Happy New Years! Seventh alt coin thread!

[QuintLeo]

Does anyone here maybe have some info about new nvidia cards like price or characteristics or are we still in the dark about them?Also cant belive that i missed seventh thread and saw it just now

There is zero hard information about the Nvidia 2000 series available yet, other than the pretty firm "they will be 20xx not 11xx naming", at this time.

The more recent rumours say the consumer cards will be named "Turing", but I suspect they will still be Volta arch cards just no "tensor cores" as the only real difference from the existing Volta Titan and V100 arch.
The name makes no sense though, Touring was an early "AI" concept type guy....

[Storx]

I know many of you farmers use Nicehash because you have so many rigs and multiple addresses... Have you ever come across "Cuda error 719"? A buddy of mine using NH miner kept getting these on equihash and lyra2v2 lately... which is very annoying as it crashes the miner and results in the inevitable downtime.

I tried fix number 1 (Google) but I'm not getting much. Answers range from "lower your clocks" to "driver issue" over "Nicehash problem". For now he's just disabled equihash and lyra2v2 but that kinda sucks.

Just throwing it in here, as some of you might already have experienced it.

Nicehash miner uses Excavator for those algo's and that software with the latest update is very complex, it runs a constant variable intensity level, so it will continue to try and improve itself to gain higher hashrates while mining and has shown to be very unreliable. Most likely its a OC/Mem setting conflicting with the intensity changing. I actually removed that software from my list when they released the latest 4.4 version due to these random issues.

Honestly since your so new i would look into using a more simpler miner that is using more reliable software already programmed, i would use something like NemoMiner and just change your wallet address and amount of cards based on the readme file and let it do its thing. You can use NemoMiner on Nicehash to profit switch, but use better software outside of their branded excavator software.

[Storx]

Does anyone here maybe have some info about new nvidia cards like price or characteristics or are we still in the dark about them?Also cant belive that i missed seventh thread and saw it just now

There is zero hard information about the Nvidia 2000 series available yet, other than the pretty firm "they will be 20xx not 11xx naming", at this time.

The more recent rumours say the consumer cards will be named "Turing", but I suspect they will still be Volta arch cards just no "tensor cores" as the only real difference from the existing Volta Titan and V100 arch.
The name makes no sense though, Touring was an early "AI" concept type guy....

From the more recent info i read...

Volta is reserved for AI and research GPU's
Turing is reserved for the P+ series mining cards
Ampere is reserved for the gaming GPU's

Rumor is it that the new Ampere cards will have locked BIOS and locked settings so they are unable to be easily OC or settings changed to deter them from being used in crypto mining, with some sort of purchasable flashing software that links a game to a flash for the extremist. basically you would purchase a "overclock" upgrade for the GPU and it would be applied during the startup of that game.

The Turing cards from what i understand are going to follow the path of basically ASIC's, there are going to be different model cards that the core CPU on the card is designed around that specific algo
Example: Turing P-X17, designed for best for X17 coins...

Another Rumor i read is that the 2080ti is going to be the peak of the Ampere card line, that the Titan models are moving over to the Volta chips only and turned into entry level AI/Encoding series cards, removing it from the Ampere lineup

[Moondoggie]

Does anyone here maybe have some info about new nvidia cards like price or characteristics or are we still in the dark about them?Also cant belive that i missed seventh thread and saw it just now

There is zero hard information about the Nvidia 2000 series available yet, other than the pretty firm "they will be 20xx not 11xx naming", at this time.

The more recent rumours say the consumer cards will be named "Turing", but I suspect they will still be Volta arch cards just no "tensor cores" as the only real difference from the existing Volta Titan and V100 arch.
The name makes no sense though, Touring was an early "AI" concept type guy....

From the more recent info i read...

Volta is reserved for AI and research GPU's
Turing is reserved for the P+ series mining cards
Ampere is reserved for the gaming GPU's

Rumor is it that the new Ampere cards will have locked BIOS and locked settings so they are unable to be easily OC or settings changed to deter them from being used in crypto mining, with some sort of purchasable flashing software that links a game to a flash for the extremist. basically you would purchase a "overclock" upgrade for the GPU and it would be applied during the startup of that game.

The Turing cards from what i understand are going to follow the path of basically ASIC's, there are going to be different model cards that the core CPU on the card is designed around that specific algo
Example: Turing P-X17, designed for best for X17 coins...

Another Rumor i read is that the 2080ti is going to be the peak of the Ampere card line, that the Titan models are moving over to the Volta chips only and turned into entry level AI/Encoding series cards, removing it from the Ampere lineup

I hope they don't go with the overclock upgrade idea. Sounds horrible for gaming 

[Storx]

Does anyone here maybe have some info about new nvidia cards like price or characteristics or are we still in the dark about them?Also cant belive that i missed seventh thread and saw it just now

There is zero hard information about the Nvidia 2000 series available yet, other than the pretty firm "they will be 20xx not 11xx naming", at this time.

The more recent rumours say the consumer cards will be named "Turing", but I suspect they will still be Volta arch cards just no "tensor cores" as the only real difference from the existing Volta Titan and V100 arch.
The name makes no sense though, Touring was an early "AI" concept type guy....

From the more recent info i read...

Volta is reserved for AI and research GPU's
Turing is reserved for the P+ series mining cards
Ampere is reserved for the gaming GPU's

Rumor is it that the new Ampere cards will have locked BIOS and locked settings so they are unable to be easily OC or settings changed to deter them from being used in crypto mining, with some sort of purchasable flashing software that links a game to a flash for the extremist. basically you would purchase a "overclock" upgrade for the GPU and it would be applied during the startup of that game.

The Turing cards from what i understand are going to follow the path of basically ASIC's, there are going to be different model cards that the core CPU on the card is designed around that specific algo
Example: Turing P-X17, designed for best for X17 coins...

Another Rumor i read is that the 2080ti is going to be the peak of the Ampere card line, that the Titan models are moving over to the Volta chips only and turned into entry level AI/Encoding series cards, removing it from the Ampere lineup

I hope they don't go with the overclock upgrade idea. Sounds horrible for gaming 

Ya, not exactly sure about it myself, but you have to understand 98% of gamers dont ever changes the settings, they game with stock GPU settings... so its a win-win for them if they go this route

[JaredKaragen]

I have never needed/required an overclock for gaming.   The amount of fuss, for the literal sliver of performance is 100% not worth it.

gamers are just concerned about their game playing.

If the bleeding-edge type really must do what they want, then, they are surely a tiny minority and this scheme seems to fit that bill rather nicely.


I still think miners will use gamer GPU's.   Don't underestimate the ability for people to add efficiency where it has not been focused yet.....

[QuintLeo]

Another Rumor i read is that the 2080ti is going to be the peak of the Ampere card line, that the Titan models are moving over to the Volta chips only and turned into entry level AI/Encoding series cards, removing it from the Ampere lineup

 Nvidia already did that with the Titan V, I wouldn't count that as a rumor.

[QuintLeo]

Since this thread is about the legacy r9 290s.

What do you guys mine with the Elpida memory ones?

ZEC seems to hang the system even at stock settings.

ETH is good at 29mh/s but very difficult to undervolt and maintain stability.

R9 290 is a ton better at ETH than ZEC - bios mod them with one of TheStilt undervolt bios helps a ton on dropping temps, stability, and lowering power usage.

1100 core is WAY overkill for ETH mining on them - 900-950 seems to be about the most you need for max hashrate AND drops power consumption quite a bit.

Might vary a bit if you have aftermarket cards - mine are Sapphire reference models, and seem to be optimal on ETH mining at 1250 memory clock (1300 LOWERS hashrate and much higher gets unstable).

OK, for some perspective - previous mining on my R9 290 cards was under LINUX running qtminer, as I never got Genoil working on those under LINUX.

Moved one into it's "new home" today - and found that they work a lot differently under Windows 7 with Claymore.

16.9.2 drivers (motherboard has a A10 I'm NOT willing to abandon, and the blockchain drivers don't support the A10 and don't seem to matter to the R9 290 ANYWAY).

1100 core 1450 memory seems to be the highest "stable" setting in Afterburner.
BIOS updated from TheStilt, but it was one of his mid-level "amount of undervolt" versions.
30.6 Mhash, 78C temp at 96% fan after I pulled the mounting bracket off (was about 81 with the bracket at 100% fan, I'm not sure why I didn't get around to doing that sooner).

Seems to be eating about 260 watts at the wall on a lightly loaded EVGA G2 1300, so probably about 240 watts actual card draw.
I'd also forgotten these were 8 + 6 power cards (I THOUGHT they were 8 + so it looks like this rig will also get my pair of R9 280x cards at some point - which should put me a little under my "target power budget".
I do have a 7750 parked on the 3'd "16x" slot on the motherboard as it doesn't interfere with any riser slots there, and I wanted to put it in SOMETHING (it will probably be doing D.Net RC5-72 work along with the iGPU on the A10).

It's not QUITE vaccum level loud - but once I get a pair of these AND the pair of R9 280x cards in it, it's NOT going to be quiet....


(edit) I am now remembering part of the reason I limited clocks on these.
I have 2 in the "new home" machine now - and one is running 80C even at 1050/1250 while the other is at 73 at 1100/1450 - both in an A/C room.
I think I need to pull the one out, pull it apart, and redo the HS compound or some such, it shouldn't be running THAT much hotter than the other.

I also note that NEITHER is stable running D.Net at 1100 core at all (even when I drop the memory clocks to min, which is reasonable for D.Net work as it barely sips memory at all) - which indicates a GPU side heat issue of some sort.
Keep getting "driver resets" that kill OpenCL entirely on the R9 cards when I try to do so.

[Storx]

Another Rumor i read is that the 2080ti is going to be the peak of the Ampere card line, that the Titan models are moving over to the Volta chips only and turned into entry level AI/Encoding series cards, removing it from the Ampere lineup

 Nvidia already did that with the Titan V, I wouldn't count that as a rumor.

meant as in they are not releasing a titan under the ampere lineup like previously rumored, leaving it to the volta

[JaredKaragen]

Hey,

My buddy Tiger has put together some power supply packages....  seems pretty worth it, and right up your guys alley:

Total 2250W PSU Power Supply Kit 6-8pin GPU mining #Ethereum and more

Let me know what you think.  If you email him and deal with him directly and mention my username, you will get 15% off. (save you and him the ebay fees)
LHUS1688@gmail.com

[fr4nkthetank]

lol id like to see algo specific/enhanced GPUs...that would be weird.  I dont think its a good idea for nvidia or amd to concentrate on mining.  Keep making great gaming cards, that miners love to buy, and voila.  Or if I was an executive, I would release the new version of the GPUs, in limited quantities to stores for gamers, but keep making the old series for the miners, so win win.  just make sure the price / hashrate comes out the same.

[KaydenC]

1500w titanium psu at a steal guys

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01KP8S83C/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

[JaredKaragen]

nvidia splitting archatectures towards mining/gaming may be giving AMD a chance to play catch up in their hardware game.....

[citronick]

Phil - have you tried S9s at Slush lately?

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/slush-pool-now-compatible-asicboost-miners/

[dragonmike]

I know many of you farmers use Nicehash because you have so many rigs and multiple addresses... Have you ever come across "Cuda error 719"? A buddy of mine using NH miner kept getting these on equihash and lyra2v2 lately... which is very annoying as it crashes the miner and results in the inevitable downtime.

I tried fix number 1 (Google) but I'm not getting much. Answers range from "lower your clocks" to "driver issue" over "Nicehash problem". For now he's just disabled equihash and lyra2v2 but that kinda sucks.

Just throwing it in here, as some of you might already have experienced it.

Nicehash miner uses Excavator for those algo's and that software with the latest update is very complex, it runs a constant variable intensity level, so it will continue to try and improve itself to gain higher hashrates while mining and has shown to be very unreliable. Most likely its a OC/Mem setting conflicting with the intensity changing. I actually removed that software from my list when they released the latest 4.4 version due to these random issues.

Honestly since your so new i would look into using a more simpler miner that is using more reliable software already programmed, i would use something like NemoMiner and just change your wallet address and amount of cards based on the readme file and let it do its thing. You can use NemoMiner on Nicehash to profit switch, but use better software outside of their branded excavator software.

Well after hours of troubleshooting last night, it turns out we probably have two slots fried on the mobo. Tried all sorts of software fixes (ddu, new driver, new windows install) to no avail. Only after unplugging the first two cards (out of six) was everything working well again. I reckon a combo of fluffy carpet+steel rack+steel frame+vacuum cleaner might have given the rig a sparky spark...

[philipma1957]

1500w titanium psu at a steal guys

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01KP8S83C/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

thanks I ordered 1

[philipma1957]

Phil - have you tried S9s at Slush lately?

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/slush-pool-now-compatible-asicboost-miners/

 I have no more s-9s


It occurs to me that this means bitmain is attacking dragonmint in a clever way

[citronick]

Phil - have you tried S9s at Slush lately?

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/slush-pool-now-compatible-asicboost-miners/

 I have no more s-9s


It occurs to me that this means bitmain is attacking dragonmint in a clever way

I have a batch of S9s v1 - the ones kano banned from his pool - its doing its thing at viabtc but with the asicboost - worth it to park them at Slush?

[philipma1957]

Big news dragonmint will have asicboost

Bigger news I be getting a demo!


More news I got the 16 gpu unit  in for testing and it is running!




here is 1 of 3 videos

https://youtu.be/9gAysiHOWBE

[soothaa]

Phil - have you tried S9s at Slush lately?

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/slush-pool-now-compatible-asicboost-miners/

Uhh.. are you trolling? That is horrible..