Cryptocoin Mining?

[thilanliyan]

I wrote my own program for that

Of course you're still at the mercy of the individual bios/board vendors
impossible to track every superio chip they use and the different quirks for communicating with each one.
I just use the standard AMD ADL_SDK
I havn't updated the program in awhile now, so I need to push a release to work with newer gtk/gthreads
lemme know if you're interested

Wow yes please I'm definitely interested in it. I have reference 290s so it will probably work?

 

[T_Yamamoto]

LOL the dev for stackcoin made off with 70 BTC.

 

[wand3r3r]

Some poster made a site for a new coin (stack) and then promoted investments in the coin. People "invested" 70 BTC which the poster has now ran away with.

Don't invest in IPO type stuff, so far they seem to fail and this was a blatant scam.

Then you have Oreo which "launched" while also containing a virus in the wallet.

The scams are there and they are taking advantage of the hype, be careful.

 

[Brekyrself]

Some poster made a site for a new coin (stack) and then promoted investments in the coin. People "invested" 70 BTC which the poster has now ran away with.

Don't invest in IPO type stuff, so far they seem to fail and this was a blatant scam.

Then you have Oreo which "launched" while also containing a virus in the wallet.

The scams are there and they are taking advantage of the hype, be careful.

Perfect reason to support people like Invictus with Protoshares, BitShares, Keyhotee etc... Bytemaster has had such a positive history with BitMessage and conversations on Bitcointalk with Satoshi which can be seen by everyone!

Anyone with any coding skills should also check out the bounty section at www.bitsharestalk.org which they pay out nice amounts of PTS for helping with their projects.

 

[nwo]

Guess I'm still sticking with MAX for now. With the diff falling, I'm getting ~200 coins a day which comes out to around $150/day.

Not seeing any viable alternatives right now that are paying higher.

what is your hashrate?!

 

[Erenhardt]

Anyone running downvolted gpus while mining.
My 7870 can be downvolted to 0,95V (from 1,25V stock) which improves efficiency by a lot.

Since overclocking doesn't give much benefit to kh/s (downclocking increase kh/s!) there is very little reason to do so.

Here is a graph showing how VRM current changes with voltage.
Numbers from Aida.
Test sample Club3d HD7870. IMG so you will know the reason why I played with lower voltages

Here is chart:

Furmark would blue-screen on anything lower than 1,05V
83A@1,05V vs 118A@1,25V - 30% less current

cgminer could go as low as 0,95 Volts. 0,9V would crash after a second or two...
55A@0,95V vs 88A@1,25V - 37,5% less current

If I understand it correctly power numbers are even better, because this is current that goes out of VRM and through GPU core. Because P=I*U, lower amperage on lower voltage means that power is exponentially lower. Numbers:

Furmark:
83A@1,05V=87Watt vs 118A@1,25V=147Watt - 40% less power

cgminer:
55A@0,95V=53Watt vs 88A@1,25V=110Watt - 51% less power

I measured system power consumption while mining with Kill-A-Watt.
170Watt@1,0V vs 220Watt@1,25V
idle 105Watt

Anyone want to share their findings?

TL;DR: Undervolting my single-fan card lets me sleep in the same room where the mining occur! It saves me money aswell!

 

[frowertr]

what is your hashrate?!

9000 - 10000 mh/s

 

[thilanliyan]

@Erendhart
Yep I was running my 7950s at 0.975v at stock clocks for scrypt mining.

 

[KlokWyze]

Still mining DOGE cause I'm lazy, but I'm going to do a little research on PTS, Bitshares, etc. as they seem like a legit "company" and are genuinely trying out new ideas that may pay off big. If you look @ BTC, it definitely seems antiquated...

THEN, I'm going to finally get around to converting my miners to BAMT setups to see if I can get better hashrates, lower power consumption, etc., etc.

 

[nwo]

I wish I could undervolt my 7870s... Unfortunatelly, the voltage was locked on all 3 of them and they run hot and noisy.

My Sapphire (non-reference) 5870 is undervolted to 1.100v and getting a stable 400kH/s out of it at stock clock speeds If I couldn't undervolt it, I would have major throttling and heat issues since the card runs extremely hot (90*C), even at 100% fan speed.

 

[Binky]

Anybody running a 750ti? I'm getting 253kh on scrypt at stock clocks, and up to ~285 overclocked (with some crashes), but I don't really know cudaminer very well. Any tips?

 

[IEC]

Anybody running a 750ti? I'm getting 253kh on scrypt at stock clocks, and up to ~285 overclocked (with some crashes), but I don't really know cudaminer very well. Any tips?

What are your temps like? My power is cheap so for me the $/kH is a pretty poor value, but it might make sense for low heat density rigs.

 

[taserbro]

Anybody running a 750ti? I'm getting 253kh on scrypt at stock clocks, and up to ~285 overclocked (with some crashes), but I don't really know cudaminer very well. Any tips?

On bitcointalk, people are getting 330khs per 750 ti at 1.3ghz on regular scrypt. The config is -H 1 -l T5x24. -H 1 means there's gonna be some major cpu activity though.

 

[geokilla]

What's this Bitshare?

LOL the dev for stackcoin made off with 70 BTC.

LOL what's the story behind this?

 

[wand3r3r]

How long does it take to get a payout from fast OpenCL PTS-miner which uses beeer as the default and where you only enter a payout address?

 

[T_Yamamoto]

LOL what's the story behind this?

Dev set an IPCO for a relatively simple coin. Its just like any other alt coin out there, scrypt with kgw.

He has IPCO in 3 tiers.

From the beginning it looked fishy, Dev was offering a bounty for anyone who put the link (of the coin) in their signature.

Launch time comes around, gets delayed.

Launch time part 2, dev is not in the IRC, nothing.

Launch just doesn't happen...

Then he posts this:

69.5 BTC

 

[Binky]

What are your temps like? My power is cheap so for me the $/kH is a pretty poor value, but it might make sense for low heat density rigs.

While mining, temps are extremely low: 52C stock speeds, 56C overclocks at +135mhz.

Overclocking the core does not seem to have much impact on hash rate.

 

[IEC]

While mining, temps are extremely low: 52C stock speeds, 56C overclocks at +135mhz.

Overclocking the core does not seem to have much impact on hash rate.

You only have one? I am more curious what would happen if you had say, 3-4 in a single rig without riser cables.

 

[Elfear]

I've got some LTC I've been holding for awhile and thinking about converting to BTC. Is there any forum wisdom on which coin is better to hold?

 

[IEC]

I've got some LTC I've been holding for awhile and thinking about converting to BTC. Is there any forum wisdom on which coin is better to hold?

You're looking at the #1 cryptocoin vs the #2. There are equally valid arguments for why each one will rise more than the other. But considering every other coin seems to rise and fall with BTC, and it's very difficult to directly mine without an industrial grade farm - I would say BTC is better to hold.

But who knows, they could all go 10x higher next month. Or go 10x lower. So in general since I've long since broken even on hardware costs - I just dump 1/3 of what I mine, speculate (read: gamble on price swings) with 1/3, and hold 1/3.

 

[Silverforce11]

I personally feel that with all the new next gen scrypt coins out now, they are stealing the lime light from LTC and as such its starting to look like just any other altcoin.

Holding BTC is for myself, the better approach.

 

[IEC]

Dev set an IPCO for a relatively simple coin. Its just like any other alt coin out there, scrypt with kgw.

He has IPCO in 3 tiers.

From the beginning it looked fishy, Dev was offering a bounty for anyone who put the link (of the coin) in their signature.

Launch time comes around, gets delayed.

Launch time part 2, dev is not in the IRC, nothing.

Launch just doesn't happen...

Then he posts this:

69.5 BTC

If that's a short con, then Protoshares/Bitshares is the long con. Lol. Let's all make infinite money together! Yay!

 

[IEC]

Any decent PTS calculators out there. I switched from Max to Dark and now to PTS. Mine some MINT and going to forget about it.

I get about 2500 Col/m per card with 3 290s and 2 290X and 2000 col/m with my 280x.

Should net me about 3 PTS a day I think.

PTS is even easier on the cards, altho Dark is the easiet.

However Diff is rising fast on all these coins.

What mining programs are people using for these? Despite being skeptical of the long term success of Bitshares, I'm in for trying something different.

Using the 1GH Windows GPU miner I'm only getting 1200 CPM with a Radeon 290 which seems... wrong.

 

[thilanliyan]

What mining programs are people using for these? Despite being skeptical of the long term success of Bitshares, I'm in for trying something different.

Using the 1GH Windows GPU miner I'm only getting 1200 CPM with a Radeon 290 which seems... wrong.

I'm using the miner from here:
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=2598.0

Be warned though it is MUCH faster under linux for 290s. And the newest version of that miner only works for ypool and the dev takes a 2.5% fee.

 

[Brekyrself]

What mining programs are people using for these? Despite being skeptical of the long term success of Bitshares, I'm in for trying something different.

Using the 1GH Windows GPU miner I'm only getting 1200 CPM with a Radeon 290 which seems... wrong.

1gh Miner has been very stable however the others may be slightly faster. Also remember none of these miners have had the time to optimize compared with Scrypt. PTS was only launched in November 2013.

Invictus won't let BitShares fail, look at the funding people are backing this with at angelshares.info