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Board CPU/GPU Bitcoin mining hardware
Re: Official DiabloMiner Thread
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DiabloD3
on 28/12/2010, 21:18:27 UTC
BTW, the java is using 100% CPU in my computer, not 0% as advertised. I want my money back! Wink

I'm using the last version. Do you want me to test anything?

It should only use 100% CPU for like 15-30 seconds, and then cut down to almost none.

I did a comparison with m0mchil's miner and this one.  I got both to work, but they produce the same khps rate, averaging right around 21000 khps.  This is on a laptop, with an nVidia GTX 260M Hybrid SLI setup (with a GeForce 9400, but it only recognizes the GTX, latest drivers installed), running Windows 7 Ultimate.  Only difference is that there's a horrible slowdown when using the DiabloMiner, and no processes are running at 100%.  I'm not sure what it is that's bogging down the system, but it only happens when running DiabloMiner, not m0mchil's.  On a positive note, I was able to run minerd alongside DiabloMiner without any khps loss on either process.  I've toyed with with the -g -w and -f switches, but nothing really seems to help.  I suppose this particular miner isn't all that great for folks running nVidia hardware.  Unless there are some better suggestions to improve the performance of this thing... other than the usual "get an ATI/get linux" responses.

Hybrid is generally broken on NVidia hardware; OSX has it worse than Windows. It seems in Windows it either only recognizes the first GPU or the current one (and won't switch while running either way). I don't suggest mining on hybrid machines until the manufacturers figure it out.

Also, NVidia users tend to have issues with OpenCL apps in general due to poor design in the driver. Try using -f 1000, this seems to fix the overall desktop interactivity problem, but loses performance.