Topic: RX 470 are even cheaper now - page 2. (Read 6441 times)

 I had exactly ZERO Powercolor cards last for a year, even when not overclocked.
 Various issues, at least some seem to have been cheap fans dying but one flaked out and while the fan is still working fine can't run it at over about half GPU core clock without it artifacting and dying. (HD 7850, the ONLY one that's still working at all of the ones I bought).
 They MIGHT have gotten better since then, this was back in the HD 7xxx series days.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131706

It runs hotter then i like which I'll fix later on when more/better coolers start popping up for the 400 series cards, it run even hotter till i modded it and it Uses the same power as my 470 but with higher speeds as it should and a little bit hotter then my Ref 470 by SAPPHIRE with one fan .
 
I have the fan set to 64%  ( over kill I know ) that seems to keep it below 60c, i panic when i see any of my cards go over 60 c, i know they all can run at 70 to 80 c with out issue but why if i can make them run cooler at the same speeds .

it should help miners or some one will find a way to make it work with after burner, or come up with a modded bios, if it doesn't work, out of the box.
so I'm not worried at what the AMD haters may say, till i see it my self.

The Driver release tomorrow according to a YouTube video i found..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U9KnDGUtc0

I'm actually pretty excited about the new drivers, i haven't been excited about a drivers releases in years . so well see .

Wich version of the Rx480 Powercolor you have? With 1 or 2 fans?

Can't wait to see if it will help in mining (lower W)

my power color RX 480 i bought two weeks ago works great, i had to mode the bios in order for it to run cool and do the speeds i wanted it to . i did not use any one else es bios i had to play with it till i figured out what would work now it works the same as my 470 only faster and i plan to buy a few more they still sell at the price of a 470 .

The new leaked info on the new AMD DRIVERS due out soon lowers heat and power usage and probable runs better then Nvidia once they release .

https://www.techpowerup.com/228451/amd-radeon-software-crimson-relive-drivers-information-leaked

What problems did you have with Powercolor? I bought one (a RX480 that was cheaper than any RX470)and now mining with it and it seems fine for now. It only have a 6 pins power, finger crossed that it will be fine.

I just got one of these in a few days ago. It has elipda memory, and is mining eth at 28.5 (1500 strap, 1200/2000).

 And do note that the core count is cut down on the 470D vs the 470  - 1792 vs 2048.


 I did some serious number crunching on RX470 vs RX480, and the 2 speed grades yesterday based on published hashrates - and *right now* the slower RX470s come out ahead on hash/$ especially on the lower cost models - even at the system level.
 It's pretty close though, and the hash/w figures are all tightly clumped.


 I just with there were more options on blower-type cards, though the Sapphire RX470 at $179 (on the actual NewEgg site vs the eBay listing at $159 but a bit higher shippping) are petty close to the cheap PowerColor stuff that I won't even consider buying (I've had nothing but ISSUES out of the very few PowerColor cards I've owned, they're right down at the bottom with HIS non-blower cards on my list, while Sapphire is one of my "go to" brands and has been for a VERY long time).



 BTW - I was able to get a gift card "refund" on my existing order for 2 of those Sapphire cards based on that eBay listing - I'm glad philipma1957 posted it! 8-)
 That put my actual out of pocket right about the SAME as the cheapest Powercolor card. 8-)

right now this rx 470 is 159 on eBay

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Radeon-RX-470-Overclocked-4GB-GDDR5-Rear-Blower-4M-3-x-DP-HDMI-/291899655830?

and I have a 10% discount  limit 4 with 6 months to pay 0 interest

I got 480s off Purse.io at a 20% discount a while back. Came out to around 169 each.... got 6, paid with altcoin trading profits.   Now thats mining !   

on ETH i get 29~Mhs with moded bios on 480 8G
I'll do a research what can I get on 470 if bios modding is possible on them, the price charmed me for next upgrade

Yes it is fine to use 4G cards, your hashrate will be around 25MHS for the RX470.

3x RX480 8G mobo h81m-k total 330watts from the wall and mining zcash atm.
I was wondering if it is possible with RX470 4G to mine ETH ?

Right now I have RX480's mining Zcash.. I'm thinking about switching back to ETH, but Zcash is a little easier on the cards and doesn't seem to use as a lot of power.

I will decide in the next few days what to do because it seems ETH is more profitable by a small margin.

is it worth or even possible to mine ETH with RX480 4G ?
I have 480 8Gs but since of November 2 I'm only into Zcash

Nope... as of now (over 2 weeks after 1.03 was released), their stinking Z-wallets STILL do no work (at least on FlyPool).  This just baffles me. How can the devs release this without Z-wallets working alone is shameful, but the fact that they have not fixed it still... what, 5-6 weeks after release... is a down-right travesty!  Is it any wonder that the price of ZEC continues to drop?  Why should anyone have any confidence in this crypto at all since the pathetic devs can't even get their Z-wallets working? Really, really sad and truly pathetic!

I heard the ZCash Zaddress can be used now.

https://z.cash/blog/new-release-1.0.3.html

New Release: 1.0.3
Sean Bowe | Nov 17, 2016

Today we're announcing the release of Zcash 1.0.3 which fixes several crashes and security bugs, improves performance, and adjusts relay policies.

We strongly recommend users and miners update to this version, as it fixes a cache invalidation bug that could be used by an attacker to disrupt the network. (See #1874.)

Other changes in this release include:

We fixed a bug that caused the wallet to crash during startup in some situations, such as when the wallet is not synchronized properly with the blockchain. (#1858)
We re-enabled note randomization that was temporarily disabled in 1.0.2. (#1814)
We adjusted fee policies to reflect changes made in Bitcoin Core and encourage relaying of transactions containing JoinSplits. (#1855)
We improved diagnostics and strengthened testing for the merkle tree's interaction with the constraint system. (#1797)
We disabled RPC keepalive features temporarily to avoid deadlocks. (#1847)
We adjusted our use of the libsnark verification API to improve zk-SNARK verification performance by 10%. (#1760, stats)
We changed the error message format for z_sendmany so that amounts are displayed in units of ZEC. (#1838)
We're encouraging all users and miners to update to this new version. See our download page and the 1.0 User Guide for more information.

For a more complete list of changes, see our 1.0.3 github milestone. To follow our progress, watch the GitHub project and join the forum.

I'd rather stick to Eth mining, Zcash has a lot of troubles , though its profitable for now i just think its not worth putting all your mining power into it.Ethereum is stable  and with a stable mining pool , there is still a lot of profit in mining it

I keep saying that  i hate to see all the hard work every one is putting it into zcash only to see it die. then what > back to ETH .

If only ZEC price stopped going down so much.
It is making all those speed advances largely irrelevant.
Whoever shorted ZEC is making a lot of dough so far.

you can try but i don't think so you may have to use there uk site if they have one.

Here's there uk site so i would say no :"( ...

http://www.newegg.com/global/uk


The prices look close to the US price, i think, i don't know how much £142 is to you all, I mean is that a lot there ? in the Us it's 178 $, so not to bad .


cm 5 is doing close to that now

some one made post that explains we have all most maxed out the 470 with 8gb cards which might reach 146 sol 4gb half that ? .