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[TheStuhlman]

i just switched my miner to nitro2

Thanks guys I just want to remind you this a testing period, and it will take awhile to find a block and confirm all working.

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[Jubelo25]

i just switched my miner to nitro2

Thanks guys I just want to remind you this a testing period, and it will take awhile to find a block and confirm all working.

Hi I have just one question when are you going to come down to what you charge 3% i know you do because want people move but i see 2% in the nitro 2 respectfully do not think it is much normal pool charge only 1 % I just would like an explanation good day thanks

[Jacques21]

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[miztaziggy]

Why is there no volume for this coin on any of the exchanges?

And why hasn't it been added to Cryptsy yet?

[SxC]

Why is there no volume for this coin on any of the exchanges?

And why hasn't it been added to Cryptsy yet?

not many want to sell this coin is a keeper

https://www.cryptsy.com/markets/view/163

[darthburnstuff]

Why is there no volume for this coin on any of the exchanges?

And why hasn't it been added to Cryptsy yet?

Seriously? There is plenty of volume for this coin and it has been added to Cryptsy several weeks ago.  FYI, this coin will either replace BTC or LTC.  You can make your own judgments about this coin but it is inevitable.    

[zlobaio]

Hello all,

When I started mining UTC the temp of the GPUs and the power consumption went much lower. Is this a "feature" or I did not configure something right. I have 141kh/s on each r9 280x. Can I get higher highrate or WU with this cards? I use the default config from the nitro pool site. The rig goes from 1100 W on litecoin to 800 on UTC and the temp goes from 72 to 60. /win 7 8gb ram/

Thanks

[Jarod1231]

Hello all,

When I started mining UTC the temp of the GPUs and the power consumption went much lower. Is this a "feature" or I did not configure something right. I have 141kh/s on each r9 280x. Can I get higher highrate or WU with this cards? I use the default config from the nitro pool site. The rig goes from 1100 W on litecoin to 800 on UTC and the temp goes from 72 to 60. /win 7 8gb ram/

Thanks

Power is same for me and has been from minute 1, temp is definitely lower though

[Protagonus]

Hello all,

When I started mining UTC the temp of the GPUs and the power consumption went much lower. Is this a "feature" or I did not configure something right. I have 141kh/s on each r9 280x. Can I get higher highrate or WU with this cards? I use the default config from the nitro pool site. The rig goes from 1100 W on litecoin to 800 on UTC and the temp goes from 72 to 60. /win 7 8gb ram/

Thanks

Power is same for me and has been from minute 1, temp is definitely lower though

99.9% of the power in watts put into a GPU are produced as heat.  A change of temperature cannot occur without a corresponding drop in wattage.  Having overvolted or overclocking can reduce the efficiency of gpu's, in terms of tflops/sec/watt.  So, it is possible (if a card is heavily OC'd) to have a larger drop in heat with a smaller change in wattage;  in this "lower efficiency band".  However, there cannot be a change in temp (at a set clock, mem, volt, fan) without also changing wattage.  The watt is the proverbial "egg" preceding the chicken.

[jakiman]

Is anyone mining with a lowly 5850? My friend can't get higher than 28 KH/s.
I would have thought he could get at least 50 Kh/s. (It can do about 330kh/s on Scrypt)
Any ideas?

[Jarod1231]

Hello all,

When I started mining UTC the temp of the GPUs and the power consumption went much lower. Is this a "feature" or I did not configure something right. I have 141kh/s on each r9 280x. Can I get higher highrate or WU with this cards? I use the default config from the nitro pool site. The rig goes from 1100 W on litecoin to 800 on UTC and the temp goes from 72 to 60. /win 7 8gb ram/

Thanks

Power is same for me and has been from minute 1, temp is definitely lower though

99.9% of the power in watts put into a GPU are produced as heat.  A change of temperature cannot occur without a corresponding drop in wattage.  Having overvolted or overclocking can reduce the efficiency of gpu's, in terms of tflops/sec/watt.  So, it is possible (if a card is heavily OC'd) to have a larger drop in heat with a smaller change in wattage;  in this "lower efficiency band".  However, there cannot be a change in temp (at a set clock, mem, volt, fan) without also changing wattage.  The watt is the proverbial "egg" preceding the chicken.

All I know is my P3 Kill-a-watt says my pc is pulling the exact same wattage from wall on UTC as any scrypt coin.. yet I run 7-8C cooler on UTC

[utcminer]

Is anyone mining with a lowly 5850? My friend can't get higher than 28 KH/s.
I would have thought he could get at least 50 Kh/s. (It can do about 330kh/s on Scrypt)
Any ideas?

I'm mining with a 5850 reference card,which give me only 5KH/S, post your parameters,and i'll study on it,maybe we can get 50k/s after analizing

[Protagonus]

Is anyone mining with a lowly 5850? My friend can't get higher than 28 KH/s.
I would have thought he could get at least 50 Kh/s. (It can do about 330kh/s on Scrypt)
Any ideas?

I know a couple are running 7850's in the 50-60Kh/s range, but I'm not sure of settings.  You may PM "Thirtybird" as I know he has run one on UTC.  In the meantime you could play more with TC and LG.  Thirtybird gave some tips for TC as well:

If I set g=2 then my whole system freezes regardless of i / tc. On my 280X it has a significant impact on performance (more so than lookup-gap).

That's probably because the TC value is too high and the thread is being put into dynamic GPU memory (Aka system ram, which if there isn't enough gets paged out to your hard drive - every try and calculate hashes using a hard drive for storage?? BAD!) - I had this exact some issue when I was trying to get my miner up and running and that was what I discovered.  The easiest way I figured out how to know where to set TC or buffer size was using GPU-z (people on Windows 8 should use HWInfo).  On the sensors tab, there are two graphs - Dedicated memory and dynamic memory.  Have that open when you launch your miner - if dynamic memory goes up at all, kill the mining software ASAP.  Then lower your TC until only dedicated memory increases when you launch the miner.  MY 4GB cards would do this with any value for TC over 24576 with a lookup gap of 2 (using -g 2) - buffer-size 1,536 MB.  

All I know is my P3 Kill-a-watt says my pc is pulling the exact same wattage from wall on UTC as any scrypt coin.. yet I run 7-8C cooler on UTC

A KAW is more for estimation and should not be used as completely accurate.  They can vary 1-10% depending on the power draw;  high inductive loads will net a larger error than pure resistive.  So, the variation of temperature can occur with a drop in power and the KAW not correctly show this.  We tend to run GPU's in the lower efficiency range as it is, so it's very possible you didn't drop a great deal of power though.  Heat is the best comparator with tiny changes.


I've always said  "the only thing humans have mastered in our entire existence is fire (heat)"  Lol, that usually follows with; "do you know how a nulcear plant works?".   People are surprised that we use all that technology to make steam with heat;  to then run turbines, which in turn run generators.   Yep, our best power system;  is just a glorified steam engine.


From a test here: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=137169
PC, using a 750watt Ultra lsp model.
Core2, running at 3.3ghz, 7900gtx , pc running gelato (nvidia software that uses the gpu as a fpu, while also using the host cpu), maxes both.
Killawatt 316watts, fluke 329watts.

another test here: http://www.jonnyguru.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2695
Reference:
Valhalla Scientific 2101 Digital Power Analyzer (which isn't perfect, but for this comparison, we'll assume it is. )

A. 173W 270VA, non PFC loads only(non PFC PC + LCD monitor)
B. 648W 676VA, non PFC + resistive mix (that PC + resistive dummy load)
C. 1065W add more resistive load
D. 1420W add more resistive load

KAW:
A. 173W 269VA +0.0%
B. 656W 686VA +1.2%
C. 1080-1100W jumpy +1.4 to 3.2%
D. 1435-1460W jumpy +1.0 to 2.8%
There will be variation between units, but I find +/- 10% adequate for PC power supply test and reviews. If you are loading up your PSU so much that +/- 10% makes a life and death difference, you're not giving it enough safety margin. It's only $20 and the measurements are far better than you can guesstimate.

[sakr]

UTC p2pool Second test session:

I fixed some of the previous bugs in p2pool, I'm running another test session if you want to join me. Thanks for the people already pointing to the p2pool, so once i put it up again, it already had 5 mH/s  

the forks works better now, and shares are accepted from all addresses and expected payout looks fine, I hope we will find a block soon!

Please point your miners here:

http://thepool.pw:8336

and use your UTC address as username

for example -o http://thepool.pw:8336 -u UZupsSvwk...

you will receive payments directly to your address after block is found!

Please understand this is only a test, so no results are guaranteed, so just help with the hashrate you can afford to lose

[anonblues]

Is anyone mining with a lowly 5850? My friend can't get higher than 28 KH/s.
I would have thought he could get at least 50 Kh/s. (It can do about 330kh/s on Scrypt)
Any ideas?

Gigabyte 5850

http://forum.ultracoin.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=32

[sakr]

UTC p2pool Second test over

I had to stop the test as after finding a block, it could not be submitted right to the wallet, looks like p2pool is not aware of ultracoin transaction format, same problem with ppcoin, though ppcoin team just released a new version which is more p2pool friendly. I will look into this issue and try to fix it!

Thanks again to all the testers!

[landslide]

n-factor is the future.

[MasterCATZ]

UTC first p2pool Second test session:

I fixed some of the previous bugs in p2pool, I'm running another test session if you want to join me. Thanks for the people already pointing to the p2pool, so once i put it up again, it already had 5 mH/s  

the forks works better now, and shares are accepted from all addresses and expected payout looks fine, I hope we will find a block soon!

Please point your miners here:

http://thepool.pw:8336

and use your UTC address as username

for example -o http://thepool.pw:8336 -u UZupsSvwk...

you will receive payments directly to your address after block is found!

Please understand this is only a test, so no results are guaranteed, so just help with the hashrate you can afford to lose

Rig's should have gpne straight to it when it came back online will verify when I get home

[sakr]

Rig's should have gpne straight to it when it came back online will verify when I get home

it did, unfortunately upon finding a block, another error emerged which might require an ultracoin wallet fork, or maybe ask the dev to make a p2pool friendly wallet based on the new PPcoin 0.4.0 instead of current 0.3.0!

I will look into this bug too, hopefully fix it soon enough if I get the time to work on it!

Thanks again for your help with this

[Halofire]

Switched to Nitro 2, 14 miners, 2.5Mh. let's go! nice promo btw. Too bad I get no love.... ah well. Thanks for N2!

may want to drop fee to 0 or 1% also until ya get more ppl.