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[myagui]

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nice one myagui ...

all the step-by-step instructions are there - for a lazy reader like me? ...

tanx ...

#crysx

Thanks @crysx,

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windows 10 is okish too for those card with the right drivers?

No, you can't mine etherum with windows 10.

Im on windows 10 x64  , It will never be possible mining ethereum with windows 10   .

For Windows 10 and the 970's or 980's, you can just use an appropriate (much older) driver version, such as 347.88, that uses WDDM 1.3.
Works fine for Ethereum mining, though I suspect that Windows 7 is still slightly faster.

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[Amph]

And @ Crysx:  did you try with simple cheap unpowered( or powered) riser with pin A1-B17 shorted - on 6th card? That solved my 6th card problem few times.

ive tried everything you can imagine ... though that shorting is not one of them ...

im not a newbie to this ( dont be fooled by my profile - i still havent got my last profile back ) and as such - take a LOT into account with mining ...

i do however - appreciate your advice and thoughts ...

ill have thefarm up and running soon - looking at a new place on thursday - so im crossing my fingers this warehouse is a good one ...

i NEVER use cheap unpowered ribbon - especially on highpowered cards ... ive burned too many of them to be easily using ANY ribbon cable - no matter who suggests them here ... ive been in too many discussions and eventual arguments over such things - its become too old - too quick ...

top level components in thefarm - nothing less ...

however - the 6 card issue is ONLY with the 980ti cards ... it seems even the amd 280x oc / 7970 cards ( one and the same ) never had that issue either ... 6 cards and no problem ...

im sure its a bios issue - as ive seen 8 gpus in a single system run by an expensive supermicro motherboard designed ( with a large capable bios ) for such things in hpc servers ...

but i will research your suggestion - as it could also be an issue with the way the 6th 980ti card is allocated in the bios / motherboard ...

tanx ...

#crysx

not with h81 pro btc, it has two molex each molex deliver 132 x 2 = 264w total

now you need at max 75w for each slot, to be provided for each gpu, so at best 450w

a motherboard alone can provide 200w(25w for each x1 slot, you have six of them plus 75w for the x16 slot)

math is telling me that you have a maximum of 200w+264w=464w, more than enough for powering any six gpu combination out there

and actually no card draw 75w the maximum that is allowed in each pci-e slot

read https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=425363.msg5373313#msg5373313

[vaulter]

windows 10 is okish too for those card with the right drivers?

No, you can't mine etherum with windows 10.

Im on windows 10 x64   , It will never be possible mining ethereum with windows 10   .

Should be fixed after July win 10 update

[joblo]

however - the 6 card issue is ONLY with the 980ti cards ... it seems even the amd 280x oc / 7970 cards ( one and the same ) never had that issue either ... 6 cards and no problem ...

im sure its a bios issue - as ive seen 8 gpus in a single system run by an expensive supermicro motherboard designed ( with a large capable bios ) for such things in hpc servers ...

but i will research your suggestion - as it could also be an issue with the way the 6th 980ti card is allocated in the bios / motherboard ...

tanx ...

#crysx

I like puzzles like this. Have you had 6 cards working in the same rig as the one currently failing with 6x 980ti?
A rig that previously worked would have the correct BIOS settings already.

I'll jump ahead assuming you have already proven your HW and SW and know where I'm leading, It may be the number
and model of card that is the problem. 980ti's have 6 GB mem so that is 36 GB to support. Just speculating, I don't know if adding RAM or swap would help.

if you're not yet fully invested in the 980ti you may want to wait a week for the 1080

[bensam1231]

This is like being a restaurant and only having one source of produce/spices/meat. Could I start my own cattle farm, raise my own chickens, plants my own vegetables, and mill my own spices? Sure... Is it a reasonable assumption that a restaurant should do this and as such that one supplier should charge whatever they want and sell to whomever they want? No.

This is more like being gas station and getting franchise from one of very few big oil producers. Independence? What independence? You earn only as much as you allowed to earn.
Well, nothing prevents you from moving to drilling and refinery business - leaving said gas station as a hobby

Better analogy... And yes, I guess I can drill my own oil and refine it too... Who even needs to drill when I can just grow it - biodiesel!

Putting this all aside, gas stations in real life don't generate the majority of their profit from gas... it's actually from selling stuff in their store. Selling the gas makes them almost no money due to their margins, they just try to get you inside. How that fits inside of the analogy? I don't know...

Everyone keeps talking about ETH is the only profitable coin to mine.

96 Mh/s gets just about 1 ETH per day. Not too bad as that still covers total electric per day plus some left over.

I have not mined ETH in months as there are better options out there.

Oh and before you respond Bensam like you did the last time I posted something like this about not telling what it is, you have your secret coins like everyone else.

Unfortunately small coins tank right away if you put any sort of hash on them, so I've been mining Eth. There are still more options if you're a small miner though. Small coins fly under the radar of coinmarketcap and whattomine. Feathercoin was a secret alternative to Eth for a couple days before people completely dumped hash on it.



All of this aside, for the love of god someone make a Nvidia dual miner. 1% of Eth and 1% of Dcr is nothing to sneeze at.

@Genoli http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.en.html

Of course, I mean, learning how to code worth a shit is totally just like buying ridiculous amounts of INSANELY expensive equipment to get oil.

Does this guy even get the basic premise of the free market? The whole damned point is that if someone charges too much, someone else ends up providing it for less, and they undercut each other. Competition. If it takes a lot of resources, or it requires a skill that not everyone has, then the price goes up. It's not like Bensam could go get someone to do this shit in the free and open market for a lot less than what I get - or he sure as hell would have. Freelancer and done it.

I don't think you understand what someones life is like. Everyone has different skillsets, lets look for a moment at you or me completely changing. Spending a couple years learning a different set of skills is not all that different that starting a giant company. I could more easily start a new company then learn to program to the same level of quality as current releases are at, let alone at yours. For me that's a complete waste of time because my expertise are in other areas. I pay people instead to do that work because that's not where my expertise is. I can't pay for what people don't sell or don't even advertise openly that that's what they sell.

Most people don't know the market exists because you don't present your wares and there is no market to actually buy from due to back room trading.

Not just that, but what market there is isn't a free market. You don't advertise prices and even then you sell them to whomever you want. You've even mentioned you only sell to a handful of people (which are big players in the crypto game, which further pushes down all the other miners) keeping it completely exclusive. This pushes other miners out of the market due to the nature of mining.

There is no other game in town for AMD. The current alternative is SP and friends, which is why I switched to Nvidia. Ethereum completely fucked up your stranglehold on AMD mining, but no one could see that coming.

Your argument MIGHT hold water if you had addressed the fact Freelancer.com exists - you can hire any coder you like!

You can hire people to build oil derricks too.

You were the only source of AMD miners for a long time, you still pretty much are. I can once again also get into husbandry and raise livestock in addition to working my restaurant, but that's not my job.  Don't act like you don't have a complete monopoly on the market and you don't share with people you don't like. Lucky for AMD miners Eth came around.


SP man, dual miner...

[Amph]

And @ Crysx:  did you try with simple cheap unpowered( or powered) riser with pin A1-B17 shorted - on 6th card? That solved my 6th card problem few times.

ive tried everything you can imagine ... though that shorting is not one of them ...

im not a newbie to this ( dont be fooled by my profile - i still havent got my last profile back ) and as such - take a LOT into account with mining ...

i do however - appreciate your advice and thoughts ...

ill have thefarm up and running soon - looking at a new place on thursday - so im crossing my fingers this warehouse is a good one ...

i NEVER use cheap unpowered ribbon - especially on highpowered cards ... ive burned too many of them to be easily using ANY ribbon cable - no matter who suggests them here ... ive been in too many discussions and eventual arguments over such things - its become too old - too quick ...

top level components in thefarm - nothing less ...

however - the 6 card issue is ONLY with the 980ti cards ... it seems even the amd 280x oc / 7970 cards ( one and the same ) never had that issue either ... 6 cards and no problem ...

im sure its a bios issue - as ive seen 8 gpus in a single system run by an expensive supermicro motherboard designed ( with a large capable bios ) for such things in hpc servers ...

but i will research your suggestion - as it could also be an issue with the way the 6th 980ti card is allocated in the bios / motherboard ...

tanx ...

#crysx

not with h81 pro btc, it has two molex each molex deliver 132 x 2 = 264w total

now you need at max 75w for each slot, to be provided for each gpu, so at best 450w

a motherboard alone can provide 200w(25w for each x1 slot, you have six of them plus 75w for the x16 slot)

math is telling me that you have a maximum of 200w+264w=464w, more than enough for powering any six gpu combination out there

and actually no card draw 75w the maximum that is allowed in each pci-e slot

read https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=425363.msg5373313#msg5373313

You do know the 4-pin Molex connector is only rated for 75W, right?

no it's 132 11a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molex_connector#Disk_drive_connector_.28Molex_8981_Series_Power_Connector.29

also the 24 pin alone that is plugged to the MB can handle 373w...

[hmage]

Im on windows 10 x64   , It will never be possible mining ethereum with windows 10   .

Should be fixed after July win 10 update

Source of that info?

[AzzAz]

however - the 6 card issue is ONLY with the 980ti cards ... it seems even the amd 280x oc / 7970 cards ( one and the same ) never had that issue either ... 6 cards and no problem ...

im sure its a bios issue - as ive seen 8 gpus in a single system run by an expensive supermicro motherboard designed ( with a large capable bios ) for such things in hpc servers ...

but i will research your suggestion - as it could also be an issue with the way the 6th 980ti card is allocated in the bios / motherboard ...

tanx ...

#crysx

I like puzzles like this. Have you had 6 cards working in the same rig as the one currently failing with 6x 980ti?
A rig that previously worked would have the correct BIOS settings already.

I'll jump ahead assuming you have already proven your HW and SW and know where I'm leading, It may be the number
and model of card that is the problem. 980ti's have 6 GB mem so that is 36 GB to support. Just speculating, I don't know if adding RAM or swap would help.

if you're not yet fully invested in the 980ti you may want to wait a week for the 1080

I believe this is the 980Ti problem ( V 6th card ) . ( but that's for the miner. And if OS do not see 6th card - jumped riser might help.

[Amph]

polaris vs pascal, vega will be on october, announced probably dunno about release

[joblo]

however - the 6 card issue is ONLY with the 980ti cards ... it seems even the amd 280x oc / 7970 cards ( one and the same ) never had that issue either ... 6 cards and no problem ...

im sure its a bios issue - as ive seen 8 gpus in a single system run by an expensive supermicro motherboard designed ( with a large capable bios ) for such things in hpc servers ...

but i will research your suggestion - as it could also be an issue with the way the 6th 980ti card is allocated in the bios / motherboard ...

tanx ...

#crysx

I like puzzles like this. Have you had 6 cards working in the same rig as the one currently failing with 6x 980ti?
A rig that previously worked would have the correct BIOS settings already.

I'll jump ahead assuming you have already proven your HW and SW and know where I'm leading, It may be the number
and model of card that is the problem. 980ti's have 6 GB mem so that is 36 GB to support. Just speculating, I don't know if adding RAM or swap would help.

if you're not yet fully invested in the 980ti you may want to wait a week for the 1080

I believe this is the 980Ti problem ( V 6th card ) . ( but that's for the miner. And if OS do not see 6th card - jumped riser might help.

Any time I cross a power of 2 boundary I get scared. 5 cards keeps it to 32 GiB.

[crysx]

however - the 6 card issue is ONLY with the 980ti cards ... it seems even the amd 280x oc / 7970 cards ( one and the same ) never had that issue either ... 6 cards and no problem ...

im sure its a bios issue - as ive seen 8 gpus in a single system run by an expensive supermicro motherboard designed ( with a large capable bios ) for such things in hpc servers ...

but i will research your suggestion - as it could also be an issue with the way the 6th 980ti card is allocated in the bios / motherboard ...

tanx ...

#crysx

I like puzzles like this. Have you had 6 cards working in the same rig as the one currently failing with 6x 980ti?
A rig that previously worked would have the correct BIOS settings already.

I'll jump ahead assuming you have already proven your HW and SW and know where I'm leading, It may be the number
and model of card that is the problem. 980ti's have 6 GB mem so that is 36 GB to support. Just speculating, I don't know if adding RAM or swap would help.

if you're not yet fully invested in the 980ti you may want to wait a week for the 1080

I believe this is the 980Ti problem ( V 6th card ) . ( but that's for the miner. And if OS do not see 6th card - jumped riser might help.

Any time I cross a power of 2 boundary I get scared. 5 cards keeps it to 32 GiB.

you know ... its funny that i cant remember whether i DID test it on a different motherboard or not ... which would usually indicate that i didnt ...

so im going to pull one of the other motherboards from the previously working 6card 750ti systems - and replace the current motherboard for a test with the 980ti systems ...

i have it still for another few weeks before i have to give it back - so better now than never i guess ...

if anyone has successfully run 6 x 980ti ( whichever brand ) cards in one machine - i would appreciate you contacting me ...

#crysx

[bensam1231]

polaris vs pascal, vega will be on october, announced probably dunno about release

I'll believe this when I see it. Considering AMD is probably a few months out from launch, bit early to see leak numbers. We'll probably see a paper launch at computex though.

That seems a bit fast too, considering Polaris is supposed to be AMDs midrange lineup, it's hard to imagine it matching pace with a 1080/1070.

[Amph]

polaris vs pascal, vega will be on october, announced probably dunno about release

I'll believe this when I see it. Considering AMD is probably a few months out from launch, bit early to see leak numbers. We'll probably see a paper launch at computex though.

That seems a bit fast too, considering Polaris is supposed to be AMDs midrange lineup, it's hard to imagine it matching pace with a 1080/1070.

the first one is a crossfire, CF written there, so not on par with pascal

[induktor]

I think that's two bad advices in one sentence but to each of his own I guess. (Though the GV-N75TOC-2GI cards are faulty by design and will die in a few months).

Hello bathrobehero, long time!.

Why do you say that? what happened to you with those cards?, i have like 30 of those for about a year and a half and it was the most stable card i have ever used!, followed by the evga 750Ti ACX FTW which are pretty good too, the only bad thing about the gigabyte GV-750TOC-2GI i had found is that the fans are shit, and so far i couldn't opened it to oil them, like in the sapphire cards and the gigabyte 970 which is tricky but doable.

guys/girls:

I was wondering why so much fuss about trying to use 6 cards?, it is a freaking pain in the @ss do that, usually up to 5 cards is fine but 6 cards is tricky as hell and you overload your power supply.

contrary to what other ppl say, power supplies are not meant to be used at 90% load, i never load my PSUs over 60 or 70% capacity as a result, i have never ever blown any PSU and i have about 40 between 850 and 1100W psus.

but if you insist to 6 cards, the only motherboard i have never had any issue with 6, is the good old H81Pro-btc , but you gonna need  a lot of ram too, so again, what is the gain in putting so many cards in one system?.

I found that the most efficient way is to use AM1M-S2H motherboard with 5350 APU, 3 cards and a quite cheap 750-850W PSU 80plus, you don't waste money on expensive PSUs, motherboards or processors,  you divide the amount of memory between 2 rigs, and lower the power consumption, as this mobo uses almost nothing of power, is the most efficient setup i had found by FAR.

dunno what you guys think, plz comment.

Indkt.

[bathrobehero]

I think that's two bad advices in one sentence but to each of his own I guess. (Though the GV-N75TOC-2GI cards are faulty by design and will die in a few months).

Hello bathrobehero, long time!.

Why do you say that? what happened to you with those cards?, i have like 30 of those for about a year and a half and it was the most stable card i have ever used!, followed by the evga 750Ti ACX FTW which are pretty good too, the only bad thing about the gigabyte GV-750TOC-2GI i had found is that the fans are shit, and so far i couldn't opened it to oil them, like in the sapphire cards and the gigabyte 970 which is tricky but doable.

guys/girls:

I was wondering why so much fuss about trying to use 6 cards?, it is a freaking pain in the @ss do that, usually up to 5 cards is fine but 6 cards is tricky as hell and you overload your power supply.

contrary to what other ppl say, power supplies are not meant to be used at 90% load, i never load my PSUs over 60 or 70% capacity as a result, i have never ever blown any PSU and i have about 40 between 850 and 1100W psus.

but if you insist to 6 cards, the only motherboard i have never had any issue with 6, is the good old H81Pro-btc , but you gonna need  a lot of ram too, so again, what is the gain in putting so many cards in one system?.

I found that the most efficient way is to use AM1M-S2H motherboard with 5350 APU, 3 cards and a quite cheap 750-850W PSU 80plus, you don't waste money on expensive PSUs, motherboards or processors,  you divide the amount of memory between 2 rigs, and lower the power consumption, as this mobo uses almost nothing of power, is the most efficient setup i had found by FAR.

dunno what you guys think, plz comment.

Indkt.

Hey induktor, long time indeed!

Those Gigabyte cards have some sort of low quality voltage delivery component which tends to die (card won't work, no fan, nothing) but within warranty they change that part to a better one so they'll last the next time - or so I heard.
Maybe it's not the same for all of these models, maybe newer batches doesn't have this issue but there's a lot of complaints about that model and I had 5 or maybe 6 out of 6 of these die in a matter of months but after repair they work perfectly.

Also, while unpowered risers might work, powered USB risers are much more reliable so I wouldn't recommend using unpowered risers (especially ribbon risers), let alone recommending them to people who are new to mining.

Same goes for 6-pin aux on cards; you can do without but then you have to make sure you don't use too many cards on one molex rail otherwise you might burn the PSU or the molex cables if you draw too much. So in order to avoid having to put more than 2 cards on one molex cable, you'll very likely need to use sata to molex cables which are terrible and not recommended.

With 6-pin cards all you have to keep in mind to have a single-rail PSU and enough 6-pin connectors.

This happened to me on a 750 Ti with no 6-pin.
But if I put 3 cards per molex cable, those molex cables would get very hot so likely they would have burned anyway eventually.
But for cards with 6-pin the sata to molex cables are cold because the cards pull most of the juice from the 6-pin cables which are built to be able to handle it.

I'd also agree that using a PSU 0-24h above 80-90% is probably a bad idea. I mean it's better be safe than sorry.

[giagge]

GTX 1070 Powerful!!! :



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[exemplaar]

however - the 6 card issue is ONLY with the 980ti cards ... it seems even the amd 280x oc / 7970 cards ( one and the same ) never had that issue either ... 6 cards and no problem ...

im sure its a bios issue - as ive seen 8 gpus in a single system run by an expensive supermicro motherboard designed ( with a large capable bios ) for such things in hpc servers ...

but i will research your suggestion - as it could also be an issue with the way the 6th 980ti card is allocated in the bios / motherboard ...

tanx ...

#crysx

I like puzzles like this. Have you had 6 cards working in the same rig as the one currently failing with 6x 980ti?
A rig that previously worked would have the correct BIOS settings already.

I'll jump ahead assuming you have already proven your HW and SW and know where I'm leading, It may be the number
and model of card that is the problem. 980ti's have 6 GB mem so that is 36 GB to support. Just speculating, I don't know if adding RAM or swap would help.

if you're not yet fully invested in the 980ti you may want to wait a week for the 1080

I believe this is the 980Ti problem ( V 6th card ) . ( but that's for the miner. And if OS do not see 6th card - jumped riser might help.

Any time I cross a power of 2 boundary I get scared. 5 cards keeps it to 32 GiB.

you know ... its funny that i cant remember whether i DID test it on a different motherboard or not ... which would usually indicate that i didnt ...

so im going to pull one of the other motherboards from the previously working 6card 750ti systems - and replace the current motherboard for a test with the 980ti systems ...

i have it still for another few weeks before i have to give it back - so better now than never i guess ...

if anyone has successfully run 6 x 980ti ( whichever brand ) cards in one machine - i would appreciate you contacting me ...

#crysx

I saw Asrock released a new BIOS v2.30. Did you try flashing it already? Also disabling unnecessary things in bios like LPT, COM, audio and set PCIex to gen1 might help...

http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/H81%20Pro%20BTC/?cat=Download&os=BIOS

[crysx]

however - the 6 card issue is ONLY with the 980ti cards ... it seems even the amd 280x oc / 7970 cards ( one and the same ) never had that issue either ... 6 cards and no problem ...

im sure its a bios issue - as ive seen 8 gpus in a single system run by an expensive supermicro motherboard designed ( with a large capable bios ) for such things in hpc servers ...

but i will research your suggestion - as it could also be an issue with the way the 6th 980ti card is allocated in the bios / motherboard ...

tanx ...

#crysx

I like puzzles like this. Have you had 6 cards working in the same rig as the one currently failing with 6x 980ti?
A rig that previously worked would have the correct BIOS settings already.

I'll jump ahead assuming you have already proven your HW and SW and know where I'm leading, It may be the number
and model of card that is the problem. 980ti's have 6 GB mem so that is 36 GB to support. Just speculating, I don't know if adding RAM or swap would help.

if you're not yet fully invested in the 980ti you may want to wait a week for the 1080

I believe this is the 980Ti problem ( V 6th card ) . ( but that's for the miner. And if OS do not see 6th card - jumped riser might help.

Any time I cross a power of 2 boundary I get scared. 5 cards keeps it to 32 GiB.

you know ... its funny that i cant remember whether i DID test it on a different motherboard or not ... which would usually indicate that i didnt ...

so im going to pull one of the other motherboards from the previously working 6card 750ti systems - and replace the current motherboard for a test with the 980ti systems ...

i have it still for another few weeks before i have to give it back - so better now than never i guess ...

if anyone has successfully run 6 x 980ti ( whichever brand ) cards in one machine - i would appreciate you contacting me ...

#crysx

I saw Asrock released a new BIOS v2.30. Did you try flashing it already? Also disabling unnecessary things in bios like LPT, COM, audio and set PCIex to gen1 might help...

http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/H81%20Pro%20BTC/?cat=Download&os=BIOS

will check - tanx for the link ...

all other components not used are switched off - as with ALL the mining systems and motherboards ...

i honestly believe it is a bios issue ... all the cards work - and all function well ... just not all at once - only 5 at a time ...

ill have a look at that today ...

tanx again ...

#crysx

[Epsylon3]

"only 5" :p

[crysx]

"only 5" :p

yup - only ...

tomorrow im looking at the new warehouse - and hoping it is suitable ...

if so - thefarm will be moved and will be running again ... the redesign ( for thegrid ) can start - and when thats complete - thefarm will be growing steadily ...

so 'only' will be a reality in the coming months ...

still looking for a mining dev to develop the miner i need ... that is a long term project though - as that will not be simple ...

#crysx