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Why the i5 7400t vs a G4400 for about 70 less? What 128gb SSD are you using for 40? I think you are wrong to go this way. do ½ your way do ½ this way if you can get prices wait for quote take a minute. build two of mine and two of yours @ op how much did you spend for the six card setup? sorry that I missed this. This is an easy 3 card monster rig. two 1080 ti's -------------------------1300 on sale one 1070------------------------------ 369 one 128 gb ssd ----------------------- 40 one 8gb stick of ram ----------------- 50 one i5 7400t cpu---------------------- 130 eBay sale one gigabyte z270 mobo ------------ 108 one 850 watt pat psu -------------- 112 total ---------------------------------- 2109 does 2300 for skein does 1750 for zcash at 550 watts. riser free and you can add 1 more card with a riser if you want to expand to me no one should build a six card rig as the first rig.  |
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Could the b250 gaming 3 support a 5th card with the m.2 adapter? Or does this chipset not work like that.
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Figured out my issue. I had to set GEN 1 in the bios for my setup to work right. Now TDP is around 115-118w for all 4 cards in Nvidia-SMI and usuage is above 95% for all cards. I appreciate your help.
Getting just under 1200 H/s on my pool with 505 watts at the wall! Pretty happy with that.
Two issues I am having, one I solved just wanted to let you know what I ran into.
#1 - I tried running ETH and kept getting it error. It was rejecting my shares. It took me a minute but I figured it out. I was trying to use ethermine.org and it was rejecting me because of the address/worker name.
On line 483
ETHADDR="$ETH_ADDRESS/$ETH_WORKER"
ethermine.org wants this input as ETHADDR="$ETH_ADDRESS.$ETH_WORKER"
The . separating them rather than the /
I am not sure if this is the case for all ETH as thats the first time I have mined for it. Just a heads up, it worked great after I made that change.
#2 - I am using the 15.5 GB ADATA 3.0 drive that you said would be ok. Sometimes it wont boot, it goes to the boot loader and shows a purple screen and never loads. Sometimes I get a black screen with
/dev/sda2:recovering journal
/dev/sda2: clean, 314012/901120 files, 2478157/3584000 blocks.
If i let it sit there it takes several minutes to finally boot up but seems to work ok after that. Sometimes it boots fine. Should I try a different Drive? Or is this another issue.
Glad you got it working well.  I didn't need to set gen 1 on my GA-B250M rig. Maybe it is specific with these cards. Is your mobo the gaming 3 version? What CPU did you use? #1 different pools have different syntax; knowing this is the case with ethermine.org is helpful. #2 this usually occurs after the disk had an improper shutdown; to check for orphaned inodes and other possible disk errors. If you have been forcing shutdowns this is expected, if you have not then I would get another usb key. Also quick question since you have obviously used this MB before. GA-B250M
Have you ever had trouble with it booting? When I do an initial power up I have to hit ctrl-alt-del to reboot it to get the gigabyte splash screen to show up. After that it boots fine. And it reboots fine if I restart from the OS. When i have to hit ctrl-alt-del i can see a cursor underline flashing on the screen in the upper right quadrant??
I have never experienced anything like this before.
This is something specific with this motherboard. I have seen similar oddities with other motherboards in the past. I sometimes need to hit ctrl + alt + del when powering on this mobo before the bios will post. EXCELLENT! Hopefully Gigabyte will release an updated bios that fixes that issue. I'll shoot then an email to see what they have to say about it. Glad to hear it's not just me though. Mine is the gaming 3 and I'm using a G4400. Thanks again for all the work, loving it. Now to see what I can push these cards to. |
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Also quick question since you have obviously used this MB before. GA-B250M
Have you ever had trouble with it booting? When I do an initial power up I have to hit ctrl-alt-del to reboot it to get the gigabyte splash screen to show up. After that it boots fine. And it reboots fine if I restart from the OS. When i have to hit ctrl-alt-del i can see a cursor underline flashing on the screen in the upper right quadrant??
I have never experienced anything like this before.
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Figured out my issue. I had to set GEN 1 in the bios for my setup to work right. Now TDP is around 115-118w for all 4 cards in Nvidia-SMI and usuage is above 95% for all cards. I appreciate your help.
Getting just under 1200 H/s on my pool with 505 watts at the wall! Pretty happy with that.
Two issues I am having, one I solved just wanted to let you know what I ran into.
#1 - I tried running ETH and kept getting it error. It was rejecting my shares. It took me a minute but I figured it out. I was trying to use ethermine.org and it was rejecting me because of the address/worker name.
On line 483
ETHADDR="$ETH_ADDRESS/$ETH_WORKER"
ethermine.org wants this input as ETHADDR="$ETH_ADDRESS.$ETH_WORKER"
The . separating them rather than the /
I am not sure if this is the case for all ETH as thats the first time I have mined for it. Just a heads up, it worked great after I made that change.
#2 - I am using the 15.5 GB ADATA 3.0 drive that you said would be ok. Sometimes it wont boot, it goes to the boot loader and shows a purple screen and never loads. Sometimes I get a black screen with
/dev/sda2:recovering journal
/dev/sda2: clean, 314012/901120 files, 2478157/3584000 blocks.
If i let it sit there it takes several minutes to finally boot up but seems to work ok after that. Sometimes it boots fine. Should I try a different Drive? Or is this another issue.
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Ok I was able to test some on my 1060 system today.
I seem to get different results each time I restart leading to away from a potential hardware issue??
This restart has been my best and it was a restart from the OS using the restart under the gear icon. The others have been shutdowns and startup from the off position.
All cards are choosing solver 0.
It seems to be one card with lower power draw and and gpu usage with the nvidia-smi command. Also all cards are getting fans set properly and it shows that the overclocks are applied (any way to check from guake?) All cards are running in P2? Is there a way to force p0 on this? I know my other 1060 in win 8 won't apply the memory properly in P2 and I can't force p0 like I did on my Maxwell cards.
(First row is tdp, 2nd is going usage)
Start1 (shut down and swapped riser on 3)
GPU 0 110
GPU 1 112
GPU 2 60
GPU 3 115
Start2
Tdp
119,120,118
112,109 ,108
107,109,98
114,113,114
Usuage
97,98,96
93,95,93
85,84,87
100,100,100
Start 3
Tdp
73,65,64
109,113,110
96,98,106
117,119,118
GPU
46,43
87,92
73,75
98,99
Reboot (start4)
Tdp
110,118,110
105,114,114
100,95,104
117,118,117
GPU
88,90,82
94,96,97
90,93,92
99,99,100
Performance is ok. Not as good as my stand alone 1060 I have running (same card). It gets 305 sol/s at 135/400 mem
I'm getting 271,286,288,305 now on these with 135/300
I appreciate any info you can give me on adjustments to make or things to try.
Unless the card is locked; you should be able to force p0 by entering this command in the guake terminal: sudo nvidia-settings -a [gpu:0]/GPUPowerMizerMode=0 and entering the password: miner1 when promped note this part is card specific: [gpu:0] for the first card, [gpu:1] for the second ect. If that doesn't work you may be able to set p0 indirectly by setting a powerlimit of 75 (but this will lower your hashrate to around 265 sol/s per card). This usually isn't an issue with pascal cards, but what kind of risers are you using? How are you powering them? I did that command and it says assigned 0. But nvidia-smi shows P2 still. These are EVGA 1060 sc 3gb. I am using 1x-16x adapters v006 blue, USB from deepinthemines. I am powering then directly with molex from my PSU (no adapters) and I only have two risers per modular molrx cable from my PSU. |
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Ok I was able to test some on my 1060 system today.
I seem to get different results each time I restart leading to away from a potential hardware issue??
This restart has been my best and it was a restart from the OS using the restart under the gear icon. The others have been shutdowns and startup from the off position.
All cards are choosing solver 0.
It seems to be one card with lower power draw and and gpu usage with the nvidia-smi command. Also all cards are getting fans set properly and it shows that the overclocks are applied (any way to check from guake?) All cards are running in P2? Is there a way to force p0 on this? I know my other 1060 in win 8 won't apply the memory properly in P2 and I can't force p0 like I did on my Maxwell cards.
(First row is tdp, 2nd is going usage)
Start1 (shut down and swapped riser on 3)
GPU 0 110
GPU 1 112
GPU 2 60
GPU 3 115
Start2
Tdp
119,120,118
112,109 ,108
107,109,98
114,113,114
Usuage
97,98,96
93,95,93
85,84,87
100,100,100
Start 3
Tdp
73,65,64
109,113,110
96,98,106
117,119,118
GPU
46,43
87,92
73,75
98,99
Reboot (start4)
Tdp
110,118,110
105,114,114
100,95,104
117,118,117
GPU
88,90,82
94,96,97
90,93,92
99,99,100
Performance is ok. Not as good as my stand alone 1060 I have running (same card). It gets 305 sol/s at 135/400 mem
I'm getting 271,286,288,305 now on these with 135/300
I appreciate any info you can give me on adjustments to make or things to try.
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Thanks im not sure if it helped but I disabled the onboard VGA and setup that 15.5gb 3.0 drive. It worked for the fans and no error for OC settings.
Now a new problems GPU 0/1 are using 91/97 watts and GPU 2/3 are using 111/115 respectively and hash rates on 0/1 are down too because of this. 257/240 vs 296/300
I had to leave for work so I couldn't do more testing
Only thing I changed in one bash was NO to could and my address/pool for zec
I am using a cosair 750w cs750 power supply so it should be more than enough for this system?
Something I'm missing in settings somewhere?
Thanks
Do you have 3gb or 6gb 1060s? If 1060 3gb should be able to handle: cc 100 mc 350 OC settings, you are going to want to set the oneBash part: __CORE_OVERCLOCK=100
MEMORY_OVERCLOCK=350 to implement those clocks. If 1060 6gb should be able to handle: cc 100 mc 600 OC settings, you are going to want to set the oneBash part: __CORE_OVERCLOCK=100
MEMORY_OVERCLOCK=600 to implement those clocks. Depending on what model you have, you may be able to OC more. I'm not sure what you said no to: Only thing I changed in one bash was NO to could and my address/pool for zec If you set: and then specify the wattage for the powerlimit here (note can be above or below TDP): #change powerlimit by changing the number after -pl to the desired wattage expect -c 'spawn sudo nvidia-smi -pl 125 for example if I was setting a 115 watt powerlimit, that part of one bash would look like: if [ $POWERLIMIT == "YES" ]
then
sleep 6
#change powerlimit by changing the number after -pl to the desired wattage
expect -c 'spawn sudo nvidia-smi -pl 115
expect "*password*:"
send "miner1\r" '
sleep 6
fi Also when oneBash starts do you see cc and mc for each card like this? (with different values of course):  Sorry my phone corrected it and I didn't catch it. It should have said NO to CPU for the XMR mining part. I am pretty sure it set 100/100 as I just left them as they were to start with. They are 3GB EVGA SC 1060. I have one running by itself on another PC and I get 305h/s at 100 TDP which shows about 117w in the --PEC output of EWBF. I have it clocked at 135/400 My main concern was the power spread. I have never ran a multi card systems (well greater than 2). I'm not sure if I need to change a setting or I have a hardware issue causing the top to be 20 watts lower. I don't mind it having some variance as I know this is normal, but being 25 lower on one card makes me think it's hardware. The only reason I am asking here is this is the first OS I have used on a 4 card system so I wasn't sure. I can get more info/screenshots tonight when I get off work. I do appreciate your help. Also I like what you have did and hope that I can get all this worked out and use it on more systems as I build more. Do you accept donations? Thanks! |
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Thanks im not sure if it helped but I disabled the onboard VGA and setup that 15.5gb 3.0 drive. It worked for the fans and no error for OC settings.
Now a new problems GPU 0/1 are using 91/97 watts and GPU 2/3 are using 111/115 respectively and hash rates on 0/1 are down too because of this. 257/240 vs 296/300
I had to leave for work so I couldn't do more testing
Only thing I changed in one bash was NO to could and my address/pool for zec
I am using a cosair 750w cs750 power supply so it should be more than enough for this system?
Something I'm missing in settings somewhere?
Thanks
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First off thanks for doing this. I am setting up my first 4 card system with 1060s and a GA-B250M board so this is perfect for me.
I downloaded the image and verified the checksum. I am using the HDD Raw Copy Tool to install it on an Adata 16GB 3.0 USB that I had but it gives me an error at around 97%, Operation Terminated at offset 15,535,636,480 LBA 30,343,040
The image shows 16GB in HDD Raw and the flash drive shows 15.53 could this be the problem even though the image file is below this size when I look at it in windows.
I did get it to work on a 32Gb 2.0 drive just to test but it was unbearable slow but did work and i was able to mine with one card.
When it started up I got an error about the fan control.
ERROR: Error assigning value 75 to attribute 'GPUTargetFanSpeed'
(m1-desktop:0[fan:0]) as specified in the assignment
'[fan:0]/GPUTargetFanSpeed=75' (Unknown Error).
This is on a 1060 EVGA SC 3GB.
I was only running one card directly in the main PCI slot during this error.
Thanks for your time and assistance.
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