Topic: Vanity Mining - HD 5870 Best card? (Read 2996 times)
Not sure if "advertising" is allowed here or not, but I recently stopped mining on my 5870 and I'm selling on ebay if you fancy a punt. I mention it not so much to make money off the card from someone here, but I'd rather it goes to someone as a miner piece of hardware rather than "Joe public" who'd probably use it as a GPU. Most of them go for 70-80 euros as a guideline, but I don't have a reserve set.
Gave up the 5870 as a means to mine as the bitcoin/watt equation isn't great anymore unless you have free power. I did overclock the puppy and it was stable at 950mhz, so you should get good returns on it doing some non-bitcoin mining
http://www.ebay.ie/itm/151095564764?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649
Happy bidding!
what 5870 do you have? my 5870 gets 12.5 Mkey/s
Reference. I haven't actually tested it yet, waiting on a SATA to MOLEX connector. I believe there are settings available to get a 5870 to 30 MKeys though.Ok. I probably have a faulty 5870 because when I push it higher than 64 threads in the software, which pulls 12.5 Mkey, it causes the drivers or system to fail and reboot. Would a 7870 or 7970 be better though?
What driver version are you using? As proven by my earlier post, I have no clue about vanity keys. I know when they first came about I messed around with it for like a day but then left it alone as I didnt want my GPUs not to be mining. Now, I could probably do it. A couple of 5830's and a 5870, would let them do their work and make a key or two.
Anyway, back to the topic at hand. The reason I ask the driver question is because if its anything like mining, driver versions are a big part of it. I know 5xxx series cards like 11.11 or 11.12 drivers. Anything above that it actually starts taking performance hits.
what 5870 do you have? my 5870 gets 12.5 Mkey/s
Reference. I haven't actually tested it yet, waiting on a SATA to MOLEX connector. I believe there are settings available to get a 5870 to 30 MKeys though.Ok. I probably have a faulty 5870 because when I push it higher than 64 threads in the software, which pulls 12.5 Mkey, it causes the drivers or system to fail and reboot. Would a 7870 or 7970 be better though?
No clue, but I would suspect that its all going to fall in line with the same hashing power as anything. A 5870<5970<7xxx, for the most part. Just check out a mining comparison chart for bitcoin hash power and see how one card hashes over another. If you know a 5870 is good for about 30, then you can calculate the others off of that depending on the % increase or decrease in hashing power you see on comparison charts.
What are your settings for 7xxx? Been a while since I ran vanitygen, but I'm pretty sure I was getting something like 170 mkey/sec with 3 5970s (56.66 mkey per card)
what 5870 do you have? my 5870 gets 12.5 Mkey/s
Reference. I haven't actually tested it yet, waiting on a SATA to MOLEX connector. I believe there are settings available to get a 5870 to 30 MKeys though.
what 5870 do you have? my 5870 gets 12.5 Mkey/s
No clue, but I would suspect that its all going to fall in line with the same hashing power as anything. A 5870<5970<7xxx, for the most part. Just check out a mining comparison chart for bitcoin hash power and see how one card hashes over another. If you know a 5870 is good for about 30, then you can calculate the others off of that depending on the % increase or decrease in hashing power you see on comparison charts.
What are your settings for 7xxx? Been a while since I ran vanitygen, but I'm pretty sure I was getting something like 170 mkey/sec with 3 5970s (56.66 mkey per card)
When i started to get into this mining there was the 5xx0 and 6xx0 cards. Most of the people who compared them said the 5870 cards are most effective (Mh/watt) than the other models. I went with their recommendation...
Now i am finishing with the gpus. If you need some cards or mb let me know
Now i am finishing with the gpus. If you need some cards or mb let me know
No clue, but I would suspect that its all going to fall in line with the same hashing power as anything. A 5870<5970<7xxx, for the most part. Just check out a mining comparison chart for bitcoin hash power and see how one card hashes over another. If you know a 5870 is good for about 30, then you can calculate the others off of that depending on the % increase or decrease in hashing power you see on comparison charts.
Been proven completely false...
No clue, but I would suspect that its all going to fall in line with the same hashing power as anything. A 5870<5970<7xxx, for the most part. Just check out a mining comparison chart for bitcoin hash power and see how one card hashes over another. If you know a 5870 is good for about 30, then you can calculate the others off of that depending on the % increase or decrease in hashing power you see on comparison charts.
Bump!
I plan on vanity mining addresses soon, and I'm looking to purchase a single GPU that will give me the most MKeys/s. I'm currently aiming to get the HD 5870.
I've looked around and it seems that the HD 5870 gives up to 30 MKeys/s.
There is only one big informative thread and it seems that someone overclocked/configured a 7xxx card to get 50 MKeys/s, but no direct mention of which card in the post or what the settings were (can't find the post at the moment).
Then there's a claim that the HD 5970 can get ~40MKeys/s, but it's a single post with no other sources/statements.
Has anyone thoroughly researched vanity mining to see which card would hash the fastest?
I've looked around and it seems that the HD 5870 gives up to 30 MKeys/s.
There is only one big informative thread and it seems that someone overclocked/configured a 7xxx card to get 50 MKeys/s, but no direct mention of which card in the post or what the settings were (can't find the post at the moment).
Then there's a claim that the HD 5970 can get ~40MKeys/s, but it's a single post with no other sources/statements.
Has anyone thoroughly researched vanity mining to see which card would hash the fastest?
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