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December 26, 2013, 11:53:10 AM |
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So I'm gonna purchase a R9 290x and I was wondering if there is any difference between the sapphire/msi/xfx/msi and gigabyte model for mining? Thanks.
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coin123123
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December 26, 2013, 02:00:15 PM |
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gigabyte usually works fast without major tuning while sapphire may need oc to reach same khs
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December 26, 2013, 07:10:50 PM |
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don't get xfx, get gigabyte
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December 27, 2013, 03:36:16 AM |
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don't get xfx, get gigabyte
Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 Graphics Card (3GB GDDR5, DVI, HDMI, 2x DVI) isnt good this GPU for mining LTC?
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December 27, 2013, 05:53:32 AM |
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People told me to get Gigabyte too but I found out it was one of the slowest at mining. Sapphire is the fastest in my experience. The people giving you advice probably never tried out any other brands, but for the same exact graphics card, Gigabyte gives very poor performance in terms of mining.
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rudyo
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December 27, 2013, 06:02:07 AM |
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I concur with the Sapphire recommendations, both on R9 280x and R9 290. It isn't that Gigabtye is bad...Sapphire is just better! :-)
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CoinPN (OP)
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December 27, 2013, 11:27:43 AM |
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I concur with the Sapphire recommendations, both on R9 280x and R9 290. It isn't that Gigabtye is bad...Sapphire is just better! :-)
Reason? you got to clock the sapphire one more to get as much khash
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December 27, 2013, 04:19:41 PM |
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Saphire is great the vaphor-x is king trust me Asus is Very nice the CU II its amazing Gigabyte sometimes hard to set it good HIS is prety nice XFX Run awayyyy
personal opinion.
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December 27, 2013, 06:05:26 PM |
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ASUS Radeon HD 7990 6GB, i headr that this card can run total 1400kh/s,,is that true?Peoples says it has two cores which run at 700kh/s each core.
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December 27, 2013, 06:06:46 PM |
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have a sapphire 290x running at 880Kh/s
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December 27, 2013, 06:12:33 PM |
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From what I've seen sapphire is the fastest. I have the ASUS and get 880 kh/s though.
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December 27, 2013, 06:15:29 PM |
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I have 5 x Sapphire R9 290's and 1 x Sapphire OC 7970 -- I too prefer Sapphire!
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December 27, 2013, 06:28:46 PM |
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Guys help me build litecoin mining rig under 2000$.advice me with the best choice of computers components. Motherboard- GPU- PSU- Memory- Processor- because i know 7950 perfect but it hard to find and very expensive ,other thing is i dont wanna buy very expensive Motherboard i prefer to buy cheaper and run max 4 gpus on motherboard,and what kind of processor should i buy? Do i need good processor ?do i need much memory ?Is enough like 2 GB for 4 GPUS? Sorry im still noob on litecoins mining hardware
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December 27, 2013, 06:46:56 PM |
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I've got only gigabytes:
r9 280x ~ 720 kh/s r9 290 (! without x !) ~ 870 kh/s
Be aware that gigabyte GPUs are voltage locked, so you can't undervolt them directly throught software like trixx, cgminer etc. However, I undervolted GPU voltage by flashing GPU vBios on r9 280x and instead of 1.2V now runs on 1.075V and it's completly stable.
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December 27, 2013, 06:48:01 PM |
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SAPPHIRE is the best. Veterans say so. Also look for a 7990 if you can get it. Also try your luck here, Instructions: Sapphire R9 290 raffle to be held tomorrow. This beauty pulls out ~880 Kh/s and is out of stock everywhere.
Get here while you can to get 1 raffle ticket.
Find a LTC block or two for extra 1 raffle ticket per block and a DOGE block for 0.2 extra ticket per block.
www.netcodepool.org
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CoinPN (OP)
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December 27, 2013, 06:48:34 PM |
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I've got only gigabytes:
r9 280x ~ 720 kh/s r9 290 (! without x !) ~ 870 kh/s
Be aware that gigabyte GPUs are voltage locked, so you can't undervolt them directly throught software like trixx, cgminer etc. However, I undervolted GPU voltage by flashing GPU vBios on r9 280x and instead of 1.2V now runs on 1.075V and it's completly stable.
I wouldn't need to undervolt it, if it's electric bill you're talking about, but thanks for the replies
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December 27, 2013, 06:59:38 PM |
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December 27, 2013, 07:01:20 PM |
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However, I undervolted GPU voltage by flashing GPU vBios on r9 280x and instead of 1.2V now runs on 1.075V and it's completly stable.
What software did you use to do that? And did you overclock core and memory clock?
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December 27, 2013, 07:06:21 PM |
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I havent used anything yet,I just wanna start to build mining rig but before buying stuffes im looking for info i dont wanna buy and throw it away,I just asking would be that card useful ?
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December 27, 2013, 07:20:59 PM |
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Not 290x, but I have 3 280x's. A gigabyte, an Asus, and a Sapphire. I've tried everything i can to boost the performance, but I think I'm just about maxed. Anyway, the Sapphire is the fastest of the 3, running around 730Kh/s. the gigabyte and Asus both run around 710Kh/s. Just thought I'd add that the Sapphires are faster
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