Cryptocoin Mining?

Page 363 - Seeking answers? Join the AnandTech community: where nearly half-a-million members share solutions and discuss the latest tech.

IEC

Elite Member
Super Moderator
Jun 10, 2004
14,440
5,429
136
According to GPU-Z, my 290s at 73C use ~218W while mining 870 kH/s.

My 290s at 82C use ~238W while mining 870 kH/s.

I'm not sure that I trust GPU-Z readings, but there does seem to be some validation that keeping them cool is important in being more efficient.
 

suklee

Diamond Member
Oct 9, 1999
4,575
10
81
Can you fill out that template with your settings? We can compare if there are other optimizations possible.

There are huge memory holes. My 290x has them around 1500. Go 1 MHz over and it drops the hashrate dramatically. As you go lower near 1250 you should be at 1250. At 1625 (AB Max) it was on the rise again but I believe it had to go to or near to 1750 to hit the optimum values again.

I wonder why the 7970 idle alongside it has such a big effect. How far apart are they? Is the 7970 blocking the airflow? I'm curious about this one if it's similar with my crossfire. I'm getting risers this week so I'll probably put a 4 card configuration with two outside and I'm thinking I'll put one custom card with one reference inside the box, and 1 of each outside of it hanging somehow.

With both cards mining, the 290x = 94C and the 7970 = 72C. Can the 290x be placed at the bottom and still be used as the primary card in gaming?

Today I'll be mining using these settings, don't want to freeze my machine remotely from work.

Card : MSI Gaming 290x, Hynix memory
Core: 860
Memory: 1250
Core voltage: no adjustment
Power tune: +50
Fan speed: auto (55%)
Intensity: 19
-w (?): 256
Thread-concurrency: 40200
Work Unit: ?
Hash rate: 670 kHash/s

I've seen the card as high as 900 khash using different settings, but I don't *think* it was able to mine very long before crashing.

I seem to have had rotten luck with cards lately, the 7970 6GB can only do 550khash max, now this 290x...
 

suklee

Diamond Member
Oct 9, 1999
4,575
10
81
No V control on the 290s, and no 8GB more of memory will not increase hashtate, you only need more memory when running 4 plus GPUs per rig.

Try 1250MHz mems it will lower the heat, try 860/1250.

Can 290s memory be adjusted via Aux voltage?http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=35742758&postcount=18
What about AMD's Power control setting in CCC?

PS. I mistakenly set 860/1250 to my 7970 instead of the 290x and it increased hashrate by 20 to 570. :thumbsup: was running at 810/1375 before.
 

Attic

Diamond Member
Jan 9, 2010
4,282
2
76
2.65 kh/w?

I did 1000 kh/s with my two 7950s at 800/1500 with huge undervolts (stock was 1.25/1.188) using 333w total.

That gave me basically 3 kh/w, I thought Hawaii was more efficient?

Reguardless unless your electricity cost is higher you're earning almost basically 70% more coins per day meaning more money

What volts did you set and if ya checked what volts did you see in a monitoring program?
 
Feb 19, 2009
10,457
10
76
According to GPU-Z, my 290s at 73C use ~218W while mining 870 kH/s.

My 290s at 82C use ~238W while mining 870 kH/s.

I'm not sure that I trust GPU-Z readings, but there does seem to be some validation that keeping them cool is important in being more efficient.

Yeah, the difference adds up, and is very significant once you get below 60C. I've seen people ran reference R290 mining at 95C and it pulled ~250W per GPU-Z.
 

broken_pixel

Member
Oct 26, 2013
59
0
0
I had 5 R7950s running using only 1090 watts total system @ 620Kh/s each gpu on a UD5 mainboard. I mined a nice fat bag of Digital Coins 6 months ago.
 

Elfear

Diamond Member
May 30, 2004
7,126
738
126
Minus 10% for PSU efficiency, ~562W.. minus ~80W for the rest of the system, ~482W for 2x R290 mining, is very very good Hash/W.

From what I've seen, I have a hunch R290s consume nearly 50W more when mining at high temps. Looks like 4x R290 under water/ghetto loop is the way to go for a mining rig.

I would agree with that assessment. I saw a nearly 100W drop going from the reference coolers at ~85C to both cards under water at 45C. I'm sure part of that drop in power consumption was from the reference fans being eliminated but a good portion was due to better efficiency at lower temps.

2.65 kh/w?

I did 1000 kh/s with my two 7950s at 800/1500 with huge undervolts (stock was 1.25/1.188) using 333w total.

That gave me basically 3 kh/w, I thought Hawaii was more efficient?

Reguardless unless your electricity cost is higher you're earning almost basically 70% more coins per day meaning more money



That's almost half my power consumption. No idea why that would be the case except maybe you just had a barebones setup for mining? I don't have a super power-hungry setup but it's not a barebones mining rig either (6x1000rpm fans, waterpump, 1 HDD, 4xSSD, etc.)
 

pm

Elite Member Mobile Devices
Jan 25, 2000
7,419
22
81
People on bitcointalk talk about satoshi. What is satoshi?

It's 10^-8 of a bitcoin. Learned this just now on Wikipedia - although I knew before that it was a really small denomination of a bitcoin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin (under subunit)

It actually seems like a bit of a joke - naming it after the anonymous founder of bitcoin... plus the size makes it suspiciously nice to translate from bitcoins to dogecoins... instead of 0.00000080 DOGE -> BTC, you can say "1 doge is equal to 80 satoshi right now". The fact that it's 10^-8 can't be coincidence.
 

broken_pixel

Member
Oct 26, 2013
59
0
0
wow doge is going way up... don't know if I should hold my bag or trade for BTC/LTC..... :hmm:

Hold it for 6 plus months or be sorry. Trust me if I would of held all 88,000 of my Quark coins I would of banked 22 BTC. I watched the QRK market for over 6 months and sold 2 weeks before the boom. It only took me 2.5 weeks of solo mining QRK with an overclocked 3930k to get 88k.
 

x3sphere

Senior member
Jul 22, 2009
722
24
81
www.exophase.com
wow doge is going way up... don't know if I should hold my bag or trade for BTC/LTC..... :hmm:

Hard to say, but I think Doge is going to crash spectacularly at some point. Also with scrypt ASICs coming there's some uncertainty as to how this will affect smaller alts.

Long term I'd rather bet on something like NXT. It's definitely high risk but I can actually see that hitting $1 per coin once proper clients come out, there's a lot of potential in it, huge community also.
 

Kallogan

Senior member
Aug 2, 2010
340
5
76
Doge is going crazy. They are rumors about it being added to BTC-E soon. Damn.

It will not crash anymore. It has gained so much value in people's mind.
 

Kallogan

Senior member
Aug 2, 2010
340
5
76
Hard to say, but I think Doge is going to crash spectacularly at some point. Also with scrypt ASICs coming there's some uncertainty as to how this will affect smaller alts.

Long term I'd rather bet on something like NXT. It's definitely high risk but I can actually see that hitting $1 per coin once proper clients come out, there's a lot of potential in it, huge community also.


Doge is gone to reach sky, hard to deny the obvious at this point. I have some NXt too, but i' not sure about it anymore, it lacks simplicity a lot for now. I'll hold it though.
 
Feb 19, 2009
10,457
10
76
Doge is going crazy. They are rumors about it being added to BTC-E soon. Damn.

It will not crash anymore. It has gained so much value in people's mind.

No coin is safe from crashing, BTC can crash, any other coin can.

Since it broke that 100 BTC @ 100 satoshi barrier, its flying high and fast to 200 satoshi now.
 

f1sherman

Platinum Member
Apr 5, 2011
2,243
1
0
Yesterday on cryptsy... price is 84-88 per Doge
here I am fighting my way along DOGE/BTC walls, fake and real alike,

and up comes this guy - BAAAM 150 BTC!
And he buys all DOGE in the range of 10 satoshi, and puts half of it at 102... REALLY??!
 

Kallogan

Senior member
Aug 2, 2010
340
5
76
don't try to buy too low, you will just fail, it's moving too fast. Trying to bring the price down by 4 satoshis is just plain wrong at this point if you ask me. I failed many buy orders like that, just to see it rises again and cry.
 

f1sherman

Platinum Member
Apr 5, 2011
2,243
1
0
don't try to buy too low, you will just fail, it's moving too fast. Trying to bring the price down by 4 satoshis is just plain wrong at this point if you ask me. I failed many buy orders like that, just to see it rises again and cry.

Agreed. I had a good run yesterday, but I'm less than convinced that daytrading is viable in the long run.
And hell if I am going to be an early bird following those newly established high prices.

And there is NOTHING worse than losing your hard-mined BTC to greed, stupidity and unfair market manipulation.
 

BallaTheFeared

Diamond Member
Nov 15, 2010
8,115
0
71
That's almost half my power consumption. No idea why that would be the case except maybe you just had a barebones setup for mining? I don't have a super power-hungry setup but it's not a barebones mining rig either (6x1000rpm fans, waterpump, 1 HDD, 4xSSD, etc.)


I had similar power consumption using clocks that got me to 1300 KH/s, my efficiency went into the tank though, a little over 600 watts.

800 core only required 850mv on the 6+6 card and 832 or something on the 8+6 (but the 8+6 used more power at the same voltage, and similar at lower than the 6+6).

Setup hasn't changed 1 HDD, 1 SSD, 3 120mm fans two of which run around 750rpm and one which runs 1200rpm.
 

Kallogan

Senior member
Aug 2, 2010
340
5
76
big drop coming may come, many small buy orders aligned. A whale might buy it all at once and back to 100 we go.

Or not.
 
Last edited:

f1sherman

Platinum Member
Apr 5, 2011
2,243
1
0
big drop coming may come, many small buy orders aligned. A whale might buy it all at once and back to 100 we go.

Yesterday cryptsy volume depth looked like this:
Doge sales were a huge mountain towering over DOGE buys.
Today they are about equal (with little bit more doge sales then buys)

So... it seems to me that someone has bought and stashed huge amount of DOGE
Once he unloads it on unsuspecting DOGE buyers - it won't be pretty.
 

Kallogan

Senior member
Aug 2, 2010
340
5
76
yeah but the drops are so fast you can't even buy before it goes up again. That's madness.

NXT starting to do fine on BTER also. Good day.
 
Last edited:

wand3r3r

Diamond Member
May 16, 2008
3,180
0
0
Doge is really soaring.

I dislike a few things about NXT, I tried it for a few hours but got nothing. I hate that it's using the most widely targeted by malware software (Java). However I also dislike the fact that those who hold the most gain the most new fees. What bigger pyramid scheme can there be? If you start out mining you can't mine them, you have to buy in somehow from what I understand. BTC LTC etc. are not perfect, however they are not pyramids in the fact those who hold coins don't gain more coins.

The Critical Patch Update will address ... 36 of which apply to vulnerabilities in Java SE, including 34 that are bugs that can be exploited remotely by an attacker without requiring authentication.
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2014-1972949.html
 

Kallogan

Senior member
Aug 2, 2010
340
5
76
I was kind of married to NXT at some point, but unloaded more than half cause they are too slow for making a decent friendly client. Also, yeah forging is hopeless if you don't have over 50000 NXT, so original stakeholders get the whole jackpot. Not to mention most people keep their NXT on BTER or DGEX to trade. They don't feel safe with the nxt wallet, some are regularly hacked. Forging is kind of a joke feature for now.

Thay can improve hopefully. They are the first so called second gen crypto, so it's definetely a strong point.
 
Last edited:
sale-70-410-exam    | Exam-200-125-pdf    | we-sale-70-410-exam    | hot-sale-70-410-exam    | Latest-exam-700-603-Dumps    | Dumps-98-363-exams-date    | Certs-200-125-date    | Dumps-300-075-exams-date    | hot-sale-book-C8010-726-book    | Hot-Sale-200-310-Exam    | Exam-Description-200-310-dumps?    | hot-sale-book-200-125-book    | Latest-Updated-300-209-Exam    | Dumps-210-260-exams-date    | Download-200-125-Exam-PDF    | Exam-Description-300-101-dumps    | Certs-300-101-date    | Hot-Sale-300-075-Exam    | Latest-exam-200-125-Dumps    | Exam-Description-200-125-dumps    | Latest-Updated-300-075-Exam    | hot-sale-book-210-260-book    | Dumps-200-901-exams-date    | Certs-200-901-date    | Latest-exam-1Z0-062-Dumps    | Hot-Sale-1Z0-062-Exam    | Certs-CSSLP-date    | 100%-Pass-70-383-Exams    | Latest-JN0-360-real-exam-questions    | 100%-Pass-4A0-100-Real-Exam-Questions    | Dumps-300-135-exams-date    | Passed-200-105-Tech-Exams    | Latest-Updated-200-310-Exam    | Download-300-070-Exam-PDF    | Hot-Sale-JN0-360-Exam    | 100%-Pass-JN0-360-Exams    | 100%-Pass-JN0-360-Real-Exam-Questions    | Dumps-JN0-360-exams-date    | Exam-Description-1Z0-876-dumps    | Latest-exam-1Z0-876-Dumps    | Dumps-HPE0-Y53-exams-date    | 2017-Latest-HPE0-Y53-Exam    | 100%-Pass-HPE0-Y53-Real-Exam-Questions    | Pass-4A0-100-Exam    | Latest-4A0-100-Questions    | Dumps-98-365-exams-date    | 2017-Latest-98-365-Exam    | 100%-Pass-VCS-254-Exams    | 2017-Latest-VCS-273-Exam    | Dumps-200-355-exams-date    | 2017-Latest-300-320-Exam    | Pass-300-101-Exam    | 100%-Pass-300-115-Exams    |
http://www.portvapes.co.uk/    | http://www.portvapes.co.uk/    |