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SOLD - Corsair 1200i PSU- BRAND NEW, NEVER OPENED - $225 shipped
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SleezyPet
on 06/05/2014, 02:19:53 UTC
SOLD


I have a brand new unopened Corsair 1200i PSU up for grabs. I just received it back from a RMA for my 1200(non i) that was purchased in August of 2010. Apparently they are phasing out the 1200 model and replacing it with the 1200i.

You will still have 3 of the 7 years left on the warranty. I will send you a digital copy of the invoice so you will be able to claim an RMA effortlessly if needed.

I will let it go for $225 shipped. Yes, I know. It's a fantastic price. I don't expect it to be around for long. While I don't have any feedback on here I do have reputable feedback on other sites, mainly ebay and overclock.net....

http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&userid=paintballll14&ftab=AllFeedback

http://www.overclock.net/classifieds/feedback/index/user_id/258365

I'll be more than welcome to verify that I am in fact both of those users if you like.


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Re: [ANN][EXE] Execoin - Fast | ASIC resistant | Multipool proof | KGW | no-premine
by
SleezyPet
on 23/03/2014, 23:30:29 UTC
So my main rig has been dead for about a week now. It held the execoin wallet. I kept a backup but my only means of accesing it currently is via my linux rig.

I'm trying to figure out how to install the wallet on ubuntu 13.10. I install all the correct dependencies listed in the "readme-qt" settings. After that there are really no instructions. So I assumed I would just run the file via ./ but when I do this I get back the error saying permission denied.

I have tried it both in sudo and root with the same results.

Any suggestions?

Try setting the binary to executable with the following command:

Code:
chmod 755 filename

Replace filename with the actual name of the file you're trying to execute.

I've tried that along with +x instead of 755, both with no luck. That's simply trying to run the built executable for ubuntu 12.04. I have the source and dependencies installed, I'm just not sure what I'm supposed to do after that. The instructions that I was directed to for the qt wallet seems to just list the dependencies needed for installation. As far as I can tell it doesn't list a specific file I need to run.

https[Suspicious link removed]coin/blob/master/doc/readme-qt.rst

I believe that's the supposed readme for what I want to install.

So what steps did you take after installing the dependencies? Did you compile it with qmake and then make? What was the output of compiling?

That's the problem. qmake what and in which directory? There are multiple directories in the source download, along with multiple files. That was the part I was unclear about.

Also, why not just copy the wallet.dat file to a machine that you already have the Execoin wallet working on?

I only created/accessed the wallet on my main gaming windows rig. As I said I do have a backup. The problem is that the only rigs that I have left (that I trust) is my ubuntu mining rig and laptop running a ubuntu live boot cd (faulty hdd).
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Re: [ANN][EXE] Execoin - Fast | ASIC resistant | Multipool proof | KGW | no-premine
by
SleezyPet
on 23/03/2014, 19:50:32 UTC
So my main rig has been dead for about a week now. It held the execoin wallet. I kept a backup but my only means of accesing it currently is via my linux rig.

I'm trying to figure out how to install the wallet on ubuntu 13.10. I install all the correct dependencies listed in the "readme-qt" settings. After that there are really no instructions. So I assumed I would just run the file via ./ but when I do this I get back the error saying permission denied.

I have tried it both in sudo and root with the same results.

Any suggestions?

Try setting the binary to executable with the following command:

Code:
chmod 755 filename

Replace filename with the actual name of the file you're trying to execute.

I've tried that along with +x instead of 755, both with no luck. That's simply trying to run the built executable for ubuntu 12.04. I have the source and dependencies installed, I'm just not sure what I'm supposed to do after that. The instructions that I was directed to for the qt wallet seems to just list the dependencies needed for installation. As far as I can tell it doesn't list a specific file I need to run.

https://github.com/execoin/execoin/blob/master/doc/readme-qt.rst

I believe that's the supposed readme for what I want to install.

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Re: [ANN][EXE] Execoin - Fast | ASIC resistant | Multipool proof | KGW | no-premine
by
SleezyPet
on 23/03/2014, 17:00:09 UTC
So my main rig has been dead for about a week now. It held the execoin wallet. I kept a backup but my only means of accesing it currently is via my linux rig.

I'm trying to figure out how to install the wallet on ubuntu 13.10. I install all the correct dependencies listed in the "readme-qt" settings. After that there are really no instructions. So I assumed I would just run the file via ./ but when I do this I get back the error saying permission denied.

I have tried it both in sudo and root with the same results.

Any suggestions?
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Re: [ANN][EXE] Execoin - Fast | ASIC resistant | Multipool resistant | no-premine
by
SleezyPet
on 15/03/2014, 19:27:12 UTC
haha another crap coin.

as crap / good as any other alt coin including litecoin.

Its all a big bag of crap just like e-mail was back in the 80s. This isn't the final solution.

The question is if this coins profitable. Fool.

Do people not do ANY research on coins these days?

That's not true at all as 99% of those "crap" coins you speak of fall into the standard scrypt algo category that will be dominated by scrypt ASIC's in the next 6 months or less.

This coin however is really the only other the successful coin outside of Vert that provides a solution for this and therefore setups a fantastic outlook with a exponential price rise being a no brainier. It even has a one up on Vert a few ways.
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Re: [ANN][EXE] Execoin - Fast | ASIC resistant | Multipool resistant | no-premine
by
SleezyPet
on 14/03/2014, 11:36:27 UTC
Man, I woke up and checked this thread first and foremost. I figured the coin would have to drop some over night because of all the attention it was getting aka brining in pump and dumpers.

The way some people were commenting made me nerveous then I checked the price and saw it was at 21k. That's actually pretty freaking solid given the circumstances.

Just shows that exe is not a crap coin and is here to stay!
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Re: [ANN][EXE] Execoin - Fast | ASIC resistant | Multipool resistant | no-premine
by
SleezyPet
on 14/03/2014, 01:51:55 UTC
I like execoin much but its way overpriced right now I think

Not even close. You'll just get hurt by waiting to buy.
man be realistic, look at the difficulty and compare it with the profits of mddlecoin

Do you even know what execoin is about? It's the answer to all the problems that are haunting standard scrypt mining right now, including multipools such as middlecoin. This will be a long term coin and you'll look back on it facepalming so hard for your "overpriced" comment at the time.

This isn't some overhyped pump and dump. This is people investing in the future of the crypto world.
a triple facepalm on that one

Okay then.  Smiley

Also if difficulty to profit is what's throwing you off, don't worry. KGW is being implemented in the next 12-24 hours which will fix all of that.
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Re: [ANN][EXE] Execoin - Fast | ASIC resistant | Multipool resistant | no-premine
by
SleezyPet
on 14/03/2014, 01:42:35 UTC
I like execoin much but its way overpriced right now I think

Not even close. You'll just get hurt by waiting to buy.
man be realistic, look at the difficulty and compare it with the profits of mddlecoin

Do you even know what execoin is about? It's the answer to all the problems that are haunting standard scrypt mining right now, including multipools such as middlecoin. This will be a long term coin and you'll look back on it facepalming so hard for your "overpriced" comment at the time.

This isn't some overhyped pump and dump. This is people investing in the future of the crypto world.
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Re: [ANN][EXE] Execoin - Fast | ASIC resistant | Multipool resistant | no-premine
by
SleezyPet
on 12/03/2014, 23:39:49 UTC
Just trying to figure out why I my reference 290 and 290x can't get past 370Kh/s (on each card, not combined thank god). They are running in ubuntu 13.10 off 14.2 drivers, ADL 6.0, SDK 2.9, and the latest vertminer. Before yous say "it's dem beta drivers!!!!" know that the PTS miner, scrypt, and scrypt keccak have all run fine at decent hash rates. The flags I have are as follows...

290x
Code:
./vertminer --nscrypt -o stratum+tcp://east1.us.stratum.dedicatedpool.com:3369 * -u 0ut1awed.1 -p x -d 0 -v 1 -w 512 -I 13 -g 2 --lookup-gap 2 --thread-concurrency * 24000 --gpu-memclock 1490 --gpu-engine 1020 --gpu-powertune 20

290
Code:
./vertminer --nscrypt -o stratum+tcp://east1.us.stratum.dedicatedpool.com:3369 * -u 0ut1awed.2 -p x -d 1 -v 1 -w 256 -I 13 -g 2 --lookup-gap 2 --thread-concurrency * 24500 --gpu-memclock 1500 --gpu-engine 1000 --gpu-powertune 20

Intensity of anything over 13 (even on a single thread) would give me HW errors. Even at these settings after about 340k accepts, I have approximately 1k rejects and 80 HW errors (on each card, give or take). I have also tried dialing back the memory and increasing/decreasing clocks to no avail. As for the TC I tried everything from 10240 to 27000 with pretty much zero change. I setup specfic multiples of the 2816 on my 290x. At 4x(11264) I was getting 355Kh/s. Then at 5x(14080) and 6x(16896) I was back at the 370-375Kh/s average.


Any help would be greatly appreciated.


I don't know if this will help you or not, but the one 290 I have is far better with one thread (-g 1), and I can set an intensity of 20 with no problems whatsoever.

I am running Xubuntu 13.10 and AMD 13.12 drivers, and I get a solid 445 Kh/s with these settings, which are identical to what I was using for vertcoin:

Code:
./vertminer --scrypt-vert -d 2 -g 1 -w 512 -I 20 --thread-concurrency 24550 --gpu-engine 1000 --gpu-memclock 1500  --gpu-powertune 20

http://i457.photobucket.com/albums/qq292/swaz_photos/290.jpg

Also, you shouldn't need to run separate instances of vertminer for each card unless you need to run one thread for one and two threads for another.  I only have to do this on this rig that has two 280x's running with -g 2 and a 290 running with -g 1.


Yea I prefer to have two separate windows since I run separate flags for each.

Also I wish one thread with a higher intensity was possible but as I said in the quote text, I can't get over an intensity of 13 without HW errors even on one thread.
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Re: [ANN][EXE] Execoin - Fast | ASIC resistant | Multipool resistant | no-premine
by
SleezyPet
on 12/03/2014, 19:21:18 UTC
Just trying to figure out why I my reference 290 and 290x can't get past 370Kh/s (on each card, not combined thank god). They are running in ubuntu 13.10 off 14.2 drivers, ADL 6.0, SDK 2.9, and the latest vertminer. Before yous say "it's dem beta drivers!!!!" know that the PTS miner, scrypt, and scrypt keccak have all run fine at decent hash rates. The flags I have are as follows...

290x
Code:
./vertminer --nscrypt -o stratum+tcp://east1.us.stratum.dedicatedpool.com:3369 * -u 0ut1awed.1 -p x -d 0 -v 1 -w 512 -I 13 -g 2 --lookup-gap 2 --thread-concurrency * 24000 --gpu-memclock 1490 --gpu-engine 1020 --gpu-powertune 20

290
Code:
./vertminer --nscrypt -o stratum+tcp://east1.us.stratum.dedicatedpool.com:3369 * -u 0ut1awed.2 -p x -d 1 -v 1 -w 256 -I 13 -g 2 --lookup-gap 2 --thread-concurrency * 24500 --gpu-memclock 1500 --gpu-engine 1000 --gpu-powertune 20

Intensity of anything over 13 (even on a single thread) would give me HW errors. Even at these settings after about 340k accepts, I have approximately 1k rejects and 80 HW errors (on each card, give or take). I have also tried dialing back the memory and increasing/decreasing clocks to no avail. As for the TC I tried everything from 10240 to 27000 with pretty much zero change. I setup specfic multiples of the 2816 on my 290x. At 4x(11264) I was getting 355Kh/s. Then at 5x(14080) and 6x(16896) I was back at the 370-375Kh/s average.


Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Also....
GET OFF OF DEDICATED POOL! IT HAS MORE THAN HALF THE HASH AND HAS FOR QUITE SOME TIME.

Why is it still listed as the first pool in OP (with "NEW!" beside it none the less)?


With all these coins going down the drain do people really want their investments to continue to be flushed away?
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Re: The big VTC Vertcoin settings thread
by
SleezyPet
on 12/03/2014, 03:15:29 UTC
Yeah I'm on ubuntu. It compiles the CL and spits out a bin file in the current directory. Looking at that was how I got my starting point.

No options other than output and -I 13, and still hardware errors?

Yea seems 13 was the highest I could go on intensity without HW errors. I was able to add two threads which seemed to increase the hash by almost double. Even so I feel as if my results are in the 280x range...

290x @ 370 Kh/s
Code:
./vertminer --nscrypt -o stratum+tcp://east1.us.stratum.dedicatedpool.com:3367 -u 0ut1awed.1 -p x -d 0 -v 1 -w 512 -I 13 -g 2 --lookup-gap 2 --thread-concurrency 24000 --gpu-memclock 1500 --gpu-engine 1050 --gpu-powertune 20

290 @ 370Kh/s
Code:
./vertminer --nscrypt -o stratum+tcp://east1.us.stratum.dedicatedpool.com:3367 -u 0ut1awed.1 -p x -d 1 -v 1 -w 256 -I 13 -g 2 --lookup-gap 2 --thread-concurrency 24500 --gpu-memclock 1500 --gpu-engine 1000 --gpu-powertune 20

Huh. I don't know what's causing your issues, but I know how I would solve them. Get yourself on '--xintensity 4' to go with that '-g 2'. You need the nfactor version of sgminer for that. Then you should have a decent hashrate, almost as much as the full potential of the card, plus low rejects. On a 290, xintensity 4 is in between -I 13 and -I 14. It should work. Lower the TC though.

Thanks for the help but like I mentioned a few times already I'm on linux. So no sgminer for me.
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Re: The big VTC Vertcoin settings thread
by
SleezyPet
on 11/03/2014, 17:21:43 UTC
Below is Screenshot of my 3 x R9 290 running
http://i59.tinypic.com/2i1h3yr.jpg

Well that's all nice and everything but this is the settings thread not simply "flex your muscles" thread.  Tongue

Settings please?
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Re: The big VTC Vertcoin settings thread
by
SleezyPet
on 11/03/2014, 15:58:46 UTC
I'm on ubuntu so no bin files here. Not sure what the TC is on default but taking it out defiantly does not make a difference.

I figured out my issue with the 290x, it was missing the --nscrypt flag.

Still I can get neither to stop outputting massive hardware errors.

Yeah I'm on ubuntu. It compiles the CL and spits out a bin file in the current directory. Looking at that was how I got my starting point.

No options other than output and -I 13, and still hardware errors?

Yea seems 13 was the highest I could go on intensity without HW errors. I was able to add two threads which seemed to increase the hash by almost double. Even so I feel as if my results are in the 280x range...

290x @ 370 Kh/s
Code:
./vertminer --nscrypt -o stratum+tcp://east1.us.stratum.dedicatedpool.com:3367 -u 0ut1awed.1 -p x -d 0 -v 1 -w 512 -I 13 -g 2 --lookup-gap 2 --thread-concurrency 24000 --gpu-memclock 1500 --gpu-engine 1050 --gpu-powertune 20

290 @ 370Kh/s
Code:
./vertminer --nscrypt -o stratum+tcp://east1.us.stratum.dedicatedpool.com:3367 -u 0ut1awed.1 -p x -d 1 -v 1 -w 256 -I 13 -g 2 --lookup-gap 2 --thread-concurrency 24500 --gpu-memclock 1500 --gpu-engine 1000 --gpu-powertune 20
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Re: The big VTC Vertcoin settings thread
by
SleezyPet
on 11/03/2014, 04:00:54 UTC
So I'm trying to get my 290 and 290x setup. I've been tinkering with the settings and trying to be conservative with it still with no luck.

I'm using this following config...

Code:
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
./vertminer --nscrypt -o stratum+tcp://east1.us.stratum.dedicatedpool.com:3367 -u 0ut1awed.1 -p x -d 1 --no-adl -I 15 -w 256 --lookup-gap 2 --thread-concurrency 24500 --gpu-memclock 1500 --gpu-engine 1000 --gpu-powertune 10

It will run on my 290 giving me a supposed mere 325Kh/s but the pool only reports 20Kh/s. It's probably because of all the HW errors I'm getting (I believe that's what the numbers tallying up next to HW are). When I run that same config on the 290x it reports back 900Kh/s to 1Mh/s but no accepts and doesn't even show it being up from the pool site.

I realize you have to fine tune but I feel like I'm already really modest in what I have setup.

What is the TC that it runs if you leave the --thread-concurrency part out (delete all .bin files and then pull the number out of the new file that it creates when you run vertminer again)? It should probably be greater than 24500 and it should run without any hardware errors at -I 15. It's hard to believe a 290 would get hardware errors at 24500 though - that's pretty moderate. There may be something else wrong.

If you get the new sgminer with nfactor support, (and maybe some other cgminer versions?), you can try a 290 at -g 2 --xintensity 4. I do that at --thread-concurrency 10240 and the performance is very close to that of -g 1 at high intensity, high TC. Once the clocks are optimized.

I'm on ubuntu so no bin files here. Not sure what the TC is on default but taking it out defiantly does not make a difference.

I figured out my issue with the 290x, it was missing the --nscrypt flag.

Still I can get neither to stop outputting massive hardware errors. I even tried backing down the core/mem clocks to no avail.
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Re: The big VTC Vertcoin settings thread
by
SleezyPet
on 10/03/2014, 23:02:21 UTC
So I'm trying to get my 290 and 290x setup. I've been tinkering with the settings and trying to be conservative with it still with no luck.

I'm using this following config...

Code:
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
./vertminer --nscrypt -o stratum+tcp://east1.us.stratum.dedicatedpool.com:3367 -u 0ut1awed.1 -p x -d 1 --no-adl -I 15 -w 256 --lookup-gap 2 --thread-concurrency 24500 --gpu-memclock 1500 --gpu-engine 1000 --gpu-powertune 10

It will run on my 290 giving me a supposed mere 325Kh/s but the pool only reports 20Kh/s. It's probably because of all the HW errors I'm getting (I believe that's what the numbers tallying up next to HW are). When I run that same config on the 290x it reports back 900Kh/s to 1Mh/s but no accepts and doesn't even show it being up from the pool site.

I realize you have to fine tune but I feel like I'm already really modest in what I have setup.
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Re: [GPUC] GPU Coin | Reboot Sunday March 9th
by
SleezyPet
on 09/03/2014, 01:03:14 UTC
So this is my first time using vertminer and I can not get it to work. In ubuntu 13.10 with the 14.2 cata drivers. Cgminer 3.7.1 and 3.7.3 (keccak build) run fine.

I setup the vertminer the same way i setup 3.7.3 and the configure comes back looking good. I can't get it to mine though...

Here's how I'm starting it up...

Code:
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
./vertminer -o stratum+tcp://east1.us.stratum.dedicatedpool.com:3367 -u username.1 -p x -d 1

That gives me a supposed 680Mh/s and no accepted shares (although it doesn't say reject either). I couldn't find a specfic flag for the scrypt n algo so I tried to add in the standard scrypt flag (--scrypt). When I do that it does the completle opposite, bumping down my supposed hash to 11Kh/s and droping the load on the GPU quite a bit as well. I also start getting straight rejects as well.

No matter what I do my miners in the pool website never show as being connected either.

Any suggestions?
Highlighted area tells me you're using the wrong miner. Should be kh/s for this coin

I don't think so. I'm using this...

https://github.com/Bufius/vertminer-gpu
Don't know what to say. You hash rate is 20x higher than normal and you getting no accepts so something is very wrong. Try the zip from here. instead.

That's for windows. I'm in linux.

Obviously something is wrong, You pretty much replied back with the same observation originally I posted XD.

Thanks for the help though.
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VertMiner will not work......
by
SleezyPet
on 09/03/2014, 00:55:52 UTC
So this is my first time using vertminer and I can not get it to work. In ubuntu 13.10 with the 14.2 cata drivers. Cgminer 3.7.1 and 3.7.3 (keccak build) run fine.

I setup the vertminer the same way i setup 3.7.3 and the configure comes back looking good. I can't get it to mine though...

Here's how I'm starting it up...

Code:
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
./vertminer -o stratum+tcp://east1.us.stratum.dedicatedpool.com:3367 -u username.1 -p x -d 1

That gives me a supposed 680Mh/s and no accepted shares (although it doesn't say reject either). I couldn't find a specific flag for the scrypt n algo so I tried to add in the standard scrypt flag (--scrypt). When I do that it does the complete opposite, bumping down my supposed hash to 11Kh/s and droping the load on the GPU quite a bit as well. I also start getting straight rejects as well.

No matter what I do my miners in the pool website never show as being connected either.

Any suggestions?
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Re: [GPUC] GPU Coin | Reboot Sunday March 9th
by
SleezyPet
on 09/03/2014, 00:47:38 UTC
So this is my first time using vertminer and I can not get it to work. In ubuntu 13.10 with the 14.2 cata drivers. Cgminer 3.7.1 and 3.7.3 (keccak build) run fine.

I setup the vertminer the same way i setup 3.7.3 and the configure comes back looking good. I can't get it to mine though...

Here's how I'm starting it up...

Code:
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
./vertminer -o stratum+tcp://east1.us.stratum.dedicatedpool.com:3367 -u username.1 -p x -d 1

That gives me a supposed 680Mh/s and no accepted shares (although it doesn't say reject either). I couldn't find a specfic flag for the scrypt n algo so I tried to add in the standard scrypt flag (--scrypt). When I do that it does the completle opposite, bumping down my supposed hash to 11Kh/s and droping the load on the GPU quite a bit as well. I also start getting straight rejects as well.

No matter what I do my miners in the pool website never show as being connected either.

Any suggestions?
Highlighted area tells me you're using the wrong miner. Should be kh/s for this coin

I don't think so. I'm using this...

https://github.com/Bufius/vertminer-gpu
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Re: [GPUC] GPU Coin | Reboot Sunday March 9th
by
SleezyPet
on 09/03/2014, 00:38:40 UTC
So this is my first time using vertminer and I can not get it to work. In ubuntu 13.10 with the 14.2 cata drivers. Cgminer 3.7.1 and 3.7.3 (keccak build) run fine.

I setup the vertminer the same way i setup 3.7.3 and the configure comes back looking good. I can't get it to mine though...

Here's how I'm starting it up...

Code:
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
./vertminer -o stratum+tcp://east1.us.stratum.dedicatedpool.com:3367 -u username.1 -p x -d 1

That gives me a supposed 680Mh/s and no accepted shares (although it doesn't say reject either). I couldn't find a specfic flag for the scrypt n algo so I tried to add in the standard scrypt flag (--scrypt). When I do that it does the completle opposite, bumping down my supposed hash to 11Kh/s and droping the load on the GPU quite a bit as well. I also start getting straight rejects as well.

No matter what I do my miners in the pool website never show as being connected either.

Any suggestions?
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Re: Installing cgminer 3.7.2 in linux
by
SleezyPet
on 04/03/2014, 02:00:47 UTC
Now the last problem I encountered is the fact that cgminer was reporting 600-700kh/s on both my 290 and 290x even though they were only pulling around ~200w combined from the wall and had pretty much no load. I tried a bunch of flags from the litecoin wiki for my cards which did change the kh/s a bit but still wouldn't put a decent load on the cards.

Have you set your intensity high enough? I go for I:18 but that does slow the desktop.

It was on 20 but that seemed to be the general setting suggested, as noted @ https://litecoin.info/Mining_hardware_comparison . Like I said I tried a large majority of those.

I was also using max on the 1gh pool for testing it. Not sure if that makes any difference.