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Uzume

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  1. Nicehash is giving people their money back? Ugh. I have been telling people I would eat my left nut if they saw any of that money back... Doh.
  2. On their site right now: "Your bitcoins were stolen and we are working with international law enforcement agencies to identify the attackers and recover the stolen funds." Black and white. They were stolen and the return of them is a law enforcement issue.
  3. The one constant in "tech diversity" is that any deviations from their world view are not tolerated. This is a side effect of Silicon Valley being both the tech hub and the hub of a particularly virulent political ideology. But, it is getting harder and harder to do business in Silicon Valley, so this will give advantages to new startups who base themselves elsewhere. Geographic diversity will occur and ideological diversity in tech will follow.
  4. You do realise the balances everyone had in Nicehash have been stolen don't you? If you restart using Nicehash, you start again from zero, and not from where you left off.
  5. This is a problem with getting big during early access, other people can take your genre and finish their product before you do. If game devs don't like it then they should stop relying on the early access crutch. It can become a real liability when other people can put out a similar game before you even start optimization yourself.
  6. Just had to reformat, reinstall windows with fresh Adrenaline drivers and I still got 19074 in Firestrike3. It seems to be more related to operating at stock rather than a driver issue. GPU temps never went above 69degC. This PC is predominantly a 24/7 Seti@H box though so it will stay stock.
  7. Nicehash is as dead as a Dodo. The site is still unavailable and the "hacking" lays under a dark cloud of suspicion. Nicehash's Chief Technology Officer is Matjaž Škorjanc who has been convicted and jailed in the past for "creating a malicious computer program for hacking information systems, assisting in wrongdoings and money laundering." This was for his role in creating the Mariposa Botnet between 2008 and 2010. If your login credentials for Nicehash are common to any other system, you should change them immediately. When Mariposa was shut down, investigators found a list of the personal details of 800,000 people so there is every chance your Nicehash user details have already been traded/leaked.
  8. Null results are often the starting points of new hypothesis, so they are not useless. I don't expect to see any confirmation on extra terrestrial life from Seti@Home in my lifetime, but scientific advances (sometimes unrelated) will still be made. Even though some view S@H as junk science, it was one of the first major distributed computing projects which helped prove the viability of the concept. Thus we now have Boinc and all the other distributed projects which have been built on that earlier framework.
  9. I brought the parts locally in Australia so the price came to around AUD11500 which is about USD8600. We pay a premium for parts here but it is good to have a local suppler to return things to should a warranty job be required. This build is in no way optimised for mining as it is too expensive for the number of GPUs used. As to why donate rather than mine - well, just like the others in this sub that use Folding@Home, it is for a good cause I am interested in. Though it could be argued that Folding is a more useful cause than Seti. Also I am retired so it is something to do to keep the neurons firing.
  10. You get paid for mining* but not for Seti@Home. With Seti (and other Boinc projects) you are donating you computer power and electricity usage to the project. *assuming you weren't using Nicehash :0
  11. 64GB of ram, that is a bit overspecced but I want to try Einstein@Home soon and that likes memory. With Seti@Home I leave CF on, it doesn't matter whether it is on or off. With it on though I can load up a game and play with the seti running in the background. With mining I turn off CF though. Not sure whether it needs to be off, just out of habit. Mining saturates the GPUs even more than seti so gaming is not an option with it running.
  12. I run seti@home, but occasionally dabble in mining just to test out earning potential. Vast majority of time it just runs seti though.
  13. Extremists of all stripes try to push their ideology by emailing advertisers and threatening boycott. The advertisers now have a history of caving to these demands, thus it is a vicious cycle of ever increasing outrage and capitulation. Meanwhile, the other 95% of people without an axe to grind are sitting back, scratching their head and wondering what the hell the problem is meant to be. Welcome to the adpocalypse.
  14. Proof of stake doesn't mean you prove you *could* mine, but literally means how much stake you have in the game. Ie, Etherium wants to move to proof of stake. That will mean that you "mine" by locking up Etherium you own in master nodes you create. Your hardware just runs these master nodes rather than solving puzzles. You aren't rewarded for the work you do, instead you are rewarded for the amount of Etherium you have (locked away) in these nodes. This will mean the way to "mine" would be simply to buy in and run a node (or multiple nodes). Hardware wise this is much more efficient than the puzzle solving in proof of work mining. For the coin itself, this will incentivise behaviour that drives up the cost of Etherium, ie, buying lots of it and storing it away. It will use much less energy. The downside is it rewards those who already have bulk etherium and makes it impossible to start from scratch without spending a lot of money to buy in. The rich get richer and the poor eat sh_t. Effectively it could be compared to earning interest on your Eth. The more you have, the more you earn.
  15. They send vampires randomly to your house, and if any return it proves you have no stake.
  16. Sorry, my system gets enough abuse from Seti@Home (100% load, 24/7), not going to throw overclocking at it. Sure as sh*t not going to push 4.0GHz. For the OC you are trying to achieve (without a custom loop) you will need the Enermax Liqtech TR4 360. It is the only AIO with a full IHS covering cold plate. The other partial IHS covering AIOs don't come close. The Liqtech 360 is rated to 500w TPD. If you find you need even more thermal capacity then throw away the supplied fans and setup a push/pull config with better quality static fans (noctua or corsair ML). I had the Corsair H115i and I upgraded to the Liqtech 360 and it dropped temps under full load from 70degC to 64degC at stock. The H100i V2 wont reach H115i performance. Meanwhile Coolermaster is a yumcha brand these days and the Master Liquid Pro 240 has quality issues. GamersNexus weren't able to benchmark theirs because the supplied screws were too long and pierced the radiator. Leak city. Having said all this, you have brought your case before choosing your cooling. You won't even be able to choose the best AIO for the 1950X. The NZXT S340 is a compact mid tower and a quick browse on the NZXT site suggests you will be limited to a 280mm radiator, though I haven't built in that case. Perhaps the better question is "what will fit in my case?" and then work out the achievable overclock later. Edit: Enermax have have both 240mm and 280mm versions of their TR4. http://www.enermax.com/home.php?fn=eng/product_a1&lv0=109&lv1=118
  17. Don't get anything that doesn't cover the entire IHS on the 1950X chip. So for AIOs that means Enermax Liqtech TR4 360. For fans grab the Noctua NH-U14S TR4-SP3 140mm. The Noctua NH-U12S TR4-SP3 is good also if space in your case is a premium or you want to be sure you will be able to access the first PCIE slot. Your OCing target is very optimistic... and if it were possible it is likely that none of the above will suffice. They will suffice for what is actually achievable though.
  18. Clear at this point that Nicehash is MDK. Winminer is getting hammered with Nicehash refugees so there are going to be problems till they can scale up. Setting box back to Seti@Home, going to the Winchester, having a nice cold pint, and waiting for all this to blow over...
  19. Okies- installing OBS. Edit: I am having driver issues and am going to reinstall them and try again - this usually takes a while to get working due to multiple GPUs. If any other 1950X users are out there, please feel to step in, you will probably finish before I get my system stable again.
  20. I am completely new to OBS and screen recording, but, I am pretty sure I can't do 4k testing with a 1080p monitor. Let me know if I am wrong and I will see what I can do.
  21. I don't hate apple, they have some good stuff, but I don't feel like paying inflated prices. Their products are status symbols and you pay a hefty premium because of this. Computer wise, a lot of their lines are infrequently updated thus spend long periods being outdated. Again, there is a hefty price premium to pay compared to PC products. Having said that, I brought an old second hand iPhone for $50 and it has done the job for a number of years.
  22. I checked out Origin PC (Australia) before I built my Seti box. They were seriously lagging behind the US site in tech though, ie, no TR4 at the time. The sales dude pretty much just blew me off with a canned email and didn't follow up. So I spent 13K on parts and built my own system.
  23. A little bit less than 17 divided by 4 which equals 4.25. The reason I say a bit less is that the liquid cooled cards run stock at slightly higher clocks. If you don't know what Boinc is, the only important thing to know is it generates the same load patterns (24/7) and power usage as running crypto. So same cooling issues, electricity usage etc.
  24. I have left 4x Vega 64 LC on Nicehash for nearly 24 hours and it tends to stick like glue on the Claymore Dual Miner (DaggerHashimoto/Pascal) for 0.0015BTC ($17.07) a day. These cards are on standard firmware/stock though, as their primary purpose is crunching Boinc work units. Edit - keep the Vega 64 below 70degC if you can. The hotter they get the less efficient they are. Whilst this is true for all cards, the Vega 64 pull about 265watt per card under crypto/boinc loads so current leakage at high temp makes a bigger difference than with less thirsty cards. Dedicated miners usually undervolt Vegas but I have not gone into this so cannot comment. If you decide to use multiple Vegas, get the best quality power supply you can, and don't skimp on capacity. You want to be drawing power at the PSU's most efficient spot, not its capacity.
  25. Antec 1300 High Current Pro Plat and a Corsair AX1200i Plat. Would have preferred 2x the Antec, but my supplier couldn't get it in stock again. This machine spends more time on Seti@Home but it is still an effective miner also.
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