ethOS 1.2.3 Released, Now supporting Nvidia GPU's for altcoin Mining. Ethos is a 64 bit linux operating system designed to make ethereum, Zcash and other altcoins on the network.s This is a major update to the system that will allow anyone to easily use Nvidia based GPUs for mining! This is going to add a new miners to the systems and really put a burn all the graphics cars that are on the market. I guess we aren't going to see as many Nvidia cards on the market!
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I am pretty lazy I just prefer windows for Nvidia cards. I have an image with everything I need on it I can deploy in like 10 minutes with all updates etc disabled. I prefer the support and easy tweaking of settings in windows. Plus I hate waiting for things to be supported but this is a massive step up supporting ZEC and Nvidia.
Sure for most it's easy to do if you don't mind paying for a key on each of the systems. I like Ethos because it's very lightweight and the drivers I needs are already installed. It's a nice update for folks that wanna get away from a windows based mining environment. Wanna tune your cards? just update the local.conf and you are set. I have some Nvidia cards on the way and I'm interested in how much more hash-rate I can get with it.
The isssue is I don't mine a single coin. I mine a vast variaty and the big profit coins pretty much require windows and you can only chase them for a small amount of time. It is not convenient for tuning new cards with conf file. If you are mining ETH they wont be good unless they are 1060/1070. I mean they will be higher than what you have now but they are not worth ti for the cost other than 1060/1070. Is better things to mine on Nvidia.
BTW you don't need to pay for a key. You can happily mine away on an unactivated windows no issues, plus any old windows7 key still works and you can pretty much get them for free.
i ve tested ethos recently i was impressed by the plug ( enter your wallet ) and play . For somebody who just start mining it s perfect .
i ve also really liked their interface , for a mining farm it seems also very convenient with web ssh access and GPU temp and hashrate monitoring