Re: Gateless Gate: zawawa's open-source ZEC/ETH/XMR/FTC miner (223 sol/s on RX 480)

I knew it! Could you tell engineers at AMD that we need GDS both on Windows and Linux?
This is such a waste of time and energy...

Not at all...your implementation will work just fine under linux, and im pretty sure the majority of miners (at least people with more than 1 or 2 cards) are on linux anyways.

I mine on Windows 10, 7 rigs. Me and 3 friends over 100 cards. Easier to switch coins, the RX cards don't support undervolting and such under Linux, or BIOS flashing, so Linux is less profitable by ~15%. Driver setup is a lot easier. I dual mining Eth/Dcr right now, ZEC less profit unless you have Nvidia cards. I can get $30/month/card (after power costs), or $20/month/card for ZEC. Zec mining was fun until good Nvidia miners were made, now I only mine with a few 1060s.

So, you think linux folks don't use Windows, just to flash their GPU roms, and then happily run them on linux? That's what I do. I"m quite sure I'm not ~15% less profitable than you. And ZEC is very profitable for AMD Fiji cards; I'm getting $35-$36/month/card, net, with Nanos.

I know Fiji, Hawaii, Tahiti etc are better for ZEC, I am referring to Polaris. I know I could install Windows just to flash, then install Linux, or find out how to flash from Linux, but that's a lot of extra work, and I have never had a good experience with Linux drivers and such. The other point about not being able to undervolt (last I checked), affects profit also, I can easily save 200W+ per rig. I also have a limit to how much I can cool without overloading central A/C in summer, so undervolting is a must. I know I could flash bios with voltage, but that is more work for tweaking, and makes it harder to switch coins (if ZEC profit goes up I may switch), since Eth I run 1100 core, 920mv, and ZEC more like 1260, 1020mv.

For those that like Linux, go ahead, just stating my reasons. On pre-Polaris cards, Windows drivers are fine, so it is a mute point. I use Linux for VMs (web developer.... though getting RSI of some sort Sad

), but have never really liked the desktop versions enough to switch.

you may not like me from past post but we do agree on this at least . Linux does have it uses but lacks a lot in what it can do over windows .. i don't see how anyone can say Linux is better for GPU mining , I honestly wish it was or I could get used to the Desktop versions of LINUX but i can't, I use the server version on my PI's it's the best thing going for them over the windows PI version ...

At the end of the day, we should each choose what service us best, as individuals. We should be grateful we *have* choices to begin with.

Must be getting late ...