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[WTB] DPS-2400AB Power Supplies and breakout boards.

Bitminer2017

on 16/11/2021, 21:16:39 UTC

Looking to buy PSU's and break out boards. Depending on price will vary on how many I'm willing to buy.

Thanks!

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Profit Trailer Review

Bitminer2017

on 27/05/2019, 18:12:03 UTC

I know bull season is starting back up. So people are thinking about bots.

In 2018 I gave profit trailer a try when they first released. I've used it since then off and on.

Profit Trailer setup is convoluted. Their licensing and activation process is horrible. They'll keep your information such as your name/address/etc in a portal that you can log back into, but they don't document your license.

The folks that manage the product enjoy nickle and diming their customers who lose their license, in pounds currency, which apparently must be a lot from the discussion I had with their staff. I brought up the idea of storing the customers license in their portal to the creators in 2018, and again in 2019, and they do not care about doing that. Instead they took offense to it. I guess the money is too good on lost licenses and customers are fine just storing their name and address in the portal.

The bot itself isn't exactly stable. I've ran it in a Ubuntu VM, a windows PC, and a hardware Debian server. It has to be rebooted on a regular basis to keep it working. It will crash in ways that aren't exactly obvious until you notice the bot simply isn't trading anymore.

The configuration itself isn't the easiest of all the bots out there to buy.

Most of the staff constantly has an attitude when it comes to asking them questions for support in their discord. There's one good guy helping folks in there, the rest are not who you'd want to deal with.

They can't keep positive relationships with other programmers as seen by their relationship with the PT Tracker creator.

I regret buying this software and will go elsewhere next time.

My advice, take your money elsewhere with a better group of programmers who have a more positive business mindset.

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Hosting my own masternode for ethereum?

Bitminer2017

on 27/03/2018, 18:26:46 UTC

I'm trying to learn how I can host my own masternode for Ethereum or any other crypto. From what I've read it requires dedicated servers, public ip addresses, and some good amount of bandwidth all running 24/7 which I already have. The only thing I lack is the money to own x amount of xyz crypto to stake to be a master node.

Am I correct in this?

If so, what do I do once I obtain the required amount of crypto to be allowed into this masternode system? Does someone involved in ethereum send me the links to the software to install onto my servers to then start being a masternode?

I'm sure I sound very newbish to many of you but thanks to those who help.

My background is that I build, host, and maintain servers. I'm a network engineer. CCNA certified, and certified in at least a dozen other areas in IT. So I have at least some IT background to help support my adventure.

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Does anyone have the Delta 2400w PSU model #?

Bitminer2017

on 19/01/2018, 03:22:25 UTC

Looking for the model # of this PSU: http://www.parallelminer.com/product/2400-watt-power-supply-kit-for-gpu-mining-94-efficiency-200-240v-up-to-24-gpu/?wpam_id=1

I've checked out Delta's website and cannot find it anywhere.

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Re: One card running hot. All 1070s.

Bitminer2017

on 03/01/2018, 17:44:19 UTC

Quote from: fanatic26 on January 03, 2018, 05:42:49 PM

I have a fair number of machines that randomly have a hot card like this. Ive always chalked it up to chip quality, its just luck of the draw.

Does it ever result in your machine crashing more often than others? Mine goes down at least once every 24 hours. I've upped the fan to 72% to see if that improves stability.

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One card running hot. All 1070s.

Bitminer2017

on 03/01/2018, 17:40:41 UTC

I have one Gigabyte 1070 GTX that runs 82deg steady with fans on auto at 55%. I turn the fan up to 100% and it drops the temp down to 68deg (yea we keep it cool in here). All other cards run 68-72deg on auto fans. This card is the 3 fan gigabyte card. All the other cards are 1 or 2 fan cards.

I've reapplied arctic thermal paste to this card and it doesn't make any change at all.

Only fix seems to be running the fan harder.

Are these just a bad design card that just run hotter, or is there something else I'm missing?

SMI Info with fan at 55%:

Code:

SMI with fan turned to 72%:

Code:

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Re: My miner isn't stable...

Bitminer2017

on 26/12/2017, 19:46:41 UTC

I am LOVING HiveOS at the moment. Stupid easy to setup. Took 5min to write it to a flash drive, plugged it in, swapped video connected from iGPU to GPU1, created my rig, and got the whole system up and mining in like 10 minutes.

Compared to the hours it took to install windows eventually using a SSD, and downloading drivers, installing 7 cards, rebooting at least 30 times, and it still not being stable, HiveOS blows away anything windows based so far.

So I guess now will begin the longevity testing

Loving the many more features hiveos has that awesome miner didn't have too.

Thanks for the recommendation.

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Re: My miner isn't stable...

Bitminer2017

on 26/12/2017, 17:37:06 UTC

Quote from: halker2010 on December 26, 2017, 05:31:43 PM

well checklist or not being able to correct comes with experience and playing with settings if you see higher hash rate than you expected(by atleast 20 - 30 percent) there can be some algo issues or miner is outdated even driver issues they can all have their signs.
for example check miner's github and see if it fixes some issues in the algo you are mining right now in its log
also try using hiveos farm os for mining it has watchdog that will restart miner or rig itself if hashrate be lower than what you specify for it based on time it being off, its free until 4 rigs.

Hmm hive os seems sweet. Is it cloud managable like awesome miner is? I may just switch.

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My miner isn't stable...

Bitminer2017

on 26/12/2017, 13:18:06 UTC

Is there like a checklist somewhere that says to look for x,y,z when your miner keeps fucking up?

The ccminer was "mining" when looking at the screen on the miner itself. It was saying it was doing 5GH/s on 6 GPU's (1 is missing yayyy), when it should be more like 2GH/s, and after the miner being up for 6 hours, the pool itself is sending me emails saying the worker is idle. I'm using miningpoolhub.

Is it increasing it's own difficulty increasing the Khash/s causing some sort of issue? If so, how do I stop it?

Any ideas?

I'm tempted to put a scheduled task in place that auto reboots this thing every 24 hours.

Details:
motherboard: ASRock BTC+
memory: 8gb ddr4
Cpu: Cheapo G4440
GPUS: 7 nvidia 1070, all different brands and models.
OS: Windows 10 x64
PSU: EVGA Gold 1000w x2
Hard drive: Samsung 850 Pro 256GB
Mining Pool Hub mining Digibyte Skein

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Re: What would cause a miner to become unresponsive?

Bitminer2017

on 22/12/2017, 18:03:19 UTC

Turns out I somehow plugged in some longer blue cables instead of the ones that came with the mintcell risers. It's been mining almost an hour just fine now @ 6MH/s on NeoScrypt.

Trying to figure out how to get this darn thing to mine zencash thru Awesome Miner. Gah.

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Re: What would cause a miner to become unresponsive?

Bitminer2017

on 22/12/2017, 15:16:44 UTC

Quote from: Ruz05 on December 22, 2017, 02:55:24 PM

I got similar issue. The miner would work fine for couple of hours and suddenly go unresponsive. Mining pool would show ... This is hopfully fixed with the next release but the reason can be a undervolted and overclocked gpu.

Nothing is modified. It's a stock set of GPU's. No ocing at all and no undervolting on purpose.

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Re: Current best powered risers available?

Bitminer2017

on 22/12/2017, 12:30:14 UTC

Quote from: MarkAz on December 22, 2017, 07:35:22 AM

Quote from: SuperDerpBro on December 22, 2017, 03:53:28 AM

I have considered doing this actually. Hard to tell what USB cables are quality or just the same garbage you already have.

What are you using now if not risers? Onda boards? Sell me one? hehe

These are the ones I always used:

http://[Suspicious link removed]/2BMxYAt

They aren't the cheapest, but they're not bad and super reliable - I don't think I had a single one not work. For my last build 3ft was the ideal length, but they sell smaller ones that might be better for most people.

I've tried all those - Colorful, Onda, etc... TBH I love them all, you really can't go wrong with any of them, even some of the weaker ones.

I actually did buy and try to use these. It gave me all sorts of issues where the video card wouldn't even show up at all, and some would. The ones that did, when I went to go mine, it would lock up the system. I switched to the shorter included mintcell cables and it solved those problems.

I also found a website that shows where longer USB cables puts strain on the system itself killing speeds it can transfer and that 1.5ft was pretty much the longest you could use.

So I am curious as to how you got 3ft to work reliably.

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What would cause a miner to become unresponsive?

Bitminer2017

on 22/12/2017, 12:19:59 UTC

Been slowly building up my first miner, and at 4 cards it was fine, now it's up to 7 and it keeps crashing after about 5 minutes of use. It will hard lock up with the screen completely frozen. It's on 2 1000w EVGA power supplies.

If there wasn't enough power on the circuit to power both supplies, wouldn't it just trip the breaker?

Any idea what else could cause this?

It's on the ASRock BTC+ motherboard using mintcell risers with included cables.

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Re: How to mine ZenCash with Awesome Miner?

Bitminer2017

on 22/12/2017, 05:32:35 UTC

Ah sorry. If an admin could move that would be good.

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How to mine ZenCash with Awesome Miner?

Bitminer2017

on 22/12/2017, 04:54:23 UTC

Hello. Have a 10 card rig setup with AwesomeMiner and I simply just want to mine JUST ZenCash at MPH.

I created a "managed miner" and put in us-east.equihash-hub.miningpoolhub.com:20594 for the pool and my username.workername I setup under "Hub Workers" which was setup for just ZenCash. I also put my ZenCash wallet in the settings. I set the miner to be EWBF, CCMINER, Excavator, and DSTM for nVidia. All of these programs work for a second and then close out with no error seen.

Any idea what I am doing wrong?

Thanks.

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Looking to build a eth rig...

Bitminer2017

on 08/12/2017, 05:04:14 UTC

Trying to figure out what's the best video card to get for eth? Going with a 13 card rig setup... Seems to be a crap shoot whether use Nvidia or amd....can't figure out where on this forum this is being discussed in detail too. Anyone able to help?

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Re: Mining ethereum with NVIDIA 9xx cards in Windows 10 with latest drivers

Bitminer2017

on 07/12/2017, 05:51:41 UTC

So I'm trying to follow this guide to the T, and I'm still ending up at 12mh/s. I have 2 970gtx's on a rather good powered machine using 32gb ddr4 on a 6700k cpu. Yea gaming rig. Just wanted to start to learn this mining thing

I've done everything said in the first post, even going back to the driver specified, and I cannot get more than 12mh/s.

Can someone tell me where I may have gone wrong? :/

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Re: Mining my own cloud?

Bitminer2017

on 21/02/2017, 01:43:05 UTC

Ugh I'd be happy even if it made 1-2$ a day per pc. Heck at $300/day who would argue that? So much wide spread info on the subject of mining. It's so hard to learn what's legit and what's bs.

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Mining my own cloud?

Bitminer2017

on 21/02/2017, 01:15:36 UTC

I'm the owner of a mid sized solar powered company with I think a good few hundred cpus and servers. I've been wondering if there is such a software I can install on all my machines that during off business hours will start mining for me and stop during normal business hours?

Anyone know if there is a way to do so? These are all windows based.