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1  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: Planning Mining - Need help and suggession on: June 18, 2018, 11:32:19 PM
In india, there are a few very important things to consider before starting your mining operation:

1) The cost of electricity based on which city you are located. (Currently i am paying Rs. 5.78/unit including GST i.e $0.085)

2) Weather condition in your city, how hot it gets and how much more effort/cost you will have to put in to keep your rig cool. More cool your rig is, longer its lifespan and better hashing stability.

3) Availability of parts at reasonable rates with prompt service.


Most important reasons why Mining makes more sense in India vs Buying crypto:

1) Crypto scene is still unclear, whether exchanges will be able to operate or not via fiat. Supreme court is suppose to decide in next 2 months on the validity of RBI ban instructing banks to shutdown bank accounts of crypto holders and exchanges. So using bank accounts / cards to buy crypto is not a wise decision just now.

2) Cost of buying crypto from exchanges is very costly compared to international markets. Cost on Indian exchanges are higher by 5-10% on an average plus the spread between buy and sell prices is also huge.

3) By mining rather than buying, you are staying away from indian exchanges/banks and you can directly sell those mined cryptos in international exchange without risking banking ban.

4) Cost of mining 1 coin is very less compared to buying that coin (theoretically) if you have enough hashing power. For e.g. average electricity cost of mining 1 BTC in india is close to $3300-$3400 and buying 1 BTC is close to $7000-$7200 at current rates. Same goes for other coins as well.



2  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: [Cast XMR] high speed XMR/CryptoNight miner for RX Vega GPUs (2 KHash/s) on: June 14, 2018, 12:31:05 PM

Yes the hash rates are too low i am aware. I am running this at stock setting without any modifications. I set this up by referring vega.miningguide.com website, i still have to implement their powerplay overdrivetool settings yet. The reason i am still reluctant is because i am confused. They say not to use wattman at all and most of the videos and guides for vega modify using either Wattman or MSI Afterburner. I am pretty new to this and still learning what to do and how.

Plus there are 2 switches on GPU and i am unable to find what those switches do in what position. No manuals for it can be found.

BTW what should be the stock H/s on a samsung vega and what should be the expected overclocked H/s?

Its meant to be confusing, barrier to entry keeps profit for the rest of us higher Smiley. So that magical switch that is there but not there on any manual ever is a bios switch. your card has a backup bios in case you ruin one. dont touch the switch till you really know what youre doing. vega minings guide use overdrive n tool, you can use msi afterburner i would strongly recommend against using wattman it is a great source of freezing crashing and hashrate drops.

stock hashrates are about 1600-1700h/s overclocked runs from 1800-2000ish depending on memory brand. you dont need todo powerplay tables. you can just crank the memory up and get the 1900+ h/s youll just use a lot more power.

I am aware 1 is a bios switch, but don't know what the other switch does. There are 2 switches on my card, One at the left corner and one near the center of the card (This i assume is the bios switch but i can't tell if it's in overclocked position or safe position by default).

I am currently getting around 1650 H/s in stock, so that sound about right. My card has a samsung memory so i assume it to be good for getting good stable hashrates on overclocking. Will try overclocking and undervolting this weekend. Thanks for the headups about wattman and MSI Afterburner.


Your rig is probably fine, just some bad luck at the pools.  The calculators on pools get their results from network stats and not actual pool stats.  If the pool you’re on is running over 100 average effort (luck), then you will make less than calc says.  The pool I’m on was running average effort of 55-65% last week, so I made 2 times what calculator said, but average effort changes with every block found.


My initial problem of not being able to earn enough coins based on calculators is almost solved. I changed the pool and modified the port number to 5555. I was able to earn almost near to the calculator profitability numbers. Thank you SpceGhst for the help.
3  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: [Cast XMR] high speed XMR/CryptoNight miner for RX Vega GPUs (2 KHash/s) on: June 12, 2018, 01:34:00 PM
I am unable to earn coins as estimated by any calculator for my hashing power. I am earning less that 25% coins of the estimated earnings per day calculated by all profitability calculators. I have tried using couple of different pools but no improvement.

I am running a Powercolor Red Dragon vega 56 with samsung memory, doing 1650 H/s mining graft coins, AMD Radeon Drivers v18.4.1 with cast xmr 1.1.5 latest version, windows 10 ver. 1709 build 16299.461. Miner is stable with no crashes & 100% good results.

I have followed the guide at vega.miningguides.com to setup my vega. I have still not used powerplay tables, but i intend to do it a later stage.

Can someone help me in finding why i am not able to earn close to estimated coins per day as reported by profitability calculators? Is there something additional that needs to be done?

Your rig is probably fine, just some bad luck at the pools.  The calculators on pools get their results from network stats and not actual pool stats.  If the pool you’re on is running over 100 average effort (luck), then you will make less than calc says.  The pool I’m on was running average effort of 55-65% last week, so I made 2 times what calculator said, but average effort changes with every block found.


I thought so too, So how do we decide which is the best mining pool for us? How are mining pool analyzed?

The difference i get is drastic, to a point of not even meeting the electricity cost break even point. For example, on cryptunit it varies 70-90 coins per day at 1650 H/s for graft. However all i was getting at first day is 5 graft coins after mining straight for 15 hours. Then next day i got 31 graft coins after 36 hours mining on grftpool.com

Then i switched to https://graftpool.net and now i have been mining from past 16.5 hours on this pool and i see a pending earned balance of just 29 grafts.

Is this difference normal?

4  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: [Cast XMR] high speed XMR/CryptoNight miner for RX Vega GPUs (2 KHash/s) on: June 12, 2018, 01:27:22 PM
I am unable to earn coins as estimated by any calculator for my hashing power. I am earning less that 25% coins of the estimated earnings per day calculated by all profitability calculators. I have tried using couple of different pools but no improvement.

I am running a Powercolor Red Dragon vega 56 with samsung memory, doing 1650 H/s mining graft coins, AMD Radeon Drivers v18.4.1 with cast xmr 1.1.5 latest version, windows 10 ver. 1709 build 16299.461. Miner is stable with no crashes & 100% good results.

I have followed the guide at vega.miningguides.com to setup my vega. I have still not used powerplay tables, but i intend to do it a later stage.

Can someone help me in finding why i am not able to earn close to estimated coins per day as reported by profitability calculators? Is there something additional that needs to be done?


1650h/s on a samsung vega? your doing something wrong. Per chance do you have a monitor plugged into this vega? bc you cant do that and mine at full speed. also calculators are junk. they are based on a perfect purely theoretical yield. as if all the coins mined that day were evenly distributed based on hash rate, not how it works in reality. your payout will vary wildly day to day somedays it may be higher than the calculator. Also with only one vega you should try to be on the largest pool of the coin your mining for a more even payout.

Yes the hash rates are too low i am aware. I am running this at stock setting without any modifications. I set this up by referring vega.miningguide.com website, i still have to implement their powerplay overdrivetool settings yet. The reason i am still reluctant is because i am confused. They say not to use wattman at all and most of the videos and guides for vega modify using either Wattman or MSI Afterburner. I am pretty new to this and still learning what to do and how.

Plus there are 2 switches on GPU and i am unable to find what those switches do in what position. No manuals for it can be found.

BTW what should be the stock H/s on a samsung vega and what should be the expected overclocked H/s?
5  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Mining (Altcoins) / Re: [Cast XMR] high speed XMR/CryptoNight miner for RX Vega GPUs (2 KHash/s) on: June 12, 2018, 08:45:30 AM
I am unable to earn coins as estimated by any calculator for my hashing power. I am earning less that 25% coins of the estimated earnings per day calculated by all profitability calculators. I have tried using couple of different pools but no improvement.

I am running a Powercolor Red Dragon vega 56 with samsung memory, doing 1650 H/s mining graft coins, AMD Radeon Drivers v18.4.1 with cast xmr 1.1.5 latest version, windows 10 ver. 1709 build 16299.461. Miner is stable with no crashes & 100% good results.

I have followed the guide at vega.miningguides.com to setup my vega. I have still not used powerplay tables, but i intend to do it a later stage.

Can someone help me in finding why i am not able to earn close to estimated coins per day as reported by profitability calculators? Is there something additional that needs to be done?

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