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Quote from: Shivoreun on June 27, 2017, 01:37:54 AM

Quote from: cryptominer420 on April 22, 2017, 11:23:53 PM

I am still running my 2GB cards for eth You just have to pair them 1 to 1 with 4gb cards and use claymores miner I'm still getting 15MH/s out of my old 270's

Hi. Can you, please, explain in more details, what do you mean with "pair them"? Still trying to find out, hw to do this trick...
Example1: you have 4 cards, 2 of 2Gb and 2 of 4Gb. Will they work? Does the slot position on the MB matter?
Example2: you have 1 4Gb card and 3 2Gb. Will they work? Does the slot position matter? (read somewhere, that 4Gb card should be GPU0)
Will be gratefull for answers

Interesting topic. Seems like he meant in order to have 2gb continue mining eth, we have to pair it with another 4gb gpu. Am I right?

But I have no idea why it will work... Every single gpu mines separately actually... I'm also curious to know the workaround.

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Quote from: Undefined31415 on August 15, 2017, 12:49:36 AM

Quote from: buithanhtung on August 15, 2017, 12:36:29 AM

Hi, is there any one successful with that trick?

I tried several times but got no luck. Thanks!

My gut says that you would be better off using your 2GB cards to mine Zcash or another crypto, and then converting it to Ethereum. Even after transaction fees, you'd likely make more than mining Ethereum with those cards directly.

or mine expanse or ubiq...lots of options

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Gone phishing...

Quote from: buithanhtung on August 15, 2017, 12:36:29 AM

Hi, is there any one successful with that trick?

I tried several times but got no luck. Thanks!

My gut says that you would be better off using your 2GB cards to mine Zcash or another crypto, and then converting it to Ethereum. Even after transaction fees, you'd likely make more than mining Ethereum with those cards directly.

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Hi, is there any one successful with that trick?

I tried several times but got no luck. Thanks!

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Quote from: Shivoreun on June 27, 2017, 01:37:54 AM

Quote from: cryptominer420 on April 22, 2017, 11:23:53 PM

I am still running my 2GB cards for eth You just have to pair them 1 to 1 with 4gb cards and use claymores miner I'm still getting 15MH/s out of my old 270's

Hi. Can you, please, explain in more details, what do you mean with "pair them"? Still trying to find out, hw to do this trick...
Example1: you have 4 cards, 2 of 2Gb and 2 of 4Gb. Will they work? Does the slot position on the MB matter?
Example2: you have 1 4Gb card and 3 2Gb. Will they work? Does the slot position matter? (read somewhere, that 4Gb card should be GPU0)
Will be gratefull for answers

+ Very interesting, how to "pair" them?

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Quote from: cryptominer420 on April 22, 2017, 11:23:53 PM

I am still running my 2GB cards for eth You just have to pair them 1 to 1 with 4gb cards and use claymores miner I'm still getting 15MH/s out of my old 270's

Hi. Can you, please, explain in more details, what do you mean with "pair them"? Still trying to find out, hw to do this trick...
Example1: you have 4 cards, 2 of 2Gb and 2 of 4Gb. Will they work? Does the slot position on the MB matter?
Example2: you have 1 4Gb card and 3 2Gb. Will they work? Does the slot position matter? (read somewhere, that 4Gb card should be GPU0)
Will be gratefull for answers

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Quote from: adaseb on April 23, 2017, 02:12:18 AM

Quote from: cryptominer420 on April 22, 2017, 11:23:53 PM

I am still running my 2GB cards for eth You just have to pair them 1 to 1 with 4gb cards and use claymores miner I'm still getting 15MH/s out of my old 270's

YEah I got an old 7850 2gb that still mines on Dev fee ETHEREUM, however its slow at 11MH/s

Do you mean if it mine the EXP, it will be faster?

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Quote from: cryptominer420 on April 22, 2017, 11:23:53 PM

I am still running my 2GB cards for eth You just have to pair them 1 to 1 with 4gb cards and use claymores miner I'm still getting 15MH/s out of my old 270's

Not an option for my GTX 950 cards....

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Quote from: cryptominer420 on April 22, 2017, 11:23:53 PM

I am still running my 2GB cards for eth You just have to pair them 1 to 1 with 4gb cards and use claymores miner I'm still getting 15MH/s out of my old 270's

YEah I got an old 7850 2gb that still mines on Dev fee ETHEREUM, however its slow at 11MH/s

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I am still running my 2GB cards for eth You just have to pair them 1 to 1 with 4gb cards and use claymores miner I'm still getting 15MH/s out of my old 270's

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I was selling all my 2 GB cards as fast as I could in the second half of last year as I knew the DAG limit was coming, but ever since ZEC came out in late October I quit selling and put them back to work. I think I have made more in profit mining Zcash than I would have selling them anyway, so now I will probably just run them into the ground or toss them if/when ZEC mining with becomes unprofitable. All of them have paid for themselves multiple times already, and there seems to always be a new coin that you can squeeze some more profit out of.

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Quote from: QuintLeo on March 28, 2017, 12:45:30 AM

Quote from: nerdralph on November 25, 2016, 10:49:36 PM

Quote from: QuintLeo on November 25, 2016, 07:19:28 AM

I suspect it will become a real issue in a few months or so - and a lot of lower-end cards will move into ZEC or XMR or something where it's not an issue.

It's weeks, not months.

As I posted that in november, and some of my 2 GB cards were still mining ETH into March, it was months - for those cards.

Other cards turned out to be more like weeks.

TheRider - the "in a rig with more than 2GB card" trick doesn't work any more, the actual DAG file now exceeds 2 GB.
I had another GTX 950 mining eth in a rig with a pair of GTX 1070 (I don't think the 1070 comes in a version other than 8 GB - even the Gigabyte ITX version is an 8 GB card) - and it went "no more" a couple weeks or so back, probably at the same epoch as the triple-9xx rig packed it in on ETH.

Even though you can mine with them, the speed is much slower.

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Quote from: nerdralph on November 25, 2016, 10:49:36 PM

Quote from: QuintLeo on November 25, 2016, 07:19:28 AM

I suspect it will become a real issue in a few months or so - and a lot of lower-end cards will move into ZEC or XMR or something where it's not an issue.

It's weeks, not months.

As I posted that in november, and some of my 2 GB cards were still mining ETH into March, it was months - for those cards.

Other cards turned out to be more like weeks.

TheRider - the "in a rig with more than 2GB card" trick doesn't work any more, the actual DAG file now exceeds 2 GB.
I had another GTX 950 mining eth in a rig with a pair of GTX 1070 (I don't think the 1070 comes in a version other than 8 GB - even the Gigabyte ITX version is an 8 GB card) - and it went "no more" a couple weeks or so back, probably at the same epoch as the triple-9xx rig packed it in on ETH.

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Quote from: QuintLeo on March 27, 2017, 09:51:31 PM

Early last week, my dual GTX 960 + single GTX 950 rig (all 2GB cards) finally gave up on mining ETH - some sort of memory error (I don't remember the exact details) and crashed Genoil.
I'd forgotten those cards were still ON ETH.

All of my 2GB AMD cards gave up on it a while ago.

Seems like we reached the definitive "end of the line".

Thank goodness ZEC is still in the basket for my older AMD cards to work on - the GTX 950/960 though I restarted Nicehash for.

I recall reading somewhere that if you have a card with more vram in the same rig as those 2G cards, you could still mine ETH on them...

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Early last week, my dual GTX 960 + single GTX 950 rig (all 2GB cards) finally gave up on mining ETH - some sort of memory error (I don't remember the exact details) and crashed Genoil.
I'd forgotten those cards were still ON ETH.

All of my 2GB AMD cards gave up on it a while ago.

Seems like we reached the definitive "end of the line".

Thank goodness ZEC is still in the basket for my older AMD cards to work on - the GTX 950/960 though I restarted Nicehash for.

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Quote from: QuintLeo on December 21, 2016, 07:26:33 PM

ZEC has basically been a "basket" coin for 2-3 weeks now - profitability close to ETH/ETC/XMR and generally shifts to even it out when any of the profitability parameters change as folks bounce hashpower around chasing the highest profit.

It's enough different from the other coins in the "basket" that you have to check on a card model basis though - my GTX 1070 RX 470 and R9 280x cards are currently quite a bit more profitable on it than on ETH, while the R9 290 cards have been enough of a tossup that I never bothered putting the time in to install Windows on those machines just to mine ZEC on them.

Keep in mind that electric costs can affect profitability, as various combinations of miner card coin and tweaking can give different power draws.
You have to crunch YOUR numbers with YOUR setup(s) not just assume that "one set of numbers fit all".

GPU count in mining I'm quite certain started a large rise when the major ETH price rise turned it seriously profitable - but I suspect that folks are starting to have second thoughts about adding more cards/rigs as the profitability on ALL of the "basket" coins has dropped, between price drops and rising difficulty due to more hashrate being added.

I think the profitability is acutally low than ETH.

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ZEC has basically been a "basket" coin for 2-3 weeks now - profitability close to ETH/ETC/XMR and generally shifts to even it out when any of the profitability parameters change as folks bounce hashpower around chasing the highest profit.

It's enough different from the other coins in the "basket" that you have to check on a card model basis though - my GTX 1070 RX 470 and R9 280x cards are currently quite a bit more profitable on it than on ETH, while the R9 290 cards have been enough of a tossup that I never bothered putting the time in to install Windows on those machines just to mine ZEC on them.

Keep in mind that electric costs can affect profitability, as various combinations of miner card coin and tweaking can give different power draws.
You have to crunch YOUR numbers with YOUR setup(s) not just assume that "one set of numbers fit all".

GPU count in mining I'm quite certain started a large rise when the major ETH price rise turned it seriously profitable - but I suspect that folks are starting to have second thoughts about adding more cards/rigs as the profitability on ALL of the "basket" coins has dropped, between price drops and rising difficulty due to more hashrate being added.

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Quote from: adaseb on December 21, 2016, 06:51:45 AM

Quote from: sp_ on December 21, 2016, 06:29:31 AM

The diff was around 104 on the ZEC launchdate. Now the diff is 94. (Around 10% lower today than on the 27th of october)

Yeah goes to show you what MASSIVE number of GPUs went online within the last month and a half.

The total hash of ZEC and ETH is much higher.

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Quote from: sp_ on December 21, 2016, 06:29:31 AM

The diff was around 104 on the ZEC launchdate. Now the diff is 94. (Around 10% lower today than on the 27th of october)

Yeah goes to show you what MASSIVE number of GPUs went online within the last month and a half.

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The diff was around 104 on the ZEC launchdate. Now the diff is 94. (Around 10% lower today than on the 27th of october)

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