Riding the Crypto wave

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

Precise ends up slamming the gpu driver and once pulls back the cards @100% even after the miner is turned off..

It was more of an experiment then anything else but thanks.. I wonder how much electricity I wasted last night letting it bench and have it fail...

Well on reasonable settings of 1100core@1080mv 1100 memory and 5% power slider mine earns £2.40 (41-42mh/+86mh/s?? not 100% on that)sa day and pulls about 180-195 watts for that i calculated it costs about 67p-90p a day to run but that's just the gpu.

After checking its dagger/lybri on Claymore or crypto night on Claymore that pay atm

 

[phill]

I was going to say for 6 GPU's running ETC/ETH I'm pulling about 760w from the wall, but when I run Cryptonight it pulls 630w.. That's including all the extra fans I have in the system and the 18 fans that are on the cards.. I work it as a 15p a unit (roughly) and then I work it out to being about £1.60 a day.. Thing is running ETC and ETH the payout is absolute rubbish.. I think if I mine 1/4 of an ETC coin, I can pocket about $2 lol For Cryptonight I can get at least 4 or 5 times that amount at the moment... Shocking....

 

[trog100]

my 8 x 1070 card rig pulls around 1200 watts from the wall.. just letting nicehash do its own thing its producing around 18 dollars per day.. or just over .002 BTC per day..

my dollar return has gone up a bit... my bitcoin return has gone down a lot.. as the price goes up the amount you get for whatever nicehash is mining goes down..

my two card desktop machine produces close to 5 dollars per day but that does include the cpu mining as well..

my machines mostly mine equihash or dagger/decred.. both have become more profitable..

in the nearly three months they have been mining my wallet shows $2300 -ish or between 1/4 and 1/3 bitcoin..

i am quite happy with what i am seeing.. but a large chunk of my wallet comes from bitcoin going up in price.. mining on its own aint worth much..

trog

 

[phill]

I think you have a slightly better return from the 8 1070's as I think mine's getting about .00015 ish or so, depending if I let it run all day or not (trying to get a pay out from ETC at the moment so most of the time I run that for the moment) I'm still using Cryptonight but yeah mining will take about 2 years constantly to gain myself a Bitcoin.. But it's still much more profitable than ETH or ETC..

 

[trog100]

the thing is phil nobody knows just what one single bitcoin will be worth in two years time.. he he

at the rate you and i are mining them we may never get a whole one..

i recon i will have 1/3 of one coin by christmas.. purely guesswork on my part but i recon my stash will be at $3500 and one bitcoin will be worth £10.000 but who the f-ck knows..


trog

 

[phill]

Damn true Trog... Plus 6 RX 480 cards v 8 1070 cards, little bit more of a performance difference I think I think the average hashrate for the 6 cards are about 4.5kH/s...? What sort of speeds are you hitting Trog with 8 1070's?

 

[trog100]

i am not quite sure how to measure them phil.. currently my desktop rig (two cards) is showing $6.6 dollars (very high) and 879 H/s in equihash (normal) ..

the $6.6 dollars has now gone up to $6.73.. why.. i havnt a clue..

trog

 

[phill]

I thought on the running screen when you load NiceHash, it shows the hashrate as an average over the GPU's you have installed in the system? I think it's top left where you have an average on the right and then a 5 second rate on the left hand side?

Do you have just Nivida cards Trog? No AMD's if I recall? (I can't remember if I have asked the question or not! My apologises if I have!)

 

[Papahyooie]

I'm going to be picking up another GPU soon (basically putting my earnings into more cards to kind of snowball effect.) I'm using nicehash, and 99% of the time it's mining with equihash. I'm looking at grabbing a 1060. Does anyone have any experience with whether or not it is worth it to wait and spend a bit more on a 6gb model? Or is the 3gb model fine? From what I've been reading, it seems the 6gb is only very slightly faster than the 3gb. Then again, I remember for some currencies at least, 3gb is a dangerous investment because they won't be able to mine soon. (But I think this was only for ETH maybe?) I see so much different information out on the web. Any advice?

 

[phill]

Hey Trog, I think the Bitcoin value might be helping us with the mining this week!! Sadly I'm finishing off mining ETC to get the next payout and then I'm stopping and switching to NiceHash again.. I think I'll be steering clear of ETC and ETH...

 

[silkstone]

I'm going to be picking up another GPU soon (basically putting my earnings into more cards to kind of snowball effect.) I'm using nicehash, and 99% of the time it's mining with equihash. I'm looking at grabbing a 1060. Does anyone have any experience with whether or not it is worth it to wait and spend a bit more on a 6gb model? Or is the 3gb model fine? From what I've been reading, it seems the 6gb is only very slightly faster than the 3gb. Then again, I remember for some currencies at least, 3gb is a dangerous investment because they won't be able to mine soon. (But I think this was only for ETH maybe?) I see so much different information out on the web. Any advice?

I did the same, but got a 1080Ti, cashed out $300 worth. I'm debating whether or not to sell the 1080 I have, or just sell 2 months of profits to make up the difference amount of cash I put down. My other problem at the moment, is that the 1080 in the case with the 1080Ti really stifles airflow and while my 1080 will stick to 65C at the hashrate I want, the 1080Ti is up at 78C and 600 Sol/s (with a house fan blowing over them) compared to 68C and 720 Sol/s with good airflow. I really need to get a big Z68/Z77 board with more space between the x16 slots. I found one for about $60, but I really don't want to invest any more more money right now

Nvidia cards generally earn as much from mining ZEC as ETH. For ZEC there is no NAG, so no memory limitations.

I get around 270 sol/s on my 1060 3gb at 85% TDP. For me, it was a no-brainer. A 3gb card was $220 where a 6gb card was ~$330. As I won't really game on it, the difference in memory makes no difference to me and it is a nice little HTPC card.

 

[Papahyooie]

I did the same, but got a 1080Ti, cashed out $300 worth. I'm debating whether or not to sell the 1080 I have, or just sell 2 months of profits to make up the difference amount of cash I put down. My other problem at the moment, is that the 1080 in the case with the 1080Ti really stifles airflow and while my 1080 will stick to 65C at the hashrate I want, the 1080Ti is up at 78C and 600 Sol/s (with a house fan blowing over them) compared to 68C and 720 Sol/s with good airflow. I really need to get a big Z68/Z77 board with more space between the x16 slots. I found one for about $60, but I really don't want to invest any more more money right now

Nvidia cards generally earn as much from mining ZEC as ETH. For ZEC there is no NAG, so no memory limitations.

I get around 270 sol/s on my 1060 3gb at 85% TDP. For me, it was a no-brainer. A 3gb card was $220 where a 6gb card was ~$330. As I won't really game on it, the difference in memory makes no difference to me and it is a nice little HTPC card.

Yea that makes sense since ZEC has no DAG that has to be held in memory. I'm thinking I'll probably go ahead and get a 3gb to start the snowball running quicker.

For your temp problems, an easy and cheap way would be to get PCI-express risers and hang them on something outside the case. That way you can spread them out at will and make sure they get enough fresh air.

 

[cdawall]

So I did a thing. Best $55 I have spent in a long time.

 

[phill]

Did it help with the temps??

 

[cdawall]

Yep turns out directed airflow and being evenly spaced is a good thing?

 

[phill]

I have a few fans like you have your bigger fan there, seems to work very well for the temps, max of around 40 ish depending on coin and ambient

Only question is, how much does the fan cost to run?? lol

 

[EdInk]

QUOTE="cdawall, post: 3748385, member: 28601"]It is definitely affected by memory clocks.

1070 pulls a full 100h/s more than a 1080.[/QUOTE]

How does your GTX1080 pull 86W?

 

[cdawall]

How does your GTX1080 pull 86W?

It is mining cryptonight which is more memory intensive than anything else. Those cards were also heavily tweaked for power efficiency vs clock rate. I think they were running 50-55% TDP in that because it made no hashrate difference.

 

[yotano211]

It is mining cryptonight which is more memory intensive than anything else. Those cards were also heavily tweaked for power efficiency vs clock rate. I think they were running 50-55% TDP in that because it made no hashrate difference.

Wow that low. The 1070s I have mining ETH are at 70% TDP. 6 1070s pull 760watts at 70% with 1200w psu gold rated

 

[cdawall]

Wow that low. The 1070s I have mining ETH are at 70% TDP. 6 1070s pull 760watts at 70% with 1200w psu gold rated

It is just that algo. The 1070's are a little higher in it because the memory is faster and the GPU is utilized more a 1080 performs just better than a 1060 in cryptonight and wattage about matches that.

 

[silkstone]

Yea that makes sense since ZEC has no DAG that has to be held in memory. I'm thinking I'll probably go ahead and get a 3gb to start the snowball running quicker.

For your temp problems, an easy and cheap way would be to get PCI-express risers and hang them on something outside the case. That way you can spread them out at will and make sure they get enough fresh air.

Yeah, I don't really want to go with an external setup for just 1-2 cards yet. I'm going to see if the ASRock board I was looking at is still available this weekend: https://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Z68 Extreme4/index.asp.

It can switch the positions of the 1080 and 1080Ti in that which should allow better airflow as the 1080ti is like 2.5 slots vs. the 2 slots of the 1080.

I wish I could go earlier, but the weekend is the only time I can get to where that guy lives

 

[hat]

I'm going to be picking up another GPU soon (basically putting my earnings into more cards to kind of snowball effect.) I'm using nicehash, and 99% of the time it's mining with equihash. I'm looking at grabbing a 1060. Does anyone have any experience with whether or not it is worth it to wait and spend a bit more on a 6gb model? Or is the 3gb model fine? From what I've been reading, it seems the 6gb is only very slightly faster than the 3gb. Then again, I remember for some currencies at least, 3gb is a dangerous investment because they won't be able to mine soon. (But I think this was only for ETH maybe?) I see so much different information out on the web. Any advice?

I'm no expert but I think the 1060 3gb will do fine for equihash. You are right, ETH (DaggerHashimoto) is the very vram intensive one.

 

[yotano211]

The current calculator says that you should be fine with a 3gb 1060 until April of 2018.

 

[trog100]

"the thing is phil nobody knows just what one single bitcoin will be worth in two years time.. he he

at the rate you and i are mining them we may never get a whole one..

i recon i will have 1/3 of one coin by christmas.. purely guesswork on my part but i recon my stash will be at $3500 and one bitcoin will be worth £10.000 but who the f-ck knows.."

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to quote myself from just a few days back..

the figures have changed a little .. my bitcoin stash is now at $3300 dollars and a bitcoin is currently just under $11000 dollars..

by Christmas a bitcoin could be at $15000 dollars and my stash maybe at $6000 dollars.. its easily possible.. he he

trog

ps.. bitcoin has gone up by a $1000 in less than one day.. which means my 1/3 of a bitcoin stash has gone up by around $300 dollars.. the money isnt in mining this sh-t.. its simply in owning it..

 

[phill]

It sure is, but I plan on just mining it since as you point out, what it might be worth or could be worth might not be worth a penny.. At least mining it won't cost me too much but it might take a while to gain a bit of a share in it lol

How much are you making a day now? Still the same amount??