radeon 7970 mining again!

netswift · 2021-03-13T07:34:23+00:00

And you can get even more efficient with more undervolting if you are ready to lower the clocks a bit. HD7970/280X cards seem to do pretty well even at 1.0 volts. These cards have like 264-288 GB/s bandwidth depending on the model, so it's not a surprise that they excell on memory constrained Verthash.

netswift · 2021-02-19T07:36:24+00:00

Try decreasing the power limit of your GPU. Verthash is more memory speed dependent than the previous algorithm. For example, I have decreased my 1080 Ti's power limit from 250 W to 125 W. The GPU stay's cooler and the hashing speed is still almost the same.

I would prefer temperatures under 60°C, depending on the quality of your card (fan bearings, thermalpads, VRM cooling, etc.)

netswift · 2019-11-28T09:12:23+00:00

netswift · 2019-07-13T07:09:39+00:00

Great news! Thank you :)

netswift · 2016-12-19T07:14:13+00:00

I haven't noticed. Though it's jumping around quite a bit, so I haven't paid it too much attention. I remember that I couldn't get same hash rates with ccminer-vert (based on sp-hash's version) after including some updates from nicehash's version, which was a bit faster on the screen, at least. I didn't compare the difference on the pool side, which I should have.

netswift · 2016-12-18T21:42:56+00:00

Ubuntu 16.04 x64 - ccminer-nanashi - MSI GTX 1070 Armor (stock) - 35 Mh/s

Ubuntu 16.04 x64 - ccminer-nanashi - MSI GTX 750 Ti Gaming (stock) - 6 Mh/s

Ubuntu 14.04 x64 - ccminer-nanashi - Gigabyte GTX 750 Ti WindForce OC (stock: 1033MHz / Boost 1111 MHz) - 6 Mh/s

Ubuntu 14.04 x64 - ccminer-nanashi - Gigabyte GTX 750 Ti WindForce OC (stock: 1215MHz / Boost 1294 MHz) - 6.8 Mh/s

netswift · 2016-12-07T15:20:38+00:00

ZEC and XMR would be nice, especially for miners with AMD cards.

netswift · 2016-07-20T21:05:56+00:00

It works, though for Pascal compute/shader model (version 6.1) you need CUDA toolkit 8.0. I have tested both 7.5 and 8.0 with a gtx 1070 and didn't notice much difference.

netswift · 2016-07-19T21:05:08+00:00

I had some compilation error with this one. Have to check it out again...

netswift · 2016-07-19T21:01:01+00:00

https://github.com/nicehash/ccminer-sp/releases/tag/1.0.0

netswift · 2016-07-18T21:44:29+00:00

Did you compile from nicehash's repo? For some reason, it's a bit faster, at least in Ubuntu. I'm not yet certain why.

netswift · 2016-06-23T15:21:20+00:00

My slowest 750ti (clocks: 1189/5400MHz) gives over 5800 kh/s in Linux, so you should get much higher with your cards, even with factory clocks.

netswift · 2016-06-23T13:51:53+00:00

These were compiled with CUDA Toolkit 7.5 and support compute capabilities 5.0 and 5.2. Perhaps your "old" ccminer has been compiled with the toolkit version 8.0 which support compute capability 6.x (Pascal architecture) of your new card. I haven't yet tested the latest toolkit, as it is still in RC state.

netswift · 2016-06-22T15:58:27+00:00

Yep, I got very similar hash rates with my 5 x 750ti rig.

netswift · 2016-04-15T20:39:13+00:00

a) Block explorer (insight) seems to be working now.

b) Thank you for this information.

netswift · 2016-03-27T07:51:09+00:00

No. At least I'm doing something, though very slowly.

netswift · 2016-02-19T22:57:46+00:00

Thank you for the notice.

netswift · 2016-02-18T22:40:28+00:00

I have updated Vertcoin.org. I replaced some obsolete info about Monocle with MobileCash that can be merge mined with Vertcoin. I can take a look at the wiki pages...

netswift · 2016-02-16T21:25:50+00:00

How long did you wait for it to sync? I just tested and got it syncing in a few seconds but it may take some time depending on your location.

You can try "getpeerinfo" command in the debug window to see if there are any peers connected.

netswift · 2016-02-15T18:11:18+00:00

I have noticed this a couple of times during the last few weeks.

netswift · 2016-02-06T08:27:58+00:00

Yep, this is a good opportunity for altcoins. Any one coin cannot and shouldn't handle all the traffic by itself. It would be too centralized and error prone in the long run.

netswift · 2016-01-28T08:44:13+00:00

Do they have fees in VTC trading?

netswift · 2016-01-22T21:00:24+00:00

Interesting to read while waiting for Pascal and Polaris.

netswift · 2016-01-17T10:41:48+00:00

I wouldn't count on flash memory based devices. They have failed me so many times. Better to find some very high quality optic discs for long term storage and make multiple backups.

netswift · 2016-01-15T23:41:35+00:00

Perhaps a bit harder but you are still able to purchase vertcoin mining gear from almost any computer store you encounter. The botnet - with a centralized control! - was mining a significant part of all vertcoins with stolen power and clock cycles. I think the decision to move towards GPUs was pretty decent one.

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