If you look back a couple of pages, you'll find a comment by Claymore indicating that he knows "Dual is Dead" for now due to the new ASICs and that he is working on another algo that he expects to be twice as powerful as existing "solutions" for that coin (he doesn't say which one, but I suspect we will know soon, maybe with 10.7 release?).  I'm just speculating, of course.

Those of you who haven't properly tuned your systems can keep doing what I have been doing with my spare time lately and my original miner MH/s rate is up 26.98% over what I was doing a week ago.  I thought I had tried everything as far as overclocking, mods and volt hacking, but apparently not.

I started with 18.9MH/s and now I am running just over 24MH/s - now that's worth doing!  It seems that my Samsung RAM is more capable than I thought given proper specs.

I suppose that I know what I'm doing, since this is out of the stock HP nVidia 1060 3GB card I had in my rig before I built a true mining rig.  When you see your effective MH/s go over 30 for the first time, you know that you are truly winning the silicon lottery, as I have heard stated before - especially for this plain jane / vanilla GPU.

Truly amazing where prices have gone in the past 30 days!  I purchased two 580-based video cards right after Christmas - one Sapphire Nitro+ 580 4GB and one Asus ROG Strix 580 8GB "Top" OC edition.  I bought an Asus ROG Strix GTX1080 8GB OC edition about two weeks before that for $560, also.

I paid nearly $350 for the Asus card, and just under $300 for the Sapphire.  Looking around last night for "more of the same", the cheapest I could find the Asus "T8G" model is over $550 and the Sapphire Nitro+ 4GB is going for over $450 on eBay and unavailable for the most part on Amazon and NewEgg.  That Asus 1080 has just evaporated, I guess - last price I can find was over $1000.

Those are STUPID expensive prices for cards, and I suppose that we miners are to blame for these absurd prices, because you just can't buy GPU cards for a reasonable price no matter where you look right now.  Maybe there are a couple of places I don't normally look for them, but those have always been my 3 "goto" websites for computer parts of all types.

I was thinking about trying a GTX1070ti but those are priced around $800-$1000 right now.  That's freakin' crazy!  Since I am basically only doing Ethereum - at least for now with most other coins being strangled by ASIC devices, I guess that the 4GB cards are fine - for now.  I read that the 4GB cards will likely be unusable for Ethereum beyond a certain epoch in the not too distant future (let's say a year?) when the DAG overruns that 4GB size, but the exact time that happens remains to be seen - at least for now.

Maybe, but for "-ethi" (I mistyped the OG message, and added "or '-ethi" later), it's 16 (for nVidia cards, at least).  If you try something higher than that, it displays a message that "16 is the highest" (and 8 is default - I finally found it in the "README" file).


Actually, no - you can't.  Only works on AMD-based GPUs, not at all for nVidia even if you turn on "-asm 1" as it suggests when you try it with only nVidia cards.

Well, I thought the same thing after re-reading the README file, but it's not the case for nVidia-based GPUs, only for AMD.  I have a pair of OC'd RX 580's (one Asus 8GB "Top" OC and one Sapphire "Nitro+" 4GB) cards sitting here waiting for my DOA Z270 mobo to get back to me, so I'll be able to tune those more easily, obviously.

I haven't seen the stats ("s" key while running) with an AMD-based GPU yet, but nVidia cards apparently don't show that much except basic stats.  Of course the hash rate is there...

Damn! That's _WAY_ higher than I even guessed it could be.  I'll set it to 35 and let 'er rip for a while.  I'm still a noob, no doubt about it, but I do remember seeing "30" listed somewhere.  I thought it was a single digit, and as I recall it's set to 9 by default?

Anyway, let's see how it rides.  My mining rig with dual Asus RX590's and a Asus GTX1080 GPUs will be put together next week.

One a side note, I sure am glad that I purchased my video cards back during the holiday season instead of postponing it until I was ready to invest more heavily.  The prices I found when I went looking yesterday are just freaking insane!  My 1080 "OC" version is now going to around $900, and that's IF you can find it.  Darned RX590's are up to $600/$750 again - IFF.  I went back and looked at the "README" file and it does discuss it somewhat, but nothing truly conclusive about what you want/need, especially for nVidia-based GPUs.

One other side note that I should post while I am thinking about it, since I feel certain that Claymore actually reads this thread: "Please!" blank out or mask the -mport -mpsw in the log files: I wanted a friend to take a look at them to see what he might notice as far as my restart problem and noticed that it's printed in clear text at the top of the log when the command-line is echo'd out to the log.  Not good security, and we have enough things to remember these days.

Thanks, everyone!


P.S.: I noted when I tried "-ecri 35" that the max possible (at least for nVidia, I guess) is 16.  That's where I am at this point.

Yeah, unfortunately with nVidia cards, even if you enable "-asm 1" (like it tells you), it doesn't work.  That's - currently, anyway - AMD chip GPUs only.

Besides, at least with my 1070 it doesn't show that value on-screen (at least I don't recall seeing it, and I _have_ been watching it!

Guys, is there a definite reference somewhere about what exactly you can set "-dcri" to?  Intensity 5-9 doesn't seem to make much difference for me as far as the output effective in MHash/sec, anyway.

I remember seeing "-dcri 30" somewhere, but I can't put my finger on it.  Seems way out of what I remember.

I am trying "-dcri 12" right now, just to see if it really moves the Mhash/sec

That's not going to be a popular attitude here.  If you don't want to pay him his fair share - and 1% mining ETH only or 2% dual mining (such as it is AMT), you should write your own miner and as others have suggested: STFU.  Nobody wants to hear that sh!t...

Otherwise, quit your bitching.  He wrote the software, we owe him his cut of the proceeds.  If it weren't for him 90% of us would not be making squat.

Well, that is the default, though - you don't need to specify "-r 0" because it will restart when a GPU error occurs or one of the watchdog threads times out.

I have been having some problem that causes the miner to drop out, and checking the *log*.txt files I don't really find anything consistant as far as why.

For the time being, I simply rewrote the "Start.bat" file to remove the ETHDCRMINER64.EXE from the end and replace it with "gomore" and added a "GOMORE.BAT" file that looks like this:


@Echo Off
ETHDCRMINER64 -param1 xx -param2 xx -param3 xx -paramETC xx . . . . . .
gomore
^Z


Which calls itself, thus creating an endless loop (break with <CTRL>C) that just jumps back into the miner.  For the time being, it works.

My problem is curious: sometimes it will run for hours, other times I get an "Unable to create DAG" message requiring an immediate restart.  I have no clue ATM, my GPU temps aren't crazy high, snooping around in the log files, I don't see anything obvious that clues me into what's going on (or going wrong), etc

By the way previous question: you can look in the *log*.txt files for clues - or not.  I have, but don't have a handle on my problem.  I have done due diligence.  Nothing obvious.

I _have_ been seeing a lot of disconnects over the past 24 hours or so.  I thought it was just my 3GB GPU (GTX1060), but it started around two days ago, now.  At first I thought it was related to Claymore 10.6 release because the start of the disconnects increase started about the same time I changed from 10.5, but it still happens with the previous version, so that's not related to the problem.

If anything, my generic HP/nVidia GTX1060 3GB went up 5% with 10.5 and I had recently installed Windows 10 "Winter update".

I do have a nit in that it shows my hash rate for Sia = 10× the rate for Ethereum (precisely, moves decimal one place left).

My hash rate was consistent 19.7 Mh/s before and now is sticking to 20.1