If you have "a few" Avalons and more on the way, don't you have enough hashing power to mine on your own?
Solo mining with that hash rate is no trivial task. Pointing that hash rate at a pool(s) is trivial. |
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Thanks to all - this is all fascinating info!
Quick question, does the hashing power of your setup affect which pool you should join? I will be bringing my 500GHs BFL mini rig online on Friday, and so it's a little more important to maximize efficiency vs my lil' 10.9 GHs ASICminer Blade right now! I'm on Slush's pool at this time.
Thanks folks.
The same criteria as your blade. Look for these Stratum Variable Difficulty Reliability Not a big deal now but will be in the future Pay Transaction Reward. Those are the things you should be looking for in a pool. As always setup failover pools, always have a plan b and c at least. |
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Just moved my new Jalapeno over
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I try enable onboard GPU for Display output, so my HD4670 have 100% available resources, basically become Dedicated OpenCL. but...
when enable onboard GPU, AMD OpenCL become unavailable... =(
Did you try putting a monitor or dummy plug on it? |
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I thought the 570 pages of relies in this cgminer thread meant people were discussing how to use it for various tasks?  . Seems like its a cgminer issue since it launches with no problem when mining one thing yet complains it can't even find a USB device if I change what pool it's aimed at? Well that thought may well be plausible. But at the moment the developer is on vacation so it may be a while before he chimes in on the subject. He should be back in about 5 weeks. In the meantime did you try posting in the coinotron thread, the alt currencies forum or read the readme's? This is the Bitcoin forum so the main subject of discussion is CGMiner with Bitcoins. But I'm sure there are a few lurking here that may be more knowledgeable with what you are trying to do. Maybe they will chime in. Just trying to make useful suggestions since your not getting any movement on your issue. Good Luck, Sam |
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yes it shows up i can do that part no problem and after installing the winusb driver it changes to "USB-Serial Controller D" in windows device manager, i assume this is suppose to happen?
now when i start cgminer it loads and says "no device found"
I don't see anything like that in my device manager. Where are you looking in device manager? After you list all devices then you select it and make sure it is associated with WinUSB. |
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yes and if i do that then cgminer says no device found...... its probably a faulty device but im trying to check, iv not used cgminer before or fpgas...
I edited my post. Did you try this? ---------------FPGA Readme--------------------------- With Zadig, you may need to run it as administrator and if your device is plugged in but you cannot see it, use the Menu: Options -> List All Devices -------------------------------------------------------- Your device should show up after list all devices |
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nice combo i know.... anyhow iv got an icarus board and im starting to really really hate command prompt (didint like it to start with)
so my problem is when i let windows install the drivers for the fpga cgminer bitches i need to use WinUSB driver so i use the zadig tool and change the drivers then i restart cgminer and like magic it reports no device found -.-
iv tried to use bitminter (i like it) but that just keeps telling me to download the drivers over and over again but atleast when i scan all com ports its makes the pretty green light on the fpga flash for activity...
anyhelp would be great and can someone please type a few "working" command lines for cgminer (dont know why they couldn't give a few proper examples in the readme files)
Did you read the FPGA Readme. Running Zadig and installing WinUSB is one of the two steps. Here is a paragraph from the FPGA readme With Zadig, you may need to run it as administrator and if your device is plugged in but you cannot see it, use the Menu: Options -> List All Devices I think you may need to do that and make sure your FPGA is set to WinUSB. I'm using the ACICMiner USB so I'm not sure if your FPGA device will work completely the same or not. |
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[2013-07-13 20:08:26] Disabling extra threads due to dynamic mode.
I'm assuming your talking about dynamic mode? If so it's not an error. Dynamic mode adjusts your GPU in an attempt to keep your desktop GUI responsive so you can use your computer while mining. Dynamic mode only uses one thread instead of the default 2 so it's disabling the unused one. --intensity|-I <arg> Intensity of GPU scanning (d or -10 -> 10, default: d to maintain desktop interactivity) |
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Reading around it seems like they are probably a bad investment. The difficulty is going up too quickly and its unlikely you'll get your money back, seems to be the consensus. Anybody have a counterpoint point of view?
That all seems to be true. But since they are available we're ordering them and receiving them in days instead of months/years. |
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LOL - i got it now. I didnt notice the common and decimal.  Im tired. Been trying to figure this out all day. I know the feeling I'm well into beer:thirty. |
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46GH is the same as 46TH? Mind fuck. I thought 1TH was 100GH.
1Ths = 1000Ghs Terra means Trillion Giga means Billion |
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46GH is the same as 46TH? Mind fuck. Explain please? After looking at this i thought eclipse was the bigger pool.  Look at the comma and the decimal point in my post. BTCGuild is 4.6 times larger than EMC. BTCGuild is the largest pool right now in terms of hash rate. |
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BTCguild pool speed says 46GH. Eclipse pool speed says 10TH. Doesnt more hashing power mean more blocks found and more BTC paid?
BTC Guild is 46 THs not Ghs |
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Ive been mining with eclipse for a few hours and my BTC earned shows a big fat 0. Im assuming eclipse updates balance every 24 hours? I dont like this "estimated" reward crap. I think BTCguild updated balance every hour. I miss checking my account every few hours and watching the balance go up.  Well it is at 67 Million shares for the round. Maybe they haven't solved a block yet since you've been mining there. BTC Guild is the largest pool in existence now so they solve more blocks so you would see your balance increase more often, but in smaller increments. Sam Edit: the estimates are usually if a block was found now estimate. But I'm not familiar with EMC. |
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I noticed eclipse has 3 different mining servers. Is this considered 1 pool or 3? One pool with 3 servers connected to a common database. You can setup each server as it's own pool in CGMiner so that it will failover from one server to the next. Sam |
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Hi
I used CGMINER 3.1.1 with an radeon hd 5870 on RedHat EL 6.4 and all worked fine.
After upgrading to 3.3.1 I only get HWs but no shares. What has changed since 3.1.1?
Thx
You changed your driver. See GPU-README. It's even in UPPERCASE, screaming out to be read. I read the files and did not find any hint. The driver is still the same. I tried the old 3.1.1 one and it still works. The 3.1.1 .bin files may have been from a previous Catalys/OpenCL combination that worked better. To check that, back up the 3.1.1 .bin files, delete the ones in the running directory and re run CGMiner and let it build new ones and see if your performance is the same or not. |
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I want my bitcoins. GIMMMEEE
Is that really necessary? Seems a tad bit childish to me. Do I need to answer that, or you just being childish back? How about take this whole topic and talk about hotdogs. Stay on topic or keep you a$$ on youtube comments. It's my post and I do what i want. get off my lawn. If you want to talk about your topic I'm willing to do that. I first posted a sensible reply to a somewhat silly question but one worth talking about. My second reply was just saying that your childish remarks aren't really necessary. But it seems your unable to have an intelligent conversation. So unless your willing to attempt to demonstrate you have a higher IQ then it appears, have a nice day. Your first reply was wortless anyway. WHat pool ? Well that is a very pertinent question. What pool and what payout method are you talking about? And what are your percentages referring to. If you went from 10 to 12 blocks to 4 blocks for the same time period then it would seem that its a combination difficulty increase, pool loosing hash rate and luck. |
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I want my bitcoins. GIMMMEEE
Is that really necessary? Seems a tad bit childish to me. Do I need to answer that, or you just being childish back? How about take this whole topic and talk about hotdogs. Stay on topic or keep you a$$ on youtube comments. It's my post and I do what i want. get off my lawn. If you want to talk about your topic I'm willing to do that. I first posted a sensible reply to a somewhat silly question but one worth talking about. My second reply was just saying that your childish remarks aren't really necessary. But it seems your unable to have an intelligent conversation. So unless your willing to attempt to demonstrate you have a higher IQ then it appears, have a nice day. |
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