Ethereum GPU mining?

[Madpacket]

us1.ethermine.org:4444 is dead for me as of a little over 2 hours ago.

Yeah I noticed as well. Started switching over to us2 and then us1 came back. Looks like a short lived DDoS.

 

[Jose Castillo]

anyone having problems with shares in dwarfpool?

 

[n0x1ous]

anyone having problems with shares in dwarfpool?

Mining seems to working normally but dwarfpool not showing anything posting for the last 10 hrs. Typically they will come out with a message saying everything is accounted for and they are working on it so not too concerned at the moment.

 

[Jose Castillo]

Mining seems to working normally but dwarfpool not showing anything posting for the last 10 hrs. Typically they will come out with a message saying everything is accounted for and they are working on it so not too concerned at the moment.

yeah, hopefully everything will be fine in a few hours

 

[n0x1ous]

it just updated now

 

[Jose Castillo]

it just updated now

yep!

 

[woozle64]

I just built a new desktop and was thinking of using my old one to mine. What's a good way to get started?

 

[thilanliyan]

I just built a new desktop and was thinking of using my old one to mine. What's a good way to get started?

Look at Nicehash. Easy to set up.

 

[DrMrLordX]

From a technical point-of-view, when is it expected that ETH will hit a difficulty wall forcing a switch to PoS? Isn't that supposed to happen before the year is out?

 

[Jose Castillo]

i got a rig with 3 rx470 nitro 4 gb from sapphire, but cant find it anymore, is it ok to buy a sapphire nitro 480 4gb?

 

[Crono]

From a technical point-of-view, when is it expected that ETH will hit a difficulty wall forcing a switch to PoS? Isn't that supposed to happen before the year is out?

The difficulty increases don't force the switchover to Proof-of-Stake at a specific point, but PoS is what Vitalik wants to switch over to for long term health/speed of the network. Still no clear word on when Casper/PoS is coming. It was supposed to happen earlier (though it was always fuzzy when) but they are still having internal deliberations and working on it, apparently.

There's going to be a hard fork when PoS arrives. Eventually mining will be unprofitable for most miners, but that's not going to happen immediately.

i got a rig with 3 rx470 nitro 4 gb from sapphire, but cant find it anymore, is it ok to buy a sapphire nitro 480 4gb?

Yes, but you could just go for any available RX 470s that run well enough.

 

[Shmee]

How is mining with the new RX 500 Series? Any data yet? I know also that it is possible to flash a 480 to 580 bios; it would be interesting to see comparison.

 

[thilanliyan]

Anyone mining with mixed AMD and NV cards in the same system?
I have a 1080 in the primary pci-e slot with one monitor connected to it and it mines well.

I have 2x290s in the other two pci-e slots but they will only even turn on if there is a monitor connected to at least one of them. I thought the days of requiring dummy plugs was over?

I was running 3x290s a while back without any monitor connected to them and they worked fine so not sure what the issue is now.

Thoughts?

 

[Accord99]

I have 2x290s in the other two pci-e slots but they will only even turn on if there is a monitor connected to at least one of them. I thought the days of requiring dummy plugs was over?

I have the same issue with a 1080 Ti and 290X and couldn't find a way to get it to work without connecting a monitor to the 290X. I used a DP connection and the 290X wasn't controllable by (for clock and voltage changes) Afterburner without switching to the monitor input corresponding to the 290X.

It's a bit of hassle so I may just move the 290X out.

 

[thilanliyan]

Okay, I'm glad it's not just my system lol. I will try to see if having the AMD card as primary makes any difference. This system is used mostly for mining so it doesn't matter if I have to game on the 290.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

BTC hit a new high today, $1320, anyone cash out? I dumped a little at $1303, made more than I was expecting to a week ago!

 

[Madpacket]

hODL!

 

[DrMrLordX]

No BTC here, I'm all in ETH. Not that I'm disappointed by that.

 

[Madpacket]

No 580 purchases yet (I don't expect any performance increases, but perhaps a bit better at lower voltages though once tweaked) but I grabbed a 4GB 460 for the Lolz.

Caught a silly sale on a Gigabyte no auxiliary powered card. I unlocked it to 1024 shaders and undervolted it to -96mv with MSI Afterburner. After some tweaks I'm pretty impressed with it. 11.5 - 12Mh at 40W (board power adds another 30 or so). This is within about 10W of my EVGA 1050 Ti however the 460 was roughly half the price and is much more responsive as a HTPC while mining. Also the fans are dead silent until about 45% and when mining it stays under 60C at 40%.

So if anyone is looking for a decent low powered HTPC / light gaming card that will likely pay for itself, the Gigabyte 4GB 460 works well.

I'm hoping I'll be able to flash it to a 560 in a few weeks

 

[poofyhairguy]

My last mining machine bluescreened this morning. I guess I am done with mining. Time to sell my cards and move on I guess.

EDIT: Thank you everyone in this thread for what was a very fun hobby that ended up being profitable. Would do it again in a heartbeat.

 

[IEC]

No 580 purchases yet (I don't expect any performance increases, but perhaps a bit better at lower voltages though once tweaked) but I grabbed a 4GB 460 for the Lolz.

Caught a silly sale on a Gigabyte no auxiliary powered card. I unlocked it to 1024 shaders and undervolted it to -96mv with MSI Afterburner. After some tweaks I'm pretty impressed with it. 11.5 - 12Mh at 40W (board power adds another 30 or so). This is within about 10W of my EVGA 1050 Ti however the 460 was roughly half the price and is much more responsive as a HTPC while mining. Also the fans are dead silent until about 45% and when mining it stays under 60C at 40%.

So if anyone is looking for a decent low powered HTPC / light gaming card that will likely pay for itself, the Gigabyte 4GB 460 works well.

I'm hoping I'll be able to flash it to a 560 in a few weeks

Just make sure you use a 560 BIOS that uses the same voltage controller and PCB layout as your 460. I know the Sapphire 580 Nitro doesn't use the same controller as the 480 Nitro, meaning you cannot flash a 480 Nitro to 580 Nitro, for instance.

 

[DrMrLordX]

My last mining machine bluescreened this morning. I guess I am done with mining. Time to sell my cards and move on I guess.

EDIT: Thank you everyone in this thread for what was a very fun hobby that ended up being profitable. Would do it again in a heartbeat.

Sorry about the hardware failure. Have you tried diagnosing exactly what went wrong with it?

 

[IEC]

Holy moly that ETH price increase! It would be a life changing amount of money in ETH if it reaches BTC levels of pricing...

 

[ozzy702]

Holy moly that ETH price increase! It would be a life changing amount of money in ETH if it reaches BTC levels of pricing...

Right? I was thinking about it today... even if ETH "only" hit $100 a pop I'd be looking at a substantial amount of money being thieved by the .gov... I really need to look into legal ways to shield as much as possible since it's looking like at a minimum ETH will be hitting triple digits within the next year.

 

[DrMrLordX]

Cap gains rate isn't that high anyway, at least if you are in the US. Since ETH is still an unregulated security you (probably) won't owe any taxes on it until you liquidate for "real" money. BTC, not so clear since you can actually buy stuff with it. Forex rules may apply there.

As always consult an attorney/tax expert.

In case people were wondering, there's possibility of an ETH-based ETF being approved soon. This comes on top of the GNO offering which produced some demand for ETH (GNO tokens were only sold for ETH, so every time we get a project like REP, GNT, or GNO, ETH gets a bump) and other stuff.

Need I remind people that we STILL haven't reached PoS?

Also, ZEC is tracking upwards with ETH. Very interesting. It has surpassed DASH, albeit narrowly. The eventual combination of ZEC and ETH tokens into one token seems almost inevitable.