So NVIDIA cant mine eeh?
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I will say it can, just maybe not as good, and maybe not as cheep.
But my EVGA 780 classified runs at 507 Khash/s.
what you say about that ;D 8)
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Nice! good job.
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not bad 8)
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To that, I say: “Mine like the wind, my friend!”.
And +1 rep.
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Your EVA 789 Graphics card looks good enough to mine Feathercoin’s, I mine around that hash level.
Efficiency is all, in the end. The AMD cards do seem much more efficient, although a fiddle to set up.
Feathercoin is undervalued so even though it inefficient, later when the price stabilises it may pay.
I have done this with early CPU mining. Now the price has gone up that early CPU mining was cost effective (28 KHash/s). It was stupid when Feathercoin was less than 10p, but the difficulty was lower and I got more coins than I would now there are more miners.
The nVidea 9500 card I have, only gave me 4 KHash/s, and slowed down CPU mining by the same amount. It couldn’t take the mining either and shut my PC down when left over night, so it wasn’t worth bothering.
There is also the option of supporting one of the “rebirth coins” such as Ghostlanders Poenixcoin or Chinacoin. Now they can use ACP, these coins are less prone to attack and have been taken over by more community minded developers.
Now that more people are getting involved, there is the opportunity where a large number of small CPU miners could prevent an attack by powerful GPU miner.
Chinacoin has a current difficulty of 5 and therefore you can get some coins even CPU mining.
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Not bad, not bad at all! :D
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I dont know how familiar you all are with CudaMiner and NVIDIA mining.
But one thing is itching my brain, i originally run in K-Boost mode, witch means that the GPU and memory runs at full speed all the time even with no load. my classified is clocked to 1280MHz.Yesterday i deactivated K-Boost and the lowest speed in desktop goes to 325MHz. When i start cudaminer the GPU goes to 540MHz and i still have my 507 Khash speed. Does really mining use the GPU so Little? it uses cudacores, but is that a own thing? i thought it was a Connection to the GPU, but surely not.
Can some expert in the area please explain, im going nuts :S
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Good to know, I’ve always prefered nvidia, even though their linux drivers are closed source they actually tended to work.
Given how aweful nvidia has been to the opensource comunity though I don’t feel bad making my switch to ATI for good now.
Finally managed to get my new r9 290x hashing on linux last night at around 850 (untweaked, my first GPU-miner).My first ATI card ever… games pretty well too but then anything from nvidia for £320 would do well also.
I was only hanging onto nvidia for psychological reasons and voodoo/GL associations I guess.Anyway, I’m glad you can get some reasonable grunt out of your card :)
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I’ve always felt Nvidia cards are tons better/more stable for gaming and so on, it’s just for mining really with ATI isn’t it. Same with Intel versus AMD really on CPUs, give me an intel any day, AMD seems more about cheap speed but the speed can be glitchy, although I’m using one now.
What’s interesting is that ATI could perhaps gain more of a market share than Nvidia here from an off-label use if mining takes off even more. I wonder if they will capitalize on this and put some money into creating dedicated mining cards? And I also wonder if Nvidia will be making changes/additions to some of their cards in the future to better support mining.
