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Just switched my 1080ti to zpool. What clock settings are y'all running for skein? Thanks

 Try finding ANY RX 470 for that low any more - they're drying up fast and getting pricy, along with the RX 480.

 RX 570 seems to have taken over that point though on ETH.


 On the other hand, my R9 290s are still chugging away on ETH and I'm pretty sure both rigs are paid for in full and then a bit, despite the rather high power cost of running those cards....

I think around $200 RX470 is still the best ETH card, best bang for the buck.

Thanks....I got it working.
But it really bogs my computer down, I tried underclocking the cards but it still lags badly.
Will have to stick with EWBF for now , I can still use the computer running that.

Stats for 2 x 1080GTX :

Note amazon lowered the price of the 16gb ones back down to $8 so they are the best to get again now for nvOC:

https://www.amazon.com/Lexar-JumpDrive-16GB-Flash-Drive/dp/B00S5V5PMY

Originally it was a bug that happened when I switched oneBash to be on the windows partition (windows partition is not properly recognized until opened in a file explorer when using an SSD or HDD ( this can be fixed by editing the /etc/fstab file)  I didn't notice it until someone else told me their oneBash wasn't autolaunching on boot ( as I had already switched to all usb keys). 

This can also be resolved by copying oneBash to the primary partition and altering the absolute path in the 2unix file located in the home folder (this is what launches oneBash).  However, after consideration I decided I don't want users to be spending extra money on SSD's for no reason.  Explicitly not supporting them is better for everyone long term. 

This is my reasoning:

I can understand users who have used slow usbs in the past being skeptical about usb key performance. 

The 16gb Lexar's I recommend are very fast (watch one of the nvOC demo videos if you don't believe me)

are very cheap: $8

are easy to attach to image then remove and reattach to a rig

and vs a regular SSD or HDD allow you to use at least one less cable on your rig. 

Finally using a usb key allows users to try nvOC without needing to install over their previous OS (no commitment needed).

Well, I finally broke down and sold a few ETH coins at $101.50 (to cash, not BTC).  During the last 2 weeks with those couple of scary down-swings, I swore I would sell some if it broke $100 again so i kept my word to myself lol.  Now sure, it may be $120 by tomorrow morning but I have got to break myself out of this crypto-hoarding mentality lol.  It's just so hard to sell during what seems like a bull market, but I gotta start taking some profits, for peace of mind if nothing else.  I am still probably a bit over-leveraged on ETH, but I really like a lot of things going on with the Ethereum network (like Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, and a lot of other coins either on or moving to ETH network.  Hopefully this will also embolden me to start taking profits on some other alts... but i doubt it lol.

edit 1: and of course, in the few minutes it took to write this post, ETH went up another $4 lol!  So be it... just gotta be happy since in the grand scheme of things, I never could have imagined ETH even at $50 much less $100. When i started mining in 6-7 months ago, it was $10 lol.

ive been playing around with the 570 i can almost get 350 hashs out of it which isnt bad at all

its more profitable to mine equilhash with it than mining ethash!!

its a little heavy on power tho atm 160ish at the wall

 

stock.  Power isn't a concern for me.  I haven't heard of any boost other than slightly lower wattage... so, I leave it alone.

with custom roms, sapphire 470 nitro OC 4gb, hynix memory even 29.XXMH no issues on Windows.
on smos, 27-28MH easily achievable, cool and about 1000w only 6 x cards - for 470 thats quite an achievement.
Thats why the 470 is easily the likely mining card winner and also hard to find.
BBT had tested RX570 doing 168MH on smos on custom roms.

U need to trim down intensity on ccminer using the -i flag to the point you are comfortable with usage.

intensity will vary between algos; but you will see a noticeable dip in hashrate when lowering mining intensity.... be prepared for that.

nvOC is for fast 16gb or larger USB keys only: I highly recommend using this 32gb one as it is now cheaper than the 16gb one: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00T61JM4E

Thanks....I got it working.
But it really bogs my computer down, I tried underclocking the cards but it still lags badly.
Will have to stick with EWBF for now , I can still use the computer running that.

I just added a fully compatible nvOC image for the Biostar TB250-BTC

nvOC is for fast 16gb or larger USB keys only: I highly recommend using this 32gb one as it is now cheaper than the 16gb one: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00T61JM4E

nvOC is so stable I run cpuminer-opt to mine XMR while mining ZEC with EWBF; I have done this across all my rigs for over a week and half now. 

back to the question of SLI / WIN10 benefits...

i have two systems in hand right now, one runs 2x asus 1080ti fe at 1481/1582 clocks on WIN10 / SLI and 2x nvidia 1080ti fe at 1481/1582 clock sli bridge connected but gpu-z says sli is disabledm having these setups i have

ASUS producing 125,6 MHs (nicehash)
NVIDIA producing 121,4 MHs (nicehash)

and a single EVGA 1080ti fe 1481/1582 clock producing 62,5MHs (nicehash)

so clocks all the same, temps are same, the only difference is win7/win10 i probably wont take sli in to consideration as a single 1080ti fe on same clocks does 64,5mhs and if doubled we get 125mhs non sli, so....

it looks like WINDOWS 10 IS ACTUALLY MAKES it a little bit better - imho