Riding the Crypto wave

[xkm1948]

So get some applications going, ~5 bucks in a day minus power cost. I assume that is 24x7?

 

[yotano211]

I have been thinking about setting something like that up in a shed. We will see how pricing holds out and how profitability looks in a couple of months. If it is still up expect an open air frame and a shed with forced air cooling.

Get that $20 shelf from Home depot and lots of zip ties. The 1st open air frame I bought from someone off ebay cost me $105. Lesson learned....

 

[silkstone]

These pics are basically useless, but it is three of them I moved the PSU around since it is what I was using for peak consumption testing. Parts are mostly out of my closet so far I have all of $250-300 invested...Fighting with temps on the Z170 box, even with two 255CFM Delta's push/pull on the video cards garage stays too warm for the middle card. At night with the temp drop it is fine. Also finding RDP to be a bit of a pain for managing GPU's. Can't read temps most of the time, can't adjust clocks/volts such a pain.

I will post some actual running pics when I have them all together and good.

Supermicro S5 Platinum
Supermicro C7Z170-SQ
I7 6700T (stock cooler)
Corsair 2x8GB DDR4 3000
256GB PM951
2x Diamond R9 290X
1x Gigabyte R9 390
Antec TPQ-1200

This averages about $15 a day, cost $2.25 to run if my math is correct.

Supermicro S5 Platinum
Gigabyte X99m Gaming 5
i7 6850K (intel BXTS13A)
2x8GB Corsair 3200 (pulled from an unused HTPC)
128GB Samsung CM871
2x Gigabyte Windforce 3 980Ti
Antec TPQ-1000

Waiting on HSF for the CPU on this one, will be up in the next day or so. Should pull $8-10 a day and cost $1.15 to run

Supermicro S5 Platinum
Asrock X99 Extreme 4 USB3.1
i7 5820K (intel BXTS13A)
2x8GB Samsung 2133 OEM
128GB Toshiba Q300
1x EVGA FTW 980Ti
1x Diamond R9 290
Antec TPQ-1000

This one does $8-10 a day, cost $1.20 to run.

I have some other stuff running, but it is at no cost so I wont mention it.

Nice setup. I wanted to do this back in 2009 with bitcoin, but things were tight and my wife thought there were 'more important' things to spend our money on. I still kick myself as back then I was earning 0.5 BTC/day with a single video card.
I'm mining ETH with my 1060 at the moment and it gets about $100 a month, if I run it full time. I'll likely switch out what I make in ETH to Zcash and keep it for a few years. I'm not expecting to make even the tiniest fraction of what I could have in BTC as It's more of a hobby than a money making thing now.

 

[cdawall]

So get some applications going, ~5 bucks in a day minus power cost. I assume that is 24x7?

Yes it should basically match my 290X...

Get that $20 shelf from Home depot and lots of zip ties. The 1st open air frame I bought from someone off ebay cost me $105. Lesson learned....

I have been looking at DIY shelves that are a little less zip tied, but still cheap. This is purely a me wanting to do things kind of thing.

Nice setup. I wanted to do this back in 2009 with bitcoin, but things were tight and my wife thought there were 'more important' things to spend our money on. I still kick myself as back then I was earning 0.5 BTC/day with a single video card.
I'm mining ETH with my 1060 at the moment and it gets about $100 a month, if I run it full time. I'll likely switch out what I make in ETH to Zcash and keep it for a few years. I'm not expecting to make even the tiniest fraction of what I could have in BTC as It's more of a hobby than a money making thing now.

I did it way back in the day, but fell into the same issue as you. Man I wish I would have just left my box of cards going the whole time back then. Money was tight and we had to do other things with it. A stack of cards running 24/7 back then and I could be a millionaire now.

 

[yotano211]

Yes it should basically match my 290X...

I have been looking at DIY shelves that are a little less zip tied, but still cheap. This is purely a me wanting to do things kind of thing.



I did it way back in the day, but fell into the same issue as you. Man I wish I would have just left my box of cards going the whole time back then. Money was tight and we had to do other things with it. A stack of cards running 24/7 back then and I could be a millionaire now.

a little less zip tied frames are very expensive or you could do what I did and make a wooden frame, that cost me about 7.50 in material but a sore back. this self was only 19.99 plus tax and much easier to build.

 

[yotano211]

this is 6 1060 3gb mining etheruem, please understand this is all stock and I just started. I still need to overclock the memory and underclock the gpu core

 

[cdawall]

a little less zip tied frames are very expensive or you could do what I did and make a wooden frame, that cost me about 7.50 in material but a sore back. this self was only 19.99 plus tax and much easier to build.

That is what it would end up being. Riser cables and a wooden or aluminum strapping frame.

this is 6 1060 3gb mining etheruem, please understand this is all stock and I just started. I still need to overclock the memory and underclock the gpu core





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That really isn't bad considering their power consumption. That is a good hair shy of the 470 by itself, good to know where they stand I was curious.

This is what my non-BIOS modded 470 does.

This is just a light clock on the memory and 125w power consumption. The second card is a 290 with a hefty memory clock and some core clock since it didn't affect power consumption when testing.

 

[yotano211]

This is 625 overclock on the memory, don't know if it 100%stable but I will push it harder right now.

that is very low for a rx470, 20mh/s, all of my do 22 without bios mod.

 

[silkstone]

this is 6 1060 3gb mining etheruem, please understand this is all stock and I just started. I still need to overclock the memory and underclock the gpu core





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So ETH mining doesn't rely on high GPU core speeds? I'm getting 21-23 MH/s on a 1060 @ 2075 Core and +520 mem

 

[cdawall]

This is 625 overclock on the memory, don't know if it 100%stable but I will push it harder right now.

that is very low for a rx470, 20mh/s, all of my do 22 without bios mod.




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Curious what are the settings you are running for it? This is a strix card which seems to like to throttle. With power pushed higher it does 22MH/s fine, but didn't seem to make up for the extra power.

 

[yotano211]

Curious what are the settings you are running for it? This is a strix card which seems to like to throttle. With power pushed higher it does 22MH/s fine, but didn't seem to make up for the extra power.

I leave the memory stock and underclock the gpu core to 1040. the hash rate stays the same and power draw is less much. with 6 rx470s like that it will draw about 845watts from a 1000w evga gold rate psu, rated with a kill-a-watt thing

 

[yotano211]

So ETH mining doesn't rely on high GPU core speeds? I'm getting 21-23 MH/s on a 1060 @ 2075 Core and +520 mem

is that with a 1060 3gb or 6gb? I am curious to try the 6gb version

 

[yotano211]

800 overclock on the memory, I don't think it will go higher or it might crazy, I have no experience with nvdia memory overclock on desktop only on laptops. with my 1070 on my laptop, the memory will crash at around 450mhz

 

[silkstone]

I did it way back in the day, but fell into the same issue as you. Man I wish I would have just left my box of cards going the whole time back then. Money was tight and we had to do other things with it. A stack of cards running 24/7 back then and I could be a millionaire now.

Misery enjoys company

I just tell myself that I would have certainly sold most of it when the price hit it's first spike at $200-300. I'm not a gambling type of person (after winning $10k and loosing it the same evening during the online casino bubble) and I know I would have wanted to take the $$$ and run at that point. I'd then have been kicking myself even harder when a couple of weeks later it hit $1K

is that with a 1060 3gb or 6gb? I am curious to try the 6gb version

It's the 6 gb version. Ethermin.ord reports a 25 MH/s effective rate with the overclock, though I don't think it gets that high, the highest I've seen Claymore's miner report is 24 MH/s

 

[yotano211]

Misery enjoys company

I just tell myself that I would have certainly sold most of it when the price hit it's first spike at $200-300. I'm not a gambling type of person (after winning $10k and loosing it the same evening during the online casino bubble) and I know I would have wanted to take the $$$ and run at that point. I'd then have been kicking myself even harder when a couple of weeks later it hit $1K



It's the 6 gb version. Ethermin.ord reports a 25 MH/s effective rate with the overclock, though I don't think it gets that high, the highest I've seen Claymore's miner report is 24 MH/s

how high can you overclock the memory on your 6gb card, does 800mhz overclock seem like a lot or go for broke

 

[yotano211]

6 1060 with 800mhz overclock on the memory darws 728watts on a kill-a-watt device, 6 rx470 draws 840watts at stock speed

 

[silkstone]

how high can you overclock the memory on your 6gb card, does 800mhz overclock seem like a lot or go for broke

I'm conservative with my memory overclocks and just do +520 Mhz. I've had my share of Videocards where the memory has died due to overclocks. Core overclocking is forgiving, memory, not so much.

 

[yotano211]

I'm conservative with my memory overclocks and just do +520 Mhz. I've had my share of Videocards where the memory has died due to overclocks. Core overclocking is forgiving, memory, not so much.

I just did a 1000mhz overclock on the memory and its still stable. I think I will leave it at 700mhz, is that too high for these pascal cards.

 

[Toothless]

So like, how does this all work? I'm tempted to let my 1080TI try a few rounds but I use my rig pretty heavily when I'm home.

 

[yotano211]

So like, how does this all work? I'm tempted to let my 1080TI try a few rounds but I use my rig pretty heavily when I'm home.

I wouldnt even try it on much a expensive card. I think a TI would bring in 10-$12 per day but running all day.

 

[silkstone]

So like, how does this all work? I'm tempted to let my 1080TI try a few rounds but I use my rig pretty heavily when I'm home.

In a nutshell, you download a program and run it from a command prompt, The coins are sent to your wallet at a regular interval. It's much easier than it used to be.

Edit - Minergate even has a program that make it more like Folding/Crunching. I go through the command line though as it wasn't giving me such a high hash rate.

 

[cdawall]

Nice hash uses the same miners that you run from command line, but adds a gui to launch everything. It is probably the easiest to run. You can get $16 a day running the correct miner with a 1080ti, but that one is an oddball and is command line only. I mine in nice hash with mine and it get $8 or so.

 

[r9]

I've done it with four machines 4 years ago for like three months.
1000$ extra a month sounds great.
It sound simple but trust me its real work keeping them up and running.

Picture time...
The 1st picture is the 1st mining machine I built and 1st computer I ever built. So this not only makes me some extra cash since I am bored most of the day just it taught me some skills. I paid too much for the open air frame. Every other picture is just a $20 double stack shelf from Home Depot.
@Norton thz for the monitor, its being used every day. Its on the last picture.

What can I say I just love wires .

So what is the most profitable crypto currency to mine with GPU this days ?

 

[cdawall]

So what is the most profitable crypto currency to mine with GPU this days ?

Ethereum or zcash depending on the day

 

[r9]

Ethereum or zcash depending on the day

And how hard is it to sell it ?
What is the fee ?
What are the proffered cards AMD or NVIDIA ?