[CLOSING DOWN] ScryptGuild Auto-Switching Pool

[ManeBjorn]

I just setup and account.  I have been so happy with BTCGuild I had to give this a try.  I will point some mining power at it tomorrow when I get up.
Have a great night everyone and thanks for setting up this Pool. 

[eleuthria]

We weren't hitting Mooncoin to much lately once it hit that 1 satoshi mark.  I've removed it from the profit switching in anticipation of the removal of the MOON/BTC market.  You can still mine it manually and it can still be paid out as usual.  The last few bits will still get auto converted since the market isn't gone just yet.


LTC->BTC conversion should be fully functional tomorrow.  Few kinks need to be ironed out in order to get the LTC/BTC flowing back and forth with BTC-e instead of Cryptsy.

Some additional coins will also be added soon in order to give us some diversity.  The last few days the only coins worth mining have been DOGE, EAC, WDC, and LTC.  Lot/Meow popping in rarely when a single block was worth grabbing due to high reward.

[psyberwolf]

been mining on this for 2 days now and got it stable and running not bad (4% rejects)
might hash around on this pool for a bit, i like the "approx btc value" and other coin stats on the page.
nice pool.
might bring 1mh over once i receive my other gridseeds.

[aztecminer]

anyone running r9 290x's on the guild here ??

if so what are your cgminer scrypt settings ??

i am start working to get mine going today ..

thanks in advance ..

[conspirosphere.tk]

I'm just in due to my good memories of mining btc on BTCGuild years ago and I like this pool as expected.
My only suggestion is to try to keep it updated with the most profitable coins of the day shown here:
http://www.coinwarz.com/miningprofitability/litecoin/

[mdude77]

I'm just in due to my good memories of mining btc on BTCGuild years ago and I like this pool as expected.
My only suggestion is to try to keep it updated with the most profitable coins of the day shown here:
http://www.coinwarz.com/miningprofitability/litecoin/

That link, while useful, isn't entirely accurate.  Among other things, it doesn't update as often as coin difficulties do, and it averages out the block size for variable block coins.

M

[mdude77]

The website just said current coin was LTC ... but my cgminer's said current difficulty was 0 (I assume < 0.5).  Which coin was that?

M

[codon]

It's gone for now, mostly because that list was getting quite large, and it's on a 1-hour delay (pool speed is updated hourly, based on the speed average for the last shift).  It confused people seeing only 200-300 MH/s on the current auto coin, even though basically the entire pool was on it, we just weren't on it for very long.

I liked it, even if it was 1h late.  Found myself checking it quite frequently to see how the hash was distributed.  Can it be resurrected in some form? i.e. pie chart.  The delay is totally fine by me.  BTW, this pool is awesome, so far I'm averaging 0.0754 btc/mh/day which is at least as good as clever/waffle.  I get 0.3% rejects and 11 ms ping to your pool because I'm in montreal, which is a nice bonus

Now if only btc and the altcoin market could stop tanking... I might be able to make a bit of $$$ on here instead of whoring myself out on betarigs  

[devt]

If you get 0.0754 btc/mh/day you must be really lucky, or did you forget one zero?

[aztecminer]

about to give up on the 290x's .. way to much work to try get the configured right . just not worth this much effort.

[mdude77]

about to give up on the 290x's .. way to much work to try get the configured right . just not worth this much effort.

Did you look here? 

https://litecoin.info/Mining_hardware_comparison

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[aztecminer]

about to give up on the 290x's .. way to much work to try get the configured right . just not worth this much effort.

Did you look here?  

https://litecoin.info/Mining_hardware_comparison

M

yup none those settings work with my cards ..

i had to use this setting atm:

cgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.scryptguild.com:3333 -u aztecminer -p 123 --scrypt  -I 13 -w 256 --thread-concurrency 8192

to finally get no HW errors or stales .. now i am waiting to see what the hash rate i get on the guild page before i bump it up to 14 because at 13 cgminer reports about 550 k/hs

these cards can do a lot more i am sure.

and i have another small setback .. i am not using a mining rig. i am using a dell precision t7000 series because ireally dont want to build a full mining rig atm .. and these dell precisions things will reboot the pc if it detects the gpu go over 65 degrees more than a minute .. on the bright side this pc is in a 60 degree datacenter so it is running under 60 degrees at this setting with fan adjusted to 90% using afterburner. that is with one card, i still have to put the other card into the pc. maybe i 14 will work. i guess i putting a little more work into this hopefully i get the right settings here in a few.

[codon]

If you get 0.0754 btc/mh/day you must be really lucky, or did you forget one zero?

LOL yes, 0.00754.

[CSM00]

about to give up on the 290x's .. way to much work to try get the configured right . just not worth this much effort.

Did you look here?  

https://litecoin.info/Mining_hardware_comparison

M

yup none those settings work with my cards ..

i had to use this setting atm:

cgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.scryptguild.com:3333 -u aztecminer -p 123 --scrypt  -I 13 -w 256 --thread-concurrency 8192

to finally get no HW errors or stales .. now i am waiting to see what the hash rate i get on the guild page before i bump it up to 14 because at 13 cgminer reports about 550 k/hs

these cards can do a lot more i am sure.

and i have another small setback .. i am not using a mining rig. i am using a dell precision t7000 series because ireally dont want to build a full mining rig atm .. and these dell precisions things will reboot the pc if it detects the gpu go over 65 degrees more than a minute .. on the bright side this pc is in a 60 degree datacenter so it is running under 60 degrees at this setting with fan adjusted to 90% using afterburner. that is with one card, i still have to put the other card into the pc. maybe i 14 will work. i guess i putting a little more work into this hopefully i get the right settings here in a few.

I'm using -I 19, -w 512 -g 1 --thread-concurrency 32765 on my non-OCd 290s, so something similar should work on the 290x.  Lower the I to 13 if it is your display adapter that you use interactively.  Bumping the concurrency up will likely give you a good boost.

Not going above 65C is going to be tough though.  My 290s are in an enclosed, high air-flow case (My workstation) run up 90C then slow down to maintain that temp.  AMD stated somewhere that that is perfectly OK and within the rated specs.  May want to check the Dell BIOS to see if you can configure that option.

[mdude77]

yup none those settings work with my cards ..

i had to use this setting atm:

cgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.scryptguild.com:3333 -u aztecminer -p 123 --scrypt  -I 13 -w 256 --thread-concurrency 8192

to finally get no HW errors or stales .. now i am waiting to see what the hash rate i get on the guild page before i bump it up to 14 because at 13 cgminer reports about 550 k/hs

these cards can do a lot more i am sure.

and i have another small setback .. i am not using a mining rig. i am using a dell precision t7000 series because ireally dont want to build a full mining rig atm .. and these dell precisions things will reboot the pc if it detects the gpu go over 65 degrees more than a minute .. on the bright side this pc is in a 60 degree datacenter so it is running under 60 degrees at this setting with fan adjusted to 90% using afterburner. that is with one card, i still have to put the other card into the pc. maybe i 14 will work. i guess i putting a little more work into this hopefully i get the right settings here in a few.

The missing ingredient here is probably your GPU and memory speed.  Scrypt mining is *very* finicky about that.  The mixture has to be *just* right else you will get a decrease in hash.  Try something like GPU engine 1055 and memory 1500 or possibly 1010 and 1495.

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[aztecminer]

about to give up on the 290x's .. way to much work to try get the configured right . just not worth this much effort.

Did you look here?  

https://litecoin.info/Mining_hardware_comparison

M

yup none those settings work with my cards ..

i had to use this setting atm:

cgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.scryptguild.com:3333 -u aztecminer -p 123 --scrypt  -I 13 -w 256 --thread-concurrency 8192

to finally get no HW errors or stales .. now i am waiting to see what the hash rate i get on the guild page before i bump it up to 14 because at 13 cgminer reports about 550 k/hs

these cards can do a lot more i am sure.

and i have another small setback .. i am not using a mining rig. i am using a dell precision t7000 series because ireally dont want to build a full mining rig atm .. and these dell precisions things will reboot the pc if it detects the gpu go over 65 degrees more than a minute .. on the bright side this pc is in a 60 degree datacenter so it is running under 60 degrees at this setting with fan adjusted to 90% using afterburner. that is with one card, i still have to put the other card into the pc. maybe i 14 will work. i guess i putting a little more work into this hopefully i get the right settings here in a few.

I'm using -I 19, -w 512 -g 1 --thread-concurrency 32765 on my non-OCd 290s, so something similar should work on the 290x.  Lower the I to 13 if it is your display adapter that you use interactively.  Bumping the concurrency up will likely give you a good boost.

Not going above 65C is going to be tough though.  My 290s are in an enclosed, high air-flow case (My workstation) run up 90C then slow down to maintain that temp.  AMD stated somewhere that that is perfectly OK and within the rated specs.  May want to check the Dell BIOS to see if you can configure that option.

i got both cards in now .. the pc has stabilized. the cards are hashing at about 500 k/hs with the above config .. the temps are at about 75 degrees without crashing so far. i will keep messing with it to see if i can get the hash rates up more. i will see how much i can push it without the pc crashing. i turned the cpu fan to high in the bios and that seem to help stabilize it. i will let it run over night and then mess with it try some ur guys setting recommendations some more tomorrow.

you are right about the cards running fine at temps as high as 95 degrees... although i don't like those temps. if can keep the cards at between 75 and 85 degrees i would be more comfortable with . once i turn up the hashin power on them the cards will heat more. when i put these cards into my asus rampage pc they perform great at almost 900 k/hs but they run between 90 and 95 degrees. i am not an overclocker. i dont like to overclock hardware. my pc's are powerful enough i never even notice difference if i did oc them.

[tblack]

Yay, my LTC balance got auto exchanged.

[eleuthria]

LTC -> BTC auto exchange is now part of automatic conversion (did a manual script execution about 10 minutes ago before putting it into the auto script).  It uses BTC-e instead of Cryptsy, since BTC-e is consistently a better price with significantly more market depth to avoid slippage.

[ericisback]

LTC -> BTC auto exchange is now part of automatic conversion (did a manual script execution about 10 minutes ago before putting it into the auto script).  It uses BTC-e instead of Cryptsy, since BTC-e is consistently a better price with significantly more market depth to avoid slippage.

Well, I guess I gotta ask.... now that we can auto exchange LTC to BTC, should we?  Right now I'm converting all the other coins to BTC, except LTC (they're just piling up).  Is there anyway to know if I should keep the TLC or exchange them for BTC?

[eleuthria]

LTC -> BTC auto exchange is now part of automatic conversion (did a manual script execution about 10 minutes ago before putting it into the auto script).  It uses BTC-e instead of Cryptsy, since BTC-e is consistently a better price with significantly more market depth to avoid slippage.

Well, I guess I gotta ask.... now that we can auto exchange LTC to BTC, should we?  Right now I'm converting all the other coins to BTC, except LTC (they're just piling up).  Is there anyway to know if I should keep the TLC or exchange them for BTC?

You're asking the wrong guy on that one.  I personally recommend dumping altcoins as fast as you can, LTC included.  But that's because I don't believe any of them deserve any valuation at all.