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Nice setup! I see you have a at the wall watt meter. I need to get one of those. Does the one you have work as advertised? How is the heat coming off your rig? If you dont mind me asking what is the MH/s rate for the entire rig?
I would agree it is high risk. however, I am in it for a couple of reasons; I love building computers. This is in my wheelhouse of what I am good at. As far at the business model goes, I would say right now its more of a experiment. I dont see myself getting out of it even it becomes unprofitable. The reason is I will be using any money made to buy speculative positions in other crypto. The reality is I only have to be right in one of them. Right now I plan on converting the ETH to Raven. It is supposed to halving in January of 2022. Plus with the EIP 1559 coming in July it could give it a boost.
To your point about it being cyclical, I remember when ETH dropped off last year after the huge run up. Had I been mining then, even at a loss, I would have more than made up for it with the run back up. To me this is a investment. Buy low sell high as the old saying goes.
Nice setup! I was going to go with the 3080s but they were out of the price range I wanted to pay for it. I am doing the same thing with ETH and Raven.
Take a look at HiveOS. One of the cool features is they can suggest popular settings for overclocking for your video card. I was able to squeeze another 10% out of the card with their suggested settings. Example is below.
I tried lolminer but had a better hash rate with T-Rex miner.
Here are my current numbers for the video card. Ignore the consumption stat. It is not correct. I need to get a at the wall watt meter for a accurate reading.
The RTX 3060 TI hash rate out of the box was 55.75. After testing different overclock settings it is now up to 63.60. I think there is some room to go to the upside. I really need to get a accurate at the wall watt reading to really fine tune it.
One of the nice features with HiveOS is to be able to apply changes to the overclocking remotely and logging in remotely. You can setup overclock templates for the coin your mining and it automatically applies the OC changes when the mining starts. It also allows for changes on the fly. As a test I upped the memory from 2950 to 3000. The hash rate went from 63.41 to 63.60. See second screenshot. It took 30 seconds to make and apply the change.
Interesting, my RTX 3060 Ti stays around 51.5 MH/s:
GPU1: 67C 66% 182W
GPUs power: 182.4 W Eth: New job #534418bc from etc.2miners.com:1010; diff: 8726MH
Eth speed: 51.429 MH/s, shares: 2/0/0, time: 0:02
Eth speed: 51.468 MH/s, shares: 2/0/0, time: 0:02
Eth: New job #0763c81e from etc.2miners.com:1010; diff: 8726MH
Eth speed: 51.495 MH/s, shares: 2/0/0, time: 0:02
Overclocked things goes faster but weirdly I had few OS crashes, not sure if it's linked but no crash since I'm back to the normal config.
After a couple of weeks mining, only when I was working and when my office was a bit cold, I earned 14 cts... So not worth the additional GPU noise, I've ended my crypto-miner career.