Ethereum GPU mining?

[Accord99]

A watt meter has gotta be more accurate. I'm not sure what the PEC option is measuring...just GPU usage (no VRM/memory/etc)? Or something else.

It's from Nvidia's own power measuring functionality built into the video card. I've compared it to with a watt meter and it's perhaps 20% lower than at the wall.

 

[Jose Castillo]

yep, bricked my windows install on one of my mining machines

had to use ddu, reinstall my previous driver, and modify something on registry, lets hope it doesnt update my video driver again

 

[n0x1ous]

had to use ddu, reinstall my previous driver, and modify something on registry, lets hope it doesnt update my video driver again

If you are on 10 pro try gpedit.msc and buried in there is windows update settings that you can turn off driver updates . I've now set that. We'll see if it actually prevents them

https://www.howtogeek.com/302595/ho...from-automatically-updating-hardware-drivers/

 

[VeryCharBroiled]

why arent you guys running win7 (with updates off) or smOS? something that doesnt brick your entire farm on a whim..

 

[n0x1ous]

why arent you guys running win7 (with updates off) or smOS? something that doesnt brick your entire farm on a whim..

10 does better with 6 cards from my experience

 

[Madpacket]

Yeah I got hit with the Windows driver update...

Tried a bunch of things but so far like a nasty piece of Malware it keeps re-installing itself no matter what I do. Down 85Mh right now as only a max of 5 cards work per rig with the newest drivers and the patched "atikmdag" file which you can grab here.

https://www.monitortests.com/atikmdag-patcher-1.4.5.zip

Will have to fix this tonight somehow or move the unused cards to spare miner. Going back to Windows 7 would take me ages to install and I agree with n0x, 10 just worked fine with 6 cards, at least until a few days ago...

Anyone know if there's a decent Linux distro that has actually good voltage adjustment utilities? Reason I've stayed away from Linux is because of limited voltage control.

 

[DrMrLordX]

I flash all my Linux machine cards to the desired voltage levels, and set clocks stupid low so I can bring them back up with aticonfig. Granted those cards are all Hawaii (and a Pitcairn lulz) mining ZEC so the idea of me using modern drivers with them is a bit silly. 15.12 for lyfe!!!!

Since you are probably using Polaris cards . . . your best bet is to ignore distro and look at the AMDGPU-Pro driver to see if it meets your needs. You'll get the same features out of that driver in Ubuntu or Fedora or Mint or anything, really. I don't think there's any distro-specific or even generic 3rd-party software for Linux that offers better voltage control. If there is, I am simply not aware of it yet.

On a more-serious note, ETH continues to rise in leaps and bounds while the BTC network is now plagued by an increasingly-large pile of unresolved - or "stuck" - transactions. Things could get interesting soon. Hold on to your hats, folks.

 

[VeryCharBroiled]

10 does better with 6 cards from my experience

ah ive heard as much but wasnt sure if it was user error, mobo issues or what.

my rigs two rigs are 4 gpus or less, just easier to manage that way, plus i had the extra parts (psu, ssd,mobo,ram, cpu) so no added cost to do two rigs vs one.

 

[thilanliyan]

nm

 

[thilanliyan]

With the newest Windows update you can change even wired connections to metered, so you won't get unexpected updates (except critical ones). I have done this and the driver update annoyances have gone away. However, I did notice that when you actually want to do an update manually, you have to reclassify the connection as non-metered, otherwise the updating fails.

 

[Madpacket]

Thanks guys. I'll retry the metered connection thing tonight, perhaps I did something wrong. In the meantime stand your ground and HODL!

https://i.imgur.com/zzJhczP.gifv

 

[dajeepster]

you young fellers and your unexpected updates... we old timers learned this technique back in the early days of distributed computing when we had to kick the hamsters on the wheel to get the computer to run faster.

 

[ozzy702]

you young fellers and your unexpected updates... we old timers learned this technique back in the early days of distributed computing when we had to kick the hamsters on the wheel to get the computer to run faster.

Were you on PBB?

 

[dajeepster]

Were you on PBB?

No .. i started with seti back in 99 right before i got out of the military... it was mesmerizing just watching that graphical display when the screen saver kicked in. But the updates were turned in 2004 when i started bringing more cpu online and overclocking them for stability... those windows updates were killers... any updates were killer. I don't worry about them nowadays, cause i run my computers for stability for any use i may have for the computer, whether it's use or mining.

I used to be one of the top DC guys here.. until about 2011 when i made my first $1 from mining... once you start mining, it's hard to go back.

 

[Shmee]

Yesterday eth over $130 and btc over $2000. Crazy stuff.

 

[DrMrLordX]

I used to be one of the top DC guys here.. until about 2011 when i made my first $1 from mining... once you start mining, it's hard to go back.

It's a pity Curecoin didn't do better than it did. Now it's delisted on Poloniex and probably never going anywhere.

Yesterday eth over $130 and btc over $2000. Crazy stuff.

It looks like prices have stepped back a bit from those levels, but yes . . . it is a little crazy.

 

[Madpacket]

FYI I found an easy solution to stop the unwanted Radeon driver updates. Microsoft actually made a tool available that let's you take care of this.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us...driver-update-from-reinstalling-in-windows-10

So far, so good. Back to 6 cards per rig.

 

[Madpacket]

It's a pity Curecoin didn't do better than it did. Now it's delisted on Poloniex and probably never going anywhere.



It looks like prices have stepped back a bit from those levels, but yes . . . it is a little crazy.

Here's a good post over on reddit that has some speculative pricing over the next month or so. We'll have a better idea on Monday or Tuesday as to how big this may be with the EEA announcement.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ethtrader/comments/6c7nmx/hey_wheres_the_guy_who_predicted_120_on_may_19th/

My advice (sounding like a broken record lol) is to keep holding. There's a half dozen attractive looking ICO's but I suggest buying them with Fiat rather than selling Ether for them. If Ether climbs to $300+ per coin than sure perhaps divest into some ICO's with Ether, but one thing to keep in mind is that it appears most/all? of the attractive coins run on top of the Ethereum platform itself.

 

[DrMrLordX]

That's pretty ambitious. Also I didn't know Metropolis will hit in a month! That's huge.

 

[VeryCharBroiled]

actually i hardly pay attention to eth anymore. i dual mine eth/dcr at nicehash and get payed in btc.

i do have some eth but am in HODL mode. gotta admit HODLing eth has payed off nicely though.

 

[Madpacket]

actually i hardly pay attention to eth anymore. i dual mine eth/dcr at nicehash and get payed in btc.

i do have some eth but am in HODL mode. gotta admit HODLing eth has payed off nicely though.

BTC has been rising steadily as it's the easiest on-ramp to purchase Ether. Keep that in mind when looking at the price.

 

[Yakk]

BTC has been rising steadily as it's the easiest on-ramp to purchase Ether. Keep that in mind when looking at the price.

It's worth following from a trading standpoint. Etherium has been gaining on btc quite a bit, but seems to be running out of steam more than just a normal bounce. Also the lending rates on ETH are not as high as they probably could/should be. Definitely some trading profit to be made.

 

[VeryCharBroiled]

BTC has been rising steadily as it's the easiest on-ramp to purchase Ether. Keep that in mind when looking at the price.

true. i also buy btc, ltc and eth on occasion.

rigs are paid off so i just let then chug along. mining eth/dcr at nicehash seems the easiest (ie laziest) way to have more btc dribble in while doing nothing except glance at the ethman dashboard every couple days.

 

[DrMrLordX]

Etherium has been gaining on btc quite a bit, but seems to be running out of steam more than just a normal bounce.

I'm not sure I follow what you're saying there. BTC has made some big gains, but ETH has nearly tripled in value over the last month. It went from ~$49 on April 21st to ~$144 today. BTC went from ~$1266 on April 21st to ~$2025 today. ETH was the clear winner from an investment standpoint.

If what Madpacket linked above has any bearing in reality, we may see Ethereum triple again over the next month, which is completely off the chain. I would be surprised if we see better than 50% gains for BTC, if that.

 

[dajeepster]

It's a pity Curecoin didn't do better than it did. Now it's delisted on Poloniex and probably never going anywhere.

I was talking about distributed computing, like seti and folding at home... in the good ole days, we wrecked our computers for free..

but holy shitz... sia is climbing like crazy also. I mined a bunch of sia a few months ago to get into harddrive mining.. i think it was like a $1 worth of mining and got around 23k worth of coins.. i wasn't trying to invest, i was just trying to support my hobby... now i'm sitting on @$300 worth of sia from a failed experiment...