Need IDEA for New Video Card for PLOTTING :D
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@xmagmax well not necessarily you can always buy one of these and plug it into your pcie x2 slot https://www.amazon.ca/IOCrest-Controller-Profile-Bracket-Components/dp/B00ESFEI2E/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1481246536&sr=8-5&keywords=sata+controller
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@AngryChicken wow THANKS! how many nonces/minute does that vid card have? ASUS ROG STRIX Radeon RX 460 4GB DP 1.4 HDMI 2.0 AMD Gaming Graphics Card (STRIX-RX460-4G-GAMING)
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What are some of the numbers using the geforce 950, the specs seem close to the amd other than the amount of ram
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I bought a 960R and got 100K Nonces, but the problem is Buffer and Direct Plotting is only as fast as the drive can write. When I plotted Direct it wrote out the entire file and then once it started filling the Nonces to start off it was very very slow. My card didn't even reach over 30K but that was towards the end too. It ramps up slowly, I think it started at 1000K and creeps up. The only reason to get a fast card is to do 2 or more drives at a time Direct Mode. If you just do 2 drives and only add a drive occasionally then don't waste your money on GPU as it will cap out at 30K or less even.
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i perfer AMD cards ... but @CryptoNick is correct depending on your HDD you will hit a wall betwen 25k - 35k when your drive just cant write the nonces as fast as the GPU makes them. on just a single drive anything in the AMD R8 class or = to will get the job done. i have an AMD R7 200 series and it does around 14k in buffer mode can pick one up new for 60$ maby less now
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@Gibsalot so an R7 250 can do the work aye? I thought only from the r9 series can do the job. But, that's a nice info. I might as well just pick up that card just for plotting. :)
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Ow i see. I my video card is an old model gt 730 2gb. It only plots for 4.5k ave. Nonces/minute. I plot my 4 tb hard drive for almost 2 days. This really slow plotting. My hard disk is 7200rpm seagate baracuda.
Is there realiable vid card in my list so i can have nonces above 20-30k.?
Also give me videocards with prices less than 200$ (if possible) with 20k above nonces per min.
thanks guys!
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at the $$200 ish range id go with an RX 470 or an R9 280x ....
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@Gibsalot Thanks so much! :D
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@xmagmax The RX 470 is a great plotting card - it plots faster than a single drive can write.
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There are some rx 480's for about 5 dollars more, which might be a better choice.
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@haitch thanks so much!! :)
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what do you guys look for in a video card?
What kind of cards would be faster than the speeds to a i7 4.0Ghz 4cores
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@Havoc AMD cards, I've never had any luck with nVidias. I used a RX470 to replot 60TB - it could calc faster than a single drive could write. For multiple drives simultaneously, I'd go up to a 480.
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@haitch thanks for the reply haitch. But whats makes GPU plotting faster?
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@Havoc GPU's are able to complete the calculations faster than processors, also they are able to write to the drive and calculate nonce's at the same time. where as cpu's calculate then write in cycles.
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@Havoc The same thing that makes GPU's able to mine all the other alt coins ( and BTC) faster than CPU's - parallelism. Your CPU might have 4 cores, and with hyperthreading 8 threads, but an RX 470 has 2,308 execution units (. They're far simpler than a CPU, and probably require more code to be able to calculate a nonce, but when you have more than 250x as many execution units, the GPU wins.
edit. @havoc I tried a test on a dual RX470 system (and the 470 is a pretty budget card), and it's pumping out about 68,000 nonce/minute, writing to the drive at 300MB/sec. @focus has a monster system for CPU plotting, it gets about 60% of that rate
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@haitch im a bit curious with single and multiple drive writing? can you please elaborate?
also Rx 470 4gb or 8gb?
and AMD also have many providers LIKE MSI, ASUS and Sapphire
which is the best? :D
:D Thanks
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@xmagmax The 470's I was using are the 4GB model.
The gpu plotter has the capability of plotting multiple drives at the same time - you just need to specify multiple filenames on the command line. Be aware though that for each file it plots at once, it requires the same amount of resources. So if you tell it to use 4 GB of RAM, and plot 4 files at once, it'll use 16GB in total, not 4GB.
As for which model is best - I think I've got at least one cad from pretty much every manufacturer - Asus, Sapphire, Gigabyte, XFX, MSI - they all work, and they're all covered by warranties.
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@haitch maybe i go for single drive.. well i dont have too many drives. Coz im just starting mining burst. Thanks dude!! :)



