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Get ready to move on Linux slowly. Windows reserves 300 + MB of VRAM. The current DAG size is 3.57gb. The Phoenix miner free vram check was set to 384mb by def. When the dag + win reservation is taken away from 4gb vram, only 130MB of vram is left (that's why Phoenix made the problem). And with the command -rvram -1 you have time up to DAG 3.7gb or ~ 1.7.2020. After that, Linux....until 21.12.2020.

In the case of mixed rigs with 8gb and 4gb cards, what will be the behavior? I seemed to have understood that if there is at least an 8GB card the rig should continue to work correctly, is it correct?

I think the lead card (GPU0) is better with 8GB VRAM as it reserves more than the rest if you check GPU memory usage in MSI Afterburner, or you can try integrated graphics for the main display output but I had problems with not being able to control the GPU voltages after that - that was nearly 2 years ago that I last tried though.

It would be interesting to understand now if it is working because this would allow to keep the 4Gb cards having only 1 8Gb card

That is impossible. Only hardware intervention

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Re: Which direction for VGA 4g when DAG ETC, ETH reaches 4gb

Congdm

on 13/04/2020, 19:32:52 UTC

Quote from: adaseb on Today at 04:22:06 AM

Right now there is almost nothing worth mining beside ETH and ETC. With XMR its mostly geared towards CPUs. So when you can no longer mine due to the large DAG you are out of luck. Your best bet is to list it on Craiglist and some gamer will buy it. You can sell the 4GB for like $70 and buy another second hand 8GB for like $90-$100 or so from another miner. Most gamers don't need GPUs larger than 4GB.

I don't know what is going on with ProgPOW, but if the switch is made then maybe the DAG will be removed or calculated differently , so maybe hold on to them for now and see what the future brings. However even with the ProgPOW eliminating or reducing the DAG, the price of ETH in general needs to increase for it to be worthwhile. Currently there is almost no profit unless you are hodl'ing for years to come. When it almost reached $300 it was pretty profitable for home miners but now it looks like it might retest the $100 area again depending on what the stock market is doing.

There are many coins to mine with less than 4GB of ram but keep in mind their profitability is much lower than ETH and ETH already is not that profitable.

Go to
https://whattomine.com/

Put in your hashrates and see what is out there.

There are many Daggerhashimoto coins which you can still mine with 2-3GB GPUs, but keep in mind they are very unprofitable. Almost to the point where you are better off just buying an RX 470 4GB second hand since they are dirt cheap these days at $75 each.