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Topic: R9 290x mining rig. (Read 727 times)

legendary
Activity: 1498
Merit: 1030
June 06, 2016, 01:33:32 AM
#9
Definitely 14.04, as most of the miners have pre-compiled versions for 14.04 floating around SOMEWHERE.

 ignore 16.x - they deliberately broke compatability in 16.x with the fglrx drivers, deciding to go only support the "open source" stuff - which does NOT support OpenCL worth beans IF at all yet and flat out does NOT work with mining software.

 There's a bug in 14.04.4 that can cause issues if you use "mixed" GPU environments, but if you don't try to mix-and-match it's not an issue, and it CAN be worked around even if you do - it's on their "fix for 14.04.5" list, and didn't happen in 14.04.3 for some reason.


newbie
Activity: 6
Merit: 0
June 05, 2016, 01:55:41 PM
#8
Okay I got Ubuntu 10.04 or should I dl Ubuntu 14.04 instead
I was looking at a mining caculating and it shown my gpu with Ubuntu 10.04 as the os
full member
Activity: 206
Merit: 100
June 05, 2016, 08:28:44 AM
#7
That is the good thing with claymore miner, it will auto detect gpu, and then apply the best settings for it. Cool

Some times, the auto detect does not work properly. It will  set ethi 0 to HD 7970. I have to set it to 1 manually.
legendary
Activity: 1498
Merit: 1030
June 05, 2016, 03:32:58 AM
#6
You have to use a 64 bit OS to mine Ethereum at all.

 Win 10 seems to be very sensitive to driver version on mining - I've seen quite a few "stick with 15.12 Catalyst" comments for Win10.

LINUX is generally easier to work with in many ways - no worries about dummy plugs for one - but the tools are a bit more primitive for overclocking and fan control.

newbie
Activity: 6
Merit: 0
June 04, 2016, 05:14:49 PM
#5
 Cool
hero member
Activity: 966
Merit: 501
June 04, 2016, 05:14:08 PM
#4
That is the good thing with claymore miner, it will auto detect gpu, and then apply the best settings for it. Cool
newbie
Activity: 6
Merit: 0
June 04, 2016, 04:54:40 PM
#3
Does the operating system affect anything?
hero member
Activity: 742
Merit: 500
June 04, 2016, 04:52:12 PM
#2
Hi   Smiley
I'm in the process of buying a gpu mining rig,
Wondering if anyone could help me set up for max prophit .

Gpu R9 290x (5)

Thinking about using the claymore miner...

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newbie
Activity: 6
Merit: 0
June 04, 2016, 04:27:45 PM
#1
Hi   Smiley
I'm in the process of buying a gpu mining rig,
Wondering if anyone could help me set up for max prophit .

Gpu R9 290x (5)

Thinking about using the claymore miner...
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