People I have been asking in cryptocointalk, and a few alt coin forums, it take 3 days for a reply, and to top it off the reply i get is only answering 15% of my query it is very frustrating when you want to find the problem, and yes I have googled read forums, etc etc.. Beleive me if I found the answers somewhere I would not bother writing this entire post and bothering any of you. And I thought instead of creating 20 smaller posts, why not incorporate all my queries into the one.
I know its a long post guys but please read it and and try not to skip anything. I would like to
finally cure my problems.
OK here it is:
I have 3 x 280x R9 Toxic OC Tri-X Because I dont have the riser cables I decided not to put 3 cards on the motherboard as there is no room and they will be too close together, So what I have done in the meantime untill I get the riser cable is put 1 Card On the 1st Slot (MOnitor plugged into it) the 2nd card is on the LAST slot at the bottom this give sufficient room in between and better airflow.
1200 w PSU with a MAX of 1405w with 86.5% effiency which is why they advertise it as 1200w Its a gold edition Silverstone
I have the Asrock motherboard OC Forumla Z87 Full size, 4 x 16x 2 x 1x ( My plan is to eventually build it up to a 6 card Beast. qith powered risers for the 1x slots, and maybe cheaper cards for the other 3x like 7950 or something. So it will be 3x R9 280x TOXIC OC + 3x 7950 - Which should get me 4500KHs AVG
My cards average around 720KH and probably should get more after reading what other people get but I just don't have much clues as to what I am doing and what the configurations should be. The Card thats closest to the CPU up the top is always hotter but this is obvious as the monitor is plugged into it and the cpu and everything is closer to it, so there is more heat around it.
77-80c TOP GPU
70c Bottom GPU
Here is an example of around 12 hrs of mining results in a pool-
Accepted = 888512 < Maybe more but I didnt catch the log, as I am not even sure it restarted or anything, but the main thing is to look at the Stats of accepted/rejected/HW ANd at the bottom I will show you how much coins I received.
Rejected = 7392 < Same as above
HW = 1 > MAIN GPU (Monitor plugs into) < Same as above
Time = 12 hours
Now I have noticed that after 12 hrs I start to see tiny graphical glitches, like little lines appear and disappear every now and then, not so bad that it effects anything I can still do everything as normal, I will explain more below.
I am using CG watcher because there has been a time, yes 1 time! where the miner just stopped or GPU - DEAD etc.. which I really didnt understand fully but I am trying to
. Instantly I search the internet for more info on this and realised people use CGwatcher to reset the miner auto or some people lower the configuration and accept lower KH/s- But I went for the 1st option Cgwatcher because I beleive the cards I am using are capable and have seen many people state they are getting 740-780Kh Stable so I thought , why cant I get the same, But I decided to be happy with 720KH as this seems pretty stable in the results, so now that I lowered the config to 720KH stable I also decided to use CGwatcher & have it scheduled to :
- Restart when Miner fails
- Restart when Pool goes down
- restart COmputer every 12 hrs
(reason I did this is because when I restart the glitches dissapear for awhile , So i thought maybe they need a rest everynow and them - CORRECT ME PLEASE IF I AM WRONG
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I also have it set to restart
when GPU is Sick or
device count is less than 2 or
hashrates go below 1200KHs between 2 cards. For the last one I dont understand how this works as when I first start the miner the hasrates ARE below 1200KH so my thought was HMM why hasnt it retstarted? Which is good but made me think does that thing even work properly or maybe it knows to wait after your cards went beyond 1200KH before it says "Ok now that you are above the 1200KH, I will shut you down if now start to get lower numbers. (Possible, Your input is welcome here)
There are somethings which I do not understand ranging from: -
Coin amount Pool stats Per KH-, to -
Miner setup to CG watcher-, I ask the experienced people to please bear with me and try to help me out, I will appreciate it so much, I am a quick leaner once I get the hang of it and I wont bother anyone anymore once I have the answers, I will eventually have some expertise where I can start to help the newbies like myself.
Anyway Aswell as the above confusions here are some more that I have put down in 4 points -
1.
Cgwatcher - Is there a setting which restarts CGminer if the miner hasnt started hashing within 15 seconds of opening? (There are times when I run the Batch file and it stays on the screen - CGminer 3.5.1 has started for minutes upon minutes only to then go to a blank Dos screen doing nothing. I myself have to manually retart it if hasing doesnt begin within 15-20seconds- Yes THe CGwatcher restarts the miner but this is after around 2 minutes which is a waste of time if you ask me. - So If I am missing an option somewhere in Cgwatcher please direct me
2.
The CGminer BATCH settings I have are - -I 13 -g 2 -w 256 --lookup-gap 2 --thread-concurrency 8192 --gpu-engine 1100 --gpu-memclock 1700 --temp-target 70 --auto-fan - Are these good, I have played alot with the GPU engine and Memclock, I mean I do have the fastest 280x R9 around so I thought I should be pushing atleast 760-780KH Stable - But I am only pushing around 720KH Avg - YEs when I increase the Memclock it does get to almost 800KH but I stopped doing this because I thought I maybe killing the card, am I wrong? Can these cards handle it?
3.
Coin amount after 24hrs of Pool test session - Goal to see how long I can sit in a pool for and how many coins I get in 24 hrs which will allow me to create a financial forecast. I am EXTREMELY angry/frustrated I have not been able to work it out and I MEAN
EX F***KN TREMELEY Excuse the language but this is how frustrated I am for not being able to get an accurate forecast from the miner I spent money on building, I decided to mine Dogecoin as the difficulty and $ are most profitable ATM & I want to see what I can make out of it, so prior to joining the pool I look at the pool stats which says my average KH is around 1375KW meaning 45-50K coins a day. This is what I am confused about, in 12 hrs of hashing I have only seen 11k coins meaning in another 12 hrs I may only accumulate 20-24k worth of coins TOTAL, the Pool stats show I should be getting DOUBLE this with the KH I am mining at. I do not know whats going on because there as shown above it seems not many HW errors A good percentage of rejections compare to acceptions. Now the longer it takes me to setup my miner and get the hang of it the more money I am loosing as difficulty risers and Electricity is being thrown in the bin as the Machine is still on. My apologies releasing my frustrations in my typing but I am getting sick and tired of not understanding what to do next, it not in my nature to not know what to do, so as you can tell , Frustrations arise.
4. Now to top it off also after 12 hrs of mining I am seeing TINY minor graphical glitches, little Lines, tiny texture\pixels missing scrambled from various random positions of the screen, only VERY Minor and hardly noticable but I can see them, I mean you can still do what ever you want on the computer , watch movies, listen to music. browse internet , view pictures. But you will see little glimpses of glitches every now and then.
Please if someone can help me even PM me I will be very happy EXTREMELY happy
