My most memorable moment was when someone sent a transaction with a crazy high transaction fee in the millions of USD and ethermine hit the block and my pending balance jumped like crazy! a couple of day's work in a minute (if I remember correctly).

Currently mining ETH and RVN, selling ETH for BTC, holding RVN.

91C is perfectly fine as these cards regularly hit 100C memory temp.

Phil how is it you keep buying cards, you're inspiring a lot of confidence! I know you have good power, but isn't the uncertainty super high right now?

Normal Eth Memory settings and stock core and power. 6900 xt getting 60mh eth and 3.7gh on ton dualmining.

However I am facing pool connection issues every now and then.

1.42 solved all of the previous problems. +1 for working.

1.39 works fine.

1.4 from ~500 shares found shown on the miner in 8 hours, only ~100 showed on the pool.

1.41 error 1020 and connection is dropped by the pool whenever a share is found.

Just some feedback. Best of luck Lolliedieb!

Avoid new versions of lolminer for now. version 1.39 works better.

1.4 has issues, from ~500 shares found shown on the miner in 8 hours, only ~100 showed on the pool.

1.41 has issues too error 1020 is shown whenever a share is found and connection is dropped by the pool.

Again, miner issue due to other miners working fine with the same pool.

I am finding it hard to get my hands  anymore on A5000, however A2000 is relatively easy to find.


Mind sharing what brand is your A5000? mine is Gigabyte and its impossible for it to do that memory speed.

Here are my settings:



They are super solid cards! Managed to get to get them a while ago when a distributer was ordering them in bulk packaging for a data center project.

Cost around $2200 each after taxes.

Edit: forgot to add that I am using Gminer.

Your cards run way cooler than mine, here are my cards:



would a 10% drop in power result in a 15C decrease? I will try. My cards are made by Gigabyte, but they say nvidia for some reason.

If they're both reference models, you're good to go.

Whether its a good choice or not, it depends on the condition and price you bought them for. The 6600 xt series is consumes around half less, around 60w instead of 120w for the 580.

Also it will depreciate less as its considerably more powerful for gaming.

If you're wondering about reliability, I too have many 8GB cards continuously running from 2017 perfectly fine with no issues whatsoever.

One of the ways in which devs can combat asics is by using memory capacity intensive algos, so the higher your memory capacity is the more options you'll have.

And yes you should be fine for the two years at least if eth does not succeed with the POS transition, google eth DAG calculator for more info.

There are certain inherent flaws in POS compared to POW when it comes to consensus but eth has some of the best brains behind it.

Been hearing ETH is going POS since 2017 and yet here we are.

Don't get me wrong, I wish them luck and really hope they will pull off the POS transition and hope they pull it properly.

Because if they don't its going to be the biggest rocket ship explosion ever.

GPUs are no where near available, 3080s going for $1500 where I live, 3060s going for $820.

I heard from a fellow miner that there are 3090s out there with memory from Samsung doing 131Mh at 330w manufactured by a certain AIB, I told him that's impossible as all 3090s use GDDR6X which is manufactured by Micron. The only possibility I could think of is a 3090 running the fastest GDDR6 memory from Samsung with custom bios and timings.

Could this card exist?

You can find Asus 3070s Non LHR brand new for around $1300, or you can go for the 6800 XT at around the same price. If it was up to me I would get the 3070s as Nvidia cards tend to store value better over time.

Make sure your miner is running 32 threads when it opens, and make sure you run it as an administrator.

This right here is the best reply.

Yes, A4000, A5000 and the recently launched A4500 are being used in mining as they do not have a hashrate limiter. A6000 is not used because of its price/performance.

The A4000 prices recently shot up from $1100 to $1600 Locally. A4000 has the worst cooler being a single slot blower card. A5000 has a fantastic cooler.

On ETH:

A4000 does 61-63Mh at 140w.

A5000 does 102MH at 230w.

A4500 is expected to do around 80-85Mh/s.

In gaming A4000 is a little slower than a 3070, A5000 is slower than a 3080.