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It seems that the HWiNFO tool is no longer the only software that allows you to check the GDDR6X video memory temperature on Nvidia RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 GPUs. The latest TechPowerUp GPU-Z 2.37.0 apparently also supports the display… Continue Reading →
The last few days there seems to be an interesting photo of what is said to be PlayStation 5 (PS5) game console hacked to mine Ethereum (ETH) achieving a hashrate of 98.76 MH/s with a custom mining software. The image… Continue Reading →
AMD has announced that on March 3rd at 11am ET will be introducing its newest addition to the Radeon RX family of high-performance graphic cards. The announcement will be a part of the Where Gaming Begins: Episode 3 online event… Continue Reading →
The new Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 video cards are here and we managed to buy one quickly while there was some stock left to do some mining benchmarks and tests. We already know that mining performance for the RTX 3060… Continue Reading →
Today, February 25th, marks the day that the newest mid-range GeForce gaming GPU from Nvidia is supposed to be released on the market and both crypto miners and gamers are eagerly anticipating this release. The release of the Nvidia GeForce… Continue Reading →
We’ve tested and played around with a couple of Nvidia GeForce RTX 30 series of GPUs already, so that we can compile a list with the optimized mining settings for mining Ethereum with RTX 3060 Ti, RTX 3070, RTX 3080… Continue Reading →
It seems that Nvidia did manage to keep their promise to make the new GeForce RTX 3060 GPU limited for crypto mining and thus widely available for gamers as with reduced performance it will not be attractive for miners. We… Continue Reading →
Last year Ravencoin (RVN) has successfully hardforked and switched to KAWPOW as a mining algorithm from the previously used X16Rv2 algo. The latest Z-Enemy 2.6.3 Beta version that was recently made available is an important update for everyone that has… Continue Reading →
We’ve managed to get a Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 GPU to play around with mining Ethereum and other cyrpto coins, though here we are going to be focusing on ETH mining. The RTX 3080 is really hard to find on… Continue Reading →
The latest news from Nvidia are quite interesting for both crypto miners and gamers, as apparently the company is taking drastic measures to make gaming GPUs available to gamers. With the upcoming launch of the new GeForce RTX 3060 video… Continue Reading →
The developers of Monero (XMR) have just disclosed that they have discovered and patched a critical bug that affects all CryptoNote-based cryptocurrencies, and allows for the creation of an unlimited number of coins in a way that is undetectable to… Continue Reading →
The latest HWiNFO v6.43-4380 Beta version is available now with a number of improvements and new features, but the most interesting new addition is the added monitoring of GPU HotSpot temperature for NVIDIA GPUs. Recently this free tool added the… Continue Reading →
Gaming laptops with the latest generation of mobile graphics cards from Nvidia in the form of their RTX 30 Series Laptop GPUs are popping on the market and apparently people are not only interested in playing games on them, but… Continue Reading →
Today VertCoin (VTC) is on fire with the price going up with more than 100% already and that should serve as a good reminder that you might want to check out mining it after it forked to the new memory-intensive… Continue Reading →
The latest craze in crypto mining is apparently going for gaming laptops that are suitable for mining Ethereum (ETH), so time to play around with one such bad boy and see if it is worth doing it. No wonder people… Continue Reading →
If you are a crypto miner you should be mining Ethereum (ETH) at the moment with any suitable video card that has more than 4GB video memory, or if you even have a 4GB ones that can still mine it… Continue Reading →
The “Zombie Mode” for mining Ethereum on 4GB AMD Radeon RX 470/480 and RX 570/580 GPUs had them brought back from the dead (hence the name) after the DAG size has reached the capacity of their video memory. Using it… Continue Reading →
We are back to VertCoin (VTC) mining using the new VertHash algorithm, but this time we are going old-school to AMD Radeon R9 280X and the performance these old, but gold video cards from the earlier days of crypto mining… Continue Reading →
With the recent boom of crypto mining and more specifically Ethereum (ETH) mining there are a lot of new users joining the mining ranks and they start making newbie mistakes that we forgot about long ago. We are taking about… Continue Reading →
One of the most popular NVidia RTX 30 series of GPUS for mining crypto and more specifically for mining Ethereum (ETH) lately has been the RTX 3060 Ti, so no wonder these are hard to find as they are generally… Continue Reading →