"Stratum from pool 0 detected new block"

[matriculator]

I'm very new to mining, it's not 'til 2 hours ago that I finally got my miner to work. But I keep seeing this message in the command prompt. What does this mean? And it doesn't show my hashrate or anything on my pool's site, it shows 0 hashes. Can anyone help? Thank you. This is a scrypt based coin by the way and I'm using Cgminer.

[1715317273]

1715317273

[Blaater]

"Stratum from pool 0 detected new block" <-- There has been found a new block in the blockchain, this is positive, this means you are connected to the pool.
And it doesn't show my hashrate or anything on my pool's site, it shows 0 hashes. Can anyone help? Thank you. This is a scrypt based coin by the way and I'm using Cgminer. <-- What version of CGMiner are you running? You will have to use a CGMiner under version 3.8 to be able to Scrypt mine.

[Kenshin]

"Stratum from pool 0 detected new block" <-- There has been found a new block in the blockchain, this is positive, this means you are connected to the pool.
And it doesn't show my hashrate or anything on my pool's site, it shows 0 hashes. Can anyone help? Thank you. This is a scrypt based coin by the way and I'm using Cgminer. <-- What version of CGMiner are you running? You will have to use a CGMiner under version 3.8 to be able to Scrypt mine.

Don't you know how to use the quote brackets?? This is so hard to read. 

[matt4054]

Which version of cgminer are you using? GPU mining and scrypt are disabled starting version 3.8+

Please post the version and full command line that you are using, as well as your hardware and OS.

[matriculator]

Oh I see. I'm using version 10. The 7 kept giving me an OpenCl error.

[matt4054]

The 7 kept giving me an OpenCl error.

What GPU are you using?

Some older GPUs require older (2.x) versions of cgminer.

[matriculator]

The 7 kept giving me an OpenCl error.

What GPU are you using?

Some older GPUs require older (2.x) versions of cgminer.

I believe it's the ATI Radeon HD 4200.

[matt4054]

I believe it's the ATI Radeon HD 4200.

I'm not sure you can mine at all with cgminer and a HD 4200. It's an old IGP chipset that would probably not give you more hashrate than a CPU, I'm afraid. If you still want to experiment, you'll probably have better luck trying with version 2.11 of cgminer or even Reaper, which is older (don't forget to use the scrypt mode)

But if you really want to mine decently, you will need a more recent GPU.

[matriculator]

I believe it's the ATI Radeon HD 4200.

I'm not sure you can mine at all with cgminer and a HD 4200. It's an old IGP chipset that would probably not give you more hashrate than a CPU, I'm afraid. If you still want to experiment, you'll probably have better luck trying with version 2.11 of cgminer or even Reaper, which is older (don't forget to use the scrypt mode)

But if you really want to mine decently, you will need a more recent GPU.

Thank you very much for your help. What kind of GPU would you recommend for decent GPU mining? Around $500?

[Blaater]

https://litecoin.info/Mining_hardware_comparison

is a good site where you can see what hashing rates different cards give. It kinda depends on how easy you can get hold of some cards.
7950 are good cheaper cards.
280x and 290x give great hashing rates.

[matt4054]

Thank you very much for your help. What kind of GPU would you recommend for decent GPU mining? Around $500?

For new GPU miners, I would recommend the following:

• If you plan to buy and use a single GPU, Tahiti based cards are currently the best option IMO. It means HD 7950 (currently hard to find), HD 7970, or R9 280. Curaçao, i.e. R9 270, is an interesting alternative for low budgets.
• If you plan to build multi-GPU rigs using PCI-e risers, i.e. you have many slots available, you will have the best value in terms of hash/watt and buying price with Bonaire chipset based cards, i.e. HD 7790 and R9 260

Note: "x" versions (R9 260x vs R9 260, R9 R280x vs R9 280) are generally more expensive for the same hashrate, as they each have the same number of shading units as their "non-x" counterpart.

[matriculator]

Thank you very much for your help. What kind of GPU would you recommend for decent GPU mining? Around $500?

For new GPU miners, I would recommend the following:

• If you plan to buy and use a single GPU, Tahiti based cards are currently the best option IMO. It means HD 7950 (currently hard to find), HD 7970, or R9 280. Curaçao, i.e. R9 270, is an interesting alternative for low budgets.
• If you plan to build multi-GPU rigs using PCI-e risers, i.e. you have many slots available, you will have the best value in terms of hash/watt and buying price with Bonaire chipset based cards, i.e. HD 7790 and R9 260

Note: "x" versions (R9 260x vs R9 260, R9 R280x vs R9 280) are generally more expensive for the same hashrate, as they each have the same number of shading units as their "non-x" counterpart.

https://litecoin.info/Mining_hardware_comparison

is a good site where you can see what hashing rates different cards give. It kinda depends on how easy you can get hold of some cards.
7950 are good cheaper cards.
280x and 290x give great hashing rates.

Thank you very much. I'll go GPU hunting tomorrow. It's too late for bitcoins but there are some altcoins calling my name lol.