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Title: BBT Episode 5: Sapphire Toxic R9 280x Mining Rig Review Post by: alumar on January 15, 2014, 02:07:00 PM BEST VIEWED IN 1080p HD
http://youtu.be/XQQae3lq_RY (http://youtu.be/XQQae3lq_RY) In this episode the BBT dives into the Sapphire Toxic R9 280x Toxic and its performance hashing, both from a open air aluminum, traditional case both open and closed and finally with some external airflow provided from a fan. Additionally which settings worked best for us for a strong and solid performance. We build a crazy fast traditional PC to push these cards to the limits both from a mining rig and gaming perspective, figuring with just two why not build an great PC in the process. Best configuration we found was (Crossfire - Disabled): -I 13 -w 256 -g 2 --shaders 2048 --thread-concurrency 8192 --gpu-engine 1070 --gpu-memclock 1500 --gpu-powertune 20 --gpu-vddc 1.100 As for the PC build the specs are: Carbide Series® Air 540 High Airflow ATX Cube Case Intel i7 4770k @ 4.6ghz (stable) MSI Z87-G45 Gaming LGA 1150 Motherboard 16gb (8x2) Corsair Ballistix Memory 2x 240GB Kingston HyperX SSD - set to Raid0 eVGA Supernova 1300W G2 Power Supply Let us know what you think! While I know its not hashing Bitcoin our channel's next few episodes are going to cover 2 topics I believe a lot will be interested in: 1) Deep dive on the pseudoscience behind finding the right set of configurations 2) Explain through visual animation (building as we speak in After Effects) what is double spending, how if 0 confirmations it can occur and 7+ confirmation's via peer to peer solve the issue Title: Re: BBT Episode 5: Sapphire Toxic R9 280x Mining Rig Review Post by: Scyntech on January 15, 2014, 02:16:37 PM dig it bud ;)
Title: Re: BBT Episode 5: Sapphire Toxic R9 280x Mining Rig Review Post by: KWH on January 15, 2014, 02:46:11 PM Quote Best configuration we found was (SLI Disabled): If it's AMD, wouldn't that be Crossfire? ;D Title: Re: BBT Episode 5: Sapphire Toxic R9 280x Mining Rig Review Post by: alumar on January 15, 2014, 02:56:03 PM Quote Best configuration we found was (SLI Disabled): If it's AMD, wouldn't that be Crossfire? ;D good catch .. ;) were doing a review on 2 780's using cuda miner and its on my mind :) Title: Re: BBT Episode 5: Sapphire Toxic R9 280x Mining Rig Review Post by: KWH on January 15, 2014, 06:08:38 PM Quote Best configuration we found was (SLI Disabled): If it's AMD, wouldn't that be Crossfire? ;D good catch .. ;) were doing a review on 2 780's using cuda miner and its on my mind :) NP just ragging on ya a bit. All in good fun. 8) Title: Re: BBT Episode 5: Sapphire Toxic R9 280x Mining Rig Review Post by: jumpmanjay on January 15, 2014, 09:06:03 PM Isn't 1300w pretty big overkill for that setup? Not criticizing, just curious.
Title: Re: BBT Episode 5: Sapphire Toxic R9 280x Mining Rig Review Post by: Lauda on January 15, 2014, 09:14:37 PM Isn't 1300w pretty big overkill for that setup? Not criticizing, just curious. Pretty big overkill?4x 270x will need 850W. |