Easy and affordable Primecoin mining

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I told my mother about my mining Primecoins and she decided to run the miner on her phenom II x4 - it's doing surprisingly well mining - she's getting around 4k pps and 8-10 cpm - around half of what my 3930k is getting right now. The main client might work well for an 1100t - It would be amazing if the Bulldozer client was better though - Only way we can find out is testing it, and I don't want to spend the time dealing with some other version of the client right now. It might be worth a shot testing it now.

Right now it seems to be working fine and fairly stable with 30 - I'm just leaving the settings alone for now and just letting it mine So far I have gotten three blocks on my desktop (all on hp7) and one on my laptop (on hp8 now) just letting them sit and mine over the last three days - 1 block on 7/23 in the middle of the day, one on 7/24 in the early evening, one on 7/25 a little after midnight, and one about an hour ago on the laptop - seems fairly random as I haven't really played with my laptop settings yet and they definitely aren't optimized. Additionally all those I found on my desktop were on hp7 which meant they were effectively at a higher difficulty. I wonder how this will end up doing over the next day or two on hp8 - maybe we will find some even better settings that can get us a higher block rate.

Thanks for the tip - I'm now getting 11k pps - I'm getting about 20 cpm now but it will randomly drop down to 10 cpm and then jump back up


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"blocks" : 83418,
"chainspermin" : 21,
"currentblocksize" : 1000,
"currentblocktx" : 0,
"difficulty" : 9.26809406,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : true,
"genproclimit" : -1,
"roundsievepercentage" : 20,
"primespersec" : 11280,
"pooledtx" : 0,
"sievepercentage" : 8,
"sievesize" : 100000,
"testnet" : false
}

What sort of hardware are you running this on right now? With my 3930k and those settings I get roughly 10k pps and anything from 10 to 40 cpm (still mostly at about 15)

Thanks for the update - I'm seeing roughly a 40% increase in pps right now - averaging 6400 instead of about 4600 before. I'm still getting roughly 10-20 cpm with an average of about 15-17 (no change). Now lets see if this affects how often I find blocks...

Thanks for the update! I can't wait for the new hp8 release.

When I was using hp5 and hp6 I didn't get anything for two days and when I installed hp7 yesterday I got a block within a half hour - It seems to come down to luck in the end - My first two days had nothing and then I got a block yesterday and today on hp7. I would really like to know how much of a difference it makes for you reverting back to hp5.

But then there is the issue of random crashes - I had no luck mining with hp5 or hp6 due to crashes every hour or so on my 3930k - did you experience this on hp5 with those machines at all?

How much higher are you seeing? I would donate in primecoin now but I only mined my first block yesterday and it still is immature - it's going to be at least another day before I am able to use the coins.

I just set up the software on my laptop and it took a few moments with no connection and now seems to be syncing. Waiting might help as there seem to be a few minor issues with getting your computer to sync at first.

I don't think you are doing anything wrong - it has another block chain on the test net and that needs to sync separately. I ran into some issues syncing with it with antivirus software (only for the first part). It might help to disable your firewall temporarily until you have part of the block chain and multiple block sources. Then again I'm a complete noob and might be goiing about this completely wrong - take what I say with a grain of salt.

Thanks for the explanation - I was just curious about settings since I'm using the default sieve size and sieve percentage  and don't know if changing them helps at all right now - I saw people discussing different settings making a difference on the testnet and was wondering if there were any better settings that I could use right now.

What settings are you using and how many primes per second are you getting? I'm mining  on my 3930k and get anything from 4k to 5700 primes per sec and have only gotten one block in three days of mining.

I would personally avoid a coolmax power supply, especially with extended load. From what I have heard about it they can be hit or miss in quality and when you invest that much money into a computer a bad power supply can be a big issue. I personally would recommend looking at the overclock.net recommended list of power supplies here: http://www.overclock.net/t/183810/faq-recommended-power-supplies

It also is a good idea to look at individual reviews for those power supplies since even when a company is reputable they can easily have a model with issues. Another thing to look into if you are bitcoin mining is cost and efficiency - with higher end equipment heat can be an issue and electrical costs build up. Depending on how long you plan to mine with the system it might be worth looking at some 80+ silver or platinum power supplies and to look at the cost of electricity over an extended period of time vs the added costs. In some cases it makes sense to go with a lower efficiency power supply due to budget constraints but sometimes it pays in the long run to get a better power supply.

As elwoodD said a few posts earlier it might be a good idea to get 7950s or other similar cards to get a higher hash rate if the cost is similar, but at the same time 6970s still are fairly good.

Would you mind telling us what ram you intend to use and what hardware you already own? Some manufacturers have better reputations than others and it's worth looking into specific warranties before purchasing products (i.e. ASUS has a decent warranty on their motherboards but support is hit and miss - I have had advanced replacements that took two months to get the refurbed board, I have had a brand new motherboard shipped in retail packaging within 2 weeks, and have heard of people getting back the same dead motherboard that they claimed to have fixed).