Fourth alt coin thread last three got oversized.

[EvilMonkey]

@OP, zpool seems to have issues, it reads only HALF of my mining speed, are you still there ? atm, i just point direct to NH using latest ewbf.

When was the last time you tried it?  I was having issues the last 5 or 6 days.   So I switched over the EWBF and mined ZEC.

Just switched back over to zpool and skein and it looks like its good to go again.

Mined for 18.5 hours @ 1020 and got 0.00389008 BTC or $10.57 US.   So that looks good to  me.  It is actually very very slightly above what I expected so back to skein for now.

[soothaa]

@storx  intensity is a cpu setting  so a high intensity and a shit cpu = fucked.  so a 30,29,28,27 for skein needsa sold cpu   if you got a pentium or a celeron set intensity at 24

Can you explain this please? I'm running seven 1080's with Skein on a G4400 (Pentium) and they run just fine..
EDIT: running intensity of 25

[yslyung]

https://github.com/JamesSmith2/EthMonitoring/releases

that's a really cool monitoring software & site this guy made, i am in contact with him & he's helping out with improvements.

@evilmonkey, yeah it looks like it's back to normal now, but it still reads slightly under my reported hashrate vs pool.

i did some simple math, even after 3% of NH fees zec @ NH pays a tad more but in longer term if zpool (2% fees) works normal, i think skien pays more, atm i have 12 ti's at skien and 2 at NH to make some comparisons. another 4 to setup soon & a few more on it's way + prolly couple cartons of 1070's.

@OP new version 0.34b. a tad faster is out & you can monitor your zec mining like this :

[Storx]

@yslyung   nicehash zec using ewbf_ 3.3

@storx  intensity is a cpu setting  so a high intensity and a shit cpu = fucked.  so a 30,29,28,27 for skein needsa sold cpu   if you got a pentium or a celeron set intensity at 24

rant time  cpu's are easy to get a solid discounts on eBay from good sellers.
i don't use pentium or celeron I use i3's and i5's

the i5 6400t can be found used for as little as  114 on usa eBay

hhtp://www.ebay.com/itm/SR2BS-Intel-Intel-Core-i5-6400T-Processor-for-Envy-All-in-one-27-P014-Touch-/132220163246?

it works in b150 z170 or b250 z270 boards

I earn 50 cents a day while I mine zec with gpus  I mine xmr with the i5 6400t

It is far better then a pos celeron or a pentium

yeah 114 + 15 for a cpu  cooler  and in 200 days it earns 100 bucks.

back to storx

What about the ramping difficulty?

In regards to the Intensity im slightly confused on that, because im running a Ryzen 7 1700 OC to 4.0/core... when i mine i see at max 8% cpu usage... maybe i need to reduce the cores down to like 3.9 or 3.8 maybe?....

 lower your intensity to 24 and drop the core  by 25

[philipma1957]

@storx  intensity is a cpu setting  so a high intensity and a shit cpu = fucked.  so a 30,29,28,27 for skein needs a sold cpu   if you got a pentium or a celeron set intensity at 24

Can you explain this please? I'm running seven 1080's with Skein on a G4400 (Pentium) and they run just fine..
EDIT: running intensity of 25

and you are under 30,29,28,27

I have found 23 ,24,25  are fairly good.  so since he mentioned    he was freezing  up I was conservative and said 24

In his case he has an oc clocked amd ryzen  which is ?? since I never mined with it.

@ storx you have an overclocked ryzen  try running it stock


as for intensity  i was talking about skein bat file setting  which goes from 15 to 30

I don't use ryzen as I never got any good deals with it.

as for ramp up of difficulty   a crash  happens with skein   and with zec  to me if core on the gpu is high.

Say 255 for a 1080ti  so I drop clock to 240  and restart.

all my cards are around 185 to 240  for core. for both skein and for zec
all my skein bats are at 26 or 27 intensity

@ yslyung  going to load 3.4 and test.

[Storx]

@storx  intensity is a cpu setting  so a high intensity and a shit cpu = fucked.  so a 30,29,28,27 for skein needs a sold cpu   if you got a pentium or a celeron set intensity at 24

Can you explain this please? I'm running seven 1080's with Skein on a G4400 (Pentium) and they run just fine..
EDIT: running intensity of 25

and you are under 30,29,28,27

I have found 23 ,24,25  are fairly good.  so since he mentioned    he was freezing  up I was conservative and said 24

In his case he has an oc clocked amd ryzen  which is ?? since I never mined with it.

@ storx you have an overclocked ryzen  try running it stock


as for intensity  i was talking about skein bat file setting  which goes from 15 to 30

I don't use ryzen as I never got any good deals with it.

as for ramp up of difficulty   a crash  happens with skein   and with zec  to me if core on the gpu is high.

Say 255 for a 1080ti  so I drop clock to 240  and restart.

all my cards are around 185 to 240  for core. for both skein and for zec
all my skein bats are at 26 or 27 intensity

@ yslyung  going to load 3.4 and test.

Thanks Phillip, i tried running it on stock clocks on Ryzen 7, seems to still freeze up... i wish there was a way to input different core/memory settings for each algo, the only way i can get Lyra to run on my 1080ti's is to turn intensity down to 8, i was unaware it could go that low.. was told 15 was lowest.. but it starts up and says intensity 8... and its been running for about an hour at this intensity with 0 on core clock.. i am just going to disable it because at the hashrates its giving me the profit is terrible.. just trying to get more coins available to be mined.... sigh

Phillip have you ever used Awesome Miner?

[NOLA]

Finally have my "Phil Rig" up and running

2 MSI 1080ti's FE
1 MSI 1070

1742 Sol @ 516 watts @ the kill-a-meter. 1080ti's @ 66C about 650 Sol @ 176W.  1070 is 51C, 405 Sol @ 105W.  Looks about right?

Had troubles loading EBWF on the settings I had for the 1 1080ti, if I lowered the core clock to +100 it booted up, I've inched it up to +175 and I think I will leave it right there to see if it lasts overnight and it doesn't crash.

[philipma1957]

Finally have my "Phil Rig" up and running

2 MSI 1080ti's FE
1 MSI 1070

1742 Sol @ 516 watts @ the kill-a-meter. 1080ti's @ 66C about 650 Sol @ 176W.  1070 is 51C, 405 Sol @ 105W.  Looks about right?

Had troubles loading EBWF on the settings I had for the 1 1080ti, if I lowered the core clock to +100 it booted up, I've inched it up to +175 and I think I will leave it right there to see if it lasts overnight and it doesn't crash.

yeah pretty good numbers

below is a quote from the ewbf_ thread a guy has an 11 card rig nailed max smoking  and he gets more sols per card but look at power used

to go from 620 sols on a ti to 750 sols

Thanks to EWBF for the 0.3.4b update, here are my updated benchmarks (not yet optimised):

11 x 1080 Ti FE
Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS
NVIDIA Driver Version 381.22
EWBF's Zcash CUDA miner. 0.3.4b

+-------------------------------------------------+
|         EWBF's Zcash CUDA miner. 0.3.4b         |
+-------------------------------------------------+
INFO: Current pool: <redacted>
INFO: Selected pools: 1
INFO: Solver: Auto.
INFO: Devices: All.
INFO: Temperature limit: 90
INFO: Api: Disabled
---------------------------------------------------

---

CUDA: Device: 0 GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, 11172 MB i:64
CUDA: Device: 1 GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, 11172 MB i:64
CUDA: Device: 2 GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, 11172 MB i:64
CUDA: Device: 3 GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, 11172 MB i:64
CUDA: Device: 4 GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, 11172 MB i:64
CUDA: Device: 5 GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, 11172 MB i:64
CUDA: Device: 6 GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, 11172 MB i:64
CUDA: Device: 7 GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, 11172 MB i:64
CUDA: Device: 8 GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, 11172 MB i:64
CUDA: Device: 9 GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, 11172 MB i:64
CUDA: Device: 10 GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, 11172 MB i:64
CUDA: Device: 0 Selected solver: 2
CUDA: Device: 2 Selected solver: 2
CUDA: Device: 4 Selected solver: 2
CUDA: Device: 1 Selected solver: 2
CUDA: Device: 3 Selected solver: 0
CUDA: Device: 5 Selected solver: 0
CUDA: Device: 9 Selected solver: 2
CUDA: Device: 6 Selected solver: 2
CUDA: Device: 7 Selected solver: 2
CUDA: Device: 8 Selected solver: 2
CUDA: Device: 10 Selected solver: 0

---

Temp: GPU0: 42C GPU1: 43C GPU2: 39C GPU3: 42C GPU4: 48C GPU5: 45C GPU6: 41C GPU7: 49C GPU8: 44C GPU9: 41C GPU10: 46C
GPU0: 751 Sol/s GPU1: 731 Sol/s GPU2: 749 Sol/s GPU3: 758 Sol/s GPU4: 737 Sol/s GPU5: 762 Sol/s GPU6: 748 Sol/s GPU7: 760 Sol/s GPU8: 738 Sol/s GPU9: 755 Sol/s GPU10: 742 Sol/s
Total speed: 8231 Sol/s
+-----+-------------+--------------+
| GPU | Power usage |  Efficiency  |
+-----+-------------+--------------+
|  0  |    280W     |  2.68 Sol/W  |
|  1  |    271W     |  2.70 Sol/W  |
|  2  |    273W     |  2.74 Sol/W  |
|  3  |    275W     |  2.76 Sol/W  |
|  4  |    271W     |  2.72 Sol/W  |
|  5  |    273W     |  2.79 Sol/W  |
|  6  |    278W     |  2.69 Sol/W  |
|  7  |    286W     |  2.66 Sol/W  |
|  8  |    272W     |  2.71 Sol/W  |
|  9  |    271W     |  2.79 Sol/W  |
| 10  |    271W     |  2.74 Sol/W  |
+-----+-------------+--------------+

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 dude why are you wasting so much power?

i get 630sol  with 149 watts 4.1 or more on my 1080ti's

here is a four card rig 2x 1070 2x 1080ti

a riser 1070 left 2 1080 ti slots a slot 1070 right







my gear is all better then 4 sols a watt.  2 of my 1080 ti's add up to 290 watts and do 1226 sols

you are spending 287 watts with one piece and getting 750 sols so 3 watts more for my setup gets 476 extra sols

[VyprBTC]

@Phil - 4.46 those are some nice numbers man!
Question for ya - for your garage how are you venting? I know you took tdp down to 50-60 but do you do anything as far as exhausting goes?

I only have the 2 suicide vents in my garage - it's getting a bit warm in there


I'm starting to think I should have gone with 208v 30A instead of 2 30A 120v.

Decided to go 120v instead of 208v so I could run my SMT3000's - but I'm starting to think I should have just done 208v

It only gives me 5min of backup power - I'm kinda just using it as a big ass Killa Watt meter lol

[philipma1957]

@Phil - 4.46 those are some nice numbers man!


I'm starting to think I should have gone with 208v 30A instead of 2 30A 120v.

Decided to go 120v instead of 208v so I could run my SMT3000's - but I'm starting to think I should have just done 208v

It only gives me 5min of backup power - I'm kinda just using it as a big ass Killa Watt meter lol

yeah I don't use ups except for regular pc and router.  I lose power I don't mine in house.

I still have gear in other places.

here is the rig  that the guy is running full speed

Supermicro X9DRX+-F-O

[Storx]

wow that is one expensive rig... that mobo is $500+ sigh

[xleejohnx]

wow that is one expensive rig... that mobo is $500+ sigh

if you got the e5-2670 cpu to go in those sockets
youll get that money back in no time at all just by cpu mining

[philipma1957]

wow that is one expensive rig... that mobo is $500+ sigh

if you got the e5-2670 cpu to go in those sockets
youll get that money back in no time at all just by cpu mining

the cpu is cheap

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117263


the motherboard

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA25V5J09309&cm_re=Supermicro_X9DRX%2b-F-_-13-182-692-_-Product

[martyroz]

Hey Phil - love the thread and your contribution to it.
I took your advice and am building a 2*1080ti + 1*1070 rig.

If I run these at 80% TDP like you suggest, I think a 1000W gold rated corsair PSU should do the job easily? There's Just a single HDD in there with the CPU.

[philipma1957]

Hey Phil - love the thread and your contribution to it.
I took your advice and am building a 2*1080ti + 1*1070 rig.

If I run these at 80% TDP like you suggest, I think a 1000W gold rated corsair PSU should do the job easily? There's Just a single HDD in there with the CPU.

easy  

at 80%  you are 200+200+120 =520 add 80 for all else = 600

you may find 55% to 80% all can work well in terms of power.

It got hot in NJ   USA so I dropped all my gpu's to 58% for last 3 days runs well more efficient then 80%

 less hash
but less heat is very important for my setup.

also best efficiency is needed as summer power cost more.

when weather gets colder and power drops in price I will move back up to 75-80%


this is the gold standard to me 2x 1080 ti and 1x 1070 itx with a 850 watt psu (1000 watt optional)

[generalt]

yeah I don't use ups except for regular pc and router.  I lose power I don't mine in house.

I still have gear in other places.

here is the rig  that the guy is running full speed

Supermicro X9DRX+-F-O

I can't stop staring at this.   

[citronick]

yeah I don't use ups except for regular pc and router.  I lose power I don't mine in house.

I still have gear in other places.

here is the rig  that the guy is running full speed

Supermicro X9DRX+-F-O

I can't stop staring at this.   

if this old mobo cost 500-600 bucks......

I dread the moment when the price for the Asrock H110 Pro BTC comes out at 399 bucks

[xleejohnx]

yeah I don't use ups except for regular pc and router.  I lose power I don't mine in house.

I still have gear in other places.

here is the rig  that the guy is running full speed

Supermicro X9DRX+-F-O

I can't stop staring at this.   

if this old mobo cost 500-600 bucks......

I dread the moment when the price for the Asrock H110 Pro BTC comes out at 399 bucks

When is the release of that board?
Probably won't get one but some used gear might pop up on ebay

[philipma1957]

yeah I don't use ups except for regular pc and router.  I lose power I don't mine in house.

I still have gear in other places.

here is the rig  that the guy is running full speed

Supermicro X9DRX+-F-O

I can't stop staring at this.   

if this old mobo cost 500-600 bucks......

I dread the moment when the price for the Asrock H110 Pro BTC comes out at 399 bucks

but I found cpus' at 114 used  so 114+114 + 500 = 726  and I think you make 5 or 6 a day with xmr mining on the cpus.

My setups would be

 3x i5 6400t
 3x  gigabyte z270

which = 720  but I could do 3 slot + 1 riser = 12 cards

[citronick]

yeah I don't use ups except for regular pc and router.  I lose power I don't mine in house.

I still have gear in other places.

here is the rig  that the guy is running full speed

Supermicro X9DRX+-F-O

I can't stop staring at this.  

if this old mobo cost 500-600 bucks......

I dread the moment when the price for the Asrock H110 Pro BTC comes out at 399 bucks

When is the release of that board?
Probably won't get one but some used gear might pop up on ebay

the board was already on demo at Computex Taiwan so I am sure Foxconn is busy making them