GPU Mining Nvidia Decreases Q4 Revenue Estimates Citing Crypto Mining Decline, Conditions in China |
- Nvidia Decreases Q4 Revenue Estimates Citing Crypto Mining Decline, Conditions in China
- From 0% to 55%: a Brief Guide to Cryptocurrency Taxation Around the World
- 2 of my RX580s Cause ''Bad Pool Caller'' BSOD
- There's no conspiracy, AMD will never out perform Nvidia on Grin Mining or any other Memory based algorithm
| Nvidia Decreases Q4 Revenue Estimates Citing Crypto Mining Decline, Conditions in China Posted: 01 Feb 2019 07:36 AM PST
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| From 0% to 55%: a Brief Guide to Cryptocurrency Taxation Around the World Posted: 31 Jan 2019 08:53 AM PST
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| 2 of my RX580s Cause ''Bad Pool Caller'' BSOD Posted: 31 Jan 2019 11:22 AM PST Hey everyone, In one of my rigs today, I faced with something very different today. I came home from work and got an interesting e-mail from ethermine stating that one of my rigs is offline. As usual, I restarted the rig, started overclock.exe and started Phoenix Miner 4.1c. I should say this miner is about a year old. It worked for around 4-5 mins with no problem and then I smelled a burnt cable (I assume) and instantly turned off my rig. As I tried to reboot, I saw Bad Pool Caller BSOD for the first time in my life, after a quick googling, I thought the RAM was broken. I changed the RAM's slot, and restarted my rig, the same. Then, I turned my BIOS settings to default and thus disconnected 7 of the cards (It wouldn't detect anyhow since I disabled 4G decoding) and I was able to boot with no problem. In any case, I DDU'd and reinstalled the very same driver with clean install (Beta Blockchain Driver). Then I restarted, no problem again. Then I followed the guidelines from mining.help to set my BIOS, then connected all the GPUs and it started. The rig didn't detect 2 of my aforementioned RX580s (the fans didn't stop rotating) and this is where I thought there's a driver issue. Then when all of my 8GPUs connected, I DDU'd and tried to install Beta Blockchain Driver again and till a point all was well, then ''Bad Pool Caller'' BSOD popped up again. Interestingly, I disconnected 2 RX580s, the rig boots with no problem. When I connect the very same RX580s to the rig when the rig is on, the fans start rotating, as it's trying to install drivers for the first time. I waited around 5 mins, they didn't show up in device manager. But the good news is the GPUs are powered (Their blue sapphire lightning is glowing shine and when I connect them to motherboard the fans rotate). I thought the risers are gone since I smelled a burnt cable/plastic, but if that was the case, I believe the fans wouldn't rotate at all or they wouldn't cause problems in booting or installing the driver (in all tries I did clean install). I should say, these 2 GPUs share their power cables as well as their risers connected to the same SATA cable. So it's 1 SATA cable 2 risers and 1 GPU power cable 2 GPUs. I spent around 3 and a half hours after work today and have some other ideas to try following days. However, I'd like to ask the community for their suggestions to overcome this shitty fuss. I left the rig on mining with 6 cards to see if any other errors will occur. I don't have a wattmeter at home but the output is 191.4 MH/s with 6 RX580s for Ethereum. My other ideas: - Since I believe I caused a driver problem somehow, after DDUing I will install another version of AMD drivers. I kinda feel like I saw 8 unidentified graphics card in device manager after the first try of DDU, but not quite sure. If after DDUing, I can boot my rig with 8 cards connected; I will be sure that installing a different driver and switching to my preference should overcome it. We'll see:) - Replace the cards to other riser/cable slots, and use other functioning cards in that riser slot to see if the card or riser/cable pair is faulty. If this is the case, I just hope it's the riser; otherwise the burnt SATA cables generally damage their port in PSU resulting with a useless blank spot. All help is appreciated and thank you gratefully in advance. [link] [comments]  | ||
| Posted: 31 Jan 2019 12:31 PM PST Apparently people are having fun making up conspiracies about Mining developers or giant companies instead of doing 5 minutes of research. Nvidia GPU have something called GPUDirect, this allows the direct access to GPU memory and removes CPU overhead. AMD does not, this means AMD memory must use CPU resources and latency. On algorithms such as cuckaroo which are memory based this is a huge issue. Unless AMD decides to create a similar technology they won't be competitive on this, which isn't impossible but very improbable. There is a similar technology but only available for their Firepro GPUs which use DirectGMA. Some users are saying there are secret bios flashes, this would have to be a flash that tricks the card into thinking it's a Firepro card. There are no secret groups of developers gathering swearing off AMD optimization, there is no Nvidia boss pulling the strings, there is just simple algorithms and technologies. [link] [comments]  |
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