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I have a good career as a free lance IT architect and my own company. I started mining last March when I heard of ethereum as part of an IT project, did the research and mined 56 ether before the difficulty ramped up, still holding. Everyone on the internet was saying mining was dead then Currently mining Electronium and trading for Ether. Not complaining however as a self employed person I do enjoy IT, being an employee sucks (work wise and tax wise). I also trade derivatives (crypto and S&P 500 futures as a hobby). Don't knock free money
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An observation; using my remote rig (2 vega fe and threadripper 1950x), previously reliable 2000+ hashers, last few days it was loosing hash rate at 1750 per card even after restarts, last night I got socket errors connecting to pool, restarted cast miner this morning and now back to 2000+ each. I didn't do anything to fix it, go figure
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Watercooled Threadripper 1950x getting about 1250+ H/s default setting supplemented by Vega FE gpu's, mining electroneum
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Thank you , Kraken. For being back on air. its not back, still down It's working fine for me, and my friends also tell me it's working again for them, thank god.. If my funds would have been gone, pffff... working for me as well
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Just got it working with 1 Vega and old vega 64 profile, hit the high 2200's before oscillating between 2000 and 2200, hmm a bit of tweaking next weekend I think.
Did you get the Frontier Edition? I've just read a post today from a guy that got a couple of these cards and people in that thread were saying how it's nearly impossible to get multiple FE Vega cards to mine at full speed in one rig. One card mines just fine, but when you add more their hashrate goes down. Curious whether you'll be able to find a workaround. It is difficult because most research and tweaks are for the 64 so hard to know if they are optimal for FE. On my intel board I could mine at 4050H/s with two cards all week, but they don't seem to like risers so I had them in the PCI slots They run significantly quicker on this board at first but seem to slow after a while, got 2 in. (still using the slots for now) Also I don't know the AMD mobo bios, haven't done the usual tweaking there yet Unfortunately the only time I have to tweak is the weekend so this will have to wait till next week and get the cpu hashing as well
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I notice most, if not all, people use the intel 1151 socket motherboard/CPU for building mining rigs. Is there a reason people don't use the AMD boards? Right now it's hard to find the intel boards, and they are more expensive. Finding an AM4 socket board with 6 pcie slots and 2 M2 slots is cheap and easy. Something like this: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157761after mail in rebates, it's only $55. 6 pcie slots and 2 M.2 slots for a possible 8 GPUs. Low end AM4 processors are out now too, with the Athlon x4 and APUs. Just curious if they just plain don't work, or if people were just using the intel boards because they were cheap and easy to get ahold of at the time. Know what you mean, but since I'm reasonably well off, curious and made a large profit to date I'm currently building a x399 threadripper 1950x rig with 3 vega fe. I only plan to use the 3 vega fe and threadripper to mine xmr etn etc. no plans for extra cards, hoping for circa 7000H/s, I get over 4000H/s now I never had much luck with usb risers on intel boards so the fe are going in the x399 slots. currently running 2 fe in the x16 slots on intel board, 3rd fe not used A curiosity I noticed is that the fe only uses half its ram on the intel board for mining, hope is that either now or in future I may get full use on a x399 board Even if I only get similar results as intel board then I have a nice part time workstation/gaming machine as well The intel board, i7 and 32gb can go on ebay Just got it working with 1 Vega and old vega 64 profile, hit the high 2200's before oscillating between 2000 and 2200, hmm a bit of tweaking next weekend I think.
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I notice most, if not all, people use the intel 1151 socket motherboard/CPU for building mining rigs. Is there a reason people don't use the AMD boards? Right now it's hard to find the intel boards, and they are more expensive. Finding an AM4 socket board with 6 pcie slots and 2 M2 slots is cheap and easy. Something like this: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157761after mail in rebates, it's only $55. 6 pcie slots and 2 M.2 slots for a possible 8 GPUs. Low end AM4 processors are out now too, with the Athlon x4 and APUs. Just curious if they just plain don't work, or if people were just using the intel boards because they were cheap and easy to get ahold of at the time. Know what you mean, but since I'm reasonably well off, curious and made a large profit to date I'm currently building a x399 threadripper 1950x rig with 3 vega fe. I only plan to use the 3 vega fe and threadripper to mine xmr etn etc. no plans for extra cards, hoping for circa 7000H/s, I get over 4000H/s now I never had much luck with usb risers on intel boards so the fe are going in the x399 slots. currently running 2 fe in the x16 slots on intel board, 3rd fe not used A curiosity I noticed is that the fe only uses half its ram on the intel board for mining, hope is that either now or in future I may get full use on a x399 board Even if I only get similar results as intel board then I have a nice part time workstation/gaming machine as well The intel board, i7 and 32gb can go 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 think what they are saying is cast works for most people, I find it the best miner for xmr, etn etc and it will run stable for days or even a week or so at full hash (2050 per vega fe) and I just restart periodically when checking pool hash rate if I need to. If you are having these problems it points to your system. Why should everyone else suffer additional code bloat with periodic checks that risks slowing things down to suit one individual? better option is to address the issues on your rig
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i certainly feel vindicated as mentioned above there are no Vegas to be found apart from a few private sales on ebay for double price, saw 1 single card available on amazon for $1400 im quite certain by now that i was correct in my hunch about these specific GPU's and why i went the extra mile and buck to build two 6 card rigs with them and yes, for those that read the first page and last only (missing the meat of the matter in the between pages) i was mining ETN at 24000H/s for a week. Today i turned 1 rig over to Sumokoin, as an old investor diversification is my friend and i would like to own as many different coins as possible although ETN stills seems the most promising if they are able to come through on releasing the app for mobile mining (which is a waste of time at 50-100h/s but most people dont know such details so the hype is enough to drive the price to Mars) i also bought a couple of shit coins today, got 4.5mil rabbit coin and 100k Tittie coin, i know they are worthless and i probably lost 1.5days of ETN mining (what they cost) but hey, rabbit was 4satoshis and tittie coin has the standard red blooded male concept behind it, so just for shits and laughs i thought id vault these two mistakes ---------------------------------- been messing around with the now unlocked 1200MHZ HBM2, but still cant get it to be stable got an additional 140H per card on same settings but uped CPU to 1448 and MEM to 1120, seemed stable for about 3hrs and then froze (gave me a headache after reconfiguring the gpus and drivers, lost a little mining time), one thing i did notice was the power usage actually went down about 200W with these changes (weird, faster for less power???) if you are already using the 1100 Hellę reg table all you need to do is go to the reg folder of each Vega (path mentioned before) double click to edit the pp_PhmSoftPowerPlayTable, go down about a third of the table to row 00B8 (after 00B0) follow the sequence 01,00,06,6C,B0 and click on 6C change to C0 and next click on B0 change to D4, exit and do the same for all cards, (or download the unlocked SoC reg table ed from the link provided above) and now you can go over the 1107MHz MEM clock cap all the way to 1200 if you can find the correct settings for each specific GPU as they have different tolerences, and if you do please let me know i take no credit for the above info, it can be found in the op thread mantioned above (all apart from the row identifier in the hex table i had to figure that out myself) this unlock seems that whilst running the exact same settings as before (thus stability) gives a little extra speed to all GPUs anyway without any further adjustments ok, i will let this out the bag...... it seems one can turn the VEGA 8Gb HBM2 into 2x4 thus running 2 threads at the same time thus doubling the hash rate (2000H/s) thus 1 VEGA works as 2 so what would happen if one was knowledgeable anough to turn the 16Gb of the VEGA FRONTIER and FE edition into 4x4 thus running 4 threads at the same time thus quadrupling the hash rate (4000H/s) thus 1 VEGA works as 4 oh crap, there goes the Frontiers from the market too, maybe this thread is counterproductive for people like me enough for now, back to busting the central bankster criminal cartel Happy New Year all Don't know if its the blockchain drivers or the miners but the FE only seems to use 8GB in mining which explains why XMR-Stak only allows two lots of 2016 threads sidenote: interestingly I wasn't running GPU-Z and was running fine on 4050+ H/s for 2x FE, soon as I launched the gpu-z monitor to take the above pic, hashrate dropped down to 1700H/s each. hadn't noticed that before but I don't generally run it once I get a stable config
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no spreadsheet inventory? better still blockchain ledger for boxes
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Now if I could only retrieve the 7.5 ether I sent to the wrong address 9 months ago I would be totally happy If I could remember the private key to the BTC wallet I somehow trashed back in 2010 i'd have 3000 BTC....... know the feeling but 3K bitcoin ouch, not quite as bad as the guy who bought the pizza's At least I can still see my ether on the blockchain though
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Just managed to retrieve my 3809 ETN from Nov , I had the zero balance bug and had previously tried the wallet regeneration without success. However this morning I realised I had stupidly used the monero seed I wrote down, thats why it didn't work! Managed to get the electroneum seed and everything worked. Moral, make sure you use the correct seed when using electroneum-wallet-cli --restore-deterministic-wallet ! Now if I could only retrieve the 7.5 ether I sent to the wrong address 9 months ago I would be totally happy
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I tried today with a complete cleanout and new Vega Frontier Compute & Adrenalin drivers, Overdriventool doesn't work on latest compute drivers after clean install, nor does afterburner, hence 20-30% slower hashrate and higher power. Using the FE driver switch, the gaming drivers were slow (FE drivers allow user to switch between pro and 2 gaming drivers)
Perhaps if Overdriventool worked with latest Pro driver it would be interesting (throws exceptions)
Did another clearout and went back to blockchain as best overall power vs speed
This was using latest windows 10 updates and mobo chipset updates as suggested by Amd
Blockchain driver is still the best at least for monero
Did you try this version of Ntool? https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/overdriventool-tool-for-amd-gpus.416116/yes 0.23 latest. There are special FE pro drivers from 19th Dec. I presume it isn't supported by tool devs yet anyway, managed to get 2xFE running on blockchain at over 4K+ H/s for 170w each so happy with that for time being
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Yay, 2x Vega FE now running at ~2x2050 H/s with total draw of 415W at wall - mobo is approx 85W varies so approx 170W each GPU 99% to 100% as only running 1100MHz mem, VDDC = 0.9280v, fans a bit fast so possibly tweak a bit more Clean driver install, windows fall edition plus patches bounce drivers and toggle HBMC to fix initial slow hash rate Unlike the vega 64 the FE seems to hold the hash rate over time ? Using basic Cast settings now if only we could get it to use full 16GB of HBM, only seems to use half mining!
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I tried today with a complete cleanout and new Vega Frontier Compute & Adrenalin drivers, Overdriventool doesn't work on latest compute drivers after clean install, nor does afterburner, hence 20-30% slower hashrate and higher power. Using the FE driver switch, the gaming drivers were slow (FE drivers allow user to switch between pro and 2 gaming drivers)
Perhaps if Overdriventool worked with latest Pro driver it would be interesting (throws exceptions)
Did another clearout and went back to blockchain as best overall power vs speed
This was using latest windows 10 updates and mobo chipset updates as suggested by Amd
Blockchain driver is still the best at least for monero
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lol, been playing with blockchain and adrenalin computer drivers for Vega FE Previously had 2 FE's running at 2000H/s+ but highish power, now stuck at low hash with low power Showing 349W at wall for 2 cards + mobo but memory stuck at 500MHz despite overdriven tool set at 1107 This gets 1200H/s on each card This despite a clean load of drivers, bounce etc Can't seem to get the balance between low power and performance oh well keep trying for 2000+ at 150W PS Fixed one thing - now 1600H/s at 150w each
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Question, cost aside, is there any additional stability mining with T4 X399 boards vs intel when using multiple Vega GPU's?
My logic was that perhaps the x399 chipset provides more stability and performance being all AMD and multiple Vega's
My main issue with current x170 intel board is stability at speed and random reboots when pushing performance with multiple Vega's Stability with one Vega isn't an issue though
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Hi,
Do you remotely monitor your rig? If so then what tools do you use. My rig would be unattended in day time in office hours and I want GPU status, temps, fans %/speed to be sent to me.
Looking forward and thanking you in anticipation.
Regards,
Rizwan
I'm using splashtop to monitor widows at home while I'm away at work using my mac - like MS Remote desktop but it works. means I can tinker remotely if needed When I was on linux I used to ssh remotely from mac terminal using RSA keys
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Did you not check your wallet client to confirm receipt of payouts back when you were mining it?
If you still have the batch file or configuration file you used back when you were mining, confirm that the address does, in fact, match what your wallet client shows. If that is the case, I would try the "restore-deterministic-wallet" fix again and/or check an Electroneum block explorer with your view key.
Yes but as you know there were issues with electroneum and even afterwards people still had problems with the zero balance bug hence the restore-deterministic-wallet fix. I may try downloading new wallet software in case there is an update and try again but it appears that the coins are lost, wont be using them again
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