[ANN] cudaMiner & ccMiner CUDA based mining applications [Windows/Linux/MacOSX]

[bigjme]

One of my old neighbours had a dual gpu alienware laptop and the gpus actually set on fire. I dont think they have great thermal design on some. But its always possible to get the odd bad laptop cooler

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[cvax]

How many MH/S with 1 Nvidia 750ti with HVC ? .

11300kh/s

[bigjme]

How many MH/S with 1 Nvidia 750ti with HVC ? .

11300kh/s

13MH's on my 750Tis

[RavenX]

How many MH/S with 1 Nvidia 750ti with HVC ? .

http://www.cudaminers.net/forum/gtx-750-ti-heavycoin-hvc-mining-thread.html

[atc1]

Well that ended rather poorly.

Brand new $4k Alienware COOKED in less than one hour...lol

LITERALLY throwing purple? acrid smoke...my office still stinks almost a full 24hrs. later.

Don't think scrypt mining is for me!

Haha,with a laptop,same issue,but luckily only my PSU blew up. My card is still safe as is my HD .Phew. Do you have a warranty on that one?

[liomojo1]

Well i don`t know but i was minig for a week with my laptop Lenovo i7 y570 with gtx555. At first i saw the gpu at 95c but when i cleaned the exhaust system it went so well and i was minig with it at max 70c i was minig crypt and then vertcoin and these days i tryed heavycoin.  Lenovo rules 

[Dotcommie]

I will tell you what the problem is , i have the same one and we discussed it 2 pages back.
The problem is the lack of external molex on the Gpu and the stupidity of the usb risers and their lack of geting power from the pci-e slot.
So the usb risers get power only from the sata connector and when you put 3 or 4 gpu-s they take about 160w from the sata line , and if you see on your power supply the max is 130-140w . So the power is low and the pc restarts or shuts down. You can check it like this , when it is workin , just plug in the usb of your mobo a power hungry device like dvd rw and your phone to charge and you will see the imediate effect. one of the cards will stop and the blue screen apears and the system shuts down.
So if you want to mine with cudaminer using non powered gpus like evga oc edition , then you have to use non usb risers , but the old riboon risers , they don`t cause such a problem , cause the gpu gets it power from the pci-e slot.
If you want to use usb risers then you have to get a gpu that has external power molex , so that you don`t get all power from the sata line.
That is the bloody f--king problem and it suckes a lot.

you're right.... I try to connect my r9 290x with riser Not powered (but with external gpus molex)  and 3 750ti and everything works fine https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fi61.tinypic.com%2F52nj8w.jpg&t=538&c=CQw1tEx4TxTiZg

Sadly, I am and now I have to buy new risers and bild the rig a stand.
Buy 750 ti only with external power molex people!!!

Or you could just do what I did and use half powered ribbon risers and only a couple usb ones.  All of mine have external power though so it doesn't really matter, I just had to use too many adapters. Wish I had got more ti's WITHOUT the external power since I have way too many wires everywhere now.

It all comes down to balancing the load across your psu rails and not overloading your pci's

[bigjme]

I wonder if they do 6/8 pin pci-e power to molex. I know they do dual molex to 6pin

As the pci-e power cables are rated to 150w so even older psus could run a load of gpus and just use the 6pin to molex adapters

[liomojo1]

I have ordered 6 pci-e 1x ribbon risers and Saturday i will have them , each cost 5 $.
My friend made , a month ago, the same rig with this kind of risers and he had not a single issue. i will build the stand for the cards and start the minig again. I wil try to sell the usb risers and so on .

[ManIkWeet]

Clearly I have the worst timings, as the Bitcoin went up €20 RIGHT AFTER I SOLD ONE 
/madness off

[bigjme]

Clearly I have the worst timings, as the Bitcoin went up €20 RIGHT AFTER I SOLD ONE 
/madness off

Sorry to hear it. Im keeping all mine now

[djm34]

Clearly I have the worst timings, as the Bitcoin went up €20 RIGHT AFTER I SOLD ONE  
/madness off

never sell bitcoin in the morning... it is always when shit happens

[iglasses]

Well that ended rather poorly.

Brand new $4k Alienware COOKED in less than one hour...lol

LITERALLY throwing purple? acrid smoke...my office still stinks almost a full 24hrs. later.

Don't think scrypt mining is for me!

Haha,with a laptop,same issue,but luckily only my PSU blew up. My card is still safe as is my HD .Phew. Do you have a warranty on that one?

This was day 1 out of the box so yea the entire unit will be going back and a replacement sent.  Won't be trying that again but still the thing should have better cooling than that.  If I didn't unplug it this thing was %100 going to flame up in another 30 seconds.  The smoke was getting that thick slow kind right before something ignites.

It actually turns on and boots up on battery but the moment you connect the AC adapter now it starts throwing smoke right where it plugs into the laptop...I got no interest in owning that...lol


If nothing else this little experiment has given me a great deal of respect for people who scrypt mine, especially with big setups.  ASICS are way easier to cool!  You stick a fan on those fuckers and they are good to go!

[cbuchner1]

This was day 1 out of the box so yea the entire unit will be going back and a replacement sent.  Won't be trying that again but still the thing should have better cooling than that.  If I didn't unplug it this thing was %100 going to flame up in another 30 seconds.  The smoke was getting that thick slow kind right before something ignites.

You should have pointed a camera at the thing and put it on youtube showing it flame up and burn. Some companies really hate that, and they'll gladly pay you to take down such a video to prevent damage to the brand.

"laptop self destructs by running software... here's the download link if you wanna try yourself."

Christian

P.S.: sorry for your loss, I guess there's some truth in the warnings to NOT mine with laptops, especially desktop PC replacement devices with high powered GPUs.

[ManIkWeet]

Well that ended rather poorly.

Brand new $4k Alienware COOKED in less than one hour...lol

LITERALLY throwing purple? acrid smoke...my office still stinks almost a full 24hrs. later.

Don't think scrypt mining is for me!

Ouch! I remember when I cpu mined YAC on my laptop, didn't go over 80C but I still kept track of temperatures. Hmm actually I always keep track of temperatures... You should too! Small software programs to save expensive hardware

never sell bitcoin in the morning... it is always when shit happens

Yeah I guess, well atleast I am learning

[Dotcommie]

Clearly I have the worst timings, as the Bitcoin went up €20 RIGHT AFTER I SOLD ONE 
/madness off

Well I finally made a purchase of 1 btc and the next day it promptly dropped to like 400, so yeah, I think it will take another week or two of no major bitcoin news to stabilize. All this recent drama has made it pretty hard to figure out what it will settle at.

[DemosMirak]

Well that ended rather poorly.

Brand new $4k Alienware COOKED in less than one hour...lol

LITERALLY throwing purple? acrid smoke...my office still stinks almost a full 24hrs. later.

Don't think scrypt mining is for me!

Ouch! I remember when I cpu mined YAC on my laptop, didn't go over 80C but I still kept track of temperatures. Hmm actually I always keep track of temperatures... You should too! Small software programs to save expensive hardware

never sell bitcoin in the morning... it is always when shit happens

Yeah I guess, well atleast I am learning

Doesn't MSI afterburner and other programs have an option for when the card reaches certain temps, it starts underclocking. and CUDAmanager has an option for when it reaches a predefined temp, it sets the fan to 100, an when it reaches another, higher temp, it shuts down the mining software. Also, do not place the laptop directly on a flat surface, unless that surface is an active cooler or a huge chunk of dry ice, try placing a bottle-cap on each corner to improve the airflow and get better cooling

[djm34]

something I don't understand... bitcoin is going down and the altcoins are also going down... If there was some logic, they should go up (as the logic is to assume that nobody will sell their hard mined coin for nothing...)
Bad news in countrycoin world Aphroditecoin dev is dumping the premine  

Right now the best investment is community coin: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=529481.0
PoS coin (no mining, only minting)
You get 1M comm for free (assuming you are eligible), they still have to 5~600 shares of 1M to distribute.

[Dotcommie]

something I don't understand... bitcoin is going down and the altcoins are also going down... If there was some logic, they should go up (as the logic is to assume that nobody will sell their hard mined coin for nothing...)
Bad news in countrycoin world Aphroditecoin dev is dumping the premine  

Right now the best investment is community coin: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=529481.0
PoS coin (no mining, only minting)
You get 1M comm for free (assuming you are eligible), they still have to 5~600 shares of 1M to distribute.

I think the massive amount of shitcoins released have finally started to take effect and it has become too overwhelming for some new people to figure it all out.  It seems like every other day there are problems at a different exchange too.  Confidence in the marketplace is all we need.  Dumb US regulations, China, and other stuff is making everyone scared.

[fehrard]

something I don't understand... bitcoin is going down and the altcoins are also going down... If there was some logic, they should go up (as the logic is to assume that nobody will sell their hard mined coin for nothing...)

It's because trading pairs for most alts are to Bitcoin. There aren't many altcoins which have trading pairs to any fiat currencies. If the price of BTC in USD goes down, the price of altcoins in USD goes down. However, this doesn't necessarily mean that the Altcoin price in BTC has gone down, so provided the alt to BTC price hasn't changed, you'll still get the same amount of BTC for your altcoins. Coinmarketcap is just doing an extra conversion of alt->btc->usd, which is why the USD price is actually dropping.

If you sort coinmarketcap by Change (24h) then usually you can see a handful of coins going up even though BTC is going down, which means that not only has the alt-btc price gone up by however much percentage, it has gone up by even more than that due to btc also going down.