This thread is a repository of the findings of all parties. My only contribution to this thread was to simply keep it on task with research. I enjoy learning what is happening and take offense to detours of the original intent. Such negativity only discourages and harms progress. We're not curing cancer here but I do see merit in such an investment to walk a different path for research. For this I applaud the brave few, even if it is not cheap to run, hashes less, or simply never ROI's. I do feel that some people here on the forum are smarter than some folks over at AMD and might find some interesting things out. Other forum members in other post reverse engineer firmware from asic companies all day long and know more about the shit than the oem. I am just waiting for these types of breakthroughs to happen here in this post. If this forum could combine the IQ's of many some serious stuff would be solved.
I would gladly pay for something that made Vegas mine 2X more for the same power. I am hoping that is where this thread goes, let alone potentially for free as implied in the title.
I would gladly pay for something that made Vegas mine 2X more for the same power. I am hoping that is where this thread goes, let alone potentially for free as implied in the title.
Cute post. I don't think you understand a number of things but that is fine. I believe that AMD hardware and embedded software engineers who are tasked with developing custom boards and memory controllers would take some offence at your statements. I think they know quite well what they are dealing with when they spec a new board. I don't know what you expect to learn since no one has reversed engineered AMD graphics drivers but please go ahead and start a new thread with the challenge being to reverse engineer a GPU driver binary and see how many smart people stand up.
As I already told you, you can do whatever you want and term it research if you like but you must understand that we have all the control you could ever ask for. AMD allowed us to push the physical limits of the hardware, by allowing modification of the power and clock frequencies to be manipulated via the windows reg. You can't do that with Nvida. So please since we can already over clock and under volt, please tell me what else you hope to learn? The mining software becomes the next most important piece. If you want to know what the hardware limitations are, that is also well documented.
The only way you are going to get a 2x more out of the Vegas would be to double the memory speed (GDDR6). There is only so much software can do. You can't make a Pentium 75 into an Core i7 through software.
and has no real world application, unless all cryptonight based coins ceased to exist tomorrow.
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