I'm working on improving the rig for my office (pen testing and information security consulting)
Im not use what GPU is in use at the moment, i know its r9 200 series but not sure what gpu (im abroad atm so can't check physically).
Anyway, Benchmarking gave me terrible results, for example, NTLMv2 is around 300.
i read around the forums and at first i was going to go for 290x because i saw this:
https://hashcat.net/forum/thread-3687.html
and many times we need to get NTLMv2 hashes, which according to this, 290x does twice as fast, but then i saw MANY new posts here saying that "newer rigs should use Nvidia" so, did they fix it using drivers?
and assuming ATI is irrelevant, and the fight is between 970 and 980, it seems that 970 is about 2/3 the price, is the performance difference substantial?
P.S
cooling is less of an issue since the rig is in our server room.
Thank you.
Im not use what GPU is in use at the moment, i know its r9 200 series but not sure what gpu (im abroad atm so can't check physically).
Anyway, Benchmarking gave me terrible results, for example, NTLMv2 is around 300.
i read around the forums and at first i was going to go for 290x because i saw this:
https://hashcat.net/forum/thread-3687.html
and many times we need to get NTLMv2 hashes, which according to this, 290x does twice as fast, but then i saw MANY new posts here saying that "newer rigs should use Nvidia" so, did they fix it using drivers?
and assuming ATI is irrelevant, and the fight is between 970 and 980, it seems that 970 is about 2/3 the price, is the performance difference substantial?
P.S
cooling is less of an issue since the rig is in our server room.
Thank you.