I open the door to that room, now it isnt as bad for the heat. Both GPU are only hit around 83-84C and fans are at 57%.
Watch your VRM temps, and also consider bringing clocks down to 900 MHz where I find it's possible to bring power output to a mere ~150W depending on the card. My MSI 390 can almost go below that (though it varies with the mining software). If things are getting hot, that may be a suitable compromise.
Also this should go without saying but please please please backup your encrypted and strongly password protected wallet file. Keep a copy of it at home and one with a trusted friend or family.
When you get the hang of this and if you buy / generate a decent sum of Ether you'll want to create and store it in a muliti signature contract wallet for the best protection. Don't worry about it for now, just flag it for later
The DAO is being hacked right now, watch the ETH/BTC rate crash in real time!
https://poloniex.com/exchange#btc_eth
A soft fork is incoming to essentially "lock" the ether into the thieves account so it can't be withdrawn while people figure out what to do. Seems against the spirit of the whole thing to me personally, but we'll see. As a non-DAO investor but Ethereum holder, there is more value for me if they lock it in and never recover it, so maybe I'll go with the soft fork and never "mine vote" for the hard one that will happen later to reverse the transaction.
https://blog.ethereum.org/2016/06/17/critical-update-re-dao-vulnerability/
Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Will do, thanks! I was able to dig into this some more last night. I think I am mining now.. https://app.box.com/s/u1zihxkbakud5rafp0ny1g629saaan0c. When I go to ethermine and input my wallet link, the page loads up but there is no info present (hashrate etc.). Is this normal? It's been running about 8 hours now.
A soft fork is incoming to essentially "lock" the ether into the thieves account so it can't be withdrawn while people figure out what to do. Seems against the spirit of the whole thing to me personally, but we'll see. As a non-DAO investor but Ethereum holder, there is more value for me if they lock it in and never recover it, so maybe I'll go with the soft fork and never "mine vote" for the hard one that will happen later to reverse the transaction.
Downside is it's spooking people that either don't understand what's going on or are just too irrational to think for themselves, so they're dumping stake. Too bad.
What a messy day! My thoughts on the current situation.
Full disclosure I own both Ether and DAO tokens (however much more Ether than DAO tokens).
The DAO woke people up to the potential of Ethereum and was likely the catalyst that helped get it to where it is today. Being the most successful kickstarter ever had a very positive effect on Ethereum. The soft and eventual hard fork I understand and respect the reasoning behind. A lot of money was invested by many thousands of individuals and it could be argued that even without The Dao getting off the ground, it's what really set Ethereum in motion.
Giving back stolen funds to these early investors makes sense as they took the risk and helped with the popularity and growth of Ethereum as a whole.
People are freaked out about the ability to even do a fork or even at the suggestion of the idea of a fork. If you look back at Bitcoin's history hard forks happened when mistakes are made, I believe it's built into all PoW type systems. Of course this hard fork is for a much more serious reason than Bitcoin's. NXT coin went through something similar (I need to do more research here) but it looks like they ignored doing a hard fork and the community split and never recovered.
What bothers me is I don't like seeing is the lack of trust in the leaders of this space. It's a logical fallacy to conclude that "if they make this one exception of giving back money that was stolen due to a code error, what sort of <potentially evil deed> will do they do the next time?" This is nonsense. Look at the track records and transparency of the leaders of Ethereum, there's nothing to suggest they will do <something evil> in the future.
Also consensus is still being sought before any action takes places. The leaders are suggesting a route but ultimately it's up to everyone who's invested in Ethereum to decide. It's a pretty big stretch to say this is centralization by the higher ups making rash decisions when they're asking the community to decide.
I could understand the resistance if The DAO was introduced recently for Bitcoin given how mature the Bitcoin platform is but Ethereum is still in its infancy, it's still being (feverishly and tirelessly) worked on as the go to platform to build and run your ideas and applications on.
The ideal platform.
The leaders in the space have been very transparent about the strengths and weaknesses of Ethereum. The creators of The DAO have as well. This particular contract code blunder is a perfect example of "working out the bugs" while an application matures. This flaw was only recently discovered and disclosed (irresponsibly disclosed from the looks of it) but given the utility of Ethereum compared to other crypto platforms it makes sense there will be more risk and vulnerabilities to deal with as Ethereum simply does a lot more. There will also potentially be even larger problems down the road given the feverish development pace and goals set.
The analogy of bailout being made is strange to me as well. There's no bailout being proposed as no funds have actually been transferred! This thief can be stopped with code ahead of time! This isn't a situation where the housing bubble burst due to a bunch of lying banksters selling defunct subprime mortgages masked as AAA. There's really no comparison here. So the fear of "precedent being set" by the leaders making future unwise decisions holds no weight. I'm not suggesting this can't happen but it's very unlikely to. Plus they're giving us the option to choose, they're not dictating the path. Think about that for a moment. The FUD that is being spread is really unfounded.
So in conclusion I don't think a hard fork would put the future of Ethereum at risk. I believe if we don't do our best to ensure the stolen funds don't end up in the theifs wallet, more confidence will be lost by these same investors and will likely lead to a bunch of risk averse people not investing in new ideas for the Ethereum platform stagnating the platform.
Honestly if it makes people hold off of plans for mining purchases that is good for us as it might slow down the difficulty rise. For some reason I had urging to convert the pile of ETH I mined this month into BTC last night, I thought BTC would rally today and I wanted a piece of it. I was wrong about that, but my timing for being wrong was pretty good.
Back to mining:
Does anyone know what the trick is to get Ubuntu to use a card on a USB3-style riser for mining? I want to add two cards to one of my mining rigs (I am kinda in love with my 370, I want more), but the only way I can get the riser to work is in Windows (where it is plug and play). When I try it in Linux it only mines on the card actually in the 16x slot. I don't want to buy more copies of Windows but I might (or maybe just run an unactivated version for as long as I can!).
Another question for the group- what do you do about GPU fan degradation? My 390X fans are rattling like crazy, and the fans on both my Tahitis are toast. Looking on ebay I can find replacement fans for the Tahitis for like $30, but I don't want to put those on and have them be toast again in three months.
I am thinking about taking all the fans and shrouds off all my cards (except the ref 290) and just zip tying some 90 mm fans on.
I'm not familiar with Monero pool? It doesn't appear your mining at ethermine so that's why you're not seeing any stats. You need to copy / paste your mining address to the pool your hashing at to see how the card is performing. Also if I'm reading correctly those hash rates look very low. What are mining on again?
Damn, so my DAO is worthless now? That sucks...