Biostar announced a new AMD AM4 socket motherboard dedicated. Biostar Digs In With New AMD AM4 Crypto Mining. For GPU mining I would pick the cheapest. AMD GPU Supply Exhausted By Cryptocurrency Mining, AIBs Now Directly Advertising To Miners.

It's been a long night, but the GPU mining stuff is finally ready. I even sent an emergency page to the poor soul in Ops who has pager duty this weekend, just so everything can be pushed live right away. In but a few minutes right now, it will be available here: As another reminder, this is still very much experimental software. It might not work on a lot of setups. GPU mining is actually extremely complicated if you want the best hash rates.

We've put a lot of effort into making it user friendly, but it's still lacking a bit in reliability. So with that, here are some known issues: • The version number was not bumped up properly. • The Wallet UI is not very responsive while mining. Hint, click stop once and wait a second or two to stop mining. • Some mining files may remain in the ZiftrCoin folder after running the uninstaller on Windows.

These can safely be deleted manually, if you wish to uninstall. • Hash rate for AMD GPUs is not displaying correctly in the Wallet.

Clicking the 'debug' checkbox will dump it to the screen though (along with a lot of other junk). • The percentage bar doesn't affect GPU mining. Current Monero XMR Mining Difficulty.

It's always at full power. • Default settings for AMD mining are not fine tuned. When mining from the Qt Wallet, AMD cards may not get their best possible hash rate. • GPU miner configuration files are untested with the Qt Wallet. They may be ignored or overwritten.

• Average hash rate displayed for Nvidia GPUs is incredibly volatile and the average is not weighted properly. This is an issue in the stand alone miner and in the Wallet miner.

• Mining in Mac OSX with an AMD card doesn't work. It hasn't been thoroughly tested though, so feel free to try it anyway. • Mining in Mac OSX with an Nvidia card does in fact require drivers. • Occasionally when attempting to start mining in OSX, the OS will not let the miner access the proper GPU, causing many errors. Try closing some programs or possibly restarting. It seems to be quite random. • Some systems cannot properly identify Nvidia cards in the Wallet.

When this happens the GPU will be listed as 'Unknown GPU(s)'. Mining will still work and will attempt to use all GPUs if there are more than one.

• Mining settings still don't save when closing the Wallet. &npsp; Edit: darn reddit eating my edits. I wanted to add; thank you everyone for your support and interest in ZiftrCoin and have fun with the new miners. Bugs and issues are best reported here: • • • • •. How Mine PACcoin PAC.

Here's some random info before I go pass out. We're definitely keeping an eye out on suggestions, so keep them coming. Hopefully we can get a release out early next week with some of the more annoying things fixed.

In general zr5 (the ziftrCoin algorithm) appears to be very sensitive to GPU clock speed, but not so much to GPU memory speed. Our miners, at the moment, are also very sensitive to driver versions. For example, for my computer at home I actually had to download AMD beta drivers (15.3) to get a decent hash rate out of my 290x. With those, an over-clock to 1200 ghz, and the water cooling to keep the GPU from down-clocking itself, I'm at 5.4 MH/s.

For sgminer standalone: sgminer -k zr5 -o -u username -p password -I 18 -w 256 -g 1 You can tweak -I and -w a bit, raising -I will get you the most but it might crash if it's too high. You can also use --xintensity 256 instead of -I. For ccminer standalone: ccminer -a zr5 -o -u username -p password There isn't much to configure for ccminer. Best bet is to just try to over-clock the card. Make sure you put something in the password field, eg '-p somejunk'. I've seen that break things before. You can tune gpu clock frequency directly with sgminer, but I prefer to just use Afterburner (which is free and works for AMD and Nvidia).

As we’ve discussed at various points, the great cryptocurrency GPU mining craze of 2011 to 2014 (peaking in 2013) was great for GPU manufacturers’ profit margins, but terrible for AMD’s actual GPU sales and market share. At the time, GPU manufacturers weren’t interested in attempting to create mining-specific SKUs or capabilities, even though there was some information that suggested some ASICs held up better under constant mining loads than others. There were reports at the time that FirePro workstation cards held up better over the long term than their Radeon counterparts when run 24/7. While this may have never been formally proven, and I don’t think AMD ever issued any statements on the topic, there’s at least a plausible mechanism of action for how such a thing could be possible. Both AMD and Nvidia put their workstation and professional GPUs through additional rounds of validation over and above consumer cards, and these cards are designed for more demanding environments. This time around, companies like Asus and Sapphire seem to be getting in on the action with their own, dedicated mining cards.

Asus has unveiled two GPUs, the AMD-based and the Nvidia-based. These are not consumer cards — the RX 470 has just one DVI port (it has holes for DP and HDMI, but no actual ports). Meanwhile, the 6GB GTX 1060 GPU is shown with this unintentionally amusing explanation: Asus is claiming substantially higher mining performance, however, and to be honest I’d need to dig into the specifics of what drives modern cryptocurrency performance to render an opinion on how likely the company’s cryptocurrency SKUs are to deliver on their performance claims.

As always, we recommend being cautious when investing in fads like cryptocurrency. There are people who made amounts of money in Bitcoin and Litecoin ranging from modest to massive.

There are plenty of other customers who paid for ASIC solutions that never shipped (and multiple companies were later sued for fraud), or were never able to break even on total cost of hardware and electricity given the way prices were fluctuating at the time. I consider cryptocurrency mining somewhat similar to gambling, in that one should never wager more than you can comfortably afford to lose. Asus has not yet announced availability or pricing on these cards. But it’ll be interesting to see how they’re positioned relative to standard consumer hardware.

If this experiment works, we expect to see more GPU companies following with their own designs in fairly short order.