Seems that nVIDIA and Intel are poor Cryptominers.... Why they are so poor in that aspect compared to AMD? What feature has AMD to have outstanding values?
Have you set Power Efficiency to Off? If that doesn't help you may have to rollback.
So, i tried to use those drivers, but they don't support 980ti's. So i tried the oldest driver that did with no luck. I'm confused, because i absolutely had my 980ti's mining at 21 m/hash apiece on windows 10, so i have no idea what changed. I also made sure windows 10 isn't auto-updating drivers.
I eventually gave up and installed ubuntu. I finally got it working, but that stuff is rocket-surgery to get set up.
Seems that nVIDIA and Intel are poor Cryptominers.... Why they are so poor in that aspect compared to AMD? What feature has AMD to have outstanding values?
On side news I reflashed my launch blower powercolor 290 to 290X and started mining on it on the other comp. -19mv and 52% fanspeed, it still throttles a little, around 950 MHz. Getting about 26MH/s from it.
Dude, it took me like 2 hours to get Windows 10 to stop updating the driver automatically. I had to use powershell and gpedit and a special microsoft tool that lets you hide updates. But there's a raft of problems if you don't do things in a specific order the card will eventually update itself. It's been 2 days now and no updates so I think I finally got it.
That driver is very old (Feb 2015?) and was only meant for an old RC for Windows 10 so I'm not surprised you ran into issues with your 980 Ti. I haven't tested gaming yet but I also wouldn't be surprised if newer games don't run at all on my 970.
For Geforce cards you're better off with Linux. The only reason I stuck with windows 10 is this is my HTPC so it's used by my family for other tasks (Netflix & Youtube, light gaming). I also had to set powertune to 65% (the lowest MSI afterburner would let me) to get the card to operate quietly enough and I had to use really small work values to keep everything responsive on the desktop. I'm only getting 15MH now but at least it's all running smoothly now.
How many MH do you get in Liniux?
My main rig with 290CF is running W10 soley because of DX12, and its a nightmare for mining. Getting Windows to not automatically install updates is a huge PITA, but it's pretty much necessary if you don't want to come home from work and find your computer sitting idle at the login screen every 3 days after updating 12 hours ago.
Is it normal for the mining pool dashboard to be all over the place in regards to MH/s compared to very consistent results using the local benchmark? On the 380 I'm getting results varying from 3 MH/s to 35 MH/s from the dash, consistently 20-21 MH/s from the benchmark tool (and looking at the hash rate on the console).
Yes this is normal for PPLNS enabled sites. You need to look at the trend over a few weeks to get an average of how your card is really doing.
Here's a description of how it works:
"PPLNS is a way of determining how many cryptocoins you get for your shares completed. Pay Per Last N Shares is what PPLNS stands for. This method of calculating payouts includes a "luck" factor. Using PPLNS your payout per share will have a large range (30% more or less on your payouts), but on average, PPLNS earns more than PPS (by 5% or so) in the long run (a month or more).
PPS is also known as Pay Per Share. It is a more direct method where you get a standard payout rate for each share completed. This method eliminates the "luck" in your payout, but can decrease your total income per share by around 5%. Using PPS you get a set number of cryptocoins per share of work you have solved. It has no luck involved so the payouts do not fluctuate."
My main rig with 290CF is running W10 soley because of DX12, and its a nightmare for mining. Getting Windows to not automatically install updates is a huge PITA, but it's pretty much necessary if you don't want to come home from work and find your computer sitting idle at the login screen every 3 days after updating 12 hours ago.
You guys should complain to AMD about W10 mining. Someone needs to kick them to get them to support the market. They can be as dumb as a bag of rocks marketing their product.
Nvidia is worse under Windows 10. Geforce cards consume about 15-20% of CPU time with eth mining vs a few % for AMD cards.
The issue here is Microsoft with taking away control over how updates are delivered.
Dude, it took me like 2 hours to get Windows 10 to stop updating the driver automatically. I had to use powershell and gpedit and a special microsoft tool that lets you hide updates. But there's a raft of problems if you don't do things in a specific order the card will eventually update itself. It's been 2 days now and no updates so I think I finally got it.
That driver is very old (Feb 2015?) and was only meant for an old RC for Windows 10 so I'm not surprised you ran into issues with your 980 Ti. I haven't tested gaming yet but I also wouldn't be surprised if newer games don't run at all on my 970.
For Geforce cards you're better off with Linux. The only reason I stuck with windows 10 is this is my HTPC so it's used by my family for other tasks (Netflix & Youtube, light gaming). I also had to set powertune to 65% (the lowest MSI afterburner would let me) to get the card to operate quietly enough and I had to use really small work values to keep everything responsive on the desktop. I'm only getting 15MH now but at least it's all running smoothly now.
How many MH do you get in Liniux?
It's a maddening system, and it's really completely unusable for anyone who actually does work on their computer. Without completely messing around they best you can really do is just schedule the updates to a certain day, and then hope you don't need to be doing anything that night and make sure you save and close everything. For a lot of the stuff we do at work where computers are on 24/7 connected to hardware and collecting sample data, it's completely unacceptable.
I found the group policy change to force the updates to notify only didn't do anything. The only thing that's worked so far (knock on wood) is to deny Musnotification.exe read and execute permissions.
You can disable everything using Ultimate Windows Tweaker app.
You can disable everything using Ultimate Windows Tweaker app.
Or you can schedule the mining task to start on start-up.
They get 21MH apiece at stock clocks. I haven't messed with overclocking them.
Check out the difficulty curve....
https://etherscan.io/charts/hashrate
This party is going to end soon unless the price of Etherium goes up in lockstep.