I realise that we don’t yet know the details of any 2.0 plots & it will be a trade-off between the cost of electricity to replot, potential wear on hardware vs any compression we may achieve.
Guess I’m just wondering about upgrading to a RAM disk (?128gb) which seems to be about £400 in UK.
Current setup;
AMD Ryzen 7 3700x (16 threads)
ASUS ROG Strix X570-F Gaming
GeForce RTX 3070
DDR4 (2 x8GB) 3200mhz
x2 1TB WD Blue NVME drives for plotting (temp 1 &2)
NVMEs are way past their TBW warranty with about 10PiB written & still working fine. Using Madmax & getting about 45min plot times. Have about 7000 k32 plots at present.
GPU plotting is another thought but we know even less about that as a possibility.
Does anyone have a similar setup with a RAM disk? What sort of plot times might I expect if that is the only change I make?
Investing as less as possible in the plotter is necessary
GPU plotting won’t be as fast as you hope it is
So, I’d say keep plotting with what you already have, don’t invest more, unless you stumble upon a great deal on 128Gb of DDR. (I have 2 of those for sale, I’m in the E.U. …)
you may want to hold off on that, I’ll be releasing a compressed format (up to 40%) CPU/GPU farmer + plotter for MMX shortly (binaries only though, sry). 40% more efficient and 29% smaller plots. This will be for MMX coin first. Ideal system would be using DDR3 + PCIe 3.0 + RTX 3060 (Ti) is best bang for buck (256G RAM needed for best performance, 128G RAM + fast SSD works too, but it’s slower). CPU plotting will still be viable but about 10x slower then a GPU. HP Z420 with a 3060Ti and 256G RAM, and it does k32 in 165 sec, for the higher compression levels.
This is copied from Madmax discord this evening. The farmer will be modified to include a dev fee since Chia Team wasn’t playing ball.
You really have to wonder… they won’t pay2play, perhaps … because of the N.I.H. syndrome or ? They can’t do it themselves or they already would have, yet they won’t give a fellow his due. Is their IPO all that matters at this point to them?
Thanks bro. I have 32 GB sticks now. HP Z420 does accept 256GB memory, 8 x 32. System boot up is slow. Motherboard must is doing that “memory training” stuff.
Testing all ram mad max now. 244GB ramdisk. All fans in the system are running at max speed. Sounds scary.
