Mine with HD3870?
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I have a Diamond HD3870. I’ve read on Litecoin forums that there’s pretty much no way to mine Litecoins or Feathercoins with this card, but it’s just sitting there doing nothing. I would like to put it to use. If someone has some insight, please let me know. Thanks!
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no idea… and not sure if anyone know… put it in and give it a shot… but a card in that far series… you are most likely gonna waste more money on power than gaining anything
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[quote name=“DynamiteSJ” post=“3552” timestamp=“1368587483”]
you are most likely gonna waste more money on power than gaining anything
[/quote]Very true, but if it’s help they want it’s help they shall get!
I have an ATi 3850 512Mb (the one with the silly heatsink and tiny fan in the middle of it all) lying around. If it works I’ll test it tonight and see what I can come up with for you. No promises but I can try! ^_^Edit: Ahh goody, I have a photo of it. This stupid GPU/heatsink at the top right:
[img]http://puu.sh/2TRVH.jpg[/img]Edit: Didn’t get chance to have a look last night, been having problem after problem with my mining rig. 3 days now and I’ve still not got it mning… So problematic @w@
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Any assistance would be great. I believe the HD3xxx series is lacking OpenCL, which is what most mining programs use.
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The quick answer is no. Entire HD3000 series lacks OpenCL support. Otherwise certain hardware limitations would result in rather miserable performance.
The long answer is yes. Although HD3000 as well as HD2000 and even X1900 series have no OpenCL support, they’re still able to perform general purpose calculations through Brook+ programming extension supported by 1.x ATI Stream SDKs. It’s possible to build a Brook+ kernel for a particular miner. Once again, potential performance obtained doesn’t justify electricity consumed.
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