What are the best vid cards for mining? maybe my HD 6850 card doesn't work with this.
I have 1060's and 1070's. Getting about 18-19Mh/s out of the 1060's and around 28-29 from the 1070's.
The key was finding the right mod for the miner and settling on the right intensity level. Here is what I have learned...
1. There is very little you can do in the way of overclocking to get a better hashrate. With Claymore and ETH mining, stock/overclock ratio can easily be 4/5. Ie., 25 stock and 32 OC. I cannot make ccminer budge with memory or base clock changes. Power increase makes a small difference.
2. What ccminer reports as hashrate is NOT what you are going to get from the pool. 260 reported ends up about 200-210 from the pool.
3. The 32 bit ccminer runs better for me on Win10. I have the version labeled ccminer_krnlx_170810. There were three .exe files in my download. The Cuda 7.5 32 bit version was the best of the three for me.
4. Compared to Claymore dual mining, ccminer is coming in at about 80% of the power when I think I have it fairly well optimized.
5. Believe it or not, increasing the intensity MAY slow you down. One of my rigs (5x1060's and 1x1070) runs great at i=22.5 and slows DOWN at i=23.
I was only able to mine for about 30 hours at the 5000 reward level. I am going to mine this 100% for at least until it reaches 60K.
As for the current valuations, chances are very few people here have spent any time with financial markets and charts. NEW things almost always dip multiple times before the market truly discovers and has confidence in a bottom. That is why market tops and bottoms are almost never hairpin turns. They have to work it out. Lows are tested and retested sometimes many times before confidence is found and a march upwards begins.
I've actually been able to overclock my 1070 to get about 3-4 mh/s more out of ccminer, while keeping my power at 70%. I've learned to run each coin I mine with each type of ccminer or other mod and update to see what gives me the best rates. I do it set on default before I OC to see what my base is. Thanks for the info on what you did with your cards, hopefully it will help the new miners trying to get the best rates on their cards.
I was told a while ago that the 32 bit will run better than 64bit versions on certain algos or miner.. just have to play around on your particular system to see what works best.