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I have a failed cooler that I'd like to replace. Let me know if you've got a working one you'd be willing to part with or maybe you have a non-functional terraminer you're looking to get rid of? PM me if you have any such things!
I have a tm4 that has been collecting dust in my basement since june 2015... up until then i was mining just fine with it but lost my "free power" so i shut it down. i recently (9/27/15) fired it up and it looks like one of the cooling units is bad. otherwise everything else appears to be working ok. i moved the good cooling unit and tried it on both boards so it could probably use some new thermal paste on the chips too. i'm open to sell the whole thing as-is or possibly parting it out. i don't have the time or the know-how (without a lot of online reading that i don't have time for right now in my life) to really mess around and try to fix the cooler or find a replacement. figure someone else might, let me know. thanks
The only thing any coin ever has to DO is.... make me a profit. Beyond that I couldn't care less what happens to any coin out there.
And what coin does this? They all have shit ROI because they are all a fart in the breeze.
The question you SHOULD be asking is what "coin" is worth anything? What "coin" can I do anything at all with other than mine, hold or exchange for other "coins"?? From what I can tell they're all just hot air. There is nothing you can do with any of them. Now if you're mining for the sake of educating yourself on the hardware or technology involved in creating these bit so hot air then great. If you're seriously asking which is a better investment, then you REALLY need to think about what your doing and why your spending your hard earned money on mining equipment. Seriously do you think any of these are going to be valuable, ever? Will you really be able to EVER do anything more than mine them, hold them or trade them for other coins? And if the answer you have is yes, then PLEASE explain to us why you think this way. What about any of these scrypt, scrypt-n, scrypt jane, scrypt your mom, whatever is useful or new or will DO anything??
What I am doing is continuing to mine what I think has a future and diversifying my portfolio.
What other than BTC has a future? You can't do anything with any other "coin", they're all hot air and none of them offer anything different. The whole altruistic idea of pre-allocating for a certain population is stupid too because the ONLY thing anyone will do with it (IF they can figure out how) is cash out. NO ONE is going to offer any legit goods or services for any other than BTC and even that is pretty sketchball. All this shit is smoke and mirrors. You were correct that the people making the money are the ones selling the mining equipment but even that has had a short-lived bubble as that is no longer profitable because the market was flooded with these extremely over-priced and uncomplicated specialized computers. The general populace was interested for about 30 seconds but no longer cares. Pretty much there is no money nor any future in any of this. If you want "coins" then just buy BTC, sit on it and sell it when the bubble inflates again or just buy shit with it. Either way any other "coin" doesn't DO anything and isn't good for anything more than a cheap yet fading rush when you mine a few thousand and for about a milisecond you think oh man this might blow up! Then you realize that's not happening nor is it going to ever happen. Waste of money, all of it. So many better things to invest in... short or LONG term.
Thinking about it, why would someone buy an altcoin as there is not much that can be done with it. Everyone just converts back to BTC. There is no future earnings potential and you cannot buy something with it. The problem is that there are too many coins out there, with each one following the same pattern from rise to demise. What is needed is a market with only a few coins that are actually accepted as payment. Asics sold out on the basic principle of distributed processing by ruining both Bitcoin and soon Litecoin for the man on the street. Any Scrypt coin is doomed imo. The future for the man on the street is Asic resistant algos like scrypt-n, but then there must be some kind of motivator for people to buy it. It seems like the markets are just full of bag holding miners that want to sell. We need buyers for the coins and who will buy coins if they cannot do anything with them? The buyers out there I think is getting tired of ending up with bags of worthless coins. A lot of the new coins have weak markets because buyers dont want to burn their fingers over and over. The GPUcoin that has just launched is a atep in the right direction by providing some kind of value if it does end up being accepted for GPU purchases, but that is not enough as we need something more than that that is accepted as payment for stuff, not just being traded for other coins. If BTC can be an indicator, perhaps we should learn from it and replace Litecoin with an Asic resistant coin as the BTC alternative produced by the man on the street, not by a few powerful companies. That is of course if we want to keep processing distributed and in the hands of the man on the street.
If we dont keep processing decentralised, we can just as well usea central model where digital money is produced centrally.
If we dont keep processing decentralised, we can just as well usea central model where digital money is produced centrally.
Spot on! Who gives a rip about scrypt-n or scrypt jane coins? The only people that care are the people that mine the coins. NO ONE else is buying them and they aren't good for dick. So what's the point? Mining is a complete loosing proposition now. Even you buy into ASIC it still sucks. The ROI is terrible. You're better off just buying BTC with the money you're wasting on mining equipment at this point. Mining is a waste of time. And for the poster that said sell all your shit and get out of mining, i would love to except that the market for selling equipment sucks ass too... Miners are selling at half what they were two months ago and the GPUs themselves maxed out on price a few months ago too. All around ROI is shit. Mining is a stupid waste of time UNLESS you want to do it to learn about hardware or are into other technical aspects. There is no money in it any more. Save your money and just BTC or LTC or if you really want some garbage coin, just convert some BTC, don't bother mining. I can buy like 3.7 million Doge for the price of putting together a miner that would take me over 8 months to pay off! Haha what joke.
Yeah scrypt mining is dying for a number of reasons. And if you're like me and invested in equipment a few months ago when GPUs were all at a premium cost you're scambling to get out of mining as fast as you can. I paid about 100USD per GPU more than what they can be bought for now. I figured at the time I could at sell the miners if the mining ROI got too low. However what I didn't anticipate was how fast the mining equipment market turned from a seller's to buyer's market all while mining was becoming exponentially less profitable. Doing a bit of price analysis on ebay shows that the average mining rig is selling for about half what it was in mid Feb (2014). I've dumped all my rigs except one five card rig and I'm still running in the black and the ROI on mining itself is like 1000+ days. If I'm lucky I'll be able to make back about half of what I invested. At this point mining is dumb and waste of money. The only real value in it is for the educational value. I know about 1000x more about computer hardware than when I started so that's one good thing; otherwise it's just been heartache and disappointment. Right now is a great time to buy in because prices are low BUT that's if you're willing to hold on for a while... AND if you're not in the US being we just got it with crappy tax regulations on this stuff. All in all cryptos will end up like everything else, only profitable for a privileged few that ultimate control the markets. Makes me sad because I believed all the hype and thought maybe this really would change some for the better in the world! Haha I'm just another SUCKER I guess.
Re: Scrypt mining is dead - a real thread discussing what the title says
Amateur hour is over boys. Buck up or get off the horse! 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ8HzyMiLd0 My rig...Been running for over 2 weeks now.
I upgraded from my 8 r9 280x's 5.5mh to 30-32MH with the addition of 80 gridseeds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ8HzyMiLd0 My rig...Been running for over 2 weeks now.
I upgraded from my 8 r9 280x's 5.5mh to 30-32MH with the addition of 80 gridseeds.
Did you do any research into the quality of those things? $20k is a lot to dump on something that could be fried in a month or two.
Are you using BAMT or SMOS or something else? Don't feel bad, Linux takes a bit to get used to if you're not already using it. No worries after a few headaches you'll get it working. If you're using SMOS go to the upgrades page and he has sgminer listed with some instructions, it was pretty easy to get going and I'm no linux expert.
Upgrades page:
http://www.smos-linux.org/upgrades/
Upgrades page:
http://www.smos-linux.org/upgrades/
Re: SMOS linux 1.3 - Scrypt Mining Operating System (24.1.2014. updated)
Anyone who knows SMOS well..
I have three rigs running SMOS how do I set up to consolidate monitoring? Meaning I want to go to one IP address to view the statuses for all rigs. I know this is possible in BAMT but I'm not real sure how it actually works.
Thanks!
I have three rigs running SMOS how do I set up to consolidate monitoring? Meaning I want to go to one IP address to view the statuses for all rigs. I know this is possible in BAMT but I'm not real sure how it actually works.
Thanks!
check Mining Tips #2 on smos-linux.org/tips/ it's called mgpumon
So is do_direct_status: the IP address of the machine you are currently on OR is it the machine that you want to send the status to? Meaning the machine that will consolidate and report the data via the web page??
Thanks boss
Re: SMOS linux 1.3 - Scrypt Mining Operating System (24.1.2014. updated)
Anyone who knows SMOS well..
I have three rigs running SMOS how do I set up to consolidate monitoring? Meaning I want to go to one IP address to view the statuses for all rigs. I know this is possible in BAMT but I'm not real sure how it actually works.
Thanks!
I have three rigs running SMOS how do I set up to consolidate monitoring? Meaning I want to go to one IP address to view the statuses for all rigs. I know this is possible in BAMT but I'm not real sure how it actually works.
Thanks!
@thekitchen Thank you for posting these settings. I am running two 280x and I couldn't get it working with any of the posts referencing the 280x specifically. I am using the 7970 settings you posted and getting about 250kh/s running verminer on linux. Is there anything I should tweak to account for the 280x vs 7970? Thanks again!
Re: SMOS linux 1.3 - Scrypt Mining Operating System (24.1.2014. updated)
What logs are worth looking at to debug issues when mining? For example I had a problem with a miner I just put together. It was mining pretty well for about three days then I had to shutdown to reroute some power cables. When I booted back up two of my four GPUs weren't hashing at all and the other two were running at like 30%. In a situation like this where should I start debugging? I know my way around a command line but by no means a linux expert. Any general advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
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Thanks
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I'd tend to agree with the ecoinomist about running fewer cards on one rig and more rigs. My five card (280x) are a pain in the ass as compared to my three card 7950 rig. The three card rig has run problem free for a long while now whereas the five card rig there is always some issue I'm looking into. I understand your point and a lot of people run six card rigs but with as cheap as mobos, ram and cpu's are, it's really not a big deal to run more rigs with fewer cards... I'm pretty sure it's more cost effective to but I haven't done a spreadsheet yet to prove it!
I'm actually using SMOS which as someone pointed out is set up for the R9 cards out of the box. Just have to make sure you edit the crontab to turn off the auto donating. Otherwise it's been really rock solid for me.
And as far as SSH'ing in from work I just set up port forwarding on my wireless router so I can hit the rig from the outside world.
Good luck, get a bottle of asprin cuz you'll need it for all the headaches you're about to endure!
I'm actually using SMOS which as someone pointed out is set up for the R9 cards out of the box. Just have to make sure you edit the crontab to turn off the auto donating. Otherwise it's been really rock solid for me.
And as far as SSH'ing in from work I just set up port forwarding on my wireless router so I can hit the rig from the outside world.
Good luck, get a bottle of asprin cuz you'll need it for all the headaches you're about to endure!
I've only used BAMT with from two to five cards. Never had an issue not recognizing cards. Only once but it was because the motherboard didn't support running cards in all five slots. What motherboard are you using? BAMT works great in my opinion, I've got the rigs down in a corner in my basement so it's nice not always having to go down there to administer them.. Plus I can log in from my iphone or work computer, etc.
I'm also pretty sure that BAMT doesn't come with drivers for the R9 cards, I installed those drivers before I tried using my 280x cards on it.
As for OP, go with two 1200w PSUs or a 1300 + 1000. The psu combination you have may work fine but if all things peak out at the same time you could run into issues. Better to have more and not need it than the other way around
I'm also pretty sure that BAMT doesn't come with drivers for the R9 cards, I installed those drivers before I tried using my 280x cards on it.
As for OP, go with two 1200w PSUs or a 1300 + 1000. The psu combination you have may work fine but if all things peak out at the same time you could run into issues. Better to have more and not need it than the other way around
Re: SMOS linux 1.3 - Scrypt Mining Operating System (24.1.2014. updated)
So have the example configuration you posted on the SMOS site been tested? I just used those setting because I figured you or another user had tested for some time. If it's a GPU configure issue do you have any suggestions on where to start? Core?? Memory?? Intensity??? Thanks.
Re: SMOS linux 1.3 - Scrypt Mining Operating System (24.1.2014. updated)
Tried SMOS for the first time with three brand new Sapphire 279x cards. I used the config that's on the SMOS site. Consistently for the last day or so I have one card failing on me after any where from an hour to a few hours into mining. It's hash rate slows then it dies. The other two cards are hashing well around 470-480kh/s with few problems. I thought it might be a power problem so I hooked up one card to a separate PSU (one card on a 650 and the other two on an 860). That didn't seem to help. I do a coldreboot and sometimes it reboots no issues other times it reboots and gpumon or cgminer just don't work. I've double, tripple, quadruple checked the connectors, the power cables, ect. Not sure what other problem solving steps with this I should take. The cards do seem to work when the systems finds them and mining actually starts.
My only other experience with mining is another rig I set up with BAMT running two 7950s. I think I got spoiled there because it was SOOO easy to setup and has given me almost no problems and I'm hashing about 650kh/s per card on average. These 270s on SMOS have been nothing but headaches. Anyone having similar issues with 270x's?
Specs:
Asus M5A99X EVO mobo
Samperon 145
4gb ram
3 x apphire DUAL-X AMD Radeon R9 270X OC 2GB GDDR5
650w evga & 860w seasonic
mobo has 5 pci-e slots (three 16s, two 1s) and i'm using slot 1 (16) with riser, slot 3 (1) with riser and slot 5 (16) no riser
interesting slot 2 which is a 1 slot is not recognized by the OS at all, tried plugging into this one and the card didn't show up at all when i logged in
Any ideas? Anyone... Beuler??
My only other experience with mining is another rig I set up with BAMT running two 7950s. I think I got spoiled there because it was SOOO easy to setup and has given me almost no problems and I'm hashing about 650kh/s per card on average. These 270s on SMOS have been nothing but headaches. Anyone having similar issues with 270x's?
Specs:
Asus M5A99X EVO mobo
Samperon 145
4gb ram
3 x apphire DUAL-X AMD Radeon R9 270X OC 2GB GDDR5
650w evga & 860w seasonic
mobo has 5 pci-e slots (three 16s, two 1s) and i'm using slot 1 (16) with riser, slot 3 (1) with riser and slot 5 (16) no riser
interesting slot 2 which is a 1 slot is not recognized by the OS at all, tried plugging into this one and the card didn't show up at all when i logged in
Any ideas? Anyone... Beuler??