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Re: [WTB] Graphics cards in EU (RX580, 1070, 1080ti etc)
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azgal0r
on 02/10/2018, 20:07:33 UTC
I'm interested, please post your price. Don't ask me to make an offer, same goes for anybody else who replies.

My bad, I can only sell you 6 as I have 2 reserved for a friend. I can do 190€ each, shipping included.
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Re: [WTB] Graphics cards in EU (RX580, 1070, 1080ti etc)
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azgal0r
on 02/10/2018, 19:40:20 UTC
Hello, I'm in France and I'm selling 8 rx 480 8GB (Samsung) all used roughly 8 months for mining eth mostly. Still under EU warranty until february 2019. Tell me if you are interested.
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Re: NiceHash Miner - easy-to-use best-profit multi-device cryptocurrency miner
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azgal0r
on 23/04/2017, 20:02:55 UTC
Not sure but the problem seems on nicehash end, people are able to sell the hash without a problem, however buyers can't make orders. Or maybe the pools are not yet compatible with nicehash change ? Not sure what's happening right now
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Re: NiceHash Miner - easy-to-use best-profit multi-device cryptocurrency miner
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azgal0r
on 23/04/2017, 19:51:44 UTC
Yeah currently someone is renting 2 TH of dcr at 0.0001~0.0006 and no one is able to make new order because nicehash looks bugged. I wouldn't be too happy if I was selling my DCR hash to nicehash right now lolz
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Re: Help me spend my bonus money on a nvidia card for zec
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azgal0r
on 16/04/2017, 17:23:25 UTC
Yeah  but France has good health insurance ,nice food,nice wine and in general a  fairly good country to be in.

We Americans get bargains on electronics,  but if you get sick  it is very expensive.

My wife and I spend just about 10k each year on health insurance and health care. We are 60 and 61  our health is decent not a lot wrong with us.

 My neighbor  Has a wife and 3 kids.  He spends 28k on health insurance premiums and health care. His kids have some illnesses that cost $$$

Wow 28k on health insurance  Shocked That's the annual salary of a junior engineer ! How many 1080 ti is that ?  It's true frenchies tend to forget how they got it easy ! We always complain but the life is pretty sweet here. As my father says "I've visited many countries and the only place I'm happy is France". I've travelled a bit myself and I get homesick pretty quickly if I don't have my cheese and my wine  Cheesy
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Re: Help me spend my bonus money on a nvidia card for zec
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azgal0r
on 15/04/2017, 19:08:54 UTC
Oh wow you americans and your sick gpu deals...in france the custom 1080 ti models barely arrived and the best price i've seen so far is 750€ on founders edition, usually they are around 800€. Of course if you got deals like that it's a no brainer Tongue

I'm running 5 rx 480 @ 730W at the wall on ETH, so yeah I run around 600W on ZEC, maybe 630W because I measured when the miner just started and the fans weren't running at cruise speed yet. That's the power of -100mv on core and modified timings...
I also saw someone that managed to get 500 h/s with custom memory timings on a R9 fury (HBM) but these guys don't give you the bios for free.

Modding your card is a personal decision, indeed if you don't mod your AMD cards (that looks like it's your case), you better buy nvidias. But for me that enjoy tweaking, optimizing and sending cards to RMA, the buying is not that obvious with vega coming along in june...basically I need really good deals
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Re: Help me spend my bonus money on a nvidia card for zec
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azgal0r
on 15/04/2017, 18:24:08 UTC
Well it also means the ROI is slower, but you are right, it depends on your personal constraints (electricity rate/space available/heating dissipation). Also keep in mind that nvidia cards can only mine equihash at this efficiency, right now.

Also phil did you manage to mine with AMD and Nvidia cards on the same mobo ? It  should work but you never know Tongue

yeah  but  You need a better cpu  not a cheap celeron

Why is that?
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Re: Help me spend my bonus money on a nvidia card for zec
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azgal0r
on 15/04/2017, 18:13:46 UTC
Well it also means the ROI is slower, but you are right, it depends on your personal constraints (electricity rate/space available/heat dissipation). Also keep in mind that nvidia cards can only mine equihash at this efficiency, right now.

Also phil did you manage to mine with AMD and Nvidia cards on the same mobo ? It  should work but you never know Tongue
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Re: Help me spend my bonus money on a nvidia card for zec
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azgal0r
on 15/04/2017, 17:42:45 UTC

I use drivers 378.78  

I hardly know anything  in the world of nvidia

but  I am getting 1850  h for zec  and using 616 watts     at the kill-a-watt meter.   and I know that is my hot meter  my other meter would read 580 or so.

This rig has amd drivers loaded  I could see if I can add a rx 480 to it later in the week.

I would be curious to see If I can run eth with the rx 480 and zec with the nvidia's

I am using 1 riser  for the 1080 zotac mini  the two 1080 ti are in full slots.


hahaha, the company produces consumption measuring device and calls it "kill-a-watt"? Cheesy Golden!

On topic - that is a really nice hashrate. From 5x480s I get 1530 hash, while using 800W (it's the sweetspot),
Nvidia blows AMD out of the water with zec.

Anyways, I read a lot online about the mini cards, gamers and "casual" users hate them, they say they throttle more easily,
their fan runs on higher RPM etc etc... so I'm back to square 1, I'm thinking about getting the full size ones, price is the same...

To be honest the performance on your RX 480 isn't that great. I do 1470 h/s on 600 W (At the wall) with 5x 480. And my bioses are not even optimized for zec mining !

So what i'm concluding from this experiment is that 1080 ti are very efficient (620h/s for 180W, 3.4 h/W), but they are around 3x the price of modded RX 480 (300 h/s for 120W 2.5h/W) or a modded R9 Fury (~450 h/s for 200W, 2.25H/w ).
So we got 30% increase in efficiency for a price multiplied by 3, that doesn't seem like the sickest thing after thinking about it.
As far as I understand the problem with nvidia is that we don't have a lot of control over voltage and memory timings, so we can't really exploit the cards power to a 100%, also the miner's are maybe not yet fully optimized.
Meanwhile with AMD cards almost everything is tweakable enabling miners to optimize their card for the sole purpose of mining. Just look at the R9 fury that is built on 28nm and achieving almost the same efficiency as a card built on 14nm !

Given these i'm pretty sure vega will blow the 1080 ti out of the water on zec mining once we unleash our modding community. I'm sure they are already fully prepared.
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Re: BAIKAL GROUPBUY 4 - RESERVATION
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azgal0r
on 12/04/2017, 16:08:36 UTC
I am interested for one unit.

The CE marking is actually a very good point. I would also like to know what shipping company they use for europe, since we can have a +20% custom tax on import...Also is the shipping included in the price of the cube ?

Regards

They deliver with DHL and shipping is not included. Do you know how custom works? Is it unavoidable?

DHL always makes you pay customs taxes, so you would have to use another company but then the shipping can be way longer and it's not guaranteed to avoid you any tax...
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Re: BAIKAL GROUPBUY 4 - RESERVATION
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azgal0r
on 11/04/2017, 17:01:42 UTC
I am interested for one unit.

The CE marking is actually a very good point. I would also like to know what shipping company they use for europe, since we can have a +20% custom tax on import...Also is the shipping included in the price of the cube ?

Regards
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Re: Third alt coin thread last two were too big. Builds links thoughts etc
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azgal0r
on 25/03/2017, 22:11:46 UTC
The rates are high at polo because of the upcoming BTU fork. Polo has stated that in a case of a fork, lent BTCs wouldn't get their equivalent in BTU. In other words the rates are high because you are taking additional risks by lending right now.
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Re: TRULY Custom RAM Timings for GPU's with GDDR5
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azgal0r
on 20/03/2017, 23:49:16 UTC
You are a beast man, now I need to buy a dev rig...
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Re: TRULY Custom RAM Timings for GPU's with GDDR5
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azgal0r
on 20/03/2017, 18:29:03 UTC
I wonder what's your background to have such knowledge. I haven't touched C in years so I barely have any idea about whats happening in this snippet.
 For example what does RAS2RAS:8 means ?
And  ARB_DRAM_TIMING2 t8 = {0x922A3217}; What's happening there ? You are instantiating a type with some hex ?

I am curious because it's been a long time since I had to deal with this kind of low level programming.
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Re: Third alt coin thread last two were too big. Builds links thoughts etc
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azgal0r
on 20/03/2017, 18:15:19 UTC
I am posting this for sharing because I think it will impact all of us since Bitcoin is in the centrestage of all of our alts mining activities now. I am posting my comments only here in Phil's thread because self-moderates the thread....

Just came back from a Bitcoin local chapter talk with guest speaker Andreas Antonopoulos, and lo and behold Vitalik Buterin in the audience. I wanted to ask about the Segwit vs BU issue in Q&A, and well I didnt have to -- Andreas jump straight into it.

Very interesting talk about cultural gap between software mindset vs hardware mindset -- hence this battle between Segwit and BU, how Bitcoin is going to survive a hard fork and the emergence of a new platform that comverge software and hardware and maintains the glory of decentralization, ie. Trustware.

The video of the talk should be up in Andreas's Youtube channel in a few hours.

My team had a meeting after the talk and we decided on some contingencies, pending Segwit vs BU bloodbath around "a few weeks before October". We will be investing more on GPU mining and Ethereum. Btw, will move the 2PH BTC farm into rental market before the war starts. When things gets risky and volatile, it's better to rent, sell the picks and shovels to goldminers than to mine the gold yourself - think Levis Strauss.

OK - thats enough yadda2 for the day. Watch the video and make your own decisions.

There's so much volatility these days I convert my mining gains straight to USDT.  We are already making a ton of money the only risk remaining is that the market suddenly crashes.
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Re: Lost Thousands Of Bitcoins Because Of Volatility
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azgal0r
on 19/03/2017, 23:08:37 UTC
Lost thousands because of volatility, and for some reason goes to something even more volatile :')

Looks like a thread to promote a scam coin Smiley
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Re: Third alt coin thread last two were too big. Builds links thoughts etc
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azgal0r
on 19/03/2017, 22:53:05 UTC
For some reason I have never liked ZEC it just looks as a worse monero to me. The shielded adresses are good but who uses them ? You can't use it on pools, exchanges don't use it either for performance issues so whats the point ? Monero has more or less all that built-in directly and by default. Don't get me wrong I like the underlying scientific work they are doing with this coin. Also I was looking for a windows wallet and couldnt find one which is weird ! Even pascal coin has one.

Now I understand the coin is hot AF atm but I highly doubt it will hold its value mid term. Also why constructor would support a particular coin rather than another ? There's no doubt hardware manufacturer are watching the altcoin mining closely but why ZEC in particular ?
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Re: Bad time to buy mining rigs?
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azgal0r
on 12/03/2017, 18:19:08 UTC
Yeah dont buy rigs please but coins ! So my mining profits will increase.
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Re: Fried PCIe Slot
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azgal0r
on 12/03/2017, 18:11:44 UTC

I also lost a main board to ham fisted attempt to install the socket protector, I mangled the socket pins.

It's a hobby, right Grin
LOL I think we all had our nights where NOTHING you attempt works (MB refusing to detect cards, drivers acting up...). I broke a few keyboards out of sheer frustration  Cheesy
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Re: Fried PCIe Slot
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azgal0r
on 12/03/2017, 18:00:06 UTC
I got kind of the same story...
I shutdown windows, the screen goes black but for some reason the pc doesnt shutdown...I proceed to plug an additional riser when I realize the pcie plug is melting!! Good thing the gpu is fine but the slot is done for. Im wondering if I should RMA the board...
FYI have the same red risers as you (v7).