More USB 3.0 Ports, or user a GPU?
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@iKnow0 Do you think it would matter if I started using a GPU to mine, if I switched to a crappy cpu so I could use this one for another rig? I think I have a 2nd gen i3 around here somewhere...
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@ryanw you can still do a free upgrade from Win7 to Win10
https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/accessibility/windows10upgrade
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@ryanw said in More USB 3.0 Ports, or user a GPU?:
@iKnow0 Do you think it would matter if I started using a GPU to mine, if I switched to a crappy cpu so I could use this one for another rig? I think I have a 2nd gen i3 around here somewhere...
I beat you to it ;)
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@iKnow0 I found an ATI Radeon HD 4950 in a box, that someone zip tied a fan to the top of as a replacement I guess. Looks like it had gotten wet as well, but we'll give it a try later today!
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@ryanw put it in rice, to dry it out.
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@iKnow0 It's dry, just water spots all over it.
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@ryanw try it in an older different mother first, as it might fry your good one.
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@iKnow0 Does CPU matter when when using the CPU? Should I leave the i5 in, or can I switch to i3?
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@ryanw do you mean GPU? if the CPU socket supports both i5 & i3 then you can switch. When GPU mining both the CPU and GPU are used.
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@iKnow0 Ok I will switch to an i3 and see what cpu usage is while mining. Maybe switch, maybe not.
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So, just an updated on this. The HD 4950 was an AGP card?! Didn't even look at the connector. So, I found another AMD...tested it, then installed in mining rig. Drivers installed, check, run creepminer...json errors. I ended up rebooting to make sure all the drivers were ok, then no display from anywhere...not even the newly installed card. I remembered that this motherboard refused to display any AMD cards I had tried in the past...which is why this was a Burst miner.
So, all I did was upgrade to Win 10 which decreased the scan times a little bit. I will leave it as it is, and make another build to switch the drives to eventually.