Need IDEA for New Video Card for PLOTTING :D
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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!! :)


