<div dir="ltr">@Ron Singh that would be excellent if possible I don't know what I could offer back except my address and maybe a peruse of my various electronics to see if there's anything you'd be interested in borrowing of mine. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 9:38 PM Ron Singh <<a href="mailto:ronsingh149@gmail.com">ronsingh149@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">@Chamunks(did I address this right?), I think I have something that will do the trick for you. <br>If it is at my office, I will lend it to you. I need it back before mid-Feb next year for year end tho', that would be the only condition. Lemme check if I have it when I pop in there on Monday. I will also check for the required </div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;display:inline" class="gmail_default"></div>2x 8 pins and 1x 6 pin.<br><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Checking <a href="http://nicehash.com" target="_blank">nicehash.com</a>, looks like the 980Ti can generate some decent hash rates, so money certainly can be made. although for a few months, nothing to write home about. Should be a fun exercise though. Let you know on Monday afternoon if I have a PSU to lend.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_-8439620660328432420gmail_signature">Thanks,<br><br>Ron Singh<br>"in transit, via mobile comm device"</div></div>
<br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 9:11 PM, Chamunks <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chamunks@gmail.com" target="_blank">chamunks@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Since this card isn't going to be mine forever and just needs to run for a few months I wasn't thinking of going to deep into the red for this thing so even if someone had a spare PSU for a few months or something. That'd be lovely I'm all about horse trading if someone had something available I have a lot of misc electronics that could go well in a trade. I didn't mean to prematurely send that last message sorry about the double 'post'</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 9:08 PM Chamunks <<a href="mailto:chamunks@gmail.com" target="_blank">chamunks@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Well @Peter Melse it takes<div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;display:inline" class="gmail_default"></div> <div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;display:inline" class="gmail_default"></div>2x 8 pins and 1x 6 pin.<br><br>@William Park, for some reason I didn't think of computer recycling.<br><br>@Ron Singh, yes I was either going to turn this machine into a remote 3d rendering machine for an associate of mine who does C4D renders until I found out that the GPU rendering extension for C4D costs $600USD so, no... I figured helping him get paid for rendering would be more profitable for both of us then crypto mining. But my friend had this 980TI kicking around and I have a tower available which could probably run this so I figured either mine or do this.<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 8:41 PM Ron Singh <<a href="mailto:ronsingh149@gmail.com" target="_blank">ronsingh149@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">What make/model graphics card? <br>Crypto-mining in the mix? <br><br><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">OK,
at this point, I have to chime in kinda loudly -- decent(meaning things that don't die)
PSUs can be had real cheap. There is no reason *not* to embrace some of
the 2nd and 3rd tier brands out there. No need to blow hundreds on PSUs.<br><br></div>I have had tremendous luck with a 2nd tier brand, Apevia.<br>These are pretty inexpensive 800w/1000w off-brand PSUs, they do not die.<br>I have had dual Xeons with TDP of 240W each and and 6 7200RPM drives running off the 1000w units for years now.<br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I have used the 800w units with i7 Extreme 6-core jobbies married to GTX-1070/1080Ti and they have been running quite nicely for over 8 months now.<br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">An Apevia 800w blurb right from the mfg:<br><a href="http://apevia.com/ProductsInfo.asp?KEY=ATX-JP800W" target="_blank">http://apevia.com/ProductsInfo.asp?KEY=ATX-JP800W</a><br><br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">These things should be no more than 80 bucks or so. See Newegg Canada advert here --<br><a href="https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16817148059" target="_blank">https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16817148059</a><br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">85 bucks + tax. Pretty good deal.<br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Disclaimer: I am in no way involved with Newegg Canada<br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Oh yeah, if you do buy a PSU and you actually do get into mining, having the extra juice will be helpful in case you want to upp your mining rate by adding another video card.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_-8439620660328432420gmail-m_6145679440523508351m_1868624567720740910m_-3182951704456541072gmail_signature">Thanks,<br><br>Ron Singh<br>"in transit, via mobile comm device"</div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 12:07 PM, Chamunks <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chamunks@gmail.com" target="_blank">chamunks@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I've got a graphics card here that takes three VGA power connectors to power the thing. It's a beast but I can't really justify paying much for a PSU and I'm not really sure where I can find one that will suit my needs here that isn't going to cost hundreds of dollars.</div>
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