Thanks for all the advice! All the pads were oily so I replaced all of them with the 15w pads… what a waste as I didn’t have time to wait for the 7w pass to come in. But it’s good to know that I don’t have to replace ALL the pads as I probably have to replace the 3080 TUF pads since my mem temps seem to be reaching 100* C while mining (power at 80% mem at 1200 core 250)

Hello all,

These 15w pads are expensive and kinda hard to cut and make use of this super small sheet (90mm x 60mm) in a way which i have zero waste from this expensive pad. Assuming I have to replace all pads on the entire card, i went ahead and purchased a few of these in a few different sizes. All cost me around $50 and a WHOLE lot of time to replace the pads.


So, all pads seemed to be oily but there were certain pads that I think didnt really need replacing, like on the SMD resistors/inverters, let alone with a 15w pad. Is it common practice to replace ALL pads with the same pads? or would I be better off replacing just the mem and ram with these 15w pads?

I did add a NEST temperature sensor by the rig to monitor that locations temperature as well as 1 large exhaust fan (a tall narrow one. Like an ionizing fan) and 1 Milwaukee fan to use for rapid cooking if needed. Will buy a fire extinguisher today, and the camera, I have an AXIS so I’ll put it to good use

Don’t need my home burning down either.

I hop between using miniZ, lolminer, and trex, though, I assume any added exceptions shouldn’t vary much between miners.

My questions are, What type of heat prevention fail safes do you guys use? Electrical wise, I am good. No cable is pulling more power than it can handle and I still have plenty of headroom on my PSU.
Do you have certain lines where if card reaches this temp, shut it down?

I also have an exception where if miner crashes for whatever reason, to just restart miner. Is there a way to add that if miner crashes 6 times or so to not restart again? Because there may be an obvious problem??

People like to build up their post counts with valueless comments, that’s why. I mod in a large forum elsewhere and you’d be surprised with some of the stupid things people do to get their counts up… most infamous is “like/upvote harvesting”… where people post something like “<—- this many users agree that ETH2.0 is gonna be huge!”. Stupid example but an example nonetheless. And thanks for the tip on hiveOS. I have yet to power down my windows based rig to reconfigure the os

So I'm trying out my luck by solo mining flux. Though trying to get a better understanding of "Personal Luck", I did some digging around the site (2miners) and noticed that the same miner(s) seems to creep in and out from time to time and when they are mining, they seem to just be scooping up a good portion of the blocks. After I find a block (current "luck" is 6% after 1 day) I'll probably move back over to pool mining. But in the meantime, I'm just curious as to why such a heavy miner comes in and out like that... seems like certain times too.

Yea, I've put electrical tape on electronics before (wait, what!?) and yea, it just peals off after some time. Never thought of using a permanent marker, ill give that a try now.

But they obviously do interfere which is why I asked the question to begin with





They are, but not a frickin night clubs worth of lights. Only lights I care to see (if any for that matter) is a single power and status light, ethernet lights (those are actually dim), and maybe a dim status light on the riser (prefer non at all though)





THANK YOU!!! This is EXTREMELY helpful!




It's a problem when I am trying to sleep. I have a small home with very limited space where I can keep my tech stuff so I had to settle by sticking the rig in the closet (and keeping it open so it doesnt burn up). Once we move outta this place, this LED issue wont matter as much


At least im not the only one

So the reason I was going for the older GPU’s is because
1) not as inflated on the resale market. Got them, I think, fairly cheap
2) wanted to get the rig mining at least something
3) my energy cost is not terrible. $0.12kwh
4) I refuse to pay exorbitant scalper prices. Gotta fine tune my script and be patient for drops. Plus I live by a MicroCenter so I can go one day and hit that lottery.
5) I’ll upgrade as I go. I’m sure I can recoup the cost I paid for the other 3 resold GPU’s
6) the learning experience. It’s easy to watch YT vids and read docs, it’s something else when you’re actually doing it

But hey, my reasons could be wrong. I’m still new. Need to learn to crawl before I can walk

Thought about that but dont know if it would impact heat dissipation from the motherboard. Ah screw it. Might as well put tape on it and if something fry’s, I’ll just end up fixing it

Useful or not, they are so bright! It would be different if they were quite dim, but these small LED’s literally light up a room. Mind you, I’m just starting out with mining and have no other place to put my rig other than in the closet with the door left open. If I decide to scale (knowing me I probably will) then I won’t worry so much about the lights.

I suppose I’ll just have to de solder the LEDs and place a cap in there or some other SMD chip to bridge the connection

Yes, the biggest cost was the new equipment (ie. motherboard, PSU, CPU, frame, ram, etc). My cost basis should go down when I start adding more GPU’s. Though, I’m thinking I should’ve either bought a second hand rig or not went all out on the 3080 and other expensive stuff. You live and learn.

Based on what I have learned, next build, I’ll be using server PSU’s and various other equipment to cut down on costs. That is, if ETH mining is still around and if alt coin mining is as profitable

These riser LED’s are bright AF! Seriously considering just desoldering them and replacing them with darker ones or something. Would rather just have them off since the rig is in my ventilated closet

I’ve been investing into crypto for a couple of years already, but this time, recently, I decided to take the plunge into crypto mining. I understood the concept but did not have the time and resources to mine without losses. Well, towards the end of the ETH I decided to pull the trigger on equipment anyway.

Costly? Yea… didn’t really realize how much total everything was going to cost me until the end. I’ve been fortunate enough to be obtaining older cards (2060’s) for around $10/Mhs but didn’t realize how much a bare bones rig would actually end up costing! These small things really add up. The little things add up. But I’m not too worried because it’s money I had set aside for this “risk”.

So, the cost to me? Just under a grand for a barebones rig. All new equipment except for the 8th gen CPU
Cards? 3080- paid roughly $1700 because it came with a PC (the whole PC was more but needed the comp anyway) 2 2060’s- $400 and $340, and a 1070- $200

All in all, I’m just over $3,500 in this project, churning a mere 115/Mhs ETH and 150/Mhs on ERGO. Yielding about $6 or so a day, $5 after electric….

Mind you, I’m new to mining. I’ll pay for the experience, but learning ways to cut unnecessary costs.

Lol… I did go on the site and did look at CPU compatibility… and if you understood what I wrote, I basically stated that I know it’s not compatible, but is there a bios firmware workaround… similar to how one would update their bios to support NEWER CPUs, didn’t know if going backwards is compatible too

Motherboard shows CPU compatibility in the 8th and 9th generation. Currently won’t post with the 6100T cpu. Any bios where this cpu may be supported? Otherwise I’ll need to purchase some 8th gen

As in NFT’s? All I’ve heard was bad press (ie. why own rights to a photo when others can just screenshot it) but to be fair, bitcoin had its bad press in the start and look at it now.

What resources do you have for meta verse? I’ve already heard people buying and selling real (or virtual?) estate on Metaverse

You do make a good point. I feel like the aftermarket prices will come down as profitability is coming down. As for shortages, yes. Massive shortage. To the point where I am willing to go wait outside a BestBuy on a projected drop day just hoping to snag a card from a canceled order

I’ve known crypto existed for a long time, but not until recently (about a year ago) is when I started investing into crypto and even reallocating investment funds over. It’s not until I started looking into different assets that I wish I looked into this much sooner!  Even put together a mining rig, probably overpaid, with a single 3080 LHR (dual mining). Will ad more as soon as I can buy for good price… I’m not worried about the expense I paid for the computer and graphics card. Needed a new comp anyway, just pulled the GPU.

Either way, I know I’m late to the game, but is it still too late? What may be my best options moving forward??

Still cannot believe I slept on this for so long!!

I know RPM is a bad example. I’m just stating any example for the matter… but even non YouTubers. I spoke to this one guy who I was attempting to buy a GPU from and he said he got it in a MicroCenter lotto after MANY DAYS of trying. That doesn’t seem efficient nor do I think that that’s how most people get their stock. Just saying. I’m gonna give Streetmerchant a go