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See if the EVGA Supernova 1300W or Seasonic X 1250W is more affordable. Either way, check for 1 point reviews on Newegg and Amazon
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You need an half-decent CPU like the FX-6100 or a Core i5 if you buy an Intel board, but of course you can play games on the card connected to the monitor and leave the rest mining.
You need to [D]isable that card on miner software and run the miner on realtime priority. If you need to, and how you can make the cards invisible to the game, that I have no clue.
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Same problem here, did you find any solution ?
not yet Start cgminer in realtime priority. When setting up your profile in CgWatcher, click the "Advanced" button.
Run CgWatcher in idle priority. Either with task manager, Process Explorer or a batch file with the line @cmd /c "start /idle cgwatcher.exe"
If that doesn't solve, pool cgminer only each 10 seconds or so.
You guys are using single-core Sempron 145 CPUs, aren't you?
I'll give it a try, thanks. Yes, I'm using a Sempron 145 single core It figures... That's a bad CPU if you want to run more than just cgminer. cgminer is advanced in prefetching work from pool and generating local work and generic multithreading and whatever more, however there's so much it can do on a single-core when it is frequently interrupted by cgwatcher, vnc server, network card interrupts, etc... Cgwatcher could also be a bit more lightweight, but .net is very convenient... Realtime priority improves some, but the suggestion you see everywhere of a Sempron 145, when there's a dual-core 190 for more $5, is frankly, pathetic. I agree, I didn't realized how many things I was going to install and followed naively a guide buying the 145 sempron, although I was not convinced of the choice, but everyone seemed to point towards that CPU... I regret that decision, I should not trust the "cheap" suggestions and spend a few bucks more Yeah, I guess the 145 is ok if nothing else runs on the system. But I used cgwatcher, vnc server, teamviewer and some other software and noticed them using a few % cpu, so I knew that a single-core would make cgminer lag |
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Same problem here, did you find any solution ?
not yet Start cgminer in realtime priority. When setting up your profile in CgWatcher, click the "Advanced" button.
Run CgWatcher in idle priority. Either with task manager, Process Explorer or a batch file with the line @cmd /c "start /idle cgwatcher.exe"
If that doesn't solve, pool cgminer only each 10 seconds or so.
You guys are using single-core Sempron 145 CPUs, aren't you?
I'll give it a try, thanks. Yes, I'm using a Sempron 145 single core It figures... That's a bad CPU if you want to run more than just cgminer. cgminer is advanced in prefetching work from pool and generating local work and generic multithreading and whatever more, however there's so much it can do on a single-core when it is frequently interrupted by cgwatcher, vnc server, network card interrupts, etc... Cgwatcher could also be a bit more lightweight, but .net is very convenient... Realtime priority improves some, but the suggestion you see everywhere of a Sempron 145 to handle $2000 worth of videocards, when there's a dual-core 190 for more $5, is frankly, pathetic. |
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Very good find! Latency, latency, latency. Did you also disable everything not relevant for mining, including audio and firewire?
Is that an Asrock 970 or other model?
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Screw them. The 2 most profitable coins for me in the recent past cannot be mined with these ASICs
which 2 Memorycoin and Vertcoin. Protoshares can be GPU mined too, but I'm not sure it's worth it now |
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Start cgminer in realtime priority. When setting up your profile in CgWatcher, click the "Advanced" button.
Run CgWatcher in idle priority. Either with task manager, Process Explorer or a batch file with the line @cmd /c "start /idle cgwatcher.exe"
If that doesn't solve, pool cgminer only each 10 seconds or so.
You guys are using single-core Sempron 145 CPUs, aren't you?
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Screw them. The 2 most profitable coins for me in the recent past cannot be mined with these ASICs
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I'm a newbie to mining and I want to buy hashing power and send it to a scrypt coin of my choice. How do I take hashing power and mine with it? Can someone explain in detail? Also how do I find the most profitable scrypt coin to mine?
If you want to own the hardware, you need a Motherboard like the Gigabyte FXA990-UD3 or Asrock 970 Extreme4(I don't recommend, just examples), a CPU like the Sempron 190 or the FX-6100 (if you want to mine CPU only coins), 4+ GB RAM, 1 or 2 PSUs, 1 HD or 32 GB usb pen, PCI-e risers and as many AMD Radeon R9-290, 280x or 270 videocards you can connect to the motherboard. |
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Just to give maybe a different perspective on H2o... I'm a small business owner - we'll do $2.5 to $3 million in revenue this year, so you know the scale. It's lucrative - I make a nice living and don't have to work a ton.
I'm the money guy. All dollars run through me - billing, payroll, accounting, etc. I read somewhere earlier in this thread where h2o said he has a couple part time employees and doesn't trust people enough to give up much control. And I get that 100%. Financially, I could delegate most of what I do and be semi-retired, but I'm not willing to hand over the money to someone else.
As lucrative as I understand this pool to be for him, honestly, if I were him, I'd probably be even LESS communicative than he is. If I'm making as good a living as it appears he is, and do most of it myself, and can't or won't do a lot of delegating, AND want to actually live a little, then I honestly care less about give the community warm fuzzies than I do about enjoying my life.
Stats break, I'll get around to it. Forum questions/complaints take a while to be addressed, if ever, so what. I lose a little of my hash rate and my bottom line shrinks a little, fine, I still make plenty AND probably have a little less work to do.
I focus on making payouts be reliable and higher than the competition, go put my feet up a little, and let the folks who can do math choose to use my pool. Stats and the occasional unexchanged spike are immaterial in the grand scheme of things.
Just my $0.02. :-)
At last, another voice of reason. This is h20's baby. He runs it as he desires. He owes nothing to anyone beyond what he offered when he began this pool, mining the highest paying coins and cashing the profits in as BTC and distributing those proceeds as they were earned minus his agreed upon fees. He's made it abundantly clear that he's not going to change the interface or alter any of the other superficial niceties that everyone keeps complaining about. He is perfectly happy with providing the best performing multipool out here and reaping the rewards of his excellence. You don't like all of that, fine, it's a free world and you don't have to like it, but you aren't going to change it no matter how many times you post about how much better it would be with it. You can complain, you can suggest, you can "air your grievances"  all you choose, it serves no constructive purpose, because, as we all have been able to see over the past several weeks, h2o isn't going to change the way the pool operates. Thus, all the complaints, the whines, the wishes, the suggestions, the "airing of grievances" is pointless and indulging in it is nothing more than self-indulgent bitching. Doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result is one description of insanity. This isn't "fanboi-ism", this isn't "beating people up," this isn't telling people "STFU," this isn't telling people not to "air their grievances," this is just stating facts . . . it's just asking you . . . what's the point? After 350 pages it should be abundantly clear that you are wasting your time and the time of everyone else on this forum. Yes, we agree that people who love cute UIs and websites and statistics can go elsewhere for 70% of the payout. The problem is that middlecoin was a TERRIBLE pool for most, until he rented servers around the world. Difficulty 512 and 1024 with 900 Kh/s and a connection to US West does not impact payouts? Right... |
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Quick question...
I'm in Portugal. Ping to eu.middlecoin.com is 50 ms, while it is ~120 to useast.middlecoin.com
Which quotas on load-balance should I have? Currently, it's 50% to each pool. Should I give ~90% to eu. or leave as it is?
why do you load balance at all ? 3 reasons: 1) latency to eu and useast changes a bit around the clock. I've already had lower latency to useast than to eu. 2) the miner sometimes idles if a pool dies, if it's in failover. I never had a problem with giving a minimal quota to the 2nd pool 3) if one pool malfunctions or there's variance in profit between pools, load-balance smooths it So, which quota should I have? |
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Quick question...
I'm in Portugal. Ping to eu.middlecoin.com is 50 ms, while it is ~120 to useast.middlecoin.com
Which quotas on load-balance should I have? Currently, it's 50% to each pool. Should I give ~90% to eu. or leave as it is?
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{
"pools" :
[
{
"quota" : "10;stratum+tcp://dogecoinpool.com:3333",
"user" : "mechtronic2001.1",
"pass" : "x"
},
{
"quota" : "10;stratum+tcp://mooncoinpool.com:3333",
"user" : "mechtronic2001.1",
"pass" : "x"
}
]
,
Replace what's in bold and put the above in the beginning of your config
This is great, thx! What is the 10 representing in your example? Is that a percentage? Those are arbitrary values per se, what matters is the value vs the total of all. Those add up to 20, so 10 is 50% of work per pool. You could have 50 and 50. You could have 100 and 5, which would lead to most to one pool and residual work to the other. You can have more than 2 pools, of course, each with an arbitrary quota. |
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I have been trying to flash the bios with lower voltages, but they dont seem to work, do you have any idea what voltage selection i should be using?
1080 mV as starting point, but some chips can go as low as 950 mV. For example 1075 mV -> 1100 Mhz 1050 mV -> 1050 Mhz 1020 mV -> 1000 Mhz 980 mV -> 950 Mhz Currently I have: 7870XT: Tahiti LE : 0.95V -> 1000 Mhz R9-270:Pitcairn: 1.05V -> 1100 Mhz 7970: Tahiti: 1.05V -> 1030 Mhz (too high voltage, but needed for MemoryCoin and VertCoin) 6950: Cayman: 1.1V -> 900 Mhz Of course, the lower voltage you can reach for the particular core clock that maximizes hash rate, the better |
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Everyone says get a cheap CPU but why not get a good one and mine a CPU-only coin?
This is a very good point. I don't use 35€ single-core Sempron 145 on the rigs in the first place. It's either a dual-core Sempron 190 for 40€ or an FX-6100 for 100€ The Sempron 145 vs the dual-core 190 for the sake of $5 is a bad recomendation. Either due to teamviewer/vnc, or because people fail to start cgminer in realtime or because the new sgminer allows intensity > 20 (which uses CPU), etc... |
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Just started mining at your pool. Looks promising!
Is it possible to update your layout or make it look a little bit more professional?
~ Luc
No. The point of profit-switching pools is the higher payout, not decorative crap. |
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{
"pools" :
[
{
"quota" : "10;stratum+tcp://dogecoinpool.com:3333",
"user" : "mechtronic2001.1",
"pass" : "x"
},
{
"quota" : "10;stratum+tcp://mooncoinpool.com:3333",
"user" : "mechtronic2001.1",
"pass" : "x"
}
]
,
Replace what's in bold and put the above in the beginning of your config
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