Longs story short, I have a friend who works at a factory that mass produces and welds all sorts of metal. So through him I'm ordering a custom mining rig frame and there is (of course) a few things I need to feel sure about before ordering 100 of those suckers. When it comes to the measures, I think I got it down. BUT! How many GPU's do you guys think such a frame should support? My instinct tells me that I should make room for 20x GPU's due to the latest motherboards coming out, but I'd love to get opinions from anyone here before I make a decision  you want 8. you want this build https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIxWgv-rsuEmany reasons why but 1080 watts and 4100 sols mean it can use 120 volts or 240 volts I think 8 is a good number, especially if you plan to sell mostly in the U.S. where most people are used to 120v/15a outlets. Going with something like 19, 20, or whatever, I think just tremendously complicates things. Vertical stacking ability for any frame would be useful. |
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I have 120v 20amp service. I need 220/240 with 1200 watts. Can I step the current up using a box off Amazon or what can I do? I've always been confused on what stepping does because I was told 220/240 requires less amps than 120v for the same power needs?
There are 2000w versions as well but if I can get more off the circuit, I'd prefer that. It's in my basement so I could have an electrician run another line from the board too if better?
Thanks!
do not use them. not really good huge shot they will over heat a 20 amp 120v will safely do 1800 watts 24/7/364 thus this psu below would work for you http://www.corsair.com/en-us/ax1500i-digital-atx-power-supply-1500-watt-fully-modular-psu-refurbishedIf you go with the 5,000w ELC and use it with just one rig or device, you should be okay. They get warm in the Summer, but they've been working fine for me for about a year. I'm in an apartment, can't run new lines. Otherwise, hell yes I would run new lines. My rule of thumb for any Chinese solar inverter, or item like this one is plan on using it at about 1/3 its rated capacity. |
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When that black foam falls off, spray it with 3M high-strength 90 spray adhesive. Position it back underneath the riser, put a book or something with some weight on the riser, leave it for a few hours. It will stay on after that. |
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I agree with the choice to delay Zerocoin implementation until the POS phase starts. It's only a few more months and having a stable and functional blockchain during the POW phase is far more important then having ZeroCoin right away. I'm also looking forward to the Masternode reward increase.  Hi, maybe you can help. I am trying to set up my Solaris MasterNode. I tried NodeShare, even sent the BTC payment, but all I get when I hit the submit button on their website is "Server Error 500." Is NODEshare still a viable business? I also looked into Node-VPS, but they seem to be out of addresses at the moment although it sounds like that might get fixed next week. Do you have any current nodes hosted on Nodeshare, and if so, is there a better way of contacting them other than " contact@nodeshare.in"? Thank you. |
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So.. to sum it up, in order to keep the rig running all the time, after every restart and so on.. First, this is how my Cast XMR folder looks like, with Cast XMR, devcon and OverdriveNTool inside: https://s18.postimg.org/d456tnk7d/Capture.jpgBelow is the bat file content (Mine.bat, which calls itself when the timer expires). I start numbering the Vegas with r1 and p1 to work with OverdriveNTool because I use the Intel iGPU. If you don't use an iGPU they should be numbered starting from r0 and p0. cd devcon.exe disable "PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_687F" timeout /t 5 devcon.exe enable "PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_687F" timeout /t 5 OverdriveNTool.exe -r1 -r2 -r3 -r4 -r5 -r6 -p1Vega56 -p2Vega56 -p3Vega56 -p4Vega56 -p5Vega56 -p6Vega56 timeout /t 1 cd @echo off echo ------------------------------------------------------------------- echo Restarts the miner every 40 minutes //you can set it to your own liking echo ------------------------------------------------------------------- echo: set executable=cast_xmr-vega.exe set commandline= -G 0,1,2,3,4,5 -S xmr-eu1.nanopool.org:14444 -u YourWalletAddress.RigNameOfYourChoice %* set runforseconds=2400 set restartinseconds=2 set /a counter=0 timeout 2 :start start "cast_xmr-vega" %executable% %commandline% echo: echo The program is going to run for %runforseconds% seconds timeout %runforseconds% taskkill /f /im %executable% cd Mine.bat echo: echo Restarting the app in %restartinseconds% seconds (%counter%) timeout %restartinseconds% set /a counter+=1 echo: echo: goto start If you want your rig running ALL the time without you having to do anything even if you restart Windows or the computer powers off, you can call your own bat when Windows starts and you can automate the login process in Windows, following these steps: Step 1: Configure BIOS Settings to power on the computer automatically if for whatever reason power is lostBefore we even get to Windows, make sure your mining computer’s BIOS settings are in order. Power on your computer, and press the “delete” key a few times immediately after power on. You should end up in the BIOS configuration area. Do the following, then save & exit: Change power options so that the computer automatically turns itself on whenever power is restored. The reason for this is two-fold: first, it’ll make sure that your miner automatically starts up after a power outage. Second, it makes powering the computer on much easier if you don’t happen to have a power switch connected to the motherboard. Disable all components that you don’t plan to use. This might save a little bit of power, and since your miner will likely be running 24/7, it’ll add up. For me, that meant disabling onboard audio, the USB 3.0 ports, one of the SATA controllers, the Firewire port, and the serial port. If you’re running a lot of GPUs (4+), additional tweaks might be necessary to ensure that they’re all recognized by the OS. Exact tweaks vary by motherboard, but setting the PCIe speed to Gen1 is usually a good place to start. No need to change anything now, but make a mental note that you may need to come back and play around a bit if all of your GPUs don’t show up in the OS later. Step 2: Configure automatic loginIf you’re building a dedicated mining rig, then you probably want your mining rig to boot up and start mining automatically, without any user intervention. We’ll need to enable auto-login for that to be possible. Right-click on the Start Menu and select “Run”. Type “netplwiz” (without the quotes) at the prompt, and click “ok”. Uncheck the box that says “Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer”. Click “Apply”. You’ll be prompted to enter your password to confirm the change. Step 3: Configure your miner to start automaticallyWe want our rig to automatically start mining whenever it’s powered on or rebooted. That way, we keep mining losses to a minimum whenever a power outage occurs, and we don’t have to worry about manually starting it back up in other situations. Open Windows Explorer and navigate to the folder where you created “mine.bat” in the previous step. Right-click on your mine.bat file, and pick “Copy”. Now, navigate to %AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup (should be something like C:\Users\[YOUR WINDOWS USERNAME]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup). Right-click anywhere on the empty background of the Startup folder and select “Paste shortcut”. You should see a shortcut to your mine.bat file appear in the startup folder. Windows should automatically execute it upon bootup. Note: This simple methods don't deal with hash rate drops you can experience when switching the VGA output on your iGPU and so on, there is the JJ script for that, but I don't experience that. This mostly works for rigs running 24/7 at home or remotely via Chrome Remote Desktop. Just wanted to say thank you for this mate; had most of the steps automated myself, other than the auto-restart which I now have from you, so thanks again! Once you get your "Run" .bat pointed to your edited CastMonitor file (modified version of JJ's script from vegaminingblog), you can copy that Run .bat file to this directory as well: Go to Windows search field at the bottom left of your screen. Type in "shell:startup" Now copy over a copy of your Run CastMonitor .bat file into the "shell:startup" folder. In your bios, as mentioned, set your computer to start up after a power interruption. If your computer reboots, it will launch your CastMonitor script and Cast.exe as more or less explained by CircusDad. |
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Official Statement - Blockchain Stall - Zerosolaris launch postponed to PoS phase
10/01/2018 2:00PM UTC the Solaris blockchain experienced a full stall on block 130116 due to a Zerocoin Implementation conflict with ongoing Proof-of-Work phase.
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The core team was forced to make a hard decision of delaying Zerocoin implementation in favour of an operational Blockchain.
Currently the Zerocoin implementation is scheduled to go live starting at block 262596 ~ 13th April, 2018.
We will research and examine if it will be possible to move this date to a closer date, but it is our top priority to maintain Solaris as a stable and secure currency.
We apologize for any inconveniences caused during this outage.
Going forward, the Solaris Core Team will now concentrate on building services for real use of XLR, details will be provided soon. We believe all Solaris coin owners will benefit greatly from what we have planned.
Developer team, thank you. I would rather stability than race to add new features. Good decision. |
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Guys, would like your opinion on the following please.
I'm going to help two work colleagues set up their first respective mining rigs next week (both identical 6x1080).
I'm struggling on what to set them up to mine, basically. As they have very little knowledge of the whole mining experience, the logical thing would be to get them an account on Nicehash and forget about it.
Unfortunately I don't like that option for 3 reasons:
- NH is taking massive fees
- They'd have to setup an account because mining to external addresses would just take ages for them to see their gains
- NH is not my friend anymore, generally, for well-known reasons
I could set them up with DSTM and mine ZEC, but they'd potentially be forfeiting 30-40% of potential earnings.
What do you reckon? Zpool equihash hub? Ahashpool Neoscrypt hub?
Why dont you mine direct to pools like nanapool -- send them to Bittrex and set the auto-sell on to convert to BTC automatically (or turn it off, and sell it when price is right). NH do have steep charges for payouts but that's the price to pay to get BTC upfront and cut thru all the confirmation etc etc. NH is afterall a buyer/seller marketplace ... sometimes they will be very high payrates for certain hot coins etc. NH is not a mining pool.... No, NH isn't a mining pool per se. And I am likely going to avoid it. Nanopool to Bittrex isn't a bad idea. What would you mine there? Currently I'm leaning towards auto-switching algo on zpool or ahashpool (EDIT: or Miningpoolhub indeed). A little off-topic, but has anyone tried out HiveOS? The unified pool/wallet template looks confusing at first, but the YouTube videos explain it. Very flexible, up to date on new miners. Just wondering how stable it is vs. SMOS. |
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Hey guys sorry I've been so MIA lately T_T been trying to adjust after having my life/schedule flipped around last month (not a pity post, but seriously I miss being more active in this thread)
On a positive note I'm kind of impressed with the numbers the 1050 TI's put out for being old tech on equihash wi/ DSTM miner, these ASUS pulled ~190 sols @ 60 watts I'm one of the many rooting for Tails! The GTX 1050 Ti was my first mining GPU - because it was what was installed in my main desktop when I started. It didn't take me long to figure out that Equihash (and Neoscrypt - 460 H/s) are its strong points*. In fact, the Equihash performance - combined with not needing external PCIe power - makes it almost compelling. I would still be using it for Equihash except the fan went bad - new one on its way from China - and I have since bought an RX 570, (4) GTX 1060 3GB (chosen mainly because of availability), and a used GTX 1080 from a local store for the low-low price of MSRP...  - Yes, I know Ethash is especially bad on the plain 1080, but it is an Equihash and Neoscrypt monster (it's churning out >1k H/s on the latter right now with just +300 on the memory clock). * - Cryptonight performance, however, is especially terrible at around 385 H/s - my Ryzen 5 1600 is faster - while I could only manage about 13.4 MH/s with Ethash despite that this card has Samsung memory. 1050 Ti is nice if you are doing a 4U build and have one cramped slot, or simply want to place on the motherboard and space out your other cards up front. |
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Guys, would like your opinion on the following please.
I'm going to help two work colleagues set up their first respective mining rigs next week (both identical 6x1080).
I'm struggling on what to set them up to mine, basically. As they have very little knowledge of the whole mining experience, the logical thing would be to get them an account on Nicehash and forget about it.
Unfortunately I don't like that option for 3 reasons:
- NH is taking massive fees
- They'd have to setup an account because mining to external addresses would just take ages for them to see their gains
- NH is not my friend anymore, generally, for well-known reasons
I could set them up with DSTM and mine ZEC, but they'd potentially be forfeiting 30-40% of potential earnings.
What do you reckon? Zpool equihash hub? Ahashpool Neoscrypt hub?
What woold be the disadvantage in mining zcash on flypool and using smos. That would be very simple setup and when they decide they want to mine other equihash stuff they can ? I agree. Dead simple, rock solid. Explore options in the meantime. |
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You can ignore him. No team, no one, stole anyone's coins. He lost them on his own.
I think his point is this: way back in the dark ages, if you owned stock you held paper certificates. And if that stock split or was purchased, you had to trek to your broker and exchange those paper certificates and new ones would eventually be mailed. And sometimes notices got lost in the mail, and so on. Now it is all done automatically and easily by your broker and it isn't such a goddamn hassle. And that is called progress. A coin change and four "mandatory" wallet upgrades in under four months is a hassle. If I had nothing else to do, sure fine. But I actually do have other things to do. And if crypto enthusiasts ever want wider adoption, it's got to get easier to buy, sell, transfer, faster confirmations, all across the board. Edit: I'm just curious. Cryptopia doesn't list the new coin. CoinExchange is under maintenance. No worries, I thought, I'll try Crypto-Bridge. I sent a small transaction as a test. It shows as cleared with a check mark in my latest mandatory upgraded wallet. But I'm still waiting for the deposit to show up in Crypto-Bridge. Can anyone give me some idea of how long deposits take to register on Crypto-Bridge? A few hours? A day? What is the exchange people are using these days to buy and sell Solariscoin? |
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You can ignore him. No team, no one, stole anyone's coins. He lost them on his own.
I think his point is this: way back in the dark ages, if you owned stock you held paper certificates. And if that stock split or was purchased, you had to trek to your broker and exchange those paper certificates and new ones would eventually be mailed. And sometimes notices got lost in the mail, and so on. Now it is all done automatically and easily by your broker and it isn't such a goddamn hassle. And that is called progress. A coin change and four "mandatory" wallet upgrades in under four months is a hassle. If I had nothing else to do, sure fine. But I actually do have other things to do. And if crypto enthusiasts ever want wider adoption, it's got to get easier to buy, sell, transfer, faster confirmations, all across the board. |
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anyone reporting any issues with withdrawing from stocks.exchange in small batches? ex. >10,000
Never heard of anything like that. What I heard are some have mistaken the address of the recipient wallet. Missing some characters that 's why some coins are sent wrongly. I always make sure, many times that the recipient wallet is correct, before I send any coin. Well it is on the XSH Twitter page -- they are apologizing and promising to fix it. |
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I previously paid little attention to PCIE headers and ignored the fact that there are 1070ti models out there that operate on just one 8-pin (EVGA comes to mind).
As a result, I have build slightly inefficient rigs which have motherboards and PSU's capable of 8 devices, which can only power 5 * dual-pin, due to having a maximum of 10 PCIE headers from the PSU
Would it be dangerous to use an adapter that converts a single PCIE header into two? Specifically with 1070ti's operating at 106W?
My only other option would be to sell off a bunch of dual-pin 1070ti and buy the EVGA single pins to replace them. Or just build a new rig and re-arrange the lot to suit.
No, it is not if you keep the voltage to under 240w or so per GPU. |
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Mine is still stuck in the pending status for about 20 hours with polo
anyone had any luck withdrawing recently?
poloniex support ticket #681776
I am awaiting Polo's reply on two withdrawals that have never come through. Reported the issue a week ago, no response to my ticket thus far. |
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The server PSUs that I like are the HP 1,500w common slot PSU (yellow label on top, takes 220v) and the DPS-2000BB (220v). I use them with breakout boards, not wires. You can strap or screw in a heatsink on the HP 1500w units and that will help keep them cool and the fan noise to a minimum. Easy to fit one of these into a 4U Rosewill case (HP PSU). Can't speak to the particular one on Ebay.
DO you use a passive heatsink or one with a fan? I presume you just dab some thermal paste on and zip tie it to the exterior of the PSU? Noise isn't a problem for the server PSUs out in our dedicated mining portion of our barn, but if we ever have any in the house it certainly would be an issue...
Depends. In an open rig, simply passive. Take out six screws, remove the top, apply thermal paste, clamp the heat sink to the top, drill, screw in four screws. In a 4U, I place the HP along the floor of where a normal ATX power supply would fit and I mount a fan on the outside back of the case to blow cool air over the fins. You can also zip tie to keep the heat sink in contact with the top of the HP. I use these heat sinks: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Large-Big-Aluminum-Heat-sink-Cooling-Radiator-for-Led-High-Power-Amplifier-IC-B1/292311600903?epid=8008981252&hash=item440f210f07:g:1BQAAOSw~HBZ9vdg |
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The server PSUs that I like are the HP 1,500w common slot PSU (yellow label on top, takes 220v) and the DPS-2000BB (220v). I use them with breakout boards, not wires. You can strap or screw in a heatsink on the HP 1500w units and that will help keep them cool and the fan noise to a minimum. Easy to fit one of these into a 4U Rosewill case (HP PSU). Can't speak to the particular one on Ebay. |
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I've noticed that when Windows blocks CastXMR from accessing a GPU because of aggressive overclocking, the software doesn't handle it very gracefully. The affected GPU stops reporting its hashrate every five seconds, and after a few minutes the software hangs entirely and multiple ^C are needed to terminate the run, assuming that the system doesn't freeze entirely and need a warm reset.
A useful feature would be for CastXMR to recognize that if it is accessing a list of GPUs, each of them should report results periodically, and if one of them goes missing for, say, twice the running average time between results, then it should be considered dead, and a clean restart of CastXMR should be initiated.
Or better yet, if CastXMR could perform a disable/enable of the problem card and then reinitialize it individually, so that none of the other cards had to be bothered.
With a Mining Expert 19-slot motherboard running a pile of aggressively overclocked Vegas, you're more likely to wedge one of the cards than usual, and being able to recover gracefully from that situation would substantially improve the average hashrate.
It's not really a problem with CAST-XMR now is it. That is you choosing to overdrive the card and then demand that that the tool fix it for you. Maybe you should spend more time accepting a stable hash rate per card and live with it. Its really a driver issue anyway and you are taking risks when overclocking that you will put the system into an unrecoverable state. I personally don't need a feature in CAST that disables the cards and I don't think that would be helpful for people who have configured their systems correctly. I reboot once a week for windows updates, other than that I don't really look at the rigs. If you need these bandaid scripts to monitor your hash rate cause it drops or your cards hang you have other problems that are not associated with the miner. I would rather the dev spend time improving the miner efficiency rather than adding some lame monitoring function that is completely unnecessary. Oh and by the way I use Wattman. YIKES! Really? Unbelieveble! I'm using cast_xmr_vega with 6x VEGA56. Everyday and very often I need to restart miner or PC. VEGA's are not modded. Everything I do before running the miner is run devcon.exe for cli enable/disable GPU's and then Overdriven tool with overclock settings. Very often is output paused... until S is pressed and after is all messages displayed with OUTDATED result. I never had a ban from poolserver but last 2 days 3 times! Sometimes freezing after Difficulty changed message.  When I press Q displayed 'quitting..' and nothing happend. I would suggest not using useless tools like Overdriven. I know everyone raves about how awesome it is but I have never seen the need for it frankly, even though everyone says Wattman is the worst piece of software in the world. I would make sure you started with a completely clean install of Windows. I would make sure you set your virtual memory correctly. I would make sure you configured windows power settings correctly. Then I would make sure to cleanly install the blockchain drivers. I would start would not start OC'ing anything until you can stay up for 24 hours at the same hash rate with no issues. Also make sure to add an exclusion for Windows Defender. AKA EVERYTHING THAT HAS ALREADY BEEN POSTED IN THIS WHOLE THREAD! Lastly, since you did not state what you were mining or what pool you were using you could do that favor as well. Perhaps the pool or your internet connection or your drivers or your ethernet or whatever is not working correctly or you have a riser problem? Really man can you troubleshoot or problem solve? There are endless things that can contribute to your problems and if you are having problems you need to stop mining and start testing! There are so many things that are connected via hardware and controlled by software and you need to understand all that! I have the same Vega rig as you do and guess what... they all run at about 1975h/s average. I never restart the miner except if I decide to change a pool or mine something else, and the last time I looked at that Vega 56 rig was last Sunday. I can see the output on the site I am mining to and the hash rate looks good! I am still getting paid! So you can package up your rig and send it to me! I will take this problem child off your hands :>) This is your third post as a jr. member that I've seen on this thread and every post of yours is insulting and offensive. I think you need to give it a break. |
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Since we are talking about favourite cases, I felt like I have to share mine.  You can't find a better one for $5! Joking aside, I do love these wire racks. Hang your cards, put some fans behind them and bobs your uncle. I know it's not very elegant but for the type of low budget mining that I'm doing it's more than ideal. Good choice. What's the best price and source you have seen? |
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Could you share what hex values you changed to bump the SoC limit? And any other changes you made ontop of the orig ref file would be awesome! Prefer to manually update my currently working regs
Go to Overclock.net, search for preliminary view of Vega, look for Gupsterg posts and those of others. Bumping SOC value (what string to look for, how to go about changing that value) is explained. |
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Seems to me there are just a few (closed) cases for the Onda boards.. prices differ A LOT! any recommendation (EU would be great but depends on the price of course)? I'm going to build my own case, but one thing I would be wary of if buying a pre-made case is that the hole pattern on the Onda mobo will almost certainly be non-standard. Maybe the portion of the board that is within the ATX dimensions will have the ATX hole pattern, but the remainder of the board could be anything. This one with support for 12 GPUs with the Onda board looks nice. Many other cases in the same site: https://cryptomined.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=245_358_364&products_id=363&zenid=5pscarqbt1l57ovm13iscnrip1Convert the mm to inches and you will find this case is not very tall and not deep enough to hold larger cards, which is a shame. |
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