[quote name=“FTClover” post=“48426” timestamp=“1388420496”]
[quote author=Om3n link=topic=6479.msg48417#msg48417 date=1388419207]
I’ve had all kinds of great experiences with this family of boards. It’s not overly expensive either.
I’d have to look to be sure on the PSU, It should be more than enough to get you going though.

[url=http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3947170&CatId=7246]http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3947170&CatId=7246[/url]
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Is that the asrock extreme 4? Couldn’t find the name on the page…
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Asus Sabertooth 990FX R2

Basically you’ll want to see your best share > network diff. If you never achieve this you will never get a block. Then once you get a block you need to solve it. It’s a lot of work for 200 coins.

As Wellenreiter says unless luck comes in you could be looking at 800+ hours to find and solve a block. Potentially longer if you’re not.

What you’re seeing in your client are pseudo shares. The won’t be counting towards anything solo mining unless one of them becomes your best share > network diff.

[quote name=“Miner Phil” post=“48344” timestamp=“1388387582”]
Just wanted to send out a big thank you to the FTC community… I started this process back in late November, after a lot of research on BTC and LTC, I shifted my attention to FTC. Based on the professionalism of this site, friendliness and lack of apparent competition of this community, and the willingness to help others, regardless of prior experience or knowledge, I decided to jump in.

I started ordering parts in early December and although I have about 25 years experience as a video editor, my computer tech knowledge is pretty limited. The forum guides have been great, and responses from fellow miners have been spot on to make this a reality. The rig is up and running in a spare bedroom (my son is away at college) and the system has been stable with pool mining for about 36 hours now, churning away and depositing 5 FTC consistently to the wallet. I tried to explain all this to my wife, starting with the concept of BTC… but after about 10 minutes her eyes just kind of glazed over. Her main response was “how much is this costing us?” and “is this legal?” These first couple of days, I am constantly heading back there to make sure everything is still alive, temps are ok, etc., and she has now started to make fun of me as I go to check on my “babies.”

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The glazing over of the eyes happens to anyone I try to explain cryptocurrency to haha lots of big words they don’t understand ::) good thing I don’t have a wife! :D

[quote name=“Kevlar” post=“45919” timestamp=“1387397861”]
Oh don’t give up on cgminer.

you’re not in the directory where cgminer is, otherwise ./cgminer would work. Fix that, and you should be golden.
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No, I’m on the sofa in front of my computer.

[quote name=“timk225” post=“48097” timestamp=“1388259540”]
A while back I had a 6770 that I used when I was minging Litecoin, until my order of 3 HIS Ice-Q 7950s came in.

The 6770 did well for what it was, I was able to squeeze it just over the 200 Khash mark, something like 201-205 if I remember correctly.

Morderchai - how the hell did you ever come up with 6016 for a TC? TC’s should be divisible by 256, not by 64, as has been commonly stated.
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Timk,

I used this tutorial;
https://teksyndicate.com/forum/litecoin/how-tweak-your-settings-and-squeeze-khs-out-your-card-using-cgminer/137706

where it stated that you needed to create a file which would give you a number (in my case 6016) and you needed to add 2048 untill it would crash. so thats what I did.

I’m pretty much a noob so if you could point me in the right direction that would me greatly appreciated and rewarded with rep ofcourse!

so if got catalyst 13.12 then SDK download not needed? Does it matter what version of cgminer to use?

I’ve watching the scrypt asics from alpha and others been in development for a month or two now. I think it’s safe to say that halfway through next year we will see them starting to get released. Then about that time, we will see new algo’s come out. Once a bunch of asics for an algorithm come out, the next wave of coins on new algo’s will probably pop up.

Will probably see 70% of the scrypt coins die in the wake of which coins get the most amount of asic support.

The hobby miner will simply move on to the new algo coins that the asics can’t mine. With that said, I’m not really sure what will happen to Feathercoin.

These are all just guess’s based on a pretty major assumption (that these scrypt asics will spread far and wide). Also assuming that there’s newer and better algorithms for crypto’s that can be developed.

So if this all turns out to be true. Would we and or could we change feathercoins algorithm without screwing up the whole coin?

Devs. Whats your take?

[quote name=“kris_davison” post=“48126” timestamp=“1388272832”]
[quote author=ftcMagic link=topic=6442.msg48073#msg48073 date=1388253445]
[quote]if one goes tits up[/quote]

There’s a cultural expression I’ve never come across before :)
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“Goes tits up” a great British quote!
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Love colloquialism’s.

We use that one to death in Australia A LOT. Either tits up or C%^t up… Kinda sexiest now that I think of it…

[quote name=“TheRedViper” post=“39057” timestamp=“1386071298”]
[quote author=angloblaxon link=topic=5176.msg38927#msg38927 date=1386027944]
[url=http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817438009]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817438009[/url]

thoughts on this one? i have been using it for about a month and its fine on the single rail settings.
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Thats a multi-rail PSU, no ? So is there a way of running them on single-rail settings ?
you got me confused there.
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Dip switch 3 and 5 on the unit will make the PSU single rail if they are are both on

Idk P2pool has it’s own blockchain and shares thingy take a read here:

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/P2Pool

I have the same issue but I am not too concerned about it. The motherboard should not be a problem as mine was brand new…It could just be the way the thermal paste was applied during manufacturing…

There is no known cure…Once a miner, always a miner ;D

It’s so basic that I actually missed it on one of my builds! No worries and good luck mining!

setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100
setx GPU_USE_SYNC_OBJECTS 1
C:\your\path\to\cgminer.exe --verbose --scrypt -o stratum+tcp://[mining_url] -u [workerusername] -p [workerpassword] --thread-concurrency 15232 -I 19 -g 1 -w 512 --gpu-fan 85 --lookup-gap 2 --gpu-engine 1130 --gpu-memclock 1500 --gpu-powertune 20 --failover-only -o stratum+tcp://[failover_url] -u [workerusername] -p [workerpassword]

1.I uninstalled all video card drivers
2. uninstalled catalyst
3.download both AMD sdk and latest catalyst and installed both
4. I once had a Nvidia card for a game I played I had to make sure all that stuff was gone! from the uninstall programs under control panel.
5. WOW it was over 500 at first but I took it to a lower intensity it got scary. I even took the memlock and and engine back to spec and still got 425 or so out of it. Now please keep in mind I looked for a few weeks and lots of reading to get that. I was lucky to get 250 to 350 out of it before. I ran those specs on 2 different rigs and the rigs mobo and cpu are different and got the sameish fast OMG outcome.
Please let me know how it worked.
If you are running windows take the visual effects down to performance settings Vrooom vroom

Thanks! That config is a lot better than what i had thrown together ;D

[quote name=“mirrax” post=“47842” timestamp=“1388164913”]
Hi, your tutorials are grade A+++

Would you mind to update your linux headless mining tutorial for new R9 cards?
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THIS

Also, thanks a ton for the great info. I’ve read through all of your mining rig builds.

Also, in case you guys didn’t notice, he hasn’t been active on here since July…I’m not expecting too many responses here :D

my bad … thought this was a thread about ED.

Someone asked me if and how i did solve this matter.

Well, actually I didn’t but made a quick fix :-)

‘Asic hangs’ seems to be related to temperature issues with these R9 280X cards.
So I lowered the voltage to 1.075 and installed a check-for-crash-script like this in a cronjob:

Add this into crontab (with sudo crontab -e)

[code]* * * * * root /usr/sbin/crashtest.sh
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And create the crashtest.sh like this:
sudo nano /usr/sbin/crashtest.sh

[code]#!/bin/bash

if ( dmesg | grep “ASIC hang happened” ); then
echo “system crashed”
/sbin/shutdown -r now
fi
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Yeah the best thing still is just try and learn but with this kind of stuff you can ruin GPu’s (i did actually wreck one 7970 in the learning process)