Bitcoin price suddenly surges to 3-year high

Outback Bronze · Jan 8, 2021

phill said:
My 1080 Ti's, meh not so much sadly

You using the ETH PILL? This improves the hash rate a fair bit with 1080's and 1080Ti's

wolf said:
I find it baffling that a GTX1080 does ~21.5 mh/s and a 1070 can do 25mh/s, I hear it's something about the memory?

Yeah you need the ETH PILL matey. I was getting like 34/6 MH/s with my 1080's. Ti's about 44 : )

trog100 · Jan 8, 2021

wolf said:
I find it baffling that a GTX1080 does ~21.5 mh/s and a 1070 can do 25mh/s, I hear it's something about the memory?

the memory needs to be clocked as high as it will go.. the max power can be reduced to 70%.. 34 mh/s sounds about right for a 1080..

trog

wolf · Jan 8, 2021

Outback Bronze said:
Yeah you need the ETH PILL matey. I was getting like 34/6 MH/s with my 1080's. Ti's about 44 : )

I can't tell if that's a serious thing or not, can you elaborate? if I could get another 10-15 mh/s out of my 1080 I'd do it.

Outback Bronze · Jan 8, 2021

wolf said:
I can't tell if that's a serious thing or not, can you elaborate? if I could get another 10-15 mh/s out of my 1080 I'd do it.

Yes I'm serious mate. Just google 1080's/Ti's on the PILL.

wolf · Jan 8, 2021

Outback Bronze said:
Yes I'm serious mate. Just google 1080's/Ti's on the PILL.

Very interesting thanks for the lead!

Still, I'm not sure it'll work for me... my GTX1080 is in a system by itself, running ubuntu so not sure if the PILL works in Linux? not only that but also it is timer'd to turn on/off and start/stop the miner corresponding with my solar power, as it wouldn't be worth it for what I pay per kwh overnight...

moproblems99 · Jan 8, 2021

wolf said:
I'm in awe how much ETH has taken off, near tripled in value since I started mining around when I got my 3080. Really not a great investor tho so at this rate my plan is the long game, probably ride at least another crash and hopefully back through to another peak, if history is an indication.

This peak might be one you don't want to miss. I also don't think this peak is coming for minute.

wolf · Jan 8, 2021

moproblems99 said:
This peak might be one you don't want to miss. I also don't think this peak is coming for minute.

Definitely, mining 24/7 now on my 3080 but it mines at ~4.5x the rate for ~1.5x the wattage

phill · Jan 8, 2021

wolf said:
Very interesting thanks for the lead!

Still, I'm not sure it'll work for me... my GTX1080 is in a system by itself, running ubuntu so not sure if the PILL works in Linux? not only that but also it is timer'd to turn on/off and start/stop the miner corresponding with my solar power, as it wouldn't be worth it for what I pay per kwh overnight...

I'm the same, I don't mine 24/7. If I can get my miner setup next day or so for the conservatory hopefully, it'll warm it up out there a bit with the two cards mining away but that would the only reason I'd do it

moproblems99 · Jan 8, 2021

wolf said:
Definitely, mining 24/7 now on my 3080 but it mines at ~4.5x the rate for ~1.5x the wattage

I think I am going to sacrifice cyberpunk for a while and move my Vega 56 to mining.

Another bummer.....no more GPUs for a while. Kinda wish I bought an early scalper.

phill · Jan 8, 2021

wolf said:
Definitely, mining 24/7 now on my 3080 but it mines at ~4.5x the rate for ~1.5x the wattage

What rates are you hitting with your 3080 mate?

wolf · Jan 8, 2021

phill said:
What rates are you hitting with your 3080 mate?

Got a few settings I'm playing with for mh/s : watt, but the lowest is about 88, highest is around 93, given the power / temp savings I'm inclined to go with the lower end where its at about 88-90 mh/s @ 220w

ZenZimZaliben · Jan 8, 2021

Notice how all the BTC haters and envious aren't posting in here anymore...but wait for the dip they will be back. Until then enjoy the silence and the profits!! And if/when it dips, get more.

trog100 · Jan 8, 2021

there may be a big pull back but its long way away.. big institutions are buying to hold.. a possible 300K per bitcoin.. anyone that believes this aint gonna sell.. why the f-ck should they..

the people buying bitcoin now aint looking for a quick profit.. they are looking to buy and hodle.. even the miners are not selling any more there aint enough bitcoin to meet demand.. the price just has to keep going up..

trog

Robert Bourgoin · Jan 8, 2021

Going to put my old MSI 1080 to work, my old asus x99 gathering dust, time to put it to work.
I also have a GTX 580 gathering dust, not sure if I can team them up.

phill · Jan 9, 2021

wolf said:
Got a few settings I'm playing with for mh/s : watt, but the lowest is about 88, highest is around 93, given the power / temp savings I'm inclined to go with the lower end where its at about 88-90 mh/s @ 220w

I'm about 25MH with my 480's, hitting about 65w according to GPU-Z.... I think that it's not recording the full GPU power though, so I'm guessing it possibly nearer maybe 90w for the full card? But with two cards, a full system, I'm pulling about 260w.. I can't remember off hand what it's pulling with WCG running as well sadly (with my 1700X CPU system).

With my 2700 system, it's around 400w with the two 480s same settings as the 1700X system, 65w reported for the 480s which I'm very pleased with as it doesn't seem to affect the MH/s rate.. Which is great

KainXS · Jan 9, 2021

I'm wondering if I should mine on my 3070 is it worth it now?

wolf · Jan 9, 2021

phill said:
I'm about 25MH with my 480's, hitting about 65w according to GPU-Z.... I think that it's not recording the full GPU power though, so I'm guessing it possibly nearer maybe 90w for the full card? But with two cards, a full system, I'm pulling about 260w.. I can't remember off hand what it's pulling with WCG running as well sadly (with my 1700X CPU system).

With my 2700 system, it's around 400w with the two 480s same settings as the 1700X system, 65w reported for the 480s which I'm very pleased with as it doesn't seem to affect the MH/s rate.. Which is great

Not bad at all! those polaris cards are great. I was trying to get one months ago and it wasn't working out so I abandoned it, but one would've bought itself almost twice over now.

I've settled on just 70% power limit and +500 memory, card clocks around 900-1000mhz and gets about that ~90mh/s mark reporting 224w. Whole system pulling 280-290w from the wall socket

KainXS said:
I'm wondering if I should mine on my 3070 is it worth it now?

I'd say so, if you get a decent rate for power at least. I'd be power limiting it too.

hat · Jan 9, 2021

Heh, yeah I tried looking at prices on RX480/580 cards earlier today... and... ouch. Even the midrange crap of yesteryear commands a premium now.

trog100 · Jan 9, 2021

KainXS said:
I'm wondering if I should mine on my 3070 is it worth it now?

about 65 mh/s i think..

trog

xkm1948 · Jan 10, 2021

trog100 said:
about 65 mh/s i think..

trog

How's your 3080 doing in mining?

With my 2nd 3090 coming in, I am tempted to throw it on an old rig just for some extra $

trog100 · Jan 10, 2021

xkm1948 said:
How's your 3080 doing in mining?

With my 2nd 3090 coming in, I am tempted to throw it on an old rig just for some extra $

its still in its box i havnt got round to installing it yet but they do around 90mh/s..

my rig needs taking outside for a good dust blow out before i put the new card in..

trog

hat · Jan 11, 2021

It seems like the price of BTC is currently going down right now, yet profitability is going up. Hmm...

KainXS · Jan 11, 2021

trog100 said:
about 65 mh/s i think..

trog

I'm getting about 55 to 60 on my 3070 tuf undervolted, picked up a gigabyte 3080 also but gave not installed it.

kayjay010101 · Jan 11, 2021

KainXS said:
I'm getting about 55 to 60 on my 3070 tuf undervolted, picked up a gigabyte 3080 also but gave not installed it.

Getting around the same on my TUF OC 3070, with a 60% power limit, -502 core and +1400 mem. Anywhere from 55 to 60 MH/s. That card is earning me 4 EUR per day, after electricity
Also put some of my 24/7 servers to do some CPU mining, even my old xeons (2683 v4) are actually profitable after electricity costs! (only 1 eur per day profit per whole CPU though

)

Jetster · Jan 11, 2021

Bitcoin Plummets as Miners Sell Inventory, Spot Markets Panic

Bitcoin fell sharply early on Monday, having failed to establish a foothold above $40,000 over the weekend.

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