GPU Mining Just want to heat my house |
- Just want to heat my house
- I bought a Chinese GTX 1080 that can only use outdated drivers. What can I do?
- Is it worth mining Small cap Cryptos?
| Posted: 24 Jan 2020 09:25 PM PST I have a 1080ti in my computer. I run an electric heater next to my bedroom, pretty much where my computer is. I was thinking of just running some gpu mining to add a few hundred watts of heat and make a little change. I know it's not profitable, but neither is running my space heater. I'm looking for the quickest, simplest way to start mining. BTC or any other crypto is fine. [link] [comments]  |
| I bought a Chinese GTX 1080 that can only use outdated drivers. What can I do? Posted: 24 Jan 2020 09:41 PM PST I bought a cheap used Chinese branded GPU (nvidia 1080) from ebay. It is listed in the device manager but it has an exclamation mark next to it (google says that this indicates a driver issue). It is listed in HWinfo but not in afterburner. On reddit someone said:
I was able to locate the driver on the manufacturer's site but the latest driver is like version 377 from 2017. I had some trouble downloading the driver because it is hosted on baidu and you need an account to download it and you cant make an account without a chinese phone number. thankfully someone was able to download it for me and they re-uploaded the driver here. After installing the driver I was able to see the gpu in my device manager as well as afterburner. It ran games well and benched as expected for 1080 in PCMark. But no mining programs recognized it. just said that there is no device detected or no Cuda devices detected. Im starting to think that the driver was released before cuda 9 and the two miners I tried dont have a version for earlier than cuda 9. What can I do? Is it possible to run newer drivers on this gpu somehow? Can I run any mining programs in the card's current state? Or is there no option and this card is a dud? EDIT: turns out it works in hive OS. woo! hashes on eth ez pz. so weird that its plug and play on linux but such a hassle on windows. [link] [comments]  |
| Is it worth mining Small cap Cryptos? Posted: 24 Jan 2020 09:42 AM PST I usually mine the low-cap coins on Nvidia rig, because A lot of times the most profitable coin is not what you believe is the best investment for long-term that's the reason I'm sticking to younger projects which has low difficulty but with great future potential. I think we should base the decision not only on profitability but also on what coins you think in the future will have the most value. Currently, my setup is to mine the most undervalued coins such as RYO (Rycurrency) for my machines. Now, every once in a while it makes sense to hold your mining money because this project has a lot of updates/features on the way including Atomic swaps, mobile wallets and many others which can be seen on its Roadmap. I also try to mine other small-cap coins from time to time such as ZEL, XWP that are young and have a low hashrate. I think By doing this I will get a bigger amount of coins compared to if you mine that coin when it has a higher hashrate. Ravencoin is the best example of it, a few months ago when only a few people knew about it, and now everyone can see where it is now. The reason for mining low-caps coins like Ryo and others is they have some type of working product which is important than the current price. btw, I'm not much-experienced miner I started mining 6 months ago, besides profits I'm learning a lot about mining stuff which is a good thing for me to understand the nature of crypto in a better way. Am I doing the right thing by mining Small-cap coins? Any thoughts? [link] [comments]  |
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