Claymore's Dual Ethereum AMD+NVIDIA GPU Miner v15.0 (Windows/Linux)

[RivAngE]

Are there people still trying to mine Ethereum with GPUs? ETH is only profitable for ASICs now. We GPU miners would be mining for brake even on a top3 coin which, in a bullrun, can go 4 or 5 times its current price. With 1070s you're basically mining at best for 0,60$ a day hopping to make that 2,40$ if ETH goes over 1000$ ! That is before electricity. Even Claymore hasn't updated his miner for ages.

If you're in need of a good algo which works nice on GPUs and a steady more-than-a-coin project behind it, look into HEX algo (XDNA coin). Already trading at Cryptopia and Crypto-Bridge but it's yet in position 875 based on market cap!

There is no asic for daggerhashimoto algo
What are U talking about?

bitmain brought out an etherium asic miner back in april this year  

That's not an asic.... it's more like a 6 card rig.
An asic should do maybe 1900 Mh/s for a 800 W.

Well the truth is how do we know if Bitmain actually has a "secret" and "private" ETH ASIC but with GDDR5 memory instead of the DDR3 ram they are using with the E3.

If they released this faster ASIC then ETH dev might be forced to fork the algo and it would be useless. So they are just mining privately with it instead of making it public; basically the smart thing to do.

If they're selling these E3 ASICs, it means they've already made something better and they're done using the E3s for themselves. Otherwise how would you explain this outrageous difficulty?
1) I don't think old miners are buying more cards anymore, right now the ROI is close to infinite if you think about power consumption and that new cards and probably new ASICs are around the corner.
2) I don't think many new miners are joining, if people start getting involved with mining they'll differently buy coins with fiat as well. The constant price drops proves we're not getting any significant amount of new investors.
3) Non-hardcore miners should have started to leave after seeing their profitability sink and the difficulty would fall as well. This should offset the few new miners that probably join Ethereum now. But the diff keeps going up and only just now on August it stopped going up and stayed still.

I can't know for sure, but I believe that Bitmain is secretly mining with optimized ASICs at the moment. Let's hope Claymore will be able to optimize the miner for the 20 series of Nvidias if we're to make Ethereum a GPU coin again.

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[KriptoGuruTR]

If you look at Ethereum difficulty chart, you will clearly see that it still is a GPU coin.

Lots of equihash coin miners have switched to Ethereum. Even with that difficulty chart is linear.

90 day difficulty increase of Ethereum is 8.42 % vs Zcash with 83.12 %. That %83.12 is ASIC effect.

[Batelk]

If you look at Ethereum difficulty chart, you will clearly see that it still is a GPU coin.

Lots of equihash coin miners have switched to Ethereum. Even with that difficulty chart is linear.

90 day difficulty increase of Ethereum is 8.42 % vs Zcash with 83.12 %. That %83.12 is ASIC effect.

That is right. It is still profitable to mine ETH with nVidia cards. although the profit is very small.

[adaseb]

Anyone mining here with an old R9 290 ?

Basically it seems with every new DAG, the speed is slowing down more and more.

I remember under stock clocks I would get like 26.5MH/s but now its down to 24.7MH/s with the same stock settings.

I am also using the DAG fix drivers and it fixed the slowdown on the RX GPUs but not on the older R9 GPUs.


Anyone else getting this issue and know of a fix?

[Marvell2]

If you are mining ethereum or its forks with gpus and have a github account you ahould flood this post
by the eth devs and asic shills discussing reducting block reward only, or forking Asics and reducing blook reward.
So far most of the support serms to be for Asics.  They are discussing all this in a meeting tomorrow so leave your imput as gpu miners.
 
https://github.com/ethereum/pm/issues/55

[new24core]

Anyone mining here with an old R9 290 ?

Basically it seems with every new DAG, the speed is slowing down more and more.

I remember under stock clocks I would get like 26.5MH/s but now its down to 24.7MH/s with the same stock settings.

I am also using the DAG fix drivers and it fixed the slowdown on the RX GPUs but not on the older R9 GPUs.


Anyone else getting this issue and know of a fix?

Just Mine UBIQ ;-)

[ivomm]

https://bitsonline.com/ether-2-eth-block-reward/
Devs agreed on 2 ethers per block reward instead of 3 as it is now. This will happen with the coming fork in October together with a delay of the difficulty bomb by a year. Last November happened something similar, if I recall correctly. Then the reduced time for a block compensated the miners, so we got the same profit at the end. I hope it will be the same situation this October, or else the mining will end for those with expensive electricity.

[Raja_MBZ]

https://bitsonline.com/ether-2-eth-block-reward/
Devs agreed on 2 ethers per block reward instead of 3 as it is now. This will happen with the coming fork in October together with a delay of the difficulty bomb by a year. Last November happened something similar, if I recall correctly. Then the reduced time for a block compensated the miners, so we got the same profit at the end. I hope it will be the same situation this October, or else the mining will end for those with expensive electricity.

Prepare to see a big GPU sell-off.

I'm now going to turn into a gamer. Is there any high-end game that requires 12 high-end GPU's at once and works with only 2 GB RAM + Pentium processor?

LOL

[Marvell2]

https://bitsonline.com/ether-2-eth-block-reward/
Devs agreed on 2 ethers per block reward instead of 3 as it is now. This will happen with the coming fork in October together with a delay of the difficulty bomb by a year. Last November happened something similar, if I recall correctly. Then the reduced time for a block compensated the miners, so we got the same profit at the end. I hope it will be the same situation this October, or else the mining will end for those with expensive electricity.

Prepare to see a big GPU sell-off.

I'm now going to turn into a gamer. Is there any high-end game that requires 12 high-end GPU's at once and works with only 2 GB RAM + Pentium processor?

LOL

we are hoping to push for a fork off the main chain using the asic resistant progpow algo
Bitcoin Interest is piloting such a change for thier eth fork next week

[adaseb]

https://bitsonline.com/ether-2-eth-block-reward/
Devs agreed on 2 ethers per block reward instead of 3 as it is now. This will happen with the coming fork in October together with a delay of the difficulty bomb by a year. Last November happened something similar, if I recall correctly. Then the reduced time for a block compensated the miners, so we got the same profit at the end. I hope it will be the same situation this October, or else the mining will end for those with expensive electricity.

Prepare to see a big GPU sell-off.

I'm now going to turn into a gamer. Is there any high-end game that requires 12 high-end GPU's at once and works with only 2 GB RAM + Pentium processor?

LOL

LOL! Back in 2014-2015, I had a bunch of 280X gpus and there was nothing to mine. I decided what the hell, might as well download some games and play with Crossfire 280X.

Every single game lagged like crazy, I checked the resource monitor and it wasn't the GPUs but it was the CPUs which were all at 99%. Basically the CPU was slowing down the GPU and the games were unplayable.

Basically back then you needed at least an i5 or greater to play most games in high detail. The Sempron and i3 processors I had wouldn't cut it.

[FFI2013]

https://bitsonline.com/ether-2-eth-block-reward/
Devs agreed on 2 ethers per block reward instead of 3 as it is now. This will happen with the coming fork in October together with a delay of the difficulty bomb by a year. Last November happened something similar, if I recall correctly. Then the reduced time for a block compensated the miners, so we got the same profit at the end. I hope it will be the same situation this October, or else the mining will end for those with expensive electricity.

I watched some of the dev meeting and they mentioned giving a grant to implement progpow to render asic useless which hopefully will happen than all the other dagger coins will follow, the monero devs are working on a new fork that not only keeps asic from mining but fpga's I think this is awesome and will screw bitmain now only if zcash would do something but the way zooko talks he don't give a shit about gpu miners who made him rich

[leonix007]

https://bitsonline.com/ether-2-eth-block-reward/
Devs agreed on 2 ethers per block reward instead of 3 as it is now. This will happen with the coming fork in October together with a delay of the difficulty bomb by a year. Last November happened something similar, if I recall correctly. Then the reduced time for a block compensated the miners, so we got the same profit at the end. I hope it will be the same situation this October, or else the mining will end for those with expensive electricity.

I watched some of the dev meeting and they mentioned giving a grant to implement progpow to render asic useless which hopefully will happen than all the other dagger coins will follow, the monero devs are working on a new fork that not only keeps asic from mining but fpga's I think this is awesome and will screw bitmain now only if zcash would do something but the way zooko talks he don't give a shit about gpu miners who made him rich

Seems like a GPU manufacturers butting in

its a big business of course

and if these were true great news for GPU miners, light hopes still there probably

Hope my 480's will way still make some kicks with the new HW coming in

[Intristing]

Anyone mining here with an old R9 290 ?

Basically it seems with every new DAG, the speed is slowing down more and more.

I remember under stock clocks I would get like 26.5MH/s but now its down to 24.7MH/s with the same stock settings.

I am also using the DAG fix drivers and it fixed the slowdown on the RX GPUs but not on the older R9 GPUs.


Anyone else getting this issue and know of a fix?

Does it use less energy than the old DAG?

[adaseb]

Anyone mining here with an old R9 290 ?

Basically it seems with every new DAG, the speed is slowing down more and more.

I remember under stock clocks I would get like 26.5MH/s but now its down to 24.7MH/s with the same stock settings.

I am also using the DAG fix drivers and it fixed the slowdown on the RX GPUs but not on the older R9 GPUs.


Anyone else getting this issue and know of a fix?

Does it use less energy than the old DAG?

Maybe a little less energy, but not much significantly less.

Basically when they run slower they use less compute power so it uses less power overall because the compute is waiting for the memory data first and if the memory runs slower then it bottle necks the computing speed.

[mihis]

it took some time since I was in game, Is it still possible to mine ethereum on gtx 1060 3 gb ? Im still getting an error with DAG size.

[NiklasFalk]

it took some time since I was in game, Is it still possible to mine ethereum on gtx 1060 3 gb ? Im still getting an error with DAG size.

With Linux and Win7 (IIRC) it still works.

[crypper]

it took some time since I was in game, Is it still possible to mine ethereum on gtx 1060 3 gb ? Im still getting an error with DAG size.

Unless you are mining ETH for some ideological reasons, it would be more profitable for you to mine something else, e.g. BTG, with autoexchange to ETH. And no need to switch to win 7 or linux.

[Call_Me_Bambi]

https://bitsonline.com/ether-2-eth-block-reward/
Devs agreed on 2 ethers per block reward instead of 3 as it is now. This will happen with the coming fork in October together with a delay of the difficulty bomb by a year. Last November happened something similar, if I recall correctly. Then the reduced time for a block compensated the miners, so we got the same profit at the end. I hope it will be the same situation this October, or else the mining will end for those with expensive electricity.

Prepare to see a big GPU sell-off.

I'm now going to turn into a gamer. Is there any high-end game that requires 12 high-end GPU's at once and works with only 2 GB RAM + Pentium processor?

LOL

This is was great new for me; I was looking for a new gaming graphics card at around the time the crypto market went south and managed to pick up a nice RX 580 8GB (brand new) card for a good price.

[elguapoUMR05]

I could use some help troubleshooting my rig. For months my rig was solid as a rock running great until i foolishly ran a manual windows update. I have been working for several weeks to figure it out on my own but not been successful. Any help offered would be GREATLY appreciated. Here is my setup:

OS: Windows 10 Pro
MOBO: MSI Z270 Gaming Plus, Up to date Bios and Drivers
Power: Dual - Corsair TX-550 (Mobo & GPU 1), HP Server 750 PSU (powering Risers 2-6 and GPU's 2-6)
GPU's - 1-4 NVIDIA GTX 1070 Founders Edition, 5-6 RX580's
Miner: Currently 11.7 (could not get 11.9 Running)
NVIDIA GPU Driver: Currently 390.77

MOBO BIOS Config:
4G Crypto Mining - Enabled
PCIE - Auto (tried Gen1-Gen 3)
Power Failure Recover - Power State - On
Audio - Disabled

Pool - Ethermine

Problem: My problems started when I foolishly decided to manually install the Windows Update. I tried all kinds of things and eventually got frustrated and wiped the whole system with a fresh windows 10 install. Now that I got it back up and running I tried Claymore 11.9 but I could not get any NVIDIA drivers to work to get my hardware to show up (more than 1 GPU). I eventually got 390.77 and 11.7 Running but only showing 1 GPU. I'd like to get on 11.9 but when I read the help file I find this "10xx cards in Windows 10 x64: just use latest 372.54 drivers from Nvidia website, note that you must have Win10 Anniversary update."

I have searched the old drivers section of NVIDIA's site and can't find 372.54 and I'm struggling to understand how to get the Win10 Anniversary update.

Any suggestions here from folks with similar setups running 11.9 what drivers are you running?

PS. For now ignore the RX580's they are unplugged, also I've only got GPU 1-2 (both NVIDIA 1070's) installed/cabled up.

Thanks in advance for your advice/help.
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[Vann]

I have Windows v1709 with the current updates and the GeForce 399.07 WHQL drivers with Claymore v11.9 running very stable. Don't know if the problem is with the Claymore miner or the drivers, but there is an issue causing the NVIDIA drivers to crash after a few hours when mining on Windows 1803.

Use Rufus to copy a Windows 1709 ISO to a USB flash drive and do a clean install of Windows by selecting the UEFI setup from the boot Bios boot menu with only a single GPU in the primary x16 PCI-E slot. After the install is finished, on the first logon disable Windows feature updates in gpedit. On Windows 10 Pro you can set a Group Policy to defer feature updates until they have been targeted for business deployment, which is about 4 months after the public release, or you can also defer feature updates for up to 365 days. This way you still get the security updates.

gpedit ==> Computer Configuration ==> Administrative Templates ==> Windows Components ==> Windows Updates ==> Windows Update for Business ==> Select when Preview Builds and Feature Updates are Received ==> Set to 'enabled' and  in the drop down select 'Semi-Annual Channel'. Underneath that option set 'After a Preview Build or Feature Update is released, defer receiving it for this many days:' to 365.

Then run Windows Update to get the latest updates and reboot. Go back in to gpedit and disable driver updates to keep Windows Update from modifying your drivers.

gpedit ==> Navigate to: Computer Configuration ==> Administrative Templates ==> Windows Components ==> Windows Update and set 'Do not include drivers with Windows Update' to enabled.

Shutdown to install the rest of the GPU's. Afterwards download the latest driver for your GPU's and then run the GPU driver setup. For some reason the latest DDU is not working for me so I did a clean install option from the driver installer when installing the latest NVIDIA driver.

I also go in to Windows Apps from the settings to uninstall all the extra Windows crapware and disable all the Windows spyware in the Privacy settings.