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Topic: [~1000 GH/sec] BTC Guild - 0% Fee Pool, LP, SSL, Full Precision, and More - page 131. (Read 379078 times)

legendary
Activity: 1750
Merit: 1007
Auto payout will be implemented on Friday.  After that I will be making the "Last 24 hours" summary of BTC earned (available to all members).  Following that update, there will be a second perk added at the 2% level, which is an email that can be received daily or weekly, which provides you with an earnings summary report in your email.

Will these reports be retroactive or only for newly earned coins?

It will only be moving forward.  "Retroactive" reports would just be spitting out your current rewards summary.  The report will be roughly as follows:

=== BTC Balance Summary ===
BTC Earned in Last 24 hours:  0.93859010
Previous BTC Balance:  1.03910000
Sub-total:  1.97769010
Manual Payout (Timestamp):  (0.00948001)
Automatic Payout (Timestamp):  (1.03910390)
Balance Remaining:  0.92910619


=== Worker Summary ===
Worker #1:
  Shares submitted in previous 24 hours of blocks: 1,000,000 (103 invalid)
  Average Speed over 24 hours:  xxx.xx mHash/sec

Worker #2:
 

Total:
 
inh
full member
Activity: 155
Merit: 100
Auto payout will be implemented on Friday.  After that I will be making the "Last 24 hours" summary of BTC earned (available to all members).  Following that update, there will be a second perk added at the 2% level, which is an email that can be received daily or weekly, which provides you with an earnings summary report in your email.

Will these reports be retroactive or only for newly earned coins?
legendary
Activity: 1750
Merit: 1007
When is the auto pay implemented.

I would like to get payment once every 24 hours.

Would pay the 1.5% to do so.

Greetz,
Jurian
Auto payout will be implemented on Friday.  After that I will be making the "Last 24 hours" summary of BTC earned (available to all members).  Following that update, there will be a second perk added at the 2% level, which is an email that can be received daily or weekly, which provides you with an earnings summary report in your email.
newbie
Activity: 18
Merit: 0
When is the auto pay implemented.

I would like to get payment once every 24 hours.

Would pay the 1.5% to do so.

Greetz,
Jurian
member
Activity: 98
Merit: 10
Started using the pool as of today at 100%. Looks really neat and simple. I am a happy miner  Grin

I am down to 0.2% stale shares ... very happy indeed Smiley
newbie
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Started using the pool as of today at 100%. Looks really neat and simple. I am a happy miner  Grin
member
Activity: 98
Merit: 10
Yeah, the clock is probably too fast.  But also, I mean, use work of 128, not 256. 
full member
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Drop it back to 128.  I did a lot of testing between 128 and 256 and 128 was considerably better.  Also, don't install stream.  Just install the latest catalyst drivers.

The hotter the constant temps, the harder it is on your card and the shorter MTBF [although I doubt they have MTBF data available for anything but 70C and maybe lower ... MSI lists it on their boxes for two temps, my card claims 12 years at 100% GPU at 70C.  I don't think 80C is much to worry about, but that has always been my upper limit.  Lately, I cleaned up my office and it changed the air flow pattern enough that my temp dropped to 75C from 78C without any changes.

Also, maybe you are pushing your core clock a little too fast?  Have you tried lowering that to see if the problem still occurs?  I think they lowered the clock speeds on the core and/or memory on the 6990 for stability reasons [it is tough to cool a dual GPU core board] as opposed to two separate boards.

Oh ... BTW ... nothing the pool can do with crash your computer.   If it idles and then starts working again, you may cause some fatigue as components expand and contract with temperature changes, but that is about the extent of what a pool can do to your system.  Set the card to stock values and run recommended miner settings and see if you have the problem.  If you don't, then it is how you set it up.  If you do, it is either drivers or your card [or your power supply possibly].

Yeah I guess so...I'll throttle it back for a few days, see what happens.
A lot of my friends on computer forums who oc this baby can get 1000mhz core easily. Cheesy I'm waiting for my wc parts to arrive too Cheesy
member
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Drop it back to 128.  I did a lot of testing between 128 and 256 and 128 was considerably better.  Also, don't install stream.  Just install the latest catalyst drivers.

The hotter the constant temps, the harder it is on your card and the shorter MTBF [although I doubt they have MTBF data available for anything but 70C and maybe lower ... MSI lists it on their boxes for two temps, my card claims 12 years at 100% GPU at 70C.  I don't think 80C is much to worry about, but that has always been my upper limit.  Lately, I cleaned up my office and it changed the air flow pattern enough that my temp dropped to 75C from 78C without any changes.

Also, maybe you are pushing your core clock a little too fast?  Have you tried lowering that to see if the problem still occurs?  I think they lowered the clock speeds on the core and/or memory on the 6990 for stability reasons [it is tough to cool a dual GPU core board] as opposed to two separate boards.

Oh ... BTW ... nothing the pool can do with crash your computer.   If it idles and then starts working again, you may cause some fatigue as components expand and contract with temperature changes, but that is about the extent of what a pool can do to your system.  Set the card to stock values and run recommended miner settings and see if you have the problem.  If you don't, then it is how you set it up.  If you do, it is either drivers or your card [or your power supply possibly].
full member
Activity: 336
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member
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I don't know why, but I've starting getting an error.

In my rig there's a 6990 and 6870. My 6990 will display one of those errors saying cannot connect with a whole bunch of numbers and lines and stuff, which is normal sometimes for pools. However, a few shares after that prints, the miner will freeze. The 6870 will keep mining tho, which I find weird. If I try to close the miner, my whole computer freezes. This has never happened before until yesterday, and has happened twice now so...anyone got an idea what's going on?

What miner are you using?  Phoenix, poclbm, etc?  What settings are you using? 

Are you monitoring the temperature of your cards?  Which card is the most open [on most motherboards when you have two cards in your machine, the one closest to your CPU has the least ventilation]?  Are you controlling the fan speeds of your cards to compensate for heat and how about your case fans?

The 6990 will obviously run a LOT hotter.  The 6990 is a dual GPU core version of the 6970 (I believe with slightly lower clock and/or voltage speeds).  My 6970, runs quite hot compared to other cards I have ever owned.  Here is what I run my 6970 at with it as the only card in my machine with fan control on the card and case fans on high to keep the temp at 75C (fan set to 68% fixed right now).  Since I use my computer for remote desktop via VPN a lot to work from home (8-10+ hours per day) and MANY other things running (widgets, services, iTunes and of course web browser), but I am careful not to start any videos (the drivers from AMD for the 69xx series are not yet stable enough to allow watching videos while mining, at least not with GPU use high like 98% plus, which is where mine sits). 

I run a dedicated mining machine with a 5850 in it.  My 5850 runs at 73C in the basement and I use a user defined variable fan speed profile since it rarely changes ... the graph is usually a straight line where my 6970 results in the fan speed fairly straight with little spikes every few minutes ... so I just set it fixed to 68% for now and it is working fine at a constant temp.

I run two machines now [will be three tomorrow or the next day, with the third being Linux].

  • WORKSTATION: Windows 7 x64 Pro  i7 960 (4 core 3.2GHz with HT giving 8 logical cores) - CPU is 1-4% for most work while mining.  12GB DDR3 12800 tri-channel.  MSI Radeon 6970 (core clock pushed to 920MHz), two high resolutions monitors (both greater than 1920x1080 ... the stupid standard res they sell now days) 20" and 22" 16x10
  • DEDICATED MINING: Windows 7 x64 Home Premier: Some AMD Phenom II X4 830 (4 core 2.8GHz) with 6GB DDR3 (speed unknown) dual channel, Aero turned off, CPU is about 2%, XFX Radeon 5850 (core clock pushed to 850 and memory clock dropped to 900MHz, but will probably drop more when I get time to play with it), a single 17" 4:3 LCD analog monitor hooked to DVI port with adapter plug.

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Phoenix
WORKSTATION: -k poclbm VECTORS BFI_INT FASTLOOP WORKSIZE=128 AGGRESSION=9
~391MH/s

DEDICATED: -k poclbm VECTORS BFI_INT WORKSIZE=128 AGGRESSION=11
~318MH/s

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poclbm
WORKSTATION: -v -w 128 -f 30
~393MH/s
DEDICATED: -v -w 128 -f 5
~319MH/s

With Phoenix, I have tried setting the aggression higher than this with FASTLOOP on and get slightly worse results or no change, but seemingly it runs slightly hotter.  If you remove FASTLOOP, you can push it to 11, but I have also found the desktop to noticeably lag, which is annoying and only gives me perhaps 3MH/s difference anyway [except it will drop with other graphical usage like moving around windows with Aero turned on].

I just started using poclbm (command line) today, so I may need to work on some tweaks to get more out of it.  For my workstation, decreasing to -f 10 added only about 1-2MH/s, but added just a bit more noticeable lag and simply isn't worth it. I am definitely seeing fewer stale shares with poclbm than I am with Phoenix.  That more than makes up for the slight decrease in performance on my workstation (6970).

So, I prefer Phoenix; it delivers a slightly nicer interface when running command line than poclbm.  However, Phoenix still has bugs in it and lately it has been hammered by long polling issues causing it to crash and still use a significant percentage of the GPU doing nothing (mine was sitting at 48% usage this morning, but had crashed both machines 4 hours earlier due to a long polling exception.  This is well documented in the forums.  Rather than lose time, I am using poclbm for now [and maybe forever].

BTW ... with the latest drivers and these settings for the 6970, it seems that if a video comes up on a web page that starts automatically [some news sites do this for instance], then I usually have time to close the tab in the browser before it locks up ... I haven't accidentally locked up the GPU in weeks.

EDIT:  I just looked over after typing all this and my 6970 is running 392-393MH/s on average, so I removed my comments about GUIMiner and updated the stats.
full member
Activity: 336
Merit: 100
I don't know why, but I've starting getting an error.

In my rig there's a 6990 and 6870. My 6990 will display one of those errors saying cannot connect with a whole bunch of numbers and lines and stuff, which is normal sometimes for pools. However, a few shares after that prints, the miner will freeze. The 6870 will keep mining tho, which I find weird. If I try to close the miner, my whole computer freezes. This has never happened before until yesterday, and has happened twice now so...anyone got an idea what's going on?

If you are overclocked, back it off in case for rough treatment from the pools crap connections ... it will ruin your card if you keep bashing it like that.

Now it's just stopping at random times. The miner doesn't freeze, it even shows the long polls, new block. There's just no hash rate or shares found...My computer crashes if I close it tho..
Idk this never happened before the new server...and I've been running these clocks since the card came out and I got it for gaming...
legendary
Activity: 3920
Merit: 2349
Eadem mutata resurgo
I don't know why, but I've starting getting an error.

In my rig there's a 6990 and 6870. My 6990 will display one of those errors saying cannot connect with a whole bunch of numbers and lines and stuff, which is normal sometimes for pools. However, a few shares after that prints, the miner will freeze. The 6870 will keep mining tho, which I find weird. If I try to close the miner, my whole computer freezes. This has never happened before until yesterday, and has happened twice now so...anyone got an idea what's going on?

If you are overclocked, back it off in case for rough treatment from the pools crap connections ... it will ruin your card if you keep bashing it like that.
full member
Activity: 336
Merit: 100
I don't know why, but I've starting getting an error.

In my rig there's a 6990 and 6870. My 6990 will display one of those errors saying cannot connect with a whole bunch of numbers and lines and stuff, which is normal sometimes for pools. However, a few shares after that prints, the miner will freeze. The 6870 will keep mining tho, which I find weird. If I try to close the miner, my whole computer freezes. This has never happened before until yesterday, and has happened twice now so...anyone got an idea what's going on?
inh
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legendary
Activity: 1750
Merit: 1007
An update based on some people reporting issues in IRC:

If you have PeerBlock installed, set an exception to btcguild.com's IP address: 69.42.217.226 .  Apparently we're on the "Business ISP" list, and the "level1" list and the response from the people that setup the "Business ISP" list is that they won't exempt anybody on that list.  Yay for paranoid morons who try to mask illegal activities by blocking entire IP ranges because someone somewhere in that range may have been connected to an anti-piracy or government group.
legendary
Activity: 1750
Merit: 1007
Is the server getting overloaded again?

I'm getting lots of "worker idle." and "cannot connect" messages, but that could be my crapper internet... Anybody else getting a lot of those problems?

No idles on my miners (checked all 12), and the IRC channel only had one person reporting idles, but that was due a bad ping as a result of their geographic location (South Africa).
hero member
Activity: 886
Merit: 500
Is the server getting overloaded again?

I'm getting lots of "worker idle." and "cannot connect" messages, but that could be my crapper internet... Anybody else getting a lot of those problems?
full member
Activity: 168
Merit: 100
Just switched from another pool. Pretty happy with the overall results so far. Nice and clean interface. Waiting for the e-mail notifications and it will definately be my pool ...

Email notifications were added a couple hours before your post Smiley.

Does this sound right to you...
0.3 BTC in 5 hours ?
6x 5870 dedicated miners running at 410 - 420 Mhash/s
2x 6950 (web development and app programming PC) running at 305 Mhash/s

The pool has had bad luck on block solve speed the last two days.  This type of variance evens out over a long period of time thanks to the very quick solves a pool occasionally gets.  As the pool grows, these variances should even out in a shorter time frame.

I thought something was amiss.. thanks for your honesty, no flim flam to try and hide the facts Smiley

Love the interface, and the detailed block stats as mentioned by Nythain.
newbie
Activity: 28
Merit: 0
Email notifications were added a couple hours before your post Smiley.
My bad!  Roll Eyes Just logged in and checked the new perk. One happy camper here!  Grin
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