I'm an assembly programmer. Zcash is being harwested...
i am a BASIC programmer. prepare to meet your doom! **(soon as I dig my BASIC for Dummies book out) |
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if you can spend the extra 20-30 bucks for a ssd, do it. the time you will save when messing with the OS/drivers/miners/reboot/whatever will be well worth it.
i swapped a hdd in for the ssd in my main rig and a week later put the ssd back in.
60/120 gb m2 sata ssd and youll not have to mess with power/data cables either, 2 less cables to worry about.
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good read. boils the main aspects (mostly anyway) down to a few minutes reading time. thanks! |
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-OK claymore,1 piece of FREE advice,call it a DEV-TAX from now on, instead of fee,more accurate  nah, the word "tax" has bad connotations. "fee" is better, imo. and claymore is entitled to whatever fee he sets. we dont like it, we write or find another LEGIT miner (as opposed to that lazy snots ripoff). |
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I'd most mine but it's legit a single stick in a Raspberry Pi (I plan on getting more miners soon however lol)
a miner is a miner should be a bunch of stick miner pics in this thread. i have 5 compacs on a pi/hub, should probably add a pic of my little corner of the stick world. |
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Is it possible to have and r9 290 and a RX480 in the same computer?
yes |
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I agree. KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid). takes very little down time due to a crashed rig/card to negate any savings from an overly complicated rig or crazy card settings like extreme BIOS flashes etc.
i know many people super tune cards or rigs for a specific algorithm but i prefer a rig that can switch with a simple .bat file and not worry about psu overload or cards dropping out because they are too wound too tight for just one coin.
keep it consecutive, keep it running 24/7
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Today the space storage are so cheap, 104Go is not a big deal. You need to be sure that you have unlimited bandwidth to download it from your ISP, in my case I am only limited to 20Go. Where I am high-speed internet are pretty expensive and if you want the unlimited, you are going to pay the premium in order to have it. i wonder how long i can download the full of blockchain with my slow internet connection and how much quota that i should spend to see its completed? i think the size is less than 100 GB but i am wrong, i can not imagine how big data in the future, i think i need more than 3 days to complete downloading the blockchain. only 3 days? lucky you. and there simply IS no option for me to go faster where i am in the sticks. 1.5 mbits/sec 3G wireless here, but at least its unlimited quota. would take weeks/months for me to re download from scratch. only reason i have the whole blockchain at all is i started in 2011 and kept it up ever since consumer disk space IS cheap and the blockchains are among my backups because it would be inconvenient to get it again. got the btc blockchain backed up like 5 different places, including off site. i did have to put the blockchain on 256 gb ssd of its own though. the previous 128 gb was getting cramped. i suppose its a waste of a ssd but i like the speed when verifying or reindexing. bandwidth is the limiting factor for many. storage drives are everywhere, reliable high speed internet is not. |
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when upgrading you would want to sell the old gpus.. how much market is there for used mobile gpus? and what is the price premium for mobile gpus vs a comparable desktop part.
i kind of like it but it seems made mainly for high density datacenter use where its size has an advantage. maybe slightly less power consumption is another plus?
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The guide seems reasonable, and nice to see some work being put into this.
Here is my method for secure cold storage:
4) I modify the private key by hand! I make about 7 changes, including deletions, additions, and substitutions. I also add a short word to make visual confirmation easy. I just make sure the key ends up being the same length as it started out.
i especially like the part i bolded. word could be a hint as to what that key/addy is for, contains, whatever. more work but more potential usefulness. |
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Is it me the only one who is getting a lot of connection failed retry to connect in 20 sec?
All my miners started doing this, and my pool stats show 30% less hashrate like this.
Version 9/9.1 isn't worth the hassle if your rigs were working fine and are now playing up, even if you get a lesser fee then Version 8 stick to being stable and hashing stable. The newer versions seem nuked to me... You just need to reduce the voltage or the clock frequency so that it will stress the PSU less. That should solve the problem. actually, i increased the voltage to my 390s. apparently the prior undervolt that v8 was ok with was too much for v9. bumped it from -75 to -50. been rock solid since. |
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Ok, you miners can't read:
reduced devfee, it's 2% now (72sec instead of 90sec) if you use secure SSL/TLS connection
After using the SSL/TLS, the share rejection is 1.0 to 1.5% now. The rejection rate was 0.3 to 0.5 previously. my reject rate, with ssl, is 0.71% and 0.83% on my two rigs. more or less what it was before. |
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v9.1:
- reduced devfee, it's 2% now (72sec instead of 90sec) if you use secure SSL/TLS connection, currently Flypool and Suprnova pools support encrypted connections, see Readme for samples.
- added ability to use environment variables in "epools.txt" and "config.txt" files. For example, define "WORKER" environment varibale and use it as "%WORKER%" in config.txt.
sweet, esp these two items. thanks. |
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ZEC has complex PoW which consists of many steps, they are different and therefore have different power usage.
If your PSU cannot handle power usage peaks, it's not a problem of the miner.
Also note that I try to achieve maximal speed, it always causes more power usage and more GPU usage, so if you have OCed GPUs or weak PSU it may work for v8 but may fail for v9.
perfect. thats what i like, software made to wring every ounce of performance from hardware. if someones setup (OC/timings/voltage tweaks etc) or hardware (PSU, cables, whatever) are substandard then they need to fix it, not have you waste time coding your software to baby stuff. people always have the option to run previous versions. myself, i had to up the voltage slightly to my 390s to get stable on v9 |
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sweet. its going in open air rig at the moment but a 4 slot rig is in the works so it fits there too. thanks! I ordered one. The goal is to have all biostar z170 mobos with all msi rx 470's I will be listing some mobos and some cards later in the week. I also am getting my two avalon 721's tomorrow and an antminer r4 maybe on fri. I need to move and switch a lot of gear around. Over the next 3-5 days. im interested in one of those or maybe something close. the 4 card rig will be a test run for my new htpc matx build |
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sweet. its going in open air rig at the moment but a 4 slot rig is in the works so it fits there too. thanks! |
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@Phil
i am buying a rx 470 4 gb tomorrow.. what brand/models do you run for 470s?
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Even though I'm not using coinbase, I don't agree with this. It is against the privacy of all their customers. But it seems high powers are already asking for it. Many of coinbase customers that has shady transactions will shift into other site and will totally forget using coinbase. Does coinbase can't do something about this to stop IRS from forcing them?
coinbase wanted my bank account info to exchange BTC/ETH into USD. banks tell the IRS anything over a certain amount (10 grand?) seems pretty simple to me. do not use coinbase if you are shady/illegal/etc. |
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anyone mining with r9 390? how many h/s per card? thanks  278-280 @ 1100/1500 -i 4 cdm 8.0 crimson 16.10.2 16.11.3 sapphire nitros dedicated rig reposted here because of different cdm/crimson versions are all over in this thread |
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I found the ZEC mining stress the GPU more than the ETH. So I have to reduce the core frequency for my R9 390. Anybody else notices that?
opposite here. zec is less than eth by about 70-100 watts per 390. |
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