I am now a real crypto Miner!
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Well, for any of you who may care what I do in my world, I have been on a manic information gathering learning binge which has resulted in me now being the proud owner of a 1200kHs 2 GPU mining rig fully operational and mining FTC. . .woo hoo!
I can assure you the learning curve has by no means been conquered, but time to let things be, drink lots of fruit smoothies and eat a ton of spinache and kale and other good stuff to replenish my beat up body. (the worst part of those manic binges).
Anyone who tells you that building a mining rig and getting it running can be done quickly and easily by the average person has never built a mining rig. Or is one of the guys who was born with a slide rule, because I have built my own computers since 8088 processors and DOS and it was quiet the challenging, though very rewarding!
I now know first hand that much of the information I found is pure BS, some of those posting it I believe intentioned only to crash my rig. Don’t get me wrong, there are some great people out there willing to help (many on this forum for sure) but using some random .conf to fire up your $400 GPUs without knowing what the flags in it are is very akin to pouring any old homemade fuel in your car on the brewer’s say so and starting your engine. Things can just blow up! And DO!
I am using (2) 7950 and though not hyper tweaked I am churning out a very clean 604kHs on each with decent temps and no errors or dynamic crashes. I didn’t kill anyone (self included) and other then a few 12 hr head scratching sessions and some run down on my overall health all went well!
So now I learn more . . . in nice little bite sized morsels . . .till I can maybe squeeze out 640kHs, which I did on a single GPU setup for couple days with no problems. . . maybe add a 3rd then 4th GPU? Clean up my zip tied mess. . .even have a pencil bread tied to the top of the GPU’s holding them steady lol!
The point? I encourage anyone to do this. End result is worth it, but be realistic on what it will take, how fast you can learn it, and be kind to all those who you ask to do the hard part for you, so many of whom repeat the same things over and over and over to every newbie bitten by the cyrpto bug that suddenly has to have a deluxe mining farm. . .NOW! Don’t ask anyone to give you a free ride to riches. Start with 1 GPU, learn the CGMiner flags and parameters. Play with it till you get it, ask for help when your truly stuck. The reward will be so much sweeter!
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You can become a miner too!
peace
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Good Job !
Welcome to the ‘miners community’ :-)
But be aware, it’s kinda addictive…
I once also started with just one GPU and then came another, another, another…
There’s a lot to learn from crypto, either with mining, trading or even ‘pooling’, its a whole new ‘world’.Have fun !
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Looks great, grats! And I totally agree about the ‘‘setting things up is easy’’ mentality, because most people are still don’t-know-how’s in this scene and even the simple guides can be hard for anybody without the basic knowledge such as setting up the gpuminer and such.
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[quote name=“iawgoM” post=“52873” timestamp=“1389950990”]
Nice post. Not a megasetup, but then again, most of miners here can hardy afford big rigs. One/two GPU setup is for us little miners. If you or anyone else is building/upgrading a rig, it would be great to make some photos and description of the progress and end results :) This way others get encouraged to try something similar themselves, while learning from others how to avoid potential problems.+1 rep
[/quote]I will be building more, adding on, rebuilding existing rig and I think your right about sharing the info. I will try to make some good how-to guides and videos. I strongly believe understanding helps the adoption rate. I feel more at home with feathercoin family then any of the others. That is in great part to the work Chris Ellis has put in. Really appreciate the feedback and rep
thanks,
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[quote name=“prensel” post=“52870” timestamp=“1389950291”]
Good Job !
Welcome to the ‘miners community’ :-)
But be aware, it’s kinda addictive…
I once also started with just one GPU and then came another, another, another…
There’s a lot to learn from crypto, either with mining, trading or even ‘pooling’, its a whole new ‘world’.Have fun !
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Thanks, I know right . . .it’s so easy a 10 year old can do it . . .well actually, now that I say that a 10 year old probably has a better chance of success . . . lol.
At any rate I am addicted, which is a pretty big feat to get me addicted. Will be updating here as time allows on the progress of my addiction ha ha . . .in the mean time I am spreading the contagion at an alarming rate.peace
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This thread has so very much awesome in it.
This rang true for me:
[quote name=“jti8899” post=“52850” timestamp=“1389940885”]I can assure you the learning curve has by no means been conquered, but time to let things be, drink lots of fruit smoothies and eat a ton of spinache and kale and other good stuff to replenish my beat up body. (the worst part of those manic binges).[/quote]
I had lost so much sleep/meals during those first 48 hours of getting my rig online. It was a frantic run.
A HUGE congratulations to you for getting it all set up! I hope you meet all your goals and have fun mining.
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Many congrats and welcome fellow miner! If I had a mining hat, It hit it against yours haha.
I have a three card setup. I know how you feel when it’s new, you just HAVE to get it online!
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Welcome.
Addictive. Hell ya.
I Started with one, now have 4, and going for another 4 now pretty soon. Some use their money on drugs and alcohol. I spend it on computers.
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Congrats :D
I’ll bet a safe coin or two, on the fact that your watching it a lot of the time, and already thinking about how to tweak it a little more to get best hash/watt, and in between that your on the hardware sites looking for offers!!!
I’m going to rebuild one of mine next weeks some time, so might get round to making a video of how it’s done
Keep at it, you will have a blast!
UM
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Congrats on your first rig! a few tips now that you got your feet wet :D
Your RPM per fan is way to high (3600 rpm!). While the temperature is at the range where you want it to be (70), it might be better to use an external fan to make the video card work less hard.
Then when you feel brave, flash a new bios and cut power consumption by 15%
Here something you should aim for :D msg me if you need any help getting to it.
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[quote name=“uncle_muddy” post=“53013” timestamp=“1389989043”]
Congrats :DI’ll bet a safe coin or two, on the fact that your watching it a lot of the time, and already thinking about how to tweak it a little more to get best hash/watt, and in between that your on the hardware sites looking for offers!!!
I’m going to rebuild one of mine next weeks some time, so might get round to making a video of how it’s done
Keep at it, you will have a blast!
UM
[/quote]ha ha dreaming in cgminer flags and (not sure I should admit this) but struggled to wake up the other day cause there was a button with a capitol “D” and I was struggling really hard to figure out it’s meaning . . . still have no idea what that button means?? All I could come up with is “[b]D[/b]on’t Wake Up” So does every one who gets bitten go crazy? Is there something besides more Vitamin C I can take to slow the symptoms down??
Thanks for that reply made me laugh picturing other cypto miners all wired out staring at black screens of “Accepted” characters.
peace,
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Congrats on your first rig! a few tips now that you got your feet wet :DYour RPM per fan is way to high (3600 rpm!). While the temperature is at the range where you want it to be (70), it might be better to use an external fan to make the video card work less hard.
Then when you feel brave, flash a new bios and cut power consumption by 15%
Here something you should aim for :D msg me if you need any help getting to it.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Md9Cgi9.png[/img][/quote]
Still recovering and now I can’t sleep cause I have to know what your talking about?? Flashing a bios on the motherboard? the GPU? I totally want those fans turned down, but waiting on my risers to show up, (thought about starting a manufacturing business making those, then decided I had enough on my plate and just hope someone else does soon).
The inside GPU is the one running hot, but haven’t learned yet the whole undervolting overclocking thing to push the numbers and feel safe. I am now very over protective of my cards (the little jewels) and leery of trusting their well being to any abuse. Not married so I can do these things and get away with them. Any knowledge you would be willing to share would be greatly appreciated and I hope your willing?
peace
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Sorry I meant flashing your graphic card bios so that your cards use less power.
GPU tweaking follow the philosophy of less is more :D
Your card has 2 bios on it, press the button on top to access the 2nd bios and turn on a blue led. This way if you mess up you can always depress the button to go back to the original bios.
Read the following guide on how to tweak it
[url=http://www.cryptobadger.com/2013/10/undervolting-in-linux-via-modified-bios/]http://www.cryptobadger.com/2013/10/undervolting-in-linux-via-modified-bios/[/url]Basically you get usb key and format it so you can boot from it.
Put the atiflash program on you key and boot it up.
Rip the stock bios then restart and boot into windows
Make a copy of the stock bios then use VBE7 to open the rom and modify to voltage.
Save the rom on usb key
Boot into dos again and use atiflash to flash the modify biosIm running my card at 1.087 voltage compare to 1.2 stock
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okay have not gotten to actually flashing the GPU bios, but have read all the manuals and downloaded the tools. Will do that next. I did tweak some more to learn more about the flags and how they interact with one another and also received my kill-a-watt meter today. Also ordered another fan to drop the #1 GPU’s on board fan speed (auto fan = true) needs some air pushing between the GPU’s till I get more space in there. I am pretty sure the risers (when they arrive will give me enough spacing to get better airflow even without added fans, but in the meantime. . .
So I updated the picture in the original post above to show my stats. I was able to squeeze out 640kHs on both GPU’s with no rejects or HW issues and drawing 650watts at the wall with the monitor off, 675 with it on. I think I can drop that some with the under volting and getting the fan speeds down with spacing and/or external fans.
Still have no idea what the WU: 558.01/m info tells me? Would love to know that. I see some screen shots of other people’s miners that contain different info too. Is there a source for the definitions of these outputs somewhere? I read all the readme files that came with cgminer, and more. I have figured most out like A:=accepted R:=rejected (how to get the R: to read in %? that would be cool) I:=intensity, but stumped on WU:??
Appreciate the input and support from everyone here, grateful for any other suggestions you can offer. This has been a fun project and I have already generated hundreds of FTC.
I have decided to hold 80% and spend 20% to help the coins liquidity in the market. Figure if everyone holds we all go nowhere. Will be giving many for gifts to get family and friends involved. I think they make a really cool gift, one that promotes learning and could very well increase substantially in value!
peace,
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Congrats on your rig man!
Happy mining. and yes as stated before; watch out… it becomes adictive very fast.
I love the pencil though! ;D -
[quote name=“kojima18” post=“53043” timestamp=“1389996823”]
Congrats on your first rig! a few tips now that you got your feet wet :DYour RPM per fan is way to high (3600 rpm!). While the temperature is at the range where you want it to be (70), it might be better to use an external fan to make the video card work less hard.
Then when you feel brave, flash a new bios and cut power consumption by 15%
Here something you should aim for :D msg me if you need any help getting to it.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Md9Cgi9.png[/img][/quote]
Well finally found the time to learn to flash my GPU bios’s and undervolt them. First couple attempts I had cgminer crash after they cranked up. I started to low on the voltage. They seem to work fine at 1.125V. Fan rpm down in the 2k range, dropped power tune to 0 on both cards and everything seems to be working great. Lowered the drain at the wall by almost 100watts too. Here is a screen shot of my cgminer numbers after 24 hours non stop hashing o the undervolted setup:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/sjSEvBe.png[/img]
Thanks for the help and advice. Will post pictures of my new rig frames I have been building today too.
peace,
~//~PS: How do I get cgminer to display the rejects as a % that is pretty cool. Also what do the WU:579.1 /m number tell me??