Cryptocurrency Mining

srothman said:
Reminds me of a funny story, completely unrelated, but you guys will appreciate it;

So many years ago I was working as a data center engineer, and we were busy moving racks and stacking equipment. There was one particular rack that just wouldn't budge, and I turned to the junior techie who was all too eager to help to hear his thoughts on the matter. He enthusiastically participated, asking "Perhaps the bolts are damaged, and that's why they won't come loose?". I explained all we needed was a little bit of elbow grease.

We battled for a while longer, said techie nowhere to be found. A couple of minutes later I get a phone call from the store foreman on duty, trying to clarify a requisition that was submitted to him: "Hi. I have **** here, and he's trying to book out a can of elbow grease"

I giggled, told the foreman to send him back with a bottle of Q-20.

Today he is a very successful and accomplished engineer, and to this day still known as Mr. Elbow Grease :)
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That's Flippen funny. Hey you gotta learn someway or another
 
hi guys, will the Biostar DCBTC2 pcie expansion card work on other brand mobos, has any1 tried it?
 
Zotac cards for mining? Specifically the 1080 mini?

MSI Armor about R500- more expensive per card.
 
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manicminer said:
Is that a general rule with the minis? I imagine the overall smaller / more compact board plus smaller heatsink would be a factor.
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That's the only thing that has me wondering too.

Although, when I look at the cards, the Zotac and the MSI, although smaller, it has the same amount of fans and look physically more or less the same, although I guess the MSI has less stuff in the way that could influence airflow.
 
dj2381 said:
So I had a quick look on nicehash this morning, 6 x 1070 = R306pd after power costs, 4 x 1080ti = R312pd after power costs, so its a pretty close race, my only worry would be what kind of PSU I would need for the 4 x 1080ti, the pricing of 4 x 1080ti vs 6 x 1070 is also pretty close.

Edit: My 1080ti in my gaming rig was actually showing R116pd this morning.
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Payrate is alot higher than normal at moment tho atleast 2x more per day
1070ti x5 is gigabyte
1070ti x2 is asus strix advance


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manicminer said:
Is that a general rule with the minis? I imagine the overall smaller / more compact board plus smaller heatsink would be a factor.
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Indeed it is mormal for mini cards to run hotter, because of heatsink size. Through with mining you reduce power draw anyway, so it should be fine.
 
thehuman said:
Payrate is alot higher than normal at moment tho atleast 2x more per day
1070ti x5 is gigabyte
1070ti x2 is asus strix advance


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Wow that's really good, are you running the 5 x off a 1200W PSU?
 
srothman said:
That's the only thing that has me wondering too.

Although, when I look at the cards, the Zotac and the MSI, although smaller, it has the same amount of fans and look physically more or less the same, although I guess the MSI has less stuff in the way that could influence airflow.
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They are also clocked differently. Mem clocks are lower. You get more hashes with the bigger cards on most algos.

The minis are less noisy though, if noise is a concern.

But generally not bad cards

Speaking of NH, stats are all over the place today.
 
dj2381 said:
Any reason for the 2 x 750W? 5 of these cards should pull about 900W at peak.
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Planing to go atleast 9 cards in future . Will replace one psu with bigger unit then . Don't want to stress psu 's
 
What displays are you guys using? Are you using 1 display for multiple rigs to save money?
 
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