hello guys.can you tell me please do i need at least 2 gb gpu for mining ethereum?
2 gb cards cant do eth anymore; the dag file is too big to fit in the card memory. go with 3 gb or more cards. |
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i think if you could give more space between your cards you can run them all in summer, and with a good ventilation of course take a look at my spider-man rigs..(there are others that are not spider-man below but they are fewer) https://s28.postimg.org/8k193yri5/IMAG0055.jpgnote: there is also a fan and cards at the other side, didn't fit in picture....it was a fan for exhaust to an open window. i can install another rig or two just above the window because the air is cooler there (i opened a attic manhole just near it) this setup should get an award . just not sure what kind  |
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NOTE: v9.2 can be a bit slower (by 1-2%) than v9.1 on some cards!
In next update I will add "-a" option to select best algorithm for your GPUs (or I'll implement other workaround), right now you can use v9.1 for such cards.
my 390s got 5% or so boost. the 380 and 470, about 1%. every little bit helps |
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As far as what my AMD and NVidia hardware was doing between "profitable mining" timeframes, I'm a VERY long-term participant in the distributed.net project (where AMD dominates) and a fairly long-term participant in Folding@Home (where NVidia dominates). Most of the hardware I mined Scrypt with before ASIC took over was repurposed from dnet work, and the money I earned from that Scrypt work mostly went into funding more AMD card purchases intended for later DNet work (which worked out nicely).
funny how some folks think of gpus as only money makers, game cards or obsolete. f@h got use of a lot of my crypto cards as some coins dried up. and vise versa of course as new coins popped in. |
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- updating catalyst to the latest version
dont bother trying the latest 16.12.x (relive) driver it drops hashes by 5-10% according to posts. stick with 16.10.x, 16.11.x or so (i have 16.11.15, goes fine with my rx 470). if your rig has only older 3x0, 2x0, 7xx0 cards best just to stay with 15.12. my 380/390 rig runs 15.12. if youre uncomfortable flashing cards, be aware you can brick them fairly easily. got any old cards to experiment on? btw flashing cards seems to benefit eth mining more than zec. also a flash that may help one coin may crash with another. so if you will switch coins often it can be a double edged sword. |
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For anyone interested.
The newest batch of Sapphire rx 470/480 4 gb nitro cards now come with Samsung ram.
my powercolor red dragon single fan 470 4gb also came with samsung ram. i was surprised as this was the cheapest 470 i could find at the time 2 weeks ago ($159 with instant $10 off), also came with hitman game. got it at the egg. runs at 1300/1700 at -50, 208 sols. havent modded the bios yet but when i switch it to eth/xmr ill mess with it. |
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I have to agree with him there. I've been in the IT field for many years and Nvidia based cards fry a LOT more often than AMD/ATI Cards as far as I can remember back.
i remember seeing a lot of posts in tech forums about people having to "bake" dead 8800s (especially ones pushed hard in folding@home and such) to get the solder to reflow, bringing them back to life. worked quite often but was usually only temporary. |
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running avast free here. no probs, i just exclude the blockchain, wallet and miner folders.
should probably add those folders to your AV exclusion list no matter what AV you use.
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Im only have one
pic shows 4 gpus and ver 7.2 post complete rig specs |
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Im not use overclock
And um running version 7.4
And problem continue
pull one card. any better? |
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use 7.4  yeah that could help too |
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make sure your computer and cards are running stock (no overclock, no undervolt, no modded stuff). have current chipset drivers for motherboard. update OS. set 16 gigs virtual memory what power supply do you have? what other specs? like video card driver version, ram, mobo etc |
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I'm an assembly programmer. Zcash is being harwested...
i am a BASIC programmer. prepare to meet your doom! **(soon as I dig my BASIC for Dummies book out) |
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if you can spend the extra 20-30 bucks for a ssd, do it. the time you will save when messing with the OS/drivers/miners/reboot/whatever will be well worth it.
i swapped a hdd in for the ssd in my main rig and a week later put the ssd back in.
60/120 gb m2 sata ssd and youll not have to mess with power/data cables either, 2 less cables to worry about.
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good read. boils the main aspects (mostly anyway) down to a few minutes reading time. thanks! |
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-OK claymore,1 piece of FREE advice,call it a DEV-TAX from now on, instead of fee,more accurate nah, the word "tax" has bad connotations. "fee" is better, imo. and claymore is entitled to whatever fee he sets. we dont like it, we write or find another LEGIT miner (as opposed to that lazy snots ripoff). |
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I'd most mine but it's legit a single stick in a Raspberry Pi (I plan on getting more miners soon however lol)
a miner is a miner should be a bunch of stick miner pics in this thread. i have 5 compacs on a pi/hub, should probably add a pic of my little corner of the stick world. |
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Is it possible to have and r9 290 and a RX480 in the same computer?
yes |
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I agree. KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid). takes very little down time due to a crashed rig/card to negate any savings from an overly complicated rig or crazy card settings like extreme BIOS flashes etc.
i know many people super tune cards or rigs for a specific algorithm but i prefer a rig that can switch with a simple .bat file and not worry about psu overload or cards dropping out because they are too wound too tight for just one coin.
keep it consecutive, keep it running 24/7
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Today the space storage are so cheap, 104Go is not a big deal. You need to be sure that you have unlimited bandwidth to download it from your ISP, in my case I am only limited to 20Go. Where I am high-speed internet are pretty expensive and if you want the unlimited, you are going to pay the premium in order to have it. i wonder how long i can download the full of blockchain with my slow internet connection and how much quota that i should spend to see its completed? i think the size is less than 100 GB but i am wrong, i can not imagine how big data in the future, i think i need more than 3 days to complete downloading the blockchain. only 3 days? lucky you. and there simply IS no option for me to go faster where i am in the sticks. 1.5 mbits/sec 3G wireless here, but at least its unlimited quota. would take weeks/months for me to re download from scratch. only reason i have the whole blockchain at all is i started in 2011 and kept it up ever since consumer disk space IS cheap and the blockchains are among my backups because it would be inconvenient to get it again. got the btc blockchain backed up like 5 different places, including off site. i did have to put the blockchain on 256 gb ssd of its own though. the previous 128 gb was getting cramped. i suppose its a waste of a ssd but i like the speed when verifying or reindexing. bandwidth is the limiting factor for many. storage drives are everywhere, reliable high speed internet is not. |
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