Posted: 24 Sep 2018 08:05 AM PDT

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Posted: 24 Sep 2018 08:02 AM PDT

Greetings GPU mining!

I wanted to practice my flashing skills with a Vega 56, so I bought an MSI vega 56 Air Boost with Samsung memory. I bought it used and came pre flashed with a 64 bios. For education purposes, I am trying to locate the stock 56 bios it came with. I found the MSI Vega 56 air boost bios on techpowerup, but I have tried flashing it back with atiflash via the GUI and the command line. They both give me an SSID mismatch and write errors and they will not flash. Am I using the wrong bios on techpower up? Instead of going into the MSI section on techpowerup, should I just be using the AMD section?

This is the bios I am currently trying to flash to: https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/?architecture=AMD&manufacturer=MSI&model=RX+Vega+56&interface=&memType=&memSize=&since= (the bottom one that said air boost)

Why wouldnt this one work?

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I've done the calculations and...

Posted: 23 Sep 2018 03:42 PM PDT

It's much better for me to switch from GPU mining to buying my stock of crypto straight from the markets. Here's how the numbers shake out.

0.134 Etherum & 778 Arionum mined last billing cycle for my power bill.

My power is shown to be $ 0.068 per kw/h, but after all of the administration charge, delivery charge, distribution charges, transmission charge, balancing pool allocation, and rate riders my actual cost for electricity is $0.266 per kw/h

After using my wattage meter to find out that I am using 409 KW / month which ends up being 50% of the electricity bill. I spent $ 108.90 to pay for electricity so I could have the fun of mining.

And calculating what that crypto is worth today to sell it and recoup? Its worth $ 43.26.

So I'll be turning off my mining rig and buying crypto instead for the time being... But I wonder what would it take for me to get back into mining crypto?