Just for information.
A friend of mine just start mining with is gaming GTX 1080.
It was hard to find the pills exe, we found this one and it seems to works
https://github.com/admin-ipfs/OhGodAnETHlargementPill


With pills + OC he can reach 39 MH/s on ETH right now
Seems good for this old gen.

Taking a GPU apart is not difficult but it’s a bad design where you need to separate the heat sink from PCB just to change out a fan. Fans commonly go bad and on some GPUs only way to replace the fan is you need to pull the heat sink assembly off.

Pulling heatsink assembly can cause issues. One of them is that the thermal pads usually rip. They commonly cover the memory chips and maybe some MOSFETs. So if they rip what do you do? You need to find a replacement somewhere and they are hard to locate. I had to over from like 3 different sellers until I got the correct thermal pad that would fit.

Second is that if the GPU is really old then it’s hard to separate from heatsink. So you pull and pull to get it off and usually break some solder balls in the process. Then when cold your GPU won’t work.

Which country? How we could know where is it? If you have no idea give it to service or people who has experience.You need to be patient and open cards, if card was never opened then you should be more careful to not tear thermal pad, I do my own service and enjoy it always happy to repair any card and give it back to life again.

@setlocal enableextensions
@cd /d "%~dp0"
REM
REM Example bat file for starting PhoenixMiner.exe to mine ETH
REM

setx GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR 0
setx GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT 100


PhoenixMiner.exe -pool eth-eu.sparkpool.com:3333 -pool2 eth-eu.sparkpool.com:13333 -wal WalletId.WorkerName/emailAddress -retrydelay 1  -tt 60 -tstop 70 -tstart 65 -fanmin 30 -Rmode 1  -minRigSpeed 40   -powlim 1:-45,2:-50,3:-50,4:-50,5:-50,6:-45 -mclock 1:+1400,2:+1380,3:+1380,4:+1350,5:+1400,6:+1300 -mcdag 1 -nvidia

The first part is to enable it to run as admin. The parameters powlim, mclock and mcdag helps you not to need afterburner, the other are general parameters, you can find them in phonenix documentation.

Hope it helps.

What are your settings? My 1080Ti wouldn't go above 30-31 mh.

EIP1559 won't stop mining mate, do your own research, it will reduce miners profits if that's what you referring to but if this is why you don't feel like building a mining rig now you are doing mistake, PoW Algorithm is going to be here for a long time

I was going crazy reading all these old threads and wondering why my gpu is not able to overcome the 47's wall.

Anyway, I have an EVGA 1080TI FTW3 + Kraken X63 Water Cooler (I got it for gaming, first). I've also flashed the XOC custom bios, so I have full control in clocks and voltages (power limit is unlocked too, but I have no control over it).
I'm using the latest nvidia gaming drivers (not the studio ones) + the latest (I think) claymore miner.

With the Pill, GPU Core at 2000MHz (1100mV) MEM 5760MHz, I get 44-47MH/s with 250W of power consumption.

I can't overcome that numbers. I tried almost everything with overclocking: I can get to 2100MHz and 6000MHz without any issues, but with no benefits.
I saw that some of you guys are using the strap parameters. Do you have any advice for them?

Is there anyone that is still able to get 50MH/s with the 1080TIs? Or is it impossible with the increased DAG size? Please share your settiings with us!

I watched a video by some Russian guy named Crypto Leo.  He had a Zotac 3060 and was given credit in a article by videocardz.com as confirming that on ETH it did indeed cut the hash rate in half.

What the article didn't go on to say was that in a follow up video he tested the 5 top money algo's out right now and the card actually did close to or better than a 3060  TI in 3 of them.  Octopus, Cortex and Cuckatoo31.  All of which give this card a great ROI at under $400.

Will the bull market last long enough for Nvidia to need to try to roll this out to new skus like the 3080TI or to kill old sku's as rumored and add it anti ETH technology to it's full ampere line?  Maybe

In the short term is this gonna drive up demand for cards that aren't hampered you bet.  Will the 3000's series cards already out hold their value better now?  I think so.

Sadly gamers or small miners can't line up and score a card at their local Best Buy due to "covid".  They now have to compete on a national level unless they have a Microcenter close by or a good local parts store that has been getting an allocation of cards.  I have neither.

Now gamers who could use the card in off hours to pay off a portion of it or potentially build wealth in the digital world on what will likely be a widely used card can't.  And the big guys win again.

Be nice if AMD would put out a card with good gaming and mining capability again.

I fixed this issue by upgrading win7 to win10. Linux is OK too.
no need for a new serial shit even if your win7 is weirdly registered

Guys, like most of you, I've been using Claymore for years and loved every single minute of it.  My 32 gpu's hashed away beautifully.   Since Claymore miner stopped working, I have decided to give PhoenixMiner a try.

I'm hoping someone here can help me makes sense of this.

I've got four (AMD 580 8GB) rigs Mining ETH totalling 32 GPUs.   All are hashing away (according to phoenixminer) between 29-31 mh/s per card, just very similar to what I was getting with Claymore's Miner.  

I'm used to getting well over 1000 mh/s worth of shares with those rigs.  In fact, Nanopool is showing that my reported hashrate is about that as well, except my Current-Hashrate and 6-hour average hashrate hovers around 730 mh/s and my shares reflect that.

I've tried undervolting, not undervolting, adjusting my clock speeds from super high to super low and I"m getting essentially the same results no matter what.   Been testing this for well over a few weeks.

My concern is the amount of shares I'm getting with my little mini-farm.   After hydro expenses I'm left with peanuts.
All that mining equipment I feel is going to waste.


It just seems suspicious and depressing that pointing 32 GPU's (roughtly 1000 mh/s) at a pool with cards that were all performing perfectly for some time are generating substantially less shares, to the point where it almost makes it not all too worth it to mine anymore.   getting about 33.3% less shares, and unfortunately hydro costs are up here in Canada making my 'profits' super bleek and light.  

Anyone know of another miner or any tricks I may be missing to get my fair share of shares for hashpower.

There's gotta be a more viable solution to make use of several thousands of $ in mining equipment with re-occurring monthly expenses.

I'm using the latest AMD drivers and the latest PhoenixMiner.


Is anyone here at all perfectly happy with the performance of their 580 8GB rigs?

Image shows what I was getting with Claymore and then with PhoenixMiner


Image shows what I'm now getting with PhoenixMiner

gminer 2.38 fixed it heheh ...miner devs must be overlooking something for windows 7 OS, maybe because it is less used.....but if it ain't broke ...  ...