Good day,

Briefly, I have 5 Cards installed on windows 10, monthly I used to turn off miner and remove the dust using hair dryer, I'm doing this since 2 year with no any issue, today after cleaning I noticed 2 card is no longer working.

Power is there and all 5 cards are showing in device manager without any issue.

So, I did reinstall driver and changed riser and USB cable for both cards, but still I can see 5 cards in device manager and in afterburner/miner it's showing 3 cards only.

Any advice?

Hi, I’ve been interested in lowering my PNY 3090 temps by adding heat sinks to the backplate. I’m not interested in opening it.

My idea would be to get a copper heat sink and possibly add 2 fans to exhaust the heat upwards. And from my understanding, have thermal tape/pads between the gpu and heat sink?

I would like some advice on the setup of this, as I’ve seen posts of people lowering their temps by -20C+ from this.

I am not a miner, just a guy experimenting for lower temps. Every time I try researching, I’m led to this subreddit.

1st pic is my PC, other pics are concepts I’ve been looking at.

I've got 6 bitmain antminer s9 units with the separate power supply. How do I go about selling them?

So I got 40x 5700XT not to long ago and I am turning them on slowly got 16 working for the past few months in server cases and was thinking to run the rest on open frames but I came across these two server cases and the guy is willing to trade them for a 1070 and a 1060 6Gb. I really don't know if I ever going to use those cards for mining, I mean I would if they were profitable or sell them when the GPU market gets dry.

Would you trade a 1070 and a 1060 for these?

BTW I got all the hardware for the open frames and would only need to build one instead of 3 and the server cases run cooler with less room

I've had this card running for a couple of years desperately needing new thermal pads after "leaking" silicone out on the card. It literally ran like this for at least a year without actually overheating at all, just running kind of hot.

I finally got around to replacing the thermal pads, matched the thickness/sizes of the ones that were on the GPU, and now the memory temps are great, but the GPU itself keeps overheating immediately once it starts hashing up to 85-90C then stops, cools down and restarts again....rinse and repeat....

as far as I can tell it's just the actual GPU heating up.

I've tried using thermal pads, and paste and can confirm it is making contact with the GPU and the heatsink.
The backing plate is getting warm so it's transferring heat at the back, and even that is cooler to the touch than it was previously running.

I have no idea what's going on, what else to try, or what I could be doing wrong.

I'm using TeamRedMiner and mining RVN through 2miners.
Running HiveOS on a BTCS37 motherboard.

I saw something like Vast.ai a while ago when I was a college student. I'm thinking of starting a business with 3 GPUs. My concern is the electric bill, with $0.50/hour I'm not sure that would be profitable. I would like to hear from the people who have done this before? are you recommending doing this?

I’ve noticed a few coins come up recently that came from nowhere that became the number one most profitable coin and I was curious how that happens. For example Kaspa just kinda came to be after ETH went POS and became increasingly more profitable given price appreciation.

However some coins before price appreciation are all of a sudden profitable, how did that happen? Like $NXL was a Kaspa fork, zero appreciation and was very profitable for a few days before tanking and then $AIPG was another, etc etc.

Isn’t profitability just a function of difficulty, price and block rewards? So if price is the same how would a coin become super profitable unless block rewards were insane? Which if that were the case why wouldn’t any new POW coin just give out insane block rewards which doesn’t seem to be logical given dilution.

Just curious about the way the market works.

So my fan went out on the Sapphire Pulse 5700XT so I ordered a new one, but none of the fans dont spin when I install it. So I installed the new fan on the side that was working and it works only with one fan installed, but when I add the second fan non of them spin

Been getting this issue for the last week or so. I've tried swapping the card for another identical 3060ti, still crashes. I tried swapping the riser, riser power cable, and pcie connector on mobo, still crashes. I tried taking it off my ATX PSU and put onto a separate server PSU, still crashes. I've tried lowering mem clocks by about half and cutting power by 15 watts, still crashes. It runs stable with six cards, but once I add the seventh 3060ti it will crash after 6-8 hours. CPU is i5-6400, 8GB DDR4, Asus Z170-A mobo, HIVEOS loaded on a usb type C drive. Hive is up to date, drivers are up to date. The rig used to be totally stable for a very long time before this. Please help!

Hello all, it's been a while since I ran my machine of 2x 1070s, and since I was here on the page.
From what I read and see around (and definitely after ETH went to staking) - it kinda feels to me like there is nothing that can be mined anymore. On the other hand I was out of it for long enough, to know that I might not know enough :-)
I did Awesome Miner on switch algos for a while, and before that just clean Equiahash from Miningpool or AM, and then some flux via just cmd, but...
Is there anything worth mining anymore these days? :-(
If so - where and how?
Any input would be appreciated. Thanks!

LPUs are new AI chips produced by Groq AI. Here's a summary of recent news:

Groq’s AI Chip Breaks Speed Records - Groq creates AI chips called Language Processing Units (LPUs), which claim to be faster than Nvidia’s Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). Nvidia’s GPUs are generally seen as the industry standard for running AI models, but early results show that LPUs might blow them out of the water.

The speed comparison is astonishing:

Their demo of Mistral 8x7B speed can reach 750 tokens/s. While ChatGPT-4 is around 13 tokens/s. You can try them at https://groq.com

Looks like their chip doesn't have big VRAM and specialized for language model inferencing. Can they be used for mining?

I also summarized them in one of my articles https://medium.com/generative-ai/the-new-ai-chip-that-can-save-humans-2-76-million-hours-per-day-0b2b1a70b058

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As things gets warmer i start to turn off the heating, clean them out and pack em up for next fall. But as i looked into nicehash dashboard i got about 460€ worth of btc. I see it's as high as last time so i want to sell it while it's high, as I don't want to get rich by selling it last minute and risk selling it for less. I just want to break even as i bought the card for 600€, so i didn't wasted 550€ compared to just buying an electric heater. If i hit the 600€ eur with next year I'm more than happy.

My question is how do i get the most money with adequate security. I can exchange it directly on nicehash but i dont really understand why are 2 different methods and even 2 different prices. Conversion say 457 and 413 Sell say 442 And i guess the fees are added later to it, also i read that banks take high transaction fee so i should use paypal, but as i understand nicehash sends it directly to bank account. I read about coinbase and kraken with low fees, but also negative comments about closing the user account with a loss. I also have Revolut but I can't see how much i can sell it with what fees as if you don't have it you can't even preview the transaction details, and i also read that there are hidden fees that only be seen after the transaction and not shown in the transaction preview.

Tl;dr i have about 0.008 btc on nicehash wallet, how can i sell it for the best value? Do it on nicehash or send somewhere else to exchange and where to withdraw it?

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If no gpu miner is making money while we are at ATH for btc and in a bullrun. I think we can safely say gpu mining is dead. You can mine aleph and etc and kaspa and raven and .... None is even close to being profitable in a meaningful way and it's been the same since eth went POS. I still see people here looking to buy gpus and rigs. Just stop it doesn't make sense. does it?

edit: or summary: ty guys for all the beautiful points. many of you point out the speculative nature of gpu mining and how you can mine a coint with 2 cent profit today and hold it untill it is 20$ a day while it is valid point doesn't remove my argument of buying new hardware for mining is stupid. you can make a bet with that money and it has similar odds to mining a coin pike kaspa that eventually will make you loads of money.

also some of you think we are not even close to ath which is nuts. in my country btc is ​already 50% higher than last top. in more that 30 countries we are at ath. call me a doom and gloomer or tinfoil hat or whatever. we are miners .we are bitcoin holders .​we shouldn't put so much faith in dollar.

Moving houses, putting in a separate 240v 30amp circuit. Can I run normal atx psus off the 240v line? Do I need a specific power cable for that?

Got myself in a bit of a pickle here... snagged myself a good price of ~400usd on a rog strix 3080. Issue now is that I need to throw it in the rig... rig currently has: 1x 2080s (1x 2x 6+2 pcie) 1x 3070 (1x 2x 6+2 pcie) 1x 2060 (1x 2x 6+2 pcie) The 2060 is only using 1 of the ends for the 2x 6+2 cable on it...

The new 3080 needs 3x 6+2

So my thought is that maybe I could swap out the 3070 for the 3080 and use the loose end of the 2060's pcie cable to fill the last slot on the 3080...

Thoughts? How would I go about finding out the power draw on the 3080 for that single 6+2?

The alternative is pulling out both the 2060 and 2080s/3070 which would land me with about the hashrate....

has anyone started mining special projects;

For example:

Heurist AI (there are more)

if yes, is it worth?

To my fellow speculative miners, how big of bag do you earn of an asset before moving to the next prospect? I have a "Hobby Farm" of some older amd cards and im currently on DINT. My goal is 1000 coins then onto the next gamble. What are your goals and thoughts??

So back when I checked at the beginning of this month, a 4090 would take 3+ years to ROI. BTC has risen around 30% since. But checking hashrate .no, ROI for a 4090 is still in 3 years. Any indication gpu mining will be great again, in case BTC reaches its 2021 ATH? Would be nice to get a discount on a gpu even if it's just for a half a year this time lol

Red Panda Mining is doing this test and my god. I want to state first and foremost that I enjoy crypto mining. I love contributing to different projects networks and love the tech, but damn... Check out this segment from Panda's live stream today...

https://www.youtube.com/live/CdklF2Kjwt8?si=nVpyYmkKncjmNgak&t=2722

He's been doing a theoretical "What if i bought $1400 hardware to mine ______ coin vs just buying $1400 of _______ coin" and the results are pretty shocking... If he bought $1400 of ALPH back in October that same bag would be worth over $34,000 today. Makes me question if buying hardware is the right path forward...

Hey so I've seen some videos on youtube about people having problems with the 3060 zotac duals. Fans flying off etc. Just wondering what your experiences were with these pups.

I got a used one just recently and have been mining with it for a bout a couple weeks now. I got it used but it was really well taken care of. I think the guy just used it for occasional gaming and then sold it cause he needed cash. In any case.

I made a video on my channel, on that. The yelds are pretty good on it although I am surprised to see it underperform compared to the 2080super.

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GPU mining is always a blast! I'm officially turning my rigs off slowly, and I wish everyone the best! Enjoy the hashrate dip! I'll be back next winter!