09-19-2017, 05:03 AM
I've done some more experimenting and I'm convinced there are other factors that determine speed besides the video card and hash. When I upgraded my main cracking system to the 1060 card, I took my old card, that got about 2600 MH/s (MD5) and used it to upgrade my TV computer (use it for watch shows) and continued the cracking job I was doing there. Last night I was getting about 2100 MH/s, and tonight I got, with it idle (no shows playing) about 1100 MH/s (a restore on the same run).
It got me thinking about time I tried running a hashcat mask attack on my GPU and CPU at the same time. While I gained from the CPU, my GPU hash rate fell far more than what I gained from the CPU. So I killed the CPU job and my GPU job went back to it's former rate. So, while getting 1100 MH/s, I checked my CPU usage (procexp) and it was like 95% idle.
The one thing I did note is the hashcat hardware monitor is showing my older card at about 37% utilization, so that partially explains the lower rate. I checked on the windows 10 1060 card computer, and it was around 50% there. I resumed the other 1060 card (windows 7) and it's about 91% utilization. So it's not resuming that's doing it.
Anyone have any ideas what the problem could be? Obviously, there's something at play that can have a big effect on your hashrate besides the card, the hash type, and the attack type.
It got me thinking about time I tried running a hashcat mask attack on my GPU and CPU at the same time. While I gained from the CPU, my GPU hash rate fell far more than what I gained from the CPU. So I killed the CPU job and my GPU job went back to it's former rate. So, while getting 1100 MH/s, I checked my CPU usage (procexp) and it was like 95% idle.
The one thing I did note is the hashcat hardware monitor is showing my older card at about 37% utilization, so that partially explains the lower rate. I checked on the windows 10 1060 card computer, and it was around 50% there. I resumed the other 1060 card (windows 7) and it's about 91% utilization. So it's not resuming that's doing it.
Anyone have any ideas what the problem could be? Obviously, there's something at play that can have a big effect on your hashrate besides the card, the hash type, and the attack type.