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Topic: Best Brand and model RX470 for Ethereum (Read 1640 times)

sr. member
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March 24, 2017, 02:52:07 PM
#16
My rigs all use RX470 8gb Nitro+ cards, no overclocking, a 5 card rig = 120Mhs.

If you're in the UK, Amazon curently have them at £199.99 for Prime Members ... the cheapest I have ever seen them ... only 6 left apparently ... as I just snagged a couple more  Grin

member
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March 24, 2017, 01:05:07 PM
#15
Sapphire Nitro, but take RX 480 4GB.
legendary
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'The right to privacy matters'
March 24, 2017, 12:48:44 PM
#14
@philipma1957
Why do you think that 8gb is so much more important than 4gb?
We probably have less than a year to go on ethereum? For Eth 4gb might last.
Are there some vibes that zcash might tweak the algo to a higher memory requirement?
thanks.

Zero coin is the first try at 8gb coin.

It is in the best interests of AMD and Nvidia for a successful 8 gb coin

Do you think the AMD will push up the price of coin to sell more cards?

Yes, I think so. Once the price is higher then they can sell more cards and creat new cards with high technology to meet miners' demands and Therefore They will get double profits from boosting coin price and selling their cards. That's really a smart strategy .

make a loop, of course it is a smart strategy.

Do you have any numbers about GPU sold for mining in a year?
Because somewhere else (I do not really remember where) someone claimed that the mining market for AMD/Nvidia is so little compared to the gaming/clusters market that they do not really care about it. Personally I agree with this point of view, but I do not have any number.

with the mining expansion of the last year  the numbers are huge.

last  time I checked  I figured 100,000 rx 480's  and that was  back in the late winter.


look at eth alone https://etherchain.org/  

 15th  

 so 1 rx 480 = 25-30  mh

say 35 = 1000 mh  or 1 gh

3500 = 1 th

52,500 = 15th  

next xmr

http://moneroblocks.info/


55.6 Mh/s    was is an rx 480   about 600 h

 for easy math

    network 60mh      

10 rx 480's =  6000h

100 rx 480's  =  60,000h

1,000 rx 480's =  600,000h

10,000 rx 480's = 6,000,000h

100,000 rx 480's = 60,000,000h  


so eth and xmr add to more then  150,000 rx 480's


lets say rig size averages to 4  not six

those two coins  are close to 40,000 rigs

so

40,000 cpus
40,000 psus
40,000 ram sticks


more coins  then the two above.  there is a lot of big money from a lot of  non- asic players


150,000 gpus  = 30 million at 200 each

If an 8gb coin took off  right now  8gb card = hot
hero member
Activity: 653
Merit: 500
March 24, 2017, 12:05:01 PM
#13
@philipma1957
Why do you think that 8gb is so much more important than 4gb?
We probably have less than a year to go on ethereum? For Eth 4gb might last.
Are there some vibes that zcash might tweak the algo to a higher memory requirement?
thanks.

Zero coin is the first try at 8gb coin.

It is in the best interests of AMD and Nvidia for a successful 8 gb coin

Do you think the AMD will push up the price of coin to sell more cards?

Yes, I think so. Once the price is higher then they can sell more cards and creat new cards with high technology to meet miners' demands and Therefore They will get double profits from boosting coin price and selling their cards. That's really a smart strategy .

make a loop, of course it is a smart strategy.

Do you have any numbers about GPU sold for mining in a year?
Because somewhere else (I do not really remember where) someone claimed that the mining market for AMD/Nvidia is so little compared to the gaming/clusters market that they do not really care about it. Personally I agree with this point of view, but I do not have any number.
legendary
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Merit: 4331
March 24, 2017, 10:51:09 AM
#12
@philipma1957
Why do you think that 8gb is so much more important than 4gb?
We probably have less than a year to go on ethereum? For Eth 4gb might last.
Are there some vibes that zcash might tweak the algo to a higher memory requirement?
thanks.

Zero coin is the first try at 8gb coin.

It is in the best interests of AMD and Nvidia for a successful 8 gb coin

Do you think the AMD will push up the price of coin to sell more cards?

Yes, I think so. Once the price is higher then they can sell more cards and creat new cards with high technology to meet miners' demands and Therefore They will get double profits from boosting coin price and selling their cards. That's really a smart strategy .

make a loop, of course it is a smart strategy.
sr. member
Activity: 401
Merit: 257
March 24, 2017, 06:40:22 AM
#11
@philipma1957
Why do you think that 8gb is so much more important than 4gb?
We probably have less than a year to go on ethereum? For Eth 4gb might last.
Are there some vibes that zcash might tweak the algo to a higher memory requirement?
thanks.

Zero coin is the first try at 8gb coin.

It is in the best interests of AMD and Nvidia for a successful 8 gb coin

Do you think the AMD will push up the price of coin to sell more cards?

Yes, I think so. Once the price is higher then they can sell more cards and creat new cards with high technology to meet miners' demands and Therefore They will get double profits from boosting coin price and selling their cards. That's really a smart strategy .
hero member
Activity: 722
Merit: 500
March 24, 2017, 06:26:04 AM
#10
@philipma1957
Why do you think that 8gb is so much more important than 4gb?
We probably have less than a year to go on ethereum? For Eth 4gb might last.
Are there some vibes that zcash might tweak the algo to a higher memory requirement?
thanks.

Zero coin is the first try at 8gb coin.

It is in the best interests of AMD and Nvidia for a successful 8 gb coin

Do you think the AMD will push up the price of coin to sell more cards?
legendary
Activity: 4326
Merit: 8950
'The right to privacy matters'
March 23, 2017, 08:15:09 PM
#9
@philipma1957
Why do you think that 8gb is so much more important than 4gb?
We probably have less than a year to go on ethereum? For Eth 4gb might last.
Are there some vibes that zcash might tweak the algo to a higher memory requirement?
thanks.

Zero coin is the first try at 8gb coin.

It is in the best interests of AMD and Nvidia for a successful 8 gb coin
legendary
Activity: 3892
Merit: 4331
March 23, 2017, 08:12:54 PM
#8
@philipma1957
Why do you think that 8gb is so much more important than 4gb?
We probably have less than a year to go on ethereum. In this case, 4gb might last for eth.
Are there some vibes that zcash might tweak the algo to a higher memory requirement?
thanks.
legendary
Activity: 4326
Merit: 8950
'The right to privacy matters'
March 23, 2017, 08:02:45 PM
#7


None. I maintain the best card today is the diamondmultimedia rx 480 8gb

Model on sale with free, shipping in the USA cost is 199.99.

Just put in diamondmultimedia.com and look for the sale on the card.

They take PayPal I purchased two on six month interest free plan from PayPal .

The card and the deal are really good and 8 gb is the future for cards
I've never hear about that brand of rx cards.
Which memory do they have?
Is Polaris bios editor able to edit their timings?

Don't bother flashing .   Not important the price and 8gb make all that unimportant .

I get that flashing can improve a card.  But the price point is so good it does not matter.

Mine come tommorrow.  I had some last summer but there were sold.
When  I get them i will tell you what the ram is.
hero member
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Merit: 500
March 23, 2017, 07:41:44 PM
#6


None. I maintain the best card today is the diamondmultimedia rx 480 8gb

Model on sale with free, shipping in the USA cost is 199.99.

Just put in diamondmultimedia.com and look for the sale on the card.

They take PayPal I purchased two on six month interest free plan from PayPal .

The card and the deal are really good and 8 gb is the future for cards
I've never hear about that brand of rx cards.
Which memory do they have?
Is Polaris bios editor able to edit their timings?
legendary
Activity: 4326
Merit: 8950
'The right to privacy matters'
March 23, 2017, 07:27:09 PM
#5


None. I maintain the best card today is the diamondmultimedia rx 480 8gb

Model on sale with free, shipping in the USA cost is 199.99.

Just put in diamondmultimedia.com and look for the sale on the card.

They take PayPal I purchased two on six month interest free plan from PayPal .

The card and the deal are really good and 8 gb is the future for cards
sr. member
Activity: 434
Merit: 251
March 23, 2017, 12:46:54 PM
#4
I mine Equihash with my RX470 - Asus Strix 4GB. Just posted a little bigup to Claymore12.3 - will quote it below for some perspective. Picked it up cheap as fk. I also run/ran/running still a RX480 4GB Sapphire Nitro+ OC. Elpida.

What HASH do you get mining ETH?

They they well optimized?
newbie
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Merit: 0
March 14, 2017, 06:01:02 AM
#3
I mine Equihash with my RX470 - Asus Strix 4GB. Just posted a little bigup to Claymore12.3 - will quote it below for some perspective. Picked it up cheap as fk. I also run/ran/running still a RX480 4GB Sapphire Nitro+ OC. Elpida.

https://images.tcdn.com.br/img/img_prod/374123/17128_1_20161020114516.jpg

If you get the luck of the draw - or don't mind spending much time looking into custom bios failures/touchy-feely TDP/+/- hangs.

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cost me $190NZD - I'd just like to share with you how fkn impressed I am with its performance - pulling in consistent 260-290 Sol/s giving a total of 560 Sol/s+ with only minor Wattman alterations (stock BIOS's).

http://iforce.co.nz/i/mznl50fs.zyz.jpg

Moral of the story is - if you're not retarded and can undervolt/overclock and maintain consistency then $190 for the RX470 was a fkn steal.



note: very high whilst typing this. please disregard over-analysis.

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-zpool stratum+tcp://zec-us.suprnova.cc:2142
-zwal yoyo123.rx480
-zpsw x
-dbg -1
-di 0,1
-i 8,8
-wd 1
legendary
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March 14, 2017, 05:30:59 AM
#2
For me it is Sapphire nitro RX 470 GB but if you could get it with samsung memory.
sr. member
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Blockchain Just Entered The Real World
March 14, 2017, 05:08:30 AM
#1
Hi,

which is the best Best Brand and model of RX470 4GB for Ethereum to buy ?

thx
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