Mining ethereum with NVIDIA 9xx cards in Windows 10 with latest drivers

[h311m4n]

Pretty cool!

What's power consumption like?

[benether]

Pretty cool!

What's power consumption like?

140/145 W for the GTX970 GPU

[talboris2]

and how much i can down power limit to undervolt?

how much to increase memory speed?

[benether]

and how much i can down power limit to undervolt?

how much to increase memory speed?

It really depends on your card.
You need to try differents settings to find whats the best configuration for you.

My card is "factory overclocked".
My current AfterBurner settings are :
- P0 state (1506/3505)
- +131 Mhz Core
- +50 Mhz Memory

I dont really understand why, but depending on the crypto I mine, voltage/frequencies vary.

Right now I dual mine ETC+SIA and I run :
- 1049 mV
- 1392 Mhz core
- 3557 Mhz memory

[talboris2]

permormed all steps still i get 17 m\h

and i cant ovecklock

msi burner brings back memory to 0

running in p0 mode

gtx gameward 970 4gb micron

[benether]

permormed all steps still i get 17 m\h

and i cant ovecklock

msi burner brings back memory to 0

running in p0 mode

gtx gameward 970 4gb micron

Can you post a screenshot of your afterburner settings ? and also a screenshot of GPU-Z ?

[renmet]

Hello,

is there a way to make the 3D Settings also from Commandline or by make some Registry modifications?

Go to "3D Settings" => "Manage 3D" setting and :
Make sure "CUDA - GPUs" is set to "All"
Set "DSR - Factors" to "2x"
(and most important) Set "Optimise for Compute Performance" to "Yes"

My Miner has no Display connected (only remote access with RDP or TeamViewer) so nVidia Control Panel won‘t launch.

Thanks for help

regards

[benether]

Hello,

is there a way to make the 3D Settings also from Commandline or by make some Registry modifications?

I dont know. Should be sotre in the registry, but where is the question

My Miner has no Display connected (only remote access with RDP or TeamViewer) so nVidia Control Panel won‘t launch.

Thanks for help

regards

Why nvidia control panel dont launch in RDP/TV ? It should.

[renmet]

Why nvidia control panel dont launch in RDP/TV ? It should.

Updated driver to 385.xx and now i always get an error that no display is connected to the GPU. Today i connected a Monitor to the DVI Connector of my MSI GTX 970 Gaming 4G and i was able to start the Control Panel. Also claymore won‘t work anymore (Big Buffer Error). With ethminer everything is working well but Control Panel won‘t launch. After a reboot of the system Control Panel is working, launching ethminer Control Panel won‘t launch and so on...

Tried uninstall and fresh install of 384.xx and 382.xx but this was no solution.

kindly regards

[benether]

Is your error with claymore was "cannot allocate big buffer for DAG" ?
If so, i have already have it and resolved it setting "DSR - FactorS" to 2x on nvidia control panel. (dont really understand what is the relation... but it works)

[renmet]

Is your error with claymore was "cannot allocate big buffer for DAG" ?
If so, i have already have it and resolved it setting "DSR - FactorS" to 2x on nvidia control panel. (dont really understand what is the relation... but it works)

Yes this is the error. Tried DSR 1.2 & 2.0 but always the same error

kindly regards

[benether]

Ok.

Have you also tried to set a bigger pagefile in windows ?

Just found this - you can try it maybe :

Code:

-lidag low intensity mode for DAG generation, it can help with OC or weak PSU. Supported values are 0, 1, 2, 3, more value means lower intensity. Example: "-lidag 1". You can also specify values for every card, for example "-lidag 1,0,3". Default value is "0" (no low intensity for DAG generation).

[StopTheFakes]

Best first post ave evere seen. Good luck and thank you for complete information. Its realy helpful

[benether]

Best first post ave evere seen. Good luck and thank you for complete information. Its realy helpful

Thank you !
Im glad this post helps you

[QuintLeo]

For mining use on a 9xx or any 10xx series NVidia card EXCEPT the Pascal-based Titans and the 1080ti, 373.06 is the optimal driver version.
The more recent driver versions offer NOTHING that improves on mining performance, and many of them crash a lot (385.41 CURRENT driver version is a PRIME example) or LOWER mining performance.


 The more recent driver versions are all about fixing issues with GAMES - and often cause OTHER issues when they fix something.
 More recent is often NOT BETTER on drivers depending on your usage.

[renmet]

Toady i tried to fix my DAG Problem with my GTX 970. First i removed the latest nVidia Driver (385.41) in Safe Mode with DDU. After this i installed the last know working Version of nVidia Drivers (382.53). After the install i forgot to enable OPTIMIZE FOR COMPUTE and Claymore was working but after enabling OPTIMIZE FOR COMPUTE Claymore won't work any more.

So here are my tests with EMINER (Claymore is the same)

Optimize for Compute DISABLED - everything is working with LOW HASHRATE

https://i.imgur.com/GvygKtk.png

https://i.imgur.com/EF6swlt.png

Optimize for Compute ENABLED / DSR DISABLED - Claymore and Eminer (doesn't find my GTX) won't work

https://i.imgur.com/JoJFmyr.png

https://i.imgur.com/1b3BjZ1.png

https://i.imgur.com/GvygKtk.png

https://i.imgur.com/YHj6o8l.png

Optimize for Compute ENABLED / DSR 1.20 ENABLED - Claymore and Eminer (doesn't find my GTX) won't work

https://i.imgur.com/AAWISol.png

https://i.imgur.com/1b3BjZ1.png

https://i.imgur.com/GvygKtk.png

https://i.imgur.com/YHj6o8l.png

Optimize for Compute ENABLED / DSR 2.00 ENABLED - Claymore and Eminer (doesn't find my GTX) won't work

https://i.imgur.com/UzFpJfZ.png

https://i.imgur.com/1b3BjZ1.png

https://i.imgur.com/GvygKtk.png

https://i.imgur.com/YHj6o8l.png

Does anyone else have the same problem or know a solution? Thanks for help

kindly regards

BTW: Maybe a connected Display is the problem? But without a connected Display i can't enter the Control Panel (No Device in use with GPU).

[Bitminer2017]

So I'm trying to follow this guide to the T, and I'm still ending up at 12mh/s. I have 2 970gtx's on a rather good powered machine using 32gb ddr4 on a 6700k cpu. Yea gaming rig. Just wanted to start to learn this mining thing I've done everything said in the first post, even going back to the driver specified, and I cannot get more than 12mh/s.

Can someone tell me where I may have gone wrong? :/

[Thekool1s]

So I'm trying to follow this guide to the T, and I'm still ending up at 12mh/s. I have 2 970gtx's on a rather good powered machine using 32gb ddr4 on a 6700k cpu. Yea gaming rig. Just wanted to start to learn this mining thing I've done everything said in the first post, even going back to the driver specified, and I cannot get more than 12mh/s.

Can someone tell me where I may have gone wrong? :/

You can't do much about it currently... The dag size is too big for 970s to handle, you will hardly get 8-9 mh/s on each of 970s. 970s aren't much profitable for ethereum these days.. Try something like nicehash. They can give you around $150 per month. Good luck.