Ethereum Classic ETC Mining Cooling

The AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 and Radeon RX Vega 56 Graphics cards are out now and hopefully you’ve taken a look at gaming performance in. There have been rumors that the AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 is capable of getting hash rates as high as 100 MH/s mining Ethereum, so we also spent come time with Vega 64 and Vega 56 down in the Ether mine to see how they’d perform. We used Claymore’s Dual Ethereum AMD+NVIDIA GPU Miner v9.8 and tested the two VEGA cards one at a time in the system to see how they did on the current DAG epoch #138. We also tossed in an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 video card from a board partner just for fun as that is one of the most popular mining card that people can buy today with most Radeon RX 570 and 580 cards being out of stock. So, on the current DAG Epoch (#138), difficulty of around 1,700 TH and a block time of ~21.5 seconds this is what we are looking at in stock form with 1 minute average after running for a period of 15 minutes to let the cards warm up. The AMD Radeon VEGA 64 gets 34.4 MH/s with the system pulling 367 Watts at the wall.

The AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 gets 32.4 MH/s with 306 Watts at the wall. Not bad results, but not close to the rumored 70-100 MH/s performance these cards were said to have.

No sane miner uses stock settings, so let’s look at what happens when we overclock the cards and use some power saving settings. The AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 was able to have the power limit lowered to -30% without drastically impacting the hashrate of the card as it was 34.3 MH/s, but our power dropped down to 283 Watts. We dropped it down to -25% and for 33.9 MH/s at 269 Watts and then finally -40% and got 32.6 MH/s at 256 Watts. Lowering the power target really helped the power consumption as going to -30% saves about 84 Watts and that is a ton if you have a mining farm with dozens of cards that is consuming thousands of Watts of power all day for months on end. Overclocking the memory didn’t change performance on either card. This might be a driver issue, but right now this was the best we could get.

Ethereum-Classic mining uses “Dagger. The miner up and running on with ethereum-classic only. More cooling then the. A post on reddit has bee published today that introduces Classic Ethereum (CETH) – another Ethereum (ETH) for that is apparently in the making at the moment. Just like Ethereum Classic (ETC) the new Classic Ethereum (CETH) fork will follow the original Ethereum blockchain until the controversial block 1920000 where it. 6.4 – Ethereum classic (ETC) mining. By Janika Kouki. Earlier this week, Ethereum was hardforked, which technically resulted in moving to the new blockchain.

The AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 we were able to drop down to -25% and we got 247 Watts at the wall, but the hashrate took a dive to 30.1 MH/s. We ended up dialing it in at -23% for a hashrate of 32.40 at 251 Watts. Lastly, the GeForce GTX 1070 was able to be overclocked with EVGA Precision X up to +800 MHz memory. With the extra memory clock speed and we got that card up to 32.17 MH/s!

We also did that with the power target lowered to 60%, so the power draw dropped down 183 Watts despite the memory overclock! So, what else can we show you? How about hashes per Watt? The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 that has had the power target lowered offers the best hashrate per Watt and that is critical for your electric bill.

In stock form the AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 gets 0.09 MH/s per Watt of power used and we were able to improve that to 0.13 MH/s per Watt on both the Vega 64 and Vega 56. That is where a GeForce GTX 1070 is stock. The AMD Radeon RX VEGA 64 was going to be a hit for ethereum mining, but it looks like performance just isn’t where it was rumored to be. AMD has stated that they are working on a block chain driver that improves the DAG performance for all Polaris and Vega cards that should be out sometime really soon. It will be interesting if the optimizations fix the that has been coming for months and improves Vega performance. We will know shortly and coverage will be posted on Legit Reviews the day it drops. When we requested more cryptocurrency performance information our contacts at AMD said they were focused on gamers and had nothing to add.

We are sure that the mining community will try these cards out and modify the firmware to extract the most performance from VEGA in the coming weeks. This might not be a mining monster that everyone read about for the past few weeks, but it isn’t a turd either. When it comes to pricing the AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 is and the Radeon RX Vega 64 is for the standalone air cooled models.

The MSRP on a GeForce GTX 1070 is $379. Chances are you won’t be able to find any of these cards for those prices due to the mining boom, but they are more readily available now than they were a couple months ago. The ASUS GeForce GTX 1070 8GB STRIX will be in stock on August 18th for and the Gigabyte AORUS GTX 1070 8GB will be on the same date for.

It will be interesting to see what the AMD Radeon RX Vega cards will be priced on the street later today. Be sure to take a look at our article from earlier this year if you want to know or to see what hardware we suggest buying to setup a rig! Update 08/14/17 1:30PM CDT: VEGA 56 Overclocked! We have been playing around with overclocking a bit more on the VEGA RX 56 and the performance numbers are a little weird. We are able to overclock the memory from 800MHz up to 950MHz with full stability. Running the memory at 1000MHz causes an instant crash and 975MHz causes random crashes at load, so we stuck with 950MHz.

The Vega 56 gets 38 MH/s when we start mining, but down to an average 1 minute speed of 34.17 MH/s after just six minutes of mining. This is a nice bump up from the stock number of 32.43, but we wish it would stay up at 38 MH/s. We were doing this run with the power limit at -23% and when we raised that up to -10% the 1 minute average increased up to 34.1 MH/s. The power jumped from ~252 Watts to over 320 Watts by doing that. We are still investigating and let AMD know of the issue as no matter the power limit performance starts out at 38 MH/s and drops down 3-4 MH/s after a few minutes.

We also have been having issues with Wattman going transparent during use, so another growing pain that needs to be worked out on Vega! Update 08/15/17 8:00AM CDT: Stock VEGA 56 w/ NiceHash Miner 2.0.0.12 Beta Standard Benchmark! Update 08/15/17 12:00PM CDT: AMD has released a mining optimized driver for block chain workloads this morning and we have tested that driver in.

I wonder if this has something to do with the SDK version mismatch of 17.7.2 (this driver caused issues with stuff like Afterburner, and the devs couldn’t fix OCing because the SDK hadn’t been updated I can’t even run this driver with my 3x RX 580 config!)? I have to wonder if this driver you’ve talked about enables the additional instructions for mining that AMD has talked about in OpenCL? Perhaps the additional SDK changes were held back because of it as well?

(I honestly can’t wait for this driver now! 56 can be undervolted and overclocked to gain a lot and there has been a lot of talk that some of their features for these are yet to be implemented in the drivers, but time will tell. AMD has a history of having really bad drivers on launch and their card gaining performance over the coming months / year. I think that there’s a strong possibility for that in this generation, however, nothing is guaranteed.

It’s a pity they don’t have enough funds to have them on release date. I don’t know if 64 can benefti from undervolting, but I have done this myself with the 480 and it gave me a significant boost and stabilization of FPS.

They are playing too safe with their voltages. The highly anticipated block chain driver is expected to improve the decreasing performance issue from the ever increasing DAG epoch size. It’s aimed at Polaris and Vega cards and not older 200 or 300 series cards.

AMD is focused mainly on gaming performance with VEGA and getting the drivers to work properly for that community right now. With overclocking, modified vBIOS and driver improvements I think these cards can get improvements. Asic LBRY Credits LBC Miner Wikipedia on this page. Heck, overclocked the Vega 56 shows 38 MH/s for the first dozen seconds and then trails off down to 34 MH/s.

If AMD can find out why that is happening and fix it and make said improvements I can see positive improvement coming. Just don’t mix up a DAG improvement driver with a Vega performance boost driver. Oh and just so you know I have a half dozen systems running about 30 GPUs, so I get you. I saw the rumors just like you. I’d give it a few weeks with the cards and see where it ends up.

This is just the beginning. A stock Radeon RX Vega 64 will make 0.25 Ether ($75.09) with a power cost of $36.99 and a profit cost of $38.07 per month. Based off current difficulties, driver, Ether at $295, a power cost of $0.14 and so on. That number decreases daily, so that is the best case. With Vega 64 at 34.30MH/s and 283W that card will bring in the same 0.25 Ether, but you get $28.53 in power bills and $46.05 in profit. So, optimizing the card will make about $8 more profit per month per card mining. You can do this all yourself here – •.

I used to think the same thing, but you are forgetting a couple things. The video card will have value at the end, so that needs to be kept in mind on the return on the GPU investment.

There is also the chance that ether goes up in value. It has gone up over 3,000% this year alone and some are predicting that it hits $1,000 in 2019 (source: ) That bullish market is what is driving so many to mine right now. Sure at $300 a share you are only making $38 a month, but if you hold Ether for the investment in it and it goes to $1000 All of a sudden that $38 you made in 2017 may be work $217 in 2017. That is why some people are mining with dozens or thousands of cards.

Some are selling and exchanging into FIAT right away, but others HODL! Lastly, keep in mind that Ether Mining is huge in Asia and in many developing countries the average person makes under $500 a month. Mining even an extra $40 a month can make a huge difference for people in that situation. Edit, I just looked and the average yearly wage in China is 67,569 CNY or $10,120 for 2016. That means the average person in china makes just under $850 per month.

Just to put the dollars into perspective.

I've done some more reading and apparently Etherem Classic (ETC, not ETHC) was created a short time before Poloniex made it available before trading. Upon it's inception, miners instantly attacked it and made it so there was little to no security and transaction verification, to the point where it was about to fail entirely (I am not a miner and do not know the technical details of this). Then, Poloniex decided to release it as an exchange option out of the blue this morning, causing the price to crash and the volume of transactions to spike. From what I have heard, mining difficulty is 3% of Ethereum, causing some miners to flock to the new spinoff. The new spinoff has also caused a decline in price of Ethereum today. As for the existing balance, that is only if you had ETH on your Poloniex account at the moment of the fork, not just ETH in any wallet. That is all I know so far.

If anyone else has relevant information please feel free to share as that is the intended purpose of this thread. Two questions: 1. I am using HashFlare to 'mine' some ETH. Is there another company where we can purchase mining for ETC? I have downloaded the ETC wallet and it is syncing now.

But is there a ETC wallet that I do not have to have on my computer such as the one for ETH? If so, where can I find it download and can I move the address I have on my PC version to this new wallet? I am new to crypto and a friend said I should check into ETC since ETH on HashFlare looks like it will never ROI for me.