Don Lapre posted:

I have a customer who wants me to build him a 6 gpu 1060 rig. should i tell him hes dumb or take his money

Enos Cabell posted:

I thought I'd save some of this funny money for the Steam sale, but holy gently caress the fees to use it are insane. I just bought a $4.99 game on Steam with BTC, and after fees it was over $9. gently caress that.

Fruit Chewy posted:

divabot posted:

u wot m8. Gaming hardware in particular burns bright and short and wears out before its time, particularly if you're using it at full power 24/7.


This is the correct attitude: keep a close eye on your takings and costs, and quit before you fall behind. (I know someone who did okay in the first Bitcoin bubble with this approach, finally giving up when it all went ASIC.)


bugger me, there's literally a bubble in the video cards themselves now.

QuarkJets posted:

I spelled out exactly what the problems were in that case: 24/7 use with insufficient cooling. Note that these are likely the conditions subjected to a video card that was used for at-home mining

Don Lapre posted:

This is why you cant buy bideo cards

https://www.reddit.com/r/EtherMining/comments/6j9hwf/bought_too_many_gpus_delimma/

Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:

Ahahahahahahaha

Also ethereum took a nut shot to its value and it keeps dropping. I think I'm going to stop mining it in a couple weeks/days since the profit is just too low now. It was a good run !

Watermelon Daiquiri posted:

WTF even is WAVES? like a 'make-ur-own-bitcoin' thing?

xthetenth posted:

You buy electricity in direct proportion to the money you extract from libertarian fantasies, as you extract the money. You then turn it into gift cards or similar that has actual value greater than the electricity you paid for. At this point it isn't, so you've stopped, and you've got a bit of burrito or etailer money.

TomR posted:

I "made" $9.87 over the past two days and I'm done now. I'm gonna go mow the lawn for the old lady who lives across the street and she'll pay me $20 and give me a coke to drink while I do it so that's pure profit.

Risky Bisquick posted:

Stealthgerbil posted:

Golem is a pre-mined coin. Thats right, people are buying a coin because someone is like 'it can do this in the future maybe?'. Neat concept but not exactly worth giving money to people for them.

Kt88 posted:

I was seriously getting a mining rig together as I happen to have a newish 1070 and an old 290 which appeared to both be good cards for mining. Read this thread over the past week and changed my mind. Just sold both cards last night for stupid money and placed an order for a 1080ti using the proceeds. Thanks guys.

1gnoirents posted:

Got my first whopping completely free $27 deposit guys. all this free money makes it all worth it

1gnoirents posted:

If a 1900 overclock concerns anybody I have some baaaaaaad news

Also if you care to notice I specifically placed my cards on Non-Conductive materials and ganged several PSU's together to spread the power load for a clean oxygen free sine wave power signal.



trust me im the last of your worries

QuarkJets posted:

I don't think that it should be using hardly any of your system RAM. Is it also having you CPU mine?


GPUs for scientific computation have become a big business, but most of the scientific community uses Tesla and sometimes TITAN cards instead of 10XX consumer-grade graphics cards. For poo poo like deep learning you usually don't need double precision, so 10XX cards should be sufficient in theory if you wanted to setup a scientific computation box. But as has been discussed before, these cards aren't designed to live in dense clusters, which is probably why the warranty is so short. So I guess if you don't have enough funds to do work on a supercomputer but want to tool with the hardware, you could buy a couple of these and at least be able to tool around with GPU-relevant applications, like image processing or machine learning. These wouldn't be useful for HPC centers; NVLink offers too much value to try and skimp by buying these things, and there's no way that you could get an affordable HPC service contract supporting consumer-grade GPUs with only 6-month warranties


I've done some ML (not my primary source of work), they often are, and you can do ML reasonably well without NVLink, just over PCIe. NVLink gives you a huge performance boost and makes your code easier to develop, but sure, you can still do some ML stuff without it.

I think these would be fine if someone wanted to set up a github for personal projects that use GPUs but didn't already own a GPU, for instance

Fruit Chewy posted:

I turned some mined bitcoin into amazon giftcards which I turned into EVE Online space gold because I figured I needed to complete the hosed up circle of virtual libertarian currencies.

MaxxBot posted:

My 1070 can hit 32 if you OC it a lot, the 1080 does a bit worse because of GDDR5X. The 1080 Ti does like 37 or so but my 1080 Ti has never actually run dagger before so I'm not totally sure. It's a bad value for mining Eth at least, I'm curious to see how it does mining Zcash and other stuff.

Fauxtool posted:

you just need to spend 700 on another 1080 ti. Then your daily income will be great, nevermind the added investment. Do you not have faith in cryptocurrency or something?

1gnoirents posted:

Alright guys I'm posting this because im pretty god drat proud, but feel free to laugh. I violated the poo poo out of rule #1 on day 0 so I figured well, go all in!

I present to you the computer made out of garbage







a few fitment issues lol

(all prices including shipping, tax, etc)
$10 - Craigslist Case (Coolermaster 915R ??? never heard of this weird rear end thing)
$28 - Ebay Intel "i5" 4570T
$20 - Ebay Unknown pulled B85 Acer Motherboard
$22 - Amazon new PSU EVGA something
$0 - 4 GB drawer ram
$6 - Store bought lovely zalman cooler

Took me a week but $86 to put together an actual computer that works to plug a GPU into is unreal to me. The 1070 I have in it is being returned to best buy so I can put my current (cheaper) 1080 into it as I have a 1080ti on the way for my regular computer

I do have a small issue with this CPU, Nicehash doesn't seem to find it to mine with. It seems to meet all the requirements I could find (specifically AES instruction set and "not old"). I've seen it generally not recommend to mine with the CPU but this is a 35W TDP CPU and so far CPU mining has gained me about 10% on top. Even my OC'd 6600k uses 30 more watts over not using it which has totally been worth it so I'd like to CPU mine if possible.

edit: (oh yeah, windows 10 evaluation and an old ssd I pulled from my main computer I never use). Its also dead silent at 100% load, puts my main computer to shame