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Re: [MRY] Murraycoin ▪ The Only Currency Worthy of Bill Murray ▪ Now Scrypt-2048
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NRD
on 13/11/2014, 23:36:38 UTC
I've been out of the crypto game for a while now, but I still hold all my Murraycoin! I'm amazed at how this coin just keeps on keeping on. Thanks to everyone in the community for all the work you do for the coin, and for making this one of the friendliest, drama free threads I've ever seen for a crypto currency.

Bill would certainly approve
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/03/20/article-2296269-18CD2938000005DC-64_634x426.jpg
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Re: [MRY] Murraycoin ▪ The Only Currency Worthy of Bill Murray ▪ Now Scrypt-2048
by
NRD
on 31/07/2014, 15:29:19 UTC
No worries B, still buying  Grin
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Re: [ANN][CRYPT] CryptCoin x11 + PoS | P2P Anonymity | 0% Premine | Commander
by
NRD
on 06/07/2014, 12:24:08 UTC
Questions to the community members:

Who is willing to donate bitcoins to MindFox to publish some kind of updated whitepaper?

Who is willing to donate bitcoins to MindFox to develop anonymity feature?

Who is willing to donate bitcoins to other devs to develop some other (less important) features (Commander)?

Who is willing to stop fudding and leave this thread instead of trying to lower price so their buy orders get filled? Why else are you here to fud? Because you don't like pump and dumps? You must not like bitcoin or any kind of cryptocurrency then. If you want to protect people from pump and dumps, go start an occupy wall street protest and show the world how naive you are about capitalism and the free market.

I think that you're not perceiving my posts correctly. You perceive them them as "anti-cryptcoin". But they are actually "pro-cryptcoin". Cryptcoin has extremely "secret" and non-transparent development. My opinion is that development (especially of anonymous features) needs to be open and transparent. This is the goal of my posts and I think that this can be very positive for cryptcoin.

Quite large number of widely used security solutions (PGP, tor, OpenSSL etc.) are developed in very open and transparent way.

I have no problem with pumps & dumps. It is not my job to protect people from pump & dumps.

But I have problems when people start abusing "anonymity features" (for example, claiming that something is anonymous but in reality it is not). This may have consequences that are far worse than people losing majority of their money in "bad investments".





Do you understand the concept of flogging a dead horse? Your straw man arguments are running a bit thin.

  • Devs have stated that they would like to keep their concept for "hard to trace" features private until it has been implemented. This is to prevent the idea from being stolen by some random crypto punk (every time I hear your argument for transparency in development this is what comes to mind)
  • Comparing development of PGP or OpenSSL to a cryptocurrency? GTFO
  • Mindfox never has and never will speak of "true anonymity" through the current implementation of the Bitcoin protocol.

I don't always throw all my eggs in one basket, but when I do, it's because Mindfox promises to deliver his best shot at creating an "anonymous" coin. Hell he's so honest he won't even call it that himself because he know's it's not possible.

PB dumbass go spread FUD about coins that outright lie about being anonymous. If you're so concerned with fighting a war against "bad investments" or dishonest development of said feature. This is the first coin that actually had the balls to come out and say that true anonymity is impossible and the best we can hope for is "very hard to trace". If your gripe is with a coin showing no transparency in their development of something they claim to be anonymous, it surely must lie with coins other than Crypt, as Mindfox has never claimed anonymity. Although I seriously doubt that's where your true issue with Crypt lies. Don't bother responding to this either, as you're now on my blocked list.

knightlife999: Keep up the great work poking holes in these ludicrous claims, I had to throw my 2 crypt in Cheesy
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Re: [MRY] Murraycoin ▪ The Only Currency Worthy of the Name ▪ Info & Discussion
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NRD
on 16/06/2014, 23:02:05 UTC
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Re: [ANN][X11/X13] X11 (Darkcoin)/X13 (Marucoin) miner (based on sph-sgminer)
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NRD
on 15/06/2014, 08:23:40 UTC
~Snip

Using BAMT 1.6 with these setting on 4 Sapphire Tri-X R9 290 (non x) but can't get over 2.5MH/s per card.  I downloaded and installed the SGminer fork from Benmagro's github: https://github.com/benmagro/Add-SGminer-X11X13Mod-Miner-To-BAMT.  Any suggestions would help.  Thanks!

How much RAM do you have in your system? When I firs purchased my rig I was told by a friend that I needed more system RAM than I had total GPU RAM. I didn't believe him, but for some reason apparently he's correct and having less system RAM than total GPU RAM can effect hash rate negatively. I run 16GB of System RAM, but another difference we have in our setup that is more obvious is that I'm on Win7 running 13.12 CCC drivers.

Just noticed as well that you're using a miner source from "Benmagro", I'm not sure who that is, but try compiling Lasybears sph-sgminer_x11mod_b2_2min_SICK version, as that is the one I'm still using. If you search near the beginning of this thread I believe there are some instructions for compiling the source on BAMT. Good luck!
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Re: [ANN][X11/X13] X11 (Darkcoin)/X13 (Marucoin) miner (based on sph-sgminer)
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NRD
on 02/06/2014, 22:09:09 UTC
i have a nvidia 650ti and windows 7 x64 .
what i need to mine x13 and what settings should i use ?
thank you !

No x13 on NV yet as far as I know, check the CC/cudaminer thread. They'll probably be adding it soon enough.


I never tried running more threads as I wanted to see how stable this setup is. Here's a 23 hour run:
http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s196/nicknrd/Crypto/x11-1438mh-23h.png

3 X 290 tri-x 1080/1500
1 X 7870 OC 1300/1500

Code:
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
export GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR=1
##export GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE=50
del *.bin
timeout /t 4
sgminer.exe -k x11mod --rawintensity 1306624,1306624,1306624,1048576 -g 1,1,1,2 --shaders 2560,2560,2560,1280 -w 256,256,256,64  --no-submit-stale -c sgminer.conf

*Note, I removed TC from my post because it's irrelevant with X11, however I still have it in my .bat file.
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Re: [ANN][X11/X13] X11 (Darkcoin)/X13 (Marucoin) miner (based on sph-sgminer)
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NRD
on 01/06/2014, 17:52:25 UTC
is x11 hashrate samething as x13 hashrate or not?
not, x13 is lower.
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Re: [ANN][X11/X13] X11 (Darkcoin)/X13 (Marucoin) miner (based on sph-sgminer)
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NRD
on 01/06/2014, 17:18:01 UTC
do u guys have a conf setting for 270 or 270x for rawintensity ?

try 1048576
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Re: [ANN][X11/X13] X11 (Darkcoin)/X13 (Marucoin) miner (based on sph-sgminer)
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NRD
on 01/06/2014, 17:06:36 UTC
lol I feel stupid, I've been so concerned with tweaking my 290's that I somehow thought my other card (bought used) was a 7850, when in fact it's a 7870 OC lol. So now it's running at 1300/1500 with intensity 20/raw intensity 1048576  and getting 2.3-35mh/s  Shocked This Gigabyte is a beast.
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Re: [ANN][X11] X11 (Darkcoin etc) miner (based on sph-sgminer)
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NRD
on 01/06/2014, 17:01:50 UTC
Can someone give me a conf for 290 reference board?
I use the conf for my tri-x but it runs low at 2.0mh/s on my friend's 290 reference board.And it hangs after 10 minute.
Posted from Bitcointa.lk - #A0jyY6ZezrMFGH4A

configs shouldn't change all that much between ref and aftermarket boards, only the clocks will. I would check what drivers he's on.
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Re: [ANN][X11/X13] X11 (Darkcoin)/X13 (Marucoin) miner (based on sph-sgminer)
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NRD
on 01/06/2014, 14:35:17 UTC
Stock? I'm guessing 3.5-3.7mh/s depending on which 290 you have. Interested to see though Cheesy
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Re: [ANN][X11/X13] X11 (Darkcoin)/X13 (Marucoin) miner (based on sph-sgminer)
by
NRD
on 01/06/2014, 13:59:38 UTC
1080/1500 +50 power limit in MSI Afterburner.
[Edit: Actually check that, it was at +0% all night. I just turned it up but didn't have an effect. I'm thinking it could be that because I enabled unofficial overclocking to get the mem speed stable, power limit doesn't matter anymore? Either way, clocks remained 1080/1500 flat lined all night.  I'm really new to AMD cards so I'm still trying to pick up the ins and outs, can an AMD guru chime in please? Cheesy ]

[Edit-1.5: Answering my own question, I believe power limit doesn't have an effect because it I enabled "unofficial overclocking without power play support" in AB so either I have yet to reach a power limit on these clocks or "UO wo/ PPS" in Afterburner disables it.

[Edit-2: I'm wondering if windows 8.1 could be the difference in the speeds we're seeing, I know that my gaming rig with a 780 in it benefited enormously moving from windows 7 to 8.1 in BF4 but I thought that was just because of dx support and didn't think it would affect mining . . .]
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Re: [ANN][X11/X13] X11 (Darkcoin)/X13 (Marucoin) miner (based on sph-sgminer)
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NRD
on 01/06/2014, 12:55:56 UTC
Ive scanned the last few pages, seems to be a lot of 290 questions, Im having trouble with my 280x's 2MSI and 1 ASUS on BAMT. Trying to get x13 running.

Ive installed the miner, and put in the settings from the original post, but it only mines for about 5 minutes then all 3 miners go SICK and stop mining.

Any advice? This is all that is in my config file, besides the pools:

Code:
"intensity" : "16",
"vector" : "1",
"worksize" : "256",
"kernel" : "x13mod",
"thread-concurrency" : "8192",
"lookup-gap" : "2",
"gpu-engine" : "1200",
"gpu-memclock" : "1500",
"gpu-powertune" : "20",
"gpu-vddc" : "1.200",
"gpu-threads" : "2"


Which OS? Try changing drivers, I found I couldn't get anything stable with good speeds on 14.4 or 14.3 with Windows 7. I'm back to 13.12 drivers now, and working great. Use Display Driver Uninstaller from here http://www.wagnardmobile.com/

After getting the drivers back to 13.12 I tried using multiple threads and it did give me about the same speed as I'm seeing now, but much more variance in current hash speed so I switched back to a single thread and here it is now with the constant 1500mhz mem speed after 12 hours.
http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s196/nicknrd/Crypto/x11-405mh.png

Settings:
Code:
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
export GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR=1
##export GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE=50
del *.bin
timeout /t 4
sgminer.exe -k x11mod --rawintensity 1306624,1306624,1306624,33280 -g 1,1,1,2 --shaders 2560,2560,2560,1280 -w 256,256,256,64 --thread-concurrency 24577,24577,24577,10241 --no-submit-stale -c sgminer.conf

Reject rate is well within acceptable limits, but I'm going to try it with 5 threads for 10+ hours to see if it does in fact lower the amount of rejected shares or give an increase in the overall average speed. Thanks to everyone for sharing their tips for these cards.
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Re: [ANN][X11/X13] X11 (Darkcoin)/X13 (Marucoin) miner (based on sph-sgminer)
by
NRD
on 01/06/2014, 00:44:10 UTC

I have 2 cards, both running at 1050/1500MHz set with Afterburner (power limit +50). I had to take out the engine and memory settings from the config file as the memory frequency was jumping around between 150 and max setting. Very stressful on the system. Now everything is smooth. I kept only the temp control as I like the strategy.
My 290 also is jumping memory down to 150 and back, do you have any explanation what might be the reason for this behavior?!
Yes, powertune - when it's not configured properly mem-clock will throttle up and down (150-your mem speed).

I also had this issue and after looking for a solution for over a week I managed to fix it by enabling 'Unofficial overclocking mode without PowerPlay support'. I assume of-course that you are using MSI afterburner.
Uninstalling MSI AB might also fix it, or alternatively installing it if you haven't got it.

I made a topic about it a few days ago but no1 responded there; I had an image uploaded there, does it look similar to that? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=628425.msg6989373#msg6989373

Anyway, now I got a straight line representing my mem clock speed.

Wow thanks for that, it's gotten me up to the 4.05-4.1mh/s level with my 290 tri-x's using my previous config but with 5 threads now instead of 1.

I tried other drivers but 12.13 seems to work best for me on Windows 7. Using the B2_sick version.
You welcome. This issue bothered me for almost a month now Smiley

I can't get my R9 290 to run stable with 5 threads.. Than again 2 threads on 14.4 drivers are getting me 3.98MH/s so it isn't so bad I suppose for ref cards.
I'm running with 1 thread atm and getting the same speed, but rock solid stable speed of 4.029-4.031mh/s so you could try that. Here's what I'm running atm.
Code:
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
export GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR=1
##export GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE=50
del *.bin
timeout /t 4
sgminer.exe -k x11mod --rawintensity 1306624,1306624,1306624,33280 -g 1,1,1,2 --shaders 2560,2560,2560,1280 -w 256,256,256,64 --thread-concurrency 24577,24577,24577,10241 --no-submit-stale -c sgminer.conf
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Re: [ANN][X11/X13] X11 (Darkcoin)/X13 (Marucoin) miner (based on sph-sgminer)
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NRD
on 31/05/2014, 23:59:34 UTC

I have 2 cards, both running at 1050/1500MHz set with Afterburner (power limit +50). I had to take out the engine and memory settings from the config file as the memory frequency was jumping around between 150 and max setting. Very stressful on the system. Now everything is smooth. I kept only the temp control as I like the strategy.
My 290 also is jumping memory down to 150 and back, do you have any explanation what might be the reason for this behavior?!
Yes, powertune - when it's not configured properly mem-clock will throttle up and down (150-your mem speed).

I also had this issue and after looking for a solution for over a week I managed to fix it by enabling 'Unofficial overclocking mode without PowerPlay support'. I assume of-course that you are using MSI afterburner.
Uninstalling MSI AB might also fix it, or alternatively installing it if you haven't got it.

I made a topic about it a few days ago but no1 responded there; I had an image uploaded there, does it look similar to that? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=628425.msg6989373#msg6989373

Anyway, now I got a straight line representing my mem clock speed.

Wow thanks for that, it's gotten me up to the 4.05-4.1mh/s level with my 290 tri-x's using my previous config but with 5 threads now instead of 1.

I tried other drivers but 12.13 seems to work best for me on Windows 7. Using the B2_sick version.
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Re: [ANN][X11/X13] X11 (Darkcoin)/X13 (Marucoin) miner (based on sph-sgminer)
by
NRD
on 31/05/2014, 17:43:26 UTC
Hi guys, thanks for your work. It took a while to read all the posts, but I learnt a lot. I have just broke the 4MH - X11 barrier for R9 290 (ASUS R9 290-DC2OC).

Here are the settings for those interested:

[snip]

I have 2 cards, both running at 1050/1500MHz set with Afterburner (power limit +50). I had to take out the engine and memory settings from the config file as the memory frequency was jumping around between 150 and max setting. Very stressful on the system. Now everything is smooth. I kept only the temp control as I like the strategy.

GPU threads have been increased as to flood the memory as much as possible with mining work (5 seems to be the max limit for my system). That was a tip on the forum as well, thanks the author. Cards memory is now loaded on >80% and my RAM as well.

The miner is Elun's b2 version from the OP, drivers 14.3beta, Win 8.1.

Out of my 2 cards one is water cooled and I guess it can go higher. I'll upgrade the wc sytem in a couple of weeks (have to raise more coins Smiley and then go for 5MH/card. I hope I can get there.

When I started reading this post, 2 weeks ago, I had 2.5MH/card, then raised it to 3.6 by following you advises and now 4-4.1. First jump had no impact on energy consumption. Now, I estimate a less than 5% increase, which, for me, is acceptable.

Thanks again guys for your work.

My card memory speed keeps jumping around as well, but I do not have any gpu settings in my .conf file. I'll have to give those drivers a shot I guess.
[Edit:gonna try the latest build]
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Re: [ANN][X11/X13] X11 (Darkcoin)/X13 (Marucoin) miner (based on sph-sgminer)
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NRD
on 31/05/2014, 17:12:31 UTC
After close to a week of tweaking, I've found some pretty decent settings for my Sapphire 290 tri-x's. The first versions of these miners could not run my cards at their normal oc of 1080/1500, but the latest version seems to work (combined with a little voltage bump). I've had my best luck using --Rawintensity, as it's allowed me to bridge the gap between Intensity 20-21 while staying short of the point where the cards go sick. The other card in the rig is a Gigabyte 7850 that I still haven't really tweaked the intensity completely for, but it's running at 1110/1300 1233mv I believe.

Check this guide for configuring your miners, and working on your OC/DC:
http://www.overclock.net/t/1461916/tutorial-ultimate-guide-to-tweaking-amd-cgminer-3-7-2-kalroth-edition-sgminer-instructions-included-aswell-get-the-most-hash-out-of-your-gpu
As well as this one that has some good info for Rawintensity :
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=466867.0


Some Useful Tips for X11
  • TC doesn't seem to to matter, so save your self some time and leave it alone . . . for now
  • Make sure to try all worksizes, my 7850 performs best with worksize 64
  • When working with raw intensity calculate your values based off of (Shaders*n=Rawintensity) Where n= a whole number, once a good value is found you can tweak it from there.
  • My 290's give a higher top speed with more threads (right up to 4.2mh/s with 6 threads) but speed variance and reject rates increase as well. Using a single thread has given me my most stable speeds.

Code:
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
export GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR=1
##export GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE=50
del *.bin
timeout /t 4
sgminer.exe -k x11mod --rawintensity 1306624,1306624,1306624,33280 -g 1,1,1,2 --shaders 2048,2048,2048,1280 -w 256,256,256,64 --thread-concurrency 24577,24577,24577,10241 --no-submit-stale -c sgminer.conf

http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s196/nicknrd/Crypto/da8503f7-11d3-4f0d-bb4f-fdab926dfd3a.png

I hope this helps some of you 290 owners, they can be a bit  . . . odd.

Thanks to Lasybear and Remember remember the 5th of November, I've been following this since the Girino release and now that I've found some stable settings I'm happy to send you guys a donation. It's not a lot but it's the least I could do. I'm looking forward to seeing what this new version of sgminer can bring to the table with all these additions being brought in to one source.

Remember folks, if the miners works for you please donate to these guys to say thank you for their work.

[Edit: added second guide]
[Edit: shaders should be 2560 for the 290, Doh!]
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Re: [ANN][X11] X11 (Darkcoin etc) miner (based on sph-sgminer)
by
NRD
on 26/05/2014, 00:02:44 UTC
Does anyone want to test updated version (intensity > 15)?
Changes may bumps (or not! - test only due to i haven't R9 290x) hashrates only on R9 290x. Tested R9 280x and R9 270x - no more hash rate while increasing intensity in compare to previous version.
Requirements:
0. I'll provide only zipped sources dropbox link.
1. R9 290x
2. Sufficient skills to compile in your environment.

Thanks for your work Lasybear(Edit: and thanks RRT5ON as well!), I can't help with compiling to test it atm but I'm sure there will be a few along soon enough. What have you changed in this version? Is it just a change to the intensity limit?

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Re: [ANN][X11] X11 (Darkcoin etc) miner (based on sph-sgminer)
by
NRD
on 25/05/2014, 23:58:57 UTC
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the difference between this miner and the 2% fee one is that this is built on sph-sgminer and the 2%fee version is built on sgminer 4.1 is it not?
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Re: [ANN][X11] X11 (Darkcoin etc) miner (based on sph-sgminer)
by
NRD
on 25/05/2014, 11:56:44 UTC
Try fiddling with worksize, i.e reducing it.
Tried 32, 48, 64, 96, 128, 192. The best result was 2.74 MH/s at --worksize 64.
i have same problem by my 290, it seems that improvement is not support for 290s cards

best i can get is 2.9mhs

Sounds weird and took me a while, but many GPU threads seem to work well on 290s with this kernel.
This is what I run now on 290 TRI Xs under PIMP, gives me about 3,4 MH.
It crashes sometimes on startup, but once it runs its rather stable.

There seems to be a limit of 10 threads in sgminer, wouldn't it sound legit to have 11 threads then?

"intensity" : "15",
"worksize" : "256",
"lookup-gap" : "1",
"thread-concurrency" : "25601",
"expiry" : "1",
"auto-fan" : true,
"log" : "5",
"queue" : "0",
"scan-time" : "1",
"gpu-threads" : "10",
"vectors" : "1",
"temp-cutoff" : "95",
"temp-overheat" : "85",
"temp-target" : "75",
"temp-hysteresis" : "3",
"gpu-fan" : "40-100",
"gpu-engine" : "1055",
"gpu-memclock" : "1250",
"gpu-powertune" : "20",
"gpu-dyninterval" : "7",


Thanks for the tip, which version are you running, the one compiled by RRT5ON? Also what clocks do you have set on your 290 Tri-x? And finally which drivers please Cheesy