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bvault (OP)
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January 15, 2014, 06:01:26 AM
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I am planning to build a scrypt miner with AMD R9 280s or 270s.

I am trying to decide between win7 and win8. Someone reported better "efficiency" with win8 on his blog while I read elsewhere that there is much difference.

Any experiences? thoughts?

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January 15, 2014, 06:28:32 AM
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windows 8 can do 6 cards/mobo...win7 only 5 cards ,but I prefer win7.. the cards run the same speeds on both os

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January 15, 2014, 06:46:16 AM
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bitcointalk thread here says win7 64bit can do 4 ATI cards max.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4774.0


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