Ethereum Classic ETC Mining Pcie 1x
Jan 28, 2018 - The MB is an ASRock Z87 Killer Motherboard with 3 PCI16 slots and 4 PCIe slots I got for about $230, mine including an i7 CPU and 16GB RAM. In order to have the GPU's detached from the motherboard you will need some $5.00 USB 3.0 PCI-E Express 1x To 16x Extender Riser Cards. You will also. How To Mine Ethereum Classic ETC On. A short video tutorial explaining how to mine Ethereum Classic using the graphics card. How To & Why Use PCI-E 1X. (1x) x1-PCIe to (3x) x1-PCIe riser board. Is loading up the DAG's when mining. An ASIC to mine Ethereum its definetely possible to build a board.
If you are mining Ethereum you might have noticed that your hashrate recently dropped if you are using AMD Radeon RX 400/500 series cards. Seeing your mining hashrate drop is nothing new for Ether miners and it is usually due to the growing DAG (directed acyclic graph) file size. The Ethereum DAG is a key component for the proof of work algorithm and is generated for each epoch at around every 30,000 blocks.
Back on June 1st, 2017 we were mining on DAG epoch #126 and three weeks later we have already moved onto DAG epoch #130. When the move to DAG epoch #130 happened it seems that the AMD Radeon 400/500 series cards took a performance hit while the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1000 series cards and older AMD Radeon 200/300 series cards did not. The bad news is that the AMD Radeon RX 470/480 as well as the Radeon RX 570/580 cards took the biggest performance hit. These cards use the AMD Polaris GPU and over the past several days the community has tried to find ways to overcome the Polaris hashrate drop that recently happened. Claymore’s Dual Ethereum AMD+NVIDIA GPU Miner is one of the most popular miners out there and it appears that Claymore can’t ‘fix’ the hashrate drop on the ‘miner software level’ according to a recent post.
“I see the speed drop. I checked possible workarounds, at least for Polaris, they failed. So probably this hashrate drop cannot be fixed, at least on miner software level.” – We’ve reached out to AMD and shared some of our benchmark data and hope to they are looking into this issue as well. Chances are they are looking into a solution at the driver level!
While we wait for AMD’s response we fired up Claymore’s Dual Ethereum AMD+NVIDIA GPU Miner v9.5 and test seven AMD and NVIDIA graphics cards to see how the perform on future DAG epoch numbers. We did this by running Claymore’s miner in benchmark mode to check the hashrate on our GPUs on future epoch numbers. You can try this out yourself by specifying “-benchmark x” where x is the epoch that you’d like to run. We tested DAG epoch 130, 140, 150, 170 and 199 on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060/1070/1080 ‘Pascal’ GPUs as well as on the AMD Radeon RX 470/480/580 ‘Polaris’ GPUs and then the AMD Radeon R9 Nano ‘Fiji’ GPU. The results were pretty startling to be honest. The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060/1070/1080 hashrate barely budged in our performance testing, so NVIDIA card owners or those that have one ordered should be happy.
The AMD Radeon RX 400/500 card owners won’t be too happy to see what the benchmark shows will happen. The hashrate on the AMD Radeon RX 580 that we are testing is 27.0 MH/s currently and that will drop down to 25.6 MH/s by DAG epoch #140 and then 22.7 MH/s at DAG epoch #150.
This is around a 16% performance drop in the hashrate in the next 90 days assuming the Ethash DAG changes every 4.5 days. If you look way out into the future you can see fairly large hashrate drops by the time you get to DAG epoch 170 and 199, but we wouldn’t freak out just yet. The AMD Radeon R9 Nano with the ‘Fiji’ GPU has some small gradual performance decreases up until DAG epoch 170, but takes a performance hit around DAG 199. AMD might be able to work some magic on the driver side. AMD and NVIDIA are both rumored to be working on bringing dedicated mining GPUs to market here soon, so now that they are spending money to focus on miners we can likely assume that driver support will be improving. If a magic driver fix is not possible get ready to see people selling Radeon RX 400/500 series cards and switching to and models!
Other GPU Stories on Ethereum Mining on Legit Reviews. Cpu Mine BURST. Glad that 6 weeks ago when I was struggling to find RX570s and 80s and was looking for alternatives I decided to switch to 1060 and 1070s that were still available relatively cheap. More expensive than a retail price RX but at least they won’t fall off a cliff in 3 months. People worry about difficulty and forget about the DAG and the fact AMD and Nvidia are sold out world wide, the recent difficulty climb will likely level off soon (many AMD cards running close to 30% slower and 3GB 1060s will likely be obsolete by early 2018).
There is a finite number of GPUs out there that can do this stuff cost effectively. Even the new Vega card launches in August really are not supposed to provide much inventory till early 2018 and any new Nvidia GPU models will like be 6-12 months away. Sure 570’s should run faster than 1060’s (especially when optimised ) before DAG 150 but after DAG 150 they will also loose their value much faster than 1060’s.
So the real question for me is can you achieve ROI before DAG 150 or not? If i take into account you paid 300 for each and that you should be able to mine at around 26MH/s nowadays with those, it apears that il will definitely take you more than 3 months to achieve ROI ( 3600$ / 950$ per month = 3,79 months ).
Why Do You Mine Verge XVG more. 1060’s will for sure need more time to achieve ROI but they will give you stability in performance and will loose their resell value much slower than 570’s. To me resell value is important as much as hashrate because you never know when things are going to crash ( if they do ). But 370$ for a 1060 is also not an ideal price if you ask me so yeah In this situation if i was you i would keep those 570’s ( since you have ordered ) and mine as much as i can till DAG 150 and then resell them all as quickly as i can before their value starts to drop dramaticaly. But that’s just me, it’s up to you to decide what’s good or not for you 😉 Also may i ask what 1060’s are you running and what’s your OC profile on those? Yeah prices have gone crazy in the US.
It’s a shame but quit predictible. Here in EU ( France in my case ) you can easely find 1060 6GB at around 260 euro and 1070 at 400-420 euro. About ROI yeah it seems imposible to achieve it before 3 months this being with 570 or 1060 so yeah if price where not so high for 1060 in the US it would have been the obvius choise but with such a high price it’s not an easy decision to make.
If you have to stick with 570 i agree with you go for the cheapest option at $245 rather than $300. Hey man, oh ok my bad, i thought you lived in the US since you talked about USD. Are those normal prices for Norway? Peoples estimate that 3GB will be obsolete by 2018 so again it depends how long you plan to mine with those, without forgeting that those 3GB cards will loose their resell value even faster than 6GB 570’s.
My point of view is peoples don’t buy those cards simply to achieve ROI but also to generate some revenue after achieving ROI so if we take that into account 570 6GB doesn’t seem to be a safe option for the long term let alone 3GB version. If you can find 1060 6GB at $350 as you said in your last post then go for it. It’s the safest option for the long term for sure. This is my honest opinion.