Using a 1200w PSU I am successfully running at 350mhs
 
What is the max that someone has seen running at 1200w? 375mhs? Had the PSU already so it just made sense.

This is a 4 module system purchased recently.

That's why I was asking about it. Wondering if anyone has been lucky at all with solo mining. Could find a block after a year which would still be more that it would mine ever on a pool... though I would have some coin instead of none if I am not lucky.

Anyways probably gonna stick with my setup for now.

Hopefully its just the implementation of Slush 2.0 coming or something...
I haven't reached my threshold yet.

I am using Cgminer on my Avalon. When I did the firmware upgrade recently, it upgraded the cgminer and there was a new load balancing feature.
I didn't use it right away as I had some worries of loss of hash.. but so far if I accumulate the total gh/s from the 3 pools, I have noted that I am reporting ~3-5 gh/s higher than when I had all ~110gh/s pointed to slush.

Pools are reporting atleast ~114-115gh/s combined...

Because the avalon is stand alone, and has the upgraded cgminer I split it 3 ways, then I have a little setup of usb jalapenos and BEs used by my MacPro which stays on 24 hrs a day usually rendering video cuts/edits..

So I think I am doing OK. I have some small amount of PPS which is nice to see it constantly accumulate.. and then I have my larger amounts of hashing power pointed at the 3 pools listed, all using the luck based system (PPLNS or whatever).


Anyone have any advice on solo mining? Should I maybe point my 20gh/s of USB miners to solo rather than PPS? anyone have some unbelievable luck lately?

this was somewhat interesting

from wikipedia

EMU10K2.5   24-bit   4.0   4,6 million   180 nm, 200 MHz, 424+ MIPS, 64 DirectSound3D sound channels
EMU20K1   24-bit   5.0   51 million   130 nm, 400 MHz, 10,340 MIPS, 128 DirectSound3D sound channels
EMU20K2   24-bit   5.0   ?   Fixes bugs in EMU20K1, PCI Express, embedded RISC processor
Sound Core3D   24-bit   5.0   ?   Integrated analog codec and digital I/O

If the previous generation was 10,000mips .. could this newer model get into the 100,000?
Anyways i see everyone's point its prob impossible, but if there is an old enough/new enough chip that you can get for cheap enough that at a bulk order is actually gets under the current best gh/$ mark AND you could figure out how to get it running together, and efficiently... and the cost of the rest of the hardware doesn't make up for any price advantage...  its obviously technically possible. good luck though.

This will grow like crazy until Feb/Mar everyone is sure..
Also, I wonder how many people are load balancing? Be a cool figure to see

also, I think load balancing makes the network stronger, possibly making all pools much more equal power in the long run?
Seems more decentralized and also more "fair".. removing some of the luck from things.. a little (when your lucky you wouldn't give your coin back thats forsure but I see the future of a grand pie chart with equal pizza slices representing all the pools hashing as one through load balancing.)

So, as much as I love slush (i've basically only mined here since July) I've decided to go Load Balance between bitminter slush and guild.
I have ~100gh/s split ~33/ghs between the 3.

Then I have an additional 20gh/s (BEs & 2 jala) that I am currently trying out PPS on guild with. (Never did this before, seems logical for slower miners)

Who thinks I should try solo with the 20gh/s? SHA256 Alt coin?
Any comments on PPS vs PPLNS, which is better for more or less hash??

All speculative I know.. but fun to discuss...

Got a new avalon 4 module for $900 bucks (local cash buy) and I am actually hopeful to see return! I don't pay for electricity.

Right now I have it set to chip frequency of 300M which is default. Getting a modest 96 gh/s avg in cgminer (down to 92 back up to 99-100 consistently)
Question unrelated to pool : Anyone successfully overclock without spending money on a new PSU?

Specific pool questions:

worker1   0   23562   20941026.0443   0 minutes   19543.843   
worker2   1   113537   102264510.5692   0 minutes   94174.913

These are my workers should be about 113gh/s avg
 
Average hashrate in last 10 rounds: 106240 Mhash/s

I am pretty certain there was no downtime for past 2 days. Payouts are all consistent.

Could there be something to this? I realize this is an accumulative avg and not an instant reading of current hashing power, but I'm pretty sure i've hashed long enough to have that avg be at it's highest possible.

Any words/advice?

Yes this is what I need to do. Maybe I'll exchange some of my coin and buy one today.

I see, its just that vista is pretty known to have lots of problems. I am a Mac user so I am not sure of the details but I've heard that XP is a much more stable environment and that vista was the worst ever released. Not sure about Win 7 & 8 in general but I know some people are working on those without issue and i've never met anyone running vista before.

Just a tid bit.. but maybe you're right that the client should run on ANY computer since its java based, vista not being an exception. Maybe the Doc has some better advice.

Is there any reason you need to be on windows vista?

eww.. offline for 7 hours due to a 2 second power outage at my office.

Time a battery backup you dummy.. me.

Whether they ship or not is no longer relevant.

They will not mine more than what you have paid.

The OP was saying this a long time ago and people were basically laughing him off.

Yet his figures were even underestimated and difficulty has risen much higher, and these machines are basically useless for profiting anything.

Unless of course the price of bitcoin skyrockets but back then, as with now, and probably forevermore (unless you are willing to risk pre-funding a company to make these types of units and HOPE things work out, like it seems KNC buyers are going to win a little if you are first day delivery), you are better off buying coin and sitting on it or investing with it.

Mining can feel just so nice to be a part of in a way, and when it was profitable it made a lot of sense, i'd love to see miners priced at estimated ROI + 2% when for sale retail(in-store) that way you can make back nearly what you put in, and if there is any increase in exchange rate, even tiny.. you profit.

I think it would give a better incentive to keep people mining. Basically the network has been expanding exponentially on people LOOSING money when they didn't understand the market before purchasing, a few are profiting large because of a form of favouritism or elitism ("we were here first so we should get the only good deal" or "well be have the most fiat so we should have the most bitcoin")

But with so many pawns out there, the network will continue to grow on the backs of suckers, or on the opposite end, on the exponentially growing backs of giant corporations who are able to invest heavily in their own hardware for MAX profits. Enjoy the present moment 

I enjoy how utterly correct the OP was here. Even underestimated the climb in difficulty.

AND STILL there were people here laughing him off ... ahh bitcoin community you never cease to make ME laugh out loud.

Average hashrate in last 10 rounds: 18809 Mhash/s

This is a strange one. I have been at 19850mh for last 10 rounds since starting with Slush in July. Is this the effect of the DDoS

hmm.. all seems well, I didn't see any downtime but I suppose I wouldn't know forsure.
Miners all systems go...

I did see the pool get to like 97000gh this morning now back down to 81000.

Not sure if that is weird.

I want a KNCminer 1st day shipped, who wants to sell their 1st day order to me? My 20gh/s is now making me cringe.

hmm wierd reward on that one. No down time at all in the last 2 weeks.


20190   2013-09-26 22:10:17   5:08:13   342910751   84110   0.00108327   260287   25.20839017    97 confirmations left
20189   2013-09-26 17:02:04   2:41:23   178421111   44038   0.00674094   260261   25.13050650    71 confirmations left
20188   2013-09-26 14:20:41   1:11:47   79825876   19586   0.00662401   260241   25.09860212    51 confirmations left
20187   2013-09-26 13:08:54   3:10:54   213637486   51576   0.00617680   260236   25.27385642    46 confirmations left

Hmm
I can get a BfL 60gh/s today for 2k cash.

Just wondering if you would do it ..? Not looking for a place to find one though thanks for the info!

And for 2k I just plug it in, I guess it might worth it.

hmm should I buy a BFL 60gh/s for 2k CDN cash? I can get one today.

Projections are OK on genesis block and I wouldn't be converting to coin first.

Any thoughts from fellow slush users?