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we don't expect ASIC's for a couple years though, as i understand it. or am i incorrect?
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very interesting thread.
of course, i think 1 year is short sighted. afterall, the hardware isn't ALL going to melt down into piles of goo in exactly 12 months. it'll keep earning. also, as we've just seen, the difficulty is far more fungible then a steady 5% increase.
i say hardware - and the lower the electricity it uses, the better!
oh, i guess in one year you will not burn all your hardware but with my 8 cards the trend was going in that direction. ...ouch. sympathies. maybe i've been lucky, i don't know. been running full tilt for 8 months or so now without a mining related death. |
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very interesting thread.
of course, i think 1 year is short sighted. afterall, the hardware isn't ALL going to melt down into piles of goo in exactly 12 months. it'll keep earning. also, as we've just seen, the difficulty is far more fungible then a steady 5% increase.
i say hardware - and the lower the electricity it uses, the better!
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My point was, that 8 x 32 is not 240. It is 256.
If you can fit this in only 240 slices, then maybe 16 x 15 is a better geometry, since 16 x 15 really is 240.
Or am I missing the point here?
42? (i have nothing useful to say... sorry.) |
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very interesting, the oil set up... with those temps it seems like a much moe effcient way to run a rig compared to air or standard liquid cooling. unless i'm missing something obvious.
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what kind of oil is that? talk about liquid cooling...  |
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37 ghash...
so, i take it you're pretty much living off the mining then? or is the electricity too high?
Mining is a side business with a partner. I have it all pretty much automated and doesn't require hardly any time day to day to keep running. Mainly just monitoring and moving btc. my intentions exactly... i'm trying to figure out how to write the business proposal without sounding like a lunatic though. "you turn on some hardware, and it makes money? yea, right." for now, i'll just do what i can with my single 6870... |
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37 ghash...
so, i take it you're pretty much living off the mining then? or is the electricity too high?
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so quick question - i just got my first ATI card. currently getting about 285 mhash on a 6870. i'm just using the current most up todate drivers, and do not have the amd sdk installed. (or, admittedly, anything else but the mining software, which is currently guiminer... i'll experiment with CGminer though.)
what kind of benefit would i see if i downloaded the sdk and that particular driver? any idea? why are they the ideal?
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this thread has just cost me 200 bucks... bought an ati 6870 to run in conjunction with my nvidia 560 se. hopefully my 750 watt psu can handle it. if so, i'll finally be profitably mining!
maybe i'll even be able to save enough for a Lancelot fpga before the Great Reward Halving...
fyi, a 6870 is a nice card.. but a poor miner. Some people seem to get 380m/h out of it severely overclocked with two gpu threads. mine won't clock that high, and two threads give me the same as one.. about 280-290. that $200 would have been better spent on a 5870. lots on ebay for less than $200. M running about 280 - so, yea, i hear ya. my mistake. i was reading a thread here about best cards to get and hadn't noticed the 6870 was overclocked. i've pushed mine up from 900 to 970 core mhz... oh well, eh? live and learn. still - it's a zillion times better then my nvidia 560 at mining, and is making more then the electricity costs. so, in the end it will aide my march to an FPGA. |
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yea... reason i said liquid instead of water. no way am i using something that conducts electricity like that...
i'll look into it more. thanks.
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what's the collective thought on liquid cooling to deal with the heat? figured i'd ask here, since you're discussing heat...
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reason to not try ot fix things when alseep #1324662324...
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hmm. interesting. removing the http:// corrected the poclbm issue, (yay!) but for p2pool poclbm says "Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC 1 2"
EDIT: although, sincei can just connect to p2pmining.com, i suppose, for now, it's a non issue. thanks for the help smoov!
GUIminer, for me at least, doesn't seem to like to remember the port I want it on in between runs, putting it back to 8332 when I run it again. Did it do that this time? Should be 9332 -- Smoov nope. not that. wait... it... oh for fucks sake. i had typed 9333 before. *headdesk* shoot me now. it's working fine. |
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guiminer v2012-02-19.
stop and started several times, yea. but like i siad - i'm giving up and sticking with p2pmining.com, for now. i'll sort this out when i get an fpga.
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hmm. interesting. removing the http:// corrected the poclbm issue, (yay!) but for p2pool poclbm says "Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC 1 2"
EDIT: although, sincei can just connect to p2pmining.com, i suppose, for now, it's a non issue. thanks for the help smoov!
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yea, in gui i'm using http://127.0.0.1 and the seperate feild for the port. and ufasoft becuase i can't manage to get poclbm to run with anything but deepbit. if i try another pool (p2pool or p2pmining.com) it throws "at least one server is required". and i seem to get near identical mhash, so i figured "ah, screw it." and screenshot: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v21/Arklan/misc/handshake.pngum, yeah, don't include "http://"... only the host name or IP by itself there and that might be part of why poclbm is failing, too, if GUIminer is adding another http:// onto the hostname which already has one. -- Smoov nope. tried that just now. (also "localhost") still the same message. ...when i break things, i break 'em good. |
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hey guys. having a little difficulty getting setup here. my miner (ufasoft, through guiminer) isn't able to complete a handshake with a locally running p2pool node. the handshake is timing out. any thoughts?
Smoovious thinks "details?" -- Smoov running latest p2pool software, which is up and running problem free. attempt to connect to http:127.0.0.1:9332 with the proper name and password results in "handshake timed out, disconnecting from 127.0.0.1:51084" are you typing in the url exactly like that? cuz, in GUIminer, you should have a seperate field for the host and the port. "127.0.0.1" or "localhost" goes into the host field, and 9332 into the port field and... why ufasoft? -- Smoov yea, in gui i'm using http://127.0.0.1 and the seperate feild for the port. and ufasoft becuase i can't manage to get poclbm to run with anything but deepbit. if i try another pool (p2pool or p2pmining.com) it throws "at least one server is required". and i seem to get near identical mhash, so i figured "ah, screw it." and screenshot: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v21/Arklan/misc/handshake.png |
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