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    September 13, 2019

    GPU Mining How relevant is this video today?

    How relevant is this video today?

    Posted: 13 Sep 2019 09:15 AM PDT

    Hello guys, so at the moment I'm thinking of getting my feet wet with single gpu mining and I'm trying to invest as little as possible until I am absolutely certain this is something I can confidently say I will pursue, to minimise my risk should it not work out for any reason.

    I found this video on youtube, and started searching for the stuff listed on amazon. They are obviously cheaper now as more time has passed, and so even more affordable. However, the graphics card the guy recommends in the video is the RX570, a now roughly 2 year old card.

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    And now my question: How viable is mining with this card today? I'm not seeking maximum profitability obviously as I'm doing this more as a hobby project/on-a-budget tryout, but will I have even a hope of making a little profit from it? If not, which card on the cheaper end of the spectrum would you recommend, and will that particular card affect the motherboard option?

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    Thanks in advance!

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    What happened to whattomine?

    Posted: 13 Sep 2019 09:00 AM PDT

    Haven't been able to access the page for several days now. Anyone know what's up?

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    GPU "power draw" more than you think - a little study.

    Posted: 12 Sep 2019 09:01 AM PDT

    GPU "power draw" more than you think - a little study.

    As a follow up to my post on electricity costs I wanted to share this "study". This is a very simple example of measuring your real power use. For reference we are mining ETC with Claymore and an AMD RX 570.

    Myth: "the card is using 110 watts"
    Truth: card is pulling 165 watts (which is in line with Tom's Hardware & mining forums)

    Here is reported via Claymore (purple text at the bottom)

    Claymore Screenshot

    Here is PC draw at idle: 61 watts

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    Power Meter

    Here is watts running one GPU -- and additional 165 watts, as I add cards the draw is perfectly linear.

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    $16 Amazon Power Meter

    I high recommend everyone get's one of these power meter gadgets -- $16 on Amazon. Great for engineering your "real" mining setup.

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    Issue with newly built miner - 3 Radeon VII GPU's

    Posted: 02 Sep 2019 11:41 PM PDT

    Hi there,

    So I built my miner with:

    • 3 Radeon VII GPU's all mounted on PCIe risers
    • Gigabyte B450M S2H motherboard (it has two PCIe x1 slots and one PCIe x16 slot)
    • 8GB RAM
    • 128GB M.2 Sata SSD
    • a Corsair HXi 1200W (it's HXi because I got it at a deal and it was costing the same as an HX at the time)

    The issue is: it's running fine with two GPU's, but not with three GPU's. As in, when I put the third PCIe riser in the mobo (with the GPU mounted on it), the miner won't boot at all. Not only that, but unless I take out the PCIe risers (all three of them) and clear CMOS - it won't boot again.

    edit: by "the miner won't boot at all", I've meant that I can't enter at all in BIOS when I have the 3rd GPU connected to the mobo via the pcie riser. The system powers up but nothing gets displayed on the monitor.

    What I've done so far to rule out issues:

    1. I've ran any two GPU's in combination (GPU1 with GPU2, GPU2 with GPU3, GPU1 with GPU3) to figure out if a GPU or a PCIe riser was defective. Turns out all GPUs and PCIe risers ar fine.
    2. I've removed the M.2 SSD thinking that on some motherboards, if the M.2 slot is occupied it might block a PCIe slot or a SATA port. This was not the case (and it wasn't mentioned in the Motherboard manual as well, still I wanted to test it out)
    3. Motherboard is updated with latest BIOS

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    What I'm thinking is left to try out:

    1. put a GPU directly in the motherboard and leave the other two on PCIe risers. I've read somewhere that Vlotage from the PSU might not be enough for the GPUs + risers and some people claimed that they had 6 GPU mining rigs working if 5 GPU's were on risers but the last one was directly mounted in the Mobo. I still need to document myself regarding this as I thought that my PSU must be beefy enough.
    2. worst case scenario, replace motherboard only if PSU is not the issue

    At the moment, I'm starting work, but this afternoon I'm hoping to try out new solutions.

    Until then, if you guys can help me with some advice I'll be quite grateful :)

    Have a nice day / evening ahead!

    Update:

    Got home a few hours ago. Tried to plug in one of the GPU's directly in the Pcie x16 slot and this didn't work.

    I also tried, as per /u/EthanMiner suggestion to enable 4g encoding in BIOS, this still didn't solve my issue.

    I think, as /u/Danile644 suggested, that if I actually need to reset CMOS after I unplug the GPUs, then it must be a motherboard issue.

    I'm out of ideas at this point, so I will order another mobo. Lesson learned, don't cheap out on the mobo, even if I think it has what I need. Obviously the 3 Pcie slots is not the only requirement in this particular situation.

    Thank you for all your inputs!

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