Mining Cards without video outputs

[garetjax]

Yep definitely lower - I'm getting 3.95 sol using 64w with my 1060 in my deeplearning rig using the forums zec nvidia docker image on ubuntu

Temp: GPU0: 48C
GPU0: 253 Sol/s
Total speed: 253 Sol/s
+-----+-------------+--------------+
| GPU | Power usage | Efficiency |
+-----+-------------+--------------+
| 0 | 64W | 3.95 Sol/W |
+-----+-------------+--------------+

 

[Joel]

Patrick, you should be able to get those down in the 80-85w range without losing much or any hash.

That seems to be about the sweet spot. My 1060 6gb cards with Nvidia Inspector settings of +250mhz mem, 70% power, 65C temp target results in:
290 Sols
59C temps
85w power draw (software reported)
3.3 Sols/w

I also keep the fan pegged at 60% and it's not offensive sitting 4 feet away from me inside a case.

Running flat out the same card gets 320 sols @ 120w.

 

[Patrick]

What are you guys using for mem/ clock/ power limit speeds?

I did push these a bit just to get a higher hashrate.

 

[Joel]

Update: 60% power, +40GPU/+260mem results in 270 sols @ 70w (3.96 sols/w). I'm turning mine back up though because I prefer making more money than squeezing efficiency out.

Aside: I acquired a GTX 980 which gets 330 sols @ 185w. 1060 beats the pants off of it efficiency wise, but I got it for a good price ($240 Craigslist find), so it's going in the hopper anyway.

@garetjax Are you using Ubuntu server or desktop edition? I'm tearing my hair out trying to get nvidia-settings working on server.

 

[Patrick]

@Joel that is a common issue. Happen to know what that translates to in memory clock (e.g. not just the offset)?

Using ethOS was $40 and a fairly annoying learning curve, but it is working now and has some nice features. One is that you can use nvidia-settings.

 

[Marsh]

@Joel

nvOC mining OS is open source , hiveOS has 3 free home mining rig license.

To run nvidia-setting in Ubuntu server version
see this url
Nvidia Linux Overclocks • r/EtherMining

curious...did you install a server version or desktop version. for me the server version had the same error until i did the few extra steps. basically this part:

Run sudo apt-get install build-essential xserver-xorg p7zip xorg-dev libgtk-3-dev xdm

Run sed -i '/Driver/a Option "Interactive" "False"' /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Add the following lines to /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup:

export PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin

export HOME=/root

export DISPLAY=:0

xset -dpms

xset s off

xhost +

Run sudo nvidia-xconfig -a --allow-empty-initial-configuration --cool-bits=28 --use-display-device="DFP-0" --connected-monitor="DFP-0" --custom-edid="DFP-0:/etc/X11/dfp-edid.bin"

did another reboot then it all worked

 

[Joel]

I've heard of ethOS but been averse to it (charging money for something based on 96% FOSS software). Can it scale well?

I'm looking into Ubuntu MAAS and Puppet/Chef right now because I'm trying to figure out how to put a bunch of machines in the data center and if I need to change/fix something down the road I want to do it once instead of 8+ times.

@Marsh I haven't tried that particular guide, but I've been working on similar lines (dummy X server) with no success. I'm considering wiping everything and starting fresh with what you just posted. Once I get the image as I like it I'll replicate.

 

[Marsh]

I screw up the http url link formatting.
Click on the URL link, it have a step by step of setting up Nvidia mining rig guide.

 

[garetjax]

Update: 60% power, +40GPU/+260mem results in 270 sols @ 70w (3.96 sols/w). I'm turning mine back up though because I prefer making more money than squeezing efficiency out.

Aside: I acquired a GTX 980 which gets 330 sols @ 185w. 1060 beats the pants off of it efficiency wise, but I got it for a good price ($240 Craigslist find), so it's going in the hopper anyway.

@garetjax Are you using Ubuntu server or desktop edition? I'm tearing my hair out trying to get nvidia-settings working on server.

Joel - I'm using server 16.04. I use a script to set my fans and power.

I use one command to up the mem and one to lower the power to 65%

garetjax@ubuntu:~$ cat startfancontrol.sh
nvidia-xconfig --enable-all-gpus --allow-empty-initial-configuration --cool-bits=28
X :2 &
sleep 10
export DISPLAY=:2
#set GPU 0..5 fan to 100%. (This assumes six GPUs)

nvidia-settings -a [gpu:0]/GPUMemoryTransferRateOffset[3]=1500


nvidia-settings -a [gpu:0]/GPUFanControlState=1 -a [fan-0]/GPUTargetFanSpeed=100
sleep 3
nvidia-smi -pl 65
sudo killall Xorg

 

[dwright1542]

I've heard of ethOS but been averse to it (charging money for something based on 96% FOSS software). Can it scale well?

I'm looking into Ubuntu MAAS and Puppet/Chef right now because I'm trying to figure out how to put a bunch of machines in the data center and if I need to change/fix something down the road I want to do it once instead of 8+ times.

@Marsh I haven't tried that particular guide, but I've been working on similar lines (dummy X server) with no success. I'm considering wiping everything and starting fresh with what you just posted. Once I get the image as I like it I'll replicate.

I use it. Scale how?

 

[Joel]

I use it. Scale how?

I want something where I can configure multiple identical nodes simultaneously. Currently have 6 but once I validate proof of concept I plan to get many more.

 

[Marsh]

I normally use Ansible to provision Ubuntu servers.

But for mining server, it is really easy.

I use PXE boot server to do network installation, at the end of pre-seed file, It called my own custom bootstrap.sh to perform system configuration. Then reboot, it would run my miner-setupsystem.sh

In miner-setupsystem.sh
Install dependencies for running xmr or xmrig or other miner program.
setup hugepages , install display drivers .... etc... for mining
copy various miner binary files , config to miners bin directory.
add shell command to start various miner program depends on config file

 

[dwright1542]

I want something where I can configure multiple identical nodes simultaneously. Currently have 6 but once I validate proof of concept I plan to get many more.

Absolutely.....called a remote config.

 

[Klee]

The main issue I have with P106 is the resale value. Crypto crashes, they are valueless. At least with 1060's, there's some return. In fact, I assumed only a 25% resale value when calculating, and it significantly reduced ROI.

The way its looking, check prices and availability lately on video cards?, it's not looking like crypto will crash anytime soon.

I payed $283 each for my 6 P106-100 mining cards, thats including shipping, I could sell them on ebay and make an easy $100 more each than I payed for them.

Anything above a Rx560 or GTX 1050 is HARD to get.

Used 1080 Ti's are going for $850 each............$100 more than they were new a few weeks ago.

The demand is way more than the supply.

 

[Joel]

Anything above a Rx560 or GTX 1050 is HARD to get.

I suspect in the near future even those cards will start selling out.

 

[Marsh]

The low end cards 1.5x to 2x price on Ebay compare to 1 months ago

 

[nitrobass24]

Yea I can’t find anything even reasonably overpriced.


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[alex_stief]

What is the point of these "mining" cards anyway? As far as I can tell, all you get is a shorter warranty and limited resale options thanks to missing video outputs.

 

[StammesOpfer]

In theory they are cheaper and possibly have a cooling solution designed for the density that is used. In this case they are packaged in a way that is very convenient for building a mining rig. Realistically if mining becomes unprofitable anything lower than a 1070 will be worthless anyway because there will be sooo many 1070 and better on the market for so cheap.

 

[alex_stief]

That is part of why I do not see a real benefit. They are not really cheaper and the reviews I saw so far indicate that they neither have better cooling nor higher performance than standard graphics cards. And as soon as they are no longer useful for mining they are basically scrap.
A graphics card with a video output could still be sold to gamers or normal users. Of course you won't make a huge profit from reselling them when every miner on the planet does the same, but even 1/3 of the original price would be better than nothing.