forgot, dstm's ZCash Cuda miner is up to Version 0.5.7 Awesome shows it at 5.5 even after i use the up load tool the CMD screen For the miner says 5.7..
The update mining software Definitions says there is no new updates.. didn't say anything till now, was hoping you would catch it, hate bugging people for minor things.
You have to stop the miner, select the uploaded sofware in the managed miner, then restart the miner. I just did this today with the djm34 version of ccminer. It's the same thing if you update AM and there is a new version of a built-in miner software. You have to stop the miner to make sure that AM can update the software on the rig that it's using. |
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Miningpoolhub results after about 12 hours at 137MH on Lyra2REv2 using Mona as the mined coin:
Result converted from Mona and the payout in BCH: $3.50.
So, that's two cards going for 12 hours, at 720W (I measured.) which means about 80 cents worth of electricity, for a profit of $2.80.
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When you use auto-convert at a pool, your coins do not go directly to the exchange. MPH will wait until you and all the other miners have accumulated enough coins to send to the exchange... to make it worth MPH's time. By the time they get there, your mined coin will most likely not be as profitable. For MPH, I suggest you set automatic thresholds for each coin on the MPH webpage. You want to send them to an exchange yourself like Bittrex. Bittrex has an auto-sell feature. The faster you can send the coins, the better chance you have of getting more profit than waiting on MPH to do the conversion for you. If the fee for sending XYZ coin is 0.01, and you set your threshold at 1 coin, then you will lose 10% just to get the coin to Bittrex... but you will get it there faster... and potentially make more profit than waiting on MPH's conversion. If you have a large amount of hashrate, the faster this will happen and you can get the coin to the exchange faster while the profit is still good. Notice, none of the above has anything to do with Awesome Miner... you just have to know how to play the game. |
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Hello! Quick question - how do I assign different GPUs to different pools?
The "Enable/Disable" button is greyed out on the GPU tab for the pool, and using Rules does not switch off GPUs either (and would do it globally). I've looked through all settings and do not see an easy way to just mine altcoins on zpool with one GPU and eth on nanopool with the other GPU.
Hi, You need to create more than one miner, and for each miner you need to specify the command line for only using specific GPU's. For example if you run Claymore Miner you specify "-di 0,1" on the first miner and "-di 2,3" on the second. The difficult part is if you are going to do profit switching with many mining software. Awesome Miner doens't have any automatic way of setting this up for you, so it will be some work to figure out all command line parameters for all software to be used. Enable/Disable concept for GPU's are only for mining software that has support for this feature. It's not supported by all. Can you point me in a direction where I would be able to find the info to figure out what command line parameters one would use for setting up profit switching? More pressing... Short of pulling out my second way too old gpu ( being replaced. new one in transit ) How would I tell Awesome Miner to completely ignore the 2nd gpu? That's the thing. You don't tell AM to ignore the 2nd GPU, you have AM tell the mining software to igniore the 2nd GPU. It's a lot easier with managed miners as you can specify the command line attributes either at the pool level or the managed miner level. I like to put these at the pool level, so that you don't have to go and change the managed miner every time you want to change pools. For instance, if I'm mining Zcoin, I put the "-a lyra2z" for ccminer to use that algorithm at the pool level. This works better, as I don't have to remove the "-a lyra2z" at the managed miner level every time I want to change the pool on the managed miner. For profit switching, this becomes a lot more difficult, as you can only ever select specific algorithms that use particular software that has the ability to skip or disable GPUs. I know that Claymore's has this ability. But honestly, this would be a pain to setup... and to what end? As you mentioned, it would probably make more sense to just pull that 2nd GPU out. Sometimes, the root cause of the problem is a simple fix, rather than trying to use software to mask over the root cause. |
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Sorry, I don't use Telegram, so I can't help... not a helpful post... I know.  Kind of disappointed from the lack of support in this thread, but it is what it is Sorry, I'm not the developer, nor do I use Telegram. You might try to PM the developer. |
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I would like to know more about what it takes to run a Zencash secure node. Practically, do I need to have a computer to run the secure node all the time, what does this computer has to have of technical requirements to run it, and what if the power gets turned off while it is running?
I am kind of new to running masternodes/secure nodes, and would like to know more. Thanks!!
It's best to rent a VPS and setup the secure node on a cloud server. The payouts for a secure node are based on uptime, so you need a reliable system to stay up all the time. Check out the guide here: https://blockoperations.com/how-to-build-and-operate-a-zencash-secure-node/ |
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Yes, this happens when the pool changes it's measurements of the pool hashrate from MH/s to GH/s for instance.
Patrike is very quick to get an update out to fix it once he's notified.
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but buying a second motherboard means buying a second CPU /RAMS /HDD and basically building a second rig
i want to have one rig not two
Do you already have 8 GPUs? If not, then wait until your current rig with up to 6 GPUs generates enough revenue to buy the second motherboard, CPU, RAM, HDD, and power supply. You need to reinvest your profits into new gear in order to scale up. I understand people desire rig-density, but you will have many new points of failure on rigs that are too dense. |
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well you can use multihubpool's multi switching port for the algo you want from this page https://miningpoolhub.com/?page=statistics&action=autoswitchesthis is if you want to mine one algo but the most profitable coin from that algo if you want full multi algo profit switching you can use multipoolminer https://github.com/aaronsace/MultiPoolMiner/releasesthis one uses info about what is the most profitable based on its benchmark just like nicehash client you just need to edit and replace some details just like any other miner read the instructions to understand how it fully works. sounds great, thanks! MPH with MPM or AwesomeMiner seems to be the best solution for now.. any tipps for mining there in terms of payout amounts, etc.? Depends on your overall mining strategy really. If you are looking for profit immediately, then you want to set a threshold to payout for each coin that you will mine to go to an exchange. From there you manually sell at the right times, or setup auto-sells to sell right away. If your hashrate is high enough, then sending small amounts to auto-sell can be profitable. Miningpoolhub can also do auto-exchange to the coin of your choice, though then you are at the mercy of MPH's strategy of exchanging. They will wait until a minimum number of coins has been accumulated by all miners before sending to the exchange. By the time that happens, the coin may no longer be as profitable. |
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Thanks for the detailed reply. Not to get further off topic.... But one thing I forgot to mention was from all the research thus far, seems like Linux is the more stable option once you get into 8+ GPUs (Though I've heard Windows 10 has an easier time of recognizing more than 8 GPUs with recent driver updates). Overall though, Linux is more stable than Windows. That's fine, also been using Linux since the 1.1 stable / 1.3 beta kernel days  . I personally prefer Ubuntu LTS versions since they typically have 5+ years of support and updates. For anyone shying away from Linux if the have no experience, a paid distro like EthOS would probably take a lot of the guess work (and fun) out of using Linux... As you said, this is a hobby so you may want to try a regular Linux distro like Ubuntu and download / install and sometimes compile the packages yourself for the experience. Nothing wrong with using linux as the OS of your mining rig. Though, I might interject... with you having lots of enterprise experience, you know this is not the early days of Windows. The modern windows kernels are just as stable as linux. Where linux shines more is in the handling of bad conditions, like poorly coded software and drivers. The point I'm trying to make is you shouldn't be scared off by using either one. They both have their good and bad points. Use what's comfortable to you. Thanks for also bringing up ROI (something I'm thinking about in the back of my head, but failed to mention as a newbie). Enterprise grade stuff would be wonderful but if it suddenly makes your ROI 1.5 years instead of 180 days, that isn't nearly as good of an investment. The veterans here give good advice, make it good enough that you're not going to have to babysit the rig constantly, while at the same time ensuring you get the best prices possible in order to have an acceptable ROI period on your investment. I've found whattomine.com to be a very good source to calculate ROI and revenue in general. They seem to have the hashrates of the more common GPUs against each of the common crypto algorithms stored in their database. All I needed to do was select my GPU model and how many will be in my rig and it will calculate the daily profit and the best cryptocurrency to mine at the moment. Just remember that the numbers spit out by many profit calculators don't always factor in things that can change profit over the longer term such as difficulty changes, overall network hashing capacity, etc... so take the numbers with a grain of salt.
ROI is king in mining. You are investing a lot of money to offset gains you could have had by just buying a coin. Where mining has an additional bonus is that the hardware retains some value that you can exchange either for better equipment or cash/coins. |
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I have considered those. I just have no idea if one of those and whichever cheap board i grab would work though so its a gamble. I also hear they dont work well with Nvidia cards.. No idea if that is true.
EDIT: The tb250 is the one many people on Newegg say starts fires lol
I have a TB250 running six 1080tis with no problem. No fires. LOL! Most likely an idiot who doesn't know how to build a computer. Where do you guys get your information? User reviews are not the gospel... just a guide. |
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Try another OS to see if the problem is with your hardware or software. You can download SMOS, nvoc, sniffdog, and plenty more. If the card works fine in those, then you know the problem is with ethOS. If the new OS is also failing, you probably have a problem with your hardware, or a BIOS setting that is awry. Let us know how you get along and then we can help you further.
I will give one of those a shot. Since I posted this I tried 2 other boards, a biostar tb 85 and Asus z170, and both were leading to the same problem. Do you have another GPU you can try? If the same GPU is not working on 3 different motherboards, then that may be your issue. Are you plugging the GPU directly into the x16 PCIe slot, or using a riser? |
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It's always nice to get publicity on Youtube, but there was no proof that this person was mining DNR. It would have been nice for him to show his hashrate with that 13x 1080ti monster. |
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I am having trouble setting up Awesome Miner to mine Electroneum as a worker for Nanopool. There is a syntax to follow that includes the wallet, worker name, and email address, but when I do it, Nanopool never shows my worker for the wallet ID. When I put in walletID/[MinerWorker]/user@email, it mines but doesn't show results on the pool, or at least none that I find. I'm hoping someone out there has gotten this to work and can share the miner and pool config in a way that makes sense.
As it happens I just got this one working today. Here are the pool and miner.   Anyone know how to insert the actual images into my message? You can't because you are a "newbie" on Bitcointalk... but I think my quoting you will display it... let's see... |
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Hi, I have 2 managed profit miners configured and DSTM Zcash CUDA Miner it's not taking the worker name on miningpoolhub when you use override pool settings, i want to have different worker names but they always mining with the deafult working name that you define in options>profit switching.
I've tried putting the --user XXX.XXX in command line with no luck. EWBF have the same problem, is anyone having the same problem?
I've never tried to use the override pool setting options, but why would you want two different worker names? It makes more sense to have the same worker name and two different rig names. So if your worker name in miningpoolhub is "puwaha", and the profit miner names are "rig1" and "rig2", then AM will combine them to make "puwaha.rig1", and "puwaha.rig2". They will then show up in the same dashboard in miningpoolhub. |
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OK I seem to have got to grips with templates, very useful, cuts down the number of miners I am using. But am I correct in thinking that I still need to have 2 miners defined for each rig if I want to have the option of using profit switching also?
Yes, because they are two different variants of "miners". It helps to think of AM as taking objects such as pools, templates, software, hosts, and miners into "rigs that do what I want". In this case Patrike has the license based on the number of "miners" you deploy. A managed miner and a profit miner do two completely different things. |
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Does the motherboard have some sort of automatic SLI capability? If so turn it off.
Not that I could see in the BIOS settings Turn off your integrated graphics in the bios and just use the 1070ti in the primary x16 PCIe slot. If that's stable, add the next 1070ti to the next x16 PCIe slot. If that's stable, then add the next 1070ti to the first x1 PCIe slot. |
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I'm a total newbie at mining, but I've worked in I.T. for 25+ years.... Are you doing this as a hobby? I.E. you don't really care how often your rig crashes, or are you looking to build a production setup that you want generating cash for you 24/7? If you care about stability and keeping your rig up and running with the least crashes possible, don't cheap out on your motherboard or your power supplies, they're the heart or your setup. All sound advice for a daily driver computer or gaming computer. But when it comes to mining, the problems you are going to have with stability are more related to the OS, drivers and mining software. A quality power supply is good advice though. I'm debating between EVGA and Corsair power supplies at the moment. Don't split hairs... they are both good. As a newbie, I can't say which MB is best as I'm still researching that myself... I will say that I wish I could get an Intel branded everything (motherboard, chipset and CPU) because that has provided me the most stability in an enterprise level environment. I remember the old days of 3 different brands and companies for MB, chipset and CPU and how many times our systems would blue screen or hang as a result.... I won't begrudge your preference, but this is mining, not enterprise. You want your equipment to be cheap and fast. Reliable is nice, but not necessary, as the CPU, motherboard, and related hardware are not that taxed during mining. I'm looking at a mining board and in the rudimentary research I've done so far I'm leaning towards Asus. I've never owned a Biostar motherboard so I have no experience with their level of quality. I was looking at the Asrock H110 Pro BTC+ (it was one of the first boards I found using the Google machine), but Asrock as a name has never struck me as top tier and after reading about people having shorting problems on the PCI-E risers because the slots are too close together that has made me shy away from them as a brand. Asrock is a good brand as well. I've been researching for weeks now, hours a day to ensure when I do make the purchase, I'm getting it as close to right as I can the first time. Don't let perfect be the enemy of good. |
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The Biostars are pretty reliable motherboards. Remember, this is not a gaming PC, but a mining PC. You don't need wiz-bang features, but a motherboard that just works.
Also, price matters in mining.
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Does the motherboard have some sort of automatic SLI capability? If so turn it off.
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There is no "best" 1070 card... only lots of opinions. Some will have better cooling than others, maybe better memory, but really they are all so close in performance that it really doesn't matter. You are also subject to the "silicon lottery"... where two cards of the same model will hash slightly differently. You get optimal performance by tweaking the power limit, GPU and memory clocks... not by purchasing the perfect model card.
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