Whats everyone using for mining?

QuintLeo said:
You pretty much have to run WIndows 10 to be able to get good Monero hashrate out of a Vega though - the blockchain drivers are REQUIRED by the actual miners and the blockchain drivers in my several attempts to use them on Windows 7 flat out DO NOT WORK.

Without those drivers, you're lucky to get much past 1000 hash/s on a Vega.

Almost all of my current rigs run from either Seasonic X-850 or EVGA G2 850s.
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Yeah, because look at numbers the vega 56 is about double the hash of the 580 in Monero. Looking in to it there does seem to be trouble. But for about 140 or so more, you get double the hash.
 
All on Nicehash:

Current Google Sheets

11/2017 Rigs:
Rig1 - x6 1070s / x1 GTX 1070 Ti
  • Asrock X370 Taichi / Ryzen 1700X / 32GB
  • x6 Asrock 1070 Mini
  • x1 Asrock 1070 Ti Mini
  • Corsair 750D Air Flow Ed. (modded a slight bit)
  • Enermax 1200W PSU
  • Custom harness for the GPUs
  • All cards @ +175/+500/72% PLimit
  • 388.18 driver version
Rig2 - x8 RX580s
  • Asrock H110 BTC Pro+ / Celeron 3900 / 4GB Ram / 128GB SSD
  • Rosewill LSV-4500 w/ Spotswood GPU Drop-In bracket
    • 3 120mm Nidec Gentle Typhoon in Pull
  • Silverstone 1500W Strider Gold S
  • x2 Asus RX580-O8GB w/ the Anorak 1750 mem strap mod
  • x6 XFX RX580 XXX GTS w/ the Anorak 1500 mem strap mod
  • All cards @ 1075/2000/.975v/-20% PLimit
  • Latest blockchain driver
Rig3 - x7 R9 270s (x8 RX 580 8GBs to replace these soon)
  • H81 Pro BTC rev.1 / Celeron G1810 / 4GB Ram / 60GB SSD
  • Rosewill LSV-4500 w/ Spotswood GPU Drop-In bracket
    • 3 120mm Nidec Gentle Typhoon in Pull
  • Silverstone 1500W Strider Gold S
  • x2 Asus R9 270 DirectCU II
  • x5 MSI R9 270 Gaming
  • All cards at 1000/1500/1.00v
  • Latest blockchain driver
Rig4 - x8 GTX 1070s
  • Asrock H110 BTC Pro+ / Celeron 3900 / 4GB Ram / 128GB SSD
  • Rosewill LSV-4500 w/ Spotswood GPU Drop-In bracket
    • 3 120mm Nidec Gentle Typhoon in Pull
  • Rosewill Photon1200W
  • x8 MSI GTX 1070 Aero ITX
  • All cards @ +175/+500/72% PLimit
  • 388.18 driver version
Common
  1. Nicehash Legacy Miner 1.8.2.0 Pre2
  2. Ubit PCIe to USB breakout cards
  3. Version 006 or 007 Risers
 
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So how much you making off nicehash?


atp1916 said:
All on Nicehash:

Rig1 - x6 1070s
  • Asrock X370 Taichi / Ryzen 1700X / 32GB
  • Asrock 1070 Mini ITX
  • Corsair 750D Air Flow Ed. (modded a slight bit)
  • Enermax 1200W PSU
  • Custom harness for the GPUs
  • All cards @ +175/+500/72% PLimit
  • 388.18 driver version
Rig2 - x8 RX580s
  • Gigabyte H110-D3A / Celeron 3900 / 4GB
  • Rosewill LSV-4500 w/ Spotswood GPU Drop-In bracket
    • 3 120mm Nidec Gentle Typhoon in Pull
  • Silverstone 1500W Strider Gold S
  • x2 Asus RX580-O8GB w/ the Anorak 1750 mem strap mod
  • x6 XFX RX580 XXX GTS w/ the Anorak 1500 mem strap mod
  • All cards @ 1075/2000/.975v/-20% PLimit
  • Latest blockchain driver
Rig3 - x7 R9 270s
  • H81 Pro BTC rev.1 / Celeron G1810 / 4GB
  • Rosewill LSV-4500 w/ Spotswood GPU Drop-In bracket
    • 3 120mm Nidec Gentle Typhoon in Pull
  • Silverstone 1500W Strider Gold S
  • x2 Asus R9 270 DirectCU II
  • x5 MSI R9 270 Gaming
  • All cards at 1000/1500/1.00v
  • Latest blockchain driver
Common
  1. Nicehash Legacy Miner 1.8.1.5
  2. Ubit PCIe to USB breakout cards
  3. Version 006 or 007 Risers
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Airbrushkid ~.00550 btc/day on average. BTC Gold has shifted serious hash away from just about all the other coins, so it's more profitable now than it's been before.

Hagrid Hard to estimate w/ Nicehash cycling my rigs through algorithms.

For dual mining Eth+assorted, the 1070s / RX580s are all ~29mhs + xxx
For Cryptonote, the 1070s do about 630H/s and the RX580s do ~850H/s
For Equihash, the 1070s do about 410H/s and the RX580s do ~280H/s
 
GTX1060 3GB MSI with no heatsink/backplate versus a card with one like Gigabyte's GTX1060 3GB with heatsink/backplate

Does it matter? I can get the one with no back plate on special for say 17% off compared to its normal price which is almost near the one with back plate.

Also, are these mining edition cards bad? i see they almost all have no back plate also
 
Backplates are almost always purely cosmetic and don't help with cooling at all.
 
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U sure? i was told , or the 2 people that told me are like, it transfer the heat to the plate saving the pc board, really ?
no man, so like people spend more money just for the plate ?
 
imre said:
U sure? i was told , or the 2 people that told me are like, it transfer the heat to the plate saving the pc board, really ?
no man, so like people spend more money just for the plate ?
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Pull one off a card sometime. Most make no contact with the board where there would actually be heat to dissipate. With rare exception, there's nothing that needs cooling on the back side, anyway.
 
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Parja said:
Pull one off a card sometime. Most make no contact with the board where there would actually be heat to dissipate. With rare exception, there's nothing that needs cooling on the back side, anyway.
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Really, so this is just gimick and money making?
flip man , i was thinking about it, but then i read about pipes and whatever and then i thought that the backplate/heatsink makes a difference?

...and then one more thing i want to check.... definitely 2 fan is better than one fan card though right ?
 
imre said:
Really, so this is just gimick and money making?
flip man , i was thinking about it, but then i read about pipes and whatever and then i thought that the backplate/heatsink makes a difference?

...and then one more thing i want to check.... definitely 2 fan is better than one fan card though right ?
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Back plates provide strength for heavy cooling setups so that 1) the edges of the PCB holes the cooler mounts through aren't bearing all of the weight of a downward facing 2 lb chunk of metal and 2) the PCB doesn't try to flex causing strain at the solder joints. If the card just has a basic heat sink, then a back plate isn't needed.

As far as 1 vs 2 fans, it depends. If the card produces enough heat that it would benefit from more airflow AND both fans are cooling a large enough heat sink, then yes two are better than one. If the card has two smaller fans and half of one of the fan's air just blows around the card instead of onto a heat sink, then a larger single fan might better.


Much like anything else, you'll have to research whether some feature being advertised is really beneficial or just a gimmick. I can say this, I have four single fan 1060s with no back plates and they don't get over 70c at full power +200core +1500mem.
 
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Long story short...buy whatever is cheapest. You're going to be running the cards underpowered anyway, and for a mining rig you typically aren't all that concerned about noise, so the difference isn't all that significant.
 
Parja said:
Backplates are almost always purely cosmetic and don't help with cooling at all.
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But they do help ensure your cards PCB is protected from the fans of the other cards and protect against shorting out depending on how you hang them
 
I am interested in the Gigabyte 1060 OC WF2 one 3GB ram OR MSI GeForce GTX 1060 3GB Dual Fan GDDR5 1280 Core VR Ready Graphics Card
I see one had plate and one not, but the MSI is on special and like 15 to 17 % cheaper.. which i would rather prefer.
I am not sure though on speed and stuff what will i lose out on, or is there nothing to worry about?
Which will be a better winner? is it simple like Parja says , just get cheaper
 
I just pulled the trigger on some equipment to build a dedicated rig, pretty stoked.

Currently running cards in different computers,
1070
1060
2x970
r9-290

Just purchased:
Rosewill RSV-L4000B - 4U Rackmount Server Case
Rosewill Quark Series 1200W 80 plus Platinum
BIOSTAR TB250-BTC LGA 1151 Intel B250
Team Elite Plus 4GB 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM
Intel Celeron G3930
6-Pack Mining Dedicated Riser USB 3.0 PCI-e Express 1X to 16X Riser Card
2 x GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1070 8GB WINDFORCE

Will be adding 4 more 1070's in the coming weeks if I find any on sale or just save enough $$$... currently liquidating some needless things to fund something that will hopefully provide some decent ROI!

I'm hoping for a 1 year ROI on the machine, anything sooner will be a bonus.
 
Archaea said:
don't buy 3gb cards.

you need to spend more time reading up on this before you impulse buy yourself into a corner.
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Nothing wrong with guiding the nOObs toward ETH for their training wheels.
But promoting tunnel vision about mining it forever sometimes goes too far.

Sell me all the 3GB 1060 cards you don't want at openbox price I last paid, $159.96.
If ROI several months sooner is a corner, I will happily wear that dunce cap. And no,
you can't have it back...

Also scavenging for unwanted 1050 2gb cards, provided price sufficiently beat down.
Dont care no picture, mats of cathair wound in the fans, remnants of USB stick broke
off in HDMI. Long as it mines properly with some maintenance, I will put it to work.

Impulse buy yesterday whenever possible, time is money. Meanwhile, the card you
passed for a slightly better deal down the road some day, is earning you jack...

Full Disclosure: The first "mining card" I impulse bought was a 12GB Titan X Pascal
for $800, fortunately I wasn't carrying enough cash to score a pair of them. I don't
regret that I own one to play games with. But from ROI standpoint, this was dumb.
 
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