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Some Alternative Uses for Your Crypto GPU Mining Rigs

17, Oct 2019

When crypto mining profit is low a lot of people either turn off their GPU mining rigs or start to mine higher risk altcoins in order to possibly realize higher profit from them in the near future. There is however another option available and that is to rent your computing power to various services that use the resources for other things such as game rendering and streaming, video transcoding, 3D model and scene rendering, machine learning and artificial intelligence or password cracking or even large data processing and so on. There are a number of such services already available and while they may still not have enough customers or pay as much as crypto may in booming period, when you are barely covering electricity costs they may be a good alternative choice.

Alternative computing services however do come with more strict requirements for the hardware you are going to be renting for processing different kinds of data and you need to carefully read the requirements first. Specific requirements may ask that you have just one or two video cards on 8x or x16 PCI-E slots (x1 extenders are not Ok) for gaming where bandwidth of the PCI-Express slots is very important and more than two GPUs aren’t usable. Having a mid-range quad-core or better CPU may also be required in some cases where the processor is also being significantly loaded when processing large amounts of data with the GPUs or at least 8GB/16GB as a minimum or more system memory to be available. Most of these services may require specific GPU type for Example Nvidia CUDA or AMD OpenCL, so they may not be open to everyone depending on the used mining hardware. You may need to install specific operating system, including special Linux-based distributions or a special client software that is available for multiple OSes and such. So do make sure you do a proper research on what you need for each service.

Here are a few interesting paying alternatives to get you started:
– Golem Nework for Rendering…
– Vectordash for Remote Gaming…
– VastAI for Deep Learning and AI…

Some options to contribute GPU computing power for free:
– SETI@HOme
– BOINC Science
– FOLDING@HOME

FiatMarketCap – Top Fiat Currencies by Market Capitalization

11, Oct 2019

FiatMarketCap is an interesting idea for an informative website that lists major fiat currency market capitalization in Bitcoin (BTC). Think about CoinMarketCap, but in reverse where the altcoins are fiat currencies and you can easily see data such as circulating supply, price in satoshi (parts of Bitcoin) and total market cap calculated in BTC. Currently there are 116 major fiat currencies used around the world listed on the website and we are sure you will find some that you have probably never heard of. You can check Market Cap in BTC and circulating supply data by country where you have 140 countries listed, more than the number of fiat currencies as for example EUR is being used in a number of countries in Europe. The Countries Fiat Value data is also quite interesting as it tracks fiat value and supply change in percentage over different time frames and there are probably some interesting things to consider when looking at the data for your country. The FiatMarketCap project is certainly an interesting project to keep track of.

– To visit FiatMarketCap and see top fiat currencies listed by their market capitalization…

Use the AMD/ATI Pixel Clock Patcher For Modified BIOS GPUs

6, Oct 2019

The AMD/ATI Pixel Clock Patcher tool by ToastyX has been available for quite some time wit the main goal of modifying the AMD/ATI video driver to allow higher resolutions and refresh rates by removing the 165 MHz pixel clock limit for single-link DVI and HDMI, the 330 MHz limit for dual-link DVI, and the 400 MHz limit for VGA. A more recent feature that is useful for everyone mining with ATI/AMD GPUs that have a flashed modified BIOS is the ability of the tool to also patch the video drivers to remove the BIOS signature check. With an AMD/ATI GPU thah has a modified BIOS (optimized memory settings for better performance or specific GPU/VRAM operating frequencies preset) normally the video driver will not work properly, so you need to patch it in order for the GPUs to be able to work normally and mine.

There are other solutions available to override the BIOS signature check, but using the AMD/ATI Pixel Clock Patcher tool is by far the simplest. The current latest version 1.4.7 is compatible with Catalyst 11.9 to Adrenalin 19.9.2, though iIt can be used with future versions if it finds the limits you need. All you need to do after you install the AMD video driver is to download the tool and run “atikmdag-patcher.exe”, then just reboot and you will be ready. Since the tool modifies a couple of things if you only need to remove the BIOS signature check you can rename the executable file to “atikmdag-patcher-bios.exe” and no other things will be affected than the BIOS check. After installing new GPUs or new drivers you will need to run the patcher tool once more in order to make everything work properly again.

– To download the latest AMD/ATI Pixel Clock Patcher tool by ToastyX…


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