Happy New Years! Seventh alt coin thread!

[wolf_miner]

Hi, what is the best BIOS for ONDA D1800 BTC V.1.00 original mobo without VGA Output? I need the BIOS that work with smOS/hiveOS on USBKey.

Thanks in advance W_M

[VyprBTC]

Any of you guys mine nist5 using smos ? Care to share the miner string ?

ccminerAlexis78.exe -a nist5 -o stratum+tcp://yiimp.poolofd32th.club:3833 -u MyBWKaddyHereBitch -p $rigName

Thanks for sharing, I appreciate it.

Would like to mine it on nicehash using smos. Anyone out there doing that ?

-a NIST5 -o stratum+tcp://nist5.hk.nicehash.com:3340 -u 1MeNT9pFtQvQ9BNzHrtbnSNwVE9WjeLjmW.$rigName -p x

Use any of the ccminer at smos -- hopefully smos include alexis ccminer version soon, which is fastest ccminer variant in mining NIST5

10180tis best for NIST5

For non-1080tis, neoscrypt is most profitable currently.

Good fucking luck, been asking for it for I don't know, 8 months now?

No offense to anyone using smos... FUCK SMOS.

[citronick]

I mine nist, skunk and a couple others using the Nicehash  dashboard (nvidia is new to me)

When I watch the screen, seems like i switch algo's a LOT.

So ..

1) is there an advantage to direct mining an algo at Nicehash (I do this with a few v56's).  I mean other than the direct software wont switch, (lets say I use the Nice dashboard and just select Nist), does the dashboard hash less versus direct.

2) Is there a way to count how often Nice switches me between coins every day?

you can single select  just one algo with nicehash

I have nicehash loaded into 3 folders

NH1 ------ nist5
NH2 ------ zcash
NH3 ------ cryptonight

I manually shift.
I suspect more clever ways to control shift times  are in the advanced section of the software in the config file.  If I could have it auto check 1 time each 2 hours  I would try that.

If you use the Windows NH Legacy miner... there is an option to open the console mode.

I often use this console to see how NH uses miner parameters and switches - I dont personally use NH Legacy but use/copy their command strings to manually mine into NH algos.

In the console, you can also see the switching algorithm in action where it will poll NH marketplace and determines which algos has best payout rate (ie. payrate determined by how much renters are willing to buy hash)

I think you can set the "check rates" intervals - at the moment, it checks every 5 minutes if not mistaken.

Currently my NVIDIA farm is mining NIST5 and Neoscrypt at NH. When the Giant-Bs comes online, they will sell LBRY hash at NH, unless profitability drops, I will enable the GiantB's NH auto-algo-switch which is built into Baikal menu.

[GabryRox]

Thanks to everyone here who helped me get my 1070ti rig up and running. Let's just say that I have been very pleasantly surprised by the extreme ease of setup and use of these Nvidia GPUs! Makes me kick myself for waiting so long to branch out from AMD.

I've had this rig running on ETH+DCR for a few days without 1 single crash or issue. I know that ETH is not the best use for these but wanted to try it out with a miner/coin i was very familiar with out of the gate.

Now that I know it's super stable, I was about to start mining ZClassic via MPH. But, I just realized that Claymore's Equihash miner is AMD-only, so I would like to ask for some recommendations for good Nvidia miners.  

The 3 I have seen mentioned are EWBF, Silent Army, and Nicehash (I am not using NH is that makes a difference)... so was wondering what your experiences have been with these 3 and any others. Thanks!

[citronick]

Hi, what is the best BIOS for ONDA D1800 BTC V.1.00 original mobo without VGA Output? I need the BIOS that work with smOS/hiveOS on USBKey.

Thanks in advance W_M

All my D1800 works out of the box with SMOS on USB3 stick
No messing with BIOS firmware and BIOS settings

@GabryRox
I use EWBF -- pretty good and stable in SMOS.
Slient Army is quite old.
NH has their own Equihash miner but its slower than EWBF and dstm.
There are new versions on EWBF and dstm  - if you are using Windows.

My group has almost 400 GPUs in the RX farm - post ETH mining - now mining Monero at Nanopool / Cryptonite at NH.
If I can turn back time, I would have a warehouse full of 1070s for ETH mining, any day - its stable, cool, easy to manage watts consumption.

[GabryRox]

Any of you guys mine nist5 using smos ? Care to share the miner string ?

ccminerAlexis78.exe -a nist5 -o stratum+tcp://yiimp.poolofd32th.club:3833 -u MyBWKaddyHereBitch -p $rigName

thanks


oh  first video up on the autominer.at gear
and second and third

big improvement with msi afterburner tweak

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-0nlCWXAf0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BobJrsFuSNA

https://youtu.be/9a5zXdRMxxc

looks really nice.  WILL YOU BE SELLING OFF GEAR TO KEEP IT?

YES I will be selling  a lot of gear over the month of Jan.

Phil... can you give us an idea of what you will have up for sale and when? I've been very pleased with my purchases from you in the past so  hoping we can do business again as I am looking to build out a few rigs in the next month or so.

[sNaKeyz0r91]

I recommend EWBF. It's stable and runs very good.
For other algos, go for ccminer.

[GabryRox]

Hi, what is the best BIOS for ONDA D1800 BTC V.1.00 original mobo without VGA Output? I need the BIOS that work with smOS/hiveOS on USBKey.

Thanks in advance W_M

All my D1800 works out of the box with SMOS on USB3 stick
No messing with BIOS firmware and BIOS settings

@GabryRox
I use EWBF -- pretty good and stable in SMOS.
Slient Army is quite old.
NH has their own Equihash miner but its slower than EWBF and dstm.
There are new versions on EWBF and dstm  - if you are using Windows.

My group has almost 400 GPUs in the RX farm - post ETH mining - now mining Monero at Nanopool / Cryptonite at NH.
If I can turn back time, I would have a warehouse full of 1070s for ETH mining, any day - its stable, cool, easy to manage watts consumption.

Thanks Citronick! Appreciate the feedback! For EWBF, the latest version i found was v0.3.4b, released on June 24 '17 here:

https://github.com/nanopool/ewbf-miner/releases

Is that what you are using on your rigs?

[citronick]

Hi, what is the best BIOS for ONDA D1800 BTC V.1.00 original mobo without VGA Output? I need the BIOS that work with smOS/hiveOS on USBKey.

Thanks in advance W_M

All my D1800 works out of the box with SMOS on USB3 stick
No messing with BIOS firmware and BIOS settings

@GabryRox
I use EWBF -- pretty good and stable in SMOS.
Slient Army is quite old.
NH has their own Equihash miner but its slower than EWBF and dstm.
There are new versions on EWBF and dstm  - if you are using Windows.

My group has almost 400 GPUs in the RX farm - post ETH mining - now mining Monero at Nanopool / Cryptonite at NH.
If I can turn back time, I would have a warehouse full of 1070s for ETH mining, any day - its stable, cool, easy to manage watts consumption.

Thanks Citronick! Appreciate the feedback! For EWBF, the latest version i found was v0.3.4b, released on June 24 '17 here:

https://github.com/nanopool/ewbf-miner/releases

Is that what you are using on your rigs?

smOS/ewbf 0.3.4b

Win10/DSTM 0.5.7

You can do some reading at http://www.zcashbenchmarks.info/ to find what GPUs works best with what miner

My NVIDIA farm is heavy on ZOTAC and a few Gigabyte and EVGAs.

[wolf_miner]

Thanks alot for your help citronick.

Cheers W_M

[sNaKeyz0r91]

citronick, I've only used EWBF with Windows 10.
You suggest DSTM is better for Win? Right now I'm at nicehash with my nvidia rig so I cannot test, but I will give it a try soon

[P00P135]

citronick, I've only used EWBF with Windows 10.
You suggest DSTM is better for Win? Right now I'm at nicehash with my nvidia rig so I cannot test, but I will give it a try soon

DSTM is noticeably faster than EWBF and is actively being updated.

[GabryRox]

citronick, I've only used EWBF with Windows 10.
You suggest DSTM is better for Win? Right now I'm at nicehash with my nvidia rig so I cannot test, but I will give it a try soon

DSTM is noticeably faster than EWBF and is actively being updated.

Thanks Citronick and all... just got DSTM  (since Im on W10) up and running and my 4 1070ti's getting 500 sols straight away with 150/500/70%.  Need to play around with AB a bit but assuming i can increase my current rate of 4 sols per watt by at least a bit.  man, i really wish I would have bought more of these 70ti's while they were available for near retail about a month ago!  Seems like more are starting to trickle in though... got a few auto-notify's last 2 days but still too much competition to get them within 1 minute of being notified lol.

[MagicSmoker]

Thanks to dragonmike I got my first Onda D1800 running; turns out that v2.00 of the boards does, indeed, expect you to plug a VGA (yes, as in the port) monitor into the mobo if you want to actually see what you are doing. That is the exact opposite of what the Aliexpress listing said to do (namely, use one of the GPUs to drive the monitor).

Unfortunately, Windows 10 being the bitch that it is I am still updating the cursed thing so haven't gotten any mining done with it. I can tell you all one thing about this board, though - that Untel Celery processor is slow as shit. I suspect an abacus would give it the sweats...

[dragonmike]

Thanks to dragonmike I got my first Onda D1800 running; turns out that v2.00 of the boards does, indeed, expect you to plug a VGA (yes, as in the port) monitor into the mobo if you want to actually see what you are doing. That is the exact opposite of what the Aliexpress listing said to do (namely, use one of the GPUs to drive the monitor).

Unfortunately, Windows 10 being the bitch that it is I am still updating the cursed thing so haven't gotten any mining done with it. I can tell you all one thing about this board, though - that Untel Celery processor is slow as shit. I suspect an abacus would give it the sweats...

Just wait until Creator's update 1709 is on and you'll truly see how slow it is...

Fortunately it'll have no impact on mining speed!

[Elder III]

Thanks to dragonmike I got my first Onda D1800 running; turns out that v2.00 of the boards does, indeed, expect you to plug a VGA (yes, as in the port) monitor into the mobo if you want to actually see what you are doing. That is the exact opposite of what the Aliexpress listing said to do (namely, use one of the GPUs to drive the monitor).

Unfortunately, Windows 10 being the bitch that it is I am still updating the cursed thing so haven't gotten any mining done with it. I can tell you all one thing about this board, though - that Untel Celery processor is slow as shit. I suspect an abacus would give it the sweats...

Just wait until Creator's update 1709 is on and you'll truly see how slow it is...

Fortunately it'll have no impact on mining speed!

Unless you need the updates in order to use the latest drivers you can just block windows updates with a third party app. It's much less worry and hassle that way imo.

[VyprBTC]

Thanks to dragonmike I got my first Onda D1800 running; turns out that v2.00 of the boards does, indeed, expect you to plug a VGA (yes, as in the port) monitor into the mobo if you want to actually see what you are doing. That is the exact opposite of what the Aliexpress listing said to do (namely, use one of the GPUs to drive the monitor).

Unfortunately, Windows 10 being the bitch that it is I am still updating the cursed thing so haven't gotten any mining done with it. I can tell you all one thing about this board, though - that Untel Celery processor is slow as shit. I suspect an abacus would give it the sweats...

Just wait until Creator's update 1709 is on and you'll truly see how slow it is...

Fortunately it'll have no impact on mining speed!

Unless you need the updates in order to use the latest drivers you can just block windows updates with a third party app. It's much less worry and hassle that way imo.

i've always highly advised everyone to just go and disable the winupdate

I've also made my own stripped down version removing everything using - can't say enough about being able to clean install Win10 with no Cortana, no WinDefender and none of the app packages. It's a beautiful thing. I also added in nVidia drivers to the install but it's not totally needed, on the same USB I use to install I also have a folder with all the mining software I use, so .bat files, Afterburner, Miners, Misc Drivers etc etc.



Get rigs up and running in no time.

Going to fiddle if I can somehow slipstream in after burner and those programs to be installed by default it would be amazing.


Also if anyone is interested this is my PowerShell script for Power settings, Virtual Memory and PCI Link state:

Code:

# PowerShell Script to set the size of pagefile.sys

$computersys = Get-WmiObject Win32_ComputerSystem -EnableAllPrivileges;
$computersys.AutomaticManagedPagefile = $False;
$computersys.Put();
$pagefile = Get-WmiObject -Query "Select * From Win32_PageFileSetting Where Name like '%pagefile.sys'";
$pagefile.InitialSize = 32000;
$pagefile.MaximumSize = 64000;
$pagefile.Put();


# Change Power Settings No Timeouts

powercfg -change -monitor-timeout-ac 0
powercfg -change -standby-timeout-ac 0
powercfg -change -hibernate-timeout-ac 0
powercfg -change -disk-timeout-ac 0
powercfg -hibernate OFF
powercfg -setacvalueindex 8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c 501a4d13-42af-4429-9fd1-a8218c268e20 ee12f906-d277-404b-b6da-e5fa1a576df5 0


# set the Windows Update service to "disabled"
sc.exe config wuauserv start=disabled
# display the status of the service
sc.exe query wuauserv
# stop the service, in case it is running
sc.exe stop wuauserv
# display the status again, because we're paranoid
sc.exe query wuauserv
# double check it's REALLY disabled - Start value should be 0x4
REG.exe QUERY HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\wuauserv /v Start 

[philipma1957]

Thanks to dragonmike I got my first Onda D1800 running; turns out that v2.00 of the boards does, indeed, expect you to plug a VGA (yes, as in the port) monitor into the mobo if you want to actually see what you are doing. That is the exact opposite of what the Aliexpress listing said to do (namely, use one of the GPUs to drive the monitor).

Unfortunately, Windows 10 being the bitch that it is I am still updating the cursed thing so haven't gotten any mining done with it. I can tell you all one thing about this board, though - that Untel Celery processor is slow as shit. I suspect an abacus would give it the sweats...

that board is meant for smOS  you are just giving your self grief doing windows with it.

did you put in 4gb ram or 8gb?

if works well with 4gb ram  and smos.  I can do 5 1080 ti's with it.

[MagicSmoker]

Thanks to dragonmike I got my first Onda D1800 running; turns out that v2.00 of the boards does, indeed, expect you to plug a VGA (yes, as in the port) monitor into the mobo if you want to actually see what you are doing. That is the exact opposite of what the Aliexpress listing said to do (namely, use one of the GPUs to drive the monitor).

Unfortunately, Windows 10 being the bitch that it is I am still updating the cursed thing so haven't gotten any mining done with it. I can tell you all one thing about this board, though - that Untel Celery processor is slow as shit. I suspect an abacus would give it the sweats...

that board is meant for smOS  you are just giving your self grief doing windows with it.

did you put in 4gb ram or 8gb?

if works well with 4gb ram  and smos.  I can do 5 1080 ti's with it.

Aye, I hear ya. Windoze is nothing but grief, for sure. I do have a second Onda board and I was planning on tinkering around with it as soon as I got the first one working for a living, and one of the things I plan on trying is smOS; I just need to source some GPUs for it. The usual lament, in other words.

I do just have 4GB installed which I know is marginal for Windows 10, but now that all the updates (for now) have gone through and it is mining it seems to be working well enough; desktop interactivity is noticeably lethargic, but I guess that's to be expected when compared to a Ryzen 5 1600 and 16GB of DDR4...

[Raymond_B]

Just spoke with Sidonia on a B250, quoted $130.00 + $58.00 shipping + PayPal looks to be ~ $200.00. Reading this entire thread the Onda seems like a good deal even at $200.00 right? I do plan on using an open air case and smOS. Not sure what cards yet as they seem really hard to get. Before Christmas I was able to snag some single fan 1060 6GBs for $279.00, but nothing near that now.