Posts made by lcr11

CPU? you can only have so many channels available, each pcie slot would take up one, the usbs, satas, ps2 ports, etc. Go into your mobo bios and turn off everything you’re not using then find your pcie section and make sure it’s set to gen1 not 2, 3 or auto.

Yep, I’m looking build another one but 1070s are like gold. I may build a 13GPU rig from 1060s or RX580s since I can get them relatively cheap. 3GB 1060s are around $250 and 6GB versions are about $300 and about $290 for RX580s

Download a program like MSI Afturburner and see what the GPUs are actually doing. I used it to find out I had a GPUs that had fans running but weren’t actually doing anything hashing.

Well when the value is measured in 4 decimal places and the supply is 4 billion vs 300million for FTC

Yeaaa, so I work in a warehouse and I’d like to know if that was even English you spoke there.

good luck though, it sounds like you’re trying to do more than bios mods on them.

I’d need to buy a bunch of FTC rather than mine if the price were to 3 tipple in a month.

Well difficulty just jumped to 250 after that statement.

Branson?

@jimmy24651 I wouldn’t call it great, I’m running 500kh more and running 4 cards compared to two of yours.

China? I thought you lived in the US? Amazon Prime that shit man.

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Delectronics&field-keywords=powerd+risers

Your problem is the ribbon riser, it sounds like all of your cards are being plugged into the mobo directly. This means power is going from the PSU to the Mobo to the card. The mobo can only handle so much power going through it, the french model from State Farm says motherboards can only handle powering 2 GPUs, anymore and it won’t power on or you risk frying the mobo. I wouldn’t try it again with more than 2 cards directly on the motherboard and/or using unpowered risers.

this is what mine looks like on 4 cards

Is that exchanging directly to Euros or are they going through bitcoin first like the other exchanges?

What motherboard are you using?

The first GPU should go into the first 16x PCIe slot, then all of the ones after that
I’ve had to reset the computer multiple times, also make sure the power is plugged into the top of the card via the VGA. In your mobo bios settings find where the pcie or peripherals menu is located and ensure it is set to Gen1

stand by

@chekaz said in How To Mine For Beginners??:

@lcr11 said in How To Mine For Beginners??:

@jimmy24651 Yes, it took awhile for the givemecoins pool to update so I was scared I didn’t get it right. The big problem was I had downloaded a completely different CCminer that didn’t have an exe file so none of the things I was reading made sense.

I managed to run some tests on the 4 cards and I can get up to about 900khs on each card overclocking at 100% power. I saw your post showing over 1,000khs on your 1070 so I’m interested to know your settings. The most stable I could get was +150clock and +800 mem on MSI Afterburner. I undervolted it down to -20% and could manage just over 6 hashes/watt as measured total system from the wall.

It highly depends on which 1070 card you have, I get 1.1mh/s with my Gigabyte GTX g1 Gaming

I’m starting to find out some of this; I’ve got different cards on the rig, the EVGA ACX 3.0 can’t handle overclocking as well as the Zotac minis and the Founders card runs about 10 degrees hotter than the others. Lesson learned, although you can just get a bad card here and there I’ll be building rigs with like cards to reduce variables. I’m thinking about going all in and building a 13 GPU split miner AMD/Nvidia

@jimmy24651 Yes, it took awhile for the givemecoins pool to update so I was scared I didn’t get it right. The big problem was I had downloaded a completely different CCminer that didn’t have an exe file so none of the things I was reading made sense.

I managed to run some tests on the 4 cards and I can get up to about 900khs on each card overclocking at 100% power. I saw your post showing over 1,000khs on your 1070 so I’m interested to know your settings. The most stable I could get was +150clock and +800 mem on MSI Afterburner. I undervolted it down to -20% and could manage just over 6 hashes/watt as measured total system from the wall.

Does this mean I’m mining?

Well let me know the next one, I’ll paddle on over from Texas.

So setting up a local node means you’re still using pool power but you control any costs and admin associated with it? I’m not ready for something like that just learning. If I feel comfortable with this I’d like to have 20 or so GPUs running by new years.

I know nothing about mining but from any stand point, if the numbers add up for you to run solo and your comfortable with the extra labor there isn’t a reason not to. From an ROI stand point, you have a few options

1. mine solo and eat costs until it’s no longer sustainable then move back to pool - this lets to keep the most FTC long term

2. mine solo and sell enough FTC to cover costs and hold the rest of long - you’ll eventually move back to pool but you’ll stay solo longer covering operating costs

3. mine solo and sell enough FTC to expand the operation to remain solo - this eats up more FTC and you hold less but you’ll remain solo for the entire time.

@jimmy24651 said in Question about a 2nd GPU:

ccminer.exe -a neoscrypt -q -t 2 -o (pool info) -u (worker info) -p (password) -d 0

jimmy, I’ll be downloading CCminer when I get home and I’m completely new to this, like, I’m googling every 9th word I see in posts. I have multiple 1070s also. So when you downloaded CCminer you just opened the main file after unzipping, created a .bat file and entered
“> ccminer.exe -a neoscrypt -q -t 2 -o (pool info) -u (worker info) -p (password) -d 0” into the word document?

I’m guessing the ‘-d 0’ is telling it that there is only one GPU? what did your final .bat file look like to run multiple GPUs? I’ll be running 4- 1070s right now and 7 when I get the new PSU in. Thank you for all of your help.