Has anyone tried using a mining card with hashcat? I've seen a few P106-100 (Stripped down GTX 1060 + 6GB ram) for very cheap but I've heard people having issues with gaming and CUDA so I'm wondering if they can be repurposed for hashcat or if they're basically e-waste at this point.

That would probably work fine, these cards are getting old though so it may not be very profitable if you calculate how much electricity and space they require to do the same thing as a newer card.

(November 1, 2022, 01:23 PM)mishka Wrote: That would probably work fine, these cards are getting old though so it may not be very profitable if you calculate how much electricity and space they require to do the same thing as a newer card.

I'm running 100% on solar so its free electrify the main cost would just be the cards and also even we newer cards you might note see a noticeable difference until months or years in terms of cost per hash.

(November 1, 2022, 02:05 PM)DataDumper Wrote:

(November 1, 2022, 01:23 PM)mishka Wrote: That would probably work fine, these cards are getting old though so it may not be very profitable if you calculate how much electricity and space they require to do the same thing as a newer card.

I'm running 100% on solar so its free electrify the main cost would just be the cards and also even we newer cards you might note see a noticeable difference until months or years in terms of cost per hash.

You have to decide on your own if you either want to save space, time, money, etc.

(November 1, 2022, 02:47 PM)mishka Wrote:

(November 1, 2022, 02:05 PM)DataDumper Wrote:

(November 1, 2022, 01:23 PM)mishka Wrote: That would probably work fine, these cards are getting old though so it may not be very profitable if you calculate how much electricity and space they require to do the same thing as a newer card.

I'm running 100% on solar so its free electrify the main cost would just be the cards and also even we newer cards you might note see a noticeable difference until months or years in terms of cost per hash.

You have to decide on your own if you either want to save space, time, money, etc.

Yeah I'm just wondering how the mining cards compare to the regular GTX 1060 in terms of hashcat benchmarks since I know the mining cards have a lower PCI-e bandwidth and are general a bit cut down.

(November 1, 2022, 03:20 PM)DataDumper Wrote:

(November 1, 2022, 02:47 PM)mishka Wrote:

(November 1, 2022, 02:05 PM)DataDumper Wrote:

(November 1, 2022, 01:23 PM)mishka Wrote: That would probably work fine, these cards are getting old though so it may not be very profitable if you calculate how much electricity and space they require to do the same thing as a newer card.

I'm running 100% on solar so its free electrify the main cost would just be the cards and also even we newer cards you might note see a noticeable difference until months or years in terms of cost per hash.

You have to decide on your own if you either want to save space, time, money, etc.

Yeah I'm just wondering how the mining cards compare to the regular GTX 1060 in terms of hashcat benchmarks since I know the mining cards have a lower PCI-e bandwidth and are general a bit cut down.

I am not an expert on that topic but I would assume it wouldn't really impact performance as most of the calculations still happen on the card and there is less reporting back that has to be made. Don't quote me on that though.