Bitcoin price suddenly surges to 3-year high

[sepheronx]

i run 1 x 2080ti plus an 8 x 1070 mining rig.. the pair of them are now showing around 260 H/hs or 40 dollars per day.. $280 per week or 1120 per month..

this has gone up by a factor of five over the last six weeks since i started mining again... the mining rig has had about 14 months of 24/7 running with a three year rest in between..

i recon your 3070 will generate roughly the same as my 2080ti.. 55 m/hs or so..

would i bother with mining if i just had the one 2080ti machine.. probably not but its hard to say..

failed jobs isnt your card its at the server end.. nothing to do with you..

trog

thanks for the clarification.

Now, if I mine, and I want to play games, and I run default profile, can I mine while I game in the background? GPU while heavy gaming doesnt exceed 77C. Or will Mining auto quit?

I can also mine when I am at work or not really using the PC as well. I have a profile set - -200 on core and +1000 on mem, with reduced power and heat is 56. So far so good. I am getting about 58 - 60MHs with this.

 

[trog100]

to be honest i havnt tried gaming at the same time as mining.. i run videos and do everything else i normally would do with the miner running in the background 24/7..

at the worse one would just turn the miner off whilst running a game..

the main thing is dont flog the card too much.. let it run easy and cool.. run this way i think they will last a long time.. my 8 x 1070 cards seem to be doing okay..

trog

 

[sepheronx]

to be honest i havnt tried gaming at the same time as mining.. i run videos and do everything else i normally would do with the miner running in the background 24/7..

at the worse one would just turn the miner off whilst running a game..

the main thing is dont flog the card too much.. let it run easy and cool.. run this way i think they will last a long time.. my 8 x 1070 cards seem to be doing okay..

trog

Well, temps while mining are at 58C right now with fans at a low. Idle is around 48C. Gaming it gets to about 74C.

I didn't game much. I turned it off to play Tropico 6 for an hour. Then turned it back on and load the profile I set for mining.

 

[phill]

Well, temps while mining are at 58C right now with fans at a low. Idle is around 48C. Gaming it gets to about 74C.

I didn't game much. I turned it off to play Tropico 6 for an hour. Then turned it back on and load the profile I set for mining.

That's all you need to do Enjoy it making some cash, enjoy it playing some games

 

[sepheronx]

That's all you need to do Enjoy it making some cash, enjoy it playing some games

thanks for your help!

I am just still kinda worried about the memory as I have it at 1100. Apparently thats low compared to others with the same exact card doing this (they are doing 1400 or more). I did the -200 core just to keep things stable. Temps are now average out to 57C total.

Do you think this is safe?

 

[kayjay010101]

thanks for your help!

I am just still kinda worried about the memory as I have it at 1100. Apparently thats low compared to others with the same exact card doing this (they are doing 1400 or more). I did the -200 core just to keep things stable. Temps are now average out to 57C total.

Do you think this is safe?

I would say so. I think my +1200 is on the edge of what I would feel is safe, anything above 1300 or so is stretching for half a MH/s in exchange for potential degradation. 1100 should be just fine long term IMO, and you're not missing out massively. The core underclock is definitely the way to go. Personally I would just drop it as low as it goes as it has almost no effect on MH/s and should lower temps and allocate more power to the memory
Also, keep an eye not on the $/24h but on the BTC/24h figure. $/24h will change massively during the course of each day as BTC changes in value quite a lot. You should be getting about ~0.00013000-0.00015000 BTC a day with a 3070.

 

[phill]

thanks for your help!

I am just still kinda worried about the memory as I have it at 1100. Apparently thats low compared to others with the same exact card doing this (they are doing 1400 or more). I did the -200 core just to keep things stable. Temps are now average out to 57C total.

Do you think this is safe?

If your worried about it, just lower it down. There's no one telling you you have to run it at maximum speeds. I don't! I just work at stock, with lower power limits. I run my two 1080 Ti's at 50%, my 1070 at 70% or 80% if I feel like it. I can overclock the VRAM a little but I'm just fine with stock The 1070's and 1080 Ti's aren't the best for it, they give less Hash than some of the newer low end cards which isn't surprising but I don't run them very often.. Higher fan speed, keeps the temps hopefully lower and the card in a better shape In that way for me its no different than the cards running FAH

 

[sepheronx]

If your worried about it, just lower it down. There's no one telling you you have to run it at maximum speeds. I don't! I just work at stock, with lower power limits. I run my two 1080 Ti's at 50%, my 1070 at 70% or 80% if I feel like it. I can overclock the VRAM a little but I'm just fine with stock The 1070's and 1080 Ti's aren't the best for it, they give less Hash than some of the newer low end cards which isn't surprising but I don't run them very often.. Higher fan speed, keeps the temps hopefully lower and the card in a better shape In that way for me its no different than the cards running FAH

I guess I should. The safest usually is around +800 for it anyway so I dont know if there will be a huge performance drop.

Also, I noticed that my nicehash is on EU side of server. How do I change it to US side?

I would say so. I think my +1200 is on the edge of what I would feel is safe, anything above 1300 or so is stretching for half a MH/s in exchange for potential degradation. 1100 should be just fine long term IMO, and you're not missing out massively. The core underclock is definitely the way to go. Personally I would just drop it as low as it goes as it has almost no effect on MH/s and should lower temps and allocate more power to the memory
Also, keep an eye not on the $/24h but on the BTC/24h figure. $/24h will change massively during the course of each day as BTC changes in value quite a lot. You should be getting about ~0.00013000-0.00015000 BTC a day with a 3070.

I'll see when I get home. I have seen others doing -500 on their core. Maybe I can give that a try. But I dont feel safe going above 1100 on memory. I want to use this card for gaming if mining takes a dive.

Edit: Cant believe I am saying this, but I think this weekend I will be switching over everything else from my 10500 ES machine (extra drive and what not) to my Thinkstation P500 machine which has a 1620 V3 and a R9 390X GPU, and use the P500 as my main rig (Plex, gaming, data and what not) as I dont game as much as I did before, most games I play are mild in performance demand and the R9 390X is sufficient. I guess I will need to replace the CPU for video editing. I may just use the 3070 machine in mining till I pay off the whole build and or buy a new GPU!

Now even I have become part of the problem of the cryptominers..... Feel free to hate me everyone. Even if it is a very hard thing to do.

 

[trog100]

my 2080ti is minus 450 on the core with plus 850 on the memory at 65% max power.. 65 C temps at 54 fan duty.. the core is actually running at 1065 mhz..

my machine needs taking outside for a good dust blow out.. when i do this (weather permitting) i will install my 3080 card..

i have always assumed the fans would be one of the first thing to wear out plus i dont like fan noise..

trog

 

[dont whant to set it"']

Getting a little over 100 MH/s for ~.5KW/h power pulled by the whole rig (spanned across 3 gpu's), beer money its what I call it.
Disclaimer: Sys.Specs not up to date.

 

[phill]

Getting a little over 100 MH/s for ~.5KW/h power pulled by the whole rig (spanned across 3 gpu's), beer money its what I call it.
Disclaimer: Sys.Specs not up to date.

Can't be doing badly there Eth seems to be on the rise again....

 

[sepheronx]

meh, getting a lot of incorrect eth share from GPU0. Payout is OK. I made so far $11 CAD after playing around with it. This has been running for about day and a half.

 

[dgianstefani]

Old 6x580 rig still running strong since 2017 lol. And to think late 2019 I wanted to sell the cards and upgrade to Turing

Tip for new miners, repaste/pad the cards straight from new. I did that and haven't had to do again yet, apart from standard dusting.

 

[sepheronx]

Old 6x580 rig still running strong since 2017 lol. And to think late 2019 I wanted to sell the cards and upgrade to Turing

Tip for new miners, repaste/pad the cards straight from new. I did that and haven't had to do again yet, apart from standard dusting.

Uh, maybe depending on laws. I didn't open a PSU cause the warranty sticker states it's void if removed. Don't know if law in Canada allows this. Repairing a brand new card doesn't sound very good idea tbh and rather unecessary.

 

[dgianstefani]

You're talking about something you don't have experience with, which is general bad practice.

You're on a tech forum.

"repairing" was not the point. Replacing shitty 2-3w/mk paste that's been unevenly applied in the cheapest way possible with 10+w/mk paste is the point. Low temperatures = long lifespan.

 

[sepheronx]

You're talking about something you don't have experience with, which is general bad practice.

You're on a tech forum.

"repairing" was not the point. Replacing shitty 2-3w/mk paste that's been unevenly applied in the cheapest way possible with 10+w/mk paste is the point. Low temperatures = long lifespan.

repairing was the wrong word, phone auto corrected.

I am on the right forum, been here longer than you have that is for sure.

Also, have experience with replacing thermalpaste and pads, and never seen the need to ever do it unless the GPU is old enough and temperatures are climbing. I think you are giving wrong advice tbh. Been repairing and rebuilding pc's for over 20 years. So I have an idea what I am doing in that regard. No idea on crypto though.

So, cool your jets and watch how you talk to others.

 

[dgianstefani]

repairing was the wrong word, phone auto corrected.

I am on the right forum, been here longer than you have that is for sure.

Also, have experience with replacing thermalpaste and pads, and never seen the need to ever do it unless the GPU is old enough and temperatures are climbing. I think you are giving wrong advice tbh. Been repairing and rebuilding pc's for over 20 years. So I have an idea what I am doing in that regard. No idea on crypto though.

So, cool your jets and watch how you talk to others.

So your argument is a 5-10c improvement in temps is irrelevant to mining hardware that will be run 24/7 for years? Just confirming that's what you are trying to state.

As you state yourself, you have no idea on crypto, so I am to assume that you do not have experience with running 6-10 GPUs in close proximity to each other, 24/7, for years, yet you feel that since "I've been here longer than you", your opinion on these matters is still correct?

 

[sepheronx]

So your argument is a 5-10c improvement in temps is irrelevant to mining hardware that will be run 24/7 for years? Just confirming that's what you are trying to state.

As you state yourself, you have no idea on crypto, so I am to assume that you do not have experience with running 6-10 GPUs in close proximity to each other, 24/7, for years, yet you feel that since "I've been here longer than you", your opinion on these matters is still correct?

OK, if you see that kind of temp changes, good. My experience with workstations and servers, never seen that kind of a boost. I presume you use liquid metal like cryonaut.

Hope it all works out. Not really interested in debating but if your experience shows that, then that is nice. And hopefully works for everyone else. Just let people know, depending on location, it can mess with their warranty.

 

[dgianstefani]

Yeah, like I said, high quality thermal paste application on GPUs, especially lower end models which are what you tend to buy for mining, makes a huge difference to both initial temperature results, and long term, since the cheap crap that comes with GPUs has a lower life, and dries out much faster than a good paste like cryonaut. I don't tend to use liquid metal on GPUs since the dies are large enough that it doesn't do as much compared to using it on a CPU.

 

[sepheronx]

Yeah, like I said, high quality thermal paste application on GPUs, especially lower end models which are what you tend to buy for mining, makes a huge difference to both initial temperature results, and long term, since the cheap crap that comes with GPUs has a lower life, and dries out much faster than a good paste like cryonaut. I don't tend to use liquid metal on GPUs since the dies are large enough that it doesn't do as much compared to using it on a CPU.

which thermalpaste you use? I use MX4 now but tried TF8 which also works great.

While I never worked with mining GPU's per se till now, majority of GPU's I worked with (if it wasnt standard consumer grade), are Quadro's and FirePro's. I had to replace some thermalpaste on some older units in our workstation/servers at work but I never really saw the need to unless it was darn necessary (GPU overheating). But I used to mostly use Arctic silver back in the day and never failed on me. MX4 is a great replacement and its rather cheap.

 

[dgianstefani]

Cryonaut Extreme. KPX is good too but I don't know about the long term.

 

[sepheronx]

Something is up. I run the mine, apply the OC and it runs fine for over 400 shares then all of a sudden, in a short period of time, 50 incorrect ETH shares in a matter of two minutes.

Either Phoenix Miner is the problem as some has specified after doing some research or something else is wrong. And I am getting this issue with stock settings too, not just OC.

 

[kayjay010101]

Something is up. I run the mine, apply the OC and it runs fine for over 400 shares then all of a sudden, in a short period of time, 50 incorrect ETH shares in a matter of two minutes.

Either Phoenix Miner is the problem as some has specified after doing some research or something else is wrong. And I am getting this issue with stock settings too, not just OC.

Hmm, that's strange. I've been running PhoenixMiner on Hiveonpool for the last week or so and not had any issues with it. I did have some issues with stale shares when I had my rig on WiFi (just for testing) but after putting it on ethernet my stale shares have dropped to about 0.5% total. Some are normal, but anything above ~5% or so can be a result of a bad connection to the pool, which can be either user error, bad networking setup (firewall blocking packets?) or the ISP sucks.

 

[sepheronx]

Hmm, that's strange. I've been running PhoenixMiner on Hiveonpool for the last week or so and not had any issues with it. I did have some issues with stale shares when I had my rig on WiFi (just for testing) but after putting it on ethernet my stale shares have dropped to about 0.5% total. Some are normal, but anything above ~5% or so can be a result of a bad connection to the pool, which can be either user error, bad networking setup (firewall blocking packets?) or the ISP sucks.

Probably my ISP. Telus sucks. But oh well. Tried what I could. Failure rate is at 24% last I checked. At default or OC.

 

[ZenZimZaliben]

$52,000 !!