01-04-2018, 07:10 PM
crypto is boomin, the winter cold is loomin, so it's time to hash it out.
bought a sapphire nitro rx 570 8gb for mining and gaming purposes. it replaced an msi r9 280x. sort of a lateral upgrade, but the 3gb VRAM on the 280x's creates a bottleneck with ethereum's DAG size. the 8gb should in theory help with that.
out of the box hashrate on ethminer - 18 MH/s. very disappointing.
modded bios with polaris bios editor and flashed it over with winatiflash. hashrate on ethminer - 22 MH/s. disappointing. i should be able to get 28 MH/s out of this card. no idea why i cannot. it does seem like i have a mix of samsung and micron RAM chips on it, but it shouldn't have this big of a performance hit. i think. also i was always told to never mix RAM chips, that it's worse than mixing battery brands. -shrug-
changed algorithms to see hashrate, to neoscrypt based TrezarCoin. 770 KH/s. above what i should be able to get. ...what? whatever, i'll take it. i like hybrid PoW/PoS coins. [Proof of Work = brute force hashing, Proof of Stake = collecting interest on coins in your wallet.]
[570 is at 1200 GPU clock, 2000 mem clock, -33mv, PBE one click timing bios mod for samsung/micron hybrid]
had tried the AMD blockchain focused drivers, but then my system didn't seem to recognize the graphics card anymore and crashed hard when i tried to use it. likely a win 7 vs win 10 thing. really don't want to move to win 10. -_-
ethminer seems like crap. claymore is said to be good, but i've not tested it yet. currently using Gateless Gate Sharp. built in support for many common pools, custom pool options, clean GUI, 1% fee to dev [which i could probably edit out by recompiling his source code but meh.]
this 570 is using 120-130W and sits between 62-75°C at 23% fan. far more efficient than the power hungry 280x's.
one thing i've noticed with mining pools is that the minimum cash out amount is higher than what i was previously accustomed to. i'll need to mine up 500 TZC to cash em out. ETH is like 0.05. a single GPU is even more lacking for pool mining these days than it was years ago. i need to retrieve my mining shell PC i lent to my grandparents. two 280x's on top of the 570 will heat my place til spring.
https://www.cryptopia.co.nz/ - seems to be a good coin v coin trade platform. have yet to look into any sort of regs or laws in NZ. haven't signed up so idk what they require yet, but it's on my list to investigate.
i'll post here time to time with what i'm doin. i can provide limited support for this type of thing if anyone is interested. we were gonna do a crypto club in the tinychat room, but hardly anyone seemed really interested and i haven't been there much cus i'm not feelin social.
bought a sapphire nitro rx 570 8gb for mining and gaming purposes. it replaced an msi r9 280x. sort of a lateral upgrade, but the 3gb VRAM on the 280x's creates a bottleneck with ethereum's DAG size. the 8gb should in theory help with that.
out of the box hashrate on ethminer - 18 MH/s. very disappointing.
modded bios with polaris bios editor and flashed it over with winatiflash. hashrate on ethminer - 22 MH/s. disappointing. i should be able to get 28 MH/s out of this card. no idea why i cannot. it does seem like i have a mix of samsung and micron RAM chips on it, but it shouldn't have this big of a performance hit. i think. also i was always told to never mix RAM chips, that it's worse than mixing battery brands. -shrug-
changed algorithms to see hashrate, to neoscrypt based TrezarCoin. 770 KH/s. above what i should be able to get. ...what? whatever, i'll take it. i like hybrid PoW/PoS coins. [Proof of Work = brute force hashing, Proof of Stake = collecting interest on coins in your wallet.]
[570 is at 1200 GPU clock, 2000 mem clock, -33mv, PBE one click timing bios mod for samsung/micron hybrid]
had tried the AMD blockchain focused drivers, but then my system didn't seem to recognize the graphics card anymore and crashed hard when i tried to use it. likely a win 7 vs win 10 thing. really don't want to move to win 10. -_-
ethminer seems like crap. claymore is said to be good, but i've not tested it yet. currently using Gateless Gate Sharp. built in support for many common pools, custom pool options, clean GUI, 1% fee to dev [which i could probably edit out by recompiling his source code but meh.]
this 570 is using 120-130W and sits between 62-75°C at 23% fan. far more efficient than the power hungry 280x's.
one thing i've noticed with mining pools is that the minimum cash out amount is higher than what i was previously accustomed to. i'll need to mine up 500 TZC to cash em out. ETH is like 0.05. a single GPU is even more lacking for pool mining these days than it was years ago. i need to retrieve my mining shell PC i lent to my grandparents. two 280x's on top of the 570 will heat my place til spring.
https://www.cryptopia.co.nz/ - seems to be a good coin v coin trade platform. have yet to look into any sort of regs or laws in NZ. haven't signed up so idk what they require yet, but it's on my list to investigate.
i'll post here time to time with what i'm doin. i can provide limited support for this type of thing if anyone is interested. we were gonna do a crypto club in the tinychat room, but hardly anyone seemed really interested and i haven't been there much cus i'm not feelin social.
