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[Honest Tim]

Whats the absolute minimum needed to get a GPU up and running?

As far as I know a PCIE slot is essential but what about the rest? cpu? memory? power?

Would something like these be acceptable?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Foxconn-G31MV-K-LGA-775-Intel-Celeron-2-00GHz-2GB-Motherboard-Bundle-M14-/151227260072?pt=UK_Computing_LaptopMotherboards_CPUs_CA&hash=item2335d8dca8

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Foxconn-946GZ7MA-8KRS2H-LGA-775-2GB-Core-2-Duo-Bundle-CHR-M9-/151227262072?pt=UK_Computing_LaptopMotherboards_CPUs_CA&hash=item2335d8e478

Both of those will work.  You would still need 650w+ psu, harddrive/ssd (windows) or memory stick (linux), cd-drive for windows install, keyboard, mouse, monitor, and wifi usb stick if you can't hard wire it.

You can remove the monitor, keyboard, and mouse after you set it up and run it headless.

Thanks cheif. I just want to know that a poor cpu and low memory wont make anything more than a negligable difference. I heard some gpu miners talking about a difference in hashes with 2 and 4 gig. I presume one card won't cause a problem with that?

Bootable linux would be my first choice, and I have plenty of the rest needed. Which only leaves the power supply.

Talking of bootable linux, does anyone know where to download a LIVE version of ubuntu 13.10? I dloaded 13.10x64 and stuck it on a cd using netbootin. It boots, but it's not a LIVE iso. People have made references to trying it out when I google it but I can't for the life of me find it anywhere apart from one single dirty looking torrent.

[Probleminfected]

Whats the absolute minimum needed to get a GPU up and running?

As far as I know a PCIE slot is essential but what about the rest? cpu? memory? power?

Would something like these be acceptable?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Foxconn-G31MV-K-LGA-775-Intel-Celeron-2-00GHz-2GB-Motherboard-Bundle-M14-/151227260072?pt=UK_Computing_LaptopMotherboards_CPUs_CA&hash=item2335d8dca8

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Foxconn-946GZ7MA-8KRS2H-LGA-775-2GB-Core-2-Duo-Bundle-CHR-M9-/151227262072?pt=UK_Computing_LaptopMotherboards_CPUs_CA&hash=item2335d8e478

Both of those will work.  You would still need 650w+ psu, harddrive/ssd (windows) or memory stick (linux), cd-drive for windows install, keyboard, mouse, monitor, and wifi usb stick if you can't hard wire it.

You can remove the monitor, keyboard, and mouse after you set it up and run it headless.

Thanks cheif. I just want to know that a poor cpu and low memory wont make anything more than a negligable difference. I heard some gpu miners talking about a difference in hashes with 2 and 4 gig. I presume one card won't cause a problem with that?

Bootable linux would be my first choice, and I have plenty of the rest needed. Which only leaves the power supply.

Talking of bootable linux, does anyone know where to download a LIVE version of ubuntu 13.10? I dloaded 13.10x64 and stuck it on a cd using netbootin. It boots, but it's not a LIVE iso. People have made references to trying it out when I google it but I can't for the life of me find it anywhere apart from one single dirty looking torrent.

I've never used anything less than 3gigs to mine with and when I added more cards, I added more ram.  So your thread concurrency might need some adjusting with only 2gb ram, which would more than likely give you less kh/s.  But who know's might work great with only 2gb.

The cpu doesn't really matter as long as nothing else is running on the rig other than mining.

[VanBreuk]

Is it a coincidence that the price has halved since the thread has basically become a primer about how to GPU mine DRK?

[Honest Tim]

Is it a coincidence that the price has halved since the thread has basically become a primer about how to GPU mine DRK?

yes

[slyA]

Is it a coincidence that the price has halved since the thread has basically become a primer about how to GPU mine DRK?

It's one of the idiots here trying to create a panic sell. Looks like his plans didn't work too good.

[VanBreuk]

yes

It's one of the idiots here trying to create a panic sell. Looks like his plans didn't work too good.

Thanks. For the record, I will probably take the chance to buy some more DRK. I like this coin.

[TanteStefana]

I'll post up a compiled version of his sg miner for you, I've been working on this for two days now and managed to tweak it out to much higher hashing speed but the shares are all rejects (above target) - if anybody know's a fix for this we'll be able to get a few mhash out of our gpus in the short term at least.

Will edit with link

Dark SGminer (compiled) - Credit to eduffield for source **This is HIS original version, not the faster one I spoke of**
https://mega.co.nz/#!SpQigLDS!Ph-MZ7QrR55Gb4BDGEeHaCmWI1y3EDw-oYi22do-Umo

I will post a more tweaked out version as I go, but alas.. Not worth it until it actually starts pumping out shares :p, I'm rebuilding from scratch


Fixed

Serious, you know when we have the regular CPU miner running, it takes forever sometimes to have a share accepted, maybe if you  let it run long enough, it'll get some accepted?  Did you give it time?

[TanteStefana]

I dont think its fair to say DONT DONATE to this guy or anyone. If someone want to donate let them. We have sent coin to others for compiling our code in the past.

And probabaly will need some help in the future, as yet I have not gotten my PC to correctly compile Windows app, I hate windows! Love Linux.

I disagree, I think it's perfectly fair when the post is misleading. Most people won't understand what has or hasn't been done in terms of work, and it's not fair for them to donate thinking that someone has created something that they haven't.

I honestly don't think he was being intentionally misleading, just semantics, and originally he said 'I'll post A compiled version...", clearly he just was typing his thoughts.  Communication is ALWAYS imprecise.  Lets not accuse people of being dishonest, but rather ask for clarity.  I'm sure there have been TONs of scams over the last few years here, and you may have been burned.  But this business here is very risky and takes a lot of trust and failures, but that doesn't mean we need to be uncivil.  Be wary, yes, but not uncivil

BTW, I sent a tiny donation to the fund, unfortunately, I can't give much 

[TanteStefana]

What happens to DRK? from 0.0006 to 0.0004 in 1 day?
have I lost something?

Btc is crashing and some idiot miner just dumped his coin like festering cum geyser.

YUCK!  LOL

BTW, sorry I'm so far behind, glad everyone is talking nice now, LOL

[drawing1211]

What happens to DRK? from 0.0006 to 0.0004 in 1 day?
have I lost something?

Btc is crashing and some idiot miner just dumped his coin like festering cum geyser.

YUCK!  LOL

BTW, sorry I'm so far behind, glad everyone is talking nice now, LOL

Not as gross as the current price of BTC

[TanteStefana]

Coinwarz says it's around 605? or something?   Given the volatility of these things, it doesn't sound too bad?  A few days ago it went under 550.  or???

Woopie!  I just bought my first bitcoins! I spent $40 for 0.07 BTC!  I'm a big spender!

but my BTC won't show up for a whole week

[blaaaaacksuit]

Coinwarz says it's around 605? or something?   Given the volatility of these things, it doesn't sound too bad?  A few days ago it went under 550.  or???

Woopie!  I just bought my first bitcoins! I spent $40 for 0.07 BTC!  I'm a big spender!

but my BTC won't show up for a whole week

Did you buy it through coinbase?

[Honest Tim]

Coinwarz says it's around 605? or something?   Given the volatility of these things, it doesn't sound too bad?  A few days ago it went under 550.  or???

Woopie!  I just bought my first bitcoins! I spent $40 for 0.07 BTC!  I'm a big spender!

but my BTC won't show up for a whole week

Did you buy it through coinbase?

She barked down the long hallway to her PA, who got straight on the phone to her broker.
I hope she dosn't get cigar ash on the keyboard.

[klixion]

Coinwarz says it's around 605? or something?   Given the volatility of these things, it doesn't sound too bad?  A few days ago it went under 550.  or???

Woopie!  I just bought my first bitcoins! I spent $40 for 0.07 BTC!  I'm a big spender!

but my BTC won't show up for a whole week

Did you buy it through coinbase?

Why is there such a big price difference between coinbase and mtgox? mtgox is like in the low $400s.  

[InternetApe]

Coinwarz says it's around 605? or something?   Given the volatility of these things, it doesn't sound too bad?  A few days ago it went under 550.  or???

Woopie!  I just bought my first bitcoins! I spent $40 for 0.07 BTC!  I'm a big spender!

but my BTC won't show up for a whole week

Did you buy it through coinbase?

Why is there such a big price difference between coinbase and mtgox? mtgox is like in the low $400s.  

Because Gox is not letting anyone take BTC out. So people are selling for what ever they can get.

[klixion]

Coinwarz says it's around 605? or something?   Given the volatility of these things, it doesn't sound too bad?  A few days ago it went under 550.  or???

Woopie!  I just bought my first bitcoins! I spent $40 for 0.07 BTC!  I'm a big spender!

but my BTC won't show up for a whole week

Did you buy it through coinbase?

Why is there such a big price difference between coinbase and mtgox? mtgox is like in the low $400s.  

Because Gox is not letting anyone take BTC out. So people are selling for what ever they can get.

Is this a temporary thing?

[jl777]

Coinwarz says it's around 605? or something?   Given the volatility of these things, it doesn't sound too bad?  A few days ago it went under 550.  or???

Woopie!  I just bought my first bitcoins! I spent $40 for 0.07 BTC!  I'm a big spender!

but my BTC won't show up for a whole week

Did you buy it through coinbase?

Why is there such a big price difference between coinbase and mtgox? mtgox is like in the low $400s.  

Because Gox is not letting anyone take BTC out. So people are selling for what ever they can get.

Is this a temporary thing?

yes, temporary until mtgox goes out of business. I just dont see them surviving long term, this is not the first time they really goofed up. Blaming bitcoin itself, when it was them not following recommended procedures. Now everybody feels the hurt

[eduffield]

Being that the GPU's are joining the game we wanted to redefine the difficulty/reward curve to be the same as it was in the prior phase of mining. This involves a fork to apply a new rewards curve to above a difficulty of 75, and scales at a rate similar to the growth rate seen in other GPU coins.

The new formula for GPUs is 2222222/(((x+2600)/9)^2) with a block reward max of 25 and a minimum of 5. This will provide a very interesting incentive for GPUs to jump on earlier while the rewards are high, and it will ensure that the CPU miners coins remain valuable for the foreseeable future, while making this coin a more scarce and a limited resource.

Code:

 if(nHeight >= 17000 && dDiff > 75) { // GPU/ASIC difficulty calc
            // 2222222/(((x+2600)/9)^2)
            nSubsidy = (2222222.0 / (pow((dDiff+2600.0)/9.0,2.0)));
            if (nSubsidy > 25) nSubsidy = 25;
            if (nSubsidy < 5) nSubsidy = 5;
        } else { // CPU mining calc
            nSubsidy = (11111.0 / (pow((dDiff+51.0)/6.0,2.0)));
            if (nSubsidy > 500) nSubsidy = 500;
            if (nSubsidy < 25) nSubsidy = 25;
        }

Anyone using a windows wallet should update: http://darkcoin.io/downloads/darkcoin-qt.exe
To recompile from source, download from here: https://github.com/evan82/darkcoin

Thanks

PS.  thanks to Kaene for helping out with the new formula!

[blaaaaacksuit]

Being that the GPU's are joining the game we wanted to redefine the difficulty/reward curve to be the same as it was in the prior phase of mining. This involves a fork to apply a new rewards curve to above a difficulty of 75, and scales at a rate similar to the growth rate seen in other GPU coins.

The new formula for GPUs is 2222222/(((x+2600)/9)^2) with a block reward max of 25 and a minimum of 5. This will provide a very interesting incentive for GPUs to jump on earlier while the rewards are high, and it will ensure that the CPU miners coins remain valuable for the foreseeable future, while making this coin a more scarce and a limited resource.

Code:

 if(nHeight >= 17000 && dDiff > 75) { // GPU/ASIC difficulty calc
            // 2222222/(((x+2600)/9)^2)
            nSubsidy = (2222222.0 / (pow((dDiff+2600.0)/9.0,2.0)));
            if (nSubsidy > 25) nSubsidy = 25;
            if (nSubsidy < 5) nSubsidy = 5;
        } else { // CPU mining calc
            nSubsidy = (11111.0 / (pow((dDiff+51.0)/6.0,2.0)));
            if (nSubsidy > 500) nSubsidy = 500;
            if (nSubsidy < 25) nSubsidy = 25;
        }

Anyone using a windows wallet should update: http://darkcoin.io/downloads/darkcoin-qt.exe
To recompile from source, download from here: https://github.com/evan82/darkcoin

Thanks

PS.  thanks to Kaene for helping out with the new formula!

Have the pools already updated?

[eduffield]

Being that the GPU's are joining the game we wanted to redefine the difficulty/reward curve to be the same as it was in the prior phase of mining. This involves a fork to apply a new rewards curve to above a difficulty of 75, and scales at a rate similar to the growth rate seen in other GPU coins.

The new formula for GPUs is 2222222/(((x+2600)/9)^2) with a block reward max of 25 and a minimum of 5. This will provide a very interesting incentive for GPUs to jump on earlier while the rewards are high, and it will ensure that the CPU miners coins remain valuable for the foreseeable future, while making this coin a more scarce and a limited resource.

Code:

 if(nHeight >= 17000 && dDiff > 75) { // GPU/ASIC difficulty calc
            // 2222222/(((x+2600)/9)^2)
            nSubsidy = (2222222.0 / (pow((dDiff+2600.0)/9.0,2.0)));
            if (nSubsidy > 25) nSubsidy = 25;
            if (nSubsidy < 5) nSubsidy = 5;
        } else { // CPU mining calc
            nSubsidy = (11111.0 / (pow((dDiff+51.0)/6.0,2.0)));
            if (nSubsidy > 500) nSubsidy = 500;
            if (nSubsidy < 25) nSubsidy = 25;
        }

Anyone using a windows wallet should update: http://darkcoin.io/downloads/darkcoin-qt.exe
To recompile from source, download from here: https://github.com/evan82/darkcoin

Thanks

PS.  thanks to Kaene for helping out with the new formula!

Have the pools already updated?

3 of 6 so far, we're missing smalltime, yobapool and lotterymining.