Riding the Crypto wave

[Halo3Addict]

I was able to hit around 20MH/s dual mining GTX 1060 6GB. Not sure the effects dual mining has on hash rates

I have 4 other GTX 1060s 6GB and will probably buy another when I find a decent one to fill out my MB. At these rates it's around $250/month profit, including electricity costs. The whole rig cost a little under $2k

I'm having fun on a new project

 

[cdawall]

I'm still at 22mh/s on mine dual mining

 

[trog100]

Trog, is your head ready to explode yet since you arent neutering your cards?

Maybe they now know they are alive!

i am doing exactly the same.. not exactly neutering the cards but fine tuning to generate no more heat than they have to..

i can run nicehash on my gaming rig.. the two 980 TI cards generate about $3.2 dollars per day.. the top card gets a bit toasty though and they use too much leccy for what they generate.. he he

even well spaced out in an open air frame heat transfers from one card to another.. each card in the row runs a little hotter than the one next to it as you move along the row..

i am thinking that 60 C with the fans at %50 is an ideal temp to aim at for 24.7 running.. purely a guess though..

i only have three cards running at the moment.. they are pulling 400 watts from the wall.. powering up the other three will make it about 750 watts from the wall.. roughly 115 watts per card..

from what i see so far this should generate about $12 dollars per day.. i have space for 8 cards in the rig.. i am seeing $2 dollars per day from each card..

whether or not its worth spending another £800 quid to fill the rig up i aint made my mind up yet.. part of me says it is part of me says it aint..

at new UK hardware prices it would take a £4000 outlay to generate $16 dollars per day.. or $5840 per year.. i am not exactly wowed.. he he..

forgive my use of UK pounds and US dollars for those that dont know a pound is worth about 1.25 US dollars.. i tend to think in pounds and in dollars just add or take off a bit in my head.. i recon most UK folks do..

i will post a pic of my rig later..

trog

 

[notb]

i recon we need a reality check here.. $3050 per month sounds very impressive.. but.. looking at the figures i am getting.. $360 per month for an initial hardware outlay cost of £3200 dosnt look so impressive..

That's simply because some people here can't calculate properly. They are looking at a large time window and they're seeing these impressive returns. Simple fact is: today you're earning much less than you would 2 months ago. Simple as that. And it's very likely to go down even further.

I'm still at 500mh/s and 5000sol/s on my setup haven't really seen any profitability changes with DAG140

That's because you're not looking at the figure you should. DAG will affect your hashrate, but difficulty is something different - it measures how much ETH you're getting for your hashrate. Look at this: block time vs difficulty.
https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/confirmationtime-difficulty-eth.html
Every 20 days there is a sudden jump in block time. As a result the overall difficulty is increasing.
Yes, your hashrate is the same, but it's resulting in 2.4 times less ETH than it did on 26th of June.

 

[trog100]

nicehash makes it obvious with its estimated dollars (money tokens) per day figure.. without that i can see why some folks aint seeing the true picture..

and as notb quite rightly says its likely to get worse..

but apart from buying silver coin there is f-ck all else i would chuck spare cash at.. everything is over valued in a bubble and just waiting to pop.. when it pops the rush for the "get out" door will be quite spectacular..

trog

 

[notb]

nicehash makes it obvious with its estimated dollars (money tokens) per day figure.. without that i can see why some folks aint seeing the true picture..

nicehash is still a company that wants to draw you to mining, not an objective information source...
At some point I considered joining the mining "hobby", so I sampled nicehash's calculator results for a while. Of course I also wanted to check how these numbers are calculated. It turned out that e.g. ROI (the value that people look at the most) is calculated using a 30-day average, so even if you replace the GPU price by something more realistic, you're getting a rubbish estimation. I mentioned it here in one of the posts.
The information how ROI is calculated is not put anywhere on the site - you have to go through the source.

Also notice how currently they are showing you just the past 30 days on the chart - even though they call it "All" and the site is old enough to have a much longer history. If they'd show 3 months, it would be obvious how much the profitability dropped.

 

[trog100]

i have not looked at ROI notb i can figure that out for myself.. lets just say its a f-cking long time..

but i have hit another problem..

i am using an Asus Z270 prime A motherboard one recommended for mining..

i have looked at several google vids.. they all say to enable 4G decoding in the bios and show it being done.. no problem..

the snag is even with the latest bios loaded i am not seeing the f-cking 4G enable/disable option.. it is just not f-cking there.. he he

its definitely the latest bios about a month old..

all six cards show up in windows but two are not working.. pretty much as it should be without the 4G decoding enabled..

anyone have any ideas..

trog

ps.. problem solved.. the 4G option aint where the internet says it is.. he he.. on my motherboard with the latest bios Asus as decided to move it to the "BOOT" section.. probably a better place for it but not when all available information says it somewhere f-cking else..

 

[111frodon]

Update for everyone: check your rigs to be sure to include cryptonight in your nicehash benchmark. All my three rigs running r9 290/x just switched from dual mining ethereum/decred to cryptonight, for an increase of around 10% production wise.

My observations so far: temps are lower, the computer lags a lot more when surfing for example and power consumption is way lower.

Suddently monero seems attractive!

Edit: my 290x gets 800 H/s, the 7970 is good for 465 H.

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

Update for everyone: check your rigs to be sure to include cryptonight in your nicehash benchmark. All my three rigs running r9 290/x just switched from dual mining ethereum/decred to cryptonight, for an increase of around 10% production wise.

My observations so far: temps are lower, the computer lags a lot more when surfing for example and power consumption is way lower.

Suddently monero seems attractive!

Edit: my 290x gets 800 H/s, the 7970 is good for 465 H.

Are you saying crypto night now runs on your gpus too?

 

[111frodon]

Are you saying crypto night now runs on your gpus too?

I have a r9 290, r9 290x, 7970 and rx 480 all running cryptonight at the moment. They all stopped ethereum to switch to crypto. God bless nicehash! That's why i said to benchmark all crypto-currency when installing nicehash so it can switch whenever it is profitable.

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

I have a r9 290, r9 290x, 7970 and rx 480 all running cryptonight at the moment. They all stopped ethereum to switch to crypto. God bless nicehash! That's why i said to benchmark all crypto-currency when installing nicehash so it can switch whenever it is profitable.

Yes i do bench them all but cryptonight only shows for cpu on the legacy 1.8 version when I ran them, what version are you running.
Ill look into it though

Running fine on my all amd rig but not in the list on my Nvidia rigs ,might just be my setup.

But the amd rig perked a fair bit thanks.

F#@@£n mining , my main rig just spat out its samy 840 evo 500Gb , isn't seen by the bios anymore.
This is a few things on the trot now , i cant even remember where i bought it from never mind where the receipt is.

 

[111frodon]

I'm using 1.7.5.13 I think and it shows on all gpu: one sgminer and one claymore. The claymore does better on Hawaii and Tahiti uses the sgminer one. And the difference in production is now around 20% up!

Don't forget the huge drop in power consumption!

 

[Divide Overflow]

I'm using 1.7.5.13 I think and it shows on all gpu: one sgminer and one claymore. The claymore does better on Hawaii and Tahiti uses the sgminer one. And the difference in production is now around 20% up!

Don't forget the huge drop in power consumption!

CryptoNight should be for your CPU only. Are you sure the huge drop in power consumption isn't because your GPU has stopping mining?

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

CryptoNight should be for your CPU only. Are you sure the huge drop in power consumption isn't because your GPU has stopping mining?

He's right on that but oddly i can only get it to show on one miner ,my amd one , with a copy of 1.7.53 on another 3 rig the algos don't show up for the gpus in their options.

 

[111frodon]

CryptoNight should be for your CPU only. Are you sure the huge drop in power consumption isn't because your GPU has stopping mining?

I'm positive that the gpus are mining and use 50-60 watts less each.

Maybe just the amd gpus can do it?

 

[Divide Overflow]

I'm positive that the gpus are mining and use 50-60 watts less each.

Maybe just the amd gpus can do it?

I have a 290x and never saw CryptoKnight appear as an option for it, only on the CPU.

 

[111frodon]

I have a 290x and never saw CryptoKnight appear as an option for it, only on the CPU.

I don't know what to say. I'm using 15.12 for drivers, and 1.7.5.13 for nicehash. Did you go into the settings to be sure all currency are enabled?

 

[notb]

F#@@£n mining , my main rig just spat out its samy 840 evo 500Gb , isn't seen by the bios anymore.
This is a few things on the trot now , i cant even remember where i bought it from never mind where the receipt is.

Why would you use such an expensive SSD for mining rig? Mining PCs are known to fail.
If I was mining, I'd use and old HDD or an SD card...

Are you saying crypto night now runs on your gpus too?

It has always ran on GPUs - it's just that the algo is suitable for both CPU and GPU. And since profitability on GPUs was so poor, no one cared.
It all changed just a moment ago:
https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/size-price-xmr.html#1y
I don't know the reason, but the result is interesting. It this Cryptonight profitability stays, a Ryzen 1700 will make more than 1050Ti. Of course GPU is still a better idea for large farms, but mining on one's single PC suddenly got a significant boost.

Edit:
A large Korean crypto exchange started accepting Monero - that's why the price went up.
https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/monero-price-just-pierced-100-heres-whats-fueling-record-rally/

 

[r9]

Why would you use such an expensive SSD for mining rig? Mining PCs are known to fail.
If I was mining, I'd use and old HDD or an SD card...


It has always ran on GPUs - it's just that the algo is suitable for both CPU and GPU. And since profitability on GPUs was so poor, no one cared.
It all changed just a moment ago:
https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/size-price-xmr.html#1y
I don't know the reason, but the result is interesting. It this Cryptonight profitability stays, a Ryzen 1700 will make more than 1050Ti. Of course GPU is still a better idea for large farms, but mining on one's single PC suddenly got a significant boost.

Edit:
A large Korean crypto exchange started accepting Monero - that's why the price went up.
https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/monero-price-just-pierced-100-heres-whats-fueling-record-rally/

I know you are mining.
Just waiting for you to come out of the closet.

 

[notb]

I know you are mining.
Just waiting for you to come out of the closet.

Of course I'm mining. I mentioned that in another thread (6th August):

And BTW: I've just started mining! :-D

And just look at my monstrous mining farm: GTX 1050 and i5-7500. GPU ran for maybe 100h. CPU for a day or so.
I'm not doing this for profit. Well... at least not a profit from mining itself.

 

[Divide Overflow]

I don't know what to say. I'm using 15.12 for drivers, and 1.7.5.13 for nicehash. Did you go into the settings to be sure all currency are enabled?

Sure enough, they are listed there even in 1.8.1.1 but had been deselected for being so inefficient. Enabling them has me running CryptoNight too. Thanks for the head's up!

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

Of course I'm mining. I mentioned that in another thread (6th August):


And just look at my monstrous mining farm: GTX 1050 and i5-7500. GPU ran for maybe 100h. CPU for a day or so.
I'm not doing this for profit. Well... at least not a profit from mining itself.

That was my main rig like I said it mines like it folded with an ssd so when it games its nice to use.
Your also using a normal rig dude , mines at least go the cooling for it not that yours hasn't.

 

[111frodon]

Sure enough, they are listed there even in 1.8.1.1 but had been deselected for being so inefficient. Enabling them has me running CryptoNight too. Thanks for the head's up!

That's why I'm always benching them all on precise mode. Takes a LONG time, but after that you're all set!

 

[hat]

Yeah, I guess benchmarking in precise mode has its benefits. The more accurate those benchmarks are, the more accurate Nicehash will be when determining which algorithm to run for the best profitability. That's how it chooses what to run, based on your benchmark scores.

It looks like the newest version of Nicehash now supports dual mining. I'm currently running both DaggerHashimoto and Decred. It's a nice little bump in the earnings.

 

[111frodon]

Yeah, I guess benchmarking in precise mode has its benefits. The more accurate those benchmarks are, the more accurate Nicehash will be when determining which algorithm to run for the best profitability. That's how it chooses what to run, based on your benchmark scores.

It looks like the newest version of Nicehash now supports dual mining. I'm currently running both DaggerHashimoto and Decred. It's a nice little bump in the earnings.

At the moment you should be mining cryptonight. Are you sure they are enabled in the settings tabs? My rigs dumped dual dagger/decred for crypto a few hours ago...