Hi all,

I was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction on this one.  I'll be honest, I'm still learning how all this works and have quite a bit figured out.

I'm still in the 'bouncing around figuring out which coin(s) are best for me to mine' stage, but am running into a couple of things I can't seem to figure out, usually relating to the same kind of thing.

Namely, how to cash out from a wallet/exchange.

A couple of wallets/exchanges are really easy to figure out, but some others just baffle me.

The specific question of this thread is about IntenseCoin.  I've been testing it over the past couple of days and seem to be getting really good hashrates/cash value returns on the mining.  I've got the wallet setup, and an account on stocks.exchange (seemingly the only exchange that Intensecoin uses), but I can't seem to figure out how to convert to a different coin.

Because my setup is a bit of a Frankensteins monster at the moment while I go through all my testing etc. I'm going to be mining a bunch of different coins, but ultimately I want to be able to send everything over to my Coinbase account (as I find that the simplest one I've found to figure out).

Would anyone with a bit of experience be able to give me some pointers?

Sorry if it seems like a really stupid question, but y'know, still learning. lol.

Thanks
TheMightySpud

Hi all,

I'm hoping this is in the right place.  Mods, if it isn't, please either move or delete?  Thanks.

I've set up a rig with pretty much what I had lying around to run some experiments on how it all works etc. and I've learned a lot over the past few weeks.

I was just wondering how important the motherboard/cpu/memory is in relation to mining certain coins (I primarily mine Ethereum at the moment using WinMiner, I was using NiceHash, but I guess we all know what happened there).

Initially I was using a Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 motherboard, and was getting consistently 'high' hashrates, but just as NiceHash went, the motherboard died.  I've troubleshot the motherboard completely and it is truly dead.

So I switched to a backup board that I had.  An Asrock 990FXA Extreme 3.  Now this board doesn't support the processor I had in the old board, so having to use an AMD 8300 chip (at 3.1Ghz), which is a massive step down to the previous CPU.

The board has 16gb of DDR3 memory (can't remember the speed off the top of my head), but it's high end stuff.

As for GPU's I have 1x 1050ti, 2x AMD R9 Fury's, 1x AMD R295x2 and 1xAMD Vega 56.  The Vega is dual bios, one with stock bios, one with Vega 64 Bios.

None of the cards are currently overclocker because the lower end process is preventing me from doing so.

Power wise, I know these cards aren't generally great for mining profitibility due to the amount of power they suck up (the 295x2 eats 500w at full load), but elec costs aren't an issue for me.

Also, I have both an eVGA 1000GQ (1000watt), and a Corsair AX1200i (1200watt) PSU.

Board/SSD/both R9 Furys/1050ti and 2 risers plugged into the eVGA, and the 295x2/Vega, CPU Cooler(AIO Liquid) and 2 risers plugged into the Corsair.

The issue I'm having is that I'm getting far lower (at least on some cards) hashrates than I expected/was getting on NiceHash.

I've attached a screengrab of my WinMiner 'Live' page to show the rates I'm getting, these rate are pretty consistent, but the R9 Fury's actually start at full tilt, getting around 27Mh/s each, but then drop through the floor after a few seconds.  And the R295x2 is a little confusing as one of the GPU chips seems to be running at a slower rate than the other.  The Vega is quite a concern too as it appears to be running much lower than it is capable of (based on what I've seen/read) and the switch over to the Vega64 Bios has very little, or no effect.



Now I thought that this might be an issue with WinMiner as I've read that it still has a few problems, but I tried out MultiPoolMiner and saw the same drops in hashrate.

So, I'm a little confused as to what the issue could be, and the only thing I can think of is that there is something about the PCI Express bandwidth that is 'throttling' the performance of the cards.

Just an additional note, as I read something about Intensity levels with the Claymore miner, I adjusted the level to 4, from the default of 8 and I did see an improvement.  Just not at the level I was expecting.

I hope someone can help figure this out, or at least say 'yes it's the board' lol.

Thank in Advance.
TheMightySpud