those are the reason why i don't buy at launch, i still remember that sandy bridge bug on usb ports...
I'll probably wait until a 980Ti (or something similar) is released, then I'll buy a 900-series.  |
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My Gigabyte 780 Ti's had terrible coin whine at first but in a few weeks of mining it completely disappeared as they burned in. On another note, when I was autotuning with cudaminer the card was giving a high pitch screetching noise and as autotune went further the pitch of the sound increased. Sounded something like Space Invaders from the Atari. no coil whine so far with the 980's (but I don't use 5.1sound... only some bad 2.0... ) I had the same high pitch sound when autotuning with cudaminer on the 780ti. Now on msi board (at least mine) the sound system (or whatever it is called) is just below the card... so if the shielding isn't adequate, I would expect some interference. The funny thing is that my first msi board was faulty, the sound wasn't working at all (only static)... and actually the only thing it was possible to hear from it was some noise when the gpu was running. I am not sure it is really gpu fault here but rather bad shielding on the motherboard. edit: actually the 2nd card is on top of the sound processor  (which looks like a flow to me... why anybody would put something like that so close the the most power hungry part of the computer) I have a 780Ti and a 760 (both are MSI Gaming edition), on an ASRock X79 Extreme9 motherboard, and I've never heard any coil whine or other weird sounds since I first built this machine (just the whir of the fans). So I'm inclined to think you're right about it being more likely the fault of a bad MB than the cards. |
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fake  I prefer the word "tuned" or "overclocked" Don't forget to test if they run stable under a big load. Wouldn't want them to crash after long and intense use, now would you? I haven't posted in a while simply because I haven't really had anything to contribute (since I can't afford any of the new 9xx series cards yet), but I've still been following along, and I just gotta say I love the cheerful nature of this thread. No one takes anything too seriously, we all just have fun, and an excellent product is still produced. ccMiner is great, the comments & humor in this thread is great, and you all are great. So glad to be an NVidia miner!  Cheers to you all |
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Also. I have noticed that since I have been using MinerControl, Nicehash seems to be reporting less hash power than when I used ccminer alone. Any ideas why? Here are the stats. https://nicehash.com/?p=miners&a=4&d=7&addr=1F1DChiJvjyZymecjFY4JwTjrbkaeVZNKjNotice the right side of the graph. Average hash is lower than all the left part where all the hash is more compact and miner was not constantly switching from one algo to the other. It's probably because your miners are switching to other pools some of the time, so your total hashrate for NiceHash per hour is lower. Just my guess. I just noticed something else about this. The NiceHash graphs only show your hashrate PER ALGORITHM, not your total hashrate for the whole pool in general. So of course if you compare your hashrate on ONE algorithm, when you were using ccMiner alone, to mining on MULTIPLE algorithms with MinerControl, then the graph for that ONE algorithm is going to look broken and sporadic, because MinerControl switches you to other algorithms when they're more profitable for you. In addition, MinerControl also switches you to entirely different pools, if they're more profitable (and also only if you've set them up), so that will break up your hashrate with NiceHash as well. But all-in-all, since MinerControl has you mining with whatever pool & algorithm is most profitable at the time, your total income/profit is going to be higher per hour per megahash, than it would be if you were only mining a single algorithm on a single pool. In short, you have to take the data from those graphs IN CONTEXT. You can't just glance at the surface, and make a judgement from that. |
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Do any of these factor into the payout?
Legend:
general - General configuration parameters
power - Rate per KW/hour in your currency units [My power is free, so do I put .00?]
exchange - Bitcoin price in your currency units for calculating power cost in Bitcoin [Can't this be parsed somehow from the latest exchange prices and not hard coded to a config file?]
algorithms - List of supported algorithms
power - Watts your GPU pulls when mining an algorithm [I run 8 GPUs, do I put the watts for 1 GPU? The combined estimated watts for all 8 of the GPUs? OR the combined watts for the entire PC from the wall?] First off, only the pools you mine in do any factoring of your payouts. Miner Control only uses the APIs from the pools, plus some info from you regarding your mining hardware, to calculate an estimated profitability for each algorithm/pool. None of the parameters in the config file have any direct effect on the payouts received from any pools, they only help the tool to accurately pick which pool/algo to mine. "General" is a title, a heading. It's only used for organizing the config file to make it easier for humans to read (and presumably, any aliens capable of reading English ). If your electricity is free, then yes you can put 0 for power cost. (where are you, that you get free electricity??) I've often wondered about the exchange data, as well. I suppose it could be pulled from a few different exchanges (almost all of them offer APIs for this kind of thing), and the values averaged together to come up with a general BTC value. We would probably only need to put in what fiat currency we use, so it knows what data to read. I'm sure StuffOfInterest could look into this when he's finished with more important things (or I could, once he opens the code to the public, and if he lets me help with coding ) Algorithms - not sure what help you need here? Power - this is the power usage of all GPUs you're going to be using for mining. You enter the total wattage, so yes you could enter the total amount being pulled by your entire rig, or just the total of all the GPUs added up. Doesn't really make a difference either way, but if you want to know your true profit compared to power costs, then I would enter the amount your rig pulls from the wall. …of course, in your case, you could be burning through 1.21 jigawatts and it wouldn't matter since your electricity is free!  lol |
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How's the work coming along for WafflePool??
Waiting for them to produce a realtime API. Ok. Hopefully they will soon  By the way, I see you use 0.90 as weight in your .conf file. Why would one not trust the reported price of the pool? If I don't want to put any weight, I simply use 1 as value, right? He weights NiceHash slightly lower, since both NiceHash and WestHash provide exactly the same payout, and he is geographically closer to WestHash (thus the tiny weight difference will usually only make NiceHash reported profitability slightly less than WestHash, but not affect the value of WestHash against any other mining pools). I use a weight of 0.99 on NiceHash for the same reason. And yes, you can just put 1 for no weight, or remove that line entirely. Also. I have noticed that since I have been using MinerControl, Nicehash seems to be reporting less hash power than when I used ccminer alone. Any ideas why? Here are the stats. https://nicehash.com/?p=miners&a=4&d=7&addr=1F1DChiJvjyZymecjFY4JwTjrbkaeVZNKjNotice the right side of the graph. Average hash is lower than all the left part where all the hash is more compact and miner was not constantly switching from one algo to the other. It's probably because your miners are switching to other pools some of the time, so your total hashrate for NiceHash per hour is lower. Just my guess. Finally, what is the purpose of providing the hashrate, power and exchange values? Are they only used as visual reference in the GUI or are they used to calculate something?
Sorry if all these questions sound dumb but I'd rather ask than remain ignorant! They are used to calculate the profitability of each algorithm/pool, yes. The "Net" column indicates this. (ie, hashrate x price = earn, and earn - fees - power = net…not precisely how the calculations work, but it should help you get the general idea) This is how the tool knows which algorithm/pool to mine, by judging which is most profitable from these numbers (the one with the highest Net). |
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there is nothing else in error.log, only those two errors/lines. With 1.1.1 version i had same problem, error.log is 66kb big (was in use for ~4 days) and again with same errors like 1.1.2 + two lines with this:
27.09.2014 16:40:06
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Type: InvalidOperationException
Message: Process has exited, so the requested information is not available.
Stack trace: at System.Diagnostics.Process.EnsureState(State state)
at System.Diagnostics.Process.get_MainWindowHandle()
at MinerControl.MiningEngine.StartMiner(PriceEntryBase entry, Boolean isMinimizedToTray)
He means your Windows Event logs, not the MinerControl error log. As he explained, if the program crashes then it won't be able to write anything to the error log before it dies, but Windows may have logged something from the crash. To check your Windows Event logs, find My Computer, or just "Computer" (either on the Desktop, or in your Start Menu) and right-click it. Select "Manage" (you must be an Administrator to do this). In the left-hand tree, click on Event Viewer. Give it a moment to read the logs (can take anywhere from a couple seconds to a full minute depending on your drive speed and how long the logfile is). The logs are sorted by type, and marked by how long ago they occurred, so depending on how long ago MinerControl crashed, I would suggest looking through the logs in "Error" and "Warning" (most likely Error), for the last hour if it crashed recently, and 24 hours if you're not sure (but you are sure it happened within the last day). Look for anything having to do with MinerControl.exe Hope this helps |
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A user wouldn't have to change the code to remove donation mining, just set the donation percentage to "0".
The process will be transparent and configurable by the user. Here is how I plan to implement it.
There will be two configuration parameters, "donationpercentage" and "donationfrequency". The percentage will default to "2" and the frequency will default to "240". While in auto mode, at the end of each frequency of minutes, the miner will stop and restart mining against the donation address and continue for the percentage of that frequency of time. With the defaults, it means that after 3 hours, 55.2 minutes of auto mining it will mine against the donation address on whatever is paying best for 4.8 minutes and then switch back to the user's address.
The code messiness will come from the time accounting side to make sure I only mine in donation mode at the set intervals for the set amount of time.
Does the program remember the total time, or does it reset whenever you hit the stop button. I, when I use the rig, often have to stop and start the program again due to fluctuations in need. If the counter resets, it would cause the donation time to be postponed again and again. Nothing has been coded yet but my intention is to use a separate time tracker for mining time in auto mode since last donation round. If you hit the stop button and later the auto button again the value will be preserved. If you exit, you loose the value. If someone was in a scenario where they need to exit or reboot more often and they still want to do donation mining then they could set a lower frequency time. This would just cause shorter donation mining sessions. There is another feature I've thought about adding in which sounds like something your usage model would benefit from. If I can come up with a good way to detect when the screen saver is active, it would be possible to have MinerControl only start the miner when the screen saver is on and kill the miner as soon as the screen saver goes off. I need to research that one some more. I'm not sure if this will work, but it could be a way of getting Miner Control to "remember" how much time has passed since the last round of donation mining. Perhaps allow it to save a small text file, containing the amount of time auto-mining elapsed, since the last round of donation mining completed. It could read this file upon startup, to continue the timer where it left off, and rewrite it upon stop/exit. If it was in the middle of donation mining upon stop/exit, then it could store a separate "clock" for that as well, so it would know to just start with donation mining, and finish out the last round. Of course it wouldn't write or use this file at all, if donation mining is set to 0. EDIT: May also want to include some kind of "catch" for this feature, in case the application did not stop/exit gracefully last time. IE, just ignore the text file, and restart the timer. |
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Yes, please work with StuffOfInterest on this! I love CoinKing's auto-exchange features (being able to exchange for any altcoin, not just BTC), but I also love the auto-algo-switching of Miner Control, so it would be GREAT to be able to use both together!
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any plans for ccminer to add statistics like other miners out there or is there a version that has that already?
Average hashrate, current difficulty, etc would all be nice
ccMiner and nvMiner both have average hashrate statistic. Using the "split screen" tool also gets you other statistics & info. |
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so how does this compare with Awesomeminer, pretty much the same? (in terms of profitability)
Awesome miner seems glittery/polished, but i just care about performance
It uses the same calculations, but has more functionality and supports more pools. But still doesn't work well with ccMiner, despite their claims. I'm sticking with Miner Control, because it's more stable, and Awesome Miner doesn't really support any more pools (that I would use) than Miner Control anyway. Awesome Miner was originally built for AMD GPUs and ASIC hardware, and not really intended to be free software either. A free version, and "support" for NVIDIA cards were both just kinda thrown in to try to increase their customer base. The free version may be acceptable for small-time miners (which I am), but it's still rather limited, and simply not stable enough for people using NVIDIA cards. If I had an ASIC miner, then I would probably use Awesome Miner to control it, but I would still use Miner Control for my GPUs. |
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Is this a good pool? What are the fees?
I think it's a good pool in general, but for X11 coins especially. The fact that it will auto-exchange coins for you is a huge plus, because you are NOT forced to exchange for Bitcoin, if you don't want to. In fact, immediately exchanging for Bitcoin actually hurts the altcoins you're mining, so I would strongly encourage you to NOT set your auto-exchange for Bitcoin, and to instead set it to exchange for whatever altcoin(s) is/are your favorite. As far as I am aware, this is the ONLY major pool that offers such a service. Fee is 1%, as per their FAQ section. Not bad at all for a pool this size, and with such unique features. |
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So I fixed my previous compiling problems with a cycle of recursive-dependency-downloading, to get all the header files & libraries that kept cropping up as missing. However, I'm now getting an error of: error : namespace "std" has no member "min" in one of the CUDA external dependencies, a file named "find.inl". Since this appears to be an actual error in coding, and is in one of the CUDA code files, I'm not really sure what to do here. Advice is very much appreciated, but please don't tell me to just go download one of the existing binaries…I need to learn how to fix problems like this. If I remember correctly you just have to delete the compat\thrust stuff. I was actually able to fix this quite easily, but then I ran into problems with various .lib files that seem to also be missing. These are proving to be much harder to get a hold of, than the missing header files. (currently trying to find/get libcurl.lib) |
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Before tackling that I want to get some of the crash issues people have been reporting addressed. The issues don't seem to affect me very often as I left MC running for nine days while I was away and it was still trucking along when I got home. I restarted before bed last night with the new error logging code and there haven't been any logged errors on my machine in the last eight hours. Got some errors from the log here for you, hope it helps! 13:12:36
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Message: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
Stack trace: at MinerControl.Services.NiceHashServiceBase.DownloadStringCompletedBalance(Object sender, DownloadStringCompletedEventArgs e)
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Message: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
Stack trace: at MinerControl.Services.NiceHashServiceBase.DownloadStringCompletedCurrent(Object sender, DownloadStringCompletedEventArgs e)
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Message: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
Stack trace: at MinerControl.Services.NiceHashServiceBase.DownloadStringCompletedBalance(Object sender, DownloadStringCompletedEventArgs e)
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Message: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
Stack trace: at MinerControl.Services.NiceHashServiceBase.DownloadStringCompletedBalance(Object sender, DownloadStringCompletedEventArgs e)
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Message: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
Stack trace: at MinerControl.Services.NiceHashServiceBase.DownloadStringCompletedCurrent(Object sender, DownloadStringCompletedEventArgs e)
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Message: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
Stack trace: at MinerControl.Services.NiceHashServiceBase.DownloadStringCompletedCurrent(Object sender, DownloadStringCompletedEventArgs e)
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Message: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
Stack trace: at MinerControl.Services.NiceHashServiceBase.DownloadStringCompletedCurrent(Object sender, DownloadStringCompletedEventArgs e) On an unrelated note, looks like someone did a round of donation mining to my address a couple of days ago. Thanks for that. One future "feature" I'm thinking of adding in is an ability to let MC mine to the donation address a set percentage of time. Even 1% would work out to 14 minutes out of a day. Have to do some more thinking first of the most transparent way of implementing this so that users can opt in or out and set the frequency and length of the donation sessions. This sounds like a great idea. Perhaps integrate some areas of the .CONF file into a graphical "Settings" window, for some of the most common settings people change. (basically the options in the window would just update the file with the new data once confirmed/closed…same thing as manually editing it, but just faster & easier, and without having to restart the tool to apply changes) In this, include an optional "checkbox" setting for donation mining, including a setting for how much time to spend on it (% of each day). I would recommend having it un-checked by default, so that people don't think you're being dishonest, but in any case this would allow people to easily choose to donate if they wish, and choose how much, without a lot of tinkering with the .CONF file (would also allow easier setup for new users, which is always a plus). I know you already have a lot of suggestions on your plate, but I love the work you've been doing with everything and want you to know you have my support. In fact, I'm a bit of a "tinkerer" with software development myself (I use MS Visual Studio Pro 2013), so if you'd ever like some help in your work, send me a PM sometime. |
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yaamp and tmb
balance is not show up
in mc 1.03 and pool
As explained by the dev before, Yaamp and TMB API's do not support balance reporting (currently only supported by NiceHash/WestHash). Those pools also do not update your balance very frequently, even on their own websites. You'll have to be patient, and take up the issue with them if they still do not show a balance for you after some time. Of course, also make sure your wallet address settings with those pools are correct. |
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So I fixed my previous compiling problems with a cycle of recursive-dependency-downloading, to get all the header files & libraries that kept cropping up as missing. However, I'm now getting an error of: error : namespace "std" has no member "min" in one of the CUDA external dependencies, a file named "find.inl". Since this appears to be an actual error in coding, and is in one of the CUDA code files, I'm not really sure what to do here. Advice is very much appreciated, but please don't tell me to just go download one of the existing binaries…I need to learn how to fix problems like this. |
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I'm trying to compile the source too (using djm34's latest "m7v7" code), and I'm using VS 2013 with CUDA 6.5, but I keep getting errors: Error 3 error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'pthread.h': No such file or directory C:\Users\Travis\OneDrive\Documents\Visual Studio Projects\ccminer-master\miner.h 13 1 ccminer
Error 5 error MSB3721: The command ""C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v6.5\bin\nvcc.exe" -gencode=arch=compute_35,code=\"sm_35,compute_35\" --use-local-env --cl-version 2013 -ccbin "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\VC\bin\x86_amd64" -I. -Icompat -Icompat\jansson -Icompat\getopt -I"..\pthreads\Pre-built.2\include" -I"..\curl-7.29.0_x64\include" -I"..\OpenSSL-Win64\include" -I"C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v6.5\include" -I"C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v6.5\include" -I"C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v6.5\include" --opencc-options -LIST:source=on --keep --keep-dir x64\Release -maxrregcount=80 --ptxas-options=-v --machine 64 --compile -cudart static -DWIN32 -DNDEBUG -D_CONSOLE -D_CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS -DCURL_STATICLIB -DSCRYPT_KECCAK512 -DSCRYPT_CHACHA -DSCRYPT_CHOOSE_COMPILETIME -D_MBCS -Xcompiler "/EHsc /W3 /nologo /O2 /Zi /MT " -o x64\Release\keccak256.cu.obj "C:\Users\Travis\OneDrive\Documents\Visual Studio Projects\ccminer-master\Algo256\keccak256.cu"" exited with code 2. C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\V120\BuildCustomizations\CUDA 6.5.targets 593 9 ccminer At a glance, I would guess that "pthread.h" is missing, causing both errors. But I'm no dev. cudamining.co.uk there is a tutorial (and there is also the binaries...) The tutorial says that if I/we get a different error, to post it here. I got a different error, so I posted it here. In case the binary still managed to somehow compile despite the error, I went to the output directory, but the only useful thing I found there was a text log of the failed build attempt (with the same errors as what I've already posted). |
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look again it is there
(I have to confess that I didn't understood at first either...)
its a file called windows_general 64 EDIT:thank you and still using visual studio 2010 i guess EDIT:nope need visal studio 2013 for $13,000 oooo well im done working very well with vs2010 o ok but it says on loading i need vs2013 so ill bypass that and try again cause i have vs2010 installed. it doesn't say that, it says it works (too) with vs2013 (the latest edition) ok good thank you says No supported version of vs was found. some components of the CUDA toolkit will not work properly.please install vs to get the full functionality and it has a update on drivers As I said earlier don't bother with that... yep i quite but i would like to learn how to compile I'm trying to compile the source too (using djm34's latest "m7v7" code), and I'm using VS 2013 with CUDA 6.5, but I keep getting errors: Error 3 error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'pthread.h': No such file or directory C:\Users\Travis\OneDrive\Documents\Visual Studio Projects\ccminer-master\miner.h 13 1 ccminer
Error 5 error MSB3721: The command ""C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v6.5\bin\nvcc.exe" -gencode=arch=compute_35,code=\"sm_35,compute_35\" --use-local-env --cl-version 2013 -ccbin "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\VC\bin\x86_amd64" -I. -Icompat -Icompat\jansson -Icompat\getopt -I"..\pthreads\Pre-built.2\include" -I"..\curl-7.29.0_x64\include" -I"..\OpenSSL-Win64\include" -I"C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v6.5\include" -I"C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v6.5\include" -I"C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v6.5\include" --opencc-options -LIST:source=on --keep --keep-dir x64\Release -maxrregcount=80 --ptxas-options=-v --machine 64 --compile -cudart static -DWIN32 -DNDEBUG -D_CONSOLE -D_CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS -DCURL_STATICLIB -DSCRYPT_KECCAK512 -DSCRYPT_CHACHA -DSCRYPT_CHOOSE_COMPILETIME -D_MBCS -Xcompiler "/EHsc /W3 /nologo /O2 /Zi /MT " -o x64\Release\keccak256.cu.obj "C:\Users\Travis\OneDrive\Documents\Visual Studio Projects\ccminer-master\Algo256\keccak256.cu"" exited with code 2. C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\V120\BuildCustomizations\CUDA 6.5.targets 593 9 ccminer At a glance, I would guess that "pthread.h" is missing, causing both errors. But I'm no dev. |
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