Recent content by timpster

getochkn 14 hours ago Folding doesn't need a lot of bandwidth either, so it would be fine. Again, send a bit of data, get it processed, get a number back, move on. I've just looked into their forum and made a post about this--and then it took me back to where I posted and I saw there is already...

I've just looked into their forum and made a post about this--and then it took me back to where I posted and I saw there is already a wonderful thread explaining it in very heavy detail. There is actually a constant pull on the PCI-e bus around 25% for my GTX 960. Also, the motherboard I had...

getochkn 34 minutes ago Anonymous said: Hashspeed is how fast the GPU is, faster GPU, better GPU with more processing cores, faster hashrate. That's an old card. Newer cards can more take use of the bus speed and you don't want to try to game with a 1080ti at 4x. You still don't need...

getochkn 3 minutes ago Mining only needs to send a tiny bit of information to the card, the card does it's processing, sends that information back. The full potential of the processing power of the card is being used. It doesn't need a constant stream of 1080x1980x144fps pixels, just a few...

I don't understand (I was doing a test with that other comment, I hope it gets deleted. How does mining NOT need to use the cards full potential--how can a x1 speed PCI-e 2.0 provide the performance required for a mining operation? Can you use just a really old card and have the same effect...

Well, really x1 at PCI-e 3.0 should be at least 3/4 the speed as obviously most GPUs don't even fully saturate the x4 on PCI-e 2.0.