Zotac cards a sort of the bottom of the barrel from what I have heard. When you go with a lower-quality manufacturer you are bound to end up with a few issues. I would suggest grabbing yourself an EVGA the next time you plan on grabbing a card; or at least some other reputable and top-tier manufacturer.

Those temperatures are not bad at all. I'm almost positive most people would consider that light-usage when it comes to mining. Nothing to be worried about as far as I am concerned. Are you doing anything strange with the TDP, memory clock or anything like that?

Overclocking is perfectly safe and it will not effect the life of your gpus (maybe your fans). Just keep your gpu cool and under 70C would be ideal.

I am running 4x Zotac 1080 Mini @ 65% power, auto Fan (usually ~45-55%), rig temps 45-55C (depending on outside weather), indoor temps 18-25C (open window no additional fans to cool so far), overclocked to 175/550. Getting ~515sol/s with ~4.2sols/w

Using Awesome miner with Bminer/DSTM software for Equihash mining on MPH, currently averaging ~0.00055/6 BTC daily.

Tried increasing/decreasing overclock but found that only power limit is effective in giving more sols, however, sols/w does not change.

Exactly. The only real issues that you can run into is the fans dying (usually a bearing) or the thermal paste/pad drying up and no longer being thermally conductive. If you notice a randomly large increase in temps with no change in your mining chances are it is the latter. A simple removal of the heatsink and replacement of the thermal paste/pad will resolve this issue for another few years. The board and chips themselves are essentially impervious to heat under ~90c

yes, you will get something like that
gtx 1070ti is doing about 500-520 sol/s and the gtx 1080 is about 5-10% faster, depending on the card manufacturer.
in fact the difference between gtx1080 and gtx1070ti is not really big, that is why better purchase cheaper 1070ti version...
almost same performance with much better price 

Hi, what is the config for a D3 for startcoin mining?
I have this:
-->http://hub.miningpoolhub.com:20509/
-->mynumberid.myworker
-->pass
But nothing is showing

Can you help¿

I've totally been there, no worries.

It's very difficult and rare to hit a block on an individual basis, especially on more established coins. That's the reason for a pool though, everyone works together to get block rewards and split the reward evenly based on work done. So to answer your question, if you hit a block personally via a pool, no you don't get a bonus. You'd have to solo mine for that, which if you are pretty small is not advisable.

Read about PPS vs PPLNS, that's a great place to start. Just google them and read opinions on them. I like both, but I think PPLNS is more fun.

Here's the thing, if you're at a smaller pool that hits blocks less often then it may feel like you're getting paid less but that's not really the case. The smaller pool has less people to share the rewards with so you get more per hit with a smaller pool. With a bigger pool that hits every 10 mins you get much much less of the reward because you have to share it with many more people. In the end, as long as your pool hits about once a day everything should work itself out over about a 30 day period to be almost the same amount of coin with either pool based on your hashrate.

No matter which pool or reward type you choose, just be sure to stick with them for a long period of time and you should make the amount of coins your hashrate says you should make (check 'whattomine' calculators or similar).

Oh just to clarify, when I say "hit a block" I'm mean solve a block and get the reward for it. The pool is confirming transactions and getting paid for making that confirmation.

Luck is everything. It will all even out in the end, this is PPLNS (google that and read up on it). Go to the coin you're mining on MPH and click on 'blocks'. Then look at 'last 20 blocks found'. On the far right you will see 'percentage' which is 'luck. If it is red it took longer than average if it is green it took shorter than average to hit a block and get paid. There will be strings of bad luck but those will be offset by strings of good luck where you get paid more than normal. Over a month it all evens out, as long as you don't get frustrated and hop to another pool because block hits take too long.

Right now on litecoin (the main coin I mine) luck has been pretty insane with a hit pretty often (about every 12 to 18 hours it seems like) but that will be offset by blocks that take 2 days to hit. That means 2 days without getting paid, but I'll keep chugging away for the high luck periods.

Be patient, the coins will come. If you don't have the nerve for PPLNS look for a PPS pool.

How many miners does it take to change a lightbulb?
A million - One to do it and 999,999 to verify that he did.

Baaahahaha ... did I make you laugh? I laughed at that one.

MPH is the best and most trustworthy pool. I wasted time and got scammed by other ETN and MUSIC pools.

Est. Shares is an estimate of how many shares of work need to be done before a block is hit by the pool. The Done: percentage is how many shares have been completed by the pool in percentage. So in your example the pool has completed 21,016,814 shares saying that about 55 million shares are needed before a block is hit ... based on the average number of shares it has taken to complete previous blocks.

Your Valid is the number of shares you've submitted towards the pool shares. The 'done' percentage will climb until a block is hit. It can climb to 100% and beyond depending on 'luck'. Go to the 'blocks' page to see all previous blocks and how many shares it took to complete them, then you'll see a number to the far right which is the percentage of shares it took to hit that block. If they are red the 'luck' is bad if it is green the 'luck' is good. Since the pool pays PPLNS you only get paid when a block is hit rather than per share (which is PPS, pay per share).

Does that make sense?

-NeoenY152

Ouch, you bought your 1080ti at the worst timing. It will take years to reach ROI with that price.

Perhaps, since you only got 1 GPU for mining, why don't you start with Nicehash (that's the best place to start for newbies) to earn Bitcoins which can be used to buy another coin or cashout to buy your second GPU (secondhand).

However, $1,200 for a ($700) GPU is a bad deal.

One of the things you can do without buying more components, is finding promising coin and mine it. If you do that and hold that coin, after some time you can sell it and earn money from price difference.
Also, you could find some coin with low difficulty and acceptable price, that after mining you could sell and start cryptocurrency trading. You can make some really nice money from it, and invest it in your mining rig.

difficulty to give suggestions for you, if your mining using one GPU and your series GPU very expensive for this time.but you don't need sad, on the Cryptocurrency always have a surprise such fork or the price some coin is rise. I have any little tips corresponding with my experience when first time mining.
1. as much as possible care for your component especially VGA. the stable more important than speed(hashrate).
2. often to web calculator mining such a Coinwarz, you can look block reward, frequency block and you compare one coin with another coin but if you feel that's waste a time, you can using Nicehash.
3. correct in choosing an Algorithm, where your VGA series works great on that algo.
4. most important is Patience.