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Re: [DVC]DevCoin - Official Thread - Moderated
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sabe
on 10/02/2014, 02:39:55 UTC
Wolong is starting to pump this coin now...
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Board Altcoin Discussion
Re: ~DigitalCoin~ 5000 DGC Draw $1000+ |{ FREE ENTRY GUESS GAME} December 12 Draw
by
sabe
on 06/12/2013, 02:09:25 UTC
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Board Mining software (miners)
Re: Official CGMINER thread - CPU/GPU miner in C for linux/windows/osx
by
sabe
on 05/08/2011, 13:45:11 UTC
Is there a way to set a different username/password for each GPU so I know what's working and what's not from my pool workers page?
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Re: Help me with a simple Linux script
by
sabe
on 03/08/2011, 14:42:19 UTC
Thanks, works like a gem!
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Help me with a simple Linux script
by
sabe
on 02/08/2011, 19:53:30 UTC
Here's what I'm trying to do, I am trying to extract the temperature from every card and send them to my web server as a GET request so I can update a database on my web server.

What I have so far:

Code:
export DISPLAY=:0;aticonfig --adapter=all --odgt | grep -o '...\...' | sed -e 's/^[ \t]*//'

This gives me:

Code:
91.00
91.50
91.00
82.50

How do I chop this with shell scripting and send it as part of a GET request as such:

Code:
GET http://www.mywebsite.com/update_temp.php?rig=1&temp1=91.00&temp2=91.50&temp3=91.00&temp4=82.50

Thanks Gurus!
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Board Pools
Re: [~5000 Gh/s] DeepBit.net PPS+Prop,instant payouts, we pay for INVALID BLOCKS too
by
sabe
on 31/07/2011, 04:41:38 UTC
Rewards on Eligius show up as "Generated".
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Board Mining software (miners)
Re: [Poll]Favorite overclocking tool[Poll]
by
sabe
on 28/07/2011, 15:54:27 UTC
aticonfig Tongue
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Board Mining support
Re: Ubuntu won't boot with video card in topmost pcie 1x slot
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sabe
on 25/07/2011, 04:15:57 UTC
Have you tried delete your Xorg.conf file? Hit ctrl+alt+f1 when it boots to a blank screen and you should be able to access the CLI.

sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf
aticonfig --adapter=all --initial
sudo reboot

This should allow Ubuntu to re-detect all your cards and reinitialize them.
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Linux + Phoenix = 1 GPU stuck in "medium / level 2" profile
by
sabe
on 25/07/2011, 03:54:37 UTC
Whenever I use aticonfig to set clocks (aticonfig allows me to set clocks beyond BIOS limits), one of my cards is always stuck in a lower power state profile for some reason.

For example, if I have a bunch of 5970s, I can set all the GPU clocks to 800,300. I fire up an instance  of phoenix on each GPU and it will report 350~360 mhash per GPU except for 1 GPU which will be hovering between 240 and 360 because its clocks keep dropping down to 500mhz. I know this isn't a temperature issue because all the cards are at the same temps.

The most obvious sign that this is a profile problem is probably the fact that this can be rectified by setting all the profiles to the same clock values in AMDOverdriveCtrl. But for reasons discussed in the first paragraph I prefer to use aticonfig. Does anyone have any idea what I can do?

Many thanks in advance.
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Re: 4 cards on an AsRock Z68 Extreme4? Advice needed
by
sabe
on 24/07/2011, 17:48:04 UTC
Yes it will work fine, I have the same setup. 3+1
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Board Bitcoin Technical Support
Re: 6 GPUs 5850 on one mainboard
by
sabe
on 23/07/2011, 19:24:40 UTC

My PSU does 1200W what should be more than enough:
6*170W = 1020W + 30W (CPU) = 1050W makes 150W for fans, mainbaord and backup.
Downclocking my GPUs to 500/300 before mining, to reduce power consumtion, doesn't work neither.


Any ideas? Why does the one pcie 1x port work, but not the other one?

Your forgetting that your 1200W PSU if its 80 Plus certified is only good for 80% of 1200 watts.  Bronze, silver, and other ratings give a little more. Say you have a gold certified at 86% thats only 1032 Watts

I ran 2 5850's and 1 5870 and had a PSU fail to work at 850 watts, needed 1000 watt PSU.  You just dont have enough in your PSU in my opinion.

You got it backwards. 1200W means it can deliver 1200W to your components, and will draw even more from the wall because of inefficiency.

In addition, most branded PSUs will happily deliver 100W-200W more than what they are rated for as well before over current protection kicks in. What you lose is some efficiency (80+ Gold PSUs for example may drop to like 80% efficiency when overloaded).
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Board Altcoin Discussion
Re: Mining Namecoins is now 2x more profitable than Bitcoins
by
sabe
on 23/07/2011, 19:20:59 UTC
http://dot-bit.org/tools/nextDifficulty.php

For those who need this info and are asking when the next difficulty jump is.
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Re: Barrier to widespread use of bitcoin
by
sabe
on 17/07/2011, 18:46:39 UTC
Talking with friends and neighbors, it seems a huge barrier is the technical nature of Bitcoin e.g. understanding it in general & how only computer-savvy users can set up a mining rig. But better and better videos are coming out explaining Bitcoin - and I guess they could always buy a pre-built mining rig Tongue I'd be happy to set one up for them too Wink

Gold wouldn't have worked well if almost everybody interested in using gold was able to mine it though!

I think mining should be a small part of bitcoin, at least much smaller than it is at the moment.
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Re: Power for 4x5830
by
sabe
on 17/07/2011, 12:51:00 UTC
I use the Corsair TX950 with 2 molex <> PCI-E convertor and it works great. And cheap Cheesy
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Re: [100 Ghps] "Catch 22 removal" service for new pool operators
by
sabe
on 14/07/2011, 05:40:09 UTC
Seriously, if I were to start a pool I would find anything below 250 or so giga bad to start - and vladimir may be able to add 50gb for the mere price of 5gb of my capacity. I will never understand why people mine in a pool that does not solve a block on avereage every 6 hours. The variance will jsut totally kill you. Whoever mines in one of those micro pools - wants thrill, not money.

You should have been around before pools, when everyone was solo mining and we all found blocks every few days. And pizzas cost 10,000 BTC.

If you found only a block every few days, it would take 2 years to accumulate 10,000 BTC for that pizzaa  Grin
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Board Mining support
Re: Driver crash? 1BTC Reward offered for solution
by
sabe
on 14/07/2011, 05:37:03 UTC
This might not be causing the problem but what power supply are you using? I looked up the watt usage for a 6950 and its 312 at full stress which x5 is 1,560 watts and that doesn't include the mobo hd ect.

Silverstone Strider Gold 1200W. I have plenty of headroom. Also, the miners crash when I try to start them when there is 0 load.

I'm kinda confused how do you plan to run 5 6950's off a 1200 w power supply if when they are mining each card runs at 312 watts? I may have that number wrong but I looked it up here:
http://www.guru3d.com/article/radeon-6950-6970-review/11

Does it crash the moment you start mining with one card or when your mining with 4 cards and you begin mining the 5th?

You do have that number wrong. 312 watts would be for that entire system.

I believe a 6950 requires 2x 6 pin slots. Each 6 pins pulls 75 watts max. The motherboard may also pull another 15 watts per card. That's 165 watts PER card times 5 cards. 825 watts, say a 125 watt CPU and another 100 watts for other stuff (multiple hdds/whatever), still under 1200 limits.

The problem does seem to be windows, have you tried in linux? I think LinuxCoin would be helpful in this situation (live, already ready for a test).

~bluefirecorp


This is not entirely correct either. Each 6 pin can deliver much more than 75 watts (although 75 watts is the recommended maximum) and often does under high overclocks. But you are in saying that 5 cards would be easily handled by the PSU. I agree that you should test it with Linux (just run LinuxCoin) to be sure that its a software issue.
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Board Mining support
Re: 1x riser causes desktop to be laggy [1 BTC reward for solution]
by
sabe
on 14/07/2011, 05:32:27 UTC
This problem is intermittent, the last 3 days has been smooth with 3 cards in without me messing with anything except restarting it a few times because it was lagging so bad I couldn't do anything. If it pops up again I will test it as suggested.
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Board Pools
Re: Pool hopping shouldn't be relevant.
by
sabe
on 13/07/2011, 14:05:09 UTC
Wrong.

Suppose pools A & B solve on average 1 block / hour. And Miner X is responsible for exactly 1% of the pool's hashing power (0.5 BTC reward for staying the entire round duration).

Miner X starts in pool A.

Precondition 1) A has not found any block for 6 hours.
Precondition 2) B just found a block a minute ago.

He has 2 options.

Option 1) Stay in A.
Option 2) Go to B.

Chances of both A and B finding a block in the next hour is exactly the same.

Expected returns (on average) after another 1 hour of mining for:

Option 1) 0.5 BTC
Option 2) 0.5 BTC (from B) + 6/7 * 0.5 BTC (from A)
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Board Mining
Re: Rack mount case?
by
sabe
on 13/07/2011, 01:22:10 UTC
The whole point for a rack mountable case, is so you can mount the cases in a rack. I want to be able to mount 10 4U cases in a rack. You can't colo motherboards on a tray.

"space efficient"
Who cares about space efficiency? The only thing that really matter for mining is cooling ability (IMO).

What? Most data centres allow you to colo non rack equipment on steel trays. Considering that you're paying for space, of course space efficiency is important. I pay half the price per rig when I squeeze 2 rigs into a 4U rack. Cooling ability in a DC? Just let it rip with some 5000 RPM fans and not worry about the noise.

It sounds like you haven't thought this through carefully.
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Re: Rack mount case?
by
sabe
on 12/07/2011, 14:57:09 UTC
None of the 4U rackmount cases I've seen are space efficient at all unfortunately.

With a standard 4U rack you can easily fit 2 motherboards (with 4 cards each) and 2 PSUs if you just leave them on a tray.