I'd like to see a 24 hour, 7 day and one month hash rate average per worker. This was my favorite feature of yourbtc.net.

Even if not for each individual worker, just for your total account.

Hash rate and maybe BTC generated per worker also with same parameters(24hrs 7days 1 month)also.

awesome pool man. I'm up to about 10 GH/s with two accounts so far and looking to add more.

so I have a custom mining bash script for my miners in linuxcoin final. I followed the wiki guide from day one to build the startminers.sh script.

Here's my script:

#!/bin/bash
sudo aticonfig –od-enable
cd cgminer-2.0.7
./cgminer –o http://us.eclipsemc.com:8337 –u username –p password –I 9,9,9,9 --gpu-fan 100 --gpu-engine 800 --gpu-memclock 300

Do I really need the "sudo aticonfig -od-enable" line? and could it be hurting me in any way?

also, is there something I need to add to this so cgminer will restart dead gpu threads or does it do it automatically?

Thanks.

also, seems to be taking forvever  for my bitcoin deposit transaction to go through. I've been sitting on 2 confirmations for a while now.

Any tips or suggestions?

How long for verification typically?

Also, which sites are you guys using for trading mostly?

I appreciate the response Jimm and no I didn't burn them in intially, maybe that screwed me.

I'm just getting frustrated here as I have put in about 20 hours on these rigs the last 4-5 days and it's pissing me off that I can't even get 800 clock speeds after replacing all the TIM and pads, etc.

I know I did a good job with the TIM and pads because the GPU cores went down at least 5c on every card. If you guys could see how bad the stock pads and TIM was on these cards you'd know what I did should have helped A LOT.

I'm just thinking all the down time and restarts are costing me way more than if I just water cooled every damn card and called it a day.

It looks like it would cost me about $1000 per rig for three cards to water cool them.

I have 12 5970's and 8 5870's right now. The 5870's are at 900 with stock cooling and have run fine for 4 days.

Considering I could probably get the 5970's to 850 or 860, that's 125 mhz per core over stock for a total of 1500 mhz extra. Three cards at stock is getting me about about 2 GH/s at 850 I think I could get closer to 2.4 at least.

So that would be an extra 1.6 GH/s which gets about $200 per month at current prices. Now if you count shutdowns and the loss of revenue associated with all that, looks like about a 12 month return.

Speaking of clocks and hash rates, I vastly over stated what I thought I could get earlier in this thread. Right now my cards won't go longer than 2-3 days at 800/300 or 800/160 and this is in a cold basement. One machine has a box fan blowing on it directly.

It has to be the ram, because my core temps don't go above 60c and most are in the low 50's. I'm starting to think these diamond brand 5970's from newegg just suck.

I just cranked them down to 725/160 since I won't be able to mess with my rigs for a while. I'm thinking I might have to go water cooling since I can probably get 900 or so.

DeathandTaxes, what hash rate do you get on your water cooled cards. I'd like to do some calculations on the difference to see if a water cooling investment is worth it.

How do you know which GPU cgminer is referring to in terms of which pci slot it is in?

is GPU 0 typically in slot 1 and then goes on from there?

lower memclock = lower energy use

It also increases hashrate slightly I believe, but it definitely lowers energy use which is huge.

Some people have gotten the memclock as low as 160 I think. You have to mess around with settings to see what works best.

DeathandTaxes has done alot of screwing around with 5970's and can probably add more to this discussion than i can.

@btc_artist

my cgminer mining script looks like this if you were using one 5970

./cgminer -o http://miningpool:port -u username -p password -I,9,9 --gpu-fan 85 --gpu-engine 800 --gpu-memclock 300

This gets about 700-725 MH/s for a single card average about 710 MH/s or so. This is for a stock Diamond card from newegg.

I am testing some cards that I redid the TIM and thermal pads on and have those at --gpu-engine 825 --gpu-memclock 300

Those are getting an about 730-750 MH/s for an average of 740 Mh/s or so.

For three cards I'm using same as above, but I,9,9,9,9,9,9.

Yeah, I use Linuxcoin also, the final version on a usb stick. I follow the headless instructions from the Wiki.

If I already have powered extenders, can I just not plug in the molex? Could that be screwing things up?

Anyway, thanks for the input, I just have to play around some more I guess, got frustrated after 5 hours yesterday... At least I got three GPU's running, lol.

Hey jimm, you're running four 5970's on each MSI 890FX-GD70, correct? You're also using two seasonic 750watt gold psus.

I just reset my rigs and used a lian li power supply adapter to get both psus running. I have been able to get three cards going on each rig for now, but I couldn't get a fourth going. I used pcix16 slots 1,3,5,6 like the MSI manual suggested and also tried 1,4,5,6.

I'm using the molex powered x16 extenders from cablesaurus as well.

Any suggestions or tips?

Thanks.

Oh and I have one power supply powering two cards and the CPU with one molex rail connected to two extenders.

The second psu is/was connected to the other two cards and one molex rail to power the other extenders.

you might be right, the phobya pads have a rating of 7watt or something like that. They do not give very much so they didn't work on the VRM. Heatsink was not making contact with GPU.

Good luck.

I don't know too much either, but I believe this is due to the double geometric method. You don't earn as much right away, but as you continue to mine, you get up to your expected earnings.

I'll let Inaba or someone else with more knowledge give you a true detailed explanation, but it has something to do with what I posted.

No worries, hell you got me straight with my cards and that's all I care about.

I've redone four of them now with shin-etsu X23-7783D on the GPU's, 1mm phobya thermal pads on the ram and .5mm fujipoly thermal pads on the vrm.

Cards have been clocked at 800/300 for over 24 hours with no shutdowns in an open rig. Bottom card max temps of 50c or so and top card at 55c. Once I get the extenders going and get them out of the open case I should be good to go.

Once I learned to heat up the shin-etsu in a glass of hot water I was able to spread it perfectly with a thin plastic card.

I'm not going to mess with my other 4 5970's just leave them stock and compare them to the ones I just redid see if all this was worth it.

Brutal 24 hour+ round, but I broke my cherry and found us a block 8 minutes later!

My first block found in any pool. I think getting up to 5+ GHash helped. I have enough cards and gear to get up to almost 12 GHash soon. I'm hoping to get them all running by january 4th because I'm having surgery that day.

Great pool so far and I hope to keep contributing for a long time.

I'll get some validation soon Jimm. I am running these rigs in a very cold basement right now with no heat on the east coast. I am SURE they won't run at 850 once it gets warmer.

They do have to be reset fairly regularly though at those clocks, about every 12 hours, so not very stable yet. I'm building a rack of fans to blow into the cards and see if that makes it stable longer. For now I clocked them down to 800/300 and they have been running for a couple days without problems mining 24/7.

I didn't want to tinker with anything due to the holiday and also because we caught some long blocks in our pool recently. I mine at Eclipse also. I figured I didn't want to power down my rigs until we chewed through that last long block..lol.

I agree the costs are just passed on and it's easier to do your homework on which merchants are reputable.

Thanks, I have ref 5970's and 5870's, so this should help me.

The key is some type of escrow service on the consumer side. If I send X coins and never receive anything, the courts are all I have. If I use a credit card, I can call and have the charges reversed.

Obtaining a transaction record at the time of bitcoin payment is key and of course the reality is such that you simply don't start off with a new merchant sending thousand of bitcoins.

On the other hand, if people realized that even though they are receiving their money back when they make a credit card purchase and then get their money back if it goes wrong, the reality is that they are paying for that transaction anyway with fees, increased prices overall, etc.

Actually we pay for EVERYONE's bad transactions.

@bc  allthis is certainly similar to what I am proposing, but without the speculative aspect. I wouldn't want people to be buying someone's service at a cheap BTC rate and then reselling.

Now maybe an auction aspect could be cool especially those raising funds to promote bitcoin or to help out an open source developer. Once purchased I don't think the service should be resold.

The auction would be cool though. Let's say I'm willing to donate a mining card in order to raise money for ckolivas, since I use cgminer and love it. I post the mining card with a starting value and then allow people to bid in bitcoin. Maybe 10% goes to the site for funding and the rest gets donated to ckolivas for his great miner.

Lots of cool things could be explored.