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Mostly it is about LINUX fragmentation vs Microsoft having one of the strongest IF NOT THE STRONGEST marketing departments of all time. There are LINUX desktops that are as "easy to use" as Windows - especially if you toss in the TOTALLY UNUSABLE INTERFACE of WIndows 8 that Microsoft is STILL...

No shock, AMD dropped 32 bit support ballpark 5 YEARS ago so Nvidia should get kudos (and DID get some extra sales) for having support for so much longer. I remember 4-bit - though I never actually USED a 4004, I did remember reading a lot about it back in the day.

As long as humans are going to operate it, there WILL be ways to hack it. There are a LOT of miltary computers that are never hooked into a network of any sort, specifically FOR security reasons.

Largest OPERATIONAL amphibian perhaps, it's not in the same class as the Spruce Goose.

I can't remember the last time I did a "motherboard upgrade" as motherboard tend to die LONG before the CPU or RAM in the motherboard does. I also tend to build an entire new system rather than "upgrade" a system, then keep the old system around as a "backup" for a while before I end up...

Vega was a DISASTER for AMD prior to the discovery by cryptocoin miners that it was a MONSTER for Monero (XMR, Cryptonight algorithm) mining. Without THOSE sales, Vega would still be getting dumped at quite a bit less than MSRP and would be in widespread easy availability. The ONLY other place...

AMD stopped production on anything for FM2 a while back, in favor of their new AM4 products. The A10-7890k wasn't elusive - Newegg had them in stock for a LONG time - they were just pricy so I tended to go with A10-7860k models instead most of the time. The APUs based on Bulldozer weren't a...

Due to the move on the part of EVGA for the G3/P3/T3 line and the Seasonic move in the Prime/Focus line to "fancy name sleeve bearing fans" instead of the good LONG LASTING BALL BEARING fans of the G2/P2/T2 and X/SS lines, I refuse to even look at the current generation EVGA and Seasonic...

The 110 TH is HALF PRECISION only - not applicable to Folding which uses a mix of standard precision and double-precision work. 7 TFlops DP precision is bloody A LOT - nothing "consumer" even comes close, the old R9 280x (and other Tahiti-based varients) were the closest in a CONSUMER card and...

Are you trying to run FAH *AND* WCG on the same GPU? VERY VERY BAD IDEA if so - I'm amazed that it would even try to work. If you're trying to run WCG on your CPU, set it up so it doesn't touch at least one FULL core of the CPU per 1080 GPU - folding NEEDS that core to keep the GPU fed.

There is NO reason for LINUX to have lower hashrates vs Windows - in fact they tend to be the SAME to a hair of advantage to LINUX due to it's lower driver overhead. The only significant difference is that LINUX doesn't have undervolt control (which can be worked around for the MOST part with...

The main issue with pushing consumer power supplies past ROUGH BALLPARK 80% or so on a mining rig is twofold. 1) Occasional power spikes out of the cards CAN push you over the limit, or cause enough of a "sag" to cause issues. 2) The supply is NOT designed for 24/7 long term operation at that...

Dan Gookin is amazed at how far the "For Dummies" stuff has spread. (that's more or less a quote from an email I got from him a while back, I knew him back in the days just before "DOS for Dummies" propelled him to fame). IMO 1070 ti on a cost/hash bases > 1080 as a general rule - there might...

Newegg themselves have been out of stock for a while, some of the marketplace dealers occasionally post one - at some CRAZY high price. At $150 they're a good option, even if you only want to run 9-12 cards, given they save you the cost of Add2PSU units with the onboard PS management for up to...

It was in fact a 1:1 fork. My BCH showed up elsewhere, as I don't HOLD funds on Coinbase more than a day at most - and that is due to the timeframe for "start a transaction" and "transaction completes" but I don't get around to checking it 'till the next day.

Don't get me started on Navy Federal Credit union - the only CU I've ever had issues with that did NOT get resolved much less resolved in a reasonable timeframe - but those issues long predate the existence of Bitcoin. With that said, neither of the credit unions I've been a member of since I...

Ryzen are a lot longer payoff mining Monero than the old FX 8xxx series are - they DO mine faster but cost quite a bit more for the higher-hashrate options. Limit is "2 MB of core per thread" for efficient mining - my Ryzen 1700 with mild overclock pulls about 400 hash/s but my "converted...

I personally have no idea why Coinbase would list that Bitmain coin over other more deserving coins. Without Bitmain backing that BCH garbage, NOBODY would be interested in it. I can't say their insistance on selling their miners in BCH has cost them sales, but it has taken them a LOT longer...

Mining on some GPU-mineable coins is still profitable right now at 20 cent electric - IF you have a well-optimised rig of current Pascal, RX 470/480/570/580, or Vega cards mining on the RIGHT coin(s) for the specific card. Iffy how much longer that will be the case though, and NOT the case for...

You pretty much have to run WIndows 10 to be able to get good Monero hashrate out of a Vega though - the blockchain drivers are REQUIRED by the actual miners and the blockchain drivers in my several attempts to use them on Windows 7 flat out DO NOT WORK. Without those drivers, you're lucky to...

The Gap in performance between the 1080 and 1080 ti is also large - and the 1080ti also has the "best card inexistance" premium pricing to deal with, to SOME degree. SOME 1070 are 150 watt cards - some are 180 and MSI has that one insane "Gaming" version at 240 watts default TDP (though it...

I've NEVER seen a "WIndows 10 upgrade prompt" on any Win 7 system I've built.

What "modern hardware" does Windows 7 supposedly NOT support? Strawman argument, probablly at least for the next 5 years and possibly 10+ if Microsoft doesn't FIX the many many issues with 10 that have a lot of us NOT EVEN LOOKING AT IT ANY MORE. Also, keep in mind that a lot of current...

I ended up installing to a HD first, installed the NVMe and drivers, then used LINUX "dd" to copy the installation to the NVMe drive. In theory, you should be able to put the NVMe drivers on a USB key and install them from that during Win7 installation process, but I didn't have a USB key...

He is - I asked him (he's on my Moo friends list).

Your'e not comparing apples to apples. The 1070 you SHOULD be comparing to is the https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16814487248 The EVGA ICX models are ALL way more expensive than the SC models for the same GPU as they are fancy "top end cooling" setups.

Even the CURRENT AMD integrated graphics on the A10 series blow away anything Intel - but that's not saying a lot given just HOW bad Intel graphics are. Raven RIdge is probably not going to match a RX 460, but it should be a major step up from anything current and MIGHT argue with low-end...

AMD most recent driver supports 12 AMD "compute" cards - but seems to be a bit unstable. The limit is in the DRIVERS - and given that more than 8 cards in a machine is a pretty recent AND UNCOMMON setup, it's not exactly been a priority for AMD or for NVidia - even most high-end PROFESSIONAL...

WIll the Ultra move back to a relable ball bearing fan like the X-series or is it still using that fancy-name DIES TOO FAST junk sleeve bearing fan the Prime moved to?

Slackware LINUX - which was contemporary with MS-DOS 6 and WIndows 3.1 at least and definitely pre-dated Windows 95. I also still have a soft spot for RSTS/E but that might be older than some of the folks IN this thread.

Given how widespread Vulcan support is getting (and that it offers almost ALL of the benefits of DirectX 12 for WIn7) I see no point to 10 and have already removed it from the only machine I ever had it on.

I've still got rigs in the top 20 - just not as MANY of them. 2 3 4 6 and 15 right now. What I'm trying to figure out right now is if "EG" and "egiliman" are the same person - I supposed I could just mail him and ask. 9-) You can put the 521 client in place ot the 520 client in MooWrapper - but...

I folded for a while and WAS a big producer - my Sis and one of my favorite cousins are Cancer survivors. I forget why I started working with the Distributed.Net project, but it's been right around 20 years now I've been Mooing - the last year and a half or so via the MooWrapper project on...

Mix and match brands on the same machine - MUCH lower stability. Not a good idea if you can avoid it, though it DOES work under Windows (it used to be possible under LINUX but recent NVidia and AMD drivers don't play well with ANYTHING else any more). Mix generations is much less of an issue -...

I don't bother even looking at the 1060 right now, as it's generally same or lower performance than the 470 "mining cards" but currently priced higher. This will probably get worse as demand for the AMD side keeps dropping and the price SHOULD drop towards where it was at back in Febuary before...

There was a time bitcoin WAS viable to mine on cell phones - back around 2009 2010 perhaps 2011. There MIGHT be altcoins that are viable to mine on a cellphone today, but they're going to be VERY LOW hashrate and iffy if it's worth their power usage.

It depends on the specific algorithm - most of the "hashrate charts" I've seen either have a very limited selection of cards and cover several algorithms, or cover one algorithm and quite a few cards. There can also be significant variation depending on which mining software you are using in...

TNT2 > Voodoo - and was plenty to run D2 on comfortably.

The TOP Iros Pro graphics lose out very badly to the AMD A10 5700 - the graphics of which lose out VERY BADLY to the old AMD HD7750. Intel graphics are a JOKE for anything past stuff like spreadsheet and Word usage - don't try to game on them on anything recent, you'll be very very disappointed...

Prices on the Vega line dropped a TON this past week, seems like NVIdia's "1070ti" move is now moot unless THEY drop pricing on the 1070 and 1070ti (and probably the 1080) a LOT to match AMD's move. Gonna be interesting - I applied to NewEgg for their price match guarentee AGAINST THEMSELVES...