Hey Everyone... as some of you may remember, I have been having issues with GPU 0 on all 4 of my 6x470 rigs. Pretty sure the W10 Fall Creator's Update was the culprit (for some reason i could not stop this from installing on all my rigs), and have tried various versions of Claymore ETHash & Cryptonite-7 miners but always GPU 0 ends up going "open CL call fail restart"... over and over again.
Since I've been out of town most of April, I just turned GPU 0 off mining on all 4 rigs but now I am back and looking to get those 4 running again.
My first try is going to be a driver update, so I wanted to ask the experts on this thread which AMD drivers you are currently using or find to be the best/most stable.
I'm using 17.11.2 on all rigs which is quite old, so hoping a more recent driver will work better and fix that GPU 0 issue.
using 17.11.2 here on my onda rig (mix of 470s and 1070/1080s, 7 cards total). seems super stable, rig stays up for months at a time. using cdm 11.4 on win 10 pro x64 ver 1709. 8 gb ram, 60 gig page file. all updates have been disabled (and so far its worked great, no updates at all since the update services were disabled. about 6 months maybe. i installed 1709 manually. i have a kvm plugged into the iGPU (G4400), so all gpus have nothing plugged into them. sure makes driver updates easier. dunno if you use risers (onda is riserless) but that would be my 1st guess but im sure you already know that. and it happening on 4 rigs at the same times kinda rules that out. any cards bios modded? used pixel patcher to get them recognized? what mobo? any bios updates for it? any changes to the bios been done (pci gen mumber changes, 4g decode etc. even iGPU vs pci video init order changed? my rig is mixed so all amd may have something to do with it? mine has a 470 in slot 0 (closest to cpu) then another 470, 460, 1070, 1070ti then 2x1080tis |
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It is necessary to take into account that this thread was opened in 2011, when the price reached the great record of $20, but in general it kept oscillating below $2. I think that when OP opened this thread, he never imagined that the bitcoin would reach the price of $20,000, since his biggest wish was to see the price of $10,000 someday.
Lucky all those who had the great vision of OP when it was possible to acquire many bitcoins for a few dollars, because today they deserve the great wealth they are enjoying.
i joined the forum in 2011 and saw this tread back then. thought the dude was batshit crazy. bit later i remember selling a bunch at $35 USD (which i though was the highest it would probably ever hit) and thinking i was on top of the world. went on a very nice vacation with the wife, all because of "magic internetz money." now i am about to retire early, mainly because of btc. what a ride its been! and the real ride is probably just starting really. |
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It will be too hard to get these but undoubtedly this is a great GPU.
turns out you can now basically more or less turn a stock 1080ti into a p102-100. fully reversible, no bios mods needed. just reboot and its back to a regular 1080ti. 50+mhs on eth. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3370685.0im using it on my two 1080tis with CDM 11.4 and it works, but its closed source, so its safety (as far as hidden malware etc) is questionable. i run it on a locked down miner though. dyor as to if you want to run it. i have no affiliation with them btw. |
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if people are using sane settings (voltages and cooling) plus quality PSUs the card will be far obsolete before any damage to caps and such happen.
fans? meh. make sure they are ball bearing. and add external fans if needed. keep cards below 70C and thats not just the gpu chip there are vrms that need to be cooled also (call it 80C for them). the better cards also monitor memory temps. not sure what the highest recommended is but i would guess 70C for them.
people are overthinking this. relax. electronics like stable temps and stable voltages more than anything else.
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Amateurs.
I'm HODLing to buy entire Solar Systems at a time.
I call dibs on HD 85512.
cool by me, i might want to rent vacation planets on occasion. |
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Next bull run, people talk about what helicopter on their yacht’s flight deck.
And the one after that people will talk about booking their first space rocket ship tourist flight. stop thinking small. owning planets are where its at. i want Saturn. lots of moons to build on. plus, you know, the rings are sooo cool. That's not thinking big. Planetary inflation is too high. There are zillions of planets in the universe and just 17mn bitcoins.... 
You're not thinking big enough. Pay to have a new planet custom built to your specifications. Why buy an existing old one when you can have a new one built exactly the way you want it? You would get even cooler rings than Saturn's with more moons.
good points. i need to adjust my thinking. ok i will go for all the ringed planets in known space. then ill branch out to others once theyre all mine. but. as mentioned, might be faster to just buy/build plain planets and build my own ring systems for them. hmmmm. |
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Next bull run, people talk about what helicopter on their yacht’s flight deck.
And the one after that people will talk about booking their first space rocket ship tourist flight. stop thinking small. owning planets are where its at. i want Saturn. lots of moons to build on. plus, you know, the rings are sooo cool. |
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pretty sweet i must say.
generally i dislike running unvetted software but this was too hard to pass up.
hash is in the low 50's on my 2 1080tis on cdm 11.6 11.4. still tweaking. nice.
sent a ltc donation, tx in pm.
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Of course there is absolutely no investment that is 100% risk free, but real estate is "safe enough".
Real estate as an investment is ok if: [...] 3. It has some appreciation or potential appreciation? like, buying that landfill where the guy tossed out his hard drive with a fortune of btc? |
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There is a huge difference based on your start point.
Someone who puts in 50% of their wealth is weak hands.
Someone who puts in 5% of their wealth and allows it to grow to 90% should be strong hands, especially if they have already taken out twice their original investment in profits.
this. i put in way less than 1 % of my wealth into a few video cards to mine btc back in 2011. obviously percentage wise btc represents more of my wealth than that now. even after selling probably 50 times my original investment over the years for toys and vacations. now selling some off for retirement, mainly for index funds and pm to start. traditional stuff. i will keep a good chunk of my stack of course. was funny when my wife and i listed our assets to our financial advisor. my wife listed all the traditional stuff, it was a pretty good list and took a while. then he turned to me and i told him the value of my one asset i manage: crypto. his face was something to see. he was actually very interested in it but he doesnt trust it. he wanted me to sell at least half so we could retire outright right then and there. that was when it was around 6k. i waited and got around 9.5k for the ones i sold. plus sold some extra for taxes. ill put that into a cd or something. checked with my bank to make sure they were ok with the amount of crypto i was depositing (it was like 10 times what i had cashed out in total previously), they were fine with it. ive used them mainly for coinbase cashouts for 5 years now, so maybe that helped. |
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Well I for one do believe that we will see USD 1M within five years.
And I still believe we will se USD 80k end of year.
Thanks for answering. C'on people don't be shy and express your feelings about it. 10 years is too soon. $1 million in 12 years - after 3 halvenings. as long as the price hits the point where the wife and i can afford boosterspice (a not yet invented drug that stops aging - see larry niven novels) i will be happy. |
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thanks for posting this.
i have literally hundreds of wallet backups spread through dozens of hard drives. some ltc, some nmc, some btc. all just named "wallet.dat" before i figured i should give them a coin name a part of the name. always dreaded just dropping then into a client and seeing what happens.
this will help big time.
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The CEO of Black Arrow (Alex Sovu) just got convicted and sentenced to 11 years for hacking and robbing the banks ATMs. I can't imagine this clown gave up turning his company into a multi-billion dollar business just to rob me and make sure I didn't make any money, WTF? Bitmain (located across the street from BA) delivered my Antminer S5 at least a week early and now they're bigger than Nvidia. After defrauding me and most of his customers the Sovu turned to defrauding ATMS, WTF? The guy paid a huge bail bond (with my stolen money) and is now on the run from his 11 year conviction.
The lengths this asshole, his company and various co-conspirators went to make me a butt-hurt loser is fucking mind blowing.
damn, didnt know that history. knew he was scum but he really took some folks for a ride on many levels. sorry you got caught up in it. |
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Mining BTC with GPUs died out years ago.
yup and good years they were. i will never get rid of my 6870 and 5830, they are largely responsible for my stack as while i did sell coins through the years i kept enough to make my wife and i extremely happy.. i keep meaning to mount them in a frame and hang them on a wall as they were so good to me. I realized BTC was worth something in October of 2013, by that time GPU mining of BTC had already died out. I got some Asicminer Block Erupters and was so impressed with BTC and mining I went all in on a Black Arrow (named after a UK rocket and "space" program) ASIC pre-order as the market on Bitfury ASICs had dried up and I missed the deadline for the KnC Jupiter (more "space"). I saw all the coins the Jupiter customers were getting and Black Arrow seemed to have a good history of delivering miners based on Bitfury chips. Black Arrow ended up stealing my money and never shipped the miner I ordered.  When I made the pre-order I had a small amount of money left and also purchased an old used HD 6990 5790 for $250, I made ROI in about a week solo mining Nova Coin.  It finally died in a shower of sparks about 8 or so months back of fan failure two years ago but damn that card mined a lot of coins. , it would do 50 MH/s ETH putting my new RX 580s doing 30 MH/s to shame.
oh man black arrow.. sorry to hear you got burned on that.i almost preordered one as well as one from another company around that time (hashfast? dont recall the exact name). i figured between the two companies one would come through. riiiight. whew, dodged that bullet. i did have a bfl FPGA that did ok, mainly because they were so slow getting their asic out it was profitable for a while. as well as a couple block erupters. but we all know where bfl went, and good riddance. think bitmain is bad? imagine if bfl became the dominant asic provider. my only regret is that i didnt order more cards back in 2011. but btc was high risk and fairly unknown back then and no one knew where it would go. i was always into distributed computing (seti@home, F@H) so it was kinda right up my ally. and of course i got to buy shiny new cards for games  i looked at it more as a new hobby than a get rich thing, as well as wanting to be part of the "grand experiment" of decentralized money. my 1st btc was earned on a 4850 (testing the waters) but as soon as i figured out the process of turning btc into fiat in a bank account (mtgox and dwolla) i ordered the 6870, and later the 5830. my wife was like you paid hundred of dollars for THAT?? (the 6870). of course now she doesnt even blink when i order gear for mining. she just smiles when she looks at our bank and crypto accounts. geeze memories |
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damn, my doctor assured me those acid flashbacks would stop after a few years. he was WRONG!!! |
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Mining BTC with GPUs died out years ago.
yup and good years they were. i will never get rid of my 6870 and 5830, they are largely responsible for my stack as while i did sell coins through the years i kept enough to make my wife and i extremely happy.. i keep meaning to mount them in a frame and hang them on a wall as they were so good to me. |
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I'd like to think that whoever is trying to reset my password knows how well-respected and admired I am 'round these parts.
got a password reset attempt on my account too. since i am nowhere near respected or admired, it looks like they are being reduced to scraping the bottom of the barrel in my case. |
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Whoever's awake, looks like a small sell off is going on right now. Should stop around 9-9.2k?
Alts dumping hard. Im happy to watch mine bleed out as long as btrash dumps harder though. Its more exciting watching that crap go down than watching BTC go up. Welcome, wise Newbie. I'd send you some sMerits but I gave them all away.no worries i covered it for ya. |
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In other news who's gone short on 4/20 day?? bad move, expect the pump on 4/20.
I'm going real long on 4/20 day, if you catch my meaning, friend. im down with that, and will being doing my part. |
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just hang onto it.
hopefully it was money you can afford to lose if it really tanks, as thats how you need to think of "investing" in btc (or any crypto). kiss it goodbye, and see what happens.
dont look at the price, dont get depressed. just wait. check in 6 months, a year, two years. you might find yourself a very happy person then.
ive hodled some of my coin since 2011, and all i can say is sit back and enjoy the ride. i certainly have been happy with my decision to hodl, even through the crashes, the "BTC is dead" phases (3 or 4 of those) and the long drawn out declines. its always come back (so far) and if it takes off your potential gains can far exceed your initial risk.
all you can lose is 12k, but you could gain much, much more than 12k.
maybe.
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