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I just compared the price now of a Zotac 1080, and it's about a grand cheaper with Amazon than some of the prices I saw locally, at around d R8500-ish. Seems I'm still stuck in 1990 :)
 
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Anyone here mining Zcash directly? What miner would you recommend for Nvidia cards?
 
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Lo and behold, after a Windows re-installation (it was well overdue), NHM is picking up my ADM card with having installed any drivers. Probably the first time in the history of anything that the out-of-box stuff from Microsoft works better than the proprietary goodies :)
 
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What's the difference between these two risers?

https://www.leetpro.co.za/shop/mining/pre-order-powered-riser-1x-16x-eta-19-june/
https://www.leetpro.co.za/shop/mining/powered-riser-1x-16x-large/

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Nicehash.
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As I understand it, technically you're selling your hashrate to someone that has bought a certain capacity mining a certain currency. Your BTC comes from the buyer and not from actually mining. Personally I'm starting off using NH to get a grip on everything but will be looking into what's actually more profitable in the future.
 
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Kwerty said:
What's the difference between these two risers?

https://www.leetpro.co.za/shop/mining/pre-order-powered-riser-1x-16x-eta-19-june/
https://www.leetpro.co.za/shop/mining/powered-riser-1x-16x-large/
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The one forces you to take power via SATA, the other you have the option of using a molex connector. The latter being the better option due to how much (or rather how little) current SATA pins are allowed to handle - it should be just enough if the cards are under powered, but with the large PSUs you have so many molex connectors available why risk it?
 
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Archer said:
The one forces you to take power via SATA, the other you have the option of using a molex connector. The latter being the better option due to how much (or rather how little) current SATA pins are allowed to handle - it should be just enough if the cards are under powered, but with the large PSUs you have so many molex connectors available why risk it?
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Makes sense. Thanks
 
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Kwerty said:
As I understand it, technically you're selling your hashrate to someone that has bought a certain capacity mining a certain currency. Your BTC comes from the buyer and not from actually mining. Personally I'm starting off using NH to get a grip on everything but will be looking into what's actually more profitable in the future.
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I think it comes down to what you want to achieve. If you are looking to mine and hold a specific coin on speculation, then yes, I think look at mining discreetly. For NVidia cards you can look at Claymore Dual Miner, I've found it to work nicely.

If you're looking to make a few $$$ without too much effort, then NH is definitely the way to go.
 
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So i upgraded to Win 10, from Win7, in preparation for 6 x GPU mining(3 x GPU's atm).

I am having the weirdest issue where GPU0 hashing 17-20MH, GPU1 and GPU2 hashing at 30-31MH. For some reason GPU0 does not want to go up. My OC settings is synced to all cards, nvidia inspector confirms this.

Is there a Windows 10 issue you guys are aware of? Win10 doing funny shait?

Note: Running 3 x EVGA GTX1070 SC GPU's.
 
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I upgraded to Windows 10 from 7 earlier today as well, and it's actually as if I have a much more stable setup compared to what it was. Never used to be able to detect my AMD card under windows 7, Windows 10 works perfectly.

Are you noticing any difference in terms of what's being monitored, e.g. significantly higher temp, etc?
 
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Definitely feels more stable on Win10. Haven't had one display driver crash yet. Temps everything looks the same, except my mentioned issue above where it looks like Win10 is throttling my GPU0...

I did check the power settings, all good there too...

EDIT : Think i found the culprit..nVidia Control Panel settings. See link :
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To all the naysayers. Got my RX580 on Thursday afternoon, slapped in a riser and plugged in my GTX1060.

Making ~$9 a day now.
 
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