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Which site/service is the most reliable?
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JayPhizzt
on 02/12/2013, 21:20:04 UTC
I have some bitcoin that I'm planning to sell, but with people seemingly having problems with all the major ones and I keep reading "scam this" and "scam that" about everything, I get a bit unsure of which one to use. Which one would you guys recommend? Mtgox? Bitstamp? Something else?
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Re: Beware of PayPal and other reversible transfer services
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JayPhizzt
on 06/11/2013, 18:34:07 UTC
Don't know if this has been brought up in the thread already, but say that someone transfers money to my paypal-account and then as soon as I see the money I withdraw them to my bankaccount, is it still possible to reverse the transfer?
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Where to sell bitcoins?
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JayPhizzt
on 25/10/2013, 09:25:09 UTC
I have some coins to sell and I would like some advice on where to sell them.

I've previously sold some coins on both mtgox and bitstamp, but I'm not so sure about doing it now that they require verification. Not feeling to keen about having to upload a photo of my ID card.

Selling on ebay is of course an option, but that has other downsides to it.

Are there any other trusted btc exchange sites out there that still don't require verification?
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Re: [3000 GH/s] Slush's Pool (mining.bitcoin.cz); TX FEES + Stratum
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JayPhizzt
on 08/02/2013, 21:44:53 UTC
Just switched to this pool and trying to get things going, but for some reason when I try to start mining I get "errno 10061", what's that about?

I'm using the latest version of guiminer and I've installed the stratum proxy. Also, I'm mining on a dual-GPU card if that matters(5970).
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Re: Unstable hash rate with Radeon 5970
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JayPhizzt
on 17/08/2012, 09:51:54 UTC
Updating this thread again. Just tried to reformat the drive and did a fresh WinXP-install and the first thing I did was to install Catalyst 12.1(with the included SDK) and nothing else.
Then I started GUIminer and set it up just like before, and guess what? THE F***ING PROBLEM STILL REMAINS -_-.

What the hell could be the problem? Could one of the cores on the card be broken? Or could the problem lie with the pool rather than my computer? Or could it be some strange setting that I'm unaware of?
 
Might try installing Ubuntu instead and see if I can get it to work there.. If not I think I'm gonna sell the 5970 and get a good singlecore-card instead..
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Re: Unstable hash rate with Radeon 5970
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JayPhizzt
on 20/07/2012, 10:49:15 UTC
I'm starting to consider installning Ubuntu on the server instead and see if I can get it working properly there.. Anyone else running Ubuntu with a 5970?(or any other dual-GPU card for that matter?)
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Re: Unstable hash rate with Radeon 5970
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JayPhizzt
on 17/07/2012, 10:58:46 UTC
Not sure if this helps,
But I use SDK 2.1, and drivers 11.12 with 3 5970s and 1 5870 in a rig. (7 GPUs) I have not gotten any errors at all, or YET.

Make sure you don't install the actual SDK EXE installation, but extract it with WinRAR and only install the SDK MSI file. That got my hash rate up a bit.

Ah, ok, I shall do it this way instead then. Which .msi-file is it exactly? SDK_dev?


I extracted "ATIStreamSDK_dev.msi" from "ati-stream-sdk-v2.1-vista-win7-64.exe" using WinRAR, installed it, saw my hash rate improve.

If you have WinRAR just right click and choose extract to. Make sure all old drivers, SDK and other stuff have all been completely removed.

Also if you can, just reformat. Or completely remove your drivers, and install 11.12 first.

I've tried this now and my problem still remains... I also tried installing 2.1 in a different folder and it didn't help.

I think I'm gonna give up on this now since nothing I do seems to work. When Win8 comes out I'll be getting a new computer with it, then I'll probably install Win7 on the server instead and then I'll see if I can make it work on both cores. In the meantime I'll just have to settle with one core..
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Re: Unstable hash rate with Radeon 5970
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JayPhizzt
on 16/07/2012, 20:21:40 UTC
Not sure if this helps,
But I use SDK 2.1, and drivers 11.12 with 3 5970s and 1 5870 in a rig. (7 GPUs) I have not gotten any errors at all, or YET.

Make sure you don't install the actual SDK EXE installation, but extract it with WinRAR and only install the SDK MSI file. That got my hash rate up a bit.

Ah, ok, I shall do it this way instead then. Which .msi-file is it exactly? SDK_dev?
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Re: Unstable hash rate with Radeon 5970
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JayPhizzt
on 16/07/2012, 09:14:51 UTC
Uninstall whatever sdk you have. Do a search for opencl.dll and delete them all. Then Reinstall.

I uninstalled the drivers then deleted the one opencl.dll I could find and then I installed 12.1 with the included SDK.
Now as soon as I start mining on the second core the entire system freezes..
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Re: Unstable hash rate with Radeon 5970
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JayPhizzt
on 15/07/2012, 16:47:23 UTC
Just use 12.1. It's the last ocl driver for xp. Sdk 2.1 or use the one with 12.1. CPU bug should be gone.

I have tried 12.1 and it doesn't help.. It doesn't seem to matter what drivers and SDK I use, both the CPU-bug and fluctuating hash rate remain.. And I've tried many different drivers and SDK's now..

Does anyone have any other idea of what could be causing my problems?
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Re: Unstable hash rate with Radeon 5970
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JayPhizzt
on 13/07/2012, 17:35:47 UTC
I've tried both 12.1 and 11.12 with SDK 2.1 now and it didn't work... Still 50% load on the CPU and still fluctuating hash rates.. I'm really getting tired of this **** and I'm about to give up... And before you ask, yes I used Driver Sweeper to uninstall the drivers.
Maybe I should try a different miner? Highly doubt that'll work either though..

Try 12.2 with SDK 2.5. I always used 2.5 on my 5970s with no issues.

I'm all for switching to CGMiner, but this sounds more like a kernel issue.

As far as I can tell 2.5 isn't available for WinXP. 2.3 seems to be the newest version for XP.
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Re: Unstable hash rate with Radeon 5970
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JayPhizzt
on 13/07/2012, 14:44:54 UTC
I've tried both 12.1 and 11.12 with SDK 2.1 now and it didn't work... Still 50% load on the CPU and still fluctuating hash rates.. I'm really getting tired of this **** and I'm about to give up... And before you ask, yes I used Driver Sweeper to uninstall the drivers.
Maybe I should try a different miner? Highly doubt that'll work either though..
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Re: Unstable hash rate with Radeon 5970
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JayPhizzt
on 13/07/2012, 10:42:24 UTC
You shouldnt get more than 340 mhash on a 5970 core @ 725 MHz, even with perfect ram speeds and miner/kernel options. If you're spiking 350-370, definately something awry going on there. Is your GPU activity maintaining 99+%? Doing nothing on the computer running on the miner? I'm running 5830, 5870, 5870, 5970, and 5970 and I get sudden dips of GPU activity (40-70%) if I do ANYTHING on it, and it kind of cascades between the 7 GPU's for about 30 seconds before stabilizing and getting back to 99.5+%

My GPU's maintain about 60-75% activity. And yes, its a dedicated mining-server at the momemt, so I'm not doing anything else on it.
Tried only running one core again and then the activity goes up to around 96-98%. Strange..

What driver/SDK? Back with the old 100% bug if I ran both my cards on the same CPU, their hash rates would suffer.

As I wrote in the main post, 11.10 and SDK 2.1. When it comes to the CPU it maintains about a 50% load.

You shouldnt even get that much load either. I get 1% CPU on a 7 GPU rig, single core 2GHz. I'm going to bet you have a dual core CPU. You still have CPU bug. 11.12 and 12.1 don't exhibit the CPU bug with 2.1 SDK. Unfortunately, I tried 2.5 SDK a little while back on 11.12 and I had CPU bug. Will take some futzing around to get a 2.5 SDK combo working..

Then I'm gonna give 11.12 and/or 12.1 with SDK 2.1 a try. Thanks for the tip. And yes, I do have in fact have a dual core CPU(C2D).
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Re: Unstable hash rate with Radeon 5970
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JayPhizzt
on 13/07/2012, 08:00:34 UTC
You shouldnt get more than 340 mhash on a 5970 core @ 725 MHz, even with perfect ram speeds and miner/kernel options. If you're spiking 350-370, definately something awry going on there. Is your GPU activity maintaining 99+%? Doing nothing on the computer running on the miner? I'm running 5830, 5870, 5870, 5970, and 5970 and I get sudden dips of GPU activity (40-70%) if I do ANYTHING on it, and it kind of cascades between the 7 GPU's for about 30 seconds before stabilizing and getting back to 99.5+%

My GPU's maintain about 60-75% activity. And yes, its a dedicated mining-server at the momemt, so I'm not doing anything else on it.
Tried only running one core again and then the activity goes up to around 96-98%. Strange..

What driver/SDK? Back with the old 100% bug if I ran both my cards on the same CPU, their hash rates would suffer.

As I wrote in the main post, 11.10 and SDK 2.1. When it comes to the CPU it maintains about a 50% load.
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Re: Unstable hash rate with Radeon 5970
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JayPhizzt
on 12/07/2012, 11:21:56 UTC
You shouldnt get more than 340 mhash on a 5970 core @ 725 MHz, even with perfect ram speeds and miner/kernel options. If you're spiking 350-370, definately something awry going on there. Is your GPU activity maintaining 99+%? Doing nothing on the computer running on the miner? I'm running 5830, 5870, 5870, 5970, and 5970 and I get sudden dips of GPU activity (40-70%) if I do ANYTHING on it, and it kind of cascades between the 7 GPU's for about 30 seconds before stabilizing and getting back to 99.5+%

My GPU's maintain about 60-75% activity. And yes, its a dedicated mining-server at the momemt, so I'm not doing anything else on it.
Tried only running one core again and then the activity goes up to around 96-98%. Strange..
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Re: Unstable hash rate with Radeon 5970
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JayPhizzt
on 11/07/2012, 20:13:11 UTC
Check you powersupply.

But what you are explaining sound more like a temperature problem. Use GPUZ to check what your VRM's temps are... Make sure they dont go over 90c and you should see "throttling" stop.

I don't think my power supply is the problem. Its a 650W 80+ gold FSP power supply which should be more than sufficient.
And I have checked all temps with GPU-Z and nothing is above 90C.
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Unstable hash rate with Radeon 5970
by
JayPhizzt
on 11/07/2012, 14:32:39 UTC
I have a Radeon 5970 in my server that I'm using for mining, but I'm having some issues with it. At first I had problems getting both cores to work, but I seem to have fixed that now. The problem now though is that the hash rate is fluctuating a lot between about 170-350Mhash/s on each core. Shouldn't it be more stable than that? When I try mining with only one core its a lot more stable and stays at around 340-350Mhash/s.
The GPU's are at stock-speed(725MHz) and I haven't done any clocking other than underclocking the memory to 500MHz(wont go lower than that in either CCC or MSI Afterburner).
Should also mention that I'm using WinXP 32bit, Catalyst 11.10 and Stream SDK 2.1. And I'm using GUIminer with phoenix to mine.

Also, I'm currently using these flags:

-k phatk VECTORS BFI_INT FASTLOOP=FALSE AGGRESSION=7 worksize=128

For some strange reason I get the highest hash rate when I set AGGRESSION to 7, any other number and hash rate drops.

Anyone have any idea of what could be the problem?
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Re: Only one core working on my 5970?
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JayPhizzt
on 11/07/2012, 07:00:31 UTC
I finally got both cores to work! Switched back to 11.6 and installed Stream SDK 2.1 and now it seems to work. Although, the total speed constantly fluctuates between 400-700Mhash/s.. Shouldn't it be more stable? What could the problem be? Flags?

I'm using these flags at the moment:

-k phatk VECTORS BFI_INT FASTLOOP=FALSE AGGRESSION=7 worksize=128

Anything I should change? I've tried AGGRESSION=11, but for some reason I get a higher Mhash/s with 7?
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Re: Only one core working on my 5970?
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JayPhizzt
on 09/07/2012, 08:13:23 UTC
Not exactly relevant, but I just finished a crossfire install and had a bear of a time getting them both to run.  In my case, I had an overloaded power rail preventing good power from reaching one card.

Just to be sure water is wet and gravity still works: are you sure you are not having power issues?  Heat issues?  You're not overclocking yet, right?

I have a 650W 80+ Gold power supply, so I don't think I have insufficient power. And I haven't overclocked anything. The only clocking I've done is on the memory which I've underclocked to 500MHz.
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Re: Only one core working on my 5970?
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JayPhizzt
on 09/07/2012, 06:37:55 UTC
I've made some progress with my issue now. I've installed Catalyst 12.1 and now both cores seem to work, but when I start mining on the second core I get "Verification failed, check hardware" after only a minute or so. What the **** could be wrong? Perhaps I should keep trying different drivers?