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I have come to a conclusion, im never fitting a hdd as a main drive again, im having issues with my mining rig since fitting two new cards but those issues pale in comparison to the anger hdds create just using the pc grrrr.
Rant over peace out.
 

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Well turns out people will pay for bios mods

Oh and I hate the hynix based msi 8gb cards.
 

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Well turns out people will pay for bios mods

Oh and I hate the hynix based msi 8gb cards.
580's or 480's?

I lucked out and got the Sammy memory on mine.

Check this shit out lol.. 4000 gpu's sucking a mega watt and those cooling fans pulling a shit pile too :eek:

 

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All 580's one 4gb card the rest 8gb
 
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I have come to a conclusion, im never fitting a hdd as a main drive again, im having issues with my mining rig since fitting two new cards but those issues pale in comparison to the anger hdds create just using the pc grrrr.
Rant over peace out.

yup, ssds in a miner are almost a must have. miner, driver, os updates, any reboots etc are sooo much faster. especially when your troubleshooting stuff that locks the system and you are constantly rebooting it.

i got tired of sitting by my miner for minutes at a time waiting for something to finish long ago. rig now has a m2 256 ssd, two less cables..
 

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I really need to move over to racks vs cases.

Current setups are about maxed out in their boxes, I have a 1070, 390, 980, 960 and 480 all out for RMA. Only the 390 was actually used for mining prior to. Turns out GPU's can die and have zero to do with mining.

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Why are you nervous about a seasonic power supply? And why did my rig burn up when people are running over 2x the cards I am on one board? "High resistance connection" maybe... But the connection is no better now than it was then, I'm sure, unless there was some huge (relatively) obstruction I didn't see. I guess I should just count my lucky stars nothing was damaged to the point of not working anymore, whatever happened...
 

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Why are you nervous about a seasonic power supply? And why did my rig burn up when people are running over 2x the cards I am on one board? "High resistance connection" maybe... But the connection is no better now than it was then, I'm sure, unless there was some huge (relatively) obstruction I didn't see. I guess I should just count my lucky stars nothing was damaged to the point of not working anymore, whatever happened...

Pushing way to close to the edge for a 24/7 hot box setup. 96w per 1060, 150-170w for the 980ti. We will see how it does.

As for connections I had an evga750 smoke yesterday at work with a fury/980ti in it. AC cord ate it...

End goal is simple I'm going to get four rigs running all matched gpus

6x980ti, 6x1070, 6x1060 and 6x480.
 
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So far i have seen none of you put attention to what @dorsetknob posted.
Still unsettled and uncertain about what to expect. New alt-coin spinoffs to mine, or just a period of instability to work through? Does a hard fork imply the creation of a new Bitcoin alternative? Would the difficulty start at the ground level or continue from the split? :confused:
 

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Well, I got this in my email a few days ago

Dear Coinbase Customer,

We are contacting you to make you aware of recent developments in a number of proposals for technical changes to Bitcoin. All BTC stored on Coinbase will remain safe during these events described below.

The User Activated Hard Fork (UAHF) is a proposal to increase the Bitcoin block size scheduled to activate on August 1. The UAHF is incompatible with the current Bitcoin ruleset and will create a separate blockchain. Should UAHF activate on August 1, Coinbase will not support the new blockchain or its associated coin.

The User Activated Soft Fork (UASF) is a proposal to adopt Segregated Witness on the Bitcoin blockchain and could result in network instability. It is scheduled to activate at the same time as the UAHF.

To ensure the safety of customers’ funds, we will temporarily suspend BTC deposits, withdrawals, and buy/sell starting approximately 4 hours before activation of either fork.

  • If you do not wish to have access to UAHF coins, and do not wish to access your BTC during the fork, you are not required to take any action.
  • If you do wish to have access to UAHF coins or access your BTC during the fork, you should send your BTC from Coinbase to your external address by July 31.
So evidently there's a new standard possibly being introduced to Bitcoin, and I don't know what the effect will be. What happens if this new standard is put in place? Can I still mine into my Coinbase wallet with Nicehash, or will Nicehash use the new coin while Coinbase sticks to the old one?

I can't imagine why they would create a new type of Bitcoin with a new blockchain and all that... seems like it would harm the market. :/
 
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So evidently there's a new standard possibly being introduced to Bitcoin, and I don't know what the effect will be. What happens if this new standard is put in place? Can I still mine into my Coinbase wallet with Nicehash, or will Nicehash use the new coin while Coinbase sticks to the old one?

I can't imagine why they would create a new type of Bitcoin with a new blockchain and all that... seems like it would harm the market. :/

you should move all your btc out of coinbase and into a wallet where you have control of your private keys. that way however this goes down you will have access to coins on either side of the spilt, whereas with coinbase you will only have coins on the chain they support.

you will need to do this by july 31. to be safe i would do it on or before july 30 to give enough time for coins to confirm as confirmation times are longer (temporary measure, ie 30 confirmations instead of the usual 6 to be safe)

i mine at nicehash too and send coins to my core wallet. unsure how nicehash will select the chain they will payout to, think they are sticking the the majority chain (ie the "real" btc chain). not sure how to phrase that.
 

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Where else can I sell my BTC for money? I already have Coinbase linked to my bank account, real easy. The nicehash wallet doesn't allow you to do that.
 
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Where else can I sell my BTC for money? I already have Coinbase linked to my bank account, real easy. The nicehash wallet doesn't allow you to do that.

Poloniex
Bitfinex
Kraken

Though you need to go through some authentication steps.

There's also Remitano which seems pretty easy.
 
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Where else can I sell my BTC for money? I already have Coinbase linked to my bank account, real easy. The nicehash wallet doesn't allow you to do that.
And what happened to keeping BTC because it'll be worth $500k? :p
 

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Poloniex
Bitfinex
Kraken

Though you need to go through some authentication steps.

There's also Remitano which seems pretty easy.

I'll look into those, if needed. Coinbase has authentication up the wazoo as well, so that doesn't bother me much.

And what happened to keeping BTC because it'll be worth $500k? :p

*I* never said it would be worth 500k, I mentioned that other guy did. Personally, I don't see it being worth that much.

That said, anyone know why profitability is so low compared to last month? BTC is/was close to last month's high, yet I'm still only earning around $4/day on a good day. If I had what I have last month it would have been around $10/day.
 
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That said, anyone know why profitability is so low compared to last month? BTC is/was close to last month's high, yet I'm still only earning around $4/day on a good day. If I had what I have last month it would have been around $10/day.

The coins that you exchange for BTC are being devalued due to massive selloffs for BTC. Nature of the beast.
 

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So, if Ethereum, for example, became worth $1000 tomorrow... I'd be mining it for ridiculous profit compared to now? I suspected as much.
 
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*I* never said it would be worth 500k, I mentioned that other guy did. Personally, I don't see it being worth that much.
Personally, I think no one in the world does. But some would love you to believe that.
That said, anyone know why profitability is so low compared to last month? BTC is/was close to last month's high, yet I'm still only earning around $4/day on a good day. If I had what I have last month it would have been around $10/day.
Because you're not mining BTC.
ETH was priced over $300 for most of June, even reaching $400. It's just $200 at the moment.
 

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Yeah, I figured it was something like that. I'd like to see higher but I'm okay with current profit levels I suppose... I just hope this Bitcoin fork doesn't make things hard for me.

I got an idea. My second system has a GA-770T-USB3 board, featuring one PCI-E x16 slot, and an Athlon II x4 CPU installed. I might be able to just get a PSU and some cards, avoiding the costly upgrade I had planned initially (new board, RAM, CPU). Some questions...

Firstly, would the CPU hold it back at all? I'm aware many miners have low power CPUs like Celerons, but this chip is quite old...

Secondly, there are plenty of PCI-E x1 slots. I assume I could use risers to fill it with more cards? Are USB risers necessary, or would these work? If so, why all the hype for the USB risers? The USB risers seem less convenient than what I linked to...

Alternatively, I could just chop up the x1 slots to allow plugging an in x16 card, right? This has been done before with success a long time ago.
 
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I got an idea. My second system has a GA-770T-USB3 board, featuring one PCI-E x16 slot, and an Athlon II x4 CPU installed. I might be able to just get a PSU and some cards, avoiding the costly upgrade I had planned initially (new board, RAM, CPU). Some questions...

Firstly, would the CPU hold it back at all? I'm aware many miners have low power CPUs like Celerons, but this chip is quite old...

Secondly, there are plenty of PCI-E x1 slots. I assume I could use risers to fill it with more cards? Are USB risers necessary, or would these work? If so, why all the hype for the USB risers? The USB risers seem less convenient than what I linked to...

Alternatively, I could just chop up the x1 slots to allow plugging an in x16 card, right? This has been done before with success a long time ago.

cpu most likely will work, my G1840 runs around 2-5% with 5 cards.

those ribbon pcie risers are not powered, some modern cards tend to draw more power from the slot than the older cards that were the norm when those risers were used. why risk burning it up.. search around there are plenty of pics of burned ribbon risers from the btc gpu mining days.

as for cutting a pcie 1x slot to allow a 16x card in, the pcie x1 power spec is 25 watts. 16x is 75 watts. so while the card may fit in a cutout x1 slot im not sure if it would provide enough power. probably depends on the card.
 

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I see, hence the popularity of the USB risers. They take additional power from a molex or SATA connection.

So, beefy PSU and USB risers will work in my aging secondary rig with the Athlon II x4 and GA-770T-USB3? I believe the PCI-E x1 slots are PCI-E 1.0, while the x16 slot is 2.0. Does that matter?
 
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So, beefy PSU and USB risers will work in my aging secondary rig with the Athlon II x4 and GA-770T-USB3? I believe the PCI-E x1 slots are PCI-E 1.0, while the x16 slot is 2.0. Does that matter?

pcie ver 1 or 2 is no problem. many miners deliberately set the pcie slots to ver 1 or 2 anyway.

on the mobo no guarantees, some older mobos can be picky with multiple videocards and that board never expected more than one. but that one seems like it was a decent one at the time, so that helps. make sure the bios is the latest.

as for cpu ive run a dual core e7400 (much weaker than your 4 core athlon) in a miner with no probs so that should be fine.

recommend 8 gigs ram, although some get away with 4. will need a 64 bit OS, there are free *nix based mining OSs that are pretty much preconfigured for mining and run from usb, boot and go for the most part. or any old HD will do also. or run win7 or win10 64 bit.

buy a GOOD psu, i use evga g2 series. for usb risers use ver 6 or ver 7 risers (there are many old version risers floating around dont bother with them).
 
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System Name Starlifter :: Dragonfly
Processor i7 2600k 4.4GHz :: i5 10400
Motherboard ASUS P8P67 Pro :: ASUS Prime H570-Plus
Cooling Cryorig M9 :: Stock
Memory 4x4GB DDR3 2133 :: 2x8GB DDR4 2400
Video Card(s) PNY GTX1070 :: Integrated UHD 630
Storage Crucial MX500 1TB, 2x1TB Seagate RAID 0 :: Mushkin Enhanced 60GB SSD, 3x4TB Seagate HDD RAID5
Display(s) Onn 165hz 1080p :: Acer 1080p
Case Antec SOHO 1030B :: Old White Full Tower
Audio Device(s) Creative X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Pro - Bose Companion 2 Series III :: None
Power Supply FSP Hydro GE 550w :: EVGA Supernova 550
Software Windows 10 Pro - Plex Server on Dragonfly
Benchmark Scores >9000
I'll probably upgrade the PSU in my main rig, get two 1080s, and put the 1070s with my current Corsair VX600w in the second rig. It's only got 2 gigs of ram though but all it will be doing is mining... I guess we'll see how that goes.

First I need to be able to afford the PSU, though.

Speaking of PSU, about that burned up 24 pin... it seems much more reliable now than it did before. I haven't had any crashes and I've been able to shut down and restart without trouble, but I still don't like those burnt up ends. How hard would it be to cut the ends off those two wires, pull them a little bit, and replace the ends with a sacrificial molex pin or something?
 
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