that notebook has a motherboard.

so yes, a similar board is available with support for 6-7 GPUs. its called the H81-BTC or the H97-anniversary.

call it shitangacoin, or SHIT when listing it on exchanges. let it be worthless for months

ten it will suddenly jump in value, people see a 50% gain and pile on, and soon enough its a 1000% gain and noone understands why. you cash out and feel important or something

tis is pretty solid advice. however the H81 is tough to find. the H97 anniversary is equally good and available everywhere for ~$100.
the ssd is good, but you could use an HDD as well if you have one around or can find a small one for cheaper than the ssd
1600W power supplies are often very expensive. you might get a better price with 2x 1200W   OR IF MINING ETHEREUM YOU ONLY NEED ~120w/280x and a single 1000W PSU could suffice because it has lower power draw from the cards

tats not how an asic works - they are meant for simple repeat calculations of input->output  (such as only doing an SHA256 encryption)

GPUs are great because they have thousands of cores that can handle whatever is thrown at them, and you can run 5-7 of them on a barebones $200 bench (H97+celeron+4gb ram+ HDD)

thats my assumption. i failed to update my password after that hack.

also, an admin has kindly begun to help me out and *presumably* reset my email correctly. however, when i try to reset my password, im not getting emails from bitcointalk (nor have i gotten any PM notifications as of late). I use hotmail and have checked inbox/junk folders as well as all other folders that it could have been filtered to and nothing. anyone else not getting site emails?

well ive been patient for several weeks and theres been no movement from teymos or anyone capable of fixing the problem.

whats going on? I provided all the needed info here and in PM to theymos

looks like it deraded by about 40% over a span of an hour or two, then corrected to normal hashrate

i agree with pilip - this probably had a solid demand for it.

there are a lot of people in the forums who buy a single S7/S9 unit from bitmain, then post dozens of questions or "custom mod" threads as they try to figure out how to operate it in their living room. The answer is typically tat they cant, or that it has to be underclocked to <10TH

thats where this unit steps in. its quiet by default, and if you compare prices of a 10TH S9 againt this at 8.4TH they are about equal (in terms of TH/BTC)

sure, its not as profitable as running the S9 as hard (and overclocked) as possible, but not everyone has a garage/shed/datacenter to do that in. but a lot of people DO have "free"/subsidized electricity that could be put to use if there was a miner quiet enough to run in their home.

think of students - a dorm has free electricity but you would never get away with running an S9 there (you wouldnt be able to sleep in the same room, and possibly get noise complaints). The R4 might work well in tat situation though, and thus ROI in a year or less.

in theory, a good gaming laptop (ie: gtx960/965/970M inside) could mine profitably, but they are only capable of a fraction the output of a desktop card and are not meant to be fully loaded as there is often mediocre cooling in a laptop. thus shortening part lifespan

its possible, but really not reccomended. 3-4 years ago i could mine LTC on my laptop but it was maybe $0.10/day.  (a year later my 10-20 saved coins had jumped in value though, but buy/hold would have been more effective)

it is a bit overkill, but there are not many PSUs at 1100W (which would be an ideal ~70% load). but if dual-mining, you'd be drawing around 130-140w/card, and about 100-150W to the overhead (cpu/fans/hdd/etc). thats ~800-900W, and its good to keep <80% psu load if you plan to run 24/7 for months on end.

still selling these

agreed.

but i sell some wesome 1x6pin to 2x(6+2)pin splitters that can still keep your build clean and powered https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=563461.0

the evga1300 is a great PSU and would only be 60-70% loaded under ethereum or 80-90% loaded if dualmining

what do you mean? yimp has been giving me around 45-50LBC/day for the last several days, or ~90LBC/GH. at 0.00029BTC/ea thats ~0.0261BTC/GH/DAY. yiimp claims 0.0236BTC/GH/DAy in its stats, which is quite close and probably more accurate for the (24hr?) stats period

if it is incorrect, its within a reasonable (15%) margin. What do you think it should be (show the math)?

almost all of tem do. i think its just how windows sees the open stratum connection

you cant magically make any coin EFFECTIVELY dual-minable. LBRY is a good candidate because it doesnt really use its memory, but that doesnt automatically make it easy or effective to merge-mine. you could just end up with something that mines   25MH ethereum / 80MH LBRY   or   5MH ethereum / 250MH LBRY which would offer little or negative benefit over just mining lbry.

combine that with the fact many 9xx/10xx nvidia cards are probably pointed at lbry already, and AMD cards suck at lbry - seems unlikely.

id expect to see at least a 50% increase in hashrate over the span of the year, probably closer to 70-80% (assuming fairly stable price and no major changes in hardware prices). thats about 2-2.5% increase per difficulty period

considering the miner makes ~$5/day, minus ~$2/day if you pay ~$0.08usd/kwh, you're looking at an ROI of more than 18 months probably. if power is "free", more like 10-12 months.

calm down - amph has put some good posts and stats in this thread, whether you agree with them or not.

Im using opensource 1.8.1 and a pair of strix gaming 1070 cards (not the OC version). one gets 265MHz and the other has 285Mhz. both are overclocked with the specs tat suit them best in order to keep temps around 65C and fans around 65-70%. (i posted exact specs a few pages back, but they are running round 1990-2030MHz core and mem is -500 on each.


while id love an sp_ software that can give me 300MHz+ (and expect the 285Mhz card would get there), the 0.1BTC cost is the killer since i only have two cards. to re-coup that cost (and the extra mining fee) would add significant time to my ROI and just doesn't make sense.

your account needs to be a certain age or postcount first

correct - its the 8G-GAMING (not the O8G-GAMING thats a bit higher clocked). both are an OC compared to the founders cards though. Ive pushed it to 2050MHz a few times, and could probably it 2100MHz if desired, but in the interest of longevity i keep it where fans are ~60% and temps are 65-70C