If you paid with a credit card, they may extend the warranty period if the manufacturer refuses it.  Dont know if its only new stuff though.  I know my little brother uses all the small print on his credit card. 

the list of atx company that had failed psus

rosewill
seasonic
antec
evga
fractal

notice the major company I left off.  I won't write the name as I do not want to jinx myself.

Atx psu's do break with 24/7 use

anyone have experience or preference between the pools where you can point all types of hash power and get payout in BTC?

such as

zpool
ahashpool


i have a bunch of 1080TI cards and some L3's i want to pull together to get BTC payout.  I started at Ahashpool, and switched over to zpool.  I think I had better experience at ahashpool - curious if anyone has any input.

I have used all of the above pools and more, still using NH for some rigs, over last 3 years.

After all of that, I settled for Prohashing.com

I have consolidated 21GHs of Scrypt, 110TH of SHA256, 350GHs of D3s and 30% of the NVIDIA farm to send Equihash hash to Prohashing.com

From there, I get/select 4 coins to 4 address portioned 30%, 30%, 30% and 10%

The 4 coins that I selected currently are BTC, ETH, LTC and DeepOnion.

Previously, I selected only 2 coins at 50% each but decided to also collect a few gems in the Prohashing.com list (that includes Ripple, ZEN, etc.)

I am tired of chasing ASICs and getting into the GPU vs ASICs dilemma - so I buy all the ASICs and GPUs needed when price is right, and just point them to Prohashing.com

Usually, compensation is paid out during outtage, at Prohashing.
Just ensure your failover pools are active.

Depending on your strategy:

IMHO

For small miners and looking for ease of use = Nicehash (with stable & regular payouts to BTC only)

Thank you very much. As Elder says I appreciate your opinion and input a lot.

my current strategy is all Gpu, been buying more 1070ti and 1070s at last years msp

i will mine the hell out of raven pigioen, reden and proton and maybe loki using a private
pool so we get lots of extra blocks rather than pool mining.

that is possibl for small farms since the x16 algos have not been contaminated by asics yet

this time we wil be holding our coins tho.

this same grp mined 8k ethereum back in 2015 but none of us held

not going to make that mistake again.

I advise you guys to join smaller pools and do the same, thats how we mined so much ethereum back in 2016
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The auto-convert pools suffer from a fatal flaw in my experience: they have you mine the coin that is most profitable right now but convert it to BTC (or whatever coin you selected) hours to days later. If the coin was only temporarily the most profitable because a pump was underway only to be dumped, as usually occurs, then a massive percentage of your earnings get wiped out.

I did comparison tests between various auto-convert pools and NiceHash with matched 1080 rigs on each and every single day I earned more on NH; some days it was 10% more, but most days it was 20-30% more (net of fees, but taking advantage of the free transfer from NH to CoinBase).

I had much better results on Zpool by simply choosing a single algo and auto-converting to a coin that used that algo; in those cases I generally made exactly what my hashrate predicted if I had mined the auto-convert coin directly (note that the implied goal here is to make more than direct mining, otherwise what's the point?).

YMMV, and I can't claim exhaustive experience like most of the participants in this thread series, but after 2 months of dicking around with NH and the various auto-convert pools I went back to mining single coins.

great response - i provided you merit.

Yeah switchers are always chasing and behind  the hot coin.  Plus a shit ton of other people do the same switching.

I mine 1 or 2 coins  zec and a shit coins at the moment and my 16x 1080tis are between 2.25 and 3.25 a card before power cost.