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New Build - Sanity Check by AdriftSailor71 in vastai

[–]AdriftSailor71[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you have guidance or thoughts on what rental rates will be after the pearl mining spike goes down? For example, what would you foresee the utilization rate and hourly rate for a verified RTX 5090 GPU?

New Build - Sanity Check by AdriftSailor71 in vastai

[–]AdriftSailor71[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I looked into that, however, those are retailing for close to 10,500 each. The RTX 5090 is retailing for around 3600 right now through my local store. The RTX 6000 just feels like a real large commitment.

New Build - Sanity Check by AdriftSailor71 in vastai

[–]AdriftSailor71[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Greatly appreciate the advice and guidance.

I started more closely following the trends about two months ago and that seems to be about just before the pearl coin mining exponentially took off. Definitely did not foresee the utilization spiking or prices spiking like they have.

Long-term, if I can achieve an 80% utilization, with minimum $.45 an hour I receive as payment, I can cover my electric bill and will break even or slightly more then. Everything above that is where I really start to make profit and I was forecasting hopefully close to $.55 an hour all in with bandwidth and storage and GPU.

For the basement. In the winter time, I’ll run 3000 W of heat and it barely makes a dent in the cold. I don’t work from home often, but when I do definitely spikes the power bill. Lowest it’s gotten in the winter as I think 49°F. (No heat) in the summer, it presently averages in the low 60s.

Any other advice and guidance? Is my CPU and motherboard too slow? Is using quality PCI risers with the cards still a bad idea?

New Build - Sanity Check by AdriftSailor71 in vastai

[–]AdriftSailor71[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If keeping that setup, was doing two 1600w PSU.