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The thing most confusing about this, The Koolio, is why you're talking about conspiracy theories, and yet have your avatar as a common Freemason symbol, which most people consider to be mixed up in the conspiracies :p
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hi guys, I was just wondering how you manage to keep your cards this cool?! I got two xfx 5870 running at 860/300 stock voltage and I canīt get the temperature down. My temperature after a day of mining is between 83C - 86C the cards fans are working their asses of at 100% How can that be? This is my current setup:  Maybe you got some tips? Thank you! my room is quite cold, and my case has space for a fan right over the gap between the two (looks like its similar spacing). Its not a very good fan and I might buy a better one, but right now, the cards run at about 75-80C on stock volts, but thats because I changed the fan speeds to be at around 60% (its in my bedroom, and I'd rather have it considerably quiter than a few degrees cooler). the only thing you can do is to either do the same or get spacers. |
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Would someone be kind enough to update me on the status of mining performance using Windows vs. Linux tools?
I've read recently that some Windows GUI miners now include the BFI_INT optimization that used to be what put the Linux miners ahead in performance. Is that the only consideration? I like the idea of a GUI for ease of use, but I'm no stranger to the Linux prompt, so I'll use whatever gets the best performance. If, however, performance is about the same on both, I'd prefer a GUI.
Thanks in advance for your suggestions!
Depends on your GPU. It's hard to overclock in linux on some GPUs. You have access to afterburner in windows. But I find linux 100% more stable. There is also a LOT less cpu overhead as well. Windows also has LogMeIn. I'd say if you have a reference card and/or able to edit bios with RBE, then linux is definitely better. Linux has SSH, and you can also use X over ssh so I don't think Remote desktop is a valid reason for using windows :p I agree with your other points. |
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uhh the topic is probably slightly misleading, though I couldn't think of a better one.
Is there currently a way to have all your miners connect to a central server, and then have that server connect to a pool, to save on having to go through all the miners/cards if you want to change pool?
If so, does that software show stats of each miner? (as the pool will show it as 1 worker presumably)
If not, I guess I'll get started on making it :p
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I have exams and don't have time to sort out proper cooling :p  |
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Is the pool fine to connect to know?
I want to use btc guild, but if its not stable I guess I shouldn't.
Though its been fine for me so far?
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To deposit BTC I just send to the address on the page, but how does he know what account to put it in?
Is there a unique account for every member or.....?
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The possibility of Bitcoins replacing the current fiat money system worldwide means it has a *huge* value potentially.
For instance if Bitcoins were to replace only 1% of the money used worldwide that would mean an increase in value by about 3000x from the current value (when all 21 million bitcoins have been created). If it were to replace *all* money worldwide, that means each bitcoin would be worth several million $.
You say "only" like 1% of the world economy is a small amount :p |
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An order has been placed for a server in the EU. It will probably be ready to go live on Thursday. The DNS will load balance between the two, but I will post special URLs that pool members can use to manually connect to the server closer to them if they wish.
There may be one more server coming online by next weekend based in the east coast to give us a fairly wide spread geographically (US West, US East, EU).
Awesome  I'm gonna switch back to the EU server when it arrives then =] |
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I've been mining for 13 hours straight with 100% usage on both gpus and temps at 65C and 67C. Is it safe to run this 24/7?
That temperature is fine for chips. Worry when it gets to 80C+ (even then it'll probably be fine). Some cards idle at like 60+ Hardware will stop itself from overheating - either by drawing less power and slowing down / increasing fan speed - or turning off the computer alltogether. Fatigue happens if the the hardware expands and contracts a lot (increase/decrease in temperature). I imagine going between 40 - 70C wouldn't be much of a problem tbh, though I'm not an expert. Temperature cycling is NOT fine for anything. It causes "fatigue" wear. Any 3rd year mechanical, civil or aerospace engineer or materials science major will know this without thinking 1 second about it. Since there are MANY MANY parts in a board and only one needs to fail to kill it, fatigue is a nightmare for them. Mining is not the norm for a gaming card ... gaming is. Gaming runs at whatever is required while you are playing and then goes back to typical idle when finished. This is cycling over long periods of time and much few times during the life of the card. With mining, it is happening as often as once per minute in this pool. So, sorry, but you are absolutely incorrect about the damage temperature cycling can do, even if below 70C the entire time. I forgot hashing can use magical opcodes that games can't... oh wait! I'm glad to see you're proud of your engineering degree. Congratz! I'd say anyone should know that heating and cooling quickly is bad (hot water, icey windshield etc). Tell me, how much does the card expand by going from 50C to 70C? |
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I've been mining for 13 hours straight with 100% usage on both gpus and temps at 65C and 67C. Is it safe to run this 24/7?
That temperature is fine for chips. Worry when it gets to 80C+ (even then it'll probably be fine). Some cards idle at like 60+ Hardware will stop itself from overheating - either by drawing less power and slowing down / increasing fan speed - or turning off the computer alltogether. Fatigue happens if the the hardware expands and contracts a lot (increase/decrease in temperature). I imagine going between 40 - 70C wouldn't be much of a problem tbh, though I'm not an expert. |
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I just like that [Tycho] gets ~60GH/s. Thats quite a good break if you ask me ;p
I wish I had made a pool.
I don't think my 700MH/s would be enough to attract people though ;p
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