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Based on current difficulty and value, the time to break even on a $405 (average final bid listed at bidvoy.com) with an RX 580 consuming 190W of power 24/7 @ a rate of $.19/kwh, the break even point is 123.36 days. So yeah I guess if network difficulty continues to soar or the price tanks it would be very difficult to recoop the full purchase price. That being said, there's more to mining than just ETH coins so a smart miner wouldn't mine only ETH if the price or difficulty swings too far.

Plotted out 490gb of my storage hdd to bring it up to a total of 2500gb for burst.

I recommend the Seasonic S12ii or M12ii if you want modular. The 620 watt should be good.

I have an i5-2500k with a boost clock OC @ 4.7ghz. I have Nicehash set to mine Monero after 10 minutes of idle using cryptonight (xmrstackcpu) 3 threads at around 140 h/s. I know CPU mining isn't very profitable, but it does help to make sure I keep a 2 week payout window. I have a MSI Gaming GTX 970 with the following settings: power limit 85%, temp limit 62°C, 139mhz core OC and 100mhz memory OC. The fan curve is set to run around 66% at the temp limit. As I mine in the p0 power state, the resulting core clock fluctuates between 1400 and 1455mhz. I mine using the Nicehash client. I mine Ethereum (daggerhashimoto, ethminer) at around 20 mh/s or Zec (equihash, excavator) at around 280 sol/s. When I am at the computer I am mining ZEN using Zec miner 0.3.4b set to intensity 2 for around 100 sol/s and the Nicehash miner set to mine Zec (equihash, excavator) at around 180 sol/s. I find that mining the Z coins has far less impact on the usability of the machine as I can watch youtube videos and such with only minimal dropped frames. I am dedicating a third of my at PC mining power to Zen as I can get far more coins in payout than I get bitcoin thru nicehash. I am planning to hold the Zen coins and sell the BTC. I am going to look into moving away from Nicehash and their 3% cut and instead mine directly into low or no fee pools. This will likely also bring an end to my CPU mining as the time between payouts will likely make it not worth it. I also mine Burst. Currently I have 1.2TB (1 300gb and 2 500gb drives) online and I have another 800GB being plotted on my old computer right now that I will move into my main PC when it finishes. I'm probably going to change those drives out for a single 2TB or larger drive as soon as I can as it will consume less power than 4 separate drives. With any luck the current plots fit on the single drive so I don't have to go thru the long process of plotting again. I'll have about 48 hours of plotting time in those 4 plots.

I just plotted out 1 300gb and 2 500gb drives in the last few days. I did the first 500gb on my 2500K@4.7ghz. Bad idea. CPU plotting uses the AVX instruction set and is a massive heat generator. I hit like 87°C and dropped my clock to 4.4ghz for a more reasonable 79°C core temp. It took 5.5 hours. After that fiasco, I decided to plot the drives on an old phenom x4 9750 computer. Instead of pulling 9.1k nonces, I am only getting 1.9k nonces, but it doesn't have any impact on being able to use my main system and it isn't cooking the crap out of my recently acquired 2500k. It took about 12 hours to do the second 500gb on the phenom x4. It doesn't support AVX so it had to use SSE instructions. Not sure how much that effected my plotting time. Since I am not using the backup computer, I decided to delete all the games and such off that install and plot out an 800gb plot on it. I'm at like 24 hours of plotting now and only around 70% done. But hey, it's just a second computer sitting around prepping my drives before I put them in the main rig. I have not tried GPU plotting as I am mining with my GPU. CPU plotting also produces an optimized plot, where GPU plotting does not and would best be optimized after plotting from what I understand.

Hardly even notice the hidden rainbow front panel wires after putting everything in the case. Maybe things will be cleaner when I finally get a semi modular PSU so I don't have all the unused wires tied to the bottom.

Darn. I was hoping to at least see the rotsun finish.

It still quacks like a duck tho.

Ok. After trying to find the budget to buy a new PSU for almost 2 months now, my Windows install got borked and since I had to reinstall anyway, I dropped 5 bucks on a 6 to 8 pin adapter then chopped the zip ties on ole blue to remove the PSU. Now up and running with an i5-2500 with max turbo OC to 4.7ghz. Vcore currently peaks at 1.38 and I'm slowly working that down until I lose stability, then bump the offset back up a notch. 602CB Pics hidden in a spoiler like last time so it's not a massive scroll fest for everyone. As usual with my posts, click the large thumbnails for full resolution.

Not directly, but the pool I mine in pays out in bitcoin no matter what coin I'm mining at the time. So we're both half right.

You cannot mine ethereum with anything else.

Wish I didn't have to stop my bitcoin mining to watch youtube.

Finally figured out the 12 volt rail distribution for the RS-650-ACAA-A1 . Rail 1 supplies the 24 pin connector, half of the 8 pin CPU connector and 1 6 pin pcie and all molex / sata. Rail 2 supplies half of the 8 pin CPU connector and the 4 pin CPU connector Rail 3 supplies one 6 pin pcie connector only. I have since purchased a case and hyper 212 to cool the 2500k. I'm now in a situation where I have to reinstall Windows. I don't want to reinstall Windows on this i5-2400 only to have to go thru it all over again when I have the cash set aside for a PSU. Likely going to 6 pin to 8 pin on the third rail since it's only powering the GPU. I'll probably drag the power target to the lowest setting until I can replace the PSU.

With that being the only post they've ever made on the forum do you even have to ask - obviously it's for PR reasons. This thread had nothing at all to do with AOL mail - just the software.

http://www.web2carz.com/autos/news/6595/the-fisker-emotion-ev-claims-a-400-mile-range Strange doors.

Motherboard header probably can't handle it.

Del Sols get some youtube love. Probably already posted a couple days ago, but after getting 8 pages back and still not even getting out of the last 24 hours, I'm not going to keep looking. haha

No idea if this starts at the right point or not but I found from 4:40 to like 5:00 hilarious. The rest was meh.

The 3 cam sound mix was great. I just think the intake volume could have been a little bit lower and the camera could have been higher. Don't see much of the course with it that low on his helmet.

My Dell optiplex 790 supports it, but it is disabled.

The newer nvidia cards can draw much higher peak powers than the averages let on due to GPU boost. That is why they recommend a 500 watt PSU. You're also not likely to find many quality PSUs below 500 watts as not many manufacturers target that market segment with quality parts. My default go to is the EVGA GQ for semi modular or G2 for fully modular, though there are other quality competitive products available as well. Tom's Hardware does good power consumption reviews. https://img.purch.com/r/600x450/aHR0cDovL21lZGlhLmJlc3RvZm1pY3JvLmNvbS9HL0gvNTgxMjAxL29yaWdpbmFsLzExLUdhbWluZy1BbGwtUmFpbHMucG5n http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-pascal,4572-10.html

Didn't include a quote because I wasn't sure what to put that would not negate any reason to click the article. No idea why it took this long to realize to include the questions but not the answers! -facepalm- BTW, I misread earlier and thought it said that tech news belonged in the tech section, not that only tech news should be posted.

Sorry, I was unaware that technology news now belongs outside of the news forum.

Yeah, though the i7 7700k over even the 1600x. Ryzen just can't keep up single core enough IMO if you can budget i7 (or r7 unless you're productivity > gaming) price on the CPU.

Dunno about that. I'd still by a R5 1600 over any i5 any day of the week because of the extra cores. Though those cores are still slower than Intels on a core/thread basis. Ok - so I guess I'm not really an AMD fanboy - just a hardware enthusiast.