thankyou all
very good info, this is just the fastest to quote, i have read with great interest the other posts below this one but this specifically lists the 380X from one who has two. good good from VR standpoint. one (possibaly two) will be mine soon.
because ya know if one is good, two must be better lulz
Generally it is better to have a single more powerful card than to have two weaker cards in crossfire/sli when it comes to game performance (although DX12 and Vulkan may change that). That said, two 380Xs in crossfire are comparable in performance to a single 980ti or fury x, and are also cheaper. |
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Oh one other thing about the 290 and 290x cards...do not get ones with reference coolers unless you are planning to waterblock them anyway. They are very power hungry and hot and the reference cooler is just horribly inadequate for them. The blower fan gets extrememly loud at over 40%, but you would need to run it at very high speeds to keep it cool under load unless you undervolted them considerably.
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ok heres the deal. im building a VR box. choice seems to be between nvidia 980ti or amd r9 290. but if there is a better card im listening
look the answer is in this thread but honestly im pulling the trigger tomorrow.. so..
edumacate me please i dont care if eth tanks as i get a VR card out of it heh
Here is a relevant link for how games might run using DX12 in the future on various cards. Emphasis on might because this is the only game so far to be implemented properly in DX12. http://anandtech.com/show/10067/ashes-of-the-singularity-revisited-beta/5Here is a list of current and upcoming games that will implement DX12: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_games_with_DirectX_12_supportHere is a chart with some data on hash rates of various cards when mining Ethereum: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1s5SaThZ5eOSAiVMpmuIjz-_YjIlcxttAzKuWKAbczds/edit?pref=2&pli=1#gid=0These lists are by no means exhaustive and should all be taken with a grain of salt, but hopefully this helps you with your decision. Basically the 980ti is much much better at gaming in DX11. The cards could be more closely matched when it comes to DX12 games. The AMD cards are better at mining. The DX12 and mining performance has to do with the superior asynchronous compute performance inherent in the architecture. The AMD cards are also less expensive. The upcoming nVidia Pascal and AMD Polaris graphics cards could change this but if you're buying tomorrow I guess that doesn't factor in. EDIT: Definitely take those hash rates with a grain of salt. My 290 gets roughly 29 MH/s and my 270 gets 16 MH/s. |
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Hey guys. About 2 hours ago now I started getting this error:
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yes im stating this problem few weeks ago, the solution is i now mining other coin for the 270 card. Haha I suppose that works, but until the DAG file gets bigger than 2GB I feel like it's worth trying to find a solution. I've only been at it a couple hours after all. Okay not sure exactly what I did but I was playing around with the "setx" command and rebooted and now I have the following reg keys in HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-xxxx...\Environment: CL_DEVICE_MAX_MEM_ALLOC_SIZE 1800000000
GPU_MAX_MEM_ALLOC_SIZE 1800000000 Along with the other setx parameters I listed earlier. Not sure what, if anything, either of those 2 environment variables did, but anyway ethminer works again now, and when I check "ethminer --list-devices" I get the following output: Listing OpenCL devices.
FORMAT: [deviceID] deviceName
[0] Hawaii
CL_DEVICE_TYPE: GPU
CL_DEVICE_GLOBAL_MEM_SIZE: 4294967296
CL_DEVICE_MAX_MEM_ALLOC_SIZE: 4025449564
CL_DEVICE_MAX_WORK_GROUP_SIZE: 256
[1] Pitcairn
CL_DEVICE_TYPE: GPU
CL_DEVICE_GLOBAL_MEM_SIZE: 2147483648
CL_DEVICE_MAX_MEM_ALLOC_SIZE: 1878490204
CL_DEVICE_MAX_WORK_GROUP_SIZE: 256 Not sure exactly what it was that changed the amount of allocated vram but anyway it works now in case anyone else was having the same problem maybe setting one of those 2 environment variables will help? Maybe someone has more insight on a more elegant solution? |
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Hey guys. About 2 hours ago now I started getting this error:
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yes im stating this problem few weeks ago, the solution is i now mining other coin for the 270 card. Haha I suppose that works, but until the DAG file gets bigger than 2GB I feel like it's worth trying to find a solution. I've only been at it a couple hours after all. |
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Hey guys. About 2 hours ago now I started getting this error: Allocating/mapping single buffer failed with: clCreateBuffer(-61). GPU can't allocate the DAG in a single chunk. Bailing.
clEnqueueWriteBuffer(-38) I am mining on an r9 270 2GB using cpp-ethereum v1.2.2 for Windows on Windows 7 64-bit. I did some digging and apparently it has something to do with the DAG being one single chunk that is too large for the GPUs memory. I also have an r9 290 with 4GB memory in my system and mining still works fine on that. When i type "ethminer --list-devices" I get the following output: Listing OpenCL devices.
FORMAT: [deviceID] deviceName
[0] Hawaii
CL_DEVICE_TYPE: GPU
CL_DEVICE_GLOBAL_MEM_SIZE: 4294967296
CL_DEVICE_MAX_MEM_ALLOC_SIZE: 3019087173
CL_DEVICE_MAX_WORK_GROUP_SIZE: 256
[1] Pitcairn
CL_DEVICE_TYPE: GPU
CL_DEVICE_GLOBAL_MEM_SIZE: 2147483648
CL_DEVICE_MAX_MEM_ALLOC_SIZE: 1408867653
CL_DEVICE_MAX_WORK_GROUP_SIZE: 256 I can see that the DAG file is now 1417674752 bytes so it would seem the DAG has just grown beyond the allocated memory. I have tried deleting and building a new DAG, uninstalling my drivers with display driver uninstaller and re-installing the crimson 15.12 drivers. Also I have tried setting all the following evironment variables, and rebooting, and setting them again: GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR 0
GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE 100
GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
GPU_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT 100 as was suggested in this thread on github but it had no effect. I suppose I can try the 16.x drivers (in fact I will do that next) but I used those before and they dropped my hash rate by 25 or 30%. Is anyone else having this issue on 2GB AMD cards all of a sudden. Any foolproof way of allocating more mem? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. |
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Glad to see this project is still alive and Curecoin 2.0 is on its way.  I see the reasoning behind the SigmaX, and just wanted to say (even though I don't own 10% of the Cure coins or anything) I think you should go ahead with it, and just give some % of it (maybe 10%-ish) to the people folding. It should be some % that is small enough that it doesn't turn people away/make someone fork it anyway, but still add incentive to/reward folders. And rather than do some large premine (which might also cause disinterest/forking), just give the folders their share as the new SigmaX is created/mined. It should definitely not take away from GPU power to mine the SigmaX (obviously), but if it takes CPU power I don't see that as a big deal. (Isn't all the folding done on GPUs? Or can some of the WUs only be done by CPUs for some reason?) And it would probably be good to avoid ASIC mining if you can since they are so wasteful and not to mention inaccessible to average joe, but I don't know what options would be left if you take away GPUs and possibly CPUs. Just my 2 million satoshis. Take it for what you will. |
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In any case, regardless of the merits of your 'trading strategy', when I go to a coin's thread and people are talking about 'whales', 'holding down the price' it just smacks of desperation, because it makes it clear they have nothing positive to say and are just grasping at paranoid straws rather than accept the innevitable. In addition, I have never once seen a coin recover after hitting a point so low that people start blaming 'whales holding down the price' - which puts a lie to your theory that whales really want to buy the coins and will drive the price up again in the future.
Even if those 'people' are illodin, one of the guys who has been fudding XC from the very beginning, being sarcastic? |
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120900 is the lowest it went.
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people also must consider that there is only one "XCend" happening at a time right now. Once more people are using the "XCend" feature, it will be far more difficult to simply match inputs/outputs as has been done prior.
We are well on the road to "PrivXC"
as i understand rev2 will make it impossible anyway Exactly. Rev1 is a standard mixer and was never claimed to be anything super special. If people want to put down xc because rev 1 isn't the be-all end-all NSA proof highest of high techs then they just got the wrong impression to begin with. Currently the sender's address can be linked to a mixer address, and the receiver's address can be linked to some other mixer address, but no link can be made between the sender and receiver. It is working as intended and is a stop-gap measure on the road to bigger and better things. I don't see what the problem is. People claiming this is a scam just don't make any sense. Clearly ATC is working hard and has a long-term commitment to this coin. If this was a scam I'm pretty sure he would have dumped his XCs when they were 450+k sats and he had a few hundred thousand dollars' worth, and we never would have heard from him again. Feel free to correct me if I have misinterpreted any of this. |
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No... the better question that we are asking is... where do you see that it's INSECURE...?
I think what hes asking for is the link to the passworded zip file |
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ATC what's the timeline for REV 2 roughly? I think about 2 weeks ago you said it would be 3 to 4 weeks? Does that mean you are expecting to release REV 2 in 1 - 2 weeks from now?
bump. Yes I'm expecting about 2 weeks... k thanks....you know if you want to wait longer while I accumulate more that's cool too  |
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ATC what's the timeline for REV 2 roughly? I think about 2 weeks ago you said it would be 3 to 4 weeks? Does that mean you are expecting to release REV 2 in 1 - 2 weeks from now?
bump. |
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ATC what's the timeline for REV 2 roughly? I think about 2 weeks ago you said it would be 3 to 4 weeks? Does that mean you are expecting to release REV 2 in 1 - 2 weeks from now?
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Bro....lols all the way! Dang I tell the GMENT to get FU2!!! HUMANS: THIS IS DARKNET: THE CYBORG REGENERATION PLANT IS BACK ON LINE. T3 "RETRO MODELS" MUST PROVID DECOY TO ALL IN FWD FIRE. COPY THAT 10-4  STINKY WINKYS.........WTF.......lol lolX3 .....END OF TRANSMISSIOn........... Dude you need to snort less blow before you post. Lay off the hollywoods. |
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Can confirm PoS works:  Only took 9 days. Not sure why or how people are claiming it doesn't, since the coin hasn't even existed for 30 days yet. |
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I tried to sign up, but when I try to read the terms of use, it just links back to the registration page. It's like I'm caught in some kind of time paradox. |
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All logo submissions may go ahead and step aside...I got it! Will donate my winnings to the community...-thumbsup-  ROFLMAO!! I think we have a winner! |
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The problem with this coin is that there is no reason to buy it. You can't actually DO anything with this coin except exchange it for btc. Therefore the only reason people would have to buy it is if the price were going up, which it isn't. And the price will only go up if people are buying it. It's a catch 22. I suppose this is the problem for most of the alts until they get so big that you can exchange them directly for USD, and then the price stabilizes.
Unfortunately I'm not sure what the solution is.
The good thing about this coin is that buying it supports cancer research so it does have some buy appeal for people that want to be charitable, but don't have the computer know-how or the video cards to fold themselves. But how many people in that category are on exchanges trading crypto alts? My guess is the number is close to zero. The anonymous transfers do seem to be the hot thing right now but it doesn't really make sense for curecoin. People using curecoin because it's anonymous so that they can use it to make shady or illegal transactions would be counter-productive for the image of the coin.
Mobile wallets and debit cards would make it useful as a currency and a lot of alts seem to be trying to go this route. Also getting merchants to accept it as payment. These are the only two things I can see that would reverse the trend of this coin for the long-term. In the short term it also just needs more exposure because I think a lot of people just don't know about it and overlook it. The lower the price goes though the harder it will be to get miners to point their rigs at folding. They are in it for profit so folding has to be more profitable than mining. Asics being developed for other mining algo's helps in a roundabout way, not by increasing the profitability of folding, but by making the profitability of mining all other coins decrease.
Are there any plans/ideas for getting more buy support for this coin? I like this conference idea. Is there anyone that can tell me when the conference takes place and the cut-off date for donations?
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