I have some HEX8A1 130 and I was planing to buy more mining power,  and now I see one technobit web page the Avalon Gen 3 based miners,  and I dont know which one is better, if this one or the hex8a1.  The price is lower but the hash power is lower too, maybe the difference is the power needed.  I dont know which one to buy.

  Same here, about 10 seconds.  I think that is normal. If you put your finger on the hotest part of a cpu, you get burned instantly.

               Here is my cgminer.conf  with average hasrate of 133 Gh after 5 hours.  Feel free to use that config, so I will see some extra mining on my account. 

{
"pools" : [
   {
      "url" : "http://uk1.ghash.io:3333",
      "user" : "tagore.HEX8A1",
      "pass" : "password"
   },
   {
      "url" : "http://us1.ghash.io:3333",
      "user" : "tagore.HEX8A1",
      "pass" : "password"
   }
]
,
"expiry" : "120",
"hotplug" : "5",
"log" : "5",
"no-pool-disable" : true,
"queue" : "1",
"scan-time" : "60",
"hexminera-voltage" : "1340",
"hexminera-options" : "16:450",
"hexminerb-voltage" : "900",
"hexminerb-options" : "16:540",
"hexminerc-voltage" : "1060",
"hexminerc-options" : "16:1400",
"hexminer8-set-diff-to-one" : "0",
"hexminer8-chip-mask" : "255",
"hexminer8-voltage" : "990",
"hexminer8-options" : "4:263",
"kernel-path" : "/usr/local/bin"
}

        0.05% hw  in 5 hours of work. I think I've found the solution, so now I'm mining at 130Gh, it seems the windows program Hexminer handle the frecuency and voltage a bit different than the windows cgminer. I've been playing a bit with those parameters, and now the windows cgminer works perfect.  I like cgminer cause Cgwatcher monitor it very well.

  Did anybody try this cgminer for windows?  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=476970.msg5903836#msg5903836

   it works to me but instead of getting 130Gh  I get 126Gh with the HEX8A1.

   Here you can see the profitability of vertcoin and multipools.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VOAhFX1XRizdaTp71qnYI5pRh9VIZEQ51LHuGUmxri0/pubhtml

   Well the profit in VTC is very volatile, but yes I've made more money there the last weeks, but now is also very low. I dont really care about now, I think about next months, so we have to wait a bit, now all is changing. If in one month or so scrypt N coins are not profitable, I will just stop GPU mining.  On Ebay GPU's still have a good price to recover some money. I've also heard a new generation of GPU's that will use half power are just coming, so our GPU's are not a solid investment for a long time at all.

    In my opinion the gridseed will kick gpu's from Scrypt, same as before the Asics kicked the Gpu from sha coins.  I've said that before and some users said that will never happen, well, I'm not an expert but I think this is already happening, slowly yes, but just wait a bit the next gridseed generation.
   Gpu's will need to move, I did it already, I just mine Scrypt-N coins, waiting to maybe wafflepool or another one makes a multipool of Scrypt-N coins.

  I had same problem. GPUs off,  you just need 8mb of ram, then all works.

      The funny thing is when I'm mining, I look the system memory and I'm just using 1.6 mb,  so I dont understand why 4mb not enough.

  I've been thinking a lot about the future when asics come. GPU's will have to move to scrypt n, thousands of miners on VTC and at the end of the day most of them trying to sell them to get some money to pay for the power and gpu cost, cause they come from a market where they were losing money cause asics. So imagine the price of VTC with thousands and thousands of new sellers.   To keep the price we need thousands of new buyers.

  Maybe large farms are already doing that, and maybe as long as they reduce it,  CEX colaborators increase it in order to have to pay only 1.25 more.

   +1

  I completely understand them,  they just want new clients and offer more reward.  They dont want all pools go there to get their money. Is there someone who cant understand something as easy as this one?.  I would do exactly the same.

        If wafflepool tomorrow give extra % to new clients, and all pools come to mine here to get his money, he will do ALL to stop them, right?

           I think one pool should not mine on another pool. If ghash.io give more reward now is to attract new clients, not to give proffit to other pools.  It is like I make a new business, I give free drinks and food for new clients, and someone comes, take all food and go to sell it to take profit.
   Imagine now clevermining has a perfect scrypt and makes a lot of money, then wafflepool mine there to get that profit.

         Not all is about to get any profit in any way.  We should keep some moral rules.

    No.

  WE?  better  say just YOU.  

   sorry, we took your money to pay a dinner with all pool members.



             Sunday you will get your money.        


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   Now we just see 1º generation of gridseeds, very soon more efficient ones will come. Same story we had with sha. GPUs will need to move to ASIC resistant coins.

   Come to my home, I have some job for you.

  Not just you, we are almost all close, except those who  seems to have free power.