Happy New Years! Seventh alt coin thread! - page 62.

tadeus1

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True, true.
I started with Nvidia (most of my GPUs) then due to gpu shortages switched to few ATI RX570s and I regret going that path. Endless hours bios modding, power efficiency tweaking, dreadful ATI drivers, etc.
Even though the expense was less for the ATIs and eventually I made them work very good, they consume more electricity than the NVIDIAs for similar hashrate for the algos I use.
My next GPUs would definetely be Nvidia. 3 clicks with the mouse and your are all set. Grin

vg54dett: Look for the memory chip if you can see through the cooler or below or above it. Depends on the GPU of course.
What is your GPU? Tell us if you don't mind.

citronick

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---- winter*juvia -----

Quote from: philipma1957 on February 20, 2018, 07:16:34 PM

Ah the joy of having 27 nvidia 1080ti's

and only 1 rx560

fuck bios flashing.

Proud to say never did a one.

Agreed 100%

My group's AMD farm was tweaked for ETH (2015-2016) and it was a bloody nightmare that BIOS flashing.

If I could turn back time, I would have used 1060s and 1070s any day.

No BIOS flashing needed, impressive MHs, watts and temps well under controlled.

That premium on NVIDIA cards vs AMD - is worth it.

Apart from Vega cards, all cards acquired since last year were all NVIDIA.

@R0mi - I had to flash over 300 x GPUs (470s, 480s) - it was no picnic.
I also had to do a crash course Linux because the farm went 100% SMOS and ditched Windoze.
Thanks to kind souls out there, I managed to write a script that will flash batches of GPUs at a time, in Linux.

R0mi

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Quote from: philipma1957 on February 20, 2018, 07:16:34 PM

Ah the joy of having 27 nvidia 1080ti's

and only 1 rx560

fuck bios flashing.

Proud to say never did a one.

Eh, it's not so hard. You just have to back up the original and then be careful to apply a compatible new one.
The advantage is this: going from 700 H/s on an RX 480 8 GB to a very steady 860 H/s.

philipma1957

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'The right to privacy matters'

Ah the joy of having 27 nvidia 1080ti's

and only 1 rx560

fuck bios flashing.

Proud to say never did a one.

R0mi

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Thanks for confirming GPU-z won't help! I'll have to try something else to be sure.

Does your particular RX not have a dual bios? If it's a Sapphire, it should have dual bios. As someone else said, move the tiny black slider to the opposite position, check your memory type, then after you have done that, switch the slider back and use ATIFlash to flash the correct bios.

vg54dett

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Quote from: MagicSmoker on February 20, 2018, 06:22:13 PM

Quote from: asdf4321 on February 20, 2018, 05:18:56 PM

Quote from: vg54dett on February 20, 2018, 04:55:58 PM

Anyone has an idea about how to be sure of the memory brand from a AMD RX card ?
I may have a wrong bios flashed in mine, and I don't know how to check which kind of memory the card really is.
Does gpu-z show the real memory brand ? or does it show the memory of the flashed bios ??

If it has a dual vbios (assuming that hasn't been flashed as well). Flip the switch, boot up and see what memory it has. If no dual vbios, you may have to pull the heatsink to be 100% sure.

Correct - GPU-Z pulls the memory brand info from the BIOS, so if you flashed the wrong BIOS and it isn't a dual-BIOS version then the easiest solution by far is to reflash with the original BIOS... you did download the original from the card before flashing it, right? If not: Cry

Thanks for confirming GPU-z won't help! I'll have to try something else to be sure.

vg54dett

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Quote from: R0mi on February 20, 2018, 06:30:55 PM

Quote from: MagicSmoker on February 20, 2018, 06:22:13 PM

Quote from: asdf4321 on February 20, 2018, 05:18:56 PM

Quote from: vg54dett on February 20, 2018, 04:55:58 PM

Anyone has an idea about how to be sure of the memory brand from a AMD RX card ?
I may have a wrong bios flashed in mine, and I don't know how to check which kind of memory the card really is.
Does gpu-z show the real memory brand ? or does it show the memory of the flashed bios ??

If it has a dual vbios (assuming that hasn't been flashed as well). Flip the switch, boot up and see what memory it has. If no dual vbios, you may have to pull the heatsink to be 100% sure.

Correct - GPU-Z pulls the memory brand info from the BIOS, so if you flashed the wrong BIOS and it isn't a dual-BIOS version then the easiest solution by far is to reflash with the original BIOS... you did download the original from the card before flashing it, right? If not: Cry

Even if he didn't save the original bios, he can probably find it over on techpowerup.

Thanks guys.
Yes you can easily find the original bios, but you have to know the memory brand for that ..
In my case, I'm not sure my original bios is the right one. As the gpu doesn't work properly, I think a mistake might have been made when saving and/or flashing.
That's why I asked about a solution to be sure about memory brand so I can confirm bios has not been confused with another one with different memory.

R0mi

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Quote from: MagicSmoker on February 20, 2018, 06:22:13 PM

Quote from: asdf4321 on February 20, 2018, 05:18:56 PM

Quote from: vg54dett on February 20, 2018, 04:55:58 PM

Anyone has an idea about how to be sure of the memory brand from a AMD RX card ?
I may have a wrong bios flashed in mine, and I don't know how to check which kind of memory the card really is.
Does gpu-z show the real memory brand ? or does it show the memory of the flashed bios ??

If it has a dual vbios (assuming that hasn't been flashed as well). Flip the switch, boot up and see what memory it has. If no dual vbios, you may have to pull the heatsink to be 100% sure.

Correct - GPU-Z pulls the memory brand info from the BIOS, so if you flashed the wrong BIOS and it isn't a dual-BIOS version then the easiest solution by far is to reflash with the original BIOS... you did download the original from the card before flashing it, right? If not: Cry

Even if he didn't save the original bios, he can probably find it over on techpowerup.

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Quote from: asdf4321 on February 20, 2018, 05:18:56 PM

Quote from: vg54dett on February 20, 2018, 04:55:58 PM

Anyone has an idea about how to be sure of the memory brand from a AMD RX card ?
I may have a wrong bios flashed in mine, and I don't know how to check which kind of memory the card really is.
Does gpu-z show the real memory brand ? or does it show the memory of the flashed bios ??

If it has a dual vbios (assuming that hasn't been flashed as well). Flip the switch, boot up and see what memory it has. If no dual vbios, you may have to pull the heatsink to be 100% sure.

Correct - GPU-Z pulls the memory brand info from the BIOS, so if you flashed the wrong BIOS and it isn't a dual-BIOS version then the easiest solution by far is to reflash with the original BIOS... you did download the original from the card before flashing it, right? If not: Cry

asdf4321

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Quote from: vg54dett on February 20, 2018, 04:55:58 PM

Anyone has an idea about how to be sure of the memory brand from a AMD RX card ?
I may have a wrong bios flashed in mine, and I don't know how to check which kind of memory the card really is.
Does gpu-z show the real memory brand ? or does it show the memory of the flashed bios ??

If it has a dual vbios (assuming that hasn't been flashed as well). Flip the switch, boot up and see what memory it has. If no dual vbios, you may have to pull the heatsink to be 100% sure.

tadeus1

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gpu-z or physically looking on the chip at the PCB of the GPU.
if you don't trust, then re-flash with your original bios and check again.

vg54dett

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Anyone has an idea about how to be sure of the memory brand from a AMD RX card ?
I may have a wrong bios flashed in mine, and I don't know how to check which kind of memory the card really is.
Does gpu-z show the real memory brand ? or does it show the memory of the flashed bios ??

Storx

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Hey is anyone else having issues with income just vanishing on nicehash? awesome miner has been pointing my rigs to nicehash for equihash a lot over the last few days, especially the titan V's and record the account balance everynight on spreadsheet when i add my daily mined earnings to exchange for 10+% earnings on the days earnings... i am having amounts vanish over the past week, small amounts dropping in btc...

example...

2/18 i had 0.24881002btc in internal wallet
2/19 i had 0.24798801btc in internal wallet, rigs show records of mining to nicehash part of the day...

then back on 2/14 i had 0.78004001btc in internal wallet, then 2/15 i had 0.78003455btc with no record of mining to nicehash that day.

soothaa

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Quote from: VyprBTC on February 19, 2018, 08:28:12 PM

Quote from: soothaa on February 19, 2018, 04:53:18 PM

2x the licenses

licenses for what exactly? Every machine we run Win10 w/0 activation, it's not needed, at all.

SMOS and AwesomeMiner

Quote from: dragonmike on February 20, 2018, 05:41:19 AM

You forgot...
2x the vbios flashing Cheesy

...but all the above at 3/4 of the price of a 1080Ti currently.

This being said, it's still very hard to find any under $350 (At least here in Europe - you might be luckier across the pond).

Meh. VBIOS takes me no time at all. I have it down to such a quick workflow it does not factor into my decisions. Takes about 1-2 mins per card.

Quote from: Daaaveee on February 20, 2018, 06:11:04 AM

Anyone still running Vegas?

Cryptonight difficulty on Nicehash seems pretty high now so profitability has dropped off quite a bit since in the last couple months.

I have 2x56 and 1x64, but have just sold the 64 for £710 (~$1000). While the prices are jacked I'm going to try and offload them.

Yeah mine are still running strong. They bring in decent money, no need to sell IMO.

dragonmike

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Quote from: Daaaveee on February 20, 2018, 06:11:04 AM

Anyone still running Vegas?

Cryptonight difficulty on Nicehash seems pretty high now so profitability has dropped off quite a bit since in the last couple months.

I have 2x56 and 1x64, but have just sold the 64 for £710 (~$1000). While the prices are jacked I'm going to try and offload them.

Yup, still have my 6x 56@64 rig mining Cryptonight. Makes approx $22/day before electricity costs. Not what it used to yield but still chugging strong. If it does keep going down I still have the option of mining something else. Vegas might not be as strong in other algos, but then again they're still no slouches.

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Quote from: philipma1957 on February 18, 2018, 10:22:29 PM

I have more then one rig in my home that can do just that.And I set the omen gamer pc's up with smos and this usb stick

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Samsung-32GB-USB-3-0-FIT-Flash-Drive/46802252?

it is small and I don't worry about breaking it off accidentaly

Yep, those are the ones I use! Really like the small size that prevents "accidents" as you say.

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Quote from: P00P135 on February 18, 2018, 10:25:01 PM

Have you checked out HiveOS?

I'm playing with it now. Got one test rig going. Setup very easy once you realize that "wallet" is really a lot more than that.

Only issue I have is I can't figure out what telemetry port HiveOS is using for dstm. (I'd like to monitor the rig in Awesome Miner as well for right now)

First impression is very positive!

Daaaveee

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Anyone still running Vegas?

Cryptonight difficulty on Nicehash seems pretty high now so profitability has dropped off quite a bit since in the last couple months.

I have 2x56 and 1x64, but have just sold the 64 for £710 (~$1000). While the prices are jacked I'm going to try and offload them.

dragonmike

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Quote from: soothaa on February 19, 2018, 04:53:18 PM

Quote from: philipma1957 on February 19, 2018, 04:34:34 PM

Quote from: soothaa on February 19, 2018, 01:08:47 PM

Quote from: philipma1957 on February 19, 2018, 01:05:02 PM

I could see them doing well if 350 or less.

That's pretty much my sweet spot. Under $350 shipped is an insta-buy.

There is an argument that 2 of them are as good as a 1080ti.

I just sold the only 2 I ever had of them I am pretty much all nvida at the moment.

Snagged (2) 570's for ~ $720 today.

Pros against a 1080ti:
Will do ~58MHs ETH (hot!)
Will do ~1600 cryptonight (hot!)
Less than 200w (not hot!)
No nVidia algo is super profitable atm

Cons vs 1080ti:
2x more risers
2x more slots
2x more cables
2x the licenses
2x the potential issues

You forgot...
2x the vbios flashing Cheesy

...but all the above at 3/4 of the price of a 1080Ti currently.

This being said, it's still very hard to find any under $350 (At least here in Europe - you might be luckier across the pond).

philipma1957

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'The right to privacy matters'

am running a merit thread and will be giving out free points

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/new-merit-give-away-thread-for-alt-coin-mining-2982593

if you are a legendary or hero no points given, but if you are lower racked just go to link and ask me to review your post.

I will review your posts and decide if you get a free point.

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