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Quote from: Vispilio on October 27, 2023, 11:37:49 PM

Can be done but your rig might be prone to slightly more freezes and micromanagement.

In my experience, using the same GPU model (even the same manufacturer) for 1 rig and having 1 overarching set of OC parameters per rig has yielded more stability compared to micro managing each individual card.

Even for the same GPU, performance can vary somewhat depending on the RAM or the manufacturer...

I have had many times when one of 6 cards does not support memory overclocking. As a result, 5 cards work with an overclock of +600 and one card works without overclocking, because with any overclocking of the memory of this video card, the mining farm either freezes or reboots. And I need several of them to calculate such a video card, and sometimes there are 2 such video cards in a mining farm

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Quote from: Vispilio on October 27, 2023, 11:37:49 PM

Can be done but your rig might be prone to slightly more freezes and micromanagement.

In my experience, using the same GPU model (even the same manufacturer) for 1 rig and having 1 overarching set of OC parameters per rig has yielded more stability compared to micro managing each individual card.

Even for the same GPU, performance can vary somewhat depending on the RAM or the manufacturer...

This is one of those questions where if you have to ask the answer is probably no. Someone capable of doing it wouldn't need to ask.

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Can be done but your rig might be prone to slightly more freezes and micromanagement.

In my experience, using the same GPU model (even the same manufacturer) for 1 rig and having 1 overarching set of OC parameters per rig has yielded more stability compared to micro managing each individual card.

Even for the same GPU, performance can vary somewhat depending on the RAM or the manufacturer...

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Quote from: swogerino on October 22, 2023, 04:07:19 PM

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Quote from: OgNasty on October 18, 2023, 10:47:42 AM

Once upon a time doing something like mixing video card types would have been frowned upon, but those days are long gone now. Developers have had over a decade now to implement all sorts of feature into their mining software that enable you to do lots of things like mine multiple coins or as you asked about, using different types of GPUs.

Now only beginners are trying to assemble mining from different video cards. I don’t see any problems with this, but it’s not very convenient from the point of view of settings and maintenance, if, for example, one video card heats up more than others because it is more powerful.
If I’m putting together a rig, I always take a set of video cards for a certain power supply in order to use the equipment with maximum efficiency.

I would still suggest you do buy cards from the same manufacturer at least even if there are different series as this is my personal experience,I have had a rig with 3 AMD GPU-s and 3 NVIDIA GPU-s which worked fine for most of the time but the driver updates of either side put me in a bit of down time rarely until I installed the updated drivers and this was with trial and errors to see what was the problem.

I now own a personal rig with 3 cards at home as we split the partnership since Ethereum moved on Pos on September 2022 and since then I am running a Rtx 3060 ti,a Rtx 2060 12 GB and Rtx 3060 12 GB all running perfectly fine and the temperatures are near the same with the 3000 series just 2 degree Celsius more as they are more powerful cards.I have no down time with these cards.

Usually problems after updating drivers occur in Windows. Rtx 3060 ti, and Rtx 2060 and Rtx 3060 are approximately the same video cards in terms of power consumption and operating temperature, so they can be installed in any order in a mining rig. But I want to say that if you buy the same models of video cards, this will not guarantee 100% failure-free operation.

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It all depends on what you have. With multiple rigs you can group the GPUs by brand, series, model, whatever.
If you don't you have to deal with multiple drivers and mining clients.

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Quote from: FP91G on October 19, 2023, 09:37:05 AM

Quote from: OgNasty on October 18, 2023, 10:47:42 AM

Once upon a time doing something like mixing video card types would have been frowned upon, but those days are long gone now. Developers have had over a decade now to implement all sorts of feature into their mining software that enable you to do lots of things like mine multiple coins or as you asked about, using different types of GPUs.

Now only beginners are trying to assemble mining from different video cards. I don’t see any problems with this, but it’s not very convenient from the point of view of settings and maintenance, if, for example, one video card heats up more than others because it is more powerful.
If I’m putting together a rig, I always take a set of video cards for a certain power supply in order to use the equipment with maximum efficiency.

I would still suggest you do buy cards from the same manufacturer at least even if there are different series as this is my personal experience,I have had a rig with 3 AMD GPU-s and 3 NVIDIA GPU-s which worked fine for most of the time but the driver updates of either side put me in a bit of down time rarely until I installed the updated drivers and this was with trial and errors to see what was the problem.

I now own a personal rig with 3 cards at home as we split the partnership since Ethereum moved on Pos on September 2022 and since then I am running a Rtx 3060 ti,a Rtx 2060 12 GB and Rtx 3060 12 GB all running perfectly fine and the temperatures are near the same with the 3000 series just 2 degree Celsius more as they are more powerful cards.I have no down time with these cards.

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Quote from: OgNasty on October 18, 2023, 10:47:42 AM

Once upon a time doing something like mixing video card types would have been frowned upon, but those days are long gone now. Developers have had over a decade now to implement all sorts of feature into their mining software that enable you to do lots of things like mine multiple coins or as you asked about, using different types of GPUs.

Now only beginners are trying to assemble mining from different video cards. I don’t see any problems with this, but it’s not very convenient from the point of view of settings and maintenance, if, for example, one video card heats up more than others because it is more powerful.
If I’m putting together a rig, I always take a set of video cards for a certain power supply in order to use the equipment with maximum efficiency.

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Once upon a time doing something like mixing video card types would have been frowned upon, but those days are long gone now. Developers have had over a decade now to implement all sorts of feature into their mining software that enable you to do lots of things like mine multiple coins or as you asked about, using different types of GPUs.

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Quote from: swogerino on October 16, 2023, 04:33:47 AM

Quote from: flyboynyc on October 12, 2023, 11:38:10 PM

I can use XMRig.com or even XMR-Stak to mine with multiple GPU's right? I prefer Arch Linux/Ubuntu but does Hive OS take any fees?

Ubuntu is a good option if you know what you are doing and are experienced with mining.If not then for most beginners Hive OS is the perfect choice as most option are already there for you to choose from the community that have chosen what is the best overclock or undervolt setting without you needing to experiment with it.

As already said for one rig Hive OS is free and even if you have multiple rigs the cost to have them all running Hive OS is irrelevant when comparing the ease of use of such system.

The cost of Hive OS is $3 per month. If a mining farm brings in a dollar per day without taking into account expenses, and electricity costs $18 per month, then $21 in expenses is a lot with $30 in profit.
If there are 2 mining farms, then you can use Raven OS on the second one so that it is free.

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Quote from: flyboynyc on October 12, 2023, 11:38:10 PM

I can use XMRig.com or even XMR-Stak to mine with multiple GPU's right? I prefer Arch Linux/Ubuntu but does Hive OS take any fees?

Ubuntu is a good option if you know what you are doing and are experienced with mining.If not then for most beginners Hive OS is the perfect choice as most option are already there for you to choose from the community that have chosen what is the best overclock or undervolt setting without you needing to experiment with it.

As already said for one rig Hive OS is free and even if you have multiple rigs the cost to have them all running Hive OS is irrelevant when comparing the ease of use of such system.

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Quote from: flyboynyc on October 12, 2023, 11:38:10 PM

I can use XMRig.com or even XMR-Stak to mine with multiple GPU's right? I prefer Arch Linux/Ubuntu but does Hive OS take any fees?

If you have 1 mining farm, then all functionality is free. If you mine coins on their pool, then there are more farms there for free. It is easier to mine in Hive OS because you will constantly jump between profitable coins and the setup is much faster there.

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Quote from: JayDDee on October 11, 2023, 12:03:16 PM

Mixing AMD & Nvidia GPUs isn't really a problem for the HW, it just complicates managing drivers & software.

if he asking these question clearly he dont know about hw problem in temp/memclock/voltage situation can go wrong if he decided to fully copied config from other people
without knowing it, miner from russian and tropical place it will vastly different config beside sillicon lottery, either way hw monitor is the easy way to get stable config in windows
and assuming he already made deal or having both amd&nvidia or maybe intel instead Cheesy

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Quote from: flyboynyc on October 12, 2023, 11:38:10 PM

I can use XMRig.com or even XMR-Stak to mine with multiple GPU's right? I prefer Arch Linux/Ubuntu but does Hive OS take any fees?

Neary all of them take fees, because they either run a server for remote management, automatically tune your GPUs, or both, or more, YMMV.
Don't mine XMR with GPUs, it's better with CPUs, mine something else with the GPUs.

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I can use XMRig.com or even XMR-Stak to mine with multiple GPU's right? I prefer Arch Linux/Ubuntu but does Hive OS take any fees?

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Quote from: bitquad on October 11, 2023, 12:39:16 PM

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Quote from: JayDDee on October 11, 2023, 12:03:16 PM

Mixing AMD & Nvidia GPUs isn't really a problem for the HW, it just complicates managing drivers & software.

There are no problems in Hive OS and similar systems, but you just have to run 2 miners and configure the numbers of video cards in each miner that will mine the required coins.
But of course it’s easier to mine so that the farm mines only 1 coin.

If you mine ETC with PhoenixMiner you can run one instance for Nvidia and AMD. And Claymore's Eth Manager also reads PhoenixMiner's stats.

I think that you understand that the problem is not the mixing of video cards, but the different profits on different coins, so you will have to mine different coins on Nvidia and AMD video cards. But Ethereum classic has long been unprofitable for mining on video cards due to ASICs.

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Quote from: FP91G on October 11, 2023, 12:08:48 PM

Quote from: JayDDee on October 11, 2023, 12:03:16 PM

Mixing AMD & Nvidia GPUs isn't really a problem for the HW, it just complicates managing drivers & software.

There are no problems in Hive OS and similar systems, but you just have to run 2 miners and configure the numbers of video cards in each miner that will mine the required coins.
But of course it’s easier to mine so that the farm mines only 1 coin.

If you mine ETC with PhoenixMiner you can run one instance for Nvidia and AMD. And Claymore's Eth Manager also reads PhoenixMiner's stats.

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Quote from: flyboynyc on May 16, 2021, 05:21:04 PM

Hello,

Is it possible to get a mining rig and install different GPU brands to mine? For example I want to buy a rig and then install AMD(550, radeon 6800xt) & Nvidia (2080, 3070, 3090). Would it be possible to have different GPU's hooked to a rig?

Yes it is possible. I mined Ethereum for years with rigs that had 7x1070ti and 6xRX580 connected to an Asus B250 Mining Expert Motherboard. Each rig had 4 high efficiency power supplies. OS was Windows 10. I still have the rigs, they are just currently shut off. I need to clean them. It all still works. I had one RX580 failure and two 1070ti. Still need to try and repair them.

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Quote from: JayDDee on October 11, 2023, 12:03:16 PM

Mixing AMD & Nvidia GPUs isn't really a problem for the HW, it just complicates managing drivers & software.

There are no problems in Hive OS and similar systems, but you just have to run 2 miners and configure the numbers of video cards in each miner that will mine the required coins.
But of course it’s easier to mine so that the farm mines only 1 coin.

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Mixing AMD & Nvidia GPUs isn't really a problem for the HW, it just complicates managing drivers & software.

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Quote from: flyboynyc on October 11, 2023, 01:50:58 AM

Which MoBo do you guys recommend for multiple GPU mining?

B75 BTC Mining Motherboard
https://www.aliexpress.com/w/wholesale-B75-BTC-Mining-Motherboard.html?
If you don’t want to pay a lot of money and struggle with the settings, then buy a ready-made kit in China for 8 video cards.
These motherboards see all 8 video cards without problems, but if you need mining for 2-3 video cards, then almost any motherboard with the necessary connectors will do.

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Quote from: flyboynyc on May 16, 2021, 05:21:04 PM

Hello,

Is it possible to get a mining rig and install different GPU brands to mine? For example I want to buy a rig and then install AMD(550, radeon 6800xt) & Nvidia (2080, 3070, 3090). Would it be possible to have different GPU's hooked to a rig?

its doable but bit hassle to set up, even same type gpu the config will be different, you can use hw monitor to find right config, i meant stability and efficiency, and dont forget about heat and ambient temp.
overheated may bring crash to memory, yes you can use gpu watchdog to restart automatically, but in first ride i would suggest doing normal things to monitor your rigs.

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Which MoBo do you guys recommend for multiple GPU mining?

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This is not a problem, use different GPUs as you wish. The problem can be to configure it. If you use the same GPU - just 1-2 clicks, and your changes are applied. With different GPUs - you mostly use different miners and configure GPUs one by one. This is not a problem for one-time configure, but if you change coins - you are getting too much everyday work.

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As far as I can tell only minerstat mining software don't allow mixture of graphics card in same motherboard, you have to use Nvidia cards per mobo and AMD cards per mobo but other mining softwares accepts mixture of cards

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User above already said, and it's commom to have mixed rigs, I have 2 Nvidias and 2 AMDs in my main rig

I'll just share with you that it's easier to install and maintain a rig 24/7 with mixed cards (like you wrote, with 5 GPUs) using a OS like HiveOS or simplemining, they are Linux based and pretty easy to handle.
In my experience, it's more stable and easy than Windows, specially with more cards

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Yes no problem. You can mix all cards if you want.

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Hello,

Is it possible to get a mining rig and install different GPU brands to mine? For example I want to buy a rig and then install AMD(550, radeon 6800xt) & Nvidia (2080, 3070, 3090). Would it be possible to have different GPU's hooked to a rig?

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