That's exactly it. The more parties involved in securing the blockchain the harder it is for an individual or even a group to compromise it. Making mining possible for and appealing to the largest possible group is very beneficial to a cryptocurrency that uses PoW for block validation.
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That's exactly it. The more parties involved in securing the blockchain the harder it is for an individual or even a group to compromise it. Making mining possible for and appealing to the largest possible group is very beneficial to a cryptocurrency that uses PoW for block validation.
From my limited understanding, the algorithms were designed with increasing difficulty in mind, thus preventing too steep inflation. Additionally, when literally overnight THashes could be achieved, where before it was MH or even GH, the whole point of distributed security becomes moot. AFAIK, when any one party controls more than 50% of the mining power, they could validate every transaction, legit or not.
Now imagine a non-ASIC proof cryptocurrency where a party secretly develops said ASICS and deploys them across their mining farm(s). Hence disaster.
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Vega 64 doing 43.5MH/s while consuming 130W:
With two Vega 64 in a single system he's pushing >86MH/s.
EDIT: needless to say, this is before the mining software has had any optimizations done for Vega's architecture and specific hashing instructions.
With two Vega 64 in a single system he's pushing >86MH/s.
EDIT: needless to say, this is before the mining software has had any optimizations done for Vega's architecture and specific hashing instructions.
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Because he has 2 Vega in the machine.....
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System crunching pulling 406W (measured at the PSU) = 148W system idling + 129W GPU 0 + 129W GPU 1
How hard is it to look at the pictures mentioned in the reddit post and where did that 385W number even came from?
How hard is it to look at the pictures mentioned in the reddit post and where did that 385W number even came from?
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Also, I do hope that CPU is overclocked (or is an ancient Vishera system like mine
Surely some of that 148W idle is the GPU's? Also HWINFO clearly states over 145W for each GPU (GPU+VRAM), so it can't be 130W while hashing.System crunching pulling 406W (measured at the PSU) = 148W system idling + 129W GPU 0 + 129W GPU 1
How hard is it to look at the pictures mentioned in the reddit post and where did that 385W number even came from?
Also that text file in the middle of the screen just looks like the owners own man maths figures, not the output from any program.
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He's using a HX1000i PSU which sends the figures to HWinfo through USB. The only thing that he's using to calculate the cards' power consumption are total system figures, since HWinfo doesn't detect Vega's power numbers correctly:
Idle power numbers with Vega 64 are ridiculously low at least since 17.8.2. The card that's not connected to a monitor should be in deep sleep and the card that is connected to a monitor has its core clocks going down to sub-30MHz (my own goes down to 28MHz).
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Don't know about claymore but he's using the regular 17.8.2 gaming drivers because the others can't change voltage and clocks correctly.
He's simply maintaining the HBM2 at a solid 1100MHz while downclocking the core to ~950MHz at ~1V.
He's simply maintaining the HBM2 at a solid 1100MHz while downclocking the core to ~950MHz at ~1V.
In the post he mentions clock tuning only the things he did.
The lastest claymore is version 9.8, which just added Vega support some 21 days ago ( https://github.com/nanopool/Claymore-Dual-Miner , see readme)
He also seems to be backing away from the 130W number :
"3rd Edit. Thanks to Mumak for clearing some information up. My total power looks to be closer to 141.052w. Taking data from the current HWiNFO beta for core power of 0.449w * 256 + HBM power of 26.108w."
The lastest claymore is version 9.8, which just added Vega support some 21 days ago ( https://github.com/nanopool/Claymore-Dual-Miner , see readme)
He also seems to be backing away from the 130W number :
"3rd Edit. Thanks to Mumak for clearing some information up. My total power looks to be closer to 141.052w. Taking data from the current HWiNFO beta for core power of 0.449w * 256 + HBM power of 26.108w."
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