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December 14, 2017, 09:30:34 PM
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Sup guys. im pretty new on this forum. 

Trying to figure what would be worth it for me to mine wiht my AMD r9 290 card.
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ETN, Monero. With down-volt.
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ETN, Monero. With down-volt.

would these be efficient with just 1 card?

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I would put them on Equihash algorithm.. It will do the best there

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December 14, 2017, 11:07:11 PM
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I would put them on Equihash algorithm.. It will do the best there

I will look that up!!  Is there a download Link i can locate it at?

THanks!
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December 15, 2017, 03:49:26 AM
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Currently, I have 6xR9 290 and I am mining ET. So far the profits are high. Moreover, the price of ETH is rising. but R9 power consumptions is high than RX series.
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Currently, I have 6xR9 290 and I am mining ET. So far the profits are high. Moreover, the price of ETH is rising. but R9 power consumptions is high than RX series.

what if im just running 1 card? 

nice!!
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December 17, 2017, 08:42:49 PM
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Currently, I have 6xR9 290 and I am mining ET. So far the profits are high. Moreover, the price of ETH is rising. but R9 power consumptions is high than RX series.

what if im just running 1 card? 

nice!!

It is ok to only have one. Try dual mining some Eth + Decred. Google to do it. It's pretty easy with claymores dual miner. You can also mine a currency called WYV. Better then Eth for profit and nice for a beginner with one gpu. Mining is fun!! Have fun!!
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Currently, I have 6xR9 290 and I am mining ET. So far the profits are high. Moreover, the price of ETH is rising. but R9 power consumptions is high than RX series.

what if im just running 1 card? 

nice!!

It is ok to only have one. Try dual mining some Eth + Decred. Google to do it. It's pretty easy with claymores dual miner. You can also mine a currency called WYV. Better then Eth for profit and nice for a beginner with one gpu. Mining is fun!! Have fun!!

Thanks Turk! ill give it a TRY!

ill check out WYV. What are you using to mine that?
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It's a beast for ETH (29 Mh/s) and Cryptonight (700+ H/s) algos! Smiley
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Monero, no doubt

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r9 290 are profitable even in 2019 while mining Ethereum on Ubuntu with version no higher than 16.04 (for GPU compatibility). Also it is profitable if you have cheap electricity while mining Beam, Monero and Zhash coins. You have to install driver version 17.40 and AMD SDK kit. There is a guide how to do it (in Russian): https://www.cryptoprofi.info/?p=3313. It is also useful for mining on all old cards including R9 280, 290, 295 and 390.

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July 18, 2019, 08:14:48 PM
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r9 290 are profitable even in 2019 while mining Ethereum on Ubuntu with version no higher than 16.04 (for GPU compatibility). Also it is profitable if you have cheap electricity while mining Beam, Monero and Zhash coins. You have to install driver version 17.40 and AMD SDK kit. There is a guide how to do it (in Russian): https://www.cryptoprofi.info/?p=3313. It is also useful for mining on all old cards including R9 280, 290, 295 and 390.
it just works on SMOS, except the only clock/voltage control is DPM states, makes the occasional finickiness of ubuntu less of a problem. I personally used Hawaii Bios Editor to tweak the states so it behaves a bit better.
My 290's are getting between 2.5 and 2.77 on cuckarood29 with lolminer, and 28-30 on ethash. c29 is much cooler running than ethash.
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Hi, I have following rig with:
•4 x Sapphire Radeon R9 290 graphics cards
•AMD Sempron(tm) 145 Processor 2.80 GHz
•Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 motherboard
•RipjawsX DDR3 16GB installed Memory
•WD 320GB Hard disk
•ThermalTake ToughpowerXT GOLD 80plus 1475W power supply
•Windows 7 Home Edition 64bit operating system.

I used to mine ETC using claymores miner but stopped due to costs and also no foreseeable potential of ETC price rocketing!!!
I was wondering if there is anything I can usefully still mine? I can take a loss so long as I see potential for the coin price growth.
I would like to mine GRIN  but not sure if the graphics card supports the level of power needed for this.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.
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Hi, I have following rig with:
•4 x Sapphire Radeon R9 290 graphics cards
•AMD Sempron(tm) 145 Processor 2.80 GHz
•Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 motherboard
•RipjawsX DDR3 16GB installed Memory
•WD 320GB Hard disk
•ThermalTake ToughpowerXT GOLD 80plus 1475W power supply
•Windows 7 Home Edition 64bit operating system.

I used to mine ETC using claymores miner but stopped due to costs and also no foreseeable potential of ETC price rocketing!!!
I was wondering if there is anything I can usefully still mine? I can take a loss so long as I see potential for the coin price growth.
I would like to mine GRIN  but not sure if the graphics card supports the level of power needed for this.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Those cards are power hungry and that is a known fact.It should have no problem mining Grin but that coin is geared more for Nvidia cards which are excelling there.With the Rx290 the best thing to do is to mine the Cryptonight algorithms ,find which one gives you more reward and start mining it.

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Hi, I have following rig with:
•4 x Sapphire Radeon R9 290 graphics cards
•AMD Sempron(tm) 145 Processor 2.80 GHz
•Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 motherboard
•RipjawsX DDR3 16GB installed Memory
•WD 320GB Hard disk
•ThermalTake ToughpowerXT GOLD 80plus 1475W power supply
•Windows 7 Home Edition 64bit operating system.

I used to mine ETC using claymores miner but stopped due to costs and also no foreseeable potential of ETC price rocketing!!!
I was wondering if there is anything I can usefully still mine? I can take a loss so long as I see potential for the coin price growth.
I would like to mine GRIN  but not sure if the graphics card supports the level of power needed for this.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.
I have 2 R9 290s,mining grin one does 2.5Gps, another does 2.77, I'll be trying to figure that out later. It's lower power than eth, but I'm not sure by how much as my kill-a-watt is dead. It will work on linux (tested with SMOS myself), it might work on windows 7, but not windows 10. On Linux you can get 27-31MH/s on ethash (vs the 20-24 on windows) too. My experience mining cryptonight variants on my 290s has been.. well I'm only getting 700 or so H/s. Grin was definitely making me more profit, and eth classic making the most revenue and maybe profit. You need to use Hawaii Bios Editor to do any overclocking/undervolting you want if using them on linux.
edit: lolminer is miner to use for grin on AMD.
edit2: Less typical or efficient algos the 290s can do are: the equihash variants, like zhash, BEAM, and I believe Aion but I didn't test that one myself. I believe mine were outperforming my RX 580 on BEAM, too, but I've only tested on linux. Windows 7 may work the same even though it doesn't get the memory management benefits of linux, where the ethash performance difference comes from. They can do the C31 algo, for grin, as well with lolminer but only at .27 gps, though they ran fairly cool when mining that so power efficiency may be better there.
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it just works on SMOS, except the only clock/voltage control is DPM states

Flash your BIOS on the cards with a BIOS from TheStilt, then you don't have to worry about voltage control AND you save more because those BIOS shut down some of the unneeded video circuitry.

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Hi, I have following rig with:
•4 x Sapphire Radeon R9 290 graphics cards
•AMD Sempron(tm) 145 Processor 2.80 GHz
•Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 motherboard
•RipjawsX DDR3 16GB installed Memory
•WD 320GB Hard disk
•ThermalTake ToughpowerXT GOLD 80plus 1475W power supply
•Windows 7 Home Edition 64bit operating system.

I used to mine ETC using claymores miner but stopped due to costs and also no foreseeable potential of ETC price rocketing!!!
I was wondering if there is anything I can usefully still mine? I can take a loss so long as I see potential for the coin price growth.
I would like to mine GRIN  but not sure if the graphics card supports the level of power needed for this.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.
I have 2 R9 290s,mining grin one does 2.5Gps, another does 2.77, I'll be trying to figure that out later. It's lower power than eth, but I'm not sure by how much as my kill-a-watt is dead. It will work on linux (tested with SMOS myself), it might work on windows 7, but not windows 10. On Linux you can get 27-31MH/s on ethash (vs the 20-24 on windows) too. My experience mining cryptonight variants on my 290s has been.. well I'm only getting 700 or so H/s. Grin was definitely making me more profit, and eth classic making the most revenue and maybe profit. You need to use Hawaii Bios Editor to do any overclocking/undervolting you want if using them on linux.
edit: lolminer is miner to use for grin on AMD.
edit2: Less typical or efficient algos the 290s can do are: the equihash variants, like zhash, BEAM, and I believe Aion but I didn't test that one myself. I believe mine were outperforming my RX 580 on BEAM, too, but I've only tested on linux. Windows 7 may work the same even though it doesn't get the memory management benefits of linux, where the ethash performance difference comes from. They can do the C31 algo, for grin, as well with lolminer but only at .27 gps, though they ran fairly cool when mining that so power efficiency may be better there.

When you get the 2.5-2.77 GPS, do you use the Linux only?

What are the CPUs you used in the system?
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Hi, I have following rig with:
•4 x Sapphire Radeon R9 290 graphics cards
•AMD Sempron(tm) 145 Processor 2.80 GHz
•Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 motherboard
•RipjawsX DDR3 16GB installed Memory
•WD 320GB Hard disk
•ThermalTake ToughpowerXT GOLD 80plus 1475W power supply
•Windows 7 Home Edition 64bit operating system.

I used to mine ETC using claymores miner but stopped due to costs and also no foreseeable potential of ETC price rocketing!!!
I was wondering if there is anything I can usefully still mine? I can take a loss so long as I see potential for the coin price growth.
I would like to mine GRIN  but not sure if the graphics card supports the level of power needed for this.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.
I have 2 R9 290s,mining grin one does 2.5Gps, another does 2.77, I'll be trying to figure that out later. It's lower power than eth, but I'm not sure by how much as my kill-a-watt is dead. It will work on linux (tested with SMOS myself), it might work on windows 7, but not windows 10. On Linux you can get 27-31MH/s on ethash (vs the 20-24 on windows) too. My experience mining cryptonight variants on my 290s has been.. well I'm only getting 700 or so H/s. Grin was definitely making me more profit, and eth classic making the most revenue and maybe profit. You need to use Hawaii Bios Editor to do any overclocking/undervolting you want if using them on linux.
edit: lolminer is miner to use for grin on AMD.
edit2: Less typical or efficient algos the 290s can do are: the equihash variants, like zhash, BEAM, and I believe Aion but I didn't test that one myself. I believe mine were outperforming my RX 580 on BEAM, too, but I've only tested on linux. Windows 7 may work the same even though it doesn't get the memory management benefits of linux, where the ethash performance difference comes from. They can do the C31 algo, for grin, as well with lolminer but only at .27 gps, though they ran fairly cool when mining that so power efficiency may be better there.

When you get the 2.5-2.77 GPS, do you use the Linux only?

What are the CPUs you used in the system?
SMOS, lolminer 0.8.5, AMD FX-6300. I don't think lolminer can do it with 4gb cards on windows 10, so yes linux only.
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