The 7950 is a great card, have one myself.  I don't understand how someone can say it's not worth mining with when all the big farms use them!!  So you are just one user instead of a big farm, whatever.

What you will need to do though is learn how to use all the other algorithms.  Forget scrypt, forget x11, but DO look for x13, x15, nist5, and all the others.  Take a look at the coins being mined on Suprnova right now and you will see lots of alternative algos.

http://www.suprnova.cc/

You are going to have to learn to use a new miner.  It is an all-in-one in that it will do all the algos, but you WILL have to learn how to use it.  It will take some reading, some time, and asking questions.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=632503.0

Come to think of it, the easiest place to get started would be NiceHash.  They have the latest software versions updated frequently. 

https://www.nicehash.com/software/#sgminer

Download sgminer, and follow the "getting started" links there.  That's all I can do for you now but feel free to message me once you've done what you can there, ok?

That chip has six cores so that's the max threads you should be running.  I just started up my bulldozer with 12 threads to see what happens.  Collision city, and less hash than with 7 cores.  Just give it five, best for efficiency.  There is that drop-off that Spexx and I were discussing, you might try single threads and setting processor affinity as he described.

Yeah it is fun!  I'm fairly competitive, love to learn, and love to overclock to the moon.
 

Interesting, however... Might not be an issue with AMD's bulldozer and might have more to do with hyperthreading.  Dig.  Here's a run, 7 threads given time to settle in.  Shows that drop of course down from 6.9. 



This however, is a run, single threads, affinity set to e0, 70, 38, 1c, 0e, 07, 83.  It looks like it's going to average out to about the same, possibly less, and there's a lot of work restarts, no doubt from all those single threads jammed at the doorway so to speak.



This is the first AMD chip I've used since this 1800+ I had quite a while ago.  An upgrade from a quad-core socket 775 chip/board that went to better pastures (bro's accounting and email).  This scene has re-sparked my curiosity bug for programming, the low-level kind.  Previously I would have probably got into programming PovRay, now that I've got something faster than a 486 to render on, but now I wanna know what's in those cores, and what the hell all these new instruction sets are about (including the gpu ones).  First project... something that will adjust core voltages and frequencies on the fly, dependent on core temperature.  Why?  Because the manufacturer's overclocking software sucks so much ass.     This will be fun, I haven't done asm since I had a 386!

I was going to drop a quick line to PeteAugustus about water-cooling but thought, it's short, why not just share it.  For those still sitting on the fence, go for it.  You will improve your system performance enormously.  This is room temperature, right now, rock-solid stable and still room to play.  Think of what you could do with a little winter air pushed through that radiator.  They are by far the easiest and safest installs for CPU heat-sinks I've ever used.  Ever had a V-8?  You can barely find the room for one of those in a case, with these you've got tons of room to ventilate for instance, your all-important and oft-overlooked NB/SB.  I'm using this puppy here, a Thermaltake 2.0 $89, you can spend almost as much on a top air-cooled heat-sink.  Go for it, you'll never regret.

These things are building up fast.  Hope they aren't fissile, don't wanna find out what critical mass is on em.  Do they crawl out of the wallet at night in search of scumbags and bastids?  I'm kinda worried about that because I'm a bit of a scumbag, not a bastard though.

Ok kids, listen up.

Read this fucking book.  I said, READ THIS FUCKING BOOK!!!  Then understand numbers, not perform arithmetic, Understand Numbers!!!  This is a game and numbers determine, represent, run it, just like everywhere else.

"Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds"

First published in 1842.  Free via Gutenberg Archive.  Get it.  Read it.  It's got nice pictures.  Read the first chapter TONIGHT!!!

THE MISSISSIPPI SCHEME.

John Law; his birth and youthful career—Duel between Law and Wilson—Law’s escape from the King’s Bench—The “Land-bank”—Law’s gambling propensities on the continent, and acquaintance with the Duke of Orleans—State of France after the reign of Louis XIV.—Paper money instituted in that country by Law—Enthusiasm of the French people at the Mississippi Scheme—Marshal Villars—Stratagems employed and bribes given for an interview with Law—Great fluctuations in Mississippi stock—Dreadful murders (kewl!)—Law created comptroller-general of finances—Great sale for all kinds of ornaments in Paris—Financial difficulties commence—Men sent out to work the mines on the Mississippi, as a blind—Payment stopped at the bank—Law dismissed from the ministry—Payments made in specie—Law and the Regent satirised in song—Dreadful crisis of the Mississippi Scheme—Law, almost a ruined man, flies to Venice—Death of the Regent—Law obliged to resort again to gambling—His death at Venice

You see what you got here?  You've got the first book on mass psychology... ever... and it starts with a chapter on the introduction of paper money in France.  Seriously, when I got into this scene I started asking people and I could not believe that only two people I ran into had ever heard of it.  Now I'm sure that everyone here has probably read a shit-ton of manuals and texts, but just going by the numbers, and remember it is ALL numbers, most here haven't really read all that much.  I'm serious.  You may think you do, you have, and a fraction of you actually have, but I've been reading everything about everything for over 40 years.  Do the math.  Now if I say that this is the most important book you have to read, NOW, it is, and you should.  I've earned my P.o.A.A.  (Proof of Arrogant Asshole)

It's late, I'm tired, but I'll be back tomorrow with more and I'll continue to do so until you really KNOW what the hell is going on here.

If you can't read those twenty pages of fucked up madness by tomorrow, well god that's wimpy.

"Law was now at the zenith of his prosperity, and the people were rapidly approaching the zenith of their infatuation. The highest and the lowest classes were alike filled with a vision of boundless wealth. There was not a person of note among the aristocracy, with the exception of the Duke of St. Simon and Marshal Villars, who was not engaged in buying or selling stock. People of every age and sex and condition in life speculated in the rise and fall of the Mississippi bonds. The Rue de Quincampoix was the grand resort of the jobbers, and it being a narrow, inconvenient street, accidents continually occurred in it, from the tremendous pressure of the crowd. Houses in it, worth, in ordinary times, a thousand livres of yearly rent, yielded as much as twelve or sixteen thousand. A cobbler, who had a stall in it, gained about two hundred livres a day by letting it out, and furnishing writing materials to brokers and their clients. The story goes, that a hunchbacked man who stood in the street gained considerable sums by lending his hump as a writing-desk to the eager speculators! The great concourse of persons who assembled to do business brought a still greater concourse of spectators. These again drew all the thieves and immoral characters of Paris to the spot, and constant riots and disturbances took place. At nightfall, it was often found necessary to send a troop of soldiers to clear the street."

(Most of) you aren't stupid, you're just ignorant.  There are a hell of a lot of "smart" people who aren't, they're just knowledgeable.  This is just some of what I've bothered to keep over the years.  I've also got the silo out back.

Read The Damn Book!!!

Ah, there's my now known so I can't say unknown benefactor.  Thanks!  Just wanted to say that there are probably a fair number of people in this scene because they're not exactly rolling in it.  This may be a night out for most, but for me it's staples like dog-food (for them, not for me).

Ditto!  Thank you so much!  The hounds thank you too, they'll be getting treats for a while.

Join us here for some tips and discussion on mining.... says the guy who's FX-8350 smoked a Haswell i7-4790.

Continuing a discussion on the main thread....


I see... that's somewhat counter-intuitive but maybe because of old-school thinking.  I would have figured the increase came from having task run on "it's own core" so what I was doing was starting different instances with the /affinity command, which I saw you were using in your batch files.  So you're setting them to spread over three cores?  As in 123,234,345,456,567,678 etc?  Guess I'll try that and see what I get.

Y'know... I think I'd gain more by moving my rig to where it can get some sub-zero air.  Then of course there's more problems.  Last winter I found out they don't put antifreeze in closed-loop systems.  There is such a thing as being too chill.

Oh great Dr. Funkenstein who has done it to us in our ear-holes, I beg for your answer!

I have been using the Skeinminer program for solo-mining but as yet have seen no wood-chips fly.  I do know it is reading how many blocks are on the network, hash seems to be flying, but given the intervals I've seen the wallet kick out logs vs what should be expected... Well, I'll leave it on for a day, but could you tell me if there is a version of Minerd that does work?

What got me interested in this coin was it's potential as a vehicle for selling my photography.  Unfortunately in this fast-paced scene and what with my own health problems, I wasn't able to load up that still there and very well put together art site.

I'm offering up all my work at full-size for any promotion and commercial use, but I'll need some help, direction, use me.

This is no small thing.  I'll say with full confidence that I Am Fucking Good.  Really Good.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7657010@N05/

http://s633.photobucket.com/user/acatphoto/library/Site

This is only scratching the surface.  PM me for the password to the full-size print directory.  I also have a lot on Google Drive that I've got to set up and sort.

I don't just photograph... I paint, the camera is my brush.

Spexx!    Just wanted to possibly confirm a bit of bad news for us AMD miners.   It seems that when limiting single threads to single cores, we still get a drop in speed.  Basically, once you go past five instances you get that drop no matter what.  7kh/s per thread up to 5 or so, then slowly drops to 5 and a bit per.  Just thought I'd mention before I start digging for ways and means.

The -t is for how many threads or computer cores you want to use.  If you have a problem with overheating, use fewer threads.  Notice the difference between threads and cores.  Intel has hyperthreading, which means two THREADS per core.   

I've got a P4 board nailed to the wall downstairs.  512M ram, 40M HD, runs an R-270 just fine.  Oh, chip and board were $10.

Diamond is always at the top of the list for profitability.

http://www.coinchoose.com/

Excellent algo.  Doesn't hog your entire system, easy to work, watch vids, whatever, still hashes away.

http://dmdpool.digsys.bg/

Just ran across the optimized kernel thread.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=779598.0;all

There's also SpreadCoin, mine ONLY through wallet.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=715435.0

Same with Woodcoin, chop some logs!

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=831003.0

Wow!  Buddy delivered on this algo, it runs cooler than any other CPU algo I've tested.  I switched from Magi and my CPU dropped almost 10 degrees!!!  Full-tilt, and only 36C.  I'm gonna have to turn this sucker up a notch, 5.2 Ghz here I come.

Why would you kill your CPU from mining?  Unless you've got terrible cooling or something.  Currently mining Magi with 7 of 8 cores, 5Ghz, CPU is UNDER 45 C!  So what if it's 75 cents a day, everybody is mining on the potential anyways.

Indeed!  That sounds kinda dangerous, But what's life without a little risque risk, eh?   I dunno, generally I like my decadent filth to be a bit more... cultured... refined... artsy even.

http://vid33.photobucket.com/albums/d72/AtomicNixon/Video/TheAristocrats-Mimeavi.mp4