doesn't reach it by default.

None, actually. My case isn't the greatest for airflow. There's a big vent in the side where the video cards are, though, so they should have no problem pulling in fresh air.

I would try adding some though. Or remove the side panel entirety , see if that helps with the temps.

 

[hat]

Afterburner reports 3802, which coincides with that 1901 GPU-Z is reporting. The front page of GPU-Z reports 2002, though. If I increase the memory clock by +200 in Afterburner, GPU-Z changes to show 2102MHz on the front page, and reads 2000MHz on the sensors tab. Seems the sensor reads 100MHz lower than it should be regardless of what I set it to.

 

[mstenholm]

Use some msi afterburner and see what that reports. I suppose you can up the clock to the stock one though it is strange why it doesn't reach it by default.
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I got the same problem with my GTX 1070 and my old (but different) platform. AB is your friend. Different drivers, MSI supplied OC SW with the card and different GPU-Z versions did not solve it. HWinfo reports the same running speed as AB and GPU-Z btw.
Edit: Ninja...

 

[Vya Domus]

Afterburner reports 3802, which coincides with that 1901 GPU-Z is reporting. The front page of GPU-Z reports 2002, though. If I increase the memory clock by +200 in Afterburner, GPU-Z changes to show 2102MHz on the front page, and reads 2000MHz on the sensors tab. Seems the sensor reads 100MHz lower than it should be regardless of what I set it to.

The card could be throttling or something then. Not sure why though.

 

[hat]

Nah, I doubt it's throttling. I'm suspecting some errata with the sensor or maybe the driver... I dunno.

 

[Finners]

Afterburner reports 3802, which coincides with that 1901 GPU-Z is reporting. The front page of GPU-Z reports 2002, though. If I increase the memory clock by +200 in Afterburner, GPU-Z changes to show 2102MHz on the front page, and reads 2000MHz on the sensors tab. Seems the sensor reads 100MHz lower than it should be regardless of what I set it to.

Mining just doesn't seem to make the memory go to its highest state, I end up running a +800 offset when mining that gives the same speed if i were running +600 when gaming 9200Mhz. Lower your power limit too. I run at 52% that gives me 0.775v core voltage and a core speed of ~1450Mhz and my hashrate on ETH is ~32.5Mh/s

 

[hat]

@Finners that's some valuable information, thanks. Not sure if I'm gonna be lowering my power limit, because I'll probably end up mining more than just ethereum as Nicehash automatically switches to whatever it thinks the most profitable algorithm is.

Replacing the stock paste with MX-4 doesn't seem to have helped very much. Temps are about the same.

 

[hat]

BTC under $2000 now. wth?

 

[FireFox]

BTC under $2000 now. wth?

Buy now sell later.

 

[hat]

Mine now sell later*

That's my mantra. I'll use what I need to, but I plan on riding this out and hopefully come out on top once things are in the upswing again... Only this time I'll be ready for it. I still plan on expanding when possible. I don't know what things will be like when I can, but if I were to do it now, I'd put two GTX1080s in my secondary system (so the more powerful card isn't affected by playing games) and the other parts to make it work. Celeron, cheap ram and board, good power supply. After that I might consider an ASIC miner, like that S9 or whatever I mentioned weeks ago.

 

[FireFox]

So far i have seen none of you put attention to what @dorsetknob posted.

 

[hat]

Yeah, I dunno what to say about that. I admit I don't know too much about Bitcoin (or cryptocurrencies in general) as far as what happens "behind the scenes". I'm hopeful that whatever happens, the storm will blow over and all will return to normal before too long. Maybe this is why the market is going down, uncertainty over this issue? I don't know who's in control here, but it's certainly not me. I'm just a cog in the machine trying to make good.

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

So far i have seen none of you put attention to what @dorsetknob posted.

I've been googling the issue for days and still have no clue what I can do or should do about it , so my opinion is by and large just ,. Arrgghhhhhh and quite useless.

 

[FireFox]

Because i don't know what it could happen i will transfer all what i have mined to my bank account.

 

[R-T-B]

So far i have seen none of you put attention to what @dorsetknob posted.

It's not a big deal, though it probably has artificially shaken up value. Most exchanges will simply wait for many more confirmations than the usual 6.

Because i don't know what it could happen i will transfer all what i have mined to my bank account.

You can't lose any already transfered coins, it only affects new transfers. That said, your coins value may drop until this all blows over.

It's essentially caused by a protocol update. Further reading: https://bitcoin.org/en/alert/2017-07-12-potential-split