Cryptocurrency Mining

Have you guys seen this? Price is R686 at DX and R653 at Banggood

[video=youtube_share;Qs_13V2OMLI]https://youtu.be/Qs_13V2OMLI[/video]


Only drawback is it uses your mini PCI-E port, so there goes your wifi. I'm sure there are ways around it though. I've got an old 11" laptop that I don't give a damn about, just get a 3g modem and I can mine at the office.

Thor, since you have the most money out of all of us, take one for the team and see how it works :D
 
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xeslaro said:
By my calculation, 208 watts per card?
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If your card pulls 150 watt you are probably pulling 240 from the wall that whole power factor, heat conversion etc I'll need to dig up my electric book
 
Thor187 said:
If your card pulls 150 watt you are probably pulling 240 from the wall that whole power factor, heat conversion etc I'll need to dig up my electric book
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I think I understand what you mean. As current increases through the circuit so the resistance in the wiring also increases making it less efficient the more you draw. Perhaps it would be better to run the 3 rigs, but each on a septate circuit to the main board.
 
Thanx guys will try moving one over to another circuit. Not too worried ATM , as the eth price is so high so they making quite a bit of cash.
 
Still a shortage of power supplies in the Cape :(
 
Thor187 said:
If your card pulls 150 watt you are probably pulling 240 from the wall that whole power factor, heat conversion etc I'll need to dig up my electric book
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On a gold plus PSU? Never, that's 63% efficiency, should be 90%+.
 
Gtx Gaming said:
How big do you need? Might have spare 1000watt. Can bring in some with my next import also.
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Something to run 6 x 1070's, I'm willing to wait, anything over 1000W seems to be sold out for the past couple of weeks already, also do you have stock of those EVGA 1070's on your site?
 
dj2381 said:
Something to run 6 x 1070's, I'm willing to wait, anything over 1000W seems to be sold out for the past couple of weeks already, also do you have stock of those EVGA 1070's on your site?
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I have no 1070s in stock, I am using the ones that I had in stock :p

You can run on a 1000watt, but will have to undervolt the cards. My USA supplier also has almost no stock of 1200 watt units, with eta of week or 2 for the next stock.
 
Gtx Gaming said:
I have no 1070s in stock, I am using the ones that I had in stock :p

You can run on a 1000watt, but will have to undervolt the cards. My USA supplier also has almost no stock of 1200 watt units, with eta of week or 2 for the next stock.
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:( Any more 1070's on the way? or do you only order on demand?
 
Archer said:
On a gold plus PSU? Never, that's 63% efficiency, should be 90%+.
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Most high power PSUs are very inefficient at very low power draws. Not sure if they are 63% inefficient from 90+ at higher loads, but most are quite bad at very low power draw.
 
akescpt said:
What miner?
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Nicehashminer invokes excavator for equihash algorithm for gtx 1050 (zcash mining) and xmr-cpustack for cryptonight algorythm for cpu mining (can be variety of coins). Of course payments are in bitcoin.

I do not really suggest going the 1050 route if the more popular AMD cards are obtainable or if you can afford a higher range gtx card.
 
etienne_marais said:
Nicehashminer invokes excavator for equihash algorithm for gtx 1050 (zcash mining) and xmr-cpustack for cryptonight algorythm for cpu mining (can be variety of coins). Of course payments are in bitcoin.

I do not really suggest going the 1050 route if the more popular AMD cards are obtainable or if you can afford a higher range gtx card.
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Sorry man. Have to disagree with you there (last sentence). At the cost and power draw of a 1050ti (R2299), you simply cannot go wrong. I found a R7 370 which is a 256bit graphics card for R2k. But it uses double the power, and......is OUTPERFORMED by the 1050ti in both gaming and mining and uses HALF the power.
 
ambroseg1 said:
Most high power PSUs are very inefficient at very low power draws. Not sure if they are 63% inefficient from 90+ at higher loads, but most are quite bad at very low power draw.
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At 10% load they'll typically be 80% efficient, although it is not a requirement. Only titanium rated PSUs are required be 90% efficient at 10% load. But we're talking about a rig that should be running 600w minimum so we're certainly not anywhere near the bad parts of the scale
 
Archer said:
At 10% load they'll typically be 80% efficient, although it is not a requirement. Only titanium rated PSUs are required be 90% efficient at 10% load. But we're talking about a rig that should be running 600w minimum so we're certainly not anywhere near the bad parts of the scale
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Point taken. I stand corrected. I know PSUs are not as efficient at very low power draw. But 63% as you pointed out is simply too low and not really possible with today's standard of PSU in the Gold rating and above.
 
@Gtx Gaming do you think a Corsair ax860i will power 6 x RX470s that are undervolted?

I currently use an Antec 1300w running the RXs. I've ordered 6x GTX 1070s and was thinking of using the Antec on this and the Corsair on the RXs. My initial plan was to run 4x 1070s on the Corsair.
 
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