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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Best Miner for a GTX 1080?
by
SweaterJacket
on 25/02/2017, 01:42:04 UTC
If you don't know how to do the basic math, you'll have a hard time with mining

This made me laugh.
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Board Pools (Altcoins)
Re: Pascal Mining What Pool is Better?
by
SweaterJacket
on 01/02/2017, 17:34:04 UTC
Suprnova is where its at.
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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: @Claymore : PASCAL miner in the making?
by
SweaterJacket
on 31/01/2017, 01:10:48 UTC
All other coins now profitable than pasa.

Not true.
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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: @Claymore : PASCAL miner in the making?
by
SweaterJacket
on 28/01/2017, 22:09:24 UTC
I've been mining on nanopool for 2 days and it works great.
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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Claymore's ZCash AMD GPU Miner v11.0 (Windows/Linux)
by
SweaterJacket
on 15/01/2017, 06:56:46 UTC


MSI Z97 Gaming 5 with an M.2 to PCI-e adapter.

I am running 7 GPUs on the gaming 5 .
I have seen some people trying that adapter  and trying the PCI-E splitter and both failed .

Does it have some special settings ?

From what I remember, someone got it working, but had to change some settings in the BIOS.
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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Claymore's ZCash AMD GPU Miner v11.0 (Windows/Linux)
by
SweaterJacket
on 15/01/2017, 06:22:17 UTC
UPDATE

     I'm a bit late to the party, but I'm getting 260-267 h/s on 10 Sapphire Nitro+ rx 480 OC 8gb cards totaling 2580 - 2610 h/s (stock bios). According to GPU-Z, each card draws an average of 115w (core), but shows intermittent spikes no greater than the maximum specified power consumption for the card (225w). Running Windows 10 on both rigs with crimson V. 16.11.5 (this is the most recent update, that I've found, that will recognize a bios mod).


GPU Settings:

Core clock = 1400
Mem clock = 2040
Voltage = +6 mV
Fan = 100%
Pow lim = +50%


.bash Settings
                                                                         _____
setx GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR 0                                     |
setx GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE 100                                    |-----------> The hashrate was more consistent once I added these variables. You don't have to use
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1                                  |                  them for 4gb cards or above.
SET GPU_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT = 100            _____|
Stratum-Port: 3336
US-Server: zec-us1.dwarfpool.com
-i 8
-allpools 1


First Rig:

Motherboard: MSI z97 Gaming 5
CPU: Pentium Haswell 3258
PSU: EVGA Supernova P2 1200w Platinum (ran my first 7 cards on this rig for a while, but could only run at -i 2 and no overclock)
SSD: 120gb (partitioned for Ubuntu (30gb) and Windows 10 (90gb))
Memory: 8gb DDR3 1600 (2 x 4gb (2x > 1x))
GPU: 5x Sapphire Nitro+ rx 480 OC 8gb (stock bios).
Risers: The green ones with the black usb cable??
Display: HDMI Headless Display Adapter (Only one is needed for the FIRST PCI-e slot recognized by the motherboard).
*Power button needed
**WIFI
***Remote access only


Second Rig:

Motherboard: Gigabyte ga-z97x Gaming 7
CPU: Pentium Haswell 3258
PSU: Rosewill Photon 1050w Gold Rated + SeaSonic SSR-650RM 650W Gold Rated (connected with dual PSU adapter)
SSD: 120gb (partitioned for Ubuntu (30gb) and Windows 10 (90gb))
Memory: 8gb DDR3 1600 (2 x 4gb (2x > 1x))
GPU: 5x Sapphire Nitro+ rx 480 OC 8gb (stock bios).
Risers: The black ones with the blue usb cable??   <------Better quality than the green ones. I recommend these.
Display: HDMI Headless Display Adapter (Only one is needed for the FIRST PCI-e slot recognized by the motherboard).
*Power and reset buttons are included ON this motherboard! Amazing.
**WIFI
***Remote access only


     I could do 8 cards on the MSI Gaming 5 (7x PCI-e + 1x M.2 ---> PCI-e adapter), but the rig lost some stability once I went over 6x GPUs, even with enough power. The Gigabyte ga-z97x Gaming 7 can house 7 cards (6x PCI-e + 1x M.2 ---> PCI-e adapter), but as I said before, stability seemed to become more of an issue with more than 6x GPUs. Each rig has been running for about a week without any resets or crashes. Just in case the miner or machine does crash, I have made some simple .bash scripts to restore all of my settings and programs upon reset. I have also used the Windows Event Log and Manager to reset in the event of a freeze crash. So all in all, I plan to have 6 cards per rig and I'll probably have to add another PSU to the first rig when I reach that point.


*DAS IMPORTANT*

     When it comes to power supplies, it is almost ALWAYS cheaper to buy 2x units and an adapter, than it is to shell out the money for even a 1200w PSU. My EVGA Supernova P2 1200w Platinum was about $220 (on sale), but I could have bought 2x  700w-850w PSUs + a convergence adapter for 2/3 the price. Also, Never purchase a PSU with a rating less than gold; it will save you both time and money in the long run.

*This is a great PSU reference guide. https://i.imgur.com/tgrbCnr.jpg

     On a final note, I am aware that there are mods to allow for more than 4 GPUs on Windows 7 and more than 5 GPUs on Windows 8, but save yourself from a giant, time consuming pain in the d!

Cheers,
SweaterJacket
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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Claymore's ZCash AMD GPU Miner v11.0 (Windows/Linux)
by
SweaterJacket
on 15/01/2017, 06:17:21 UTC


Why do not you tell people how much you reduce the clock speed graphics cards? Grin

1150/1900 obviously custom bios undervolted etc. Still pulls 890 at the wall, but the point of my post is as long as you know how to balance rails and tune everything right there is no reason you can't run a PSU at its max capacity.

Actually i will be more interested in the Motherboard used for 8 GPU and how to set it up .
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MSI Z97 Gaming 5 with an M.2 to PCI-e adapter.
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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Hacking GPU cards back into operation because I need something to do....
by
SweaterJacket
on 11/01/2017, 03:17:15 UTC
Reserved
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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Bitworks 8 GPU 4U rack mount mining rig
by
SweaterJacket
on 03/01/2017, 23:13:20 UTC
As all you can see there are 6x risers are going from MB - so it is standard one, but additional are connected through PCI splitter. And how to get them married together - it is his know-how.

And this is why it can be done only under *nix system

Just buy it - you cannot make it Smiley



its probably a Z97 gaming 5 MSI board = 7 PCIE slots - 7 GPUs
with one M.2 to PCIE ? - 8th GPU
and ubuntu should work fine.... dont need to waste money on a ubuntu wrapper

that is exactly what this rig is. I have one just like it.
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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Claymore's ZCash AMD GPU Miner v9.2 (Windows/Linux)
by
SweaterJacket
on 28/12/2016, 09:53:03 UTC
     I'm a bit late to the party, but I'm getting 250-255 h/s on Sapphire Nitro+ rx 480 OC 8gb cards totaling 1750 - 1785 h/s (stock bios). According to GPU-Z, each card draws an average of 115w (core), but shows intermittent spikes no greater than the maximum specified power consumption for the card (225w). Running Windows 10 on both rigs with crimson V. 16.11.5 (this is the most recent update, that I've found, that will recognize a bios mod).


GPU Settings:

Core clock = 1400
Mem clock = 2040
Voltage = +6 mV
Fan = 100%
Pow lim = +50%


.bash Settings
                                                                         _____
setx GPU_FORCE_64BIT_PTR 0                                     |
setx GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE 100                                    |-----------> The hashrate was more consistent once I added these variables. You don't have to use
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1                                  |                  them for 4gb cards or above.
SET GPU_SINGLE_ALLOC_PERCENT = 100            _____|
Stratum-Port: 3336
US-Server: zec-us1.dwarfpool.com
-i 8
-allpools 1


First Rig:

Motherboard: MSI z97 Gaming 5
CPU: Pentium Haswell 3258
PSU: EVGA Supernova P2 1200w Platinum (ran all 7 cards on this rig for a while, but could only run at -i 2 and no overclock)
SSD: 120gb (partitioned for Ubuntu (30gb) and Windows 10 (90gb))
Memory: 8gb DDR3 1600 (2 x 4gb (2x > 1x))
GPU: 4x Sapphire Nitro+ rx 480 OC 8gb (stock bios).
Risers: The green ones with the black usb cable??
Display: HDMI Headless Display Adapter (Only one is needed for the FIRST PCI-e slot recognized by the motherboard).
*Power button needed
**WIFI
***Remote access only


Second Rig:

Motherboard: Gigabyte ga-z97x Gaming 7
CPU: Pentium Haswell 3258
PSU: Rosewill Photon 1050w Gold Rated + SeaSonic SSR-650RM 650W Gold Rated (connected with dual PSU adapter)
SSD: 120gb (partitioned for Ubuntu (30gb) and Windows 10 (90gb))
Memory: 8gb DDR3 1600 (2 x 4gb (2x > 1x))
GPU: 3x Sapphire Nitro+ rx 480 OC 8gb (stock bios).
Risers: The black ones with the blue usb cable??   <------Better quality than the green ones. I recommend these.
Display: HDMI Headless Display Adapter (Only one is needed for the FIRST PCI-e slot recognized by the motherboard).
*Power and reset buttons are included ON this motherboard! Amazing.
**WIFI
***Remote access only


     I could do 8 cards on the MSI Gaming 5 (7x PCI-e + 1x M.2 ---> PCI-e adapter), but the rig lost some stability once I went over 6x GPUs, even with enough power. The Gigabyte ga-z97x Gaming 7 can house 7 cards (6x PCI-e + 1x M.2 ---> PCI-e adapter), but as I said before, stability seemed to become more of an issue with more than 6x GPUs. Each rig has been running for about a week without any resets or crashes. Just in case the miner or machine does crash, I have made some simple .bash scripts to restore all of my settings and programs upon reset. I have also used the Windows Event Log and Manager to reset in the event of a freeze crash. So all in all, I plan to have 6 cards per rig and I'll probably have to add another PSU to the first rig when I reach that point.


*DAS IMPORTANT*

     When it comes to power supplies, it is almost ALWAYS cheaper to buy 2x units and an adapter, than it is to shell out the money for even a 1200w PSU. My EVGA Supernova P2 1200w Platinum was about $220 (on sale), but I could have bought 2x  700w-850w PSUs + a convergence adapter for 2/3 the price. Also, Never purchase a PSU with a rating less than gold; it will save you both time and money in the long run.

*This is a great PSU reference guide. https://i.imgur.com/tgrbCnr.jpg

     On a final note, I am aware that there are mods to allow for more than 4 GPUs on Windows 7 and more than 5 GPUs on Windows 8, but save yourself from a giant, time consuming pain in the d!

Cheers,
SweaterJacket
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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: 7x PCIe Mainboards that work with 7 video cards
by
SweaterJacket
on 12/12/2016, 03:45:48 UTC
Z87-G55 confirmed to work with 7x R9 290 (using modded driver from https://litecointalk.org/index.php?topic=11761.0) with Windows 8.1:

http://i.imgur.com/DqXhkvV.png

Getting some blackscreens sometimes though, either when shutting down, booting up or closing the miner. Can't figure out why yet.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130770&cm_re=msi_gaming_5-_-13-130-770-_-Product

Again, I spent hours trying to mod the drivers on windows 7 and 8 to support 6+ gpu's, windows 10 is like $100 and no matter how many rigs you have, you'll never have to buy it again. The first rig is always the most expensive because there is a pretty steep learning curve. Also, I initially bought a 1200w psu for like $220 and it runs all 7 480s pretty well, but you can get 2 700w-850w psu's for like $75 each and the connection adapter is only about $10 or so.
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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: 7x PCIe Mainboards that work with 7 video cards
by
SweaterJacket
on 12/12/2016, 03:38:45 UTC
I currently have a 7 sapphire nitro rx 480 8gb rig running off of an msi gaming 5 mobo. If I were you, I'd invest in a 6x gpu rig and then build another one on top of that if you want more mining power. I'm currently building a new 6x gpu rig and one of the cards will be moved from my 7x rig to the new one so they both have 6x each. Also, save yourself a huge headache and use windows 10.
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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Claymore's ZCash AMD GPU Miner v9.0
by
SweaterJacket
on 08/12/2016, 08:45:17 UTC
Careful with this version, while people report no major power increase, if you ever watched the gpu power consumption in gpu-z, you will see that each card has a power spike when it finishes a share (or something in the same ballpark). If you take the avg power consumption, it might look ok for the PSU, but those spikes, if they are done at the same time on most or all GPUs, even a relatively good PSU will make the system freeze or even shutdown.

Just to confirm, there are some big PSU spikes happening.

Same here. I'm running 7 rx 480 on a single rig and had no problem with v.8. I've had to set -i 1 to stabilize the system. I'm using a Platinum EVGA psu, so its not that. Anyone have any insight?
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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Claymore's ZCash AMD GPU Miner v9.0
by
SweaterJacket
on 07/12/2016, 23:18:03 UTC
Getting +- 1600 h/s with 7 Sapphire Nitro+ rx 480 8gb stock. That's about 230 h/s each. Fuck ya Claymore!
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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: GPU Rig PORN
by
SweaterJacket
on 28/11/2016, 04:00:06 UTC
7x Sapphire Nitro+ rx 480 8gb. MSI gaming 5 mobo. 1200 watt EVGA Platinum psu. 8gb ram. 120gb ssd. The whole system runs at 1080 watts through Windows 10. Running Claymore v8 Zcash miner at 1400 h/s (200 per card).http://imgur.com/qRLsWnd http://imgur.com/ezCidLU
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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Claymore's ZCash AMD GPU Miner v8.0
by
SweaterJacket
on 25/11/2016, 08:20:14 UTC
I can't see the GPU temperature and FAN speed in Claymore (not just in v8, in older versions too). I also can't see or set any parameters in WattTool (and only see the GPU temperature and is jumping randomly between 0C and 1924761C). What could be the problem?

I use WIN 10, Catalyst 16.10.3, I have 6*RX470 and 6*RX480 rig, I get the same problem.
This is because RX4x0 cards need at least one monitor connected to the rig. You can use an hdmi dummy plug (from $9 to $15)

or get teamviewer and access from another pc.

you still need a plug to see the gpu temperatue and fan speed even if you log in with teamviewer

Try afterburner or trixx while connected with teamviewer as each program offers real time data on clock, fan speed, power consumption, etc.
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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Claymore's ZCash AMD GPU Miner v8.0
by
SweaterJacket
on 25/11/2016, 07:31:28 UTC
I can't see the GPU temperature and FAN speed in Claymore (not just in v8, in older versions too). I also can't see or set any parameters in WattTool (and only see the GPU temperature and is jumping randomly between 0C and 1924761C). What could be the problem?

I use WIN 10, Catalyst 16.10.3, I have 6*RX470 and 6*RX480 rig, I get the same problem.
This is because RX4x0 cards need at least one monitor connected to the rig. You can use an hdmi dummy plug (from $9 to $15)

or get teamviewer and access from another pc.
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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: Claymore's ZCash AMD GPU Miner v6.0
by
SweaterJacket
on 18/11/2016, 05:44:23 UTC
SilentArmy coming out with a v. 6 soon as competition?
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Board Announcements (Altcoins)
Re: [SDC] ShadowCash | Welcome to the UMBRA
by
SweaterJacket
on 13/11/2016, 18:12:14 UTC
SDC is a DNM killer.

Hopefully the inner tech will be solid enough and the whole project a true success!

SDC was supposed to be listed for Chinese investors. Do we have any news about this?

SDC Is not a darknet killer at all.. I have invested in SDC  and expect it to reach 4 or 5 dollars maybe more if we are lucky.

There market is not going to be a darknet market, The devs are not even anonymous and if they allowed drugs on there market they are on a one way ticket to life in prison, the main dev is on youtube so anyone who thinks there creating  a dark market really!?

its going to be a little anonymous market with cryptocurrency exchange and a few services for sale.



$4 or $5 per SDC is chump change. The reason any coin exists, and grows is because it has a purpose. With SDC the purpose is multi-dimensional. Absolute privacy has always been a top goal, as is communicate, barter, and complete transactions in a secure environment. It has nothing to do with selling drugs, or illicit activity, it has to do with your right to privacy. There are always individuals that operate outside the law, and there is nothing the developers can do to prevent it, nor are they responsible for anyone else's actions. Once the market goes live I will be very surprised if SDC doesn't have a market cap well over $100 million within a few weeks or months. It is simply a matter of which coin offers the most complete package, and ease of use. Doesn't take much homework to see the obvious. SDC isn't some little kiddie coin looking for a fake pump, it's the real deal and is only going to become more stable and reputable...

And beyond that, what laws are the devs expected to follow? Drugs are illegal in some countries, Bibles illegal in other countries. Many countries around the world are human rights violators and their laws should be broken. It disgusts me to see commercial outfits in free countries stifling free speech and trade at the request of dictatorial governments in other countries and decentralized services are a good way to avoid that, no matter what else they might facilitate.

Guys,

The whole point of all of these decentralized peer 2 peer blockchains is censorship resistance. That's it. The code doesn't (and shouldn't) make subjective measurements about the transactions or their payloads. It's job is not to evaluate the content, but to enable frictionless and censorship free transacting. That is the point of all of this. It's freedom. A hammer can be used to build a house or kill a person. It doesn't mean hammers should be selectively illegal. Society can enforce and regulate it's problems itself outside of the constructs of infrastructure, which is what it should have been doing all along. If a particular society has problems with people killing people with hammers, or sniffing paint, it needs to be addressed the tough way... at the human level.

Blockchain infrastructures should not cater to jurisdictions or particular sensitivities selectively. That is a slippery slope. Today we say "okay let's make an exception for not selling drugs, but everything else is okay..." and then tomorrow it's "well certain books are too controversial... we should outlaw certain books too". This is why the hard fork in Ethereum set a dangerous precedent as well. It's also critical to understand that with blockchains the centralization has shifted from the code and database to the people with commit access. We should always be vigilant about government agencies leaning on devs to make commits that introduce censorship selectively in to the code. You aren't always going to like what people sell on the market, but your choices are to not participate in those markets.

tl;dr - Guys all of this stuff is about your right to privacy and civil liberties, not about "drugs".

Very well said sir. +1
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Board Announcements (Altcoins)
Re: [ANN] Expanse (EXP) - Fair Launch, No ICO, Community DAO, based on Ethereum
by
SweaterJacket
on 13/10/2016, 07:15:36 UTC
Let us perceive a "marriage" as a contract on Borderless which is a governance platform, having said that it is easier to see the possible use case for the tech behind Expanse. A contract could potentialy be just about anything we could think of, a bank transfer, a game login,perhaps something even on the Iot, or any other kind of contract between two or more entities (addresses) depending on the future develompent of Expanse, with platforms covering the desired area of use.


Real world use is practically endless with such tech.
Plus is the fact they are a ETH fork with people working out the bugs out of it as they go, I couldnt ask for more from any dev team

Not part of the dev team, not taking money from the team or anything like that just thinking it really cool tech.

Attempts to screw blockchain will be even to the dogs ass.
Name DOGEshit coin. Really cool tech.

Huh? Anyways, Expanse has already done so much more than any of the Ethereum clones and I would argue than Ethereum itself, with much less money. LISK had, what, a 10 million ico if i recall? and they dont have nearly as much progress as we are seeing with Borderless and Expanse. And you can talk premine all day but EXP premine is mostly in tact untouched and ETH had a big premine of 13 million? and ALSO ico'ed like 50 mil... soooo i think based on the progress made here, Expanse should be about $100 based on progress that has been made.
Compare with Ether just a shame. As a flea on a dog.
85% premine is too much. Please rate the degree of selflessness  Grin
The only EXP chance is the continued ETHER success.

You either don't speak English, or have an IQ of 30.