ZCash is the first zero knowledge crypto protocol. Zcash offers total payment confidentiality, while still maintaining a decentralized network using a public blockchain. Unlike Bitcoin, Zcash transactions automatically hide the sender, recipient, and value of all transactions on the blockchain. Only those with the correct view key can see the contents. Users have complete control and can opt-in to provide others with their view key at their discretion. For general Cryptocurrency discussion, please see. (10) 1070s (EVGA, will be stepped up soon™) (8) 1080s (EVGA also, same story) (12) 1080 Ti's (the dream) Then you know, the other stuff, RAM, risers, PSUs (ugh, should've thought on those a little more, I only got gold), CPUs and I have them mounted in wire racks I already owned 2 1080s and a Rx480 so in all I have 32-33 GPUs mining, I let the 1070s mine eth because it sounds really promising, then everything else on ZEC for now since it's doing well again (imagine if alphabay didn't implode) • • • • • • •.

For this work a miner can receive Zcash (ZEC). People wish to support the Zcash network by mining with. Resources for the Zcash community and are not. Optiminer's Zcash GPU Miner Claymore's Zcash GPU Miner Nicehash's Zcash CPU Miner To update, simply stop your miners and open up a terminal window. In the terminal, type pimpup, followed by the number of the miner you wish to update. Restart your miners, and that's it. Now you're ahead of the.

The first PWS I bought was Gold. I was never into paying a lot more for anything higher rated. Once I got the first set done I ended up replacing it with a Titanium and ordered Titanium for the rest. Figured with the power efficiency I would earn the price difference back in just under two years.

And in the event I ran them for 6-7 years, they would actually completely pay for themselves. They have a 12 year warranty but six years from now I'm sure we will all have wildly different setups than we do now. • • • • • • •. We won't see something much better than what a titanium gets on 240V you know? And 1000W in 5 years will likely power even more than it can now (the push now is for efficiency). Your purchase was very very high value. For me, I pay $0.0399/kWh and the transmission fee, so in my head it was going to take a long time to get my money back on that, my 1000W G3s were $149.99 each so I bought 10 (I got in JUST before everything got really expensive).

IF I could go back I'd very likely have bought higher rating, but 92% on 240V is nothing to write off. • • • • • • •. I should have been more specific. Wasn't really meaning we would have even higher efficiency Titanium units, just meaning years from now cards will do more with less power. I would much prefer to run off a single power supply but I just couldn't make it work for my situation so I broke it up into the pair I'm using now. I've always used SeaSonic in all my servers and they have always been good to me so figured why not give them a try. My first unit was a EVGA 1000 Watt G2 and it started buzzing very loud within about 10 days so I returned it and went 100% SeaSonic.

• • • • • • •. I'm not sure how I feel about the flat SeaSonic cables.

My 850's came with flat while the power cables on my 1000's are braided. The only flat ones on the 1000's are the SATA. I didn't think I would like them but I must say they are easy to mold where you want them to go. I tried to make the cables look good but once you start adding all the PCIe power then SATA power and riser cables. Well in the end it looks like spaghetti so I finally said to hell with it. Let it run and make me some money. • • • • • • •.

I built it all on one platform out of 1' x 1/16' angled aluminum rather than three smaller ones for no other reason than just because. Didn't see myself needing to move it around much, but I did drag it though the house on those cheap ass 'magic movers' that are like $5 and I can move the entire rig with a couple of fingers. As to the components, basically three individual rigs on the one chassis. So each of the three has a Asus Z270-AR motherboard, Intel G3930 processor, and 8GB Crucial 2400 DDR4 ram. Then each has (6) EVGA 1080 TI FTW3 cards. Each individual set of components runs off (1) 1000 Watt SeaSonic Prime Titanium PWS powering the board, risers, and two of the cards.

The other four cards are powered by (1) 850 Watt SeaSonic Prime Titanium PWS. I'm running SimpleMining for OS. I really need to try out nvoc, I just haven't done it yet. I've changed my spacing slightly so each of the 3 rigs can accept a 7th 1080 TI for a total of 21 cards if I choose to add more in the future. The entire rig is basically 72' x 20' x 16'.

I didn't really know what I wanted, so it became the size it is based on the amount of material I had sitting here. That girl will put out some damn heat with that many 1080 TI's on it. I got a portable AC in there now since the rig is in one of my spare bedrooms.

I could have cooled it with my household HVAC but it would keep my unit running 24/7 and I'd rather abuse a $300 portable unit rather than a $6,000 main HVAC unit! So I get screwed on the inefficient power in the summer months and will open that door in the cooler months and let my HVAC blower (cold air return) recirculate that free heat and recoup some of the costs I've spent during the summer months. I'm looking forward to your video on your new building for your rigs. I would love to cool my rigs with ambient air but, as much people like to give me shit about running a portable AC, I live in a pollen heavy environment and would rather spend $90/month in wasted power during the summer rather than have $16,000 worth of mining rigs covered in pollen. Who wants to buy used GPU's with pollen in every frikin nook and cranny.

Even with an air compressor you'll never get it all off unless you want to dismantle the card, void the warranty and clean it with q-tips. I'd rather pay the $90/month in power and have brand new looking cards. Just my $0.02. Now with that said, I'm gonna look for your video as I'm not opposed to buying/building a storage shed and do some type of heavy filtration for the intake. • • • • • • •. I'm looking into different options.

I don't mind the portable AC right now as it's in the same room as my server rack and I don't want ambient 90-100F air with 99% (literally 99%) humidity cooling my server rack. Now if I can get the miners moved to a different location I'll look at all my options that can remove the pollen. The closest thing I have to outside at the moment is my garage.

And leaving my garage door up 24/7, even partially, to allow ambient air into the space isn't an option. When I'm home during the day, wouldn't be a problem, at night or when I'm gone, I don't leave it open. I own rental property, so my current primary home will eventually become another rental. Next home will have a basement, which isn't all that common here. I'm looking for a different home anyway, so the perfect solution may fall right into my lap with the next home. • • • • • • •. I've seen those and they are very cool videos.

This one and his other videos present the issues I mentioned for me. In his other videos he mentions and shows he still has to take things down and clean pollen out of them and obviously his door has to be up 24/7. And that doesn't take into account his set up is way more expensive (filter/fan) wise than I could afford for a simple home mining operation.

I mean this literal, not as a prick. Running my portable AC, although not as efficient as my home HVAC, isn't really that expensive. It's about $90/month during the hottest parts of the year. So let's assume I ran it for 6 months out of the year, that's roughly $540/year. I'm defiantly not going to recoup $540/year worth of free heat in the cooler months but I will recoup some where if my rigs were outside, I couldn't recoup any of that heat and would still have costs associated with large fans, the power to run them and the filter costs. Lower costs than I have now?

But the negatives outweigh the positives for me in my specific use case at this point in time. Your use case may be different. Now if I had a massive amount of rigs, the AC costs would quickly run away from me and kill my profit but I'm not there yet and doubt I ever will be. • • • • • • •.

Crypto currency mining may be just about making profit for some people, but for others it may actually allow them to get a high-end computer and have the computer pay for itself back over time by mining when you are not using it. This also applies to just upgrading your old computer with a new processor or a video card, but in order for this to work out properly you still need some proper planning. Recently I got a question if this can also be done with a high-end gaming laptop essentially paying itself back by mining, even if not in full at least partially over time. This is not that easy question and the answer is it depends on a lot of different factors, there are also some things you need to be careful with and be well aware of especially when talking about laptops and crypto currency mining.

So let me get started by telling you that I will actually use an Acer Predator 17 gaming laptop to show you some numbers and talk about what you can expect with real results and what you should and should not do. The CPU (Processor) The Acer Predator 17 laptop I'll be using is equipped with an. That is a high-performance quad-core mobile processor from Intel with HyperThreading support (4 physical cores - 8 logical threads) that comes with a maximum power consumption of 45W. The base operating frequency of the processor is 2.60 GHz, though it can be automatically boosted up to 3.50 GHz and it actually does work at pretty high operating frequency with the Turbo Boost active even at heavy load and high temperatures as you would see.

The idea is that the CPU is quite powerful and offers very good performance for a mobile solution that can be found in a laptop, even though here we have a high-end gaming laptop. The GPU (Video Card) The video card of the laptop is a brand new and Nvidia did something really interesting with their latest generation of Notebook-based Pascal GPUs. They have dropped the M for Mobile version of the GPU, meaning that hardware and performance wise the Pascal video cards used in gaming laptops are now pretty much as powerful as their desktop counterparts. Previously the M-based mobile versions of GPUs from the company were actually a stripped down variation of the desktop version in order to have them more energy efficient. Interestingly enough the GTX 1070 GPUs in gaming laptops such as the Acer Predator 17 actually do come with a bit more CUDA Cores than the desktop model, though their operating frequency is a bit lower so still the performance you can expect s pretty much the same for both the mobile and the desktop version.

As you probably know the GTX 1070 is one of the most recent Nvidia GPUs that is preferred for use by miners do the very good price/performance/power usage ratio it offers for an Nvidia GPU. So Let Us Try Mining Now If you want to try mining crypto currencies at the moment the most likely first choice would be Zcash (ZEC) due to the high profitability it offers along with the fact that even CPU mining it brings some nice results in terms of hashrate. So starting up with a CPU and GPU miner for Zcash using the results I got are about 27 H/s for the processor and another 30.4 H/s form the video card. The total hashrate is roughly about 57.4 H/s and it would've been pretty good until about a week ago when and has since been optimizing it and increasing performance for AMD-based video cards.

Since there hasn't been much development regarding Nvidia CUDA performance improvements in the Zcash miners, unlike for AMD, at the moment the less than 60 H/s total hashrate is. Not much at the moment, but there could be other more profitable crypto coins to mine at the moment that should provide better profitability, right?

The Problems With Mining on a Laptop Before continuing about more tests and options for how and what to mine let me first tell you about what problems can you expect when mining with a laptop, even when it is a high-end gaming one. Just like with regular computers when used for crypto currency mining you will get the processor and the video card stressed a lot and pushed often to their maximum, so if you do not have proper cooling you might start having issues with them overheating.

Normally gaming laptops have a more serious cooling solution as they use higher-end hardware that needs more power and generates more heat, but there are still problems and for them you can blame equally both Intel and Acer or just about any other manufacturer of gaming and not only gaming laptops. I'm starting with the processor and more specifically the operating temperatures of the CPU when it is mining Zcash and is under 100% load from the miner software. Just take a look at the temperatures that the CPUID HWMonitor software reports for the processor's cores. 76 degrees for the coolest and all the way up to 98 for the hottest one.

That is pretty damn hot operating temperature, especially for the hottest CPU core and you should normally try to avoid getting things so hot. The funny thing is that even though the operating temperature is pretty high, Intel is still using Turbo Boost to increase the frequency of the processor to almost 3.1 GHz. Bytecoin BCN Mining Online Java here.

The processor is apparently trying to fit in the power usage limit of 35 Watts and is not caring much for the high operating temperatures. On short term this should most likely not cause problems, but on the long term if you plan on mining on the CPU of the laptop long term you can start to have problems. It has been like that with the last few generations of mobile processors for Intel and they apparently do not have much problems running at high operating temperatures and still using Turbo boost, but as I've already mentioned on the long term that can cause hardware problems. Moving on to the GTX 1070 GPU and having the video card also mine for Zcash (ZEC) along with the processor. As you can see the operating temperature of the GPU is at more reasonable level a just about 72 degrees with the card also running at boost frequencies and completely stable.

High-end gaming GPUs have been better taken care of when talking about cooling inside gaming-grade laptops, so they can provide optimum performance to the user without causing issues with overheating. With gaming laptops it is like the manufacturers don't consider the possibility that the processor can be constantly loaded at 100% for a long time, but they do consider that option for the video card. While this may be true when gaming where the game utilizes more the video card than the full capabilities of the multi-core processor, with mining you can easily get 100% load on both subsystems. Interestingly enough the video card still manages to sustain operating temperature of 72 degrees even with the CPU at 0% load, so it is probably set as a maximum operating temperature in the video BIOS by default.

Mining only on the CPU however does still get it hot as hell relatively quickly, so the GPU cooling is really well done, unlike the CPU cooling apparently. Here is how the actual power usage of the laptop looks like while it is mining for Zcash on both the processor and the video card - 164.5W total power usage. Stopping the CPU miner and I got power usage of just about 125 Watt measured at the wall (around 35W for the CPU as it is apparently limited up to that). Having an adequate idea about the power used by a mining computer is really important as it plays important role in the equation for actual profit. The power used needs to be deducted from the total value of the coins you have mined. The number I have cited above about the actual profit from mining ZEC at the moment on both the CPU and the GPU is with the power cost taken into account and deducted from the value of the mined coins. So You Are In For the Profit, But What To Do I'm going for the easier solution for maximizing your mining profit from what you have available and that is the use of the automated that keeps track of what is the most profitable algorithm on NiceHash and switches automatically to it based on our hardware's hashrate for different algorithms.

More on how you can use the software -. The first thing you need to do with the Nicehash Miner is to benchmark your CPU and GPU available, so that the software know what hashrate you are getting for various algorithms and can use these numbers to calculate the best profitability at every moment and switch to the proper one as the prices change. With the processor there are actually not that much algorithms available and there are not that profitable most of the time as most crypto coins sooner or later get a GPU or even ASIC miner making it pointless to continue mining it with a CPU.

With GPUs you actually have much more mining algorithms to choose from, so benchmarking all of them can take some more time. Einsteinium EMC2 Minner more. Interestingly enough at the moment on a GTX 1070 video card it seems that using the Dagger-Hashimoto algorithm (Ethash used by Ethereum) is the most profitable (with the driver fix for the latest Pascal GPUs under Windows).

I have already explained why Zcash is not the right thing to mine at the moment with Nvidia GPUs and the NiceHash miner just confirmed this. What are we getting with the NiceHash miner using the optimal algorithms for the available hardware - estimated earnings of about $2.71 USD per day or with other words better than just blindly going for Zcash on both the CPU and the GPU. Now, this may not seem that much for a day, but it is not that little actually. Just multiply by 365 days and you will get something close to $1000 USD for a year. Of course the idea here is not to mine all the time, but only when you are not using the laptop and the profit will of course vary up and down over time and you still need to deduct the price of the electricity used (about 160W).

You can of course get a better chance at maximizing your profit by mining specific crypto currency and then trading it on an exchange, but it is probably not worth it if you do not have a multi-GPU mining rig(s) available and are going to be using just what a single gaming laptop is capable of providing you with. Really not worth the extra time and effort needed for the chance of some extra percent higher profit, I'm saying for the chance as trying your luck may as well give you worse results. Is it Worth It in the End? This is a tough question to answer, really. The fact is that in 2 to 3 years of time you are very likely to have mined enough or even more than what the laptop would cost you to buy at the moment (around $2000 USD or around 2200 EURO) and that goes for not mining on it all the time, but only when you are not playing games on it.

Even if the total amount is not the full cost of the laptop, but only half it will still not be that bad if the laptop continues to work properly and does not cause you issues. So getting a high-end gaming laptop and using it not only to play games, but also for crypt currency mining may be a useful way to reduce the bill.

Now for the important stuff should you decide to go for a high-end gaming laptop with a powerful CPU and GPU like the Acer Predator 17 that I have used here as an example. First off I would not recommend to actually use the processor to mine with, go for only the GPU.

This should result in much lower chance of having issues due to the heat generated from the laptop on the long run. This will reduce your profit, but will save you possible trouble of having to deal with warranty repairs or replacement after some time. Generally CPU mining is not very profitable most of the time anyway, though currently for Zcash the situation is still not that bad. For the moment. One thing that YOU MUST DO, regardless if the laptop is going to be used for mining or not is to purchase an extended warranty to let us say 3 years.

It will bring the cost slightly up, but will ensure that if a problem occurs you will be covered for longer period of time. With using the laptop 24/7 for gaming and mining the chances of problems on the long run increase, so having extra warranty can really help not only for your peace of mind, but also in case something really does happen. Now, to answer the question if I would actually buy a gaming laptop and use it for mining as well in order to get back some of my investment. Normally I would not, just because I don’t like playing games on a laptop.

I use it for work and not for games. The reason for this is that I actually have a dedicated high-end gaming desktop PC at home with larger display and more powerful hardware that I use for gaming (not that I have been gaming that much lately). Regarding mining, I would still go for dedicated multi-GPU mining rig, but that is just me. The option is there and the chances are that you can actually going to get some of the money you paid for the laptop in the first place back might be an attractive one for some people. Just make sure that you play things right and be careful about the things I have mentioned above should you decide to try and actually do this as this advice can actually save you some bad experiences! If you have a question or want to add something, then please leave a comment below. Did you like what you have just read?

Yes, unlike with could mining, when you actually buy some hardware and use it for mining it will still retain some value if you decide to sell it after a year or two. This is also true for a gaming laptop that you may use for let's say 1 year for mining as well, then sell it and get a new more up to date model for less thanks to what you have already mined. Cloud mining contracts are really pretty risky, especially if you are riding the hype train and preorder something even before it is launched like in the case of Zcash. At the moment a single GPU can make more than what you have paid thousands of dollars for as a cloud contract thanks to the latest miner optimizations.