Crypto currency mining

ainarssems · #1 25th November 2017, 08:31 PM

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Originally Posted by moltuae

Nice work

I think I might still stick with nVidia cards for my next GPU rig; they're just so much less hassle.

Have you got your D3 yet Ainars?

My D3 arrived a few days ago. Tried it on NiceHash initially but, as expected, profitability was poor (just about managing 1mBTC/day). I'm trying it on poolmining.org right now. I don't expect the earnings to be any higher but it'll be earning Dash, the price of which I'm expecting/hoping will rise in line with mining difficulty.

What made you go with poolmining.org? I was going to use suprnova because of their 0% fees but I am open to alternatives.

MikkiJayne · #2 26th November 2017, 07:37 AM

Ainars what motherboard / CPU do you have in your AMD rig please? I tried the Vega on a couple of boards with Windows 7 and they both bluescreen trying to load the driver. Put 10 on one of them and it did exactly the same. They all run the GTX960 just fine. I've not tried 8 since the blockchain driver is either 7 or 10.

I'm wondering now if my 'spare' kit is just too old for cards like this

The first one I tried them in is a 1st Gen i7 though, which is still a decent machine.

ainarssems · #3 26th November 2017, 08:20 AM

The main AMD rig has this one https://www.asrock.com/MB/Intel/H110...BTC+/index.asp
Vega with 2x RX480 cards are on this one https://www.asrock.com/MB/Intel/Z270%20Pro4/index.asp

I could not get it to run on HP Miroserver gen8 https://www.serversdirect.co.uk/p/10...x-non-hotplug-

I have not tried Vega on my old PC but all the other cards have run fine on it are now running 2x GTX1080Ti on this motherboard https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard...DS3P-rev-21#ov

MikkiJayne · #4 26th November 2017, 06:10 PM

Vert helpful thanks

I have a Gigabyte P35 which runs the GTX960 just fine, but bluescreens with the Vega. I think a more modern chipset is probably what I need then.

I was looking at that Asrock - what do you think of it?

ainarssems · #5 27th November 2017, 05:30 AM

Which one?

H110 Pro BTC+ is probably a bit of overkill with 13 PCI-e slots as it gets more complicated with more cards and more issues especially with AMD cards and Windows, nVidia and Linux might be OK. Also a lot of power needed for 13 cards.
Z270 Pro4 I like, 5 PCI-e slots, 3x M.2 slots for WiFi module, SSD and I think you can use adopter from M.2 to PCI-e 1x slot as well so potentially could run 6-7 video cards off it.

moltuae · #6 27th November 2017, 07:49 AM

I've got a few ASRock boards. Never had a problem with any of them. One of my 1080Ti rigs is using an ASRock H81 Pro BTC R2.0. Good motherboard and it has 6 PCIe slots, though I only usually run 4 or 5 cards per rig now.

MikkiJayne · #7 27th November 2017, 10:53 AM

Asrock H110 on the way

Unlikely I'll try and run 13 cards on it tbh, but it looks like the best mining-specific board on the market at the moment. The Biostar ones claim to be for mining, but the blurb on their web site doesn't say anything about it whereas Asrock give a lot of detail and even a setup video.